The construction of thousands of dams since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to wobble, new research suggests.
Scientists found that large dams hold so much water they redistribute mass around the globe, shifting the position of Earth's crust relative to the mantle, the planet's middle layer.
Earth's mantle is gooey, and the crust forms a solid shell that can slide around on top of it. Weight on the crust that causes it to shift relative to the mantle also shifts the location of Earth's poles, the researchers said.
Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the massive weight of water reservoirs.
Storing water behind dams caused Earth's poles to move a total distance of 3.7 feet (1.1 m) over the study period, the authors of the new research found.
Succedono cose sempre più pazze in questa economia… anzi, solo cose pazze, oserei dire… ma, indubbiamente, ogni tanto, tra queste folli follie, qualche schiribizzo dal grande valore aggiunto pur spunta fuori. Tipo, il cosiddetto movimento politico, ed omonima iniziativa dei cittadini europei, conosciuto come BASTA Uccidendo Giochi!!! (Per i britannici, anche se loro non hanno […]
Succedono cose sempre più pazze in questa economia… anzi, solo cose pazze, oserei dire… ma, indubbiamente, ogni tanto, tra queste folli follie, qualche schiribizzo dal grande valore aggiunto pur spunta fuori. Tipo, il cosiddetto movimento politico, ed omonima iniziativa dei cittadini europei, conosciuto come BASTA Uccidendo Giochi!!! (Per i britannici, anche se loro non hanno più niente a che fare con l’Unione Europea e dunque mi chiedo che bisogno ci sia da parte mia di precisare per loro, “Stop Killin’ Games“.)
È un disegno di legge per la protezione dei consumatori in ambito videoludico, ma per tutte le informazioni si legga stopkillinggames.com/ 👾
Qualche giorno fa, la petizione sulla piattaforma ECI ha superato il famigerato obiettivo di un milione (1000000, che numerone) di firme, quindi, a fine luglio, la commissione europea, come da protocollo dovrà dare uno sguardo alla questione, e ci sono decenti probabilità che le richieste del popolo in questione all’iniziativa diventino fottuta legge! O, almeno, così succederà se il numero delle firme valide sarà sufficiente… individui imprecisati dicono che per stare sicuri bisognerebbe arrivare almeno a 1,4 milioni di firme; io invece dico, per avere un margine bello tosto, puntiamo a 2 milioni come minimo. 😳
Come scrivo questo siamo a 1.3 milioni, con l’influsso di adesioni che rallenta sempre di più ogni giorno… e in questo senso, questa è secondo me la buona occasione per ricordare di questo affare anche da parte mia, e quindi dire di firmare a chi ancora non l’ha fatto. Infatti, a parte il problema solito che, per la legge dei grandi numeri, usciranno fuori puntualmente varie firme invalide quando i potery forty andranno a fare i controlli… con questa iniziativa sono successe a mio avviso diverse cose strane, e ho il sospetto che le firme non valide saranno molte più del solito. Ecco infatti un elenco delle stranezze che, per quanto ne so io, è esaustivo:
Si parla dall’anno scorso di questa cosa, ma stranamente solo nelle nicchie, e con poca gente che firmò subito subito. A quanto ho capito, questo è perché uno streamer di nome Pirate Software ha attivato una grande macchina del fango nei confronti dell’iniziativa, giusto per suoi interessi economici, e molta gente gli ha dato retta… e ok, ma allora non capisco come mai a un mese dalla chiusura dell’evento la macchina fangosa abbia così gravemente fallito. 🙄
Per qualche motivo, la petizione si può firmare anche soltanto compilando un <form> in cui si scrivono i propri dati anagrafici e il numero di un proprio documento di identità… neanche a dirlo, per colpa di ciò si potrebbero senza problemi inviare firme invalide, anche da fuori dell’UE. Quindi… mi raccomando, firmate con SPID o CIE, così la vostra firma informaticamente non può essere considerata carta straccia (spero). 😽
Il giorno in cui il milione di firme è stato raggiunto, lo si è raggiunto con così tante, tutte di botto, da aver mandato la piattaforma ECI in down intermittente per parecchie ore… cosa che da un lato fa temere che alcune firme siano “corrotte” o qualche merdata del genere (non mi risulta fosse mai successo un simile incidente, quindi il software potrebbe non essere a prova di spacc)… e dall’altro mi fa sospettare che ci sia stato un attacco bot al form di cui sopra, che è protetto solo da un CAPTCHA vecchio stile… quindi il rischio è di tante firme invalide. ☠️
E allora… su, firmate, i link sono sopra!!! Il gaming ha bisogno della tosta democrazia per non cadere ancora più in basso… 🥵
(Piccola parentesi… Pirate Software è proprio allucinante. Ha invitato a non firmare perché, secondo lui, ci sarebbe il rischio che l’industria dei giochi live service muoia — e già qui, ci vedrei solo aspetti positivi, se solo questa paura fosse davvero legittima — e le povere aziende e zzz… che è una modalità di pensiero non solo contorta, ma specialmente curiosa per qualcuno che ha come nickname “software pirata”, ossia una roba che notoriamente non fa piacere alle aziende. Ma, ormai, al giorno d’oggi le prediche vengono sempre dai pulpiti più marci mai osservati… però, almeno, il karma ha colpito forte: è notizia delle ultime ore che il suo canale sta emorraggiando iscritti, e di ciò inevitabilmente noi ne godiamo.)
