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ContrarianTrail

@ ContrarianTrail @lemm.ee

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Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

Open to reconsider my views in light of good-faith counter-arguments but also willing to defend what's right, even when it's unpopular. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.

  • Any public place frankly, I get a 30 minute lunch and 7-8 people blasting Tick Tocks in a small area...

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  • Unfortunately all the flagships oned have decided one port is enough.

    Customers showed them it's enough. I don't blame the companies for it. Supply and demand. Why add features in your devices that only cost you more money to implement when removing it has no effect on the sales.

    As for consumer repairs, I wouldnt be surprised if it becomes completely impossible soon

    Consumers will be able to choose between repair or replacement of defective products within the two-year legal guarantee period. Companies will have to repair a product for free within that period, if cheaper than a replacement, and continue to offer affordable repairs for five to 10 years after a product's sale even if it is outside of the guarantee.

    Manufacturers and distributors will also have to inform consumers of their right to have products repaired and offer spare parts to independent repairers at reasonable prices.

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  • What scares you?

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  • The idea of living as if my life hadn't really started yet and then one day realizing I'm old and I wasted my life.

  • Any public place frankly, I get a 30 minute lunch and 7-8 people blasting Tick Tocks in a small area...

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  • My brand-new Samsung phone has a headphone jack.

    I see what you’re saying though, and while that may be true now, it hasn’t always been the case. If sales of the first iPhone model without a headphone jack had hit an all-time low and people kept buying the older models instead, Apple likely would have realized the mistake and brought it back. They did this with their shitty laptop keyboards and removing the HDMI port and card reader too. But instead, people just complained and still bought those devices anyway, signaling to manufacturers that it was okay, and then others followed suit and here we are now.

    There's always alternatives for people willing to stick to their principles. My device still has a removable battery as well and so did the one I had before.

  • Any public place frankly, I get a 30 minute lunch and 7-8 people blasting Tick Tocks in a small area...

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  • Nobody took away their headphone jacks. It's them who bought devices without one.

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  • That's my issue with people saying stuff like "I can immediately tell when a picture is made with AI and I hate how they look"

    Your assesment doesn't take into account all the false negatives. You have no idea how many pictures have tricked you already. By definition, the picture is badly made if you can immediately tell it's AI. That's a bit like seeing the most flamboyantly gay person on the street and thinking all gays look like that and you can always spot them while the closeted friend you're with flies perfectly under the radar.

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    TIL the average American is dumber than the average human

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  • 50% of americans are more intelligent than average american.

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    TIL the average American is dumber than the average human

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  • Says you?

  • Childhood dream job

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  • Rather that, than work in an office, but not exactly that either. I wanted to do something that involves working with my hands, so I became a plumber, but nowdays I've got my own company and do other renovation jobs as well.

  • YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes

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  • Good news to those watching shorts (I guess) and completely irrelevant information to the rest of us.

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  • I'm the same way. The less apps there are on my phone, the better. Also, using the web app is the only way to block ads on certain sites such as Instagram or Twitter.

  • Childhood dream job

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  • My childhood dream job was not working in office.

  • Do you have friends from different socioeconomic backgrounds? If not, do you wish you did, and how do you think it would influence your perspective?

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  • Finland

  • Do you have friends from different socioeconomic backgrounds? If not, do you wish you did, and how do you think it would influence your perspective?

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  • Hard to say. In my culture even the wealthy don't particularly show off their wealth so it's hard to judge unless we talk finances which we don't. My grandmom's brother died a while back with 300k in the bank. He lived in an old farmhouse and drove a 20 year old car.

  • TIL miniblinds with pull cords to raise and lower them are now illegal to sell in the United States

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  • There's always roller blinds for the ones among us to whom mini blinds are too difficult to use.

  • How much do you think gender matters on Lemmy?

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  • Lifting heavy things.

    Because on average, men are stronger.

  • TIL miniblinds with pull cords to raise and lower them are now illegal to sell in the United States

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  • Nope.

  • How much do you think gender matters on Lemmy?

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  • It doesn't. What they say is what matters. Not whose saying it. Gender is irrelevant unless I'm going to date them or we're about to lift heavy things.

  • TIL miniblinds with pull cords to raise and lower them are now illegal to sell in the United States

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  • Anything is lethal when you give it to a million people. This is the main reason I take issue with pointing out individual examples of for example autonomous vehicle crashes and treating that as an evidence for why they're inherently dangerous. Almost nothing is 100% safe. I bet there are dozens of people suffocating to their pillows each year.

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    When and how did you find your way out of survival mode (altogether or in-part)?

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  • A little elaboration on the question would be at place.