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Cake day: June 30th, 2025

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  • Every time someone mentions the headphone jack, comes a legion of people defending the corporations. People will really accept anything they do and bully the ones who don’t want to submit. That’s impressive! And we’re in a place with higher-than-average corporation haters.

    It’s even more impressive when we think about how Bluetooth earphone users don’t gain anything by removing the jack, neither lose anything by keeping it. It literally doesn’t affect them, but heavily affects anyone who uses wired phones or other stuff. People simply use their energy against others, in favor of corporations for absolutely no benefits for them, but simply for fucking the other people. I can’t understand this behavior.





  • Considering only the queries ommits all the energy used in training models, scraping and preparing data and all the indirect energy from putting a greater load in servers all around the world from scraping them all the time. oh, and all the energy in the manufacturing processes of the hardware, and from building the servers. We must consider the consumption of the industry as a whole, or we’re being biased as well.

    Articles keep showing up explaining how queries aren’t so power-hungry, but the corporations keep draining more and more energy, building more and more power plants that never keep up with the demand, and so on.



  • How do normal people survive?

    Simple. They know a fix-it-all tech person that will help them!

    I’m not even kidding, that’s how communities grew strong all over the world for millennia, and still do, on smaller scales, depending on the place. People create a network of specialists in each domain, and one calls the other when needed. Sometimes they pay for the work, sometimes they exchange favors, sometimes they just help for free. If you go to smaller neighborhoods in developing countries, you will see this in action all the time.

    Part of the success of large corporations and the spread of consumerist culture comes from promoting an extremely individualistic lifestyle and destroying people’s networks and relationships.






  • I’ve seen a lot of adults thinking like this, but when I ask them to list the things they do daily, Is an enormous list. People just don’t realize how exhausting it is to take care of yourself, your house, a family, your aging parents, your work, trying to still have hobbies, etc. All that while you have no one to help or take care of you.