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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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    Are the people voting third party in the US election going to suddenly stop commenting on Nov 6th when their candidate obviously loses?

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  • I think a good measure of whether something is moral is to imagine everyone doing it and consider if it would make the world a better or worse place.

    In the U.S., most people probably don’t vote for a third party because they assume no one else will, so they worry their vote will be wasted. It’s a bit of a prisoner’s dilemma: if you vote and no one else does, you lose, but if everyone voted, everyone would benefit.

    So, if someone does choose to vote third party, was it the right thing to do? Well, what if every voter acted this way? There’s a good chance the third party could win, and while it’s debatable, it’s reasonable to assume they might be a better choice than the other two.

    Ranked-choice voting would solve this issue, by the way.

  • Girl Talk

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  • The test asks whether a work features at least two female characters who have a conversation about something other than a man. Some versions of the test also require that those two female characters have names.

    Two female characters. Not talking about men. Both have names.

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • Doesn't quite work with something like streaming services

  • What do people that are for the first time moving to a place where is snows need to know?

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  • Mittens are warmer than gloves.

    Winter shoes must fit a woolen sock and not be too tight, otherwise the insulation gets compressed and doesn't work.

    Better to wear many layers rather than just one layer of super thick clothing

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • My subscribtions are Protonmail, Mullvad VPN and ChatGPT. On top of that I'm paying a voluntary monthy donation to a podcast.

    That's it. If I had to guess, YouTube premium will be the next one but so far adblocking still seems to work.

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • Fuck ads and fuck subscriptions

    How do you imagine developers and content creators to get paid if neither of these two options is acceptable to you?

  • Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.

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  • I haven’t seen that movie, but you’d need to hold the match there for a while. Inside the sprinkler head, there’s a small glass vial with liquid. When it heats up enough it expands, the glass breaks, releasing the water behind it.

  • What's the most "this isn't what it looks like" type of situation you've ever been in?

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  • I have a picture of that moment:

  • Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.

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  • When replacing thermostat valves or radiators in buildings with steel-pipe radiator lines, the water that comes out is often as black as ink. It’s surprising how dark it can get.

    And for anyone wondering why steel is used, yes, it does rust, but only while there’s air in the water. As the pipes start rusting, that air gets used up, and the rusting stops. Same applies to sprinkler lines. Steel pipes in radiator lines can easily last the building’s lifetime, whereas copper pipes for drinking water usually need replacement every 30 years or so.

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  • I fired an assault rifle in the army without hearing protection once just so try how loud it was. No need to try that one again. I knew it's going to be loud but not that loud.

  • Recommendations for dumb tech?

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  • I just keep my radio off and instead listen to the worrying noises from the engine and suspension.

  • Recommendations for dumb tech?

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  • Why does TV need software updates? Mine has software from 2013 and I have never even connected it to the internet. It showed me tv-shows then and it shows me tv-shows now.

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  • Sprinklers react to heat, not smoke and they don't all go off at once. Also the water that comes out is brown from rust, not clear.

    War bows are so heavy that you can barely hold it for the moment it takes to aim. There's no way you're holding it for minutes before told to release.

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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  • The rich want to get richer, the strong want to get stronger, collectors want more collectibles, records are meant to be broken, and so on. It’s never been about the destination - it’s about the journey. Having things isn’t fun; getting things is fun.

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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  • Media intentionally uses bad pictures of the people they don't like and vice versa.

  • Do any non-corpos actually like AI slop?

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  • Intelligence is defined as the ability to acquire, understand and use knowledge. Self-driving cars, for example, are intelligent and they run by AI too.

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    Elon Claims Humanity Will Never Make it To Mars if Trump Loses

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  • Wealth is not synonymous with money in bank

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    Elon Claims Humanity Will Never Make it To Mars if Trump Loses

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  • Wether I agree with them or not, I think that news outlets who this openly show their bias are trash and should be ignored.

    Just give me the facts. No need to tell me what to think.

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds

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  • I just listened to a podcast about assembly theory and I think that it kind of relates here too, though maybe not. If we start randomly generating text that is the lenght of the Hamlet, then Hamlet itself would be one of the possible, finite number of possibilities that could be generated within these parameters. Interesting theory nevertheless.

    If we think about a screwdriver, the theory would argue that it couldn’t simply appear out of nowhere because its structure is too specific and complex to have come into existence by chance alone. For that screwdriver to exist, a multitude of precise processes are required: extracting raw materials, refining them, shaping metal, designing the handle, etc. The probability of all these steps happening in the right order, spontaneously, is essentially zero. Assembly theory would say that each stage in the creation of a screwdriver represents a selection event, where choices are made, materials are transformed, and functions are refined.

    What makes assembly theory especially intriguing is that it offers a framework to distinguish between things that could arise naturally, like a rock or even an organic molecule, and things that bear the hallmarks of a directed process. To put it simply, a screwdriver couldn't exist without a long sequence of assembly steps that are improbable to arise by chance, thereby making its existence a hallmark of intentional design or, at the very least, a directed process.