Water usage is probably my biggest. Living in a high desert, my wife and MIL see no problem with filling one side of the sink with hot soapy water to wash a few dishes because “that’s just how I’ve always done it”, to watering the grass and plants for hours. All of this makes me mental.
Probably that Ørkenens Sønner was never funny.
I completely agree with you, though.
ALL information, except what you can hold in your brain, should be 100% public, with no limits on use.
An unimaginable concept right now, but I think it is essential if we hope to ever trust each other and achieve global peace.
I promise my journal really isn’t that interesting
hopefully pacifism.
Have you read all of human history ?
you took that literally, didn’t you
you got it but I am a bit serious.
French cuisine is extremely overrated
Sacré Bleu!!!
I hate doing dishes like that anyway. I just scrub them one at a time under running water after letting them soak in whatever water can fill in. I don’t really think of the sink as a sanitary item regardless of how much you clean it. The drain is always going to be gross.
I will not install your shitty app
The worst are the sites that just redirect you to the play/app store when visiting on mobile.
I’m surely NOT installing your fucking app after you give me a bad experience (by not showing me the content I’ve received a link to) while I’m a “guest visitor” to your site.I have my main phone browser set to automatically request the desktop version of whatever I visit, so I haven’t run into this. Does it happen a lot?
So real.
If I hear “I’m sure meta is a good company that will treat your data respectfully.” one more time!
If someone is trying to sell me on a cafe or restaurant by saying, ‘Yeah, it’s kind of expensive, but there are great deals on the app…’ it’s no dice from me.
To secure your stuff. Hacking and social engineering are both easier than you think and identity theft is devastating. I know most people here already know that, but having worked in tech support, it’s unbelievably common to skip even the basics, not to mention my grandparents who think I’m just paranoid.
Even if you are paranoid it can happen to you
Sadly, paying attention isn’t always enough…
Right, it could happen to anyone, but it’s still possible to lower the chance of that happening, or at least limit the damage when it does happen.
I think Bernie was an idealist and I don’t buy in to a lot of his ideas while appreciating his work to create real change. Don’t crucify me for this.
I wholeheartedly believe there is an alternate timeline where Bernie won the 2016 democratic nomination and won the presidency and we avoided all this shit.
you are willing to die on this hill, but not through crucifixion?
Give them a break. They’re not Jesus.
I think I agree, but I really don’t think it matters. What, are Trump’s ideas coherent or something? What I trust is Bernie’s overall intent. He’s kind of unique in this way because of his decades of consistent political sctivism. Had Bernie been elected in 2016 somehow and we got 8 years of Bernie, the US would still be a capitalist society. It just might be slightly better one.
I think a great example of naive ideas that have dominated political discussion on the left is student loan forgiveness. Like I’m not opposed - if PPP loan forgiveness is acceptable then student loan forgiveness is infinitely more acceptable. No brainer. But the complete lack of discussion about structural reform to the college tuition situation that causes people to need such huge student loans in the first place makes me think that the whole issue was to some extent controlled opposition.
You could have gotten 100 percent student loan forgiveness - the whole thing passed and done and student loans would immediately start to pile up again the next day. Probably even higher tuition too.
Using AI is amoral and I will never use it. As a programmer, every day it feels like I’m increasingly the minority.
I remember when I was a child and I first got experience with computers. I saw how file systems worked and thought to myself “wow I should structure my own mind this way so I can try to think as well as a computer can!”. I may have autism.
AI is the exact opposite. Taking something beautiful, clear, clean, organized, efficient, definitive. And inserting all the messy, sloppy, uncertain, unreproducible aspect of our bloody electric meat brains. It’s a move in the opposite direction of where I think humanity should be going.
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Utilize the tools or you’ll end up unemployed.
In all honesty, I don’t think I could live with myself and, at least currently, think I’d rather find a new career path.
