There's a type of person who complains about entitlement, which is a fair point, but at the same point acts very entitled themselves.

There are many people who have good, rational and nuanced takes on basically everything, but then they have that one pet issue where they have such a strong opinion that they will repost the most insane takes that support it.

A fake version of newspaper X claims that celebrity Y was arrested after leaking a secret that the government doesn't want you to know on TV show Z. I have seen a multitude of clickbait ads following this playbook, but only in German. Is the same scam used in other countries and languages as well?

If a woman used heavier weights than me at the gym I'd tell her she's doing great and I'd want to push myself harder. At no point would it occur to me that I should propagate the idea that strong women are unattractive or "manly".

Hot take: if you took every social media post with a theory on how Gen Z and Millenials (or any other two generations) are fundamentally different, you would end up with many incompatible and contradicting statements.

In "Make AI boring again", @charity.wtf makes the point that, even when you see ethical problems with AI, a purity perspective of avoiding AI use entirely, isn't helpful; AI isn't going away and people in tech need to know what they're dealing with: charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/make-ai-bo...

If you find only AI enthusiasts and AI haters on your engineering team, read this article from @charity.wtf who's arguing for the middle-ground; key takeaway for me was to see AI as amplifier instead of a replacement for good engineering discipline: charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusi...

Not something I expected in 2026 outside of April 1st.

German carmakers and suppliers are struggling and there are two primary theories floating around on social media. Theory 1: they missed the market move to EV and stuck to ICE cars for too long Theory 2: they unnecessarily invested into EVs instead of doing what they've always done (ICEs)

"Peter Pan Syndrome" is about not wanting to grow up as a person, but I saw a take that said it's mostly not about getting older, maturing or responsibility, but avoiding decisions. It's about keeping options open and not making a choice. And that hits a bit too close to home.

Place with a 0.01% chance of being a victim of homicide: safest place on Earth, never have to worry about walking alone at night Place with a 0.05% chance of being a victim of homicide: crime-ridden hellhole that must be avoided at all cost (Not actualnumbers, just meant for illustration.)

As the USA seems to make gatekeeping AI models to foreigners their policy, I just bought a yearly Mistral Pro subscription to support the European AI and tech ecosystem. Now I'm really curious to see how Mistral and Claude compare in their capabilities.

My playlist may contain a few songs where the male singer objectifies women, so to keep the balance, I have some ultra-feminist songs on the playlist as well.

I may have said this before, but one funny thing about being in your 30s/40s is when you see 21-year olds thinking that being 25 is basically ancient.

Hot take: many situations are awkward not because they are, but because people assume they'd be awkward; so they act weirdly to reduce awkwardness, which produces it in the first place.

You cannot think that a certain job needs to exist and simultaneously look down on a person for doing that job.

I could have more hot takes but my brain immediately comes up with counterarguments to balance it.

One of the least relatable common feelings for me is being happy when plans are cancelled.

Employees complain about bosses. Bosses complain about employees. Tenants complain about landlords. Landlords complain about tenants. Men complain about women. Women complain about men. Old people complain about the youth. The youth complains about old people. Who else?!

Explain to me why airplane wifi is slower despite being closer to the cloud

A local radio station doesn't ask people to call in anymore but does audience participation via WhatsApp voice messages. Most of the time, on my radio alarm clock, I cannot hear a difference between the person who recorded on their phone and the host at their expensive studio microphone.

This is a message to the guy next to me at the signal yesterday blasting this melodic tropical house music for the whole intersection to hear: You drive a Harley Davidson! Act like it! Play some rock or metal!

I think it's a problem for the discourse about economic inequality and fairness of taxation that people talk about "the rich" without clarifying whether they mean the likes of Gates and Musk or salaried employees making 200 000 € a year.

PSA: The fact that the IPCC no longer considers the worst case scenario of global warming, doesn't mean that the scenario was wrong. We're no longer heading there due to the action we took against climate change. If we took even more action, we could probably get rid of the second worst case etc.

When you have different preferences compared to most people, how do you know whether that's a genuine lifestyle choice or an indicator that something underlying might be wrong with you?!

