My German router (FritzBox) has some of these options. Blacklist, whitelist, limited time and scheduling.
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I believe changing the way of life and enabling old customs like siesta would be a much more climate friendly short term solution.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/about/frequently-asked-qu...
Including a very saddening insight that the current children will face a bleak future, while people aged 55 (read: the power in power) will not experience the worst.
>what is our children’s future going to look like, if we do not limit global warming to well below 2°C, preferably to 1.5°C, compared to pre-industrial temperature? Based on the Working Group II assessment, we know that global warming is already changing much of the world as we know it. Its impacts will intensify in the coming decades with profound implications for all aspects of human life around the world. Our food and water supplies, our cities, infrastructure and economies as well as our health and well-being will be affected.
>For example: children aged ten or younger in the year 2020 are projected to experience a nearly four-fold increase in extreme events under 1.5°C of global warming by 2100, and a five-fold increase under 3°C warming. Such increases in exposure would not be experienced by a person aged 55 in the year 2020 in their remaining lifetime under any warming scenario.
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“The racist denigration of the savage, and naive celebration of savage innocence, are always treated as two sides of the same imperialist coin.56 Yet originally this was an explicitly right-wing position, as explained by Ter Ellingson, the contemporary anthropologist who has reviewed the subject most comprehensively. Ellingson concluded there never was a ‘noble savage’ myth; at least not in the sense of a stereotype of simple societies living in an age of happy primordial innocence. Rather, travellers’ accounts tend to supply a much more ambivalent picture, describing alien societies as a complicated, sometimes (to them) incoherent, mix of virtues and vices. What needs to be investigated, instead, might better be called the ‘myth of the myth of the noble savage’: why is it that certain Europeans began attributing such a naive position to others?”
Q: Some critics of your work – for example, The Loving Trap parody – argue that what you do is very skilfully create elaborate narratives which make connections and draw parallels that are then presented as objective truth. Do you sometimes worry about being dismissed as part of the ‘conspiracy’ problem?
A: "That parody is very funny and clever, and it made me reflect on myself, which is good. But let’s be clear, I’ve never in any of my films put forward a conspiracy theory. Over the last 20 years, when the mainstream left and right in this country have essentially fused together, out of that has emerged a very strong consensus. In the face of that, the term ‘conspiracy theory’ has transformed itself into a shorthand to describe anyone who challenges that mainstream narrative. My job, which the BBC has tasked me to do, is to provoke people and ask them, “Have you thought about looking at the world this way?” To pull back a bit and look at what is happening in a different way. But that is not a conspiracy theory.
In the New Yorker he also touched upon it:
Boone directed readers instead to a short online spoof of Curtis’s films by Ben Woodhams called “The Loving Trap,” which describes his work as the “televisual equivalent of a drunken late-night Wikipedia binge.” Curtis is conscious of what even his admirers call his “wild leaps.” “As a critique, I’m aware of that, but I’m also aware that that’s what all journalists do,” he said. “But since they’re actually just saying the same old thing, people don’t notice the leaps. . . . I’m making no more bigger leaps than most of my colleagues do, when they tell me that Al Qaeda is about to sail a boat down the Thames with an atomic bomb on it—and that would be accepted in 2005, or whenever it was.”
https://thequietus.com/articles/29558-film-adam-curtis-cant-...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/adam-curti...
https://thebulletin.org/2020/02/earth-is-heating-at-a-rate-e...
https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/lygrl9/tactical_r...
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...
They also seem to absolutely love everything stationery.
The Economist, FT, nakedcapitalism, Yahoo Finance reported this.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/the-w...
Something like a gaiwan, a rice cooker or a jar of lao gan ma would be more iconic?
I still like emoji, but I feel there is a heavy Western bias seeping into them. I am curious it the vendors will allow the Afghanistan flag to be changed if the Taliban stays in power. Seems less controversial on a global perspective than a trans flag.