Yes, sooner or later it’s probably not a good idea to keep kids away from the internet.

My little niece is still way too young at 5, but I’m already thinking about it because at some point she’ll come into contact with the internet anyway.

That’s why I’m asking here — I’m already trying to gather some good ideas for a few years down the line.

Thanks for the advice, I’ll keep that in mind as an uncle.

You can’t start using Linux early enough. It’s not about my daughter, but about my niece, but I’ll keep that in mind when she’s old enough.

You’re exactly my kind of guy. For me, it’s not about my daughter, but about my little niece, who just turned five.

When we’re together, we go out to the woods, to the lake, to the playground, to the bookstore, the museum, to the zoo, or something like that.

Until further notice, I have no intention of putting her in front of a screen.

I’ve just planned that at some point, when my niece is much older, I might build a weather station or an irrigation system with her using a Raspberry Pi or something like that.

But that’s still a long way off.

I’m from Germany and am only observing the situation from afar. Are there any efforts to prevent the US from becoming a fascist state?

I know, of course, that people are taking to the streets and that this is not being reported adequately by the media. But what is the plan?

In any case, there seems to be no serious resistance from the Democratic Party…

Yes, but with things like this, the current US government is actually trying to create a legal basis on which it can make undesirable people disappear. Just like the Nazis did in the Third Reich.

It’s about establishing an unjust state with the corresponding legal means.

I really think that plans are being made here to establish a dictatorship. There are many other signs of this.

As I said, this is straight out of Hitler’s playbook and serves to prepare for the next atrocities. Nazis have traditionally been interested in giving their crimes a legal veneer.

This implies that the majority of the world has a mental health disorder. Yes, that must be it…

How stupid do these MAGA clowns think people are? And: Are they perhaps projecting their own characteristics onto others?

Or is it perhaps about imprisoning dissidents for no reason?

Hmmm, that sounds familiar. Ahh, yes, Hitler and his henchmen did the same thing…

I guess you either work for a company with highly sensitive data, or the IT people are overdramatizing a tad bit.

I also believe that IT security is important, but it should remain reasonable.

Sounds to me like more of a power play by management than a sensible security concept.

Yes, that’s probably how it is here. Still, it’s strange, considering that most reasonably modern printers are fairly easy to set up for any company network.

Presumably, not much is printed here, as there is hardly any need for it anymore.

Has it gotten so bad that you have to send stuff to the manager to get it printed?

Am I obliged to sacrifice my time to correct nonsense? I don’t think so.

Do your own due diligence if you don’t believe me.

I just don’t feel like responding because it would take some effort to refute all of that. I think anyone who does even half a decent amount of research will quickly realize that it’s either simply wrong or cherry picking. It’s pointless anyway to try to convince people who are so entrenched in their opinions.

But hey, it’s good to know that people are impressed just by mentioning a few random sources.

You’d be better off reading the Wikipedia article about Orwell instead of forming an opinion based on random social media comments.

Not sure if we are talking about the same George Orwell here or how you came to the conclusion that he was a “right-wing POS” - he was definitely not.

I wonder what George Orwell would have to say about all this… nvm, he already said everything there is to say.

He had his guys as has your President.

And that is what concerns me. I’m from Germany btw - it feels almost like a flashback from history class.

It is for now…

You think Hitler was the mastermind behind the German reich?

I’m aware.

What I am concerned about is whether undesirable citizens will soon simply “disappear,” as is the case in Russia, for example.