You’re right :(

This is another picture of the same idea

What a beauty

(1)

There’s no god, friend

What does that GPS display? A direction?

Reminds me of another thing: you see these boot scrapers all across european cities (1) They’re usually victorian era, and were used to clean horse shit from your shoes before entering a house.

1. CLS
2. PRINT “Same,”
3. PRINT “BASIC was my first programming language.”
4. GOTO 1

Sliding ruler for doing multiplications (1). Still have it for nostalgia or post-apocalyptic scenarios.

For those interested in learning: (1)

It was me who did a dumb recently. Talking to a cellist, in English: “Oh, you’re a striker?”.

I wish upon you delicious warm soup

You have a pizza oven at home are you italian?

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Combat_Child_Sexual_Abuse

How your representatives in EU parliament voted: https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=134463&country=fr|de

Looks like it’s mostly german representatives that block it. They remember the stasi.

F-droid has a couple.

Im pushing back against your idea that since an individuals wealth isn’t cash, it’s not worth accounting for.

I’m argueing that it’s a privilege that it can be accounted for. The power of wealth is limited, and doesn’t extend to limiting my freedom.

In many, maybe most, historical and contemporary societies, that’s not the case.

In fact, they are far more equipped to seize things like your land, your data, your means of subsistence, than you are to defend them.

The opposite, quite in fact. I still live in a country where there’s rule of law, and democracy. That shit rules 👍

I don’t think it’s a false equivalency: my point is, that fact that it can be accounted for is neat! What’s Ghadaffi’s net worth? It doesn’t even make sense to ask the question, as he can sentence thousands to death on a whim.

“Widespread concern”?

I think it’s mostly politicians that are concerned.

Oh, yes. But at a certain point it stops to make sense to count.

Baradar is the leader of the taliban. He can walk into any afghani home and take whatever and whomever he wants.

He has no repercussions, no need for exchanging net worth for influence. What’s his net worth?

At least, where I live, he isn’t allowed to take anything without a warrant. I value those things more: freedom to live, freedom to express, freedom to fart in front of the most of wealthy people.

Let others play their “maximizing net worth” game.

Left to right.

Right to left.

Bottom down.

Bottom up.

45 degree angle.

Used to think: wow they’ve got a lot of money. Untill I grew up and realised it’s not money they’ve got, it’s estimated net worth. It’s hard to turn that into cash.

If they got there by making a company that other people now value a lot: impressive.

If it’s a royal family member/inheritance/…, less impressive.

Overall: don’t think about it often.

I’m like your grandparents today. Grew up in DDR, had one heated room: the kitchen. It was also our living room, and on the coldest nights our bedroom. Not heated like an oven though.

It makes me physically uncomfortable to be in a >18C room in the winter, even today. I know it’s just a psychological thing, probably.