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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.

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  • Age of Empires 2, Minecraft, Cities Skylines, GTA series, DayZ

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  • I probably have way lower criteria for blocking than most other people. I deliberately go to threads about Elon Musk for example and block everyone making snide remarks about him. Not because I'm a fan of Musk but because I'm not interested in dealing with people who use social media to talk shit. The people I have had the most insightful conversations with don't post replies like that. My blocklist is way over 500 users long already and I add several people to it every day. I'm simply just trying to improve the signal to noise ratio.

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  • I like to put some soy sauce and lemon juice on mine and let them sit for a while after frying

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  • it doesn’t really do anything besides hiding their posts.

    That's what I need it to do. Out of my sight. Doesn't matter if they can still see my posts. I hope they write me a lot of long and nasty messages that I never see.

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  • Most of the people I've blocked haven't broken any rules. Reporting them would be pointless.

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  • 99.999% of them. I don't desire variety. Give me one good game and I'll waste infinite hours with it for the next 15 years. The newest game I've played is from 2018

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  • I need that for the opposing reason. Sometimes people write so good comments that I don't want to block them for the stupid comment they write the next day.

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  • There are other reasons to block as well. Simply just being an asshole is not a viewpoint I think anyone should be paying attention to.

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  • There are other reasons to block people than to hide differing viewpoints.

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  • It does actually make a difference. Especially on a small platform like Lemmy. I'd say that around 50% of the time that I see a blocked user make a comment and I log out to read it, it just confirms that blocking them was the right choice.

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  • In my case, most users I've blocked were for shitty behavior. I have zero tolerance for that. If someone speaks to me or others in a way they wouldn’t dare to in real life, I block them instantly. I don’t mind disagreements or different opinions, but I won’t waste time with mean or nasty people.

    The second most common reason is shallow, one-sentence replies only meant to fish for upvotes without adding value to the discussion. Jokes are fine, but if you're just echoing what's popular for applause, you’re gone. Nothing wrong with that per-se, but I’m more interested in serious conversations.

    Lastly, there are petty reasons. For example, overused phrases like 'fuck around and find out' will get you blocked too.

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  • Could as well be suggesting me to leave the internet. 95% of my time spent online I'm watching YouTube videos.

    Blocking ads seems like the more viable option.

  • What's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?

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  • It's rare that I agree with every single point in a long post like that, but here we are. Couldn't have said it better myself.

    Consciousness truly is the thing there that matters the most. The fact that it feels like something to be. Sam Harris says that consciousness is the only thing in the entire universe that cannot be an illusion. Even if we're in a simulation and everything you've ever experienced has been fake, the sense of experience itself is still real.

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  • Well not really. We've lived without free will just fine untill now so becoming aware of it's absence doesn't really change much.

    What it does change for me however is that the flipside of it is no self, meaning there's no free will because there's no one making choices. I don't believe in the imagined "me" that's located behind my eyes and looking out into the world and authoring my actions. This pretty much pulls the rug out of blame. Who am I blaming exactly? The universe?

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  • Agreed. The need for all kinds of mens-groups is probably higher than it has ever been. I'd love something where I could join a group of men and build / fix something together.

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  • Free will, the sense, that you could have done otherwise, is an illusion.

    We make choices based on either what we have to do, or what we want to do. There's no freedom in having to do something, but you're also not free to choose your wants. If you felt like having tea this morning instead of coffee, then having tea is the only thing you could have done. You wanted tea, not coffee. Now, if we rewind the clock back in time to the moment before you decided, you'd pick tea again, and again, and again. Everything else being the same, your desire for tea will override the desire for coffee every time. And you didn't choose that desire.

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  • Did anyone stop to ask themselves if we even would want to watch AI videos?

    Of course not.

    Shitty AI videos? No. Good ones? Sure.

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  • My motivation here is only to probe on what other people really think of when using that word, so that I know what they really mean by it

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  • That makes sense. In my mind the definition never really evolved as I tend to take words literally and think of it more as a category, like "red heads" rather than as an ideological group. I guess that would technically make them a subgroup of incels.