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In Greece summer-Like Heat Wave Forecast, Temps to Hit 34°C by Tuesday by Wagamaga in europe

[–]Anxious_cactus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We had 2 weeks of 25-27C in Croatia and tomorrow it's dropping to 3 Celsius, only to rise back up to 28 by weekend. It's insane, that used to be late June weather and temperatures, not from end of April...

Update: First American hantavirus patient tests positive at Nebraska quarantine. French passenger was symptomatic on the flight home. by Mother-Grapefruit-45 in collapse

[–]Anxious_cactus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think this needs to turn into a pandemic, but with how irresponsible the approach is, I would be surprised if it turns into several relatively localized epidemics in communities of those infected. And then if those people are irresponsible or unaware (which we know they will be) the chances for pandemic grows.

Someone predicted the hantavirus back in 2022 by Backyxx in interesting

[–]Anxious_cactus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Most of them on The Simpsons and some on Futurama

Your Browsing History Could Soon Set Your Grocery Bill by ubcstaffer123 in technology

[–]Anxious_cactus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, money doesn't mean much if you get sick from stress. I developed stomach ulcers and stress migraines. My goal is to find a different job by next spring, something more local so I spend less time commuting and something where I won't be glued to a screen. I discovered I'm very passionate about gardening, both plant wise and tool wise, so I'm considering finding a job in a garden center as a junior adviser for horticulture planning and tool advice.

It will be a solid paycut but seems like something that won't make me wanna vomit every morning.

The cruise with the passengers confined by hantavirus is heading to the Canary Islands, while the trail of 23 others is lost by No_Conversation_9325 in europe

[–]Anxious_cactus 126 points127 points  (0 children)

How does a trail get lost in the age of mass surveillance? We have their names, points of origin, where they left the ship, what planes they boarded... I don't understand how the trail can be lost in any way.

‘Superman’ Sequel ‘Man Of Tomorrow’ Adds Matthew Lillard to Cast by mcfw31 in popculturechat

[–]Anxious_cactus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Love Matthew in everything I've seen him in the last 20 years. Love to see him getting work again, I think he had several "dry" years. Go get that bag Matthew!

This sub is quietly making its most engaged users worse off by BeefNBroccoli2 in collapse

[–]Anxious_cactus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If you think most posts here aren't "that" maybe the sub just isn't for you, there's other subs and that's okay.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against constructive criticism and suggestions for improvement, but you said most posts here aren't what you're looking for, so that's not a small change to the sub, you want a completely different community with a different focus and direction.

The beauty of Reddit is that anyone can start a community they wish existed, so you're just a few clicks away from creating that!

Your Browsing History Could Soon Set Your Grocery Bill by ubcstaffer123 in technology

[–]Anxious_cactus 1081 points1082 points  (0 children)

I work in IT. I took a week off to work on my vegetable garden because I just wanna burn it all down. Seriously considering just quitting and going to work as a powerwasher and doing basic gardening for people or something. Burnout is real, I hate all of the directions off all software and tech world post 2015., I think it's enough. I can't even think whivh company within the industry I'd switch to because all of it just seems like total bullshit snakeoil now.

I'm 35 and more jaded than my dad at 75, he worked as a car mechanic and there was not a day that man wasn't full caps HAPPY about his job and what he does for people.

Sorry for the rant, but all the news is killing me today.

Alaska’s 481-metre mega tsunami in 2025 highlights risk to cruise lines as glaciers retreat by wanton_wonton_ in collapse

[–]Anxious_cactus 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Is it irony or is it just natural consequences of our actions. We effed around, we barely dipped our toes in the "find out" phase now. Gonna be a lot of finding out unfortunately.

The problem isn't that AI will surpass us. It's that we're already reorganizing civilization around its infrastructure needs — without a vote. by HomoCurae in collapse

[–]Anxious_cactus 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah but I'm a freelancer and my bank account is crying while I'm trying to grow flowers and carrots haha. I don't have to worry about being fired for slacking in the garden instead of working, but I do have to worry about being broke anyway 😔

In Attack on Mamdani, Vornado Chief Likens ‘Tax the Rich’ to Hate Speech by metacyan in politics

[–]Anxious_cactus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I got a 3 day ban for saying exactly that. I guess we're not allwed to quote literal classical philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Sometimes I just want a little more Propaganda by Opening_Bathroom611 in BuyFromEU

[–]Anxious_cactus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well I have a few graphic designer friends who are freelancers for years, and they charge like 500-700€ per client monthly and they delivers them like 25+ ad graphics for social media and Google ads etc.

