"Anyone who peddles the idea of plenty of beef for the masses might as well be selling you the idea of #electriccars for everybody." (*)

Discuss

(*) just seen on FB, about #degrowth

Worrying PSA from **1941** on what contributes to create Nazis:

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Worrying, and ominous, because THAT "type of education, feeding etc... " is exactly what #overparenting plus #socialmedia are and do nowadays.

"We need a third-way intellectualism", says HermesCorp:

https://darkrenaissanceradio.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-private-intellectuals

True. That's what I hope to be when I grow up, hopefully soon:

https://mfioretti.com

"Small, compact and light. The (electric) cars of the future must be redesigned":

https://www.infrajournal.com/en/w/best-electric-car

Of course. For lots of suggestions, see: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/how-cars-are-dying-why-and-what-comes

and https://stop.zona-m.net/tag/electric-car/

"We're going to shift from typing into an address bar to search back to typing in an actual address because we can't trust the results of our query."

https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/search-is-dead-long-live-curation/

@ps9714 this (the browser technical problem, I'm just speechless about the actual crime) is disgusting. Worst than the "browser wars" in the 1990s, a step back from there, actually.

@GeorgeVotesBlue even/especially if "close your eyes to facts" means trusting AI chatbots!

Me, one year ago:

#Parents, THINK before burying your kids under student #debt:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/innovation-scams-education-myths

Today:

"Lifetime earnings simply can’t keep up with the cost of degrees"

https://fortune.com/2024/05/14/college-majors-lifetime-earnings-trade-school-return-on-investment/

YOUR civil rights and the quality of YOUR life depend every year more on how software (= #robots, #automation, #AI, #Iot ...) is used AROUND you.

To know why, and the many ways software should be used better, subscribe to my newsletter: https://mfioretti.substack.com

@matty7w very good point. That's surely a factor. Indeed, the few american Catholics I met personally all are in the "having" category, and with one exception, surely vote Republican

VERY interesting difference between "White #Catholics" and "Hispanic Catholics" (a distinction only Americans would make, btw)

Does anybody have explanations? Thoughts?
Thx

(SOURCE: https://zenit.org/2024/05/14/9-interesting-and-curious-facts-you-may-not-have-known-about-u-s-catholics/)

RIght now, the "5000 words every European should know" include Thermodynamics, #Bulgaria, Sagrada Familia, Hitler and Algorithms.

What's missing? Please tell me. See how and why here: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/5000-words-for-europe-again

Still too few entries about #ukraine #russia #Latvia #Estonia #Lithuania and all of Eastern #Europe in general in this list of "5000 concepts every European should know".

I cannot know which ones they should be. Please YOU submit them, & pls RT:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/5000-words-for-europe-again

@EileenKCarpenter to complete my previous answer:

a BIG part of the problem is just that, the totally unfounded equation "internet & communication = smartphone and nothing else"

I discussed this issue here:
https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/honestly-the-problem-with-children

@EileenKCarpenter I wouldn't mind if payphones came back, but please note that they are not needed to for the objectively necessary service you mention. Parents with that need can give their kids ordinary cellphones. It's only smartphones = unrestrictable, 24/7 access to the whole internet that are the problem