cabbage
@cabbage@piefed.social
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 1 week ago:
on many communities and instances
Bingo!
We have no ambition of being more lenient than Reddit, it's just less centralized. If you want to be a bigot you can find yourself an instance and a community for that, and other people can choose not to be exposed to your bullshit. That's the whole point.
Also, the UKSC judgment is a pseudo-scientific piece of junk. Agreeing with it is a big-ass red flag.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What is it like?
For me, it's my favourite thing in the world. I feel more at home when I'm in the middle of the mountains not having seen people for days than when I'm in any building I've ever lived in. We evolved for these conditions, and at least for some of us it resonates with our souls - much like the ocean calls to others.
The experience of hiking is a bit like running, just dragged out over days. In the beginning you have energy. At some point you get tired, and you might want to stop for a while and you're worried if you're going to make it. And then you push through, and suddenly your body is in walking mode. So don't get too worried if you start feeling tired early in the hike.
As for the tent, the experience varies a lot. Is it raining? Are there lots of mosquitoes or midges? Is it cold? Are you walking until sunset, or do you have time at the camp site? What is the terrain you put your tent on?
You generally don't have the answer to those questions. I have had a wide variety of experiences in tents - crazy tent pole-breaking winds, thunderstorms beyond anything I believed was possible, floods, cows trying to graze underneath the tent in the middle of the night. Most of the time though the biggest event is waking up to the view, or going out to take a leak at night and enjoying the night sky.
The important thing is to always be flexible and open to improvise. When you're in up there you're at the mercy of the mountain, and you adjust your plans accordingly. Many mountain folks believe that the mountain has a will of its own that needs to be respected, and I don't hink it's too far from reality. Following from that is that the experience is never completely predictable, which is part of what makes its appeal infinite.
Enjoy!
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
It, uhm, predicts tokens?
- Comment on Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone 3 weeks ago:
How do you do, fellow humans 🤖🛹
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 4 weeks ago:
The Android keyboard always worked well for me, but I don't trust them one bit. So I changed my phone keyboard into something that is worse at guessing what I'm trying to say, but I'm somewhat confident I am not being surveilled through it.
I started using it a month or two ago, and ever since I have started making a billion typos when writing on mobile.
Also, I guess the demography of the communities you're in matters. I think quite a few of us over here are not native speakers. Sometimes I'll also write with my keyboard set to the wrong language by accident, "leasing to all mines" of freaky autocorrects.
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 5 weeks ago:
Especially if they don't take themselves oversly seriously.
Be your goofy self, if people are turned off by that you would never be happy with them anyway.
- Comment on How exactly are people lighting Teslas on fire? 1 month ago:
One criticism is that in some models the manual release of the back seat doors is near impossible to find, rendering them a death trap.
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 1 month ago:
What an amazing site.
We won't ask why you would want to glue ceramic and leather together - we just give gluing info.
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 1 month ago:
- Make car out of stainless steel
- Glue it together
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It's farmland, you see the plowmarks in front and in the back there are fields.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It has clearly been used as farmland already. And in most places where farming is common we could traditionally rely on rain, though I guess climate change is making everything funky.
- Comment on what instances allow you to follow users? 1 month ago:
There's no following of users in PieFed, so in that sense it's more like Lemmy.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 1 month ago:
A generational divide, seen in newer lawmakers’ impatience with bipartisanship and for colleagues who don’t understand new media
The man is 74 years old. They're talking about "newer lawmakers".
I think "young" here refers to people who can't remember the moon landing.
- Comment on Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Referring to the song Sweetheart Like You:
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king. - Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I was being a bit cheeky - I wouldn't step on any jet plane that hasn't had access to official spare parts for a few years.
I just found it amusing F-14s were bought in the mid-70s, which I guess is around the time many would say the quality of American cars also began dropping.
- Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for? 2 months ago:
Turns out America's greateast weapoin in its fight against terrorism is the quality of its engineering.
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 2 months ago:
There are good replies here already, but I just want to emphasize the role of bragging. It seems boasting about yourself is quite accepted and sometimes perhaps even expected in the US. In Europe it is not at all, and we tend to react strongly to it.
Whenever I've found Americans to be insufferable they've always been bragging or taking themselves too seriously.
Not all Americans obviously. And I guess a lot of Americans can't stand these people either. But it's still a common American trait that very few Europeans will have patience for.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I guess it depends on the art style. But generally, if you want to do it the hard way:
- Get a drawing tablet. The ones where you draw directly on a screen are the best, but they are also way more expensive.
- Get some powerful software that can imitate brushes. Krita is good.
- Practice, experiment, watch videos and gather knowledge on both the art style and your software of choice. Copy pieces of art in the style you want to reproduce until you master it.
With an emphasis on the third point. Digital art done manually is not so different from traditional art - it takes practice.
