pedro1976

What separates us afaik is - in bible terms - that we left the paradise, by becoming conscious.

"High German" is basically the dialect spoken in the Hanover area.

This legal agreement idea does not work at all. In most cases this agreement would have an expiration, only include specific actions and most likely could be withdrawn unilateral at any time. This makes an agreement basically worthless. The fact that people bring up technological solutions for social problems shows their inability to understand the messiness of social constructs.

IMO nuclear power won't help us in the climate crisis. The inertia to change our technologies, behaviour... is already extremely large, with nuclear energy (which is very limited) there will be less incentive to change anything at all. Hence, we will just prolong the party and not make use of this tiny thread of hope.

This feeds into my dystopian believes. I a couple of years those drones will be affordable to every individual. This individual will then savely engage in a drone strike against other individuals. Hence I predict an end of the celebrity cult :)

I disagree. I find the it wasteful, that every source will implement their way of rendering data. If we ignore the ad-problem for a moment, I would love if RSS would be the output of every website and the client then renders HTML to achieve the best UX possible. No broken layouts, no distractions, no dark pattern, just content.

Boredom is a totally underestimated and undervalued mental state these days. IMO it's quite difficult to become bored these days with all the distractions of the Internet. Many great thinkers went to rural "boredom resorts" to let their ideas thrive after they got stimuli from crowded cities.

I agree. SM operates on a subconscious level by exploiting all kinds of cognitive biases. Rational thinking won't solve this issue for the majority