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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- pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish3 months
So real.
If I hear “I’m sure meta is a good company that will treat your data respectfully.” one more time!
- 3 months
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.
- 3 months
They’re also profit-incentivized to keep people single and on their platform for as long as possible.
- 3 months
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.
3 monthsWhen I was driving in Mexico, I learned this is possible! They’re very consistent with this.
California (not sure about other US states) on the other hand … people will purposely drive in the left lane, block traffic, and then get mad at you when you pass them on the right.
- 3 months
“that’s just how I’ve always done it” is the worst when it’s used as an excuse to avoid putting effort into personal growth
- 3 months
Nobody in your life agrees with you? You gotta get out of that toxic environment.
- 3 months
I hate when people say that. I work in IT and that is a very popular phrase. Well you can do something wrong for a very long time.
Using AI is amoral and I will never use it. As a programmer, every day it feels like I’m increasingly the minority.
- 3 months
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.
- 3 months
don’t give up. you are not alone. patience is key and the time where deep understanding of technology will become essential again
- 3 months
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.caEnglish3 months
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.
- 3 months
In relation to your hill: While you’re entirely correct, that’s absurdly small potatoes compared to industrial water use. Yes, we should be conscious of our water use and limit unnecessary overuse, but a higher priority ought to be regulating industrial use. Data centers are the obvious example of using way too much for bullshit that ain’t worth the water or power. Speaking of power, we could reduce water use by power plants. Nearly all generate power by boiling water. I’m a power plant operator at a plant that happens to use reclaim water as our source water, and we purify on-site for the main process, and we have a brine concentrator and crystallizer on-site to recycle the cooling tower blowdown and remove the solids to a dumpster that goes to a landfill. Unfortunately we burn methane, so I can’t say that we’re green, but we at least discharge zero water into local waterways (except storm drains when it rains).
My hill: Vote with your wallet. If you really believe in something, stop giving money to companies fighting against it. I won’t buy chikfila because the owners actively spend money on gay conversion camps and lobby to reverse the legality of same sex marriage. It’s impossible to research every little thing before every purchase, and sometimes there’s no reasonable alternative, but something like chikfila is easy to avoid. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Little changes can add up, and doing anything even a little bit better is an improvement over not trying.
Bonus hill: Put your fucking grocery cart into the cart corral. It takes ten seconds and prevents cars from getting hit. It’s kind of the simplest measure for societal decency. I don’t believe in the death penalty, but what value are you contributing to society if you’re too selfish to return your fucking cart?
- 3 months
www.Goodsuniteus.com is a start to seeing where your money goes. Still looking for a better alternative.
The good news is as the giant evil corporations buy up everything it gets easier to just stop buying shit in general.
- 3 months
Good idea, but they collect subpoenable data and nag about installing the app. Why do they need my data?
- 3 months
From Wallet Voting by Cory Doctrow:
Wallet-votes always go to the people with the thickest wallets, and statistically, that is not you.
It doesn’t mean to keep shopping at Amazon if you hate their business practices, it just means that you & your friends won’t have any impact on Amazon’s business policies.
Granted, you’d be a hypocrite, so definitely don’t shop where you hate, but don’t expect a giant corp to change.
- 3 months
I read that link and I’m not sure I understand Doctrow’s reasoning on the subject. I find people that dismiss voting with a their wallet fundamentally misunderstand microeconomics but either way, both points are definitely not hills I’d die on.
- 3 months
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.
- pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish3 months
Kinda true though. Free will is just an illusion, but who cares because the illusion works well enough for me.
- 3 months
What does it mean to truly have free will?
Your brain is billions of electrically-reactive cells and interconnections, and your consciousness is electrical impulses shimmering around those cells in a more or less stable way.
A belief in free will implies the belief that you essentially have control over the physical mechanism that makes up you. A brain may not be a fully deterministic machine in the sense that a certain input condition may not always result in the same output, but it seems like a stretch to say that “you” both directly result from and directly control that mechanism.
- 3 months
Water usage but in the opposite direction. Yes, I’m going to take a bath. No, I don’t think it makes any actual difference ; go blow up a factory or a data centre if you care so much about water. (Or maybe do it even if you don’t, it never hurts !)
- 3 months
The Cowboy Bebop remake by Netflix was mostly good. It failed because Netflix didn’t advertise “normies” correctly.
- 3 months
That depends what you want in the ending. If you want something more like the anime, no.
To me the biggest weakness of the show is the Vicious/Julia storyline. Any episode where the crew is chasing bounties is top notch though so it balances out.
- 3 months
Weird, I actually liked the Vicious/Julia story line. And the actors are top notch. Massive Javier Bardem vibes for Vicious.
Everyone deserves health care. And a decent place to live. Even people without jobs!
- 3 months
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.
- 3 months
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.
- 3 months
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.
- 3 months
My biggest pet peeve is people who scalp their lawns and spray shit all over it to make it green and kill the bugs. If it didn’t kill the buggies 'n stuff I wouldn’t care so much but I’d still think it’s dumb cause all they need to do is not mow so aggressively and plant some clover to fix the nitrogen. Like their lawn needs less maintenance not more. Stop fucking spraying shit all over your lawn please AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
