Just Index fingers. I use middle fingers for back buttons if the controller has them.

Grew up “culturally protestant”. Never strictly religious or anything, but I did participate in many activities organized by my village’s church. Formally left the church 2 years ago, mostly to avoid paying church tax. Today I’d call myself agnostic with a casual interest in Buddhism. Not certain enough to be atheist, not faithful enough to be religious.

Lots of sitting. Both on my job and in my free time.

190cm. Pretty satisfied, useful for finding my way through a crowd of people. Can be a bit difficult to find clothes my size though, especially pants, as I’m also quite slender.

Avatar and My little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

I went on a school exchange to Hangzhou China back in 2008. It was quite an amazing experience for me. I had never been outside central Europe before so there was definitely some culture shock, especially with the food. Became good friends with my exchange partner, who then visited my school in Germany a few months later.

Does Valhalleluja count?

No. I log in every once in a while to laugh at all the bullshit AI-generated content that now fills my feed. Otherwise I only really keep my account since it’s the only platform where I still have old classmates etc, in case I’d ever want to contact them.

Sure, I’m not American myself. But I’m pretty sure much of the violent rhetoric on social media right now around killing CEOs etc is from Americans. The murder of Brian Thompson happened in America after all and all the anger around health insurance wouldn’t really make sense in most of the world where there’s universal health care.

I mean those people in the new world also did a bit of genocide of the native people as a side project and the movement in France included a regime of terror where like 30000 people, including peasants and revolutionaries, were murdered by other revolutionaries. It was hardly just the burgeoisie that suffered. But sure, desperate times may call for desperate measures. It’s not something I’d particularly want to live through though and there’s no guarantee that what comes after will be better.

Yeah, I currently live in quite a large house (originally a 2-family house with a large garden, but we’re only 2 people now) and it’s an unbelievable amount of work to keep it all maintained. It definitely has its perks as well, like I can dedicate a room just for my VR setup, but if I had the choice between this and a house half the size, I’d take the latter. I do prefer a house to an apartment though.

Just be careful you don’t get in the crossfire yourself once the people’s bloodlust takes over and who the elite is shifts. In some cases, wearing glasses was enough.

I’ve seen both. Example of what I mean

I can understand you emotions, even if I can’t directly relate (living in a country with universal healthcare). But I do think it’s a slippery slope. Those kind of “kill the oppressors” movements may hit the “right people” at first, but also have a tendency of going wildly out of control. (Khmer Rouge etc)

I think most people are more like saying “LOL” at what happened rather than “Lets kill [insert person name here]”.

I’ve definitely seen quite a few memes that were like “Here are the names and faces of a few other health insurance CEOs. No particular reason ;)”. But yeah it’s probably not most.

I think it’s America that’s getting more violent. You see the same thing on other platforms.

That’s very warm! Don’t think I could deal with those kind of temperatures, not to mention I’d probably go bankrupt trying to keep my 1920s house at 26°C. Right now, my main living areas where I spent a lot of time (work room, living room, dining room) are at 19.7°C, other lesser used rooms are at 16.5°C.

I don’t measure it. That said, I just spent my 8 hour workday in front of a screen. So at least that. By the time I go to bed it’ll probably be like 12 hours if you count reading on an e-ink display.

The work of Pytheas of Massalia. I think it would be quite an interesting read.

As a software developer, the one usecase where it has been really useful for me is analyzing long and complex error logs and finding possible causes of the error. Getting it to write code sometimes works okay-ish, but more often than not it’s pretty crap. I don’t see any use for it in my personal life.

I think its influence is negative overall. Right now it might be useful for programming questions, but that’s only the case because it’s fed with Human-generated content from sites like Stackoverflow. Now those sites are slowly dying out due to people using ChatGPT and this will have the inverse effect that in the future, AI will have less useful training data which means it’ll become less useful for future problems, while having effectively killed those useful sites in the process.

Looking outside of my work bubble, its effect on academia and learning seems pretty devastating. People can now cheat themselves towards a diploma with ease. We might face a significant erosion of knowledge and talent with the next generation of scientists.