The main effect for me is to lower inhibitions. Things that in a sober state I would merely think of doing or saying are things that in a drunk state I might actually do or say. It exaggerates personality traits which is probably why it makes some people more fun (eg. me) and others more aggressive…

Mental illness is a social construct anyway. There was a time when homosexuality was considered a mental illness. The point being there is no objective way to call someone who lived 2000 years ago mentally ill without defining what is meant by the term in the context of the time.

I looked it up today and it seems that at a lot of airports in Europe (where this happened), the limit is 6 cm. My pocket knife is slightly below that.

in 2024

Reminds me of the time I forgot to remove a pocket knife from my keys before going through airport security…

Staff member holds it up, I notice it and am like “oh no, that’s not allowed, right? oh well, then throw it away, I forgot about it…” - staff proceeds to measure the blade length and tell me “no, it’s ok, that’s allowed” and hands it back to me. I still have that pocket knife now, but don’t intend to try that again.

Mainly the fact that it makes sure that if I refresh after a few minutes, I will probably get different posts. That’s not the case for most other sorting methods.

I personally sort by “new comments” which isn’t a thing on reddit. So I am more likely to see, and comment on, things if plenty of other people have also done so.

But I don’t know how many other people do that.

Beware of meat and great and threat, they rhyme with suite and straight and debt…

It’s hard, can be understood through tough thorough thought though.

Final boss: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ruize-rijmen/De_Chaos

German has this too, “beziehungsweise”, but it replaces the “and” instead of being added to it. It is common enough that it’s usually abbreviated “bzw.”.

Both words can have more than one meaning.

Socialism may be among other things:

• an economic system where the “means of production” are owned by the workers (Marxist theory as I understand it)
• the economic and political system that was implemented in the Soviet Union and its allies (they described it as socialism)
• social democracy, ie government regulations of the free market in order to make it more socially just

Communism, in Marxist theory, is a future stateless moneyless classless society which Marxists claim will inevitably happen after socialism. (Nonsense, but that’s the theory.) But a lot of times the word is used, it just means the second point from above, ie the way the Soviet Union and its allies were ruled. That’s mainly because a lot of ruling parties in those countries called and still call themselves the Communist Party of (country), though others didn’t, eg the East German ruling party was called the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

Or that Hitler was a Marxist?

Hitler described himself as a socialist, but certainly not Marxist.

You seem to be confused what the word “instance” means in a fediverse context. The answer to your question, as asked, is “no, the question doesn’t even make sense”.

Lemmy and Mbin are two different backends that talk in the same language (“protocol”), ActivityPub, to each other. The entire idea of that common language is that you should be able to use either of them and also communicate with people using the other.

Legal questions cannot be answered without information which jurisdiction you want to know this about.

If I recall, I asked Gemini to generate an image of a kitten wrapped in a blanket.

It initially gave me a photorealistic image, then I asked it to turn that into a drawn image with the background removed, and that gave me what I have now (though I think I cleaned up some stray pixels in the background).

This is common when comparing acronyms of Germanic vs. Romance languages because the former tend to put adjectives in front of their noun, the latter after it. But acronyms aren’t really words.

Even both singular masculine. In Italian, “le” exists too but that is feminine plural. This is the only real example so far posted here.

If we count romanizations of languages not normally written with the Latin alphabet, I think definite articles give us another one: “la” in French, Spanish, Italian, and Esperanto is a definite article, and if I’m not mistaken, “al” is one in Arabic.

I used it for generating my profile picture here on Lemmy and don’t see anything wrong with that.

You seem confused about a few things:

• people from everywhere in the world can register on most websites including lemmy.world, doesn’t matter where they are hosted
• people from other instances, who likewise may be everywhere in the world, can interact with your posts and comments too

FWIW https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/ claims that instance operates according to Dutch, Finnish and German law.

I live in a country that lowered the voting age to 16 in the 2000s, so I voted in my first election at the age of 16.

I don’t think it changed very much at all, 16- and 17-year-olds aren’t big enough of a demographic or vote in radically different ways from people slightly older than that.

No, they are not, stop posting talking points that justify authoritarian government policies, those aren’t showerthoughts.