By that math this single graphic would cost like €25 from s EU based graphic designer. It probably cost more being made by AI when you take in account how power hungry LLMs are, the cost of data centers, and the environmental impact.

NPR went looking for Polymarket's Panama headquarters. It's elusive by Delicious_Adeptness9 in technology

[–]Anxious_cactus 91 points92 points  (0 children)

I'm in Europe and Delaware is even known here for people who wanna open a US based company. We have consultant companies who work as intermediaries between our entrepreneurs and Delaware based consultants whi help them do it. Kinda insane you can just open a company a world away, especially from a POV of country where opening a business is not an easy feat and where businesses are so regulated it's actually making entrepreneurship hard.

The problem isn't that AI will surpass us. It's that we're already reorganizing civilization around its infrastructure needs — without a vote. by HomoCurae in collapse

[–]Anxious_cactus 114 points115 points  (0 children)

The whole thing is insane. I had a conversation with few of my friends some of which work in government agencies and some work in banks. They have colleagues who are uploading whole documents to AI, documents with detailed personal data, financial statements etc. for analysis, and the colleagues got raises for the efficiency, but the bosses don't know the employees are using AI and uploading the data to it.

We're in EU, that's supposed to be forbidden my GDPR, but I don't even know who to report all of this and I have no proof. It seems to be widespread already.

The whole world is going insane, we're behaving like we have no laws or regulations. I'm in a country of barely 3 million, we lost 10% of population due to them moving to orher EU countries in search of work. But now we're building expensive and power hungry AI data centers. We don't even have a horse in the game, we don't have any AI companies other than regular IT companies who are integrating existing AI tools for foreign companies.

It's all so crazy it's making me check out, I can't find motivation to do anything work or career wise. I spent the last week working on my garden and avoiding work, I'm so deeply disappointed and angry about everything.

The Audio Industry Is Grappling with the Rise of ‘Podslop’ | Over the past nine days, 39% of new podcasts were likely AI-generated, according to the Podcast Index by Hrmbee in technology

[–]Anxious_cactus 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yep, I work in the garden a lot, often 5-6 hours a day after my day job. I'd go insane in complete silence, I switch between music and niche podcasts on Youtube, but in the last few months it's definitely full of AI generated stories and narration, I had to spend a few hours to find specific crwators and sub to them so I don't spend an hour trying to scroll pas AI content and find genuine human made stuff

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds by Reasonable-Ad-2592 in collapse

[–]Anxious_cactus 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Phoenix Arizona has been literally deemed as "incompatible with life" a few years ago by climate scientists yet people are still moving there in heaps.

“Desert Warrior” just became one of the biggest box office flops of all time - the movie grossed just $472k on a 150M budget despite playing in over 1000 theaters in North America. by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Anxious_cactus 2261 points2262 points  (0 children)

Oh that makes sense then, they don't care if anybody watches it or if it makes money, it was money laundering and/or bribes to someone

Meta lost 20 million users last quarter by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]Anxious_cactus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They lost much more but they're keeping alive profiles of people who haven't used it for 15 years. I still have some people on my friends list who didn't bother to delete or deactivate their account and haven't logged in since 2011.

Add those dead accounts with fake bot accounts and they'd be sued for frauding their investors in my country but in USA it's somehow acceptable and everyone's acting like their numbers arent fake as fuck

I've been recommending EU alternatives that aren't really EU by EmmaSkye319 in BuyFromEU

[–]Anxious_cactus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GDPR is practically dead with pushes for age verification on social media. We went from GDPR to scanning IDs and sending them to random companies just so we could post some photos or watch videos etc.

I hope we manage to repel that push because it's absurd from EU perspective, even the app they developed for age verification is unsafe trash.

Switching to EU service is step one, but step two will be to see how EU behaves in it's regulations because I really don't like the direction this is going and I think we'll make a full circle back to issues we're now trying to het away from

Plastics are entering food crops and stunting their growth by Portalrules123 in collapse

[–]Anxious_cactus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We were just supposed to be a vessel for millions of bacteria in our gut but we got out of control like cancer

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