If you ever figure out what the path is let me know cuz any employable skills I have are going to be jobs affected by AI
It ain’t trades because literally everyone is going to do that when AI kills all the other jobs
don’t give up. you are not alone. patience is key and the time where deep understanding of technology will become essential again
You cannot use an unethical mimicry tool in an ethical way. You are asking a theft engine to create for you based on others work.
What if you use it to hack the pentagon, end the war, and put out coordinated social media campaigns to enable people younger than 60 to be elected into in congress?
I ditched my smartphone over 5 years ago, and will NEVER go back. In fact, I don’t have a phone of any kind. They are surveillance/psyop devices, and they are turning people into biological robots. The scifi show Dollhouse is basically where this is all heading.
You are my kind of people. I will check that show.
I do this too. It’s not even hard if you live in a rural area, since you’re in good company.
Private ownership of vehicles should be banned. Most people’s cars are unused for 90% of the day, which is insanely inefficient. Have a pool of cars they anyone can hire just for the time they need them. It would be cheaper for everyone and there wouldn’t be three fuck ugly cars in front of every house.
We had Car2Go in our city, but they went bankrupt because of the tragedy of the commons- got trashed by both terrible drivers and slobs who made every surface sticky… We need a drastically different education and culture first. [might work in japan]
Communauto and it’s competitors are going strong in Montreal.
Problem is that almost everyone is using them at the exact same time every day to get from and to work.
It would be cheaper for everyone and there wouldn’t be three fuck ugly cars in front of every house.
They already exist, it’s called taxis. Or you can hire cars. But there still not cheaper, cause corporate needs number to go higher.
I’d kill myself right now if I was stuck sharing a car for the rest of my life with my neighbor who literally eats shit.
who literally eats shit
?
In my area, as in many others, we had a few e-scooter rental companies for a few months. They pretty much just weren’t viable because people didnt care for the stuff. Basically if its rented, people will only care in so far as they can be held responsible.
Additionally, public transport doesn’t really work here because we dont have the population density.
That principle is important.
In any system where goods ( of some kind ) are not owned by the people using them, then you have to make those goods near-impossible-to-break, which is part of where communist Brutalism aesthetic comes from.
There was a book by a shelled-moluscs scientist who was born blind: he sees through his fingertips.
He’s the one who pointed that principle out, having lived in communism for part of his life, & once the principle’s understood, it can’t be unseen.
Know somebody who cares for their tools like jewelry?
They’d all be destroyed, pronto, in communism.
That’s the price that gets paid when nobody owns what they’re using.
And THAT principle, means that it then becomes possible to design means-sharing-systems that can work.
The e-scooter rental systems that many cities now have, is 1 example: idiotproof, indestructible, & they enable significant improvement in the city.
But consider contractors who need to be able to get anywhere, with their tools…
public transport may break their work.
Rurally, not having a vehicle’s … often suicide.
& if the city’s designed like US cities, towns, & villages, where they engineer it to break any other form of transport, then you cannot get to the supermarket without a car, from many locations.
It takes much more whole-systems orientation, to get it right, than what the US has been doing…
< shruggeth >
just some perspectives, is all…
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Yes, its known as tragedy of the commons.
Nobody owns anything in communism?
Your tools would be destroyed pronto?
Whats with the sneaky nonsense in an otherwise reasonable comment…
Cyprus
Taking a car for a 3km distance is unconscionable when walking or cycling are valid options.
Driving less than the speed limit will not kill you.
Bike lanes suck and bikes should be on the sidewalk.
You can identify as whatever. But I’m dying on the hill that third grade English taught me that they/them was third-party possessive often reserved for multiple people. It’s fine if you want to use it for your pronouns. But doesn’t mean I’m grammatically fine with it.
While many people do say that to simplify, the singular they has been in use for centuries. If you see a person’s silhouette in the distance and you want to talk about something that they did you will you they/them pronouns for them in most dialects of English.
*Chaucer laughs from the grave*
