Covid period was a sour wake up call for Chinese citizens. Poor people. Hope they somehow find a change of living and rulers.

Sure, and the successor won’t become corrupt when owners, industrials and richs hand over some envelopes to make things faster. Two years and 8 envelopes later, he will take it as all his peers do as well.

I love that fifth pillar „Owning Class.“ It’s often not mentioned in such overviews but reveals most of the power structures im out world.

Would be interesting to have an additional row of „Life Happiness“ Being super-rich doesn’t mean being super-happy in your life.

Do you have any tips for parents that try to protect their teenagers getting addicted?

I‘m not sure how GDP is measured for an international company such as Google. Does the entire Revenue count cos the HQ sits in the US? Or is the license fees that it pays to Bahama‘s (in order to avoid taxes) is substracted from the US GDP? Does somebody know how that is measured?

Don’t know if that helps you - here in Europe it doesn’t look better. In all countries you can choose between the crazy, the stupid and the as-always. I‘m afraid the politics machine transforms you in one of those or scares away the motivated.

Can you read this?

Not US-based, German, but residential prices go crazy here as well.

For me it was the best decision to buy a house. For two reasons: you surf on the asset inflation as well. Moving to a new house last year wasn’t that pricey as I only had to borrow the difference old vs new bigger house.

Second reason is psychology: I don’t know somebody who has stocks in their account in same height as a house price. Paying mortgage forces you to save money. Having a (low) 6-digit stock account, feels being rich and money flows out into buying things.

If you just need the energy for the pool, a small setup without battery is all you need. Saves you half the price. Panels and inverters are around 900€ in Germany. Putting a battery on it makes another 1,200€ and it makes sense only, if you need power in the evening.

I don’t get it. For me it seems like „it’s not 100% the best way, so you have to stop it.“ Sure, a car-free, equal society that treats nature as family is the way to go. But why do they try to kill the first movers? Because Elon Musk is a weirdo? Why not stopping the coal diggers a few kilometers to the east? Or the chemical plants to the south first? That’s such a brain fuck.

https://www-nd--aktuell-de.translate.goog/artikel/1182025.disrupt-aktionstage-gegen-tesla-in-gruenheide-raus-aus-dem-system-auto.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

No, commenting is fast but reading is slow and clutter.

I think it came up like this: Saudi king at his last visit at Chinese Wall. „Uw, one can see it from the space? That’s awesome.“ At home: „Servants, build something as big as the Chinese Wall that is visible from the space, so everyone sees how great I am.“

Cheers 😁

Schlafzimmerblick. Brrrrr.

One of the few countries that never have been colonized by the West.

Klar irgendwo muss ja das Gewicht für die ganzen Flaschen gespart werden. Schleppst dich ja sonst zu Tode 😣

Honestly, I can’t see that we speed up somewhere. All I read is that last year was a new high in CO2 emissions. There‘s simply no time to buy anymore. I assume Geoengineering is the only way we can somehow keep the climate reasonable. Even it comes with additional dangers. That’s how humankind keeps progressing. E.g. Anyone going to stop AI? Or even social media? No!

And usually those wireless protocols for IoT consume way less power than WiFi.

Go out and plant a tree. I’ve done mine 10 years ago.

Fck, he‘s a bot!?! Right, last video he had just 2 fingers. Oh man.