Viewing profile — martin82

Voting has never worked to bring competence into the government. Exhibit A: All governments of the world, right now.

All these emails are written by AI nowadays and therefore they all sound he same. This is not a grand achievement or a sign of a great CEO.

I basically have to hit the edit function in Signal and correct typos in Every. Single. Thread. Every. Single. Day. It is infuriating. This has been going on for years, so I guess …

I have scrubbed my account completely clean years ago and never use it for anything. When I log in once a quarter or so, just to check if someone sent me a message via the Messenge…

German here. Root beer does INDEED taste like toothpaste. Disguting. :) We Germans drink Malzbier, which is equally unhealthy, but at least it tastes somewhat OK.

[flagged]

I have updated as soon as possible and I if you asked me, I couldn't tell you what is different now. Everything I do on a daily basis still works exactly the same. If there are som…

Why should ads be a moat??? People hate ads. I have changed from ChatGPT to Grok and have felt absolutely no difference in my usage patterns, just getting better answers. Every com…

Keychat or Whitenoise.

That is not the case any more. The "users" show up in the shape and form of malicious AI crawling bots that don't honor your robots.txt nor apply any kind of self-throttling.

That's a very diplomatic way of saying "we burnt all this money but we have not the faintest clue about how to proceed"

We can do something about it: Just not use those services. X is addictive, but otherwise utterly unnecessary. It seemed useful about 8 years ago when you could get tech insights fo…

At this point I 100% see the EU as a failed experiment and I would love to witness a mass exodus of the slavic countries, and then Germany and France. Burn this thing to the ground…

Seems like this is very under-spec'd in terms of RAM. I have my doubts that this will run modern games at acceptable performance.

People warn to not hold smartphones near the head for too long due to too strong signal strenghts... Is it not a concern to strap such a powerful defive that receives super strong …

This sounds it will be a milestone recorded in the history books in the chapter of the accelerating downfall of the US empire into hyperinflation...

There is no reason take statins, ever. They will destroy your muscles, then cause diabetes and thus indirectly kill you. They will prevent a heart attack by... four days. If biomar…

The opposite. Those children who are barred to own phones are forced to actually seek out an actual social life. The digital illusion of a "social life" that smartphones create is …

"adults use smartphones" Is this so? I think of it like the time when Hong Kong was flooded with Opium. "adults smoke opium" If you find that too crass, there are countless other w…

I don't agree at all. VERY few authors write consistenly good books. If you liked one book by an author, it is not at all likely that you will like the other books as well. For exa…

Been using Boka for years. Don't see any difference. I'm on a low carb diet and never eat things with added sugar anyways, so I assume that I could even drop toothpaste alltogether…

I don't know if I am all that smart, but I can attest that the one thing that made me happier beyond my wildest expectations is seeing my daughter see the light of the world and th…

I predict that NYC will now quickly turn into an absolute shithole of epic proportions to the point that people will have to flee the city. Similar to London.

I live in unbelievably hot and humid Singapore and buying physical books is essentially "not possible". Unless I blast the AC in my house 24/7, all books will eventually succumb to…

what we need is a unified search engine for non DRM bookshops so that I can just search for what I need and then be directed to whatever shop offers it at the best price or format.…