TranquilTurbulence

@TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out, there are people who practice that sort of extreme fasting. BTW going back to normal eating doesn’t happen in a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a good present to get your dentist and dental assistant as a way of showing thanks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Lawful Evil answer…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats, you’ve just leveled up your antistalking skill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any women here who felt they didn't deserve to be called women?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think gender stereotypes don’t serve us well. They set unrealistic expectations, which results in anxiety and sadness if you don’t meet them.

  Men and women have so much in common, even though specific attributes are commonly attributed to one gender. For example, being gentle or rugged are human traits, and they aren’t exclusive to just one gender. Sure, men tend to be more rugged, but men also have a gentle side. Being gentle isn’t feminine IMO. It’s very human to be sensitive or emotional at times.

  Stereotypes may give you an idea of general tendencies of behaviour, but they aren’t exclusive. Even though most women usually aren’t rugged or tough, it doesn’t mean women can’t have those qualities. They absolutely do. Culture is making people hide the human traits that don’t fit a specific stereotype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s running Linux, you can get away with just 2 GB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I identify as a human. Even if there might be some evidence implying I could be a sentient brain scan simulation running on an android, I’m not ready to accept any of that just yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I properly and safely clean smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Other people have already given sensible suggestions, but I’ll mention one group of chemicals that can damage your phone: bases.

  If your phone has aluminium parts, highly concentrated bases will begin to gradually dissolve them. Hopefully nobody was thinking of using dishwasher tablets to make a soap solution for your phone. That’s a bad idea, since the resulting solution has a very high pH-value (base). What about the power used for washing clothes? Same thing. Even regular hand soap is also basic, but it’s nowhere near that extreme.

  Exposure time also matters. If you just wipe the phone with a damp cloth, the time will be very short. If you really want to damage the aluminium parts with hand soap, it’s going to take an absurdly long time to do anything. However, those dishwasher tablets are different beast.

  Temperature matters too. These kinds of reactions happen faster if you heat up the solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t needed them for such a long time, they probably weren’t all that important anyway.

  Same goes for all the physical items in my home. If I haven’t needed something in a long time, there’s a good chance I never will. This is how I reduce digital and physical clutter in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I asked this question, I found out about raindrop.io. It’s a service where you can dump links and go through them when you feel like it.

  The idea is, that if you know you won’t be checking a specific tab today, you can just save it in raindrop instead. I don’t like to have lots of tabs open anyway, but there are some sites I like to save for later. Stuff like vacation planning can produce twenty tabs just like that, and I’ll just throw them all into raindrop.

  Most of them are sorted into logical categories, and I’ll go through them when I remember to. For example, vacation planning will be useful later. When that time comes, I’ll start opening all those links I’ve accumulated over the months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemvotes is a pathway to many discoveries some consider to be depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can other countries impose sanctions on the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Living without American software would be fine IMO. American silicon is much harder to replace though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it help if you were to revolt, rewrite and rebuild?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the age of romanticism, art usually depicted idealized and beautiful things. Then realism emerged, and artists also stared painting poor and ugly people. In social realism, the art was supposed to make you feel a bit uncomfortable. All of that was still clearly art.

  I think art requires an intention. When you paint a picture of a seagull covered in oil, you may want the viewer to feel something about the petrochemical industry. When you take a photo of Chinese children working in a toy factory, you might want your audience to feel what the children are going through.

  When you’re painting using digital tools, you may draw the same line 20 times to get it just right. As an artist, you have a goal in mind, and you will keep pressing undo until each line in the drawing meets your criteria. If you generate a hundred pictures with an AI and pick the one that fits your goals, you’re essentially acting as a curator of art. There’s a goal and an intention behind the selection process. That’s why the one picture that didn’t get deleted is art.

  What if if there’s zero human involvement? If there is no selection process guided by goal or intention, is that still art? Maybe. What if the viewer still feels something when looking at the result. Maybe that could make it art. What if you just look at the clouds or a sunset, and that makes you feel something. Is that art too? This is where it gets really messy and the categories fall apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re encountering a common issue. People simply enjoy neat boxes and categories, but the world is inherently complex and chaotic, making such categories largely irrelevant. While you can create arbitrary categories for everything, these definitions will inevitably be flawed. They’re still useful but far from perfect, with areas of ambiguity and contradictions.

  Consider, for example, where one species ends and another begins. It’s a messy and fuzzy situation, so we simply draw an arbitrary boundary. Similarly, what even constitutes “living”? Draw a line and don’t worry about the details.

  The same problem arises in art. Who created this painting? Well, it was primarily the work of Mister A, but he received significant assistance from his apprentices B, C, D and E. It’s complicated. Let’s just draw a line and stop worrying about the specifics.

  What even is art? It’s very messy. Expect uncertainty and contradictions within these fuzzy categories. Yes, but is this slop? Yet another category problem. Same answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are people really expecting vitamins to heal disease? No wonder why you called it a scam. I just thought that vitamins would just do their nutritional job instead of performing muscles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to deal with agression?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try to figure out if there’s a pattern. Maybe all the aggression-inducing events have something in common. Maybe that’s an emotion you haven’t processed or even noticed.

  Could be a moment where you feel hurt, ashamed, vulnerable, helpless, hopeless, or whatever. Start by naming that emotion.

  Once you figure that out, you can start processing that emotion and what causes it. Eventually, anger and aggression won’t control you anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And they still find so much to bicker about. I wonder how European coalition governments look like to Americans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You get zooted. Here’s a video that explains everything you need to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then there are also point and click adventure games and even visual novels. Who hates those?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate online PvP FPS games, and I know it’s a 100% skill issue. I like to think that the same logic also applies to those who hate all games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that would be nice. My previous car had a diesel engine, so you can imagine how much I would have loved to have a heater in there. Also, the windshield was totally old-school too, so no heating there either. Just start the engine, and start scraping. Every. Morning. Well, at least the seats were warm, but literally nothing else was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ergonomic