I’m just here to see if you guys can convince me to blindly hate LLMs yet. No luck so far.

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Then what have they conserved? Checkmate, Liberals (?)

Just go ask an LLM first (ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Mistral/yourselfhostedllm). If it doesn’t know, then come ask here.

countries that depend on the EU for money have a higher attachment.

I’m not surprised.

TLD = Top Level Domain (.net, .com, etc).

ccTLD = Country Code Top-Level Domain (.nl, .de, .co.uk, etc)

It’s a city-as-a-region; cities tend to be way more cosmopolitan (from cosmos: world, and polites: citizen - citizens of the world, so to speak) than any surrounding village. I bet if they had Amsterdam as region, it too would’ve been more attached to Europe.

Then again, EU and Europe tend to be conflated anyway, so these diagrams are poisoned via the well.

In the sense that klipper does everything through configuration files: yes.

only a tiny part of Christians are pedophiles

I’m pretty sure Christians are pedo at the same rate as the population at large. The issue there (apart from them being pedophilic) is that the Catholic Church has a tendency to protect them - forgive and forget, and all that.

wrong no mater what culture you speak of.

Well, their culture is clearly OK with it. It shouldn’t, but it is.

To get started: Install NixOS, grab your /etc/nix/configuration.nix, and /etc/nix/hardware-configuration.nix (from the top of my head) and throw them in a git repo. nix-shell -p <application> if you quickly need a shell with a specific (temporary) program, like git (just for bootstrapping; add git to the configuration.nix if you wish to keep it.

Start with that, and slowly keep adding programs, configuration. If you eventually wish to add a second computer to the one configuration (so you can start reusing configuration), do that. Keep steps small.

Here you can dig through each step I take in my nixcfg - I started with just the configuration.nix, and share that between machines, but it turns out you’re supposed to add the hardware-conguration.nix to the repo as well, so then I started to do that (with still a shared configuration.nix. Well, partially:

https://github.com/NostraDavid/nixcfg/commits/master/?after=78d40edc8b756088a73fd087808d438eabbcf06f+401

Read nixstory.md if you want to see a quick LLM-generated history of how my repo changed over time (based on my git history).

This is precisely why I use NixOS. I have almost my entire configuration as “code” (data structures more like, but what’s the difference any way?), such that when I break something, I can just undo my commits and go back to a working version (and the OS itself retrains several snapshots, so I can always pick the previous one.

And with LLMs the bar to do things, with my nix configuration (nixcfg), has lowered to the ground. Throw in a few videos from Vimjoyer and you got a stew going.

I mean, I’ve never done it until just now. Turns out it works just fine. What’s your point?

Does that mean we only had Democracy when Trans Rights were introduced?

Like, if the removal is the end of democracy, then is the opposite also true?

God loves unconditionally*

* some conditions apply

how to outsource my lawn mowing to low-cost labor in India

You cannot meaningfully outsource physical lawn mowing in the Netherlands to low-cost labor in India, unless the worker is only doing coordination. Lawn mowing is location-bound.

The workable versions are:

1. Outsource the administration to India

   Hire an Indian virtual assistant to find local lawn-care providers, compare quotes, schedule visits, chase invoices, and monitor recurring service. The mowing itself is still done locally.

2. Use a robot mower

   This is the closest real substitute for cheap recurring labor. You pay upfront for a robotic mower, then only outsource occasional maintenance, blade replacement, boundary-wire fixes, and winter storage.

3. Hire local low-cost labor

   In the Netherlands, that usually means a student, neighborhood handyman, garden-service freelancer, or someone via a local platform. This is the practical low-cost route.

4. Teleoperated mower

   In theory, someone in India could remotely drive a mower. In practice, this is not a normal consumer option. You would need a mower with cameras, low-latency control, safety cutoffs, insurance coverage, and probably someone local to place it outside, handle obstructions, and deal with failures. At that point it is usually more expensive than local mowing.

So the sane setup is:

Indian VA for procurement and scheduling + local mower/gardener for execution, or robot mower + local maintenance.

GPT-5.5 Thinking, for context.

Related: BullshitBench V2 (it’ll take a minute to load).

It’s a Comic, just not a Comic Strip.

“Ontological metalepsis”, maybe with some “reification”?

Metalepsis A crossing between narrative levels. Here, a non-physical comic convention becomes physically active inside the story.

Ontological metalepsis A stronger, more precise form: something from one “reality level” enters another. The speech bubble moves from the reader-facing graphic layer into the character’s physical world.

Reification Treating something abstract, symbolic, or conventional as if it were a concrete object. The speech bubble is “reified” because it becomes a usable physical thing.

I love this comic.

Hey, if you give me enough money, I’m willing to follow your instructions for 8 hours per day; continguously.

Also, you need money to “act freely in the world with intention”, etc.