This is creepy as hell. I liked the Renault 5 - until now. Fuck this shit. I wont pay a small fortune, just to enslave myself to a 1984-style digital panopticon. I am getting angry just by reading your story. Corporate greed is once again crossing the line, slowly shifting the overtone window. Everyone who is not concerned about this, is simply ignorant and/or borderline stupid.

If it was my car, I’d probably cover it. And if it then starts beeping, I’d maybe even locate the speaker and deactivate that one, too.

I wonder if it is even legal to sell you something like this without informing you prior to your purchase.

Im with you. And i think social media didnt stop being social by accident. Once a platform becomes expected to grow forever:

• People stop being the product’s purpose and become a resource to extract value from
• Communities become audiences
• Conversations become content
• Hobbies become enshittified engagement metrics

Id argue that the internet didnt suddenly forget how to be social, but that it was purposfully optimized not to be.

The nazis did the same. They denied science like physics and instead created “their own” physics that pleased their agenda. I’m just waiting for the day when fake science is adopted to US curriculum.

Never thought about it like that. I think the unanimous voting system could really require policy makers to push things in small increments that can easily be overseen and are often hard to decypher. I’ve always seen as unnecessary rigidity. But I guess it really does have its benefits. Thanks for the change in perspective!

If you are into fantasy, then I need to recommend you the books of Brandon Sanderson, especially the Stormlight Archive series. It’s so epic, nothing else comes close

My GF uses Flo. Can you elaborate why it is spyware? Who is spying? What data are being collected?

Edit: nvm, I was too stupid to see the hidden drop down text

Not a single day without a scandal

Yeah, I kind of agree with you. Bad example from my side.

Yeah, people just need to close their eyes and believe that energy crystals is all we need.

Thanks, thats actually a sensible point of view. Calms me down a bit :)

I secretly love you dutchies for your small cities, streets and parking lots. It’s not only cute, but an active fight against US american super-sizing.

Its all good, folks. German politician Beatrix Von Storch (AfD) assured that it’s all just bc the sun sometimes moves closer to the earth, so it gets hotter. In some years, sun will surely move back, right?

Right?

First of all: great thing that you found something that you can be passionate about. Thats worth a lot.

On topic: I am not a native english speaker, so when reading english literature, I prefer sentences that are grammatically and syntactically somewhat well-structured. It becomes much easier for me to read when authors do not rely too heavily on context, but instead ensure that each sentence contains a clear subject, verb, and the necessary objects. Thats the main thing bothering me in your texts The downside is that this can make the writing sound somewhat formal or scientific, which might not be to your liking. So maybe don’t listen to me at all :D

Also, I know many people on here dont like AI, but text handling is exactly what it was made for. With the right prompts, you could analyse your work and look for low-quality-sentences and manually overthink them. Just as an idea.

So your takeaway from a woman murdering her children is that monogamy is the problem? Hol’up

If one person becomes possessive in a relationship, then by your standard:

Every employment is slavery because some bosses are abusive.

Every democracy is a tyranny because some politicians are corrupt.

Any parenting whatsoever is ownership because some parents are controlling.

Every friendship is coercion because some friends are manipulative.

Human designed systems can be abused. That does not mean the systems only exist to abuse people.

Likewise, the concept of marriage may be a legal framework for shared property, inheritance, medical stuff, etc, but it exists because people frequently fall in love with each other and lust for options to make their love somewhat official. And maybe humans discovered that stable cooperative units somehow reduce chaos, or so.

Also, why calling marriage ‘legal enslavement’ while simultaneously saying ‘family is family’? So many contradictions. That is like seeing famine and concluding agriculture was the mistake.

You’re not critiquing monogamy here, but stapling unrelated ideological grievances onto a murder case. It is misery we should be outraged by, not merely the behavior of the miserable.

Thats a measure to intimidate the masses. The US not attacking the NL gov, but it’s civil servants. Everyday normal people like you and me. Yep, thats fucked up.

Veto rights only ever make sense if your group consists of 2-8 people. The larger the group, the more dangerous do veto rights become.

Spain is slowly evolving into europes Giga Chad. Keep this spirit up!

I can recommend HereWeGo as an alternative to Maps. I switched two years ago and I am quite happy with it ever since.

Bribery?

I dont know If you can LARP it, but the Stormlight Archive is a pretty cool fandom. Highly recommend