L'adozione del colore azzurro risale al 6 gennaio 1911, quando la Nazionale italiana scese in campo contro l'Ungheria con una maglia blu Savoia, tonalità intensa dell'azzurro. Fino a quel momento, l'Italia aveva giocato in bianco con lo stemma della Casa Savoia. La decisione di cambiare fu un omaggio esplicito alla monarchia, allora regnante: il blu era infatti il colore araldico della dinastia Savoia.
Scopri perché la Nazionale Italiana usa la maglia azzurra: un colore scelto nel 1911 in onore dei Savoia, oggi simbolo dell’identità sportiva nazionale.
Solar Gardens is a fun-filled, light-hearted tile-drafting board game where each player will take on the role of a visionary architect specializing in carbon neutral engineering to build a rooftop garden in harmony with nature. Guided by principles of sustainability, innovation, community, and strategy, players must work to harness renewable energy to create tranquil garden environments.
In order for your solar garden to be the winner, your goal is to score the most points by building the most aesthetically pleasing solar farms, windmill systems, water filters, and cultural hubs. Solar Gardens is a wonderful opportunity to discover the power of creativity, and optimism where a brighter future is always within your reach. Can you and your fellow architects create a self-sufficient, resilient garden before time runs out, or will your rooftop paradise dry up?
As a bonus, Solar Gardens is made of biodegradable, plastic-free materials and uses paper stickers to hold the game box together in transit. Also, it is a part of The National Forest Foundation’s Sapling Program where a portion of your purchase of this amazing game will be donated to help plant trees in national parks around the United States–a benefit of the National Forestry Foundation.
Overview: Solar Gardens is a tile-drafting strategy game where players compete to create flourishing rooftop gardens by drafting tiles and placing them in their grid, aiming to build the highest-scoring rooftop garden. Each tile represents a different element of a rooftop garden, such as solar panels, wind turbines, plant beds, rainwater collectors, decorative features, and more. In order to win, players must balance aesthetics, energy efficiency, and animal diversity to score more points than their opponents.
Contents: 12 Page Rulebook Starting Player Token 5 Player Aide Boards 5 Foldable Player Boards 90 Tiles 1 scoring pad Creative Team:
Game Design: Alex Cutler Initial Game Development: Eric Slauson Game Development: Aaron Salmonowicz Producer: Alex Uboldi Graphic Design: Bryan Weiss Art: Daniel Clarke Editing: Neil Kingham
Step into the radiant future of Solar Gardens! Coming July 31, 2025 This is a pre-order product expected to ship Mid-July Solar Gardens is a fun-filled, light-hearted tile-drafting board game where each player will take on the role of a visionary ar…
“Storie di donne” è una raccolta di testimonianze di donne italiane sulla loro condizione sociale e professionale, una polifonia di voci femminili trasmessa per la prima volta dalla Rai nel 1971,...
This kind of content is regularly posted to .ml "news" comms along with other known propaganda outlets and conspiracy websites. It's the exact kind of content .ml admins @dessalines@lemmy.ml and @davel@lemmy.ml want to propagate and spread.
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I have seen them, completely unironically, try to use a US State department link as evidence that the Uyghur genocide wasn't happening (Even though only it's title made it seem like that, if they had actually read it it concluded that it just wasn't the "kill everyone" kind of genocide, but the "kill their culture" kind)
It’s funny because I’ve specifically gotten multiple removal reasons from Hexbear after saying something like. “I’d prefer to live in neither authoritarian China or the US”
and I’ll get a removal reason like: “False. What credible sources have said the people’s republic is authoritarian? US State Department doesn’t count”.
