Not constantly, but often, right? 👀

No, but until now, Poland and Hungary protected each other. Things might change now.

nor what the rest of the world did to us once World War 2 ended.

There’s a reason jews and dissidents are the only holocaust victims publicly talked about. I am german, went to school in Germany (history lessons about the Third Reich, Holocaust and WW2 are super extensive here and take up basically 3-4 school years), yet we only ever talked about jews and dissidents of the nazis. No Sinti and Roma, no queers, no nobody else was ever talked about during these lessons.

Yeah, plus during winter sun rises after I arrive at work anyway, why should I care about that being at 08:30 or 09:30? I want at least some sunlight when going home.

Reminds me of the episode of Modern Family where there’s an easter party at the Dunphy’s and a python egg gets among the eggs to be found by a kid.

It is, if you know german

I don’t know whether more mixed neighborhoods would transportation a rare occurance. Rarer yes, but not rare. There are just too many opportunities to travel, from needing to see a medical specialist to visiting friends and family.

Also, while I agree that housing should not be subject to a for-profit market economy, I am also not sure I want to see the state get ownership and more control over people’s living. Local cooperatives seem more appropriate.

We need more affordable, effective and reliable public transportation, not more individual cars weighing tons and transporting only a handful of people.

German doesn’t, at least nothing official. That’s even stated in the article.

Not surprised. Rich capitalists benefit from directing the majorities’ hate towards minorities so that we cannot build focus towards the few who are in power and want to keep it.

Yeah, I know. That’s why I didn’t specify the government but kept it general.

but I still feel like the degree of political attention digitalization gets in Germany is bonkers.

That is probably because of two reasons.
First, Germany has a reputation for overboarding bureaucracy and a bloated administrative machinery in all parts of life. “Passierschein A38” isn’t a running gag for nothing. Digitalization well done could trim this by a lot and make a lot of administrative errands more accessible to everyone.
Second, the term “digitalization” itself is a buzzword that can mean everything and nothing and everyone has their own conception of it, so you can easily demand more digitalization and have everyone on your side.

If every fax in Germany were, tomorrow, an email,

Here again, digitalization can mean everything and nothing. I am an IT person, this would not really be digitalization for me. There is a familiar quotation, „Wenn du einen Scheißprozess digitalisierst, hast du am Ende einen digitalen Scheißprozess“, meaning when you digitalize a bullshit process, you have a digital bullshit process. That’s why to me and many of my colleagues it is important to always review any given process and see if you can’t improve on the process itself.

Yes, and it’s even on the same instance:
!unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone

They do. They are by far outnumbered by most older generations though.

Do I read you right that you equate having many crushes and/or falling for ‘love at first sight’ with being a shallow idiot?

True. In Germany, there are still criminal procedures held against and sentences passed on former guards of concentration camps, even though they are close to a hundred years of age. Because even though it was “normal” and even legal back then, it was never okay and always crimes against humanity.

I disagree. TERF is not a slur, nor is cis. If someone chooses to be offended by a term that is not offensive in any way, it’s not my fault. ‘Gender-critical activist’ is nothing but trivialization, and if we start to use it, it gets validated.

I can absolutely imagine someone trying to find answers about themselves, reading terf bigotry, and getting forced way back into the closet to become the trans version of the “everyone gets crushes on their friends” lady.

That’s a sad image. I personally feel quite privileged by having grown up in a relatively (for the time and location) queer-friendly environment and now living in a quite accepting bubble (including my employer, coworkers, family and friends), yet I consider myself an egg that’s not guaranteed to hatch due to personal insecurities and stuff.
I can’t imagine how tough and gut wrenching it must be to not be this privileged and wonder about the things I do.

Fair enough. I always perceived the term ‘alt right’ more of an umbrella term for ‘gender-critical’, ‘democracy-critical’ and ‘all-that’s-not-hardcore-conservative-chistian-critical’ ‘activists’ though.

gender-critical activist

Well, that is taking trivializing transphobia to a whole new level. What’s next, calling fascists “democracy-critical activists”?