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There are lots of options in between. You should be broadly aware of news, but do not need to be constantly exposed to them.

Maybe this article https://stallman.org/articles/dont-watch-covid-tv.html will help you, I am not sure whether I agree with all details of it, but the author is right about many other important things, so maybe it helps you.

What policy change? I don't speak vague.

Not in my school anyway. The languages taught here in Austria vary by school AFAIK, in my school everyone had to learn English, then depending on which branch we selected we could learn French, Italian, Spanish and/or Latin (but there was no path to combine French with Italian).

I looked it up and while it is possible for schools to choose other languages than these, Chinese doesn't seem to be among them, so that could not be made a mandatory subject, probably could be taught as a non-graded elective though.

I'm around five to ten years older than you and get the same feeling sometimes. Not so much from TV shows or movies, but also from reading or watching real-life stories from that time. Like, when reading documents written pre-Internet that reference then-current events, how and how much did they know about those events? All just TV and newspapers? Nowadays I can easily find out what happened back then, but that was obviously not so much so at the time.

I do not remember a time without the Internet at all, but I do remember very well a time before mobile Internet, and I remember that around the time you were born, most people watched TV almost every day. I hardly ever watch TV nowadays, there is so much more entertainment online (e.g. YouTube).

As for looking up information, in the mid-to-late 2000s it was really mostly Wikipedia that built up the Internet as a useful resource for doing that. Obviously nowadays nearly all information that can be found there can be found on numerous other websites too; the Internet has now been built up, so Wikipedia is arguably a much less important website now than back then...

me, not recently (after ~2010) for more than a small number of days; the most likely place where that happens nowadays is in the open sea, e.g. on cruise ships

yes, this is also what I read, that French people are mostly happy to hear a foreigner speak their language, certainly happier than if they have to speak in a foreign language...

I have been to France a few times and speak French very imperfectly, yet no one has ever told me not to speak French.

Crash is a broader term than controlled flight into terrain.

Do they have at least one subscriber on the target instance yet? If they don't, be the change you want to see.

Gar nicht. Verschwendung deiner Zeit und der dessen, der das lesen muss. Anderswo bewerben.

because "production" already means something else and there already is the very good word "multiplication" for it; "summation" doesn't mean anything else common

TBF the last two bullet points are verbose descriptions of the thing it means in C++, Java, and Python too. It's just that in JS, "this" can also be used in other places.

But yeah, in practice, every time I write JS I want to throw my hands in the air and shout "this is bullshit", but never know what "this" refers to... :D

My country is Austria, not Germany. Pretty sure my description is true for ÖBB PV vs WESTbahn.

Why not both?

In my country we have both state-run and privately-run trains for example. The state-run ones are mostly not profitable, they are funded by taxes. But on a few profitable routes there is a private competitor, taking it is usually cheaper but somewhat less comfortable.

Buses (and other public transport) being run by private companies is in no way a new idea, the only reason why it's not very widely done is that it is no longer profitable on most routes. I fail to see anything inherently bad in this, it will reduce the number of cars on the road.

Jugendlichen darf man in unserer Gesellschaft echt alles antun, oder? Einzige Gruppe von Menschen, für die Unterdrückungsgesetze beschlossen werden, ohne sie zu fragen, vorgeblich um sie (wovor eigentlich, vor sich selbst und ihren eigenen Entscheidungen?) zu schützen.

Wenn sich dieser Trend fortsetzt, haben wir ein paar Jahre danach eine Generation traumatisierter junger Erwachsener, die IRL sozial ausgegrenzt wurden und nicht einmal das Internet hatten, um sie davon abzulenken und ihnen dort zu ermöglichen, Freunde zu finden. :(

Ich kaufe das, was pro Menge am günstigsten ist und da, wo ich ohnehin einkaufe, vorrätig. Meistens sind das auch eher große Packungen, aber nicht so große wie von dir beschrieben.

Many probably are, I don't know about "most". There are plenty of people who just don't know proper typography without that having this kind of explanation.

(I can't read Polish, but understood your post with Google Translate)

not happening for me (with uBlock Origin enabled), YouTube videos load the same as usual for me; which adblocker are you using?

The fediverse is somewhat inherently a low-trust environment. Centralized social media (including traditional web forums) has only one database of users, so its administrators are able to keep track of similarities (in geolocation, email addresses, style even of deleted posts, etc.). Here every instance has its own database of users; if you register on another instance, it will be very difficult for anyone to figure out you're the same person.

The fediverse is also still obscure enough that mostly it's still a relatively high-quality place and this has mostly not been a real problem. You should join an instance, and communities, that moderate to give you an enjoyable experience. What that means varies according to person; I don't mind the things you list very much, but am very glad I have not gotten any messages from fediverse chick Nicole in a while by now.