- Comment on Will threads affect lemmy or just mastodon? 2 months ago:
Lemmy does not display microblogs. So the only way we'd see content from Threads here is if someone on Threads somehow stumbles over content from here (for example if it's boosted by a Mastodon user they follow), and leaves a comment.
So basically it expands the theoretical reach of the comment section, but in practice it's unlikely to have a huge effect.
- Comment on mbin instance looking at lemmy community showing "magazine [community] is not receiving updates" 2 months ago:
Did you subscribe to it? Updates from communities are only received if at least one user is a subscribed to them, so you could probably fix this by subscribing. :)
- Comment on mbin instance looking at lemmy community showing "magazine [community] is not receiving updates" 2 months ago:
It could mean your mbin instance has been defederated from the Lemmy instance the community is hosted on, or that the community is hosted on an instance that has gone offline. For some reason or another, Mbin used to federate with the community, but it doesn't any more.
It could be usful to know which Mbin instance you're on, and which communities appear broken.
Also, welcome back! :)
- Comment on Job related: Am I being stupid? 2 months ago:
It seems you have accidentally found some meaning in your work, something your old self apparently couldn't imagine. Meaning is incredibly important - life is too short to sit around doing as little as possible in order to make money. Humans need meaning, and you're still human even while at work.
So you're not being stupid at all.
Where it becomes tricky is if you are offered positions with less meaning but more money/career opportunities. It's important not to be run over; meaning and wages needs to be balanced. But it seems the wages are the same here, and neither option is a health risk, so I would pick what's meaningful for you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Wouldn't the right wing of the Democratic party be pretty standard Tory?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think the different interpretation of "standing out like a freak" part is more generational. He's not saying people with gender dysphoria are freaks—standing out like a freak is the feeling you have somewhere when you feel completely out of place and uncomfortable. Like if you're wearing yellow socks to a funeral. Nobody comments on it and you're not sure anyone even sees them, but you feel like you're standing out like a freak because you're constantly thinking about it and feeling out of place and as if you don't belong.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That's awesome.
As for therapy before surgery, I think this is not a bad suggestion. An unbiased and professional therapist would not try to change who you are, but to see if you can learn to be happy with who you are.
Personally I'm a big fan of breaking down gender norms, and for people to say a big "fuck that" to all the expectations that comes with a specific gender. I know being trans is different, but I can't help but suspect that in some occasions (not all) feeling like not belonging to a given sex is contingent upon not so much the body itself, but the stupid-ass expectations we place upon a given gender as a society. Breaking down these norms is hard and important work in its own right, and something one could explore with a (serious) therapist before taking it to a surgeon. So in my (possibly ignorant) mind, suggesting therapy alone first is not a bad thing, though it can sound like it.
Most importantly, it seems he loves you and supports you unconditionally, and he has made a real solid (and successful) effort to understand as well. So whatever you do, it seems he'll be there for you even if it requires effort from his side. You have a good father.
- Comment on Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads 2 months ago:
I don't think neons referred to him, but to Americans.
As in "look at the fascist fucking mess we have made for ourselves, and it has barely even started. We asked for this and now it's happening, it's all our falult and it's all fucked".
- Comment on Sotomayor Says Presidents Are Not Monarchs and Must Obey Rulings 2 months ago:
You're talking about two different things.
One is the legal side. Legally, you cannot go out in the street and punch the first child you see in the face.
The other side is purely practical. For sure you are capable of doing it, so if you also have the intention of doing it the only thing that remains to be seen is whether anyone is capable of stopping you.
Justice Sotomayor is not claiming that Trump cannot do this practically, she's merely saying that it would be illegal. And sure, it probably won't stop Trump from trying, but as a Justice of the SCOTUS, she's kinda supposed to comment on the legality of stuff.
As for pundits, they should have realized a long time ago that Trump didn't give much of a shit about the legality of things, and focused more on what he is practically capable of doing than what he's legally capable of.
- Comment on How to mute posts containing certain keywords on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
I saw that Trump and Musk are muted when not signed in, but for obvious reasons I haven't done onboarding for a while. Neat stuff.
I'll just add that setting up custom filters is also easy as pie.
- Comment on Am I ugly? 2 months ago:
No worries! And don't let the negativity in this thread get to you - it's nothing personal, people are just convinced you're not real. If anything, I guess that's a weird compliment of sorts. The best one could hope for coming from the Internet, perhaps.
- Comment on Am I ugly? 2 months ago:
Over on Reddit, people posting pictures of some good looking person and asking "am I ugly" is a pretty common way of farming karma.
Reverse image search is a way to find where pictures have been posted before on Google. Here's the search for your image. It appears Google and Reddit has gotten bad to the point where they say your picture was posted 7 years ago, even though this would appear to be false.
Combine the two, and there's a perfect storm where people assume you're some 50 year old guy with a weird kink. Sorry about that.