Are you sure you will be allowed to drive a manual car in Romania with your American license if you didn’t take the test with a manual car? I live in a different European country and here if you take the test with an automatic car, you are only allowed to drive automatic cars. You should research this.

It’s definitely different from an automatic car and requires more concentration. Once you get used to it, it’s not difficult. I was older than you are now when I learned to drive at all (which I did on a manual car) and managed it anyway.

Legal questions can’t be meaningfully answered without a location. But there are many places where there are laws against that and this can be a crime.

I suspect you already know about Meads v Meads. Paragraph 73 of that provides some clues:

All this is a consequence of the fact gurus proclaim they know secret principles and law, hidden from the public, but binding on the state, courts, and individuals.

Many people like the thought that they know something no one else knows or that at least most people don’t know. Including things about the law.

It’s not an exam, it’s a discussion among professionals in the field.

The existence of cash is probably the least of one’s problems in that scenario. How is food going to be delivered to stores without working gas pumps? How will stores open their electronic doors or process payments without a cash register?

If this is something you are worried about, store enough non-perishable (eg canned) food in your home so you don’t starve in that scenario.

Probably true. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ was written before most people cared much about this but certainly applies very strongly to it. I am fortunately not directly affected by it either way (I am neither trans nor a woman nor have any desire to pretend to be trans in order to get access to women’s spaces) so it doesn’t get my emotions up much to read any side’s arguments; I can see why that may be different for others.

When I first became active on reddit, I admired how few sitewide rules they had and how much free speech they allowed.

Now they ban debate about one of the most contentious and multifaceted societal issues of the present. What are online discussion forums there for if not to openly and civilly exchange ideas about issues like this?

IRC still exists. Forums are somewhat hard to host nowadays because lots of governments have passed laws imposing more and more regulation, liability and duties of care on operators of web platforms. We would need to start movements to repeal those laws first, I’m certainly in favor of that! But I think the future of forums is nonetheless ActivityPub; it is a lot better to be able to read about all topics that interest me on one website rather than having to click through many different ones.

Flash games: why do you want those back? Flash is a proprietary platform and it’s a good thing we can now do the things we used to do with it directly in the browser with HTML5 and JS. You can still play Flash games with Ruffle, there are still websites out there that host them.

Video sites that aren’t YouTube: nowadays videos can be much more easily hosted elsewhere than YouTube than was the case in the 2000s. Many social media platforms allow direct upload of videos and any website operator can easily directly embed a video without needing either YouTube or something based on Flash Player. So I’m not sure what you’re nostalgic for when it comes to this topic.

Who is “he”? I think they might mean Donald Trump, who AFAIK is a resident of Florida?

Why do you think Donald Trump has any clue about anything he is doing? Has he not repeatedly demonstrated the opposite?

By participating on it, mainly. The more people notice that using Lemmy is a way to kill boredom and stay informed about things they are interested in, the more people will look here instead of (or in addition to) reddit or Facebook or other places.

Get medication against acne from a doctor. That was the only thing that finally helped me get rid of it.

What place do I get teleported to? If I’m teleported to the same place on Earth, then I just fell down several meters into a swamp and am probably going to die here.

It seems pretty unreasonable to me that laws like that exist in the first place, so my answer to the question how trans people should be counted for such purposes is “neither because such laws shouldn’t exist”.

Federal government in the UK? The UK isn’t a federation, so doesn’t have a federal government.

Yes, let’s start with people calling for censorship, like you.

(You certainly have a high opinion of the thing you’re posting on.)

Any info what the “insults” consisted of?

Everything written about this conflict (by anyone) is propaganda. The enemy is a powerful and maximally oppressive force we all need to fear, but is also so weak it’s losing equipment fast and its final defeat is only a matter of time.

Without having listened to the other song (I know “Levitating” obviously)… this is definitely a good thing. There is only a limited amount of melodies that are possible to make and if “derivative work” is interpreted very broadly, at some point there won’t be any way to make new songs.

https://archive.org/details/AllCreativeWorkIsDerivative

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/01/13/how-years-copyright-maximalism-is-now-killing-pop-music/

she (the minister for children) was 22, the other person was 15, i.e. a teenager