Realistically, there’s going to be no way to stop this. It’s too useful. It works and most people appreciate it. I know this because I have visited southern China recently. I’ve seen the train stations and coffee shops where people now think nothing of leaving their belongings completely unattended. This level of surveillance effectively makes petty crime impossible. It’s widely seen as progress, in a way it is progress, and there’s no going back.

The challenge remaining is to keep some level of democratic accountability over our governments. That’s feasible but it’s not going to be easy.

This post breaks literally rules #1, #2 and #3 of this community. Crazy.

Mods please wake up and DO YOUR JOB.

Breaks rule #2 completely. Not a showerthought.

THIS IS NOT A SHOWERTHOUGHT. This just an opinion. There already a ton of places to put your banal talking points like this. Why can’t you put them there??

For examples of what a showerthought is, look on the right. Another one was posted 2 minutes after this very post:

“With all due respect” could imply that no respect is due and therefore none is given

That is a showerthought.

PS: Want more substance? It breaks rule #4 partially and rule #3 totally.

I always confuse this with hikikomori. Which in turn I always forget how to spell.

This is the correct but boring (but correct) answer.

Yet another not-a-showerthought.

In no way is this a “showerthought”. Seriously. This community is being devalued to worthlessness.

Come on, this is not a “showerthought”, this is just an opinion. Put it elsewhere.

Moderators, please wake up.

So I just looked into this because I don’t seem to be missing any “essential features” and it seems that there are major differences between the corporate Store version and the F-Droid version that I use. Pretty hard making sense of it all but it seems that on the FOSS version some otherwise paid features are free (including map downloads), I guess because there would be no mechanism to charge for them when there’s no app-store account. Others don’t seem to be available at all, but apparently I don’t want those.

Anyway, the fact that they publish on F-Droid is the reason I’ve used this app for over a decade and why I never miss an opportunity to shill for it, like right now. Which I hope counts as payment in kind.

TIL.

PSA: there is already a FOSS OSM maps client that predates Organic Maps by a decade and is much more powerful. It’s called OsmAnd.

Personally I wish all you guys would get with the FOSS spirit and pool your efforts a bit more instead of forking things every two years and reinventing the wheel. A good maps app is a hard challenge, there’s not room for 10 of them.

Besides evidence (what you see in front of you), there’s also reason (what you can deduce from first principles).

I’d say the key concept of science is that knowledge can be built upon. That there is not yet an answer to every question. That you can say “We don’t know but we’re working on it”. This was absolutely revolutionary in human affairs.

STEINER’S [something] WAS A [negative abstract noun]!!!

This is my A2 German. I have to work on the vocab. The negative abstract noun feels like “treachery” or something but possibly I’m completely off.

So, a bookmarks list basically.

Prediction: you’ll never actually read most of what ends up on this to-read list.

Look at the photo! It’s a wintertime word.

Literally the most inappropriate moment of the year to post this! But great word.

Perhaps AI could be used to rewrite this post so that it makes sense.

Yep. Pathetic and embarrassing.