>I believe it was one of the outcomes of universal basic income trials, people would engage more with the arts and creativity.
Off topic but this result is one of many reasons why UBI will not be established any time soon. People in general are not ready for the challenging “creativity” that would come from otherwise “idle” individuals.
> You basically should never trust Apple / Google / Microsoft / Amazon / etc to handle your private information... ever. Use audited open-source messaging apps.
Nonsense. Understanding one’s own threat model is critical to deciding the acceptable amount of trust to place in these companies, but black and white thinking helps no one.
As the population ages even further and the number of people who never marry increases, pet-friendly accommodations will become way more important than bicycle friendly accommodations.
Except for a small percentage of the population who have coordination problems or find driving extremely stressful, operating a gearbox is not something which extends the length of driver training.
It takes far longer to learn how to navigate traffic situations and maneuvers than to learn how to change gear. Driving standards in the UK are high and a single error when changing lanes or negotiating a junction can result in a test failure.
Hm. Not sure how it could be the case that not learning something takes the same amount of time as learning something. Can you think of any more examples of this? It would be great if I could learn those things; even if never have a use for it, it’s literally free.
In UK, if you pass your test in an automatic then you are restricted to only being able to drive automatic cars. Historically this reduces demand for automatics, and they are more expensive in UK, dealers charge more for an automatic gearbox. Even when renting a car, automatics cost more (probably just to extract more cash from tourists)
> In UK, if you pass your test in an automatic then you are restricted to only being able to drive automatic car
As I know, this rule also works in some other countries, and slowly distributes. I think it's lobbied by insurance companies, because they pay lot of compensations for scratches, happen on parking, when people pass test in an automatic and then have difficulties in slow speed evolution's in manual.
A driving school merely needs to buy the ones that are suitable for their students and can do so from among all the cars. Whether 20M other cars have what is, in your opinion, an unsuitable transmission for driver training doesn't seem limiting.
> Funny how findings like this get almost no attention at all, isn't it?
Not really. Without metrics for attention and a definition of “findings like this,” your intuition is as good as mine.
I’ve seen dozens of articles and quite a few best selling books about the plight of young men. I’ve even read a few. So it seems our anecdotal intuitions cancel out.
From which country are you from?
Can you give any major outlet article from your country discussing the topic? I can only name BBC (=England) for that topic.
Usually I read FAZ in Germany (reputable source, conservative - liberal) and they havent mention it.
The only male equally topic in Germany currently discussed is fatherhood (which is actually quiet important topic to discuss).
In this case in Germany fathers are often ignored in topics about parenthood. Teachers dont call the fathers if kids feel bad, only mothers are asked in question of education, in case of divorce 90 % of all case only mothers get child custody etc.
There is much to do in case of sex equality!
I think it helps to start with what you think “getting out from under that” means. Why do you think it’s a problem for Japan have this much debt to GDP?
> There's definitely space for bigger conversations but we should be much more careful with the way we do activism.
Where is that space and who is occupying it? What conversation do you think belongs there? I’m just not sure what this last paragraph is intended to convey.
At the heart of all this I feel sorry for the minks, and sorry even more for the psychological damage that humans, usually poor, have to endure to feed an absolutely horrific industry.
Having said that, if the perpetrators of this vandalism are caught, I’ll contribute to their legal fund. Love me some ALF chaos.
> if we don't buy their books, they won't be able to produce the next one for people to pirate.
This is a false dichotomy. Book piracy and traditional book publishing co-exist. If book publishing wants to better compete with piracy, they can innovate like other industries have. As well, your implied prediction —- that if we don’t “stop all the downloading” [0] then books will disappear —- is decidedly ahistorical. Books have existed since long before publishing houses existed, and indeed it’s easier than ever to publish a book and get money for it.
Put another way, there's no difference in profit between:
10,000 book sales and zero pirated copies.
10,000 book sales and 10 million pirated copies.
The only thing left to argue about is what percentage of those pirated copies would have turned into book sales if the free versions had not been available.
A sad day for equal access to information. I’m glad that they made money from Z-Library, they deserve that money for the service they provided.
It’s some bullshit that they were arrested in Argentina on behalf of the US government. From what I can tell they aren’t even US nationals. I know the US scooping up foreigners and locking them away is nothing new (see: Gitmo) but it remains a travesty of justice nonetheless.
Off topic but this result is one of many reasons why UBI will not be established any time soon. People in general are not ready for the challenging “creativity” that would come from otherwise “idle” individuals.