In Taiwanese cities you have public bathrooms within a radius of a 10 minutes walk, and they are as clean as hotel bathrooms, and for free. People in Taiwan leave bathrooms clean as they found it, and there is no vandalism in Taiwan. It works if the society is healthy, teenagers and adults of all social classes following common sense of being nice to others and keeping things intact.

If Goldman Sachs said that, then most likely the opposite is true.

I'm surprised how everyone here believes what that capitalist company is saying, just because it fits their own narrative of AI being useless.

The article is talking about "health problem" in its last paragraph. But Narcissism isn't a mental disorder or a mental illness; it is a personality disorder. (The narcissist is not suffering from the disorder; it's the surrounding people who are.) The whole text is based on the author's wrong understanding of the fundamentals of the subject, which renders the whole article useless.

Have you researched the reasons for "representative democracy"?

• Voters often lack the time to delve into intricate details and prefer to delegate decisions to representatives.
• Voters may not possess adequate knowledge about topics not being lawmakers.
• Voters are susceptible to influence from marketing campaigns.
• The outcome of a specific vote may not accurately represent the population, as certain groups may become more mobilized during marketing campaigns.

These are the reasons that come to mind at the moment, but there are likely many more.

Look at Brexit for an example of what can happen when people can vote directly.

Time to find interests that don't depend on a company taking advantage of my consumption habits.

Buy the paper version, cut off the papers with a paper knife, and scan to PDF, with text layer. Takes half an hour for 300 pages, a book I'd read several hours. I paid for ownership, I'll own it. Legal in many countries, research the legal situation of your country of residence.

The color screen of e-readers is too dark for me and substantially lacks contrast. It's very noticable. The layer for pen recognition already makes the screen darker, but the color display is adding a lot more to the darkness and lack of contrast. I would only go with an e-reader with black/white screen and even without pen recognition.

Furthermore, e-readers are much more fragile than mobile phones. The design of their screen leads to a high probability of getting broken which is a common thing, search "ereader screen broken" online. My Boox e-reader fell 50 centimeters and the screen was broken, which renders the whole devide unresponsive.

The pen recognition is not as precise as on tablets. You can draw with it, but it's a bit annoying and not for detailed work.

So my suggestion is to go with a device that costs less than 200 USD and do anything else than reading on a phone or tablet.

Ask anyone who works in IT and they'll confirm nothing gets ever deleted from all records and backups.

The software is free open source. But this case is not about the software. It's about the web instance that the majority of the people was using. And that instance now lost its privacy feature and shouldn't call itself privacy friendly anymore.

This is about the free publicly hosted instance, used by the majority of the Jitsi users, who used it because they didn't have to login with a Google/Facebook/Github account. Which they now have to.

To see how your approach works, try using the Internet with Javascript turned off for reading text. You will realize you can't organize your life nowadays without bowing to what websites do technically.

Why do people think they are "buying" something when in fact they are "renting". Everything that's not in your power is not in your posession, hence it's not something you have bought. This counts for ebooks with DRM as well as those online games. Amazon and other companies call it "buying" to make people believe it's equal to real books, games ect. in their posession, and people do believe it.