Which strikes me as super weird cuz I never mentioned the state department myself.
Glad I’m on an instance without Hexbear, at this point.
Agrivoltaic solar arrays can shade crops from sun while moisture from vegetation cools the panels to increase their productivity, researchers and farmers have found.
International politics has ceased to be a theater and has become a circus without a big top and without shame.
By Alberto García Watson
What used to be disguised as strategic diplomacy is now openly exhibited as geopolitical pantomime without shame or principle. Donald Trump's recent decision, with the enthusiastic blessing of diplomats from the United Kingdom and Spain, to remove Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from the list of terrorist organizations is not only an affront to memory: it is an official consecration of hypocrisy as a diplomatic doctrine.
HTS, the marketing version of Al-Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, has a Nuremberg-worthy record: a decade of beheadings, suicide bombings, slavery, sectarian repression, ethnic cleansing and social destruction under the leadership of its charismatic executioner, Abu Mohammad al-Golani. But, of course, it was enough for him to put on an Armani suit and take a couple of photos with his beard trimmed and combed for Syria's number one terrorist to suddenly become a “regional stability actor”. Hollywood should be taking note.
The marketing of terrorism: from jihad to “multilateralism”
The most insulting thing is not only its media whitewashing, but the real motive that has made it “digestible” for the West: al-Golani is now the guarantor of a future Syria that, surprise, would gladly adhere to the Abraham Accords. Yes, the same agreements that normalize relations with Tel Aviv, while bombs continue to fall on Gaza and illegal settlements devour Palestine. So he is not only forgiven for the past: he is rewarded for betraying what was once the most sacred pan-Arab cause.
This turn is not pragmatism: it is geopolitical prostitution. Golani has not changed his principles; he has simply learned to put them up for rent. And nothing rents more today than to offer a fragmented but obedient Syria, submissive to Israel's interests and aligned with Washington's whims. The noble Palestinian cause, which for decades was the banner of resistance in the Arab world, is today conveniently pushed under the bus by the same man who preached its defense with blood and fire.
The West: selective memory and moral balance
Meanwhile, European capitals are juggling to justify this diplomatic resurrection. The British minister speaks of “pragmatism”. The Spanish Chancellor calls for “reviewing certain designations”. That is to say: if a terrorist is useful, he is called a partner. If he serves the narrative, he is called reformed. And if he kisses the ring of power, he is offered immunity with canapé and glass in hand.
The victims, thousands of Syrians, beheaded journalists, massacred civilians have been filed away as footnotes in the great novel of realpolitik. Not a mention. Not an apology. Not a hint of memory. The West, which once painted its face with the war against terrorism, today paints its face with indifference.
What's next? Golani at the UN talking about Human Rights?
It would not be unusual to see him next as a panelist at a forum on “peaceful transitions” or “security in the Middle East”. Perhaps he will be invited to Davos, or even Jerusalem, to talk about how “regional cooperation is the way to the future.” The same man who murdered in the name of extremism will now lecture on interfaith coexistence. This is not satire. It is foreign policy.
Conclusion: Treason as diplomatic currency
Al-Golani's whitewashing is not a mistake, it is a clear message: terrorism is forgiven, recycled and rewarded, as long as the traitor on duty signs where he is told to. It doesn't matter if he stabs his own people, if he betrays the Palestinian cause or if his record is worthy of the Hague Tribunal: if he surrenders to the new order, he becomes a preferred partner.
And so, terrorism is institutionalized, betrayal is celebrated and dignity is exported at a bargain price. The fight against extremism is no longer a cause: it is a slogan. And forgiveness, like sovereignty, is bought in cash or oil.
This is what I mean when I say Kant (and other enlightenment era thinkers) obsession with some universal moral rules followed by purely rational humans is some dude’s fantasy who never has understood how normal people work.
A friend messaged me the other day. I saw it. I didn’t reply. A week later, I finally responded with the classic: Sorry for the late reply, just got to this.
She called me out. You didn’t just get to this, she said. I saw the double ticks.
Damn. She was right. I’d opened it. I’d registered it. But I’d also shelved it. It needed a proper reply, and at that moment, I wasn’t equipped.
