Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Same here, but with German.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Same here, but with German.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
My current pet peeve with YT are the auto dubbed videos. It’s a terrible idea generally speaking, and the fact that it cannot be turned off in settings is just infuriating.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Works just fine (de)
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
I enjoy those graphics related posts immensely. Keep them coming!
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Have they lost their collective mind?
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
Savage
Dan Greene (@dmgreene.bsky.social) reposted
Noticing a strong correlation between guys who think ChatGPT is gonna replace 50% of the economy and guys who think the bartender is into them
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Cool is in the eye of the beholder
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
As always when history of English language is a topic of discussion, I’d like to recommend the historyofenglishpodcast.com podcast. Really worth the listen
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Thinking about it, I actually do give a shit about it once a year, when because of the BMW Open tournament my way home gets longer because of the traffic.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
You’re right. Not worth the effort of giving a shit about it
Scott Hanselman 🌮 (@scott.hanselman.com) reposted
Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done. I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
Scott Hanselman 🌮 (@scott.hanselman.com) reposted
I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg
Philip Obaji Jr. (@philipobaji.bsky.social) reposted
Russian trolls paint Europe as a land of endless possibilities, urging Africans to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean. By fueling irregular migration, Russia aims to overwhelm European borders, strain resources, and exacerbate political tensions within the European Union
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
This is really lovely!
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
Liberté, égalité, fraternité! Happy Bastille day. Fight the tyrannies.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
On the other hand, functional health system is a strong incentive for “I could live here”.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Finland in June. Long, mild days, the mosquitoes are sill not there. Well, not in their late summer quantities at least. Finland in November:
Jan Böhmermann 🤨 (@janboehm.bsky.social) reposted
🇵🇱🇺🇸 Hey ho, die Union legt jetzt politisch Hand an unser Oberstes Gericht. 🇵🇱🇺🇸
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
So many adjectives
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm Welsh, and I didn't know about it.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
it's frankly a mess. for me the automatic translations happen only on the amazon fireTV stick app, the browser version is not affected. you can switch if off somehow by fiddling with the video settings. I wasn't able to turn it off completely. probably it is not even possbile, because, you know, AI
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
oh yes it is. both ways. I'm getting german videos with english translations. quite terrible really.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
fucking true.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
He walked the line indeed. Great movie.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Russia, in all its forms and history was or at least inspired to be an expansionist empire.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
given how many actually did attend the olympic games in Berlin in 1936, I'm not sure that comparison holds.
Leif Боднарчук 🍁 🇺🇦 (@leifb73.bsky.social) reposted
🇺🇦 Don’t forget about Ukraine, people. All the drama is in the middle east right now, but the clear fight is against Russia. They are hands-down the fuckin bad guys. 🇺🇦 Слава Україні 🇺🇦 u24.gov.ua
The House of Pod (@kavehmd.bsky.social) reposted
As an Iranian American, it feels like I need to help explain something: A friend recently expressed confusion as to why those in the Iranian diaspora (liked myself), who hate the regime, would be opposed to the attacks on Iran. I’ll try to explain my thoughts/feelings. 🧵
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it’s rather offensive to Keith Richards.
Picard Tips (@picardtips.bsky.social) reposted
Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
I’d like to like your post, but it’s so depressing, because it’s true
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
there are other f1 drivers, and there's Lewis Hamilton :)
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
It's astonishing how disconnected from humanity they are. As a software developer myself, I find the total lack of understanding of how humans work and interact striking, particularly for someone who wants to destroy the current social order.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
and I'll cry them a river while playing the world smallest violin.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Nah, das Dorf is just a village. Hamlet is more like a Kaff, but without the slight derogatory smell the German word has.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
and let me say it loud, I adore that machine. it's technically not mine, but I sneak it from my better half whenever opportunity arises. (the ktm 790 for a scale :))
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
I've replaced the float needle on a carburateur in the SR500. the bike starts and runs, no fuel overflows. still can't believe it.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure if it’s worth discussing further, but between modern day US and maoistic China there’s whole spectrum of possibilities where critical infrastructure exists to serve the citizens and not to profit one person. Anyhow, I wish you all the best, over and out.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Generally speaking, yes. I just hope no one in my government is stupid or corrupt enough to pay Musk for something we won’t be able to control. Though, they’ve already paid Thiel, so there’s that.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Heck, I’d even welcome slashing spaceX contracts as a good news. Critical infrastructure should not be in private hands.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
But from where I am it is a good news. Makes the European fans of the man in the red cap think twice who do they side with. And yeah, I’m not above having a generous amount of shadenfreude when the most powerful and the richest people on the planet behave like three years old in the sandbox.
Sara Ivette (@saraivette.bsky.social) reposted
If Europe or any other free country wants to survive whats coming, they need to understand that the influence of American-style Christianity and organizations like CPAC are a cancer. You either cut them out from your body with aggressive treatment, or it will metastasize. #Poland
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Aren’t most crafts like that?
