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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago

The fight for privacy and digital freedom is inherently political.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sure, but that doesn't fix any of the problems that this article highlights. Large areas of the globe are becoming unhabitable and yet the current policy is to keep people there through subsidies and legal threats for insurance companies instead of actual prevention and mitigation. Basically burying the head in the sand while everyone else is paying the price.

To quote the article:

If rebuilding a house destroyed in a "100 year flood" once made sense, now that there's a "100 year flood" every five years, rebuilding in that locale no longer makes sense. So why should taxpayers absorb the costs of this selective blindness to the realities of rising global risks?

Solidarity and collectivization of risk is essential for things like healthcare, where your risk is almost entirely depending on luck. But for home disaster insurance, it depends much more kn where and how you choose to build. It then makes little sense why living in particularly dangerous areas should be subsidized. That money should rather go towards climate adaptation.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

The revolution will not be televised.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately, the EU is planning something similar called the European Health Data Space. Mandatory data sharing, patients cannot opt out to everything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

That's obviously not what this article is about. Notice how I said "above a certain age"?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't. Self-hosted open source surveillance is still surveillance. Constantly monitoring your children (above a certain age) is still helicopter parenting.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

Delightfully devilish, Seymour!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

The "scientific context" is literally written by a self-proclaimed god (who is totally not trolling). Do you doubt the divine scripture?

[–] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Very well said. Just wanted to clarify that the notion that men should always be strong and heroic is still toxic masculinity. Strength shouldn't be celebrated for its own sake, what matters is how it's used. Appreciate the men who struggle against anxiety and social expectations to still do what is right.

I know that's probably what you mean, but that last paragraph gave me flashbacks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Looks like the UK finally found someone willing to be transport supremo

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