And yet, since the total number of pictures taken has become a lot higher in the digital (and especially smartphone) era, we will have way more surviving photographic documentation of everything that’s happened since then.
If people in 1986 took (say) 10 analog photos per month on average and 9 of them survive, that’s a lot less than if people in 2026 took 100 analog photos per month and 30 of them survive.
I don’t see how it’s a generational thing.
People who grew up when smartphones were already a thing might never have needed to learn how the Internet and URLs actually work. To a lot of everyday users nowadays, the Internet is just a series of smartphone or tablet apps you switch between. I used to think that the spread of the Internet into more segments of society would create a society of computer nerds, ha ha ha ha ha nope.
The problem is that there is an almost infinite way to design these kinds of URLs, so maintaining a database of what should be stripped out isn’t trivial.
They do pretty much the same thing. If there are nuances, I do not know about them.
Once a day on average, early 30s male. Has been that way forever for me.
As for pricing, this happens elsewhere than America too, at least here in the eurozone it is very common too. There’s an article about it here which may or may not explain this to your satisfaction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing
As for 9 out of 10 doctors: our numeral system is based on 10 (because we have 10 fingers), so 10 is a number people can easily grasp, so to speak…
I think Dutch is even more closely related, and AFAIK has somewhat simpler grammar. To me as someone fluent in German and English, but who’s never learned Dutch, Dutch looks like a mix of German, English, and gibberish.
Compared to English: yes, definitely. English doesn’t really have case markings outside of pronouns, nor adjectival declensions, not even grammatical gender.
Compared to Mandarin: probably German is easier, I agree on that.
Compared to Japanese: I don’t know enough about Japanese to know for sure, but by the standards by which it has “three writing systems”, the Latin (and Cyrillic and Greek) alphabet also has two (uppercase and lowercase). :P
German is a hard language for nearly everyone. If it didn’t happen to be my first language, no way would I want to learn it.
There are short videos on YouTube (search for “westerners’ Chinese tattoos”) where a Chinese person reads out what some of those tattoos translate to, some are hilarious, others just gibberish…
OK, I live in Austria and was aware of both the two you mention and the one in Charlottesville. Too much information nowadays, I guess…
I thought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack was fairly well known at minimum…
If you mean here on Lemmy or other markdown based sites, I think the reason is that it would become incoherent in terms of the HTML it generates.
HTML is supposed to be a format that describes meaning, not presentation. The meaning is that Lemmy comments consist of paragraphs (p elements) like any piece of text does. The way to start a new paragraph is to type two newlines in a row.
On occasion text isn’t divided into paragraphs, like your example of poetry. The way to represent that meaning in HTML is a br element. You already described how to generate that in Markdown. But that is a rare special case. Makes sense that it requires special syntax so people don’t do it accidentally.
Old forum software like phpBB or SMF worked the way you imagine. If I am not mistaken they translated a newline in the BBCode to an HTML br element, unfriendly to screen readers and automated technologies in the ordinary case where text was divided into paragraphs.
Legislators decide things like that…
The limit has to be somewhere. Most experienced drivers can still drive reasonably safely after drinking small amounts of alcohol, e.g. one glass of beer; they can’t after drinking ten glasses of beer. So a limit had to be drawn somewhere. It’s different in different jurisdictions, for example AFAIK there are some countries in Europe (Czechia?) where the limit really is 0.0 or very close to that.
I mean politicians do occasionally get interview or debate questions they might not expect, in which case they have to answer something too…
I recommend this video: https://youtu.be/T8QOE-IWo3I
OK, that looks similar to the interface I am using…
But why would you not expect replying to a comment to be the most visible, most easily accessible, “default” action? It’s certainly what people do the most.
??? Can you post a screenshot in order to explain to the rest of us who don’t know what “Blorp” is?
There is a variety of ways to define “terrorism”, but most definitions more or less explicitly exclude actions by military forces.
This may to some extent be a good thing: I at least want the government to be constrained by normal criminal substantive and procedural laws when fighting terrorism. When it’s fighting a war (i.e. against a military force), entirely different rules apply.
because different places thought of standards that would make sense independently; https://xkcd.com/927/