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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Star Trek Day! What was your first contact?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First contact was on the here-named eta-carinae system, we did a holiday tour there long ago and heared about earth from a scientist that rescued a human instead of just studying and thus could not leave him there with his memories about him. the human was talking about star trek, its similarities and real differences all the time. he already spoke fluently in standard Sjesh/sound w/o any interfaces so we listened directly to his true mind. he even had a very worn out tshirt in his personal memory items box. i mean he really had used his memory items before! that made us curious and the rest is history. However he is now back here, we managed to arrange his behavioral training to hide his experiences well, he passed all the tests and got his transport back, but with his biologic cells clock reset to his 20th to compensate the decades he lost out there a little bit. it is possible he could become an ambassador for earth one day, but it looks unlikely that he would want that given the circumstances here, a task he always compares with the mytholigical boulder of Sisyphus that really never existed physically.

  just kidding, first contact with TNG was in school, other kids talked about the first episode. i could not watch it at home and also had other problems to fix at that time so i missed a lot of the start of it :-/

  however i am trying to train myself for writing in general as i have ideas for a longer story (but not within the trek universe) and as the above text came to my mind i just wrote it and hope you don’t find it too misplaced here or badly written… however any feedback is welcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The opposite of shopaholic: shopcell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  guess the’re counting the money they ripped off from you without you noticing anything. counting that much can take hours !! ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What fresh fuckery is this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  we need an adblockers blockers blocker

  no, what is needed is an app that helps track who benefits from thr apps that annly you most:

  • ownership of companies pushing annoying ads
  • management of companies pushing annoying ads
  • find the connection between those and the products you maybe want to buy in shops or in internet before you buy, then instead of buying, let the app send the seller a message that you did not buy because of that connection.
  • do this in numbers with lots of people and see what happens to the advertising jungle

  the point is NOT buying because of advertising AND let them know it, so they can learn to improve themselves.

  they wanted your data? let them have it the way you want them to.

  same with any platform. ask the creator of your choice to also publish using patreon and you’ll become a member then, getting the content free of ads. better more directly pay who does the actual work, not all the big tech harvesting all the benefit inbetween.

  so what maybe is needed here could be a free or even self-hostable platform that also allows payed subscriptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What fresh fuckery is this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  really, yt stopped to play sound on the website for me (beeing logged in), there is a banner to “activate sound” but it always disappears unclickable fast, so i searched and found webtube, an app that basically loads their website, but has one feature youtube has not: “sound” *lol

  now i wonder how many of these apps really are “third” party apps and not really theirs only masked as third party for getting that gain of trust all the “others” get when it comes to big techs with their very own “public” crime records …

  would be too easy for them to create some small apps, act as if those were 3rd party software but harvest that spyoil (of the 21 century) anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck happened to YouTube!?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  unfuckingbelievable

  if you want that without the “un” prefix, then youtube is maybe just the wrong platform for you.

  and i strongly believe that youtube “wants” to force more usage of peertube, vimeo and others by enshitting yt every day a bit more. and they really work hard for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technically Correct⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i once heared something like this:

  “the idea of having more than those who have nothing is the very only reason shareholders can ever imagine someone would work for at all, thus they also falsely believe they would do something good when enforcing this by removing everything from those who already are vulnerable and thus create a living example of how you would end when you don’t help them rob even more.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes 💪

  or maybe thats the hiring strategy to get more woman into tech jobs 😂 … and we have reserved private toilets !! …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  we are a tech company. we had several floors in two near but separate buildings. we had as many toilets for woman as we had for men. basically each floor had one for woman and one for men which had a pissoir too. as we had > 90% men, mens toilets always had a waiting line after lunch time (not for the pissoir, however). on one floor the only woman was a trainee who (normal here) often had to go to school for 3weeks in a row, that was when men just used womens toilet as there was no woman to use it on the floor and the other woman on the other floor of that building literally had her very own toilet to share with no one. (rest of all the woman happened to work in the other building)

  then the company started to build its own building to leave the rental situation and at the same time to better longterm meet some necessarities that come along with the market niche that the company serves. (there are some laws regulating some physical aspects of the building.)

  one if the promises was, that the “toilet situation” would be improved with the new building.

  the new building then had larger toilets on each floor. the space was then used to still have one toilet for men, but now there were two pissoirs! and two large sinks just for washing hands. yay! womens bathroom now have 3 toilets on each floor each and also the large sinks too. same amount of toilets for 90% of empleyee, the 10% have now triple number toilets they had before and double the space for washing, using mirror etc.

  The woman basically gets her own.

  exactly, and when men don’t have enough toilets, women actually gets build more of them to “statistically” solve the problem !! 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushroom Guides⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  at least no one ever returning from a forest said a mushroom had killed him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gunfire From Deputies Killed Teen Who Had Been Reported Kidnapped, Video Shows⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  as long as body cams can be turned off (and as seen are sometimes intentionally) or “accidently” can be low on battery and turn off before the things happen that they were meant to record in the first place, then there is a problem with “normal body cam fotage” as then “normal” simply does not even exist.

  or said otherwise: what if you could record all your hundreds of visits to banks, then turn your body cam of, rob the bank and later get away with it, because you have footage showing / “prooving” that you were NOT a robber all the OTHER times ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  usually at first you can do such, and later on, when a ceo wants more money, you then can buy that together with the new “pro” features actually nobody needs nor wants.

  maybe better look for more stable solutions before they start acting like a broadcom ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the only cenario i actually use google search for but only in very rare occasions is when i am curious why i don’t find more results in another search engine, i then sometimes want to validate “missing” results are also missing in other/minor search engines that could theoretically have hits instead of misses, but usually i don’t find in google what i was already missing elsewhere, so mostly no gain, only sort of validation.