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Ritter Sport warnt vor einer „Schokoladenkrise“: Der Kakaopreis hat sich fast verdoppelt, Klimafolgen treffen Tropenprodukte hart – die 100g-Tafel wird teurer, billiger wird’s wohl nicht mehr 🍫📈

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EAM Jaishankar meets Belgium Deputy PM Prevot on sidelines of Sir Bani Yas Forum byteseu.com/1626625/ #Belgium #IndiaBelgiumRelations #India–UAEDiplomacy #InternationalDiplomacy #SJaishankar #SirBaniYasForum


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RE: mastodon.online/@L0wKey/115717…

perhaps the answer is not an either/or issue but both?

Regulate Big Tech & regulate use?


A social media ban on children is an awful idea that is impossible to implement without dramatically reducing online safety for those same children.

You will never stop people finding ways to communicate, just drive them to less visible, less secure, and less safe ways of doing so.

Regulate the companies, not the users. Castigate billionaires, not teenagers.


in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Regulating companies is a horrible idea! It will drive small ones out of business, and fortify the position of american and chinese social media companies, completely wiping out any future european ones.

On top of that, age verification, is just a slippery slope towards more authoritarianism and control of EU and australian citizens.

It amazes me that we're heading towards a soviet style society, and only competent technologists and libertarians see it.

The solution here is twofold:

1. Put the responsibility on the parents.

2. Don't sell smartphones and data enabled cell phone plans two anyone under the age of 16.

In fact, 2 is already the law in most EU countries, so if that law was followed, and if parents were not so stupid as to buy smartphones with data plans to their children, the problem would not even exist.

But there is hope. Very few parents buy cigarettes and alcohol for their childrne, and if they do, there are heavy fines.

So adopting the same measures for parents who buy smartphones to their children should solve the problem pretty quick.

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@h4890

yes, 2. (with the parents' compliance) would be an elegant & easy solution

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Please propose it in your mainstream news column! It would make me feel joy if the UK adopted that solution, successfully, and as a result, it would spread! =)
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

What a shame! You are one of the few on the left side of the ideological chasm, I'm actually listening to! That means you have a gift here for bringing people together!
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

knowing my teenage grandchildren if such a ban happened here they would develop a local social page running on their PC. It will happen . Just think how Facebook started



CFL to launch direct Luxembourg-Libramont service from 14 December byteseu.com/1626623/ #Luxembourg



Zu #vergänglich in der #52wochenfotochallenge von @norberteder@graz.social passt ein #LostPlace, das direkt hinter dem Elbdeich bei uns in der Nähe steht. Der Deich soll in den nächsten Jahrzehnten um circa einen Meter wachsen, weswegen sich die Stadt durch Vorkaufsrecht viele Häuser sichert. Dieses muss wohl auch bald weichen...


#52wochenfotochallenge by @norberteder #vergänglich

The color fades first… and by the time winter has passed, the whole plant will have disappeared. A quiet reminder of how temporary beauty can be.

#nature #photography


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glad to see Audre Lorde in there. And Andrea Gibson. I’ve been reading both lately.



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How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark’s oldest plank boat – with the help of an ancient fingerprint byteseu.com/1626621/ #Denmark

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The contrast - the beautiful old historic UNESCO-guarded 'don't make any unnecessary changes' city outside, then inside: all the enshittification humans are doing.


It is necessary for Japan, the United States, Australia and the Philippines to conclude a "collective defense pact" to contain China and ensure regional peace and stability, Ely Ratner says. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/… #japan #politics #elyratner #defense #constitution #indopacific #us #china