Taxpayers fund them because it's part of our culture that is worth supporting. For example, Berlin clubs were financially supported as part of the Neustart Kultur campaign after covid.
>I tell her that the internet is like an alien intelligence. We don’t know exactly what it is; it has just landed, and only the first ship. We are trying to figure out how to talk to it. The first generation of explorers have noted that by making certain finger motions you can make the aliens show you images of cats and clothes, or tell you all the ways the world is falling apart.
That seems like a weird way of explaining the internet to your 5 year old daughter?
I hope they can revive it somehow and we can get a glimpse of what the history might look like from the eyes of someone who experienced it first hand. Interesting stuff.