Maybe it got lost between revisiting pictures from 2016 and the reminder I set to cancel my Nibble app 7-day trial on day 6. Maybe I got a call? Perhaps I’d wanted to sink back into that Substack article about reclaiming attention, ironically while still on social media. Maybe I was working one of the four jobs I need to survive under capitalism’s boot heel. Maybe I was doing nothing?
Does free time now equal availability?
I get a ping from the family group chat, which doubles as an IT helpdesk for my mum. My best friend just FaceTimed me about a White Lotus episode, and another left a voice note crying about a possible diagnosis. All this, lodged between videos of cats and genocide.
The boundaries between reception and response have collapsed.
Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values, and emotional states.
It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources with conspiracy blogs — interspersed with photos of a family picnic — with no distinction between these very different types of information. It is a design choice to use algorithms that find the most emotional or outrageous content to show users, hoping it keeps them online. And it is a design choice to send bright red notifications, keeping people in a state of expectation for the next photo or juicy piece of gossip.
Platform design is a silent pilot steering human behavior.
Social media platforms are bringing massive changes to how people get their news and how they communicate and behave. For example, the “endless scroll” is a design feature that aims to keep users scrolling and never reaching the bottom of a page where they might decide to pause.
I’m a political scientist who researches aspects of technology that support democracy and social cohesion, and I’ve observed how the design of social media platforms affects them.
Democracy is in crisis globally, and technology is playing a role. Most large platforms optimize their designs for profit, not community or democracy. Increasingly, Big Tech is siding with autocrats, and the platforms’ designs help keep society under control.
There are alternatives, however. Some companies design online platforms to defend democratic values.
Didn't I read somewhere that today's youth drinks less alcohol? I know when I was young I wouldn't be caught "dancing" at the club unless I was closer to puking than to slurred speech.
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Select PieFed and choose a server
Likely I'll be pushing PieFed support to TestFlight next.
This might be the biggest PR I've ever written. It took a month of work and thousands of lines of code updated. There s a very high chance that random things will be a little broken, but I'll fix the bugs as I find them. That being said, it's very usable. Please let me know if you encounter any issues.
PieFed is still pretty unstable. They could push a breaking change at any point that would require me to make an app update for PieFed to work again.
There are known issues that I'm solving with the help of the PieFed devs:
Private messages don't load your reply messages to other users
Comment loading is a little broken. You will see "missing comment" a lot
I hope you like the update, and I'm pretty confident this work will unlock the next chapter for Blorp. I might even look into mbin support, no promises.
Episodes of The Bear, Stranger Things and Lena Dunham’s new show Too Much are stretching the limits of television and reducing our enjoyment in the process
A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, responded to and learned from voice commands from the team—like a novice surgeon working with a mentor.
The robot performed unflappably across trials and with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, even during unexpected scenarios typical in real life medical emergencies.
In work led by Johns Hopkins researchers, the robot performed unflappably across trials and with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, even during unexpected scenarios typical in real life medical emergencies
His comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged technology firms including Google and its parent company Alphabet had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli government and military.
“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides. I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like the UN in relation to these issues,” Brin wrote in a forum for staff at Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence division, where workers were debating the report, according to the screenshots.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ‘transparently antisemitic’ after report on tech firms and Gaza
His comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged technology firms including Google and its parent company Alphabet had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli government and military.
“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides. I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like the UN in relation to these issues,” Brin wrote in a forum for staff at Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence division, where workers were debating the report, according to the screenshots.
Social housing makes up almost half of the city’s 1m homes. The system isn’t perfect, but it gets a lot of things right, says housing expert Justin Kadi
È firmata dal compositore Edoardo Verde la colonna sonora ufficiale dell’edizione 2025 del Festival del Doppiaggio – Premio Tonino Accolla, svoltosi a Siracusa, Noto e Ortigia dal 26 al 29 giugno 2025. Un riconoscimento importante per un artista dalla cifra stilistica raffinata, capace di coniugare profondità sonora, sensibilità narrativa e ricerca espressiva.
Impossibile parlare di Edoardo, senza ricordare la figura del nonno Dino Verde – autore di alcuni dei brani più iconici della musica leggera italiana: da "Resta cu’ mme" a "Romantica", da "Piove (Ciao ciao bambina)" a hit indimenticabili come "Il ballo del mattone", "Una zebra a pois", "Buonasera buonasera", "Felicità tà tà tà". Una tradizione artistica che Edoardo onora con la sua personale voce musicale, capace di emozionare e raccontare, anche attraverso una semplice nota.
