This will be an interesting experiment. The fertility rate in Switzerland is below replacement rate, so this implies that the population will age.

Who will work to support pensions of the large number of retired people? Who will take care of the elderly?

If this comes to pass, it will be interesting to see how well (or poorly) Switzerland fares, because the entire world is going to go through the same thing in 50-100 years at most.

LOL, typically uninformed and stupid American response.

It'd be hilarious if this caused an uptick in anti-Trump-regime postings on social media from people who don't want to be forced to travel to the USA for work.

There's a business opportunity for a company to create thousands of innocuous social media accounts and post photos of food and cats. Build up nice histories of blandness and then sell them to people who need innocuous history.

Heck, someone could even create their own social media site and pre-populate it with 5 years of innocuousness and sell those account details. "Why yes, my only social media is FaceTok!"

Theoretically, if I wanted to visit the USA, I would not be subject to this rule because it doesn't apply to Canadian citizens.

But of course, I have no desire whatsoever to visit such a shithole country running headlong down the path to fascism. And pay 3x for the privilege of visiting a national park. I guess Trump just hates the tourism industry.

I agree. If only it hadn't been made with AI, I would have loved it.

Ah, good that the Trump regime is concentrating on the important things. But anyway, they secretly want us all using Antiqua anyway.

And if you're wondering, "December kan wel een beetje McDonald's gebruiken" means "December could use a little McDonald's".

Well, OK, apart from the gratuitous use of AI to make it, I think the commercial is quite subversive and funny. Also, it's clearly intended for the Dutch market, and quite a bit of Dutch humour is subversive and a bit rude.

If they'd have made it without AI, I'd give it a 10/10 for creativity.

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 running motion and this USB camera. The camera uses visible light when there's enough light and switches to IR automatically when there isn't.

This setup also lets me use wired Ethernet (though you could still use WiFi if you prefer that route.) I have a post-motion-detection script that automatically copies the footage to an off-site server so even if a burglar destroys my pi4, the pictures are safely preserved.

Also Ctrl-MouseWheel works a treat.

Don't use xrandr directly. Use arandr which gives you a nice GUI to configure the monitors. Once you're happy with the layout, you can save it as a shell script (that under the hood does invoke xrandr) so you can replicate the setup each time you log in or each time the system boots.

Our society has become progressively more and more materialistic to the point where "Standard of Living" has come to mean how much stuff you can own rather than how happy and healthy you are.

Honestly, once you have enough stuff for your basic needs, and then a bit more just for fun, I find any additional item is a net negative for my happiness. I also get extremely irritated by built-in obsolescence and I try to make my stuff last as long as possible.

Society teaches us to consume rather than think.

As of 2025-12-09 at 00:40 UTC, it seems to have been released.

I have four monitors hooked up to my graphics card. From left to right, an Acer 1920x1080 display, an LG 1920x1080 display, a Samsung 1920x1200 display, and a Dasung PaperLike e-ink display whose native resolution is 3200x1800 but which I'm software-scaling to 1600x900.

No issues whatsoever with this setup and X11.