Ich bin überzeugt, dass sich die CDU mit einer Koalition mit der AfD politisch ins eigene Bein schießen wird.
Ein großer Anteil der CDU-Wähler könnte sich deswegen verraten fühlen und folglich die Grünen wählen. Etwas, das bei den letzten Wahlen (in Ba-Wü) bereits in kleinerem Umfang passiert ist.
I used to own a business with employees. It was a small company objectively, but in a small town where I'm from that was a HUGE deal.
The company survived COVID, but due to total chaos with supply chains that happened after covid, my business got on hard times. I saw the writing on the wall, and started firing my employees and closing the company in order not for things to get any worse. I closed my company and landed a job in another company; a never missed a single salary.
It's absolutely shocking how quickly everyone drops you once they hear you've gotten on "hard times". All my friends, relatives, in-laws... EVERYONE drops you like you're burning pile of shit. Want to call an old friend for drinks? You're out of luck, nobody is taking your calls anymore, because now you're a "failure".
And let me repeat once again that I haven't gotten into any BIG trouble, just closed everything down before it did actually SHTF. It's just the optics of "being in a bad place" and poof everyone's gone! You're on your own now.
Oh boy yes. It's absolutely brutal how quickly everyone drops you once you hit hard times.
No, and that's a good thing.
To quote John Water: "If 8 milion people like it, then it's probabbly not good".
Yeah, there's a certain age after which you kinda stop caring about your own birthday.
Hmmmm, I find that to be a fools errand as long as Reddit is "alive and kicking".
It took a troublesome Windows 11 for people to start migrating to Linux (even though I firmly believe that the numbers of poeple switching to Linux are inflated). (I myself am a Linux user).
Or to be more blunt. Reddit functions in something that can be called Mature Product Phase, and/or Saturated Market. And as long as you have a big main Brand that isn't suddendly making bad decisions, you'll always remain a niche product. Take Coca-cola for example. For 99% of people the default choice is Coca-cola, not because they have a strong prefence for it, but because it's an easy and safe choice.
People who drink other brands drink it BECAUSE ______________ . And as long as Coca-Cola doesn't do something to give that BECAUSE to the average Joe there's just no incentive to switch.
The same goes for Reddit. We're all here because we have our own BECAUSE why we're here. And as long as something doesn't happen that would give that BECAUSE to the average Joe, Lemmy would remain a niche product.
That's not a sign that there's anything wrong with Lemmy, It's just the reality of how the Market works.
Oh wow, that's something that's been bothering me lately a lot. Not just avoiding Ai generated music but developing my own musical tastes and not having the algorythm-served taste that I mistook for my own.
Here's what I have learned so far:
I have switched from listening music on youtube to listening music on my Digital Audio Player aka good old mp3. It forces you to put your own music there instead of just letting it play.
I have installed the RSS reader and follow many German and English music magazine/websites and look there for what I could like
I have also started asking other people like friends and colleauges for recommendations. I have received many good recommendations, but I don't have to like everything.
I'm fully aware that it's not a great solution, because it's a technological step back instead of evolution, but the way music on youtube with ads worked lately has really started to annoy me.
yup, gotta change up your media consumption.
Iphone > Fairphone
Windows > Linux
Google > Qwant
Gmail > Proton + My own domain
Youtube (music) > Digital audio player (it's just a modern name for a good old mp3)
Gilette > Mühle DE shaver + Proraso ( That was because I worked for P&G who own Gilette and never use their products out of spite)
Netflix > nothing (I'm okay with that... for now)
Pornhub > Xvideos 🤣
I'm a maultinational that lives in Germany.
I come from a country that at some point in time did use different alphabets other than latin (two, not one). Even though I have all offical documents written in latin alphabet and all are in my native language + English (especially made for easier international legibility), the average german (police officer/office clerk/ etc.) is still unable to find his way around it.
It also just so happens to be that my name doesn't contain a single vowel, so them trying to pronounce my name usually ends up being funny and lightens the spirits.
Ich bin kein ________ ABER...