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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I think it is great that you’re transparent about your AI usage. I’d assume most of the down votes are because most people don’t want to see it on their Lemmy feed. What is the added benefit? If they wanted an AI generated config they’d generate it themselves, not search online for an AI generated one. So I don’t believe that the generally ‘negative’ reponse reflects on you, just most users’ desire to not have AI content on their feed.



  • This is a Dutch investigative piece (English subtitles available) made by the Dutch government funded TV program ‘Nieuwsuur’. Before you start bashing on it for it being biased because the TV program is government funded, a lot of Dutch politicians at the time strongly wanted to increase our trade agreements with China, this item was actively hindering that.

    https://youtu.be/ixdGGZ4Nof0

    I get disliking a lot of the ‘American exceptionalism’ you see on some corners of the internet, but one must also be cautious of not accidentally creating your own ‘Chinese exceptionalism’. There is actual concrete proof that this is happening in China. This is of course not the fault of the Chinese people, this is government policy, not the fault of the whole Chinese people. But if we become to cautious to speak up about issues like these, they will keep occurring in all parts of the world.

    I don’t think I’ll be able to convince anyone in here, but due to me more and more frequently spotting posts about these on my Lemmy feed, I was itching to speak up about it.

















  • As a fellow dutch person that also travels by trains a lot, I get really irritated when people only complain. Sure, there are definitely fuck ups at NS. But I feel people completely write off the system because of them. I can’t remember the last time a train got outright cancelled (outside of extreme weather conditions in which I also wouldn’t be comfortable driving). There are issues with the system, those should be fixed, but that does not mean that everything is terrible.

    But maybe it’s way worse in your part of the country, there definitely have been issues with getting enough personnel (as do all other sectors). So maybe we are both making our arguments from two different experiences.



  • I hope they’ve done enough to the Manhattan area to ‘spice it up’. In the first game I never really got any incentive to explore it beyond the icons on the map/hud. When Tears of the Kingdom released I was also a bit disappointed with how much of the map stayed the same. Sure, they added a lot of new areas in that game, but in the end you still had to cover a lot of known ground.

    Still, reviews are looking good and I’m excited to try it out;






  • It’s used as an informal way to tell someone that you wish them “luck”/“succes” during work. The English equivalent would be: “Have fun/good luck at work”. It’s something like that, I’m finding it quite difficult to literally translate it because it’s more of a cultural meaning than any official definition.