splendoruranium

Driving a car and doing it regularly is the most dangerous task most anyone living in any number of western societies with service-based economies will ever undertake. There is nothing wrong with treating it accordingly - with awe, care and a healthy portion of respect and fear.
But whether the decision not to do it is a good one depends on your life circumstances. Do you live or plan on living in a big European city? Yeah, you don't need a car in your life, good riddance. Do you live in a North American suburb or rural area? Er... not using a car is probably not an option unless you relocate.

I had a pretty bad car accident due to failing to yield the right of way (I struggle with multitasking)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here. It should go without saying that when one is driving, one's attention should ideally be focused on nothing else and multitasking therefore shouldn't be a factor.

Aber wenn man Leuten die das Bürgergeld missbrauchen die Sozialleistungen streicht, bleibt ja für die wirklich Bedürftigen mehr übrig. Mindestlohn und dergleichen müssen natürlich mit steigen, damit es auch Sinn macht zu arbeiten. Dafür muss man dann aber auch andererseits die Steuerlast für Unternehmen senken.

Wenn man ein Sozialsystem etabliert, hat man einen zu erwartenden Anteil an Missbrauch. Den akzeptiert man, sonst kann man kein Sozialsystem haben.
Wenn man dann bei einem Ausgabenvolumen von zweistelligen Milliardenbeträgen einen Schwund im zweistelligen Millionenbereich hat, führt man keine Debatten über Sozialbetrug sondern lässt die Sektkorken knallen, da das System offensichtlich bereits unglaublich effizient läuft.

Wenn einem so eine unglaublich geringe Missbrauchsquote nicht gut genug ist, kann man natürlich immer noch nach Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten suchen und dann plausibel darlegen, warum eine "Reform" mit möglichen Verbesserung im Promillebereich die Spucke für eine nationenweite Debatte überhaupt wert ist.

How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?

If you randomly stopped people in the streets and asked them what a user agent was, you'd get a certain percentage of folks that give you the correct answer. That percentage is the upper ceiling for any possible error margin that websites recording user agent strings have in attributing those strings to actual browsers, since nobody unaware of that term will know how or be interested in changing their user agent.

Do you think it likely that this percentage is going to be in any way, shape or form... impactful, considering that most people won't be able to tell you what a browser is? 😜

Not really, it’s just logical conclusion of believing in a project but then watching it fail repeatedly, and finally questioning whether it’s worth saving. His actual proposal is for a deeper democratic federalism, but he doesn’t think that will fly, because he’s disappointed.

Ok, there's a big disconnect here. I'll try to convey what I'm seeing when I read that sentence:
"Here's this complex and unique alliance structure, a transnational proto-pseudo-state, brought into being over the course of generations of humans, not only to keep the most wartorn region on a planet full of quarrelsome monkeys at peace - a task at which, through its multiple iterations, it has excelled at for almost 80 years - but also to slowly put its constituent nations into a mindset of cooperation instead of competition.
... anyway, let's apply some completely different arbitrary success criteria, determine this arguably staggering and most unlikely achievement of the human race a failure and suggest to tear it down, what could go wrong?"

Yanis would like to federalize the EU but realizes it’s maybe time to dismantle it.

What a strange non-sequitur.

This asylum policy has been an issue for many years, and our government fails to address it every time.

What's the issue arising from the current asylum policy?

every country would be better if shitty people like this could be kicked out. though there is no place to kick them to.

because of people like this, i’d rather stay and die with my belongings if war ever came to my country. Its awful world to seek asylum anywhere.

We're all just people and some of us have shitty ideas. The people can't go anywhere, there's just this one planet. The ideas can change, it's just very, very hard.

Oh wow

Thanks for the input!

Enshittification is inevitable for all free services (services as in with a server component).

No, it is not that bleak. It is only inevitable when there is an active push for a short-term maximization of user base monetization (which is very much in the nature of VC). It can usually be avoided with products that are wholly under the ownership of all users (such as a cooperative or a government-provided service) or - only if one is lucky - with products of financially independent private enterprises under vaguely benevolent and unhurried leadership (such as Steam, to some extent)

Didn’t Aella go off the right-wing deep end or am I thinking of the wrong person?

Haven't seen any indicators in the stuff I've read, but these days that's not enough for me to give a confident "no".

In this context I can fully recommend this article by the wonderful Aella. Rape - as with many other things - being a spectrum is something that seems so obvious in retrospect but so outlandish as an initial thought because it's hard to conceptualize when legislation usually calls for or assumes just some kind of boolean "consent yes/no" state.
I wish the world wasn't so complicated.