It is ragebait with no clear idea on actual steps to take against the brainrot industrial complex.

It states that we can't or shouldn't even bother thinking about what to do about it instead it offers super generic unhelpful self-help guideline that is almost impossible to do since we must fight the brainrot industrial complex every ms to make it while they just have to win once an hour (or less) to keep us occupied.

I'm all for describing problems without even trying to find solutions.

But this is worse: this pretends to offer a solution so we get the kick of feeling good without actually accomplishing anything.

True brainrot crap article.

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I'm all for dismissing LLMs and the AI-hype but I'm also interested in trying to understand what it means to be human and I think humour is a key aspect.

I just think that the difficulty with jokes is the delivery, cadence & setting. Not the actual words.

I'm sure a good comedian can tell a nonsense joke and make "everyone" laugh their heads off.

And I don't get the sense that you are referring to this part of jokes but rather the actual words.

Do you make some sort of map and/or list of clues that you hide between the pages of books

Or

Do you write books that have maps and/or clues in the text?

About 2: Gluten free sourdoughs.

Do you have any good starting points or resources to share?

I admit I haven't gotten around to search very deeply for them yet as I just started thinking about this again yesterday but previous attempts have not given me any good information just one off recipes rather than creating a new bubbly family member to store in your fridge ;)

I think it's important to think more holistically about the environment than just CO2, or the Ozon-layer (that we actually managed to fix!). Full report: https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-imp...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523081

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Did you understand the comment you replied to as me being negative or did you reply to the wrong comment?

I'm well aware that I'm a cunt at times, but I'm having a hard time seeing that in this instance.

My intention was to be celebratory towards something I found truly elegant.

(Maybe it is common to use "&" to write "etc" or anywhere where you'd normally use "et" but afaik I have never seen it before.)

I like it a lot, and it makes me happy to see someone using the ligature of "e t"[0] ("&") not only as "and" but also as it's original "et" in the abbreviation "etc".

To me it reads like someone playing with words in a fun way, which is not that common in my parts of the internet

I was trying to express appreciation.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)

But then again you're riffraff how could you imagine that :)

Using "&" literally in 2026 smells of wonder, well done, thanks!

Do you do it sometimes in regular English words too or just in &c? Please give more examples (if you have any).

This will be a great day, starting of like this: a written play with words; i like it!

I understand hand knitting as craft (that can also or exclusively be art).

I also understand some programming as craft (that can also or exclusively be art).

But when you combine the two and add some kind of machinery it is much harder for me to see it as craft and not as production. This has me thinking, I like to think!

The work you do expands my understanding of the world, thanks!

I agree, you're absolutely right.

I'm just kind of old, tired, grumpy and sad about the state of the world and my low capacity to influence the general direction or even small local things.

My old cynic, grumpy mind can't see this as anything but virtue signaling. I would be overjoyed to be wrong.

One corner stone of the EU is the 4 freedoms[0] that among other things denies public institutions the ability to look at anything besides the monetary cost when deciding who to contract for anything.

And as JIT[1] no longer only applies to goods but also to people noone has people working for them anymore, but contract everything out.

Obviously I haven't read the report/document so maybe there are some political steps that the signees are binding themselves to take towards a non-growth-at-all-cost system but I really doubt it.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Single_Market

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing

If you have any programming background and some time to aquiantence yourself with the specific words and aspects of this kind of programming I'm sure it will make sense to you too :)

I'm still this person today :)