Renzo Pasolini, pur non avendo mai vinto un campionato del mondo, rimane popolare grazie al suo stile intrepido. È sepolto nel Cimitero Monumentale di Rimini, dove il suo casco e alcune testimonianze delle sue vittorie sono esposte sul suo sepolcro. Jarno Saarinen è ricordato come uno dei piloti motociclistici più promettenti e talentuosi della sua epoca. Rimane l’unico finlandese ad aver vinto un campionato del mondo di motociclismo su strada. Il suo stile di guida, in particolare la sua posizione del corpo e la capacità di far scivolare il pneumatico posteriore, influenzò futuri campioni.
L’incidente che tolse la vita ad entrambi il 20 maggio 1973 a Monza fu un momento che generò una forte richiesta di migliori condizioni di sicurezza nello sport delle due ruote
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday it was issuing sanctions against an independent official tasked with investigating human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, the latest effort by the United States to punish critics of Israel’s 21-month war in Gaza.
The state department’s decision to sanction Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, comes after a recent US pressure campaign to force the international body to remove her from her post failed.
Albanese, a human rights lawyer, has been vocal in calling for an end to what she describes as the “genocide” that Israel is waging against Palestinians in Gaza. Both Israel and the US, which provides military support, have strongly denied that accusation.
Israel has faced accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice and of war crimes at the ICC over its devastating military assault on Gaza. Albanese’s position has also been backed by leading genocide scholars and rights organisations.
This study from MIT used geo data collected from cars in Milan, Italy, to check the effectiveness of 30 km/h zones in reducing speed.
The first conclusion is that the signs don't work: 85 percentile speeds are all over the place in 30 km/h zones in Milan, as shown in the figure below:
The second step was finding correlations between speeds and street features extracted from openstreetmap. Results are as expected: narrow, short, curvy sections correlate with lower speeds, as do 1 lane vs more, one way vs 2 ways:
The final step is also interesting: the authors made a model to predict the compliance of 30 km/h speed limit on streets that are 50 km/h at the moment. Useful for urban planning to understand if charging an area to 30 km/h would need structural interventions (like bumps, narrowing of the street...) or not:
There is so much more in the article, I suggest to read it fully.
Milano, analisi del limite 30 km/h dimostra che quel che conta non sono i cartelli, ma com'è fatta la strada
Uno studio di #MIT sulle velocità rilevate, dimostra con dati concreti e analisi dell'infrastruttura da #openstreetmap, quel che già era noto: i guidatori adeguano la velocità alla loro percezione di pericolo, e non ai limiti imposti. Strade più strette, a senso unico, con incroci fanno rallentare. Non ci sono più scuse
So the limit is what matters, but it has to actually be enforced. Thats some very novel insight hmmmm. But yes, physical filters like bumps are much more effective compared to signs.
If the limit is setup appropriately. Loads of roads have the limit set where you would think the speed limit is 80km/h but somehow it is set to 50km/h. So everyone ignores the set limit. While at other roads the limit is say 70km/h but you can hardly drive over 50km/h.
The limit should be set to whatever is deemed safe for pedestrians and cyclists in a given location. The road design should then match that speed limit.
Loads of roads have the limit set where you would think the speed limit is 80km/h but somehow it is set to 50km/h
So the road should be redesigned to make it hard to drive over 50 (make it more narrow and add traffic calming)
This is Italy we're talking about, our public officials want zero responsibility so they always set absurdly low limits.
Point is, road design is everything, if you want people to go slow, you can make it so, if it's an area where people can go faster, design the road accordingly and keep it maintained, don't let it turn into a crater field, just to later "fix" the problem with a temporary speed limit.
In Milan this would be possible, since it is a rich city, in the rest of Italy, not so easy.
This is Italy we’re talking about, our public officials want zero responsibility so they always set absurdly low limits.
Sounds good TBH. If they also narrow the roads/remove lanes to enforce it, put bike paths/public transit lanes in the free space, and fine anyone driving dangerously, then this is the recipe for a good city.
This study from MIT used geo data collected from cars in Milan, Italy, to check the effectiveness of 30 km/h zones in reducing speed.
