Federation means that when anything happens on one instance (post, comment, whatever), that instance will also inform other instances of this. Which other instances? The ones that have at least one user who has indicated they are interested in that kind of activity (on Lemmy mostly: by subscribing to the community).

So already now you can see eg my instance’s copy of a lemm.ee community at https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee and this will not disappear just because lemm.ee goes down. It’s stored in my instance’s database. But it will no longer be possible to post or comment there because that will no longer federate to other instances.

It’s not guaranteed that all of lemm.ee will be accessible elsewhere. Some communities might not have (always had) subscribers from other instances, which would mean no other database has stored those parts.

I’m currently unable to find a minimum age requirement on my instance, so she could try that. I’ve never given this topic much thought because Lemmy didn’t exist when I was a minor…

Austria is shaped nothing like Maine. Austria has a narrow bit that sticks out (Tyrol + Vorarlberg), no equivalent to that in Maine.

I remember once in school (in central Europe) we got a geography test where we had to label countries on a map.

To prevent copying from the neighbor, half the class got a map of Asia, the other half of Africa.

I don’t remember the details but certainly remember wondering why anyone would think these are equally difficult. 😐🙄

Help with what? The US is part of NATO so if it is attacked militarily, all other NATO countries are obliged to help against such an invasion.

The question doesn’t really make sense as asked. The entire criminal justice system, almost by definition, revolves around punishment.

Punishment has several different purposes such as deterrence, removal, rehabilitation. I suspect you wanted to ask about why some of these purposes are “better” than others…

Here’s a comic explaining this: https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=60

I have several family members who either don’t drive at all or have previously taken several-year-long breaks from driving.

I was significantly older than you are now when I learned to drive at all, I no longer own a car and haven’t driven in approximately 9 months.

If you are in a life situation where you do not need to drive, then it is completely your own decision and you shouldn’t listen to anyone else trying to convince you one way or the other. Most drivers overestimate their abilities; if you yourself feel driving isn’t for you, then it’s better for everyone involved (including others on the road) that you don’t drive. But you still have a long life ahead of you and it’s completely possible you’ll become more confident when some more years have passed.

Enough for what? What do you want to achieve or protect yourself from?

They can, it is just that if they do that, the PRC will sever diplomatic relations with such a country. Why that is so, you would have to ask them… neither of the Koreas has such a policy.

The situations are also not exactly the same: out of these, all are members of the United Nations except the Republic of China.

Alkohol ist doch keine Lösung, sondern ein Destillat, oder.

Installed, it probably is if it works in Brave… it might not be set up right in LibreWolf though.

happens occasionally, but not only “lately”, I have been using it for many years and it does (rarely, but occasionally) cause performance drops, yes

Before the invention of video, humanity didn’t have video evidence either and still managed. We are approaching the end of a ~150 year time period in the history of humanity in which video evidence is persuasive.

it’s mentioned in the explainxkcd, so apparently

The problem with the question is that somewhat inherently, “full desktop OSes and programs” are designed to run on screens so large they don’t fit in your pocket. So you kinda have to decide what you actually want.

Look up the PinePhone or Librem 5.

No, I think the 1990s were genuinely good. That was after the Cold War but before 9/11.

(For context, I was born in the 1990s, so don’t have many personal memories of them and didn’t know anything about geopolitics then.)

and anything where you’re being given instructions where you’re supposed to copy what the person in the video is doing, video works very well for that too

How exactly you create that table is up to you of course, I don’t know enough about your project setup.

not sure I understand the distinction between the “am I supposed to” and “maybe I could” parts?

You should create a table of all countries, you can just copy that from the above link. Then you reference that table with a foreign key in your users table.

OK, thanks, I was just not sure if this was intentional