For an ordinary citizen, absolutely. Most topics in the world, I have no opinion on, or I have the opinion that there are good points on both sides, or I have the opinion that one side is right about one thing and the other about another, or I have the opinion that one side is mostly right but the other also legitimate.

Politicians meanwhile are more-or-less required to have opinions about most political matters (or at least be able to say that they stand for them even if they don’t internally hold them). They will have to vote on them after all, and voters expect to know what they’re going to get on nearly all matters.

We now have the benefit of hindsight of what Hitler and his system ended up doing, so when we hear a Hitler speech today, we know a lot more than the crowds who were listening to it at the time did; this causes some bias in answering this question honestly.

It is true that his speeches are hardly ever boring. He was able to switch between a calm and an aggressive speaking style depending on what was fitting for what he was saying, sometimes within a very short time. This is true of some, but not all, other politicians too.

Most countries consider this “private copying” which is legal. Not a lawyer, you should check your country’s laws.

Unethical? Copying is not theft.

I wrote (not only, but some) more intelligent things on the Internet when I was a teenager.

Austrian here, I work in software development, I have encountered people before who didn’t speak much German and whom I had to speak English with. I think you’d be fine around here, we’re a pretty generic Western culture I think.

You could try creating an account on kbin/mbin instead of lemmy, my understanding is that that gives you the “threadiverse” and the microblogging fediverse on one platform, though I have not tried it yet.

On Lemmy you can only follow communities, not individuals.

They’re a lot younger than me too… but I was on the Internet, including in some mostly-adult communities, at 16 too (not so much at 13). Many of my formative experiences took place there and so I see absolutely nothing wrong with what they’re doing.

I don’t have a “main social media app”. I use Lemmy and Mastodon on mobile; Reddit and Facebook only on desktop.

You’re living under a rock, aren’t you? I keep reading about it nearly everywhere, way more than I would like to.

It’s a microblogging platform, i.e. replacement for Twitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky

I’m here, I don’t answer to anywhere near all questions I see though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Alabama

Both houses were all-Democratic from 1975 to 1978, then more and more Republicans were elected to them, only from 2011 do they have a majority.

Many state legislatures in the Southern US (e.g. Alabama) had Democratic majorities until 2010.

Do people really think audio CDs aren’t around anymore? I bought several audio CDs in the last few years, I prefer to have local copies of music I like rather than depending on a streaming service.

The article is from September, why is it it being posted now?

If there were a universal answer to this, there wouldn’t be any others.

I myself currently use Debian (testing), have for some years now, but I have used other distros in the past too.

Most fish. I always liked salmon, but didn’t like most other fish; now I like all fish I’m aware of.

ideally donations like lots of other FOSS projects

I like many things about Japan, but not the work-a-holic culture.

What were you doing from early 2017 to early 2021? I suggest you do approximately that, unless you’ve grown out of things you were doing at the time of course.

Hillary was called that because there are many people called Clinton, including her much more famous and successful husband.