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There are many good infrastructure projects that could be run sensibly. And probably others that would even be a benefit from an economic point of view, such as modern locks for the Neckar.
And so, on the one hand, it is gratifying that profitability calculations are being made, although these are also subject to the primacy of politics and are therefore only better hypocrisy, in order to perhaps even be able to achieve a meaningful prioritization. On the other hand, however, we have to realize that even meaningful and economically beneficial projects can hardly be financed anymore.
It is becoming more and more apparent that the overexploitation, which was carried out in favor of supposed social spending - although it is still not clear who benefited most from it - has, among other things, ruined our entire education system and all infrastructure, but so slowly certainly shows its devastating consequences.
The Neckar locks can no longer be optimized, at least in this century, and it will become apparent that there will also be no more money for modern local public transport.
So all the plans and investigations probably only serve to fool the citizens into making some changes and at the same time cater to one or the other political clientele, such as planners and consultants.
As long as we continue to use almost half of our households - perhaps even far more - just for "social expenditure", we should not be surprised if there will soon be neither infrastructural improvements nor well-paid jobs.
That is why we will no longer measure new infrastructure projects in decades, but in centuries, if at all. And so we will spend the rest of our lives busy with nice plans and even nicer civic participations, in the hope that our grandchildren will one day benefit from it - probably a completely different form of sustainability than originally intended.
Decentralization
As a supporter of this view, I have always run my own social media and also write my own weblog. I recently released this for those fellow citizens who don't want to bother running websites themselves.
And those fellow citizens who also maintain their own websites, such as B. Detlef Stern or Thomas Michl, one can - and this only logically - hardly persuade to write on my blog. To get around this "problem", there have been attempts for a long time to link the most diverse blogs and websites with one another. I too have tried again and again to participate. Unfortunately, the technical offers available for this do not really seem to work, at least I was not able to link myself sufficiently with them, although the effort required for this is simply too great. That's why I recently unsubscribed from such a project.
Matthew Pfefferle, another blogger from my blogroll, has a blog post that is well worth reading in this regard and probably “triggered” by the current discussion about Twitter “The (Twitter) posse', of course on his own blog.
Elon Musk has again caused an uproar by now wanting to buy Twitter. And now all sorts of things come together, e.g. B. the USA haters, the rich envious and and and ... form in a new group that might even want to switch to a different product. I had looked at this other product years ago and discovered no added value compared to Twitter. I suspect these people will stay on Twitter as long as they can continue to get excited and angry there — if necessary, they also transport their excitement to Mastodon.
Fefe (Felix Von Leitner), a blogger from my blogroll, aptly commented today:
"I'm telling you this because the exact same thing is happening on Twitter right now. The puritans and censorship supporters are moving from Twitter to Mastodon, which is decentralized and therefore supposedly better. But if you look at Mastodon, you will find that there is by no means free communication between decentralized entities, but rather the entities filter each other out. Mastodon is like Twitter where you filter out entire countries and servers “because there are the Nazis”.
Mastodon looks like a failed experiment from my perspective. They're all going to fight each other now, even more blatantly than before. And like the Puritans in America, they will plant the legend that they fled oppression. They were the oppressors.
Maybe we can get it correctly written in the history books this time. Maybe that will avoid the next iteration of the story.”
Fefe's blog, Tue Apr 26 2022
Personally, there are two things that bother me about Musk's action. First, when he tries to make Twitter the medium of his own presidential campaign. And second, if he Donald Trump brought back to Twitter, but not because there would then be one more idiot on Twitter, but simply because the above-mentioned and self-declared Trump opponents would again clutter my Twitter timeline with Trump tweets, and I with blocking and muting can't keep up.
That's why I would like to put my very unpopular view on record again: Social media only work if you are willing to ignore the masses of people there, to select them and, of course, to be guided by your own prejudices.
Prejudices are there to enable you to survive challenges like social media at all!
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