@eta (And I see it more as "attaching consequences to choices" than as "violence", exactly, even though the mechanisms are similar)
@eta I mostly hate that it's necessary, but I'm happy to at least have a tool that works without requiring too many spoons from my side 😐
@eta Although the issue is less prevalent in NL, it does happen here as well, and I've taken to just deliberately interpreting what people say literally and applying it in such a way that it would get awkward *for them* if they didn't actually mean it.
It seems to get the point across pretty well most of the time...
In fairness, this is the now-in-the-garage cabinet unit that used to be part of the house, and about which the landlord rep commented (5 years ago!) "I'm surprised it hasn't fallen apart yet, I think you're the only one with one of these that's still intact"
@babe After recovering from my transplantation, I've gotten a lot of energy back, and I've been whirlwinding through the house several weeks now, catching up on years of maintenance and also redoing my entire garden to grow vegetables!
(There are many pictures in https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/114264580606909597)
"In 1743 opende Jacob Hooy een kruidenkraam op de Amsterdamse Nieuwmarkt. Hier begon, met de verkoop van kruiden en specerijen, de rijke historie van het bedrijf. En aan de firma kleeft niet alleen historie, maar ook een brok nostalgie. Nostalgie vooral naar het oude en vertrouwde handelen in kruiden."
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"Google’s AI Overviews now reach more than 1.5 billion people every month" is factually true but leaves out the true story. It's not that people _want_ false AI summaries, it's just that a monopolist can do whatever. Google could add a cat picture to every search and then claim how their cat pictures now reach billions of people. It's not about the product that centered but the market dominance that isn't.
https://www.theverge.com/news/655930/google-q1-2025-earnings
"In 1743 opende Jacob Hooy een kruidenkraam op de Amsterdamse Nieuwmarkt. Hier begon, met de verkoop van kruiden en specerijen, de rijke historie van het bedrijf. En aan de firma kleeft niet alleen historie, maar ook een brok nostalgie. Nostalgie vooral naar het oude en vertrouwde handelen in kruiden."
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.