Sounds to me you kind of need both. Let’s take reddit :) as an example ; On one hand you could register it as a platform but then you’d need something to index the posts themselves so that you get relevant results for on-plateform content. Not everything needs to be a hammer :)

Maybe we could stop giving a platform to the crazies that foster those stories. Both of them; the idiots that see ai artefacts everywhere but also the fear mongers of the sort of the blog here. It reminds me of « be afraid of rpgs » in the 80ies and then « videos games are going to turn teens in murderers » in the 90ies… every new tech has curves for their maturity, cultural & societal fit. We just so happen to be at the shitty times for ai. But eventually the fad will go away, most crazies will move to something else and attention whores will also find a new niche.

For English it opened me unending trove of knowledge and online interactions and capability to access more first hand information. Plus all the books, music and movies. Faster and without shitty translations. For Dutch slightly more tolerance from from the other half of the country. Surprisingly very little in terms of music and medias but given my very narrow tastes it’s likely my fault. For Spanish some fun and free drinks which is already a miracle considering my shitty level. For Japanese I’m starting to enjoy og material (anime and manga) and surprisingly basic tv shows. It’s unfortunately very unlikely that I’ll ever reap similar benefits compared to English.

Somewhat I believe I’m less of an asshole from what I learned by interacting with others which would have been much harder if I hadn’t learned other languages.

The difference in addictiveness of sugar compared to alcohol and tobacco is largely discussed isn’t it? I can’t source it but I read something about that. It’s more that our society is culturally more accepting of sugar than it should…

Sure. Plenty of things are addictive as well. Games nowadays, sugar… they don’t get the hammer ban. Where’s everyone’s accountability when it takes the government to decide things for our kids? I for sure will support mine when they onboard social media - in the same way I’m trying to educate them of TV, Games, food, even music… That’s a parent’s job, not a government’s job in my opinion.

Well yes but those aren’t the only dangers are they? And not all social medias are equally problematic ; we’re better here than Facebook or so I like to believe. And life, in general, is filled with bullies.

Difficult debate. Not sure the traditional media are so much better. I personally think that educating teens to handle whatever medias would be preferable to a blanked ban. It’s going to be interesting to see how it will evolve.

I quitted few years ago already. I bought a pack of those peppermint like pills that contain nicotine to help stopping. They tasted so horribly bad I just had like 2 of them and quit smoking cold. So maybe go get some of those disgusting pills.

So let’s say I check all those boxes; what then?

This smells of Pratchett :)

Dans ma commune on a cette saison énormément d’affichages pour de nouveaux candidats et formations mais aucune programme n’est disponible. On sait juste qui est fâché d’avoir des éoliennes mais aucune idée de leurs propositions sur la sécurité des chemins vers l’école ou quoi que ce soit de tangible. A priori ca aurait été discuté dans des soirées rencontres mais perso ca me dit rien d’aller dans ce genre de truc. Du coup difficile de faire un choix un minimum éduqué.

We tend to forget that all of that is to support people. Tech shouldn’t be an end goal, merely one of the ways to achieve it. And not always the best one at that.

Truely a nice one. The community around it is quite cool as well.

Or make sure you can hook it to something like home assistant without reliance on cloud…

Ha yeah, it’s a plant we must notify to the waterways management society in my area. It’s invasive and pretty nasty.

By bike even… passenger vehicles -even EVs are frowned upon these days…

Fishing

Aren’t they looking at the light instead of gravitational interaction to guess the nature of a celestial body? Like chromatography but slightly further way from?

And forget the clamp in the process ?

Culture really is the one bullet again far right imho. Politics always come with agendas, it’s hard to count on them in the long run.