The slow but steady destruction of the UN human rights system. This will have tremendous effect on us, but especially following generations. If the UN and its daugther organizations are weakened, it directly affects citizens across the world. The culprits? The USA, Russia, China and players like Israel - they are not interested in the international charter for human rights; or any human-centric, rules-based cooperation between nations.

Always doubt your heroes.

I thought the base is what you hit when the chute doesn’t open.

I didn’t know it existed! I have begun to hate YouTube, the suggestions for other videos are crap and it is overflowing with too many, too stupid ads. Peertube, here I come!

They can keep this up for ten more years and then… boom. It’s like the afghan war, it cost Ivan so much money that Gorbachev was forced (or at least chose) to opt for perestroika and glasnost, leading to the fall of the communist regime. It will take a while… and Putin’s (hopefully violent) death.

I use interrail a lot to travel across Europe. In France the TGV is great; but it is hard to get to places that are not close to TGV, the regional trains are overfilled and feel old-fashioned. I was impressed with the train system in Italy, all the way down to Messina… but on Sicily the trains are slow and far in between; like in France , Italy seems to have decoupled its provinces…Netherlands is surprisingly good for such a densely populated country. I like the German system too, it always gets me where I want to go, in many cases with some delay, but in a system so complex, I have no big issue with it. I only know one country that complains as much about the railway system as Germany: the UK.

China does what it wants. It supports Putin in Ukraine, spy all over the place… they pretend to be friendly but in reality they care only about themselves, their five-year plan-, communist- dictatorship.

Yeah, AfD in Germany is planning similar moves.

I get your point. But the buyer will only pay for the value that the buyer perceives for the service or product. That’s not just capitalism, that has been the case since trade was invented. So you are paying a certain sum for a bicycle, because it is a transportation solution for a challenge that you and similar people have: how to get from A to B, it must be sturdy, comfortable etc. As the buyer, you don’t care whether one of the screws was produced under terrible circumstances, you won’t pay a higher price for that bike to help that poor person somewhere down the line, that whole concept is too abstract. I’m not saying that’s a good thing; but I’m skeptical we will ever be able to completely change that, as most buyers will just look at the price and check whether it reflects the value (eg many of us may know that, for many reasons, we shouldn’t buy Chinese products, but weirdly enough Chinese exports are still booming).

Sales manager here. Why should they get a discount? The provided service has gotten better and/or faster, so clients should pay more.

… And we need to make sure we beat the Russians. Space travel is to a large extend an arms race.

No, I’m guessing somebody played golf, hit the ball hard and high, and it got stuck in the tree.

For many years, I have been thinking about migrating to some other spot, the south of France, Italy, UK, Spain , but then I discovered that it is much better to be a tourist in exotic places. I’ve met quite a few people who have moved to those places, and oh my god can they complain about their new host country. On top of that, many of them keep the option open to go home, for instance for healthcare reasons, or when they get older, but that is not emigrating; then you live in two countries, and in that case, I would feel very lost and “in between”. If you move to another country , you will need to integrate; get involved in administrative problems and political issues, -and you must learn the local language really well, speaking just a few words doesn’t mean that you have truly arrived. So, the novelty and exotic experience wears off quite quickly. So I’m staying put, I just make sure my EV is charged, the railway station is close by, I have cash in the bank,and my passport is up-to-date.

i’ve seen many reasons for emigration, but this one tops them all.

Atheist here. These religious sects are like chilli in the soup, I’m intrigued by them no end, can read about them for hours. Sometimes they even start doing weird, unethical or illegal stuff, wow human’s phantasy is truly bigger than the universe. In France we have mostly Jehovas, they just stand around like ghouls, saying nothing. But since they had some scandals (involving children) they have increased their presence. In Belgium and London I’ve met Orthodox Jews, that’s heavy soup too, almost too spicy. I always pity the children, because escape from a sect is hard.

Door is always open during the day; over all the summer months.

In the country where I live, cops retire when they get old.

Yes, and you will need people to operate them. Such people are called soldiers.

If only I were 14 again!

I’m getting more cynical as I get older, I witnessed the moon landings when I was young and I was thrilled. Humans are not made to live in, or to travel though space. Space, with its vacuum and high radiation levels is extremely unwelcoming. We better stay on Earth and fix our beautiful planet! But, it is again a space race, if NASA or Bezos or musk don’t get there first, the Chinese might. OMG! The Chinese! So we invent a lot of reasons why humans must live on the moon or mars - whereas our robots are doing a pretty good job in exploring these planets or the universe.