The €101m, trapezoid Forum building is part library, part meeting space, part science museum and part recreational hangout – a 10-storey “multi-space” designed to resonate with citizens who know that shopping is not necessarily the answer. It’s a new-look department store that doesn’t actually sell very much.
Oliver Balch (The Guardian): The new-look shopping mall that doesn't sell stuff
It worries me when an online course starts with "sign up for X" where X is a non-free proprietary third-party service. Education should not force its participants to be surveilled and exploited.
Feeling: I really don't like buying stuff from people who don't know what they are selling.
Theory: Things become crappier, unrepairable and more evil when the people who sell them no longer understand them.
Example: Computers. In the good old days (and before I ever used a computer), staff in computer shops actually knew how they work. Nowadays, try asking an employee of any store what the Intel ME is and does.
Other examples: Cars, Bicycles (especially e-bikes), and of course nobody knows knows how a smartphone works.
Like the Beach Boys sing about the beach,
we sing about the way we grew up.
Ice-T, as quoted in Wikipedia: Body Count (band)
Also Kohle her, bevor wir hier noch eskalieren!