Ekskursje w dyskursie (@ekskursje.bsky.social) reposted
Jeśli wygra Trzaskowski, Platforma i tak przegra w 2027, więc przyda się prezydent wetujący choćby totalny zakaz aborcji jakiejkolwiek. Jeśli wygra Nawrocki, zagwarantuje ułaskawieniami bezkarność bojówek Bąkiewiczów, w 2027 nastąpi totalne domknięcie systemu. Wykaż mój błąd (nim nastanie Cisza).
Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) reposted
US administration openly intervened on behalf of the authoritarian populist candidate in the Polish presidential election
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
a working tax system could help
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. I’ve never understood the allure of it. I find the game itself boring. The tribalism around it horrible. The amount of money involved disgusts me.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
European riders sure have.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Finally, some archery content!
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
2/2 they hate each other with burning passion, but together they’ve got the support of half of the voters. I’m worried to say least.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
Polish presidential elections exit polls. The 3 candidates I marked are all right-wing. The top one is your standard issue populist with questionable morals, the one in the middle would make Ayn Rand blush with his ideas, the last one is radical nationalist. 1/2
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Attaboy!
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
why? if it's about the content only, read a book. Podcasts are in big parts about the hosts. I want to hear them.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
get a Honda :) and seriously, no idea, but good luck finding the bug. summer is coming, it's time to ride!
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Beautiful!
RedTriage (@redtriage.bsky.social) reposted
"The implosion of Pax Americana, the interconnectedness of conflicts, the new willingness to resort to unbridled state-sponsored violence and the irrelevance of the institutions of the rules-based order have all been on brutal display this week." www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Sven Petersen (@svenpetersen1965.bsky.social) reposted
And 7/4, 9/8, 10/4 etc. And never ask for Take Five on a (jazz) jam session.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
they didn't sell it, they killed it. And I'm still (slightly) mad about it.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
So redet man mit den Trotteln. Ich wünsche mir nur, dass dieser Austausch nicht auf Twitter stattgefunden hat
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
10% of what they should be paying, me thinks, but a good start nonetheless.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Lovely story. And absolutely, on point correct!
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
26 Celsius in northern Poland in April is sure nice, but it is also scary. It shouldn’t be _that_ warm
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
I really can't hate the G/S, even if it's clear, that it is nothing more than an exercise in nostalgia driven greed.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
And here, one of the biggest lies. That "Rebase" button - it almost never works :)
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
so no tarrifs after all? we're really living in the moronic timeline
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
guess you have to repeat that so often, that you start believe in it. otherwise, the raw cruelity of dealing with mass farming is unbearable.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Thinking about it, the animals kept for their meet & eggs are real victims
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
We’re breeding many animals, and quite often it is not for their good. Dogs are the saddest example in my humble opinion. Much worse, than horses. Racing horses are really not needed, but at least they can breathe and move on their own, which is hardly true in case of some dog breeds.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Strong XRV750 vibes here :)
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
True ;-)
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t want to burst the enthusiasm, but in average, a motorcycle in Germany in 2023 (last year with full statistics available) rode only 2062 km.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
As always, a pleasure to listen to
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Sweet baby Jesses 😱 that should be verboten
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
I think it’s time for European Federation to finally become reality.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
* can't be upgraded
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah. The american democracy looks from the outside like a slighty broken early beta version, that users just keep unchanged for no good reason whatsoever and claim it can be upgraded upon
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
I like it, but 20k for a warehouse-special? There’s nothing really new there, just old parts recycled. That’s greedy even for BMW. All that said, I still like it much more than the new 1300 gs
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
enjoy the silence. I haven't heard mine once yet, even when doing the full build of the SAP Hybris project, with 2 external monitors attched. The intel macs and HP Zbooks running Linux were screaming their asses of during that task.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Before they got the “nice” kings that can do pretty much nothing at all, they decapitated one and went through a revolution and a Lord Protector phase. Being a king is a risky business, historically
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
And that’s we all end up with 50k lines of terraform
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Not as glorious.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
when I was 15 or 16 years old, there was a week when I had to stay for a week in bed because of some sickness. During that week I've had the Led Zeppelin II playing in a loop & read the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy. since then, those two things are inseparable to me. Frodo and whole lotta love.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Sometimes accent is enough
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Guess I know what I’m watching tonight
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Tax them. Tax on Sugar, tax on fat. And make sure they can’t escape paying it by for example transferring millions outside as franchise costs or whatever. Side effect, it will hit all purveyors or the fast food equally.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
come on, Donnie, what's 200. Go higher! Do those numbers mean anything anymore? Iast time I've seen such a bidding was in a sandbox, and I was 5
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
but they're franchises. they import nothing from the US. that said, I'm pretty sure they have implemented some complex schema to avoid paying taxes in the EU, so hit them there.
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
Bring it on!!
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Ride safely! A bit of a weather break for me, temperatures are falling down to 0C
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
*sighing in LaTeX
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social)
lol. auch gut 😂
Michał 🇪🇺 (@mkowalik.bsky.social) reply parent
Same crap. AfD used to have ad posters with “diesel ist super” (guess translation ain’t necessary)