The first conclusion is that the signs don't work: 85 percentile speeds are all over the place in 30 km/h zones in Milan, as shown in the figure below:
The second step was finding correlations between speeds and street features extracted from openstreetmap. Results are as expected: narrow, short, curvy sections correlate with lower speeds, as do 1 lane vs more, one way vs 2 ways:
The final step is also interesting: the authors made a model to predict the compliance of 30 km/h speed limit on streets that are 50 km/h at the moment. Useful for urban planning to understand if charging an area to 30 km/h would need structural interventions (like bumps, narrowing of the street...) or not:
There is so much more in the article, I suggest to read it fully.
Milano, analisi del limite 30 km/h dimostra che quel che conta non sono i cartelli, ma com'è fatta la strada
Uno studio di #MIT sulle velocità rilevate, dimostra con dati concreti e analisi dell'infrastruttura da #openstreetmap, quel che già era noto: i guidatori adeguano la velocità alla loro percezione di pericolo, e non ai limiti imposti. Strade più strette, a senso unico, con incroci fanno rallentare. Non ci sono più scuse
Moreno Vignolini, presidente di Confartigianato Moda:
“Il settore tessile e moda, pilastro storico del Made in Italy, oggi vive una crisi che richiede risposte immediate, mirate e un’azione coordinata tra pubblico, privato e istituzioni”.
Nei primi quattro mesi del 2025 l’export delle aziende artigiane è sceso del 3,7%, la produzione ha registrato un calo del 9,3% e l’occupazione è diminuita del 5,6%.
Maybe the USA should heavily invest in the industry of the USA, just like China does, in order to keep up? No, then USian companies would have oversight & have to meet expectations, and we all know that they wouldn’t want that.
Also labor price is unmatched. Nobody would work for the wage they give to children in China, so you can't really go that much cheaper while not sacrificing safety.
Very few children work in china right now, Chinese workers even have 5 days of vacation a year by law.
That's 5 more than the US....
There were probably more children working on farms in the US than in china, and I remember something about Florida wanting to reinstate child labour again?
Yes, there may not be child labor. But in places we cannot see, there are still black industry chains. A brick factory was exposed some time ago. They let some people with low IQ or disabilities work. They were not given masks, and the air was full of dust. They may work more than ten hours a day or even more. What is the difference between this and slavery? I just want to give this example to illustrate that there are still many black-hearted factories in society, and there is also the possibility of employing child labor. In China, young people who have not studied will choose to work in factories, but they must be at least 16 years old. If they are younger, they will not be hired. Back to the issue of BYD, although we are proud that it can be recognized by the world as a Chinese brand, and many people in China also buy it. But recently there have been some news that they blindly work overtime within the company, and have meetings after get off work, etc. Someone exposed the chat records within the company. We are all ordinary people. We just want to fight for our rights. Even if it is a big company, as long as it exploits people, we must oppose it.
We still have a question, why do we work so hard when we have achieved what we have now? We envy people in Europe, who have easy work. Every time we take a holiday, we have to make up for it with more working days. You often say that Chinese people are hardworking, but the younger generation does not want to suffer unnecessary hardships. We realize that we come to this world to enjoy life, not to spend the best decades of our lives working.
I think it's about being content with what you have. Not always wanting more and bigger and better. I have a comfortable salary, nothing too much, loads of people earn way more, but i can pay my mortgage and all other costs, don't have to worry about losing my job. And still have enough money left to spend on nice things.
I don't have to save up loads of money for medical bills or other unfortunate events. I can just easily live my life.
That having said I'm still fed up with the daily grind, so I'm selling the house now to retire early somewhere in Spain or Italy, hopefully going off grid somewhere in the mountains enjoying peace and quiet and nature, embracing my inner hermit.
I also want to save money to buy a house in our village. Most of us came to the city from the countryside, but I don’t have enough money. I don’t think I am not ungrateful, but the salary of the company is indeed lower than the industry average. That’s why I think so. Your life seems wonderful — I truly wish you all the best.
You too, just count your blessings, and think about what you have and don't focus on what you don't (or can't) have.
I like to lead a more minimalist life so I can retire, small cabin in the mountains, maybe put up a big tent for a bed and breakfast to cover my cost a bit. And just be busy with growing my own food, chickens, getting ready for winter doing repairs, hiking. Now with solar panels being cheap and batteries, going off the grid is a lot easier. And if you don't need much you can live very cheap.
Search for Martijn Doolaard on youtube and you know what I mean, although i want to keep it a bit simpler. 😁
Thank you for your suggestion. I didn't think of building a cabin. Our land is collective and we can't just build a house casually. That's why we have to save money to build a house. Thank you always, I hope we can all have a bright future~ 😘
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