Looks great! I wonder if this could be used to create some kind of podcast-based sponsorblock equivalent? I know there are issues with podcast- (providers) inserting sponsor reads and ads at random / unknown times, so, not sure how it could be done reliably.

This is only a problem because people aren’t having children. And in some ways, that’s a good thing. Until we find more sustainable ways to exist, more children are not good for the environment.

If governments wanted to encourage people having children, they’d have to do something to counteract the world turning into a capitalist-dystopian hell-scape. So far it looks like governments are doing the opposite. They act like it’s still the 50s with ‘The rising tide lifts all boats’ and ‘trickle-down economics’ still being things people believe in. Nobody does, though.

How is anyone supposed to trust in the future, when it’s clear that the world is a rich people’s playground, where a few hundred-thousand people get to self-actualise in the most insane ways, while the remaining ~7.9 billion are wage-slaves having to live through shocking daily indignities at the behest of the ruling class.

Not sure how we’d fix it though. Workers have no interest in acting in unison. While rich people do (and are much easier to coordinate). Eventually, the ruling class will just use AI-powered police / military to ensure nobody challenges the status quo. So it feels a bit like the game is lost.

improving work-life balance

aaaaand now we know nothing will be done.

(until doing work becomes worth it and doesn’t take over your life and until the power is with the employees and bosses have to treat workers with respect, there will not be more children. governments do nothing to support people with families. paternity / maternity leave is a joke, childcare costs are astronomical, both parents have to work…it’s bonkers that this is normalised and in some ways I’m glad birthrates are going down, as scaring our slave-drivers with potentially reduced profits is the only way anything will ever change and they can’t do anything about it EXCEPT concede some freedom to the workers)

Ja, rational gesehen verstehe ich, dass ich im Auto viel wahrscheinlicher verunglücken würde als im Zug. Dummerweise sieht das aber in meinem Gehirn so aus: im Auto hat mich noch nie jemand angemacht. Im Zug / Bus ist es schon so oft passiert, dass ich mich einfach nicht entspannen kann. Also meide ich es ganz :/

Als Magnet fuer Verrueckte / Besoffene / Gewalttaetige, muss ich leider sagen: Bis es irgendeine Loesung fuer die ganzen Asis im Zug / Bus gibt, setze ich mich halt ins Auto, da werde ich von denen wenigstens nicht grundlos angegriffen (an all die Rechten: nein, es sind fast nie Auslaender…)