Besides suffering from a heavy ‘bullshit jobs’ problem tech is the new ‘I was just following orders’.

‘I was just writing code. I had no idea I was writing code for the baddies!’

This podcast could have been a written article

No, not really. I suspect the term ‘greek yoghurt’ is not protected and the product is going the way of gradual enshittification as other food products have in recent years, at least as much as EU legislation permits. And often us poors in the south will get to experience this a few years earlier. But I don’t know for sure. Maybe my taste buds are getting pickier with age?

Wildfires are a central topic here, and they are on my mind frequently every summer between May and September. I’ve been counting with it coming to look for me since years. This is the first time my land has been burned. I’m good with this, it was only bad while it was happening. We lost very little apart from standing hay and some fence.

Not America, southern Europe. I’ve noticed a subtle change in quality throughout the years.

Greek yoghurt used to be good when it started to be ‘a thing’. Now it’s just white paste with too much added starch. I’ve also seen there’s a light version now, which completely defies the original purpose of greek yoghurt being a yoghurt made of milk with the full cream content. I’ve returned to normal yoghurt, since the ‘greek’ in the name seems to be used to fuck up what used to be a nice natural product.

No problem, just wait a couple of years and it will line up correctly again. So that last Xmas I gave you my heart you will have been eating the chocolate from present Xmas and present Xmas you eat the chocolate of future Xmas. Let me know if you have any questions.

Enjoy your coffee brunch! Me going on against dates was more connected to the unavoidability of this concept in the minds of some people. It takes such a big important place in their life, success with dating becomes so important, that they forget to be a person first of all. So my comment was meant to question this reality rather than go full Taliban against brunch and lunch dates. I did a lunch date yesterday - because mornings are for outdoor work!

Believe me I can see it perfectly well. It’s just that getting obsessed to the point of unwellness about the very dark truths behind a made-up reality doesn’t help. Non-human beings like plants and animals are not as spoiled by this stuff as we are. That’s why going outside and connecting with them helps to ease the great distress that our screen-world causes us - and I recommend going outside and touching grass unironically. I do it myself and it helps me cope!

Here’s the easy next step after finding out all of this: switch the computer off and go outside. Touch the grass. Is that a bird?

ShitGPT, how much is every time of 20% ?

Legt man für Portugal die Karte der geplanten Lithium-Abbaugebiete über die der Waldbrände der letzten Jahre dann passt das auffällig gut übereinander. An manchen Tagen sieht man auf der ständig aktualisierten fogos.pt Karte auch, wie Feuer um Feuer entlang einer Fernstraße oder Autobahn ausbricht. Daneben gibt es auch immer mal wieder noch den bekloppten Brandstifter, der gerne die Löschflugzeuge fliegen sehen möchte.

In Deutschland ist es vielleicht anders, in Portugal ist der Brandstifter auf jeden Fall real.

I’m not dating short men, or men with a small penis, or men who are too fat, or balding men. I don’t date at all. Date is the sticky fruit from a palm tree. I love instead. First of all myself - because I can only love others as well as I can love myself. And also I love a short, small-penised, fat old balding guy without teeth. Because he isn’t insecure about any of those things. And I respect him very much because his feeling well with himself is clearly the result of some conscious effort that the nutsack-showing types have not done yet for themselves.

If you live in a world of ‘dating’ and ‘looks’ I don’t consider you a serious person I would eat dates with. Go be someone without the approval of others for a while. There is no dating pool. Love will find you from within your own heart.

Not quite. It’s people working in overheated warehouses while robots are doing art. Close enough!

There is some point there but I think it’s more like this:

Besides the sell-out of youth culture we’ve seen in older generations there has been a general (self-) infantilisation and also (self-) pathologisation (autism, ADHD) of younger (often left-ish) people in the last decades, noticeable in graphic design (kawaii, google business style) and memes. So bad that sometimes I think it’s a psy-op.

A war has been waged against anarchism and there’s very few mature adult anarchists around who dare to call themselves that - and they might be correct in assuming that wearing anarchism like a badge can be dangerous.

Wtf is that an AI image? I’ll post this comment (was too much work to delete) but then I’ll leave. I won’t write in a group that uses AI imagery, fuck off. Edit typo

By refusing to do what the government wants

Nein, die Strände waren vorher schon da und waren auch von Natur aus schon gratis. Der Titel suggeriert fälschlicherweise, dass dem Volk hier was geschenkt wird. Eher doch zurückgegeben.

You who are rich and whose troubles are few May come around to see my point of view …

Werden dann zur Sicherheit wieder ein paar abgeholzt, nachdem wieder ein Unfall passiert ist, keine Sorgen. Damit das natürliche Gleichgewicht zwischen Alleebaum und Dorfjugend nicht aus den Fugen gerät.

Smell, fuzziness, colour, texture. And also guts of steel and an unholy track record of dumpster diving and self sufficiency - I had to learn how to trust my senses.