You can use Calibre + DeDRM and some jiggery pokery with Windows version of Kindle, but to be honest, that’s just really fucking annoying and it’s just easier to sail the high seas and get already open version of your book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Germany

I think you want to have all three pillars going, normally you save in some kind of stock market pension fund.

I don’t live in Germany, but lot of countries in EU have similar system. Over here in Sweden, you can easily see an overview and your projected pension at retirement age by logging into one of government offered e-services, maybe Germany has something similar.

What number you need to reach - is completely up to you of course.

Ok - so while I’m not ‘boycotting’ America, because I don’t really think that’s going to change anything, I’d much rather spend my energy focusing on my local community. But having said that, I don’t either understand or subscribe to certain U.S American cultural tropes such as:

• Driving oversized gas guzzling cars everywhere and believing it’s freedom.
• Nuclear family values.
• Rampant exceptionalism (granted, I live in Sweden and we have our own flavor of it - hate it here as well)
• Zealous Christianity. Religions should be abolished.
• Out of control late-stage capitalism backed by military. But I’m a anarco-syndicalist so pretty much every country sucks.
• The American Dream. Connected to the above. It’s not going to trickle down. Ever.
• Shitty polyarchical political system designed for the ‘elite’ and ‘weath of the nation’ (but again, I’m an anarchist, so everywhere sucks)
• Obesity and fast food culture.
• Everyday racism. The U.S is supposed to be the New World melting pot of cultures, showing us old world Europeans how it’s done. Seems that didn’t work.
• Enshittification of the Internet. Lack of anti-trust, lack of trade union power and lack of worker agency have all but destroyed the promise of early Internet. We have surveillance capitalism instead.

There’s not much I can do about them though. Except to act in my local community, and to tell my kids and anyone listening: There are better ways to live and better ideals to aim for.

And you’re right, of course. The original American culture is very much worth preserving.

Lemmy is the software. There are many servers with different moderation policies. There are some leftwing servers and there are some rightwing ones. Join a community that fits your personal preference

What is even “American culture” apart from mash-up of worlds immigrant cultures?

I fail to see organized attempts to challenge advertisements.

I think lot of that is embedded in the privacy communities/movement, so it gets easily overlooked as a separate part, even though most of the time it actually is the cause of the disease. Many times it’s just easier to treat the symptoms (“just install adblocker, bro”) because the real cure is to topple the entire system and challenge our late stage capitalism. That tends to be a bit too much for a “normie” who doesn’t necessarily even see the constant flow of ads as a problem and even if they do, installing a browser plugin tends to be “lol, too much work”

Evolution of Homo Sapiens was inevitable which means destruction of the entire habitat and all species in it is also unavoidable.

It’s not a question of belief

What I prefer is not getting sick and dying. I prefer following science. I prefer following government guidelines for keeping distance, washing my hands and wearing a mask when required.

I’d recommend you to contact psychiatric healthcare services (they are free here, don’t worry Mr. President) because we don’t have a president.

I agree that idealy no one would have to donate to the poor, but we don’t live in a society like that

I do live in a society which has social security programs based on a shared taxes instead of relying on donations from rich. Same with offering base human needs like free healthcare and free education.

Well have fun with the lottery!

How about building a society where you have a freedom to do meaningful things without having to amass wealth?

How about building a society where the poor don’t have to rely on donations from the rich?

Why would I want to get rich?

Yeah bud, very topical

Tell me, what data does Beehaw sell to the brokers?

Or maybe we shouldn’t be allowing data collection and surveillance in the first place.

To answer to your question, no, most people don’t. And at any case, showing a screen like that is far too late in the process. If the user has decided to install Instagram, then showing them a screen like this won’t do a thing. Their mind is already made. If we want online privacy to really matter, then the question of online privacy needs to be solved higher up in political policy level in form of regulations as well as lower level in form of awareness and education. It can’t be left to be done in app installation screen by individual end-users.

Good on you for being privacy conscious though.