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@sandradejong
Speelt al lang; eerst veel automatische teksten die elders ook staan, sinds vorig jaar erg veel websites met futiele Ai-content.

Ook wordt alles enorm uitgemolken. Bv: je wilt iets weten over planten water geven.
Eerst: een ellenlange uitleg over wat water is, wat een plant is, wat de vraag inhoudt, en dat veel mensen dit willen weten om je erin te masseren.
Dan volgt een 'waarom je dit OOK wilt weten', herhaling van bovenstaand, en uiteindelijk de tip 'met gieter en nat water'.

Ligt het aan mij, of kom je steeds vaker op bagger websites wanneer je iets zoekt? Websites met slechte content en waarbij er voor 600 partners cookies verzameld worden die bijna niet uit te zetten zijn.

Ik word er de laatste tijd zo saggo van dat ik bijna het hele internet (behalve Mastodon) de prullenbak in wil gooien.

En nee: ik hoef geen tips over cookie-blokkers, browsers en zoekmachines (ik doe al veel). Ik wil gewoon dat er niet steeds meer bagger op het internet komt. Grom.

@joepie91 ultimately one has to wonder where the myth of government/civil-service inefficiency started. Quite possibly with officials taking bribes from same industries who stood to benefit from privatisation.

rapid deenumeration (pulling the USB cord)

It still baffles me that some people actually *believe* the fairy tale that "privatization lowers costs".

Like, how could this ever possibly work?! The equipment, people etc. you need for the task don't change, so those costs are essentially fixed. But now you *also* need to pay a for-profit intermediary on top of that.

You don't exactly need a PhD to understand why this doesn't make an ounce of sense...

The Met Office (UK) invites you to suggest names for future storms. Make your own suggestions at metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-ou

Here are mine.

I still miss skeumorphism. Give me a pastel paper UI that looks like the unhinged interface to a game for an OS and I’m set for life.

subtooting Dutch culture 

"heat pumps" are the fancy new sustainable green heating tech. whereas "airco" is the wasteful energy-intensive cooling system that we "don't need in our kikkerlandje".

racial profiling, Schengen violations 

They looked at me as if my European passport must have been fake. Racist assholes.

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racial profiling, Schengen violations 

Yeah, sure, I'm the only one wearing a headscarf and thus looking foreign and for sure I'm the only one they check during the illegal border check.

"Stay safe" nah fam I'm tired of safety. Like most privileges, safety leaves me with a bitter aftertaste in the throat. Stay angry. Stay ungovernable. Give them hell.

Mankeeping: Women's emotional labor in heterosexual relationships. Being their partner’s sole support. Managing his stress. Interpreting his moods. Holding his hand through feelings he won’t share with anyone else. Unpaid, unacknowledged, unreciprocated. vice.com/en/article/mankeeping

"AI", doom-y 

What terrifies me most about the "AI" hype isn't the damage that's currently being done, but what will happen once the billionaires finally realize that it's a dead-end hype and their billions have evaporated with no chance of recovery through the tech itself

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