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Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

I say unpopular things but never something I know to be untrue. Always open to hear good-faith counter arguments. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.

  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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  • Mine is 17 years old but last year I upgraded the last original parts in it (MB, CPU & RAM) so now only the case is original and I don't think it counts as the same PC anymore.

  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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  • Our body!

  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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  • I've always assumed that the average user here is around 30 years old.

  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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  • Let me guess; Knipex?

  • What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

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    • Kitchen knives. No reason to replace them with others that would do the exact same thing.
    • Cast iron skillets. Indestructable, will easily outlive me.
    • Shemagh scarf. Oldest piece of clothing I have. I've had it for almost 20 years.
    • Bushcraft knife. Indestructable, does everything it needs to and nothing else. No need to upgrade.
    • Leatherman Wave. There are newer and better ones out there but it has sentimental value to me and 99% of the time when I need a multitool it's either the pliers or screwdriver that I'm after.
    • Yeti thermos mug. Can't possibly imagine what new feature a mug could have that would make me want to upgrade.
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    What item(s) that you currently own do you expect to be using for the rest of your life given that you don't break or lose it?

  • According to you, what happens when you die?

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  • Either of two things:

    Nothing. However, I don't think most people quite grasp the meaning of that. Kind of how they think that before the big bang there was just empty space. No, empty space is not nothing. There's no empty space, there's no time, there's nothing. By definition it cannot be experienced. Experience simply ends. It's as if nothing ever happened. The universe could just as well have never existed.

    The more optimistic theory is that consciousness is in a way immortal. You can only experience being, not not-being. It's kind of how when you go under general anesthesia and then wake up it's quite unlike sleeping. When you've slept you have the sense of time having passed in between. With general anesthesia this is not the case. One moment you feel sleepy and then you wake up in another room. From your subjective experience you never lost consciousness to begin with. Whose to say that something similar doesn't happen with death. Instead of experience ending it just moves elsewhere. It's a pretty difficult concept to explain but it's somewhat similar to the idea of quantum immortality.

  • What piece(s) of pop media have you not consumed that people would think you weird for not having consumed yet?

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  • I forced myself to watch it because everyone said it was so good - it wasn't. It just never got any better. There was good scenes in it but as a whole it was boring as hell.

  • What piece(s) of pop media have you not consumed that people would think you weird for not having consumed yet?

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  • I watch like one or two movies a year and very few TV series. I've been watching Dexter - Original Sin now, the previous one I watched was Dexter - New Blood and few years back I watched the first season of The Last of Us but I didn't like it so I never continued with the season two. Before that I watched the Chernobyl mini series and before that Game of Thrones. Suffice to say that you can pretty much name any modern TV serie and I haven't seen it. I've never had Netflix or any other streaming service subscription.

    I also don't listen to radio or have Spotify so I have no clue what the popular songs currently are and ChatGPT is the only app on my phone that's somewhat new. No games, no social media - nothing. I do occasionally play DayZ on my PC but that's a 10 year old game as well. I might very well be the most ignorant person when it comes to popular culture that you'll meet all year.

  • Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop

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  • It's fake, originally posted by Intel.

  • High outlets

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  • I'm a general contractor and I hate that I can't do even the most basic electrical installations. Something like connecting the light for bathroom mirror. I could do it in two minutes for no extra cost to the customer, but now I need to call in a sparky instead and have them charge the customer 60 euros for doing the exact same thing I would have done. I simply just can't risk it because if something happens the insurance wont cover any of it and it's all on me. Makes me feel so stupid to tell the customer that I can't do something this basic.

  • What's your least favorite instance?

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  • Well obviously lemmygrad, hexbear and lemmy.ml but besides these usual suspects I find that the most negative encounters I've had with people from blahaj.zone and infosec.pub

  • What is the oldest age anyone in your family has lived to?

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  • I'm counting on reaching longetivity escape velocity and never dying. I'm only half-kidding.

  • Is there a way to have a less depressing Lemmy experience?

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  • This is why Lemmy will never become popular with the mainstream untill these people get their shit together. No sane person wants to browse a feed like mine despite the great lenghts I go attempting to block all politics and rage bait. I can only imagine how bad it is for someone just following the most popular communities and expecting a feed similar to that of Reddit.

    If you don't want to leave then I think the second best option is to keep calling out these users poisoning the platform. Just be aware that there is going to be a lot hate coming your way then. This place is filled to the brim with extremists.

  • How do you get through the winter?

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  • For the most part I keep doing the same things while enjoying it less. Obviously I go outside less but I still do. I gear up, hop onto my bike and ride into the pitch black forrest only to realise this kind of sucks and then I just do a short trip and come back home. Then I forget that it wasn't that fun and do the same thing again tomorrow.

  • Non americans of lemmy, would you support a ban on american social media on your country?

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  • Absolutely not. I'll rather choose for myself which content I consume than have the government choose it for me.

  • If money was not an issue, is there a movie, series, or a video game you would fund as a passion project with no intention on making a profit on it?

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  • Yeah, it could follow several different characters including some that had been prepairing for it as well as ones that hadn't and give an realistic representation of the things that really matter. Though I stopped watching the Last of Us, I really liked the basebuilding in the episode with Nick Offerman. I could watch multiple seasons of just that too.

  • If money was not an issue, is there a movie, series, or a video game you would fund as a passion project with no intention on making a profit on it?

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  • I can't off the top of my mind think of a movie exactly like that, but many Finnish movies have a similar summery vibe to it. Admittedly I have never played that game but I'm somewhat familiar with it.

  • If money was not an issue, is there a movie, series, or a video game you would fund as a passion project with no intention on making a profit on it?

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  • Personally I'd love to recreate The Walking Dead but I'd want it made much more realistic, slow paced and with less pointless action scenes. I'd want the zombies being the only unrealistic thing on the entire show. It would focus much more on the survival aspect of the zombie apocalypse. It would show things like loot-runs and base building in much greater detail. Instead of the flashy highlights it would be more about the mundane life in the apocalypse. There would be entire episodes where "nothing" happens.

    I imagine it would be an extremely boring show for the vast majority of people, but the tiny niche audience of zombie fanatics like myself would absolutely love it. I'd let other people watch it for free (because why not) but it would be made entirely according to my personal preferences with no regard for how it would be received by others.

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    If money was not an issue, is there a movie, series, or a video game you would fund as a passion project with no intention on making a profit on it?

  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?

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  • DaVinci Resolve is professional grade video editing software that's completely free to use. It lacks some features that the paid version has but this probably doesn't effect the vast majority of casual users.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is a stance you hold that goes against your personal preferences but you believe is the right thing to do?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's the most immersive video game that you've played?