I think it came up like this: Saudi king at his last visit at Chinese Wall. „Uw, one can see it from the space? That’s awesome.“ At home: „Servants, build something as big as the Chinese Wall that is visible from the space, so everyone sees how great I am.“

Go out and plant a tree. I’ve done mine 10 years ago.

Reminds me on medieval houses in Europe. This on is in Amsterdam

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I just learned: In ancient times the government paid money to their citizens to get their fellowship. Only conquered countries had to pay taxes.

And in ancient times in Mesopotamia, there have been quite regular debt reset events. All private debts got null. Commercial debts still were valid.

I‘m currently reading „Debt“ by David Graeber. Interesting to read how religion, money, guilt and debt are intertwined. How we are forced into the rat race by burden us with debts - with both, moral and financial debts.

German here. Same shit with house prices here. Unbelievable expensive. Netherlands, Denmark, Swiss, France all the same. All out of the cheap money/ interests thanks to Lehmans & broker bros.

The only country where housing is affordable is China. They built way too many apartment buildings. Entire ghost towns. People are fucked there as well though. Standard people lost a lot of money. Crazy world.

Last point made me smile. Good one

Oh this sounds familiar for a German in Ruhr area. This area is strongly undermined by coal mines. Imagine LA with many levels of cellars under it. Down to even 1000mtrs.

Ruhr area sunk down year on year for around 100 years now. Many buildings would get drowned by natural ground water if there wouldn’t be pumps. These pumps are supposed to run forever. It’s financed by a fund of the coal mines and called “Eternal fund” Last coal mine closed 2018.

No it’s a self verification. Bots always write correctly and never intimidate, you fuckas.

This study must be Italian peer reviewed. Emphasis on view.

Indeed. Now, publically available for every governmental police. Not the US only. Even Iranian or Saudi police. Hey wait, don’t they punish family members of political enemies?

Seriously, once there were police men at my door asking for a DNA test by free will. There was a rape in my county and they asked every male. I wondered who‘s going to be that stupid and handing over police your DNA. Once its stored in a database…

Captain Obvious was hiding for a while. Now, he runs with your most personal data. Even your kids will thank you in coming years for whatever behavior, diseases, IQ or political preferences will be found to be rooted in genomic data. The world will know theirs.

Edit: Oh, and you‘ll help your family members to be jailed, if somehow involved in criminal acts.

Indeed. Some European SUV‘s are called as such for marking purposes only

Too many. In Europa it’s the same. Around 30% of new cars are SUV‘s. And it’s not the people, it’s the corporations that drive this trend. They earn more on this huge cars. (And silently killed all small cheap cars. Only China is building small cheap cars) And guess what the industry whisperers say, what the solution to this is?

Buy even more SUV‘s. That is the solution!!! Ahem, of course they’re electric. But keep buying big costly cars!

Interesting that she comes out of that system that she criticizes. That will be a tough fight for the school companies. I hope she has so much integrity as it seems.

Luckily, Germany didn’t put it eggs into the iPad school basket. Observing my kids learning with it by Gamification Learn Apps, it has this bad taste of game addiction not learning.

Both sides Israeli and Palestini have blood on their hands. There is no good one and there is no one who has the natural right for the land. It’s probably both.

So, you say something like terrorists take hostages and kill innocent people. Run away and hide between innocent people - use them as shields. If some reaction of the attacked side happen, those attackers are to blame? That’s too black/white for my opinion.

Anyway, social media isn’t good for nuanced discussions, it’s build for emotional reactions. It’s too complex. I‘m out of this thread.

Okay understood. You might have read that I excluded those with an agenda.

I guess it doesn’t fit in a yes/no thinking if there‘s a third option.

People need to point on who’s good and who’s the bad, don’t they? Makes life easier.

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True. Accounting is the best friend of digitization.

However, it’s not always bad to look what makes sense or drive profit and what not. It’s rather a matter of how religious one is about it.

Take the second wave of computerism for example. What we call Digitalization. This is mainly driven by opportunities and chances of new business not so much about squeezing out the last percent of profit. This all is accounted as well, but management doesn’t care.