There's three types of liberal:

• politically liberal (means you can say what you want)
• economically liberal (means your company can do what it wants)
• socially liberal (means you can love who you want)

typically, it's important to distinguish which types we're talking about. An economic-liberal is sometimes also called a neo-liberal, and does typically not help social wellbeing.

Shootings in kindergardens should not get less attention that shootings at CEOs.

People are freaking out because for years, the central dogma was to "educate yourself, that makes you special, that makes you unique, that guarantees you a prosperois economic future" and such, and now this promise is about to be broken. People are in denial: AI is a good thing.

I do wonder why people buy smart TVs instead of getting regular displays together with a Linux PC.

uuh, new users for the fediverse. looking forward to y'all ;-)

It's less cold than it looks, i've tried that.

Snow is an excellent thermal insulator, and the air in that chamber can be quite warm, like 15°C, without really melting the snow.

I disagree. There's a lot of reasons why people don't have children, including:

• emotional devastated youth (abandoned by parents, addicted to smartphones, misunderstood by society)
• people can't find partners for this reason
• too much stress from too much work
• wages are barely keeping up with inflation, and I project they will in fact not keep up in the long term in the US due to missing labor protections and decreasing demand for labor.
• rising cost of living because politically, nobody really cares about the population.

edit: sorry i realized i made these points US-specific but you were talking about russia, sorry.

Am I going to have to worry that my daughter, when she reaches a curious age, starts exploring with vegetables?

No. Worrying doesn't help anyone. Just relax.

I think the venezuelan government is wrong this time, and the election was rigged, bUT: it coming from the US doesn't mean shit.

You see, some operating systems are mostly operated by sound. If you mute them, they stop working. So it makes sense that you can't mute them.