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Iconoclast

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Refusing to reduce complex reality into slogans and clichés since 19XX

  • TIL that Los Angeles is expanding a program paying people not to drive. If you agree to keep you car parked at home for 5 weeks and explore other ways to get around, you can earn up to $600

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  • I've been on plenty of vacations but never one that lasted 5 weeks.

  • DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever

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  • You can always ask but you can't demand it. Taking photos of even a single individual without their consent in a public place is perfectly legal in most of Europe. What is not okay is publishing that image though even that isn't automatically illegal. If you're not the focus of the shot but you appear in the background in the crowd then that is okay to publish even if you say no.

  • David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generated

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  • Agreed. That's why I keep referencing the toupee fallacy: it's easy to detect AI slop because it's slop but anything well-made flies under the radar. This leads many people to assume that everything made using AI is by default not good and conversely when something is good they falsely assume a human made it. I'd argue that virtually every devout AI hater has at some point enjoyed AI content because they failed to detect it as such.

    So no, not all toupees look bad - you only notice the bad ones.

  • Which public figure most closely shares your views?

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  • Nope, I got the name right.

  • Which public figure most closely shares your views?

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  • Sam Harris, though it's not accidental as many of my views comes from him.

  • What are some new things to enjoy?

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  • I just got into 1/24 scale mini RC crawlers. They're relatively cheap and so are the upgrade parts to them. You can get one that's ready to drive out of the box and it's quite enjoyable and gives you a good reason to go outside. Then you discover what a difference new tires make as well as better shocks and then you start adding brass parts to increase weight down low but now you've got to figure out how to install a stronger steering servo and next you want better crawl control so you start looking for a brushless motor but then the ESC needs to be replaced as well and so on. It truly is a rabbit hole you can go in as deep as you want.

  • Why are there so many adult children out there in the world?

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  • Well, rather than wondering about how they have lived this long and still haven't learned, that can be flipped the other way around too: they've acted this way for 60 years already. The patterns of that behaviour are quite deeply engraved at that point and even more difficult to get rid of. Older people are called stubborn for a reason and there are sayings about that too such as "an old dog doesn't learn new tricks."

    However, as I said, it's not to excuse that behaviour but rather just approach it from a different angle. When a person behaves that way asserting blame as if they could have acted otherwise is unproductive. The focus should in my opinion be in understanding that this behaviour is usually a symptom of some deeper issues. These people are in pain whether they know it or not.

    Makes me think of a certain person at work who was always in a bad mood and lashing out. The one time he then took it too far so I asked him to step aside but rather than telling them off I asked whether I had unknowingly done something to them and told how disrespected I felt by the way they behaved. Well, turns out it had nothing to do with me. They were embarrassed and apologized and ever since that they have acted super nice towards me. I wish this reflected on how I always handle conflicts, it doesn't, but this time the more gentle approach completely de-escalated the situation. I can well imagine how that could've gone completely differently had I taken a different approach.

    But again: stressed out, underslept, overworked and then tipped over by a minor inconvenience. The reasons behind this kind of behaviour are usually rather mundane.

  • Why are there so many adult children out there in the world?

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  • I must say that your post itself does not come across as particularly empathetic. Calling people “negative IQ narcissistic garbage” is rather harsh and dehumanizing way to describe them, even when their behaviour is genuinely harmful or immature.

    People do not simply choose to become the way they are. If you had inherited their genetic predispositions, been raised by the same parents, and grown up in the same environment, you would very likely think and act much as they do. Treating individuals as the ultimate, free authors of their character and behaviour is an error in my view. This is not an excuse for harmful actions, but it does call for more compassion and a clearer recognition that most of what separates us from them is luck rather than personal moral achievement.

    The fact that some of us managed to develop greater empathy or self-awareness is largely a matter of circumstance. It is not a virtue we can fully claim credit for, any more than others can be fully blamed for failing to escape the patterns they inherited.

  • What's up with the manosphere brainrot?

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  • It's not a zero-sum game. In fact, it's not a competition about who's the most oppressed at all. Someone advocating for men isn't taking anything away from any other group. It's just the group they happen to most relate with. Some people dedicate their lives to helping dogs and I doubt you'd take issue with that either. Also, men doing better leads to women doing better as well and vice-versa.

  • Do you offer ideas or methods of improvement at your work?

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  • I'm a solopreneur so no.

    I always tell my customers that they're free to watch me work but the moment they start giving me advice is when I hand them the tools and sit back myself.

  • In your opinion is reading War and Peace the same accomplishment as listening to the audiobook? Why or why not?

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  • I think reading is inherently "better" as it forces you to sit down and focus on a single task to the exclusion of everything else. This is not the case with audiobooks as you can be doing other stuff at the same time. If you actually just sit down and listen then I no longer see hardly any difference there. However listening to a audiobook while doing other stuff means your attention by definition is not 100% in the book so it's not the same thing. It's like watching a TV serie while browsing social media on your phone.

  • Anybody think or know that tire companies and shops throw objects in the streets to build business?

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  • There are far better ways to get customers that also don't land you in jail. Like advertising.

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  • Needs more narcissism of small differences and other forms of purity testing of people who already are on your side.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • It's rare for me to be outraged by anything. I'm capable of not liking things while not being emotionally captured by them.

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    Should LinuxSucks be removed from Lemmy World?

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  • Block and move on. It takes a second, is free and immediately solves the problem.

  • What is your favourite fast food burger?

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  • I ordered Steakhouse from Burger King the first time I went there and it was good so that's what I've gotten every time since. I haven't even tried any of the others.

  • Why do YOU think men commit more crime than women?

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  • There are more crimes that can only be done by men than by women.

    Name one?

  • Music enjoyers: How do you select what type of music you listen to?

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  • I've yet to discover an artist that consistently puts out good music so I'm hunting for individual good tracks from different artists instead. I find that YouTube is pretty good at recommending those. I search for a song I like and then go by the recommendations. I even canceled my Spotify subscribtion because I find that YouTube is better at recommending me music I actually like.

    Also - and this is going to be really unpopular - I've gotten into AI generated music lately and I must say that when it comes to instrumental especially it's on average better than human artitsts. I've yet to find a true gem made by AI but I like to have a playlist of Progressive Jazz House or similar on the background and many of the playlists consisting of 100% AI generated tracks are consistently good where as with human made ones it tends to be a ton of absolute crap and few decent ones in between.

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  • Neil Patrick Harris once hosted a party where he served a meat platter designed to look like a hyper realistic depiction of Amy Winehouses rotting corpse

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  • "Hyper realistic" is a bit of a stretch. It doesn't look real any more than it looks like Amy.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Iconoclast @feddit.uk

    What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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    Iconoclast @feddit.uk

    What is an issue you had to deal with in the past but not anymore and what did you do to fix it?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Who are your instant watch/listen/read media producers?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Iconoclast @feddit.uk

    You need to secure a load onto trailer using just plain rope and then untie it later without using a knife - how screwed are you?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Are you a principled person?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is a relatively inexpensive item that offers entertainment beyond it's intented usecase?