Why is bro posting on Lemmy then

Yeah I just can’t stop getting ragebaited by the Electron hate. All Electron haters are free to develop their own efficient, pleasant looking, cross-platform native app instead since it’s so easy

Fuckin exactly.

“It’s stupid to change it to main, it’s just words”

“Oh, so since it’s just a word change I guess you shouldn’t be bothered by it.”

Angry NPC face

It is necessary that my normal and natural behavior is recontextualized as a special struggle and adversity, because adversity and being in a minority group is the root of all personal goodness. Therefore neurodivergence is simultaneously something to be proud of but also a great struggle that makes me an extra brave warrior vs inferior normal people who definitely never do any of these things that me and thousands of other people here upvote.

Sarcasm aside, I totally support being accepting and equitable to neurodivergent people and other minority groups. I just think it’s pretty gross and annoying when social media gets all doing shit like “zomggg this misplaced tile on the bathroom floor is triggering my OCD I’m so OCD u guysss”, like no. Everyone is bothered by the misplaced tile. And don’t hit me with “it’s a spectrum”. Yeah, it’s a spectrum, and part of that spectrum is what’s considered neurotypical. There was a point when people finally realized that calling themselves OCD at the drop of a hat was actually sort of disrespectful to actual OCD people, and I wish the internet would come to the same realization about this new trend of calling everything they do neurodivergent. Some people have never hung out with an extremely autistic person and it shows. It’s not some silly quirky shit. It’s definitely not you trying to explain things to people because you believe that will improve things. Just about everyone I know does that, it does not make you especially adverse/good/cool/unique/disadvantaged/whatever other weird accolade you associate with being neurodivergent. In fact the most autistic person I know makes the least attempts to explain anything to anyone.

I think how I feel about collecting hobbies depends immensely on what is being collected and how it is used. If someone is collecting old books and actually reading them, then even if they buy $10,000 books, as long as they aren’t trying to show it off on the basis of price - I have zero issue with such a thing.

Like it’s fine if they want to show off that the book is really rare, explain why it’s rare, how hard if was to find, what’s special about it, etc. And then if as a result of that I can infer it must have been expensive, I’m not grossed out. But if they come at from the angle of “this book is 10 grand and that’s why you should be impressed by it and transitively be impressed by me”, that’s nasty and pisses me off.

I don’t think there’s anything intrinsically wrong with collection-based hobbies, although I do think that in general they are not really impressive hobbies and should not be misinterpreted as a skill or something to be “proud of”. But I think this is just a conflation being made because the word “hobby” does too much double duty nowadays. We use it to describe things that are simple, as well as things that are complex; impressive and unimpressive, skilled and unskilled, creative and consumption. “Hobby” usually just means literally anything I regularly do that isn’t required of me. And as a result it carries baggage from it’s various applications in between themselves, like using the same spoon for your curry and your soup and your ice cream.

If we taboo that word, then I think people collecting things is freed from hobby-connotations like:

• “this is something for me to be proud of”
• “this is something that makes me an impressive person”
• “this is something that demonstrates a skill or ability beyond that of the uninitiated”

And we can see collecting for what it is: nothing more than liking a thing, and wanting to have it around to admire/contemplate/use. I think collecting can be a very respectable demonstration of someone understanding what is important to themselves, and in being able to take joy in simple things or the same things over and over. The dark side of collection is obviously hoarding, void-filling, status-signaling, addictive behavior. But the light-side of it is cherishing things that being you joy, putting them somewhere where you regularly appreciate and protect them, sharing that joy with others. It can be very humble, vulnerable, and in fact can be very anti consumerist/hoarding/void-filling/status-signaling.

Like anything, I think it’s all in the way it’s done. But I don’t think you need to be working on something or demonstrating a skill with it, or producing something, in order for the collecting to be respectable.

I mean, I think it’s less about people having interests that I don’t, and more about just the realistic car culture. There are people who are into cars in a cool, healthy way. But in my experience, the majority of them ARE sad, empty people who don’t know who they are, and are trying to buy a personality, who think having money makes them good and that showing their money via their car to others makes others perceive them as good. They are often very childish people trying to impress others and fill some kind of void in themselves that they don’t know how to fill. I say this knowing at least 5 pretty intense “car guys”. It IS very sad to observe, and they don’t even seem to enjoy their “hobby” (which really just consists of inventing new reasons to spend more money) themselves. It’s just a continual race to one-up your friends cars, get more likes on Instagram, or emulate something they saw on YouTube, or reconfigure something, or trade this car for a different car, like a high-rpm hedonic treadmill. Just objectively speaking, these people all seem pretty depressed. Admittedly they have other shared traits that make my sample not rigorous. But even the common social conception of car people seems to agree. A lot of them are obnoxious losers, even their own community has a whole bunch of archetypes that they agree are obnoxious losers.