A world with no gender pay gap and a world where every husband earns more than his wife cannot coexist. Pick one.

It’s funny how so many of the people now criticizing the water use of data centers never previously went around criticizing the water consumed by say textile manufacturing or paper mills.

Opened the terms and conditions on a website and it said: "Wow! Only 0,12% of people made it to this page. Congrats!" 😂😂😂

A new EU-based social network called "W Social" has been announced. Some people make fun of initiative and say it's doomed to fail, especially since it requires user verification with a real ID. But interestingly, it's built on AT Protocol, meaning it will be compatible with Bluesky (and Eurosky).

Guy came on the train and asked me for €8 for a ticket. If he had asked for €1 or €2 I would have given it, but the sum and the way he asked made me say "No". I still feel bad about it. But the weirdest part of the interaction is when he moved on he asked me to "promise not to vote for leftists".

Something I noticed is that when I refer to "a friend" or "a conversation with a friend" there's a 80-90% chance it's a woman I'm referring to. Am I really having so many more insightful conversations with women than with men?

Taxing the ultra rich is not primarily a revenue raiser, because there are so few of them. The purpose of taxing them is to curb their anti-democratic power. Contributing to the maintenance of the public sphere that you share & enjoy with other people is good, actually.

I'm not a vegetarian myself either, but I find it strange when a society of meat eaters that kills millions of animals for food cares so much about a single whale that the life of this one animal becomes part of major news reporting.

A place having more non-white people and a place having deteriorated (real or imagined) is just a correlation. Assuming causation without proof is racism.

I wonder what it says about me, but the only plastic surgery before-and-after photos I've seen from a woman where I truly think the after is more attractive than the before are breast reduction surgeries.

A friend who works at the university says she has to look up at least 10% of the first names of the students to find out whether to address them as “Mr.” or “Ms.” in email responses, so she's happy when people have a bio with pronouns and thinks this practice should be adopted more broadly.

Hungarian President Orban admitted defeat after losing the election instead of talking about fraudulent and stolen elections like Trump and others he's been compared to would have, thereby giving all his supporters the gift of being able to say, “See, he wasn't a dictator; you lied about him.”

Sometimes I see people that I know from the gym outside smoking and I find this really inconsistent. If you care about health and fitness stopping smoking is probably the first step you'd want to take.

I'm a cis man, but I believe that if I had been exposed to more LGBTQ people and simultaneously pushed more into traditional ideas of masculinity, the chance that I identified as a trans woman today is still very low but probably not zero.

Some richer or even middle class people have this mindset where when they see something is cheap and, hence, popular among poorer people, that it surely is somewhat bad and they themselves must not like it. And if they like it, it's a "guilty pleasure" they're ashamed to admit.

One major difference between progressive and conservative in the sense of "woke" and "anti-woke" is whether you believe stereotypes should be challenged or reinforced.

Often when I hear a conservative or right-wing talking point I realize how it probably make sense to a religious person but not a secular one.

Something that always confuses me is when people ask me things that could be discovered in less than a minute with an online search or even just in the chat/mail log. I would feel bad for wasting another person's time and I also trust my own research more than what someone tells me.

Why does the founder of Anthropic appear in my Facebook friend suggestions?

Hot take: your opinion about women is automatically invalid if you refer to them as foids.

There are a lot of horror stories about US healthcare insurers, and people often claim the problem is privatized insurance. But how come private health insurance works in Germany? I can walk into any doctor's office and be confident that whatever they invoice me, my insurance will reimburse.

Omakase is German for "grandma cheese"

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but if there's an outfit that requires a woman to regularly check and adjust or restrict her movements so that it doesn't expose things she doesn't want to be seen, could the woman not just pick a different outfit?! Generally nobody forced her to wear it.

It's impossible to make sense of the world without at least a bit of simplification, but if your every simplified mental model of the world makes people you already don't like look bad, you should probably work against your biases.

There should be a name for a phenomenon that I think is related to the Dunning-Kruger effect: people see an AI model finding a solution that's smarter than what *they* could have done, so they assume the AI model finds solutions that are smarter than *everyone's*.