Never. AI is unethical. It is environmentally, socially and artistically unsound. Guzzles water, owned by billionaires, steals artist’s work.

Is killing puppies okay if I want to make a really cool fur coat? What if the coat is made out of fake leather and just the collar is made of puppy fur? That’s not really a lot of puppies for a really cool coat, wouldn’t you agree?

This is yet another one where one has to check if onion or not because the writers of this stupid timeline seem to be on drugs.

I think you are doing a great job for calling your employer out on this. Really, more than half of the people I meet who are employed in the work force are absolutely reaching their breaking points yet they are so used to obey they just continue let a relentless system kill them slowly. I can’t really give you practical advice on how to act, I’ve been lucky enough to avoid situations like yours by being a freelancer hiding at home, but I’ve been following your posts and just want you to know I admire your tenacity. Don’t let this bring you down mentally and spiritually, you’re on the right track and if more people had the courage to act like you we would not all be in the exploitative situation we’re in.

They kill us with work, and when we burn out they diagnose us with mental illness. I just won’t accept this gaslighting logic anymore.

The problem here is with strawberry monoculture. Big ag has been lying for years that their ways are more productive, and so we have huge stretches of the same stuff. Turns out huge stretches of the same stuff is not good for anyone - not for the plants that are not made to live in monocultures. Not for the workers whose bodies were not made for eight hours of doing the same, not for the soil that thrives on diversity.

So if we could move away from monoculture in anything - social structure, city building, work setup … why insist in 100 ha of maize and 8 hours of doing the same when we already know that these concepts don’t work.

At this point ‘white’ is a cultural thing, and probably it’s time for a new term. I also keep calling them ‘old white men’ because that’s what most of them are, but the mental illness is of course not limited to them.

I can see more than 300 trees from out of my window. I feel like my stubborn refusal of being normal and following the rules brought me here and feel like I’ve secretly hacked the system. I also feel that more than half of the city dwellers wouldn’t want to swap places with me after they learn there’s bugs everywhere and no AC.

The 3-30-300 rule is an excellent benchmark. I’m more than a little surprised that the only German cities achieving this are in the Ruhr area around Essen. Really, wtf?

Slowly recovering from times of outer turmoil and inner change. Slowly learning how to enjoy things again after being depressed for very long. Habits are strange, I still catch myself wanting to be miserable sometimes and have to remind myself ‘We don’t need that anymore, just get back to the work you like and return to the no-worry state.’

Interesting, here was I during the last weeks, back into hiding and vaguely feeling annoyed with people, for no particular reason, but this is quite a good reason. Mix of feeling exhausted after trying to appear like a person for a while, and frustrated because others seem to profit and I just get tired. I’m learning to reduce my social interactions not to what I think is acceptable for others but to what is acceptable for me. Turns out I just want to see others maybe one or two times per week and often prefer one-to-one over group settings. My energy is returning to normal and I feel like myself again.

Cat helping in the garden: ‘Here, let me walk between your legs while you balance between garden beds!’ - ‘SWAT! There was a fly on this plant! It’s dead now (both are).’ - ‘Weeeeeeeeeeeeee! Zoomies through freshly seeded stuff!’ - ‘I will now lay down here and guard this garden path. You shall not pass. Mind my sharp claws!’ - ‘Meeeow. Meooouw. Mrooooow. Mrooooauw. Meeeorrooooowau. …’ ‘Look, I brought this live shrew into the garden for our entertainment!’

I sometimes wonder if bugs and bees have cute images of humans flying and crawling around naked and collecting pollen and nectar

The bogeyman will eat the parents first, and then hopefully won’t be hungry anymore, at least for today.

When talking about fighting capitalism and imperialism i always hear something to the effect of “but, my tasty supermarket snacks”

FUCK YO MUTHA FUCKIN SUPERMARKET SNACKS!!!

Like seriously, you lazy fuck head. You can get your fucking snacks from this thing called a garden. Grow some Cucumber and Beans and stop whining, you weakling!

obviously /s you arrogant wanker

We all need to slow down. When caught in a stupid job we can be as slow and dumb as one can be without being fired. It’s very relaxing to stop worrying about being ‘Not Good Enough’. Even if we are too weak to fight we can slow this trolley down, one stubborn act of silent quitting at a time.

1. I can handle a ride with no ass house.

2. I power the bike cell now, k?

3. I own my mitochondria wipe.

‘dollar-pegged’ - what being alive during late stage capitalism feels like

I came to look for a cow tools reference. Or is this loss?

There are soo much ‘AI rating’ shite jobs going on currently. Disclaimer: I believe AI is bad, so if you are forced to do it you are obliged to do your work as badly as you can. I see these jobs on what used to be a freelance translators’ platform, but I suspect you will find them on other platforms as well.

Other, useful online work is of course nicer, so if you have time maybe polish or pick up a skill - language, art, graphics, programming - or even something manual you can sell online. You can also start with something that pays the bills and later branch out into nicer stuff. All this is very slow and takes time, but it’s possible to get there.

Some of it might be unused speed from the past, before cars existed.

On the speedometer you can read what percentage of the total speed your car is using!

Everybody knows that Lamborghinis have 25% of all the world speed that’s available. Remove the Lamborghinis (best remove also all the cars with front lights that open and close, that’s another 13.5% of the world speed). Boom. Now the speed is re-distributed to all existing cars.