Things that make foreigners dislike the US:

the feudal conditions of many workers that make out-of-control, ridiculous tipping practices like these a good idea, not a survival necessity, to the workers themselves, but annoy like hell anybody who's seen other systems

#onthisday:

printer timebombs

perpetual #debt in #Kenya

#ageism, since 2010

high frequency trading, always stupid

6 tons of stuff per year to not be in #poverty

and much more in today's Almanac of #serendipity

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-20/

The MANY names of colors

#AI devastation in developing countries

#driverless cars that will never happen

#women who cannot be angry

and much more, in today's #serendipity Almanac:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-18/

PAGERS???

I can't believe what I'm seeing. Pagers, the tiny boxes from the 1990s that buzz and show a phone number when the owner of that number wants to talk with you?

THOSE pagers?

(yes, I'm weird. But right now what really freaks me out is that pagers were used so much, not the attack itself)

#lebanon

Introducing Teen CIGARETTES

Built-In Protections for Teens,

Peace of Mind for #Parents

Find the difference

#instagram

Unknown effects of #wikipedia

#millennials considering #slavery to get out of #debt

other #workingPoor

blind #brexit

#farming like #StarWars

and much more in today's Almanac:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-17/

#onthisday:

remembering a GREAT mountaineer

From Egyptian pottery to 3D printing

perils of extreme #democracy

Kill Switches in weapons

#Youth Dissatisfied with #Democracy

and much more in my #serendipity Almanac:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-14/

whatever other merits this study may have (still reading it) calling #marriage a market is deeply, DEEPLY flawed.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/sep/dating-marriage-has-online-dating-made-difference

#Facebook VP N. Clegg just confirmed what I said yesterday:

REAL #parents of today are NOT going to manage the complexity (50 tools!) of keeping #children safe INSIDE #smartphones & #socialmedia.

The only solution is to just say NO:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/wrong-questions-about-children-online

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/12/parental-controls-facebook-instagram-meta-nick-clegg

what #aliens will look like

nutrition collapse

mass shooting diary

psycopaths CEOS

and much more #serendipity in today's #onthisday Almanac:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-13/

Q: What links a pediatrician's digital advice for #parents to suboptimal reactions to bad #EU law proposals to "protect #children"?

A: Unfeasibleor partial answers to wrong or incomplete questions

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/wrong-questions-about-children-online

#parenting

italian #Euroc traitors

circulating fans back with a vengeance

soccer mom hate

and many more things you didn't know you wanted to know, in today's #onthisday almanac:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-12/

Self-booked funerals

Armies wanting #drones to kill people. In 2012

#politics making humans unable to do #math

Heroic vote about #911Day

all this and much more, in my daily #onthisday #serendipity Almanac

Your #serendipityembrace dose #OnThisDay :

Age Of Imbecile

who will own #robots

#whatsapp destroying villages

Automatic Wildness Creators

and much more at

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-10/

#cyberspace doesn't exist,

real value of #gmail,

drowning in #iot,

being InDistractable

and much more in my #serendipityembrace Almanac #OnThisDay :

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-9/

Your daily ratio of #serendipity is here!

Selected #onthisday news from 2009 to 2023 about

Who owns your myths

What teachers want to say

Keeping #pets is unethical

#IoT being a step BACKWARDS

and much more at https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-8/

#onthisday serendipity, 2007/2023:

Omni #google,

#SiliconValley is just 2nd hand #religion

#vegan is no answer

#Facebook, #Twitter Execs Warn of ‘Overwhelming’ Threat to Elections... in 2018

and much more at

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-7/

Trust Americans to always notice #innovation first, and "horrific" second

First reactions to my call for a world with #UBI, without #DEBT , #GDP, ridiculous #growth and tamed #corporations are positive.

What are yours?

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/there-is-only-one-thing-that-really

embrace #serendipity (also) through my daily almanac!

From insane #copyright to #vegan babies, #quietquitting and mocking #BurningMan,

interesting stuff that happened #onthisday, between 2009 and 2023

https://stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-this-day-september-6/