What did anyone expect? I think this is literally the central purpose of this: to make sure the population is less well-informed so they can be ruled more easily.

I really used to think self-declared western liberal democracies were better than this. I don’t anymore.

At least for me, all citrus fruits including their juices have an effect that they make me somewhat happier and help somewhat against depression. In the winter, I usually eat several mandarins a day.

I see.

I occasionally read debates at what age children should get smartphones or other devices. While I don’t have children yet nor plans to have any, I think my attitude would be: when they’re able to read and write and occasionally unsupervised, they get a GNU/Linux smartphone, with Plasma Mobile or similar, so they can use the Internet through a web browser and get used to that being normal.

They get an Android phone in their teen years when they need it for banking apps or similar.

When I was younger, the Internet was primarily a text based medium. Images and videos existed, but mainly to illustrate text.

I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t able to read, so I wonder: do illiterate people now just watch videos on the Internet? Unthinkable 20 years ago that the Internet would be usable without being able to read.

In what context did you read this?