Stay out of my country (Netherlands) - we have “boerenkool stamppot” - baked bacon cubes, a (typically) Unox sausage, mashed potatoes, and a fuck-ton of kale. Could add some cubes of goat or Edammer cheese, maybe replace the Unox with something similar (and better quality). Maybe add some gravy, mustard and/or pickled cucumber.

Some of the best winter-foods there is, IMO.

Kale, licorice

Are you Dutch, perchance?

how to outsource my lawn mowing to low-cost labor in India

You cannot meaningfully outsource physical lawn mowing in the Netherlands to low-cost labor in India, unless the worker is only doing coordination. Lawn mowing is location-bound.

The workable versions are:

1. Outsource the administration to India

   Hire an Indian virtual assistant to find local lawn-care providers, compare quotes, schedule visits, chase invoices, and monitor recurring service. The mowing itself is still done locally.

2. Use a robot mower

   This is the closest real substitute for cheap recurring labor. You pay upfront for a robotic mower, then only outsource occasional maintenance, blade replacement, boundary-wire fixes, and winter storage.

3. Hire local low-cost labor

   In the Netherlands, that usually means a student, neighborhood handyman, garden-service freelancer, or someone via a local platform. This is the practical low-cost route.

4. Teleoperated mower

   In theory, someone in India could remotely drive a mower. In practice, this is not a normal consumer option. You would need a mower with cameras, low-latency control, safety cutoffs, insurance coverage, and probably someone local to place it outside, handle obstructions, and deal with failures. At that point it is usually more expensive than local mowing.

So the sane setup is:

Indian VA for procurement and scheduling + local mower/gardener for execution, or robot mower + local maintenance.

GPT-5.5 Thinking, for context.

Related: BullshitBench V2 (it’ll take a minute to load).

It’s a Comic, just not a Comic Strip.

“Ontological metalepsis”, maybe with some “reification”?

Metalepsis A crossing between narrative levels. Here, a non-physical comic convention becomes physically active inside the story.

Ontological metalepsis A stronger, more precise form: something from one “reality level” enters another. The speech bubble moves from the reader-facing graphic layer into the character’s physical world.

Reification Treating something abstract, symbolic, or conventional as if it were a concrete object. The speech bubble is “reified” because it becomes a usable physical thing.

I love this comic.

Hey, if you give me enough money, I’m willing to follow your instructions for 8 hours per day; continguously.

Also, you need money to “act freely in the world with intention”, etc.

That’s misogynist.

I’m team automation, BTW. No need to create a new underclass of brown people.

Enabling mass-migration into rich countries just means brown people will become the new underclass, enabling just more racism.

we always need a machine to do it.

That’s the point. Recognizing a car; stairs; busses; motorcycles; stoplights; we used to be the only ones who were able to do this, but now LLMs can likely do them better and faster than we can.

But QR codes have always been deciphered by machines, so how would me using a machine to scan the QR prove my humanity? It just shows there’s a phone with my ID on it. It’s just 2FA, not are-you-human.

there are plenty of opensource markdown editors.

Like vscode, and neovim.

Potion Seller, for the uninitiated.

Just use the thinking model, which severely reduces hallucinations. Only silly people use the instant model to mock a tool for doing what it does.

This isn’t the thinking version, which is a LOT better than the instant model. I don’t use the instant version any more, due to hallucinations.

Vet certain versions of packages, and use those whenever you can, also for subdependencies. Effectively create ‘stable’ versions of packages that are guaranteed safe to use.

Yes, it’ll be a ton of extra work, but that’s the price for security.

French exchange student who refused to eat corn because it was for cows.

Ignorant fecker probably didn’t know about sweet corn and though that cows are fed sweet corn or that has was being given regular corn 😂

she’s a UK citizen

And not the English, Welsh or Scottish kind. Not even Irish of any kind.

edit: in case someone is going to freak out about this, because I know that’s likely: “I’m not. I’m a Tamil and there are people dying in my country and you have to like look at it because you’re fucking Oprah and every American told me you’re going to save the world.” - source

Neither are all the illegals in the USA, but whooo boy, will Lemmy have an aneurysm if you would say that out loud!

is it elitist to expect the majority of your population to be able to run a 6 minute mile?

Statistics says yes: https://runninglevel.com/running-times/1-mile-times

Long numbers short: You have to be in the top 20% to be able to run a 6-minute mile, if you somewhat regularly run.