Oh yeah, fear of fire is a big one for me too.

When I still lived in Amsterdam, I experienced an apartment fire. I was living on the top floor of an apartment building, right underneath the roof. At some point, roof workers were burning the roof with tar, which I think is an accepted technique for making the roofs water proof. But one day they went for their lunch break, while leaving the torch ignited. What happened is that the roof caught fire, crept towards the gas canister attached to the torch, which then exploded with a bang loud enough to put me on local television because the canister happened to have exploded directly above my bed.

Thank God I was working at the office that day, because from the place where my bed was, you could look up straight to heaven after that explosion.

You wouldn’t want to know how many times I lay awake asking myself what-if questions after that. Can’t recall the nights.

I’m hoping early 2026, but I’m looking to hire a platform owner for Android, since I don’t use it myself. So it’s 🤞

Such a silly thing, but I’m still proud of my Sudoku Pi game: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/sudoku-pi/id6467504425?l=en-GB

It’s basically a new finger-friendly UX for Sudoku. The game is also open-source, and an Android build is coming Soon (TM).

That’s entirely a choice. I am connected to a local vegetable farm run by two farmers who grow their produce organically. They run a little circular business as they’re also connected to an educational/kid-friendly animal farm, they sponsor a public fruit path through their own work, and then they partner with local shops as well.

Me and my son go there almost every week to pick fresh veggies, and we just pay directly to the farmers. But yeah, the payment is digital…

I’m not much of a conservative, so no need to try to bait me 😂

But if that was not your intention, carry on!

See my other reply in the thread.

I think I agree with you, I was merely trying to point out that not all conservatives are fascists. Thinking that way leads to a superiority complex in leftists that may ultimately turn themselves into fascists too.

It may be a kind of Linux PC, but it’s not just a Linux PC. (Also not a fan of the American language…)

Sorry if I’m jumping on a tangent here, I may have been triggered 😅

I don’t really agree with the premise that it hasn’t happened yet. Not only are there few people with truly destructive tendencies, but I see most kids (regardless of gender) being raised quite nicely. Sure they may still do stupid stuff sometimes (who doesn’t?) but that doesn’t take away from them being nice overall.

In my mind, the biggest beef with humanity is apathy/nihilism. Some people truly believe their actions have no consequences or if they do they don’t care about them. To me, this is a failure in education and one I attribute to a lack of spiritual awareness. Indeed thinking and emoting are part of that as acts of our inner spirit.

This is the reason I started my Philosophy of Balance blog, hoping to inspire people to become more aware of themselves and their actions again.

Can’t we just teach them to be nice boys? Sometimes easier said than done, I know.

Ah yes, because we should condemn people over a statistic, even when the things they do may actually warrant some praise.