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Why it's good that the blue check mark on Twitter should cost money

Why it's good that the blue check mark on Twitter should cost money

Elon Musk has bought Twitter, shocking for many, for many also a liberating blow from censorship of unwanted content. But Elon is a capitalist and his investment of several billion dollars, should also be worthwhile, the blue check mark, which is the symbol on Twitter as proof of a real person behind this account, should cost money and that, is good.

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Posted by Petr Kirpeit in Digital, Society, Personal opinion, 0 comments
Why "The Line" is just sick in Saudi Arabia

Why "The Line" is just sick in Saudi Arabia

For some years now, one has been hearing and reading about "The Line" and the Project NEOMwhich is supposed to be the city of the future in Saudi Arabia, not that China has already had worse experiences with its planned cities (Under Occupied Developments in China, Ordos, China's empty city), although I at least find the concept of a planned city practical and exciting as an IT and developer, for example the South Korean planned city of Songdo, which is actually a district of the megacity Incheon. The advantage here is simply that you can optimize everything, improve processes, and on paper technically better implement that than if something grows organically.

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What is the truth?

What is the truth?

What is truth? Depending on the view and the possibilities of one's own horizon, the view of truth lies with oneself.

If one wants to be satisfied with simplicity, a suitable truth quickly emerges that fits into one's own world view. But is this still the truth just because you yourself think that this is the truth? Not really, because your neighbor may already have a completely different view of the circumstances and sees the truth quite differently. In both cases one lies here neither wrong nor right, but in between, both sides have discovered in each case a part of the truth, however only and/or mostly this part, which fits into own world view. And that is then not necessarily the whole truth.

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