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Mat G

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per aspera ad absurdum Programmer (he/him), PhD student at Technische Universität München (Database Systems). On Soros' payroll. Nazi punks: fuck off! Opinions distributed free of charge under the MIT license. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 🌟🌟🌟 https://gienieczko.com

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · Aug 25

Turns out it's impoasible to portray capitalism in *any way* without it turning into a critique

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 48m

The only responsibility we all have is to poast

Mat G @gienieczko.com · 6h

"Fair maid (or sir)" is hell of an opener though

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 6h

Okay but that would at least be funny

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 13h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 10h

Can someone tell me why UPS can do this? How is shredding someone's package not super illegal, that's indistinguishable from outright theft

Mat G @gienieczko.com · 10h

It's completely fine until you somehow get that printed in a "serious" newspaper

Mat G @gienieczko.com · 20h

It's very telling that even in this fake story the "founder" didn't *do* anything. Like, no mention that she built something, or created something useful, just that she raised a lot of capital. Cause that's the only thing that matters to such ghouls.

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 23h

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

German use of the word "Prussia" is a 770 year old copyright violation and nothing more

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 1d

I love this for you, it was always so confusingly annoying in primary level history classes

Mat G @gienieczko.com · 1d

I wish I wasn't

Mat G @gienieczko.com · 1d

You don't travel to the US, which I think is a reasonable safety precaution. Especially if you're trans.

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 2d

That's nice, my great-grandfather was shot behind a barn by NKVD, maybe we are related in a very fucked up way!

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 2d

Wait this whole "Trump thinks he will get the Nobel Peace Price" was not just a slightly grotesque joke? Jesus christ

Mat G @gienieczko.com · 2d

I will personally steal the medal from Obama and hand it to Trump if he levels the Kremlin

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 4d

an internet explorer window against the windows xp background with a geocities.com address in the bar "/Kingofkings".

The page displayed is a broken image on a black background, and the sentence: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look upon my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 3d

Hearts of Iron 4 screenshot of the United Kingdom's diplomacy screen. They are fascist, led by British Union of Fascists, but the screen is edited to insert the comically looking guy's portrait as the leader.

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 3d

If the proposition is to tax childless people more now because in X years the global birth rate will fall below replacement then that's silly. If it's because you're afraid your country's pension system won't work in 50 years then there is a very easy solution to that and it's called immigration

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 3d

That's exactly what my "this is one of those situations" was trying to cut off at the pass - what's your projection on that "eventually"? In how many generations? We're quite a way away from the global birth rate falling below replacement, and if it did it's not irreversible like climate change is.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 4d

if you are unwilling to post into the void, you should not post at all

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 4d

Also any discussion like this is so inherently racist it boggles the mind. About 14% of the population is illiterate (that's almost a billion people), half of them live in Southern Asia. Maybe provide for them instead of trying to increase birth rates in Western countries by 0.1%

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 4d

Unless the goal isn't having more people meaningfully contribute to our society but more people of the "correct kind"

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 4d

Ensuring there will be a planet to even raise kids on in 100 years is actually objectively the best long term pro-natalist policy.

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 4d

Birth rates are not a pressing problem. We're fine. We'll be fine for quite some time. This is, in fact, one of those situations where any resources you'd want to focus on increasing the number of children should rather be allocated to making sure the lives of existing children don't fucking suck

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 4d

Counterpoint: who cares

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