Fleppensteyn

Man, it’s like my boomer parents.

“We have all this technology now, maybe we can improve our lives a bit”

“Oh, you’re saying we should go back to the dark ages!?”

Can’t argue with these people.

And then what happened? Double income couples have to squeeze in time for laundry in the weekend.

They claim to automate the work so we have more time to focus on imporant things. Has this ever happened? We got computers, productivity went up, and we still work 40 hours and are poorer than previous generations. In a time of climate crises, they take our dwindling resources so people can create stupid images and videos. I want to see creativity being shared.

Besides, everything AI learned is stolen from people who put the work in. I want people to visit my website, that I worked hard on. I don’t want some LLM telling you what it “learned” from my work. I know search engines purposely make their results crap so the only way to get information is to use an LLM nowadays and I admit I use LLMs for that reason. I can’t just google what I need anymore most of the time.

As for the lights, in the Netherlands, when you get a green light, you go. It was surprising to me in other countries you awkwardly have to wait in the middle for oncoming traffic to pass first, who somehow get a green light at the same time.

And if you can’t squeeze in a road next to sidewalks and bike lines, maybe make it a one-way street instead?