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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Most of the time I’ve seen it, it seems to be more of a parasocial relationship. Even documentary channels have often one or more persons associated with the content which people feel close to. Like, you’re posting somewhere where the creator may actually read it. People probably don’t expect a creator to look into the comment section on Reddit or under a news article. But, it’s more likely in their own channel, many content creators encourage that feeling by actually mentioning reading the comments and sometimes even replying in their comment section.

    That’s why comments on many youtube videos are more personal (good and bad), because it’s a place where they can direct feedback semi-directly to the creator.



  • In Germany children are obligated to help their parents in the household as long as they live with them. This extends to family business. By law the children have no right to be compensated, since they are already compensated by the parents feeding and housing them. Of course, this doesn’t mean parents can just slave their children, there are plenty of health and security laws and what’s generally reasonable for a child of varous ages to do.

    So no family sweat shop. but the bottom line is: in Germany kids are obligated to help out the household they live with.


  • And I mean, I would argue that household chores can be viewed as education. After all, at some point the children have to care for their own household and as such are good to learn routine cleaning, how to do dishes, how to shop and cook, how to crawl into a tiny tunnel to mine for gold and how to keep the garden tidy.

    There are some people who are adults who are kinda clueless about some basic things and I think it would’ve been a good part of education to have them make household chores from childhood onwards.

    Of course, this needs to be reasonable and age appropriate. So, I agree with the commercial aspect of it.


  • It actually helped me from learning the 5 Ws in kindergarten.

    Where? What? How many (“Wie viele” in German)? What? Wait.

    I don’t have to make a call often, but all the more important is that I have that in the back of my head. I go through the first four points and then I shut up to for further questions, instructions or just a “okay, got that, sending someone”.

    I think that is something that everybody should learn early everywhere. Everyone can only benefit from people making short, focused emergency calls.