ideally donations like lots of other FOSS projects

There’s a Wikipedia section here about one that is not ancient, but relevant to your question about multilingual states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Army#Linguistics_and_translations

I wrote “at least”.

I am older than OP, but not old enough to remember the 2000 election very much.

I like many things about Japan, but not the work-a-holic culture.

US presidential elections have been approximately this way since at least 2016, actually I think this one may have been less crazy than the last two.

you do realize that people from other instances than beehaw can post here too? :D

I’ve been in online communities since shortly after my 10th birthday and this has never once been a problem.

Most of my friends when I was a teenager were people I met online. It was beyond a reasonable doubt good for me to be on the Internet during that time because it was the only place where I fit in, where I could be myself.

If I ever have kids, I hope they fit in better than I did offline, but if they don’t, there is no way I am going to prevent them from socializing in online communities.

At whatever age they want to.

holy shit why would you deprive kids of (often their only way to have any) social contacts and think you’re the good guys

What were you doing from early 2017 to early 2021? I suggest you do approximately that, unless you’ve grown out of things you were doing at the time of course.

yup, central European here and I do not own a dryer and am not aware of anybody who does, I use a drying rack.

This wasn’t too hard to find with a web search: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/politics/can-trump-vote-2024-election/index.html

Hillary was called that because there are many people called Clinton, including her much more famous and successful husband.

Realistically… what do you expect to be radically different this time in comparison to the four years Trump has already been president?

Another author who doesn’t make the important distinction between moderation and censorship.

boring in comparison, Celadon City is truly one of the greatest melodies I know of in any game

Celadon City from the Pokémon games

I’m a software developer and there are many times I have to wait for something (a program execution to finish, clarification about a task, etc.) and thus have time to open tabs for lemmy and other non-work-related websites.

I might not meet your criteria though because I don’t usually create “several new posts daily” nor do I comment anywhere near on all threads I read (because I don’t comment where I don’t feel I have anything useful to add).

~1 minute here in Austria, usually it takes longer to find the right room than to wait in line when I’ve found it

I think the US news sites are going to post their live updates to their websites too, that is at least how it was the last few presidential elections (I think I mostly used CNN). That is the same data they use for their news coverage, so you could use that; but watching live television will give you a clue when important updates have happened on them.

Of course you could just follow election-related hashtags on Mastodon to get a wide variety of people shouting all kinds of things about the election.

That happens relatively rarely. Remember the protests in recent years in Thailand, Hong Kong, Iran? They went exactly nowhere.