People have a right to be stupid, though.

A lot of culture, is irrational and or superstitious. Tibetan culture has a lot of that, Chinese culture as well and American culture is also no exception.

You may find that disagreeable and not worth preserving, and I’m even inclined to agree with that on many occasions. But who is to decide which parts of ones own culture can be done away with, if not the people practicing that culture?

Can I decide which parts of your culture don’t agree with MY values and take that away from you?

Those two are an absolute must for me.

I disagree with that prediction.

The planet will be fine with it. Life will adapt to it. Even humans will survive it, as a species.

But our modern inustrialized civilizations will collapse.

The paradoxical thing is, that those greedy, wealthy elites who are mostly responsible don’t care, because they think they’re the ones to survive, when in reality, their wealth and power relies the most on the status quo of the rules of society.

It’s not ‘just’ about plants and algae dying, it’s about the tipping point for the climate. Oceans are a huge carbon sink, considering all the carbonates that Coral Reefs, Clam Shells and stuff like that are made of. The more acidic it becomes, the more those carbonates will react to become carbon dioxide, that will end up in the atmosphere, thus still enhancing the greenhouse effect.

Bit of a vicious cycle there.

Telegram’s owners are at odds with the Russian government though, hence the move to another country.
There’s plenty of problems with Telegram without having to resort to Russophobia already.

For example their chats aren’t even E2E-encrypted by default and afaik there’s no way to have encrypted group chats either.

I’m a Bufo bufo guy myself.

I am happy to criticise the US system at any point, but the notion that it’s a democracy only on paper is a misrepresentation of reality.

They managed to vote Trump out of office, and back in. Something that wouldn’t have been possible if it were not a democracy.

Now the system of course has loads of difficulties and is suffering from extreme economic inequality, that leads to an immense influence of rich people over the undereducated masses, but they still have to spend their money for massive propaganda campaigns to win votes for their side, so the fundamental processes are still democratic.

We’re gonna see if that remains the case by the end of Trump’s second term, though.

Yet it doesn’t occur to them to have DOGE check wether that money is spent responsibly. Wonder why.

Thanks for the info. Didn’t know that and I just assumed from reality that this couldn’t be a case. My fault for mixing up politics with reality. 😅

Alright, I stand corrected. TIL.

Seems like this requirement is kind of a paper tiger, since there’s no deadline and several of the existing Euro coutries don’t even meet the economic criteria.

Though I do understand that it would be a hindrance for the Brits to agree to these terms, even though they’re largely hypoethetical, and given the whole Brexit history, the EU won’t be likely to exempt them from this regultion. I wonder what kind of deal Denmark has made there to be the only exception.

Switching to the Euro was never a requirement for EU membership, though.

Brits didn’t have it before, and there are other EU countries that stick to their national currency.

If there are no clues pointing to another motive, it’s the most likely explanation, thus they are investigating it as such. It’s not a confirmed femicide yet, though.

Also, I’d guess the ideological base that kept monarchies around as a system (at least in Europe) has been shattered fundamentally.
The idea, that the ruling class is put there by god’s grace isn’t something that can work as the foundation of power structures in our post-modern world.
There’s a reason why the remaining monarchies in Europe are really democracies, that simply keep a bunch of monarchs around for representational purposes.

It should also be noted, that a significant part of that motivation is to avoid consequences they’d face for acting out their right-wing extremist, racist views.
Fines, debt and taxes are only the tip of the iceberg.

Two and a half months, they weren’t joking about slow German bureaucracy 😱

Bureaucracy has nothing to do with it.

Oh! You’re bringing up an example from the Australian state of Victoria!

I was just wondering for a minute why homes built during Queen Victoria’s reign were a special challenge for the electricity grid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_house

I too was confused about the indicated countries.

Little nitpick: Graphene OS isn’t artificially restricted to Google phones. Pixel phones just happen to be the only ones that fulfill the safety requiremets that Graphene OS wants.

Other manufacturers could do the same and Graphene OS devs would welcome it, they just choose not to do that.

Very self-aware comment.
I have to agree, we’re very easily swayed, especially as teenagers.

I had to suffer through a lot of rejection by girls I was interested in as a teenager, and also pondered some very misogynistic ideas, that I ultimately rejected only because I couldn’t bring myself to extend that hate to the one girl that ever loved me back for a while. Otherwise I could have totally turned to a sort of incel (before I knew that term even existed), some of the ideas I came up with are shockingly close to what I later learned that they believe.

I can only imagine how easy it would be to fall into that trap, when you’re feeling frustrated and are being bombarded by Tate and the likes through the self-enforcing ideology machinery that is social media.

We really need to teach young men a healthier way to deal with the frustrations that occur in life and lead a better example of how to deal with negative emotions other than turning to hate like that.

It’s actually Mr. Fahrenheit’s wife’s body temperature on one particular day. Luckily she happened to be human.