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  • arendjrtoScience Memes@mander.xyzSo many successes
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    17 days ago

    I think it’s good for people to have children. At least one and preferably no more than two.

    If we contain population growth, the riches already created are for the taking for generations to come and the planet finally gets a rest.

    It does require a reckoning with the capitalist elite that would like to produce anyway, but I feel that may be coming regardless of our feelings towards children.





  • arendjrOPtoPhilosophy@lemmy.worldYou Must Believe In Yourself
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    18 days ago

    I’m a fiction author in addition to my philosophy blog 😉

    But if you’re asking what my inspiration is… I dunno, too much to list here.

    But in case you’re wondering, it’s not AI 😅 I hate LLMs. And the only way to fight what you hate is through love, or so I’ve found.






  • arendjrtoProgramming*Permanently Deleted*
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    30 days ago

    As someone who dealt with psychosis in the past (diagnosed bipolar), I’ll happily say that psychosis is not a valid excuse to push bullshit onto others.

    If you need others to point you to specifics, you need to rethink your life choices and stop using LLMs.







  • arendjrtoProgrammer Humortechnical debt
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    1 month ago

    That’s why you should go work at big corporate enterprises. Then you have both job security as well as the ability to spend as much time as necessary on getting things right. And you might even learn to say no to middle management.



  • arendjrOPtoPhilosophy@lemmy.worldOvercome Your Fear
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    2 months ago

    Oh yeah, fear of fire is a big one for me too.

    When I still lived in Amsterdam, I experienced an apartment fire. I was living on the top floor of an apartment building, right underneath the roof. At some point, roof workers were burning the roof with tar, which I think is an accepted technique for making the roofs water proof. But one day they went for their lunch break, while leaving the torch ignited. What happened is that the roof caught fire, crept towards the gas canister attached to the torch, which then exploded with a bang loud enough to put me on local television because the canister happened to have exploded directly above my bed.

    Thank God I was working at the office that day, because from the place where my bed was, you could look up straight to heaven after that explosion.

    You wouldn’t want to know how many times I lay awake asking myself what-if questions after that. Can’t recall the nights.




  • arendjrtoMemes@sopuli.xyzAnyone in tech confirm?
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    2 months ago

    That’s entirely a choice. I am connected to a local vegetable farm run by two farmers who grow their produce organically. They run a little circular business as they’re also connected to an educational/kid-friendly animal farm, they sponsor a public fruit path through their own work, and then they partner with local shops as well.

    Me and my son go there almost every week to pick fresh veggies, and we just pay directly to the farmers. But yeah, the payment is digital…