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.
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- Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish4 days
I won’t rape, torture, and murder vulnerable individuals. Call me radical but if I can be happy, healthy, and enjoy life without doing those things to animals, I’m not going to fucking do those things to animals.
6 daysEveryone deserves health care. And a decent place to live. Even people without jobs!
Everyone deserves health care.
Even people who don’t live in your country? Because that’s going to be a strain on your healthcare system.
Yes, yes, it’s a nice ideal, but when the rubber meets the road, shit can hit the fan, which means healthcare for the FIFO, and the rich.
If it’s “everyone in my circle deserves healthcare”, then it’s very realistic. “Everyone in my country” might even work as well. “Everyone in the world deserves healthcare in my country” not so much.
- 5 days
Could be differentiated in basic needs vs national residents rights.
You’d just need to authenticate yourself as being from the country and then you get the usual care.
Foreigners get the basic needs and anything beyond needs to be compensated by themself or their insurance.
Aka: As it’s already done.
- 6 days
Neil Postman was right.
Our educational models and methods are changing for the worse.
TV and the internet are terrible mediums for public or political discourse and this has exacerbated many of our existing issues.
Our culture has become more shallow and has started to lack something profound because of how we utilize technology for education, business, and entertainment.
Things will not improve until we change our relationship with these technologies.
EDIT: several words.
- 7 days
They’re also profit-incentivized to keep people single and on their platform for as long as possible.
- 6 days
Most of them are also owned by a single company. Match Group inc. Some of the more notable ones are:
- Her
- Hinge
- Match.com
- OkCupid
- Plenty of Fish
- Tinder
As well as most of the _ People Meet apps. Ie:
- Black people meet
- Democratic people meet
- Republican people meet
- Latino people meet
- etc
So it is no coincidence that these apps suck.
Using AI is amoral and I will never use it. As a programmer, every day it feels like I’m increasingly the minority.
- 7 days
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.
- 7 days
don’t give up. you are not alone. patience is key and the time where deep understanding of technology will become essential again
- 6 days
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.
- rabber@lemmy.caEnglish7 days
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.
People should be able to transfer their vote of their first preference didn’t win. Sorry democrats, being forced to vote for you isnt democracy.
- 7 days
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.
Just in response to your annoyance, I have found women ive been around tend to have more of a “fuck other people and the climate” attitude than most of the guys (its usually not that abrasive, just more of a “why wouldn’t I water my grass? We have the water” attitude). Especially if there’s kids, they dont care about anything else (that’s just biology I guess). Please dont take this as sexist, it is just something ive observed.
I get very annoyed with people wasting unnessesarily and using amazon.
I’m curious as to where you live (city, suburb, etc) and what the age group of the people are
- TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
my favorite is the ‘love to travel’ types. point out that their trips to antarctic are toxic for the environment there and they lose it on you. because cute pics with penguins are worth it!
Yeah that is unfortunate. I like traveling too but usually drive. No matter what you do travelling is bad for climate.
What really pisses me off is asshole tourists who litter or otherwise make nature unenjoyable (massive douche hiking while blaring annoying music out of a Bluetooth pill)
Then again billionaires fly their jets to work every day and burn up millions of kwh daily for their 5 properties they own. So I think we can have a couple travel vacations a year.
there is literally no possible usecase for Generative AI, it is modern day snake oil. nothing could possibly justify adding yet another “technology” to the list of existing tech that is already scorching our earth and enslaving people. it was created by the CIA to bolster the surveillance state and i have considerably less respect for someone when i find out that they use it for any reason at all.
there is literally no possible usecase for Generative AI
Demonstrably false: GenCast, a Diffusion model (and thus GenAI), is freely available here as source code to train it yourself if you so wish. ERA5 data is free to download.
It’s cheaper and more accurate in both result and resolution to run a classic Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model.
I will fully agree that all the slop that’s being generated is shite and a waste of time though.
- mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish6 days
LED headlights can fuck right off, and if you defend them then you are either an asshole or a dumbass who couldn’t think about it for twenty seconds and see the impact.
- 6 days
In Homestuck, there’s a hill that if you die on it you wake up as a demigod
So yeah, I think that’s the one for me
- 7 days
I want to share my photos of our trip with you, but I don’t want you to upload them to Google, or apple, or amazon, or meta, or any social media.
If it’s a pic of you, fine, do whatever you want. But please don’t take my whole album and store it in your google photos.
- 7 days
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.
- 6 days
I do this too. It’s not even hard if you live in a rural area, since you’re in good company.
