Afloat (a #poem)

Sailing together

from different harbours

going on a journey

with no set destination

Taken by different currents,

drifting apart

without the power

to get together again.

But it's okay

and enough

to know the other ship

is still afloat 

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Why demand the right to get ripped off and made sick?

"It's not fair! The EU has much higher standards for food than the USA and that's why most countries don't want US food produce!" Aww...In general the EU sets rules to protect its civilians while the USA sets rules to protect its politicians' sponsors. 

It's why the stuff that Americans call 'bread' would be found in the candy section at European supermarkets. If the shelf life of bread is four weeks, it's not bread but candy. 

Only 0.00001% of all US beef could be sold in the EU. Most US farmers stuff their livestock full of hormones. Leading to huge healthcare concerns and the wry fact that worldwide in our modern days more people die from being obese - and related diseases - than from malnutriton.

Do you think a government should protect citizens or should rules be in place to mostly protect the profits of 'the elite' like Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Agro, the main sponsors of most US politicians?

Interesting fact: in civilised countries a politician who takes money from a company that directly benefits from the lawmaker's decisions is considered corrupt. Isn't conflict of interests against the law in the USA?

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For the millions of US antivaxxers who don't want chemicals in their body: please don't look up what the chemicals are in US beef, in tobacco, in cheap, red wine...

When the Night came (a #CirclePoem)

When the night came

they held hands

afraid of letting go

of eachother

and of shared memories

Realising they had no choice

they let go,

occassionally reminding eachother

of that moment

when the night came

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Why should we worry?

Yeah, let's keep muppetizing ourselves, ask ChatGPT what time our favourite real life soap is on and buy more stuff from Temu; we got this nice Swedish young lady to worry about the planet on our behalf so why should we? 

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Overconsumption is a real concern. While datacenters use billions of liters of fresh water to keep cool, people are literally dying of thirst. But at least they can ask their favourite chatbot why that is. In the words of a famous green puppet frog: "Yeeeeaaaaah!"

With every new technology new challenges arise. A.I. will make many working people redundant and new types of jobs will come into existence. But probably not enough to keep everyone working. At least not in the 'civilized' world. 

Governments are terrified of the dangers of A.I. It's why they are putting billions in a worldwide A.I. race with total disregard of possible safety issues.

Someday soon someone will get an A.I. bot really upset or ask it to end the world's greatest threat and the last thing we'll see is a large mushroom cloud. Luckily we won't see our burned lungs we 'll be puking out because just before that our eyes will have melted.

I like to see things on the bright side. And a nuclear explosion is very bright. Power of the sun 'n all that. 

If in a future scenario we won't get killed off but only lose the use of electricity, those who are already used to living without, stand the biggest chance of survival. Americans and Europeans will flee to Africa in the hopes of finding refuge. 

Could you easily live without electricity and with that *gasp!* without internet?

The bomb explodes (a #poem)

A life with no cravings 

and nothing to look forward to.

Nothing gives pleasure 

and all food is tasteless.

As if waking up 

from a dream 

right before 

the bomb explodes 

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Get bloggin'!

Tired of being moderated because some multi billionaire doesn't like your opinion? Want to write what you want, when you want, able to plan ahead and with no limitation on how many characters you can use?

Want to show pictures, GIFs and videos and, point your followers to other websites and moderate all comments to your posts yourself instead of having to trust a biased algorithm?

Get bloggin'!

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Some bloggers write about their favourite hobby, their pet, geopolitics, history, writing, investing...The blogosphere is a treasure throve for all kinds of students. Of course every single blogpost is coloured by the blogger's own thoughts and ideas. So you might have to withstand some criticism. Even if you only post pictures of adorable cats doing funny stuff.

What are your thoughts about blogging? Do you own or have owned a blog yourself?

New Possibilities (a #poem)

New Possibilities (a #poem)

The autumn of his life

felt as quiet as it was outside.

Emptiness overwhelmed him

and his heart felt cold.

Of course he could allow himself

to slowly drown

in memories and emotions

but he decided

to open the door

to new possibilities

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Someone said so, so it must be true!

"Hitler and the nazis themselves said they were socialists!" Sure, hun. And the Dutch Party for Farmers and Civilians really hates animal cruelty and wants to help civilians. While literally being made up by the Public Relations agency of Big Agro, multimillionaires calling themselves 'farmers' while in reality just being investors in cow sh1t and land. As a matter of fact: 70% of those 'poor Dutch farmers!' are millionaires and they already own 60% of all landmass in the Netherlands. And they still demand more, the greedy offspring of unmarried parents. 

"Yeah but they said they were nationalists and socialists and wanted to help the workers!"

A simple trick to get 'the people' to vote for them in a time when Nationalism as well as Socialism were popular ideas, just like workers rights. So they called themselves National Socialist German Workers Party. It's why right wing parties often have 'the people' in their name and these days 'freedom' and 'democracy'. Without doing anything you already secured tens of thousands of votes.

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