I thought Session(1), a signal fork, was ridiculous for adding a crypto currency, but now Signal is doing it too?
I don't want this stuff in my messenger. It's supposed to send messages, not money. This is just going to accelerate my departure from Signal - or at least the official client.
Don't call them donations. Look at what reddit did: people can "give gold" to people for comments that they think were great. All it does is add some icon to a comment and put the person in a "gold club".
In games, people will buy so many visual improvements that add nothing but glam to their character.
Discord does... something, I can't remember what exactly, with their "turbo" and IIRC it costs discord cents, but the user pays dollars.
People will pay for the dumbest things. Give them a reason to sign up, add some kind of paid interaction that changes something visual or makes a dumb sound, add some tier system with context relevant names, and people might really pay.
Unfortunately, I think those kind of videos do no reach their required target: new age feminists. It doesn't help either that the comments on the video are mostly made by men, who are angry at the current social situation in the anglophone countries.
IMO, these social issues are pretty inconsequential compared to the bigger problems we face: climate change and wealth+income inequality worldwide. I believe that social inequality would drastically improve if we concentrated on those major problems first.
Education is the linchpin, imo. Were we to work backwards from that, our world would radically change. You can't concentrate on education if you have to worry about housing, food, transport, and access to education. So, those should be as cheap as possible for every citizen.
Educators should have amongst the highest paying jobs in the country and competition should be fierce to become one at any level.
With an educated populace, there's no telling what we could achieve. We could think and reason for ourselves instead of listening to pundits. We could actually discuss things instead of scream at each other all the time.
But eh... y'all would rather fund another war on some poor country over oil, support another big corp to underpay people you don't care about, huddle into groups and be belligerent against those your group deems the enemy, vote for people who wield fear as a tool, or just be indifferent to the world around you as long as you're doing fine...
Remember that you are on an American website with a heavy, American audience. You have to learn to dissociate European (in your case German) discussions and experiences from American ones. Don't "import" their problems, ideologies, opinions, etc.
It seems like many non-Americans simply do not make the context switch and once they leave the Ameri-sphere (e.g talk to fellow non-Americans), they talk about American topics as if they were happening locally - and is if they were directly impacted with a major stake in the issue.
Remember where you are, who you're talking to, and the context. Since non-Americans seem so eager to copy Americans however, it can be prudent to be aware of what's going on across the pond without being heavily invested. The USA is now acting like a looking glass into the future of what successes and mistakes are going to be imported wholesale by other countries and their citizens.
> If you attempt to point any of this out using facts, you will be shouted down because it's against the popular narrative
Anybody can claim anything and it will turn into a shouting match unless reliable sources are cited (Breitbart, Alex Jones, Fox, etc. aren't reliable sources)
Welfare:
- what counts as welfare
- how much of it do people get (percentage of GDP and per capita)
- what percentage of coats does it cover
- which people get it
- how long do people get it
Then there are questions of what poverty is defined as, how many people live in it, and how many live below the poverty line.
The topic of healthcare is naturally important in all this.
Taxes:
- what is the rate (% paid by tax bracket)
- is it actually paid
- which percentage of the population is paying the highest rate
And of course, how does this compare to Europe (since you say "it puts Europe to shame")?
You can focus on one point, cite your source and contrast them.
> “The oversight is baked into Western operations at the technical, tradecraft, and procedure level,” they added.
So what the NSA has been doing (even after exposure by Snowden) has had "oversight baked in"? Who are we kidding?
This posturing, pretending that " the west is better than everybody else", is downright naive and idiotic. No organisation is pure of heart, moral, or ethics, and none have crystalline motives.
So basically reproducible builds with a dependency list and the CVE list could provide more certainty about the tools we use?
What about websites though? Hash-summed files aren't going to save us, because resources can be loaded dynamically and the client can't know the hash before retrieval.
Reproducible builds would be a great first start. Forcing governments to use opensource may be another step.
"People are trying to do things better, I'll say they aren't and not provide a single option that's better" aka "I'll complain about stuff and not do a single thing to improve it".
Mozilla is not very developer friendly. Gecko uses a two decade old method of RPC, the lib interface (XPCOM based on Microsoft's COM) is about the same age, the documentation hasn't been updated in a decade even though the code evolved, and I've heard from 2 employees directly that it's not important to them.
It's not really a surprise that gecko isn't the primary choice for browser developers.
Best thing I did was to reduce my work hours. Went from 40h contract to 32h and it has been a great improvement.
The first month I spent gaming, but now my projects advance more quickly. At least one whole day can be dedicated to my projects.
Also, a day off a week is 52 days of holiday a year.
If you are able to, I recommend it wholeheartedly.
In the not so distant future, we'll neither need sperm nor eggs from humans. We'll need is at least one person and a lab. You could grow your own sperm and eggs from pluripotent stemcells (which can be made from any cell, even skin cells).
Inseminate the egg, put it into an artificial womb, and voila, no need for sex or even a partner. You could make your own child, same sex partners could have their own kid, and it would even be possible to have kids with DNA 4 parents.
Maybe the best news for women would be, that they wouldn't have to deal with any of the evil that comes with pregnancy since that could be externalized. It would render the menstrual cycle futile and push research into its elimination without side effects to the forefront.
I don't want this stuff in my messenger. It's supposed to send messages, not money. This is just going to accelerate my departure from Signal - or at least the official client.
1: https://getsession.org/