Bold of you to assume they’re making a mistake instead of simply telling lies.

Yeah, Gaiman keeps a low profile because he wants people to forget what he did. Rowling is proud of being a hateful cunt and invests time and money in proliferating hate.

Although I never saw the packaging. All games I had for the C64 I got at school.

You can say “die in hell” in a shoe store to ask for a different pair of shoes.

Wir hatten auch ein Schreibaby. Aber sie hat nur ruhig schlafen können, wenn sie auf uns lag und wir uns nicht bewegt haben. Da habe ich dann 140 Bücher im ersten Jahr gelesen.

I didn’t know what “gooner” means, so I tried to look it up. I found multiple uses of this term:

1. Being obsessively online, consuming content that sexually excites you

2. Masturbating for hours

3. Being a fan of soccer/football club Arsenal

And now I still don’t know what is being said in the screenshot.

Yes, but very rarely. Most stories just don’t affect me that way.

I once knew a woman who used cut up punch cards as spacers when rolling joints.

~5 inches thick means the circumference, I assume? Because a ~12cm diameter sounds rather uncomfortable.

This must’ve been an absolute bitch to paint. All those lines. Damn. But I like it. I wouldn’t want to look at it all the time, but a nice painting.

Yeah, but change it how? Maybe it’ll run away with your partner.

þey

Same here. I keep hearing that Powershell is so good, but I have to look up every little thing. It’s all too specific and you can’t remember it all.

I wanted to say the same, but then I saw the avatar next to your name and realized that I do in fact see avatars. I just never noticed and still don’t care.

Woah, you’re an optimist.

For example the CDC and similar organizations in Europe. There is no clear definition of what a pandemic is or when a disease becomes endemic. Even the WHO alleges that. As we have no vaccine that would allow us to eradicate Sars-Cov-2 and because the infection numbers are somewhat seasonal I am heavily inclined to follow those experts that call it endemic. It’s also important to note that endemic does not equal harmless. Of course we need to research the long-lasting effects and still find ways to deal with them. But I, and apparently most health experts, don’t see a need to keep up the awful restrictions from five years ago.

Looking at the CDC numbers[1] for the week of May 10, 2025, I see 201 deaths attributed to Covid and 2465 attributed to a group consisting of Covid, pneumonia and influenza (in other words 2264 deaths attributed to pneumonia or influenza). Yes, people die of Covid every week. People will continue to die from Covid forever. Because Covid is now endemic. It will always be a part of our lives now, just like influenza has been for probably a few thousand years. Just because Covid came up during your lifetime doesn’t mean it’s in any way special. It’s just another virus we will have to deal with now. And unlike some other viruses we actually have vaccines against Covid. Take tuberculosis for example. That fucking thing has probably killed more humans than anything else. We’re talking >1 million deaths every year and that’s a historic low. Just get a fucking grip on reality.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm>

It stopped being a pandemic once it became endemic. Or do you argue that we’re in a flu pandemic because it comes back every year? And sure, the vaccines did help a lot. But the virus that causes Covid also mutated into less severe strains. Just like with the flu, there can always be a more deadly mutation again. But right now the current strains and the fact that almost everybody had it and/or got vaccinated make Covid about as bad as the seasonal flu. And just like the flu it keeps being monitored, vaccines get updated and should it come back in force, we are much better equipped than in 2020.

For me, all these experiments are about figuring out how far we can take statistical models and for which tasks they are suitable. If people act like AI will put everyone out of a job, I assume they are an idiot or have a nefarious agenda or both. But I’ve also seen them hallucinate less and leas and become much better at refactoring code, so who knows where they’ll be in a year or two. My main issues with AI are the people who own it and the obscene amount of resources the big models consume.

Oh, I agree with that too! That should just be a normal thing, enabling kids to still learn together with their peers. I was so damn glad when the restrictions were lifted, because I saw the awful effect social segregation was having on my kids. For offices, remote work should be a right for any job where it’s possible and not something out feudal lords have to grant.