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It’s really just coming to terms with the fact that life expectancy is going down for us all. We are causing and suffering from global inflammation. Me and the animals still enjoy every day as we can, what else is there to do?

I live in a shed and won’t be able to afford a HEPA filter anytime soon. Also, I couldn’t really bring the donkeys and horse into my one room house in case of smoke.

In times of polycrisis many different factors make life quality worse and this is just one more. If you are wealthy and live in a well-supplied region you can tech up to maintain your comforts - and to be honest, I probably still could do that to a point if I made it my priority to save myself from all the shit currently hitting the fan. Could squeeze some more comfy years out of it before more shit will inevitably hit the fan. I don’t see the point though. We humans sit in this shit together - hiding behind more walls while the global South and poor people in general are left out to die? No, it’s time to find ways to live and cooperate better. I will hold out here for as long as I can and try to keep it small and simple. To see any improvement we have to tech down, and by doing it gradually now we might avoid having it forced upon us in the future.

Or so they tell you. I believe the Western propaganda as much as the Russian propaganda: not at all. What really goes on in the background, who knows? We just get told that it’s time to walk into the meat grinder again because the enemy is evil.

You have to understand that the people behind this made up line are evil, and we are not. To make it more believable we are filling your screens with propaganda - a gruesome mix of true and invented atrocities the enemy is committing! They eat babies! They torture grandmas! And of course they started, we didn’t! So now we can do the same! /s

I can’t believe people are still falling for this shit. Every empire is evil and I wish they’d just run out of steam and shut up so we normal people can continue with growing our gardens.

an eye for an eye, yup i remember that shit

Am besten einen SUS (Schnecken-Uran-Sensor) direkt in der Leitung installieren. Wird Uran erfasst, bekommst du eine hilfreiche Abkochen-hilft-nicht-Meldung aufs Handy. Bei Schnecken wird direkt zur AI-Zusammenfassung ‘Wie koche ich Wasser’ verlinkt. Bei Uranschnecken ist natürlich der Russe schuld!

He might have done so on purpose because the intended audience is already doing the same. First save them from driving off the cliff, then explain the difference between AI and ML …

I assume this might be the case because otherwise the article seems very well put together and it is difficult to imagine the author isn’t aware of the difference. I admire how the author managed to remain calm and diplomatic in the face of the current psychosis.

Bit obvious, this one? Thank you, experts. Thing is, when you’re sitting in a burned area or in a smokey area there’s fuck all you can do for yourself and your pets other than move away, and if you can’t afford it you just have to sit in it. Welcome to collapse in real time.

It can do that if you learn how to use prayer as a source of inner peace and fearlessness. It doesn’t matter at all who or what you pray to - you could also see it as a more personalized technique of meditation if the religious aspect puts you off.

Yeah, this place exists not far from here. They’ve built a crappy outdoor pool and separated it from the motorway by a screen with a beach and palm trees printed on it. Instead of protecting and maintaining the river beaches full of ash and beautiful hillsides of oak that also exist here. Humans are strange.

Let Gen X here. I have set myself up to get off the screens and get back into healthy habits. Beautiful place in nature, garden, animals, art … and yet I still doomscroll. The addiction is not easy to leave behind. Luckily all my screens will be broken within the next 5 years and I will be too poor to afford new stuff.

By then I hope to find a working library computer for my internet needs once a week and not think about it for the remaining time!

Is this rocket science?

Nice work, thanks for sharing!

Okay but why use so many words for that? Are you still attached to being perceived as smart? Then travel another round of this game. Greetings from the bog creature with the half-functioning brian cell

Instead of this, can we talk about how AirBnB removed regulations around tourist accommodation everywhere and now people can’t pay rent? Hotels were regulated by governments for a reason. Taxis were regulated by governments for a reason. We opened the gates for anarcho-capitalism and let criminal leeches run away with the profits. Time to kick these criminal organizations out!

I like your comics, they are so stupid. Keep On Truckin’ !

Jemand hat sie wohl wieder ausgekackt - sie kommt hier gerade über den Berg. Puh, nochmal gutgegangen!

Sounds like the use of LLMs in translation that has been going on since a couple of decades. It can speed up the process - it doesn’t replace translators.

It’s funny that they tried, 2-3 years ago, introduce AI to the translation industry as something different than the machine translation (MT) we were already using. The scam worked for a while - the industry suddenly was completely dead, I went for manual labour so I could eat, while translation agencies grappled with making the shitrobot behave like a professional linguist, getting shit results obviously. Now they’ve come to the conclusion that AI is just a worse version of the good old MT and translation jobs have started to reappear like mushrooms after the rain.

I do expect the same to happen in the software industry. Once CEOs have understood that AI isn’t much better than the already existing predictive typing things will return to normal.

Oh nein, und gerade habe ich in meinem anderen Kommentar davon abgeraten, auszuwandern, denn woanders ist es ja auch scheiße … dieses Wutbürgertum in DE ist aber nun auch wirklich besonders scheiße. Immer wenn ich in Deutschland bin, fällt mir diese unterschwellige Aggressivität der Leute auf, so ein Anspruchsdenken und eine Egozentrik … das ist hier in PT nicht so, zumindest auf dem Land. Hier kann man nur überleben, wenn man sich gegenseitig unterstützt.

Aber wo auf der Welt ist es nicht auch so oder noch schlimmer? Ich weiß, bin selbst ausgewandert und habe gut reden. Heute würde ich aber eher versuchen, es dort schön zu machen wo ich nunmal bin. Man kann vielen Problemen davonlaufen, bekommt aber immer neue Probleme. Die Grundursache der gegenwärtigen Krise ist ja nicht in Deutschland selbst, die ist global.

Die Zukunft für mich ist: an der lokalen Robustheit und Resilienz arbeiten wo mensch gerade steht.

Dazu kommt auch: das Auswandern macht man nicht so nebenbei - eine neue Kultur und Sprache lernen, sich mit den Verhältnissen ganz neu zurechtfinden, ein neues Zuhause schaffen, neu Anschluss finden - das kostet nicht nur Geld, das wird auch physisch und mental schnell zuviel, vor allem wenn mensch nicht mehr 20 ist. Ich habe vor einem Jahr das Zurückwandern nach Nordeuropa versucht und es hat mich eigentlich nur Nerven, Kraft und Geld gekostet, ich habe es dann aufgegeben. Wenn mich das nächste Mal die Finanzkrise schüttelt gehe ich nicht nach DE oder CH sondern versuche es mit Arbeit in der Bäckerei oder im Altersheim.