which isn’t a bad thing either if you want to encourage people to have more kids (which of course is debatable whether that should be a goal, but many people think it should)
I think that mainly mocks the idea that if only people talked to each other more, communicated with each other more, tried to see things from the others’ perspective, then everything would be great and everyone would arrive at a common conclusion.
If it’s in the public domain, it’s almost certainly legal. I don’t have the general answer to your question.
Really this question shows how outdated copyright law is; in many countries it prohibits “copying”, but in the age of computers nearly all accessing of information involves “copying” it in some way.
Fortunately no one is forced to use it in a world where OpenStreetMap and apps that use it exist (OSM is exactly as good as volunteers made it).
I think it mainly means that Google invests a lot more money in the quality of its navigation for cars than bicycles, meaning that they think it’s pretty likely that the cycling directions might lead you into a place where it might not be a good idea to cycle.
There are cars where you might need to add gas, and ones where you don’t. The above definitely worked in the car I learned to drive in.
You are right that if your car isn’t level (especially if you want to move uphill), the process is somewhat more challenging and you need to be careful not to roll down the hill, but I have never been taught to use the handbrake even in those situations and have not ever done it that way (for context, I live in Austria, i.e. I have driven a manual transmission car on mountainous roads many times by now).
Yeah why would you go on a microblogging platform if you didn’t want to see “weird political shit”?
Put your feet on the brake (right foot) and clutch (left foot), press both fully. Release the handbrake.
Put the first gear or the reverse gear in, depending on the direction you want your car to go at first.
Remove your right foot from the brake completely, the left one from the clutch at the same time very slowly until you can feel that the car is moving. When that happens, keep it in that position for 2 or 3 seconds, you will get a feeling for it over time. Then release the clutch completely.
After you’ve released the brake, you can already slowly and carefully press the gas pedal if you want, that will cause the car to get moving faster than if you don’t.
Why does it seem you have all of a sudden started to look at information about sexual orientation? Did you miss that in the current information overload, everyone gets exposed to different information and no one can tell you why you are getting exposed to whatever you are getting exposed to?
No, it doesn’t.
The Wikimedia projects are made by volunteers, almost none of the money goes to actually making the content. Some of it does go into keeping the servers running or into software development.
And some of it goes into expanding an ever-increasing bureaucracy, which is tasked among other things with enforcing intransparent “global bans” or lighter sanctions against contributors the WMF doesn’t like (opinions of the editing community don’t matter at all on these). If they had less money, perhaps they would lay off some of their trust and safety team and not catch some people who are making useful contributions by evading global bans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer
There are so many more worthy free knowledge organizations to donate to: OpenStreetMap, FOSS projects (e.g. Software in the Public Interest), even Miraheze.
When I was 9 or 10 I decided I wanted to dress up as a character from a show I was watching at the time for carnival.
Together with my mom I performed a web search in order to find images of that character.
We found a website specializing in that show and after a while I found out it had a forum attached to it. My mom allowed me to register there and I started to participate in it.
Most of my social contacts during my teen years were in online communities I found indirectly through that forum.
I would love it because there are subreddits I use a lot on reddit that don’t have an active equivalent on lemmy at all.
“If you run into assholes all day you’re the asshole”
Because bullying is not a thing amirite
There are physical reasons why cameras need some horizontal space to achieve good image quality. You need to fit lens elements in there to get sharp images. It’s really already a miracle that phone manufacturers have managed to fit such good cameras into that space by now.
Most people don’t have a good eye for good image quality. I take a lot of photos as a hobby (mostly with real cameras, but occasionally also phones) and I can definitely tell that my phone photos have been getting a lot better over the years as I got newer smartphones.
If you, a potential voter, are reading something, then people trying to win an election will try to put information that will influence your opinion into those sources you are reading.
I live in a country where the voting age is 16. It used to be 18 and I don’t think this change has caused many concrete policy changes: young people aren’t big or unified enough a voting bloc to meaningfully affect the results.
I tend to be in favor of letting young people have more rights at a younger age in general (in part because I remember being young and not seeing any good reason why I shouldn’t), so I’m definitely not in favor of raising it to 18 again or further.