The Menemen!

Check how much worse it is for the pedestrian to be hit by the pick up truck.

That every man has to be a breadearner, a handyman and be able to physically defend their home&family.

I’d add the “have clear rules” concept to this and enforce the rules. Don’t be wishy washy. But communicate the rules and be prepared to explain the rules.
But also accept that theory and practice are not the same. Imo you should allow them enough, that they don’t isolated from their friends experiences. That is why I allow them to play Roblox under supervision or why I set up a Minecraft Server so that they can play online with their friend in a safe environment (but only on weekends for a fixed time period).

For 200-250$ you can get very decent used compact cameras (like the RX 100). It won’t upload the photos immediatly, but it is still pretty much on par with most current cell phones.

I managed to almost completly keep my children away from it for now (8 and 10). But it is a struggle. And I will soon lose that struggle. So many children at age 8 or 9 have smartphones for fs sake.

I plan to slowly introduce them to stuff like this, so they will be able to deal with it. I did so rather successfully with the other bullshit, like Roblox. They are only allowed to play it when I am in the room, and I check that they follow that rule (they do).

Feels like walking on the edge though. Still unsure when to open the TikTok thing. Too early is bad, but too late and they will somehow already he on tiktok and I just don’t know about it.

I hate tiktok. I am not from the US, but banning the app that is most popular among young people while raiding dozens of university campuses? Don’t sound like a great way to get young people trust the system…

Imagine telling your insurance about your newest purchase.

Yeah, that was a shame. But I really think we’d need a shared OS for all administration units of the EU (from EU level down to munipiality levels). Would be much easier as the private sector could also adjust to it.

The US at least has some degree of control over Microsoft. How much worse is that the EU is still not developing an own OS/distro?

Let’s hope. But they have to change the way that likes are shown. It always feels lonely over there.

True to a degee, but too many international journalists still depend on that plattform. Makes it hard to ditch it completly, until finally one of the alternatives really pick up.

So, high income taxes is the collectivization of the means of production? You wrote a lot of words, but none of them make sense in regards of your original statement.

And yes, I want socialism (though not in the form you probably assume, but this is getting really OT). But we are not talking about socialism here.

I am in a high income tax group here in Germany. I am happy to pay almost half of my income in taxes and social security/health insurance, if I see that it gets well invested. We are a society and the stronger should always carry the weaker (both financially and also in other aspects).

BUT: I am really pissed that I have to pay such a high percentage of what I have to work hard for, while those who did nothing but being born into a rich family pay hardly anyything at all. High income taxes should only be a thing when wealth taxes are also high, otherwise it only kills the will to work hard.

Lol on how Liberals have no idea what socialism is. :)

Looking down on dutch spelling, while writing im English… Wild.

To understand how unhinged our society is one only needs to understand how we constantly improve our technology, but don’t use it to improve us as a society.

Oh my. I see you don’t know mich about the hell called key performance indicators…

Key performance indicators will be what will turn our AI overlords into AI tyrants. And there is so so much data available for training the AIs.

The AI overlords will be trained on data based on human overlords decisions and justifications. We are fucked, my man.

And as a result the remaining workforce will have to work more.

You might want to look into what standardization means.

Start here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization

And here more on our specific case: https://www.iso.org/standard/66363.html

Imo companies who hinder or harm standardization (Microsoft and Apple are the leaders here) are literally among the worst things on this earth.