holy shit they are going to have the Austrian Grand Prix this weekend? I completely missed that, incredible during the present temperatures here.

This so much.

Gen 3 Pokémon games which I mainly played as a preteen were basically my second home, I knew almost everything there was to know about them.

Games I played later in life, including later Pokémon games, I mostly forgot the details after playing.

I used to eat sushi with a fork and it is possible. But that's really about the only food that's easier to eat with chopsticks than fork and knife.

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

In dem Artikel wird einiges nicht erwähnt, ich empfehle die Lektüre hiervon: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/24/he-moved-a-box-of-leftist-zines-magas-favorite-judge-just-gave-him-30-years/

Bundesweite Störung entfacht Debatte über Krisenvorsorge der Deutschen Bahn

Nowadays compared to when?

https://xkcd.com/202/ was published in 2006, so you must be thinking of much earlier than that…

Ja, allerdings ist das doch allgemein bekannt, dass es sehr einfach ist, Chatbots zu manipulieren, indem man Aussagen irgendwo im Internet postet.

KI-Chatbots sind keine Wissensquelle, nicht einmal eine schlechte, sondern reine Bullshitgeneratoren, die plausible Antworten geben, von denen manche stimmen und andere nicht.

Weitere Links zum Thema:

• https://bahnblogstelle.com/256755/nach-stoerung-bahn-nennt-techniktausch-als-ursache/
• https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000328607/funkausfall-bei-der-deutschen-bahn-was-ist-und-war-das-problem
• https://bahnblogstelle.com/256779/verband-privater-gueterbahnen-lage-extrem-angespannt/
• https://bahnblogstelle.com/256773/stundenlang-im-zug-so-laeuft-es-nach-der-bahn-stoerung/
• https://bahnblogstelle.com/256782/zugfunkausfall-laesst-bahnverkehr-stillstehen-brb-betriebsleiter-notfallteams-eingesetzt/

Before smartphones, the Internet was a self-selecting space because the only people regularly posting on it were the kinds of people who consciously chose it as a hobby.

Now that anyone can access it anywhere they go and it's easy enough for people with zero technical capabilities, it reflects society as a whole a lot more.

I find that sad because I was one of the people who self-selected into it before smartphones. I always hoped that if more people were using the Internet, society would become more similar to (my experiences on) the Internet, and not (as actually turned out) the other way round.

Here on Austrian TV, there was an excellent example of this just yesterday during the match against Argentina, where the commentary helpfully told us at some random point in the second half that in the last four world cup matches Austria played in, they scored a goal during extra time, the implication being that that would probably happen again now (it didn't)...

The last four world cup matches Austria played in were... one in 2026 and three in 1998.

We now already have a few generations with plenty of members who started watching online porn when they were technically too young for that, and we can now tell that this hasn't harmed them.

Noch ein Artikel mit Bezug dazu: Allianz pro Schiene fordert schnelle Modernisierung des Zugfunksystems

The Democratic Party is the older one of the two. My understanding is they called themselves that because they saw themselves as the party representing the popular will.

Why the Republicans called themselves that, not sure. They were mainly founded over opposition to slavery, not really described by the name at all.

Bahnverkehr normalisiert sich nach bundesweitem IT-Ausfall

bahnblogstelle.com hat in der vergangenen Nacht einige recht detaillierte Meldungen zu dem Thema veröffentlicht:

• Kein Zugverkehr, keine Informationen – Reisende stranden bundesweit an Bahnhöfen
• Nach Störung bei der Bahn – Probleme teils bis zum Morgen
• Von recht entspannt bis “fix und fertig” – Warten, hoffen, improvisieren am Bahnhof
• Verband fordert genaue Aufarbeitung der Bahn-Störung

No. The Democratic Party does descend directly from them, but the Republican Party was founded much later independently.

No, it has not. What on Earth could possibly be wrong with a young person reading our discussions here on Lemmy and expanding their knowledge about all the topics we discuss here, for example? Even participating in it, asking and answering questions about any topic they find interesting? I find it hard to think of a more harmless hobby.

I myself started regularly participating in online communities at the age of 10 (that was more than 20 years ago, when there were not yet even rumors of a product called "iPhone" and I didn't even have my first own desktop computer yet). The vast majority of my joyful memories of my preteen and teen years stem from my participation in online communities. The vast majority of memories I have of pretty much anything else during that time period are negative. Online communities taught me many important things about life that I now use every day and that I probably wouldn't have easily learned elsewhere. They turned me into a more creative person with better communication skills, especially in writing.

So, no, the situation is not that people who want to ban young people from social media have a noble goal that oh-so-unfortunately cannot be achieved without invading everyone's privacy. The situation is that those people have a completely illegitimate (in my mind, outright evil) goal in the first place.

You're talking about two different "OP"s.

The OP of this post isn't banned on lemmy.ml, but the OP of the post that this thread is about (i.e. that can't be seen there) is: https://lemmy.ml/u/[email protected]

Yes. For me too. Been thinking of switching to another instance TBH. :/