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6·16 hours agoWell, entire books have been written about this topic, so it’s difficult to answer this in a Lemmy comment. The main division is between the pre-war years and the WW2 years. War is rarely popular, especially not total war. But a dictatorship can be popular if it can convince the public that it’s serving the interests of the people, and that was certainly the case in the 1930s in Germany.
Your OP mentions that “there was a drop in the quality of living for them”; I don’t think this is true. People (everywhere) overall tend to care more about economics and personal well-being than civil liberties, and for many ordinary German people, Hitler’s policies (before the war) were (or at least: were perceived as) beneficial in terms of personal well-being. We find it obvious in hindsight that passing laws such as “the executive branch gets to pass any law it likes including laws that violate the constitution” or “all parties except the NSDAP are hereby banned” are awful examples of authoritarianism, it was not obvious to the people living at the time who hadn’t been used to a parliamentary republic for a long time yet.
Here are a few links that may help your understanding:
During what time? The answer for 1934 is quite different from that for 1944.
FWIW we have !outoftheloop@lemmy.world here too
You shouldn’t ask these kinds of questions under the assumption that anyone knows what you’re talking about.
The problem with park and ride is that the math doesn’t easily check out. Think about how much space around a railway station, say, 30 spots take up. Now you’ve built a sizable parking lot around a railway station but only gotten rid of 30 cars, which isn’t a lot.
No, phase out all nonfree software. With FOSS it doesn’t matter who in what country developed it because the user controls it anyway.
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.
2·2 days agoWhat 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
1·3 days agoCrash 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.
3·3 days agoGar nicht. Verschwendung deiner Zeit und der dessen, der das lesen muss. Anderswo bewerben.
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
0·5 days agoBuses (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.
1·7 days agoIdk but if you’re just looking for the repo I think this is it: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file
1·8 days agoexactly, OSM is meant to be based on original surveys rather than external sources, and something like “knowledge” or “local knowledge” is a perfectly fine thing to indicate as a source if you mean “I’m familiar with the area and am very confident that my changes are correct although I have not specifically surveyed it just to make these changes”.
As a native speaker of German: lol
I mainly notice this with YouTube ads when in a foreign country. YouTube, you have my viewing history, you know I don’t watch videos in Italian or Hungarian because I don’t understand those languages well, so why are you advertising to me in those languages just because my IP geolocates to Italy or Hungary???