I think there are many very cool ways to be into cars. It’s just than the majority of people who are actually into cars, are not into them in those cool ways. It’s like how playing a guitar, fundamentally and intrinsically, is a pretty cool interest to have…but if 70% of guitar players you know are lonely shells of people with underdeveloped personalities who only started playing guitar to flex their wealth on others and because they thought it would make girls want to fuck them - you might say “guitarist culture is sad”.

This is like a special moveset of self-buffs for a brawny no-magic character in a JRPG

Bravest slop identifier

This is absolutely not a problem of being bad with numbers. That’s like if I had trouble reading a Chinese sentence about gardening and said I’m just bad with plants. My issue is that I’m not familiar with the notation used to explain the concept - not a problem with the concept itself that the notation merely arbitrarily symbolizes.

Being good or bad at math is not really an inherent thing, aside from some geniuses and some people with disabilities. If you want to be good at math, you can be!

Fuck you brain I’m gonna keep learning and getting smarter forever RAAAAAH

Ugh, that second one is the worst. How dare you invoke that name in my presence

I’ve always had an irrational dislike for the word “Bubba”. It’s just annoying to say, and I feel like it only ever shows up in annoying contexts. This flower is the first counterexample so far

Parkour fans rejoice as skill finally becomes useful

I’m white and I wear shorts - hah! It’s funny because it’s true!!!

What about the other way around? Are there artists on Bandcamp that aren’t on Spotify? I would imagine that Bandcamp has more small indie artists and Spotify has more major ones, right? That’s great that they have the editorials. But what I really crave is some sort of “tracks similar to this” feature - a lot of times I’m in a very particular mood or looking for something very specific where I know one or two songs that hit the mark and want more.

Yeah this is the kind of thing where you really need statistics. This sticks out because it’s a prominent example of something new, an autonomous vehicle, doing something notable - killing an animal for the first time (or at least one of the very first well-publicized times on record).

For people’s reaction to this to be that this is because it’s an autonomous vehicle is the same sort of cognitive bias that causes things like, " The first person to get a math problem wrong in class was a girl so it seems like girls are bad at math". When of course it could be that the probability of boys and girls getting problems wrong is equal, and that the girl was simply the first one to get a unlucky roll on the dice of the universe. It could even be that boys are more likely to get problems wrong, and the girl was especially unlucky. It could in fact be that girls are more likely to get problems wrong, too, but this single instance doesn’t give us enough evidence for that. It could be that boys actually have gotten more problems wrong, but we only hear about the girl getting the problem wrong due to sociological biases, or vice versa. Etc.

I get that we shouldn’t trust corporations, and it’s not fun to defend a corporation, but it is important to defend rational thinking. And the rational way to approach this is to employ statistical methods to judge whether a vehicle being autonomous truly makes it a bigger risk to animals in the road or not. Any other line of reasoning is not right for this kind of problem.

I’ve been thinking about this too. Does anyone know if band camp is any good for this sort of thing?? I know that you can listen to some music there.

Music is one of the few things where I actually like for the service to have a recommendation algorithm. I don’t think Bandcamp has anything like that. I’m not opposed to switching up my ways of discovering new music and instead just finding it by engaging with communities… But let’s be honest that isn’t quite as effective nor as plentiful as a good algorithm. If bandcamp doesn’t really have any way of discovering artists then it just seems sort of supplementary.

Seriously. What candidate is it that this innocent perfect figure here represents? Which politician is it that is like this?

It kind of sounds like you’re talking about it purely as a thought experiment or as something to inspire other philosophical thinking. But I think the issue most people have with the simulation theory is when people think that it’s actually the way that the world is or think that it’s worth investigating the way that the world is just because it theoretically could be the way the world is. But theoretically the world could have been created by the god of the Bible or any of the other million explanations proposed by the million other religions that have existed. Almost every religion proposes a hypothesis that could indeed explain reality, but just because it could explain reality doesn’t mean it’s reasonable to investigate it.

I agree with you that all the questions you raised are interesting and worth thinking about, but none of that really relates to thinking that we actually live in a simulation. You’re just using the idea that we live in a simulation as inspiration to start thinking about these other ideas. But actually thinking that we live in a simulation is much less reasonable.

Heard about this story a few days ago and it’s pretty annoying that none of these so-called news agencies could be bothered to provide the extremely relevant pictures of the thing. It’s sooooo much worse than I imagined. It ain’t “child like” that’s a straight up child sex doll. I was thinking maybe it was some dubious anime loli looking thing, which would still have been bad, but this is crazy. Good job France for taking serious action against this scumbag company. Shein, Temu and the like are such filth and this sort of thing exemplifies why. Their sketchiness leaves room for things like this to exist. Saving this for next time the ignorant people in my life insist that buying clothes on Shein is not bad.