Xaver Fleer

Like what you do (or everything is lost)

[Xaver Fleer @XaverFleer]

@TerraTalea1 @DuckDuckLong @Tesla Really?

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🇪🇺 Chat Control has passed 😔

They can and will now legally scan any person's messages, emails and photos you send without a warrant

The way they passed this law when the majority of the European Parliament was against it will shock you:

They waited until most EP members were on holiday so only a few were present and then created an "urgent" vote for it to pass it through

There's nothing democratic about any of it and big powerful forces are behind this that can manipulate the EU for whatever they want

Democracy in Europe died a bit today 😔

[Xaver Fleer @XaverFleer]

@raphaelschaad 🦞

[Garett Jones @GarettJones]

The late John Searle in 2010, from Wikiquote:

[John D. Cook @JohnDCook]

“The first step toward wisdom is calling things by their proper names.” — Confucius

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

For 25% of the Winter 2025 batch, 95% of lines of code are LLM generated.

That’s not a typo. The age of vibe coding is here.

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

What a wonderful word

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This is Chelsea Koetter & her sons. A few years ago, she accrued a small property tax debt.

So the government seized her home, sold it—and kept the $102,636 profit.

The Supreme Court said this practice is illegal. But some states are subverting that. A thread.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

South Park creators gave the greatest lesson on storytelling ever

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

The collapsing birth rate is actually way worse than you think.

One of the biggest things I've realized since becoming a father 3 months ago is that I spend an obscene amount of time thinking about the future.

This is because I want my child to have the best possible place to grow up in.

And thus, I spend way too much time looking at how society is functioning today and where the weaknesses are.

What's becoming painfully clear is that everything is broken.

Our Government overspends like crazy and they never tell the truth.

Our corporations are way too bloated, rarely innovate, and they are more than comfortable lowering quality over time while increasing profit margins.

Our Mainstream Media is a national embarrassment and is nothing more than a propaganda machine for the government.

I am now constantly filled with a sense of dread. It feels like a good future is almost impossible given the amount of stuff that is completely broken today.

However - once I start thinking about the past, and compare it to today, I realize that things are so much better than they used to be, so it gives me hope that a better future is possible with enough effort and pain.

But here's the MASSIVE problem - without a child, I would've never felt as motivated as I do now to make the future a better place.

And then it dawned on me that the declining birth rate is not just a simple math problem - it fundamentally de-incentivizes civilization to look forward.

This means that there are less people now - more than ever in recent recorded history - that don't have that child making it painfully obvious how broken everything is, and how desperately we need to make everything better for our children.

Instead, we are distracted by ever-increasing technological wonders that will be maximally optimized to draw your attention away from reality using AI algorithms.

We are distracted by amazing products and services, and incredible destinations to visit.

We are distracted by social media platforms that make it extremely difficult to stop paying attention to them.

We are truly in a very, very, very dangerous place.

We need more people speaking up about things that need to be fixed.

We need more entrepreneurs tackling difficult problems.

We need more public servants that have the people's best interest in mind.

We need so much.

But more important than all - we need more children.

Children are the future, and without them, the future will disappear.

Literally.

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Thank you @HansCNelson for the inspiration.

[Xaver Fleer @XaverFleer]

#TIL The double pronouns he/him instead of he are a relic. Nowadays they/them is the standard non-gendered pronoun. Previously other new pronouns were proposed e.g. "xe". One had to list several cases e.g. "xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself" so people knew how to use the pronouns.

[Konstantin Sonin @k_sonin]

Arseniy Turbin, a high school student from Orenburg, is 15. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison today - for distributing anti-Putin materials in his neighbors' mail boxes, once. It is 100% legal by Russian laws. But the Putin's regime is a full-blown fascist regime by now.

[Puzzle ITC @puzzleitc]

📣 📅Am 3. Juli findet das erste @dagger_io #Meetup bei uns in #Bern statt. Sei dabei und erlebe spannende Talks und Networking bei einem gemütlichen Apéro! 🚀 https://t.co/MT2hEF4jXa
#Dagger #TechEvent #Networking

[Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley]

While slavery was common to all civilizations, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it: Western Civilization

“Rather than be ashamed as Westerners, we should stand proud for having led the world out of a mentality where slavery was the norm.”

🔥🔥🔥

[Mary Tiles Texas @MaryTilesTexas]

It’s been almost 6 months since getting off hormonal birth control.
Half a year of no panic attacks
Half a year of no mood swings
Half a year of no depression

This has changed my life and I wish I had researched what a negative impact it could have on my body, I thought so much was wrong with me, every now and then I’ll feel some anxiety and think I’m going to have a panic attack and it hasn’t happened since I stopped taking it.
I’m going to repeat this, it CHANGED my life. If my post helps ONE woman, it’s worth it.

Share if you think it might help someone you know, or just to spread awareness. I’m not saying this is for everyone but if someone is suffering like I did, they deserve to know they can do the research just like me.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Refs to players ratio needs to be sensible

[Xaver Fleer @XaverFleer]

@raphaelschaad #TIL (the five freedoms; already knew Simpsons)

Thanks

[Xaver Fleer @XaverFleer]

@jonpult @spschweiz @SP_Graubuenden @AllianceSud Der Artikel beinhaltet folgende Aussage:

> Das sind 500 Millionen pro Jahr.

- Die Schweiz hat ein Bruttoinlandsprodukt von ca. 800 Milliarden (Mia) / Jahr
- 0.43 % * 800 Mia / Jahr = 3.4 Mia pro Jahr
- 3.4 Mia / Jahr * 0.5 = 1.7 Mia / Jahr

Woher stammt die Zahl 500 Millionen?

[Xaver Fleer @XaverFleer]

@gfsbern Falls die eingesetzten Mittel repräsentativ sind:

- Prämienentlastung: Ja
- Kostenbremse: Nein
- Freiheit: Nein
- Stromgesetz: Ja

Ich staune, falls die Resultate davon abweichen.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Why is making life multiplanetary important?