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FWIW we have !outoftheloop@lemmy.world here too

You shouldn't ask these kinds of questions under the assumption that anyone knows what you're talking about.

There are lots of options in between. You should be broadly aware of news, but do not need to be constantly exposed to them.

Maybe this article https://stallman.org/articles/dont-watch-covid-tv.html will help you, I am not sure whether I agree with all details of it, but the author is right about many other important things, so maybe it helps you.

Not in my school anyway. The languages taught here in Austria vary by school AFAIK, in my school everyone had to learn English, then depending on which branch we selected we could learn French, Italian, Spanish and/or Latin (but there was no path to combine French with Italian).

I looked it up and while it is possible for schools to choose other languages than these, Chinese doesn't seem to be among them, so that could not be made a mandatory subject, probably could be taught as a non-graded elective though.

I'm around five to ten years older than you and get the same feeling sometimes. Not so much from TV shows or movies, but also from reading or watching real-life stories from that time. Like, when reading documents written pre-Internet that reference then-current events, how and how much did they know about those events? All just TV and newspapers? Nowadays I can easily find out what happened back then, but that was obviously not so much so at the time.

I do not remember a time without the Internet at all, but I do remember very well a time before mobile Internet, and I remember that around the time you were born, most people watched TV almost every day. I hardly ever watch TV nowadays, there is so much more entertainment online (e.g. YouTube).

As for looking up information, in the mid-to-late 2000s it was really mostly Wikipedia that built up the Internet as a useful resource for doing that. Obviously nowadays nearly all information that can be found there can be found on numerous other websites too; the Internet has now been built up, so Wikipedia is arguably a much less important website now than back then...

me, not recently (after ~2010) for more than a small number of days; the most likely place where that happens nowadays is in the open sea, e.g. on cruise ships

Do they have at least one subscriber on the target instance yet? If they don't, be the change you want to see.

because "production" already means something else and there already is the very good word "multiplication" for it; "summation" doesn't mean anything else common

Many probably are, I don't know about "most". There are plenty of people who just don't know proper typography without that having this kind of explanation.

In principle account deletions, post/comment deletions and edits to posts/comments should all get federated... but ultimately the federated model means that there's no guarantee all instances that have copies will receive that or act on it. The fediverse doesn't forget as easily as centralized platforms do.

Technically "he rains"