The article is a statistic. What’s been uttered here is just a bunch of anecdotes.

I see that problem also in a kind of “contact guilt” in certain topics.

That is, if there’s any polarized issue, there’s always the liberal/left/progressive position with extremely clear boundaries to what is acceptable to even discuss. And then there’s the vast conservative-fascist spectrum. If any problem arises within that issue, even mentioning it is immediately labeled as outside of the acceptable part, simply out of fear that this could be used as a wedge against the liberal position.

That in turn alienates people, they see an actual problem and the liberal side either ignores the problem or says it’s fascist. And the actual problem never gets solved or even tackled, simply because nobody wants to touch it.

This leads to a situation where for a whole bunch of people the fascists seem downright reasonable and then the radicalization pipeline kicks in and suddenly they think Hitler might not be such a bad guy after all.

So essentially, the left feeds the right gullible people out of fear they might legitimize some of their points.

Just an example from Germany: when the first wave of Syrian refugees came to Germany in 2015, they were greeted with literally open arms. Great thing. But if you let about a million people into the country, you also need about 500k new apartments for them, the bureaucracy has to be capable of processing everything, language courses have to be expanded drastically, job trainings have to be organized, etc etc. A whole bunch of problems.

Now, what happened? Nothing. There was great fanfare, the local governments did their best, but nothing substantive happened. Nobody talked about it, because that might fuel the existing resentments. Nobody tackled the problems. And within a few months, we had tens of thousands of young men, who had nothing to do, were not allowed to work, were completely alone and had no money or social safety net. Well, of course a bunch of them turned criminal, which then fueled the resentment even more, because suddenly the fascists actually had what they hoped for: criminal foreigners. Even if the actual problem was tiny, it was the spark that ignited the fascist resurgence.

Again, you’re looking at the situation from a completely wrong angle.

Seriously guys, are you unable to understand that your own position is not that of the current youth?

Yes, having a house taken away is bad, but let’s be realistic here: how many people did that really affect and how did the kids look at it? For most kids, in 2010 this whole thing was over. And they were seen as something fixable, and people ostensibly worked on fixing them. There was (and this is important!) a clear, realistic path out of the pit.

We don’t have that today. What is the path out of a looming fascist revival? What is the path out of a full blown climate crisis? What is the path out of a society ruled over by rich old men?

The youth has no self efficacy left. We don’t have it either, but we just throw a bunch of copium every day and ignore the problems.

No, it doesn’t, if the point of the study and the experience here have no relation.

The study compares the happiness of youth over time. Nothing more. Whether some bloke had a bad youth and a great adulthood has absolutely zero relation to that.

In fact, I would argue that this complete blindness for the actual problems the youth faces today, is the reason why they are so miserable.

You’re basically on a similar path like the “just walk into the office and greet the manager with a firm handshake, then you’ll get a job” folks. You overemphasize past experiences because you don’t want to or are unable to understand that the world you grew up in is gone.

Look back at all these events. Which of them seemed permanent?

A recession is bad, but there’s a very real hope that it’s going away soon. The pandemic was a once in a lifetime event, but even that had hope very very soon - the first rumors of a vaccine made rounds literally within days after the first lockdown.

Today’s crises are different. Look at the climate. What you see as a young person is, that the entire world is acknowledging that the world is burning - but nobody is doing anything about it.

Look at the economy. In large parts of the Western world the promise of “work hard and you’ll have a good life” simply isn’t true anymore. And that’s not a fluke, recession, bubble. It’s systemic and people know that.

I’m literally in the top 10% income wise here in Germany. And even I would have to pay loans back for 20 years with my partner to afford a house here, and even then it’s a thin margin. My parents’ generation could buy a house, go on vacations, and have a good life in general with two regular worker’s salaries. That’s nothing that will blow over in a year or two.

…and the study says that youths today are less happy than before. Those are two different things. That’s really not that hard.

Maybe a shocker to you, but you’re not a young adult anymore.

This study is specifically about people in their 20s. Usually in that age you’re supposed to be happy and full of hope for the future. Sure, your time maybe sucked, but you’re not the average.

Today’s youth grows increasingly frustrated and hopeless, because if you look around, there’s nothing to hope for. The future is bleak. That wasn’t the case 20 years ago.

Isn’t that what sovereign citizens believe already happened?

I can’t, he died 8 years ago…

No, that’s my point. Providing the builder factory as an abstract way to construct an entity, it is an abstraction. It removes you from the actual detail, that’s an abstraction. But it also introduces extra complexity, which in turn negates the value of the abstraction.

In reality, the intention is an abstraction, the result is often enough a bad abstraction that introduces more complexity and adds indirection.

To 1), that’s unfortunately not entirely true. The real abstraction criticized is more like introducing a StorableEntity layer that’s provided by a StorableEntityBuilderFactory. So instead of providing a compartment with a stable interface, they introduce a mess of generalizations.

Abstractions should be bulkheads, but in practice they’re often more like one of those beads-on-strings door decorations.

Unfortunately, the current finance minister is really that stupid.

Absolute braindead wannabe neoliberal.

That is absolute nonsense. SUSE mostly serves large enterprise customers.

And where do you think the people deciding what to buy get their information? Mind share is important.

I’m pretty sure SUSE is bigger than Canonical.

That’s actually surprising to me, but I’d argue that Suse offers more products, it seems like Rancher, Longhorn, etc. have no canonical equivalent.

Reboots after three days and then disappears in the cloud.

And you really think, people who are willing and able to buy enterprise support for their Linux distro get confused by the naming? Sure, there’s that one confused dude, but you also have people asking Facebook where they left their keys.

OpenSuse is essentially free marketing for SUSE, nobody would know them otherwise. Why would you give that away?

Suse is not a huge company, it has neither a large enterprise backer nor any killer features, and its market share is relatively small compared to Red Hat or Canonical. Throwing away free marketing while alienating a relatively passionate community is a kind of brainrot only MBA can come up with.

Fake news! We should ask Ukraine for peace talks! Otherwise we might provoke Putin!!

Is there even someone left?

I only tried it around 2008 or so and it was extremely slow paced back then while looking like the interface from a sci-fi movie.

Not that old, unfortunately.

Linux runs fine, but even when underclocked, it turns into a space heater by just using a browser.

I feel really bad about my old MacBook. It was my trusty companion for 10 years, but now it’s kind of forgotten and useless.

I tried to revive it a while ago, but it’s too slow/hot to be useful for anything worthwhile and it’s a real shame. It’s still working fine, otherwise!

Half an Apple a day keeps the IDF away!