This post can’t stop me because I can’t read.

Same. I was on reddit for 10 years, wasn’t banned once (and it’s not like I never posted anything or didn’t antagonise people). The enshittification is what made me leave.

They’re explicitly not saying that.

Very true.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (possibly the last decent president they had, is my impression). Can’t help you with CATO.

Jaywalking is a-okay.

Well you don’t HAVE to start using “du”. There are people who have been friends for years who still use “Sie”. It’s a mutual thing, when you feel comfortable with the other person you can tell them it’s okay for them to call you “du” and usually they’ll reciprocate (if they don’t, they’ll tell you and you go back to “Sie”). Or you can take a bit of a risk and just start using “du”, without asking and the other person will follow (unless you gravely misjudged).

No I can’t tell you how to know when it’s the right time for that, don’t ask me about how to behave like a human, I have social anxiety, hah. But normal people can intuitively tell when that moment has come.

Also there are constellations where you use “du” from the beginning and where it would be weird to use “Sie”. Everyone on the internet is “du” unless you know you’d call them “Sie” in real life. Children are “du” and it’s up to the adult to decide whether this 16 year old deserves a respectful “Sie”. Young people tend to default to “du” among each other because “Sie” is stuffy and square.

Mind you, having grown up with this hasn’t helped with learning Japanese because while there are certain similarities (desu/masu corresponds VERY vaguely with “Sie”), there are too many differences for my experience with my native language to be of much help. But if you’d drop the suffix from their name in Japanese, it’s very safe to say you’d be on “du” in German.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a comprehensive explanation when to use “Sie” over “du” in German. Very, VERY basically it’s this: if you’re close to the other person, it’s “du”, otherwise “Sie”. And then there’s a gazillion constellations where it’s not that easy and it seems learners keep finding more cases where what they learnt isn’t applicable. Most of these are intuitive to native German speakers, some are difficult to decide even for us.

Not that I think German is special in this. The correct way to address someone is less about language rules that you can memorise, more something you learn to intuit by getting to know the intricacies of the culture and its social mores.

Regarding your language teacher: what are those two languages? They may have different rules on how a teacher/student relationship works.

They’ll recognise the context, “social media engagement”.

This IS syncthing-fork.

Why would I care what a stupid photon thinks? What has electromagnetism ever done for me? Nobody even knows what an electromagnet is!

But does it know I’m not detritus?

What no don’t 😱

Okay, up until this I was willing to believe all the nonsense you’ve come up with might in fact be what a real person alive today might realistically think but now you’re reaching.

This is what I use, I thought it was much older. Huh.

Assuming you’re using the American English meaning of “pants”, I am in fact not wearing any at the moment.

Yes but will these babies have souls? Ever thought of that? Checkmaet athiests!

But it’s only been a minute since last time! I’m so tired.

what again??

Ah, if you INSULT a police officer, that’s what’s punishable. That’s actively antagonising them, not just not liking them.

Mind you, I don’t think insulting a police officer should hold any more severe punishment than insulting anyone else. So yeah, that’s bullshit.

I’m in Germany, there’s a common myth that “Beamtenbeleidigung”, insulting an official, is a criminal offence. It’s not - if you insult anyone, regardless of their job, they can sue. Police are just more likely to actually go through with that because they have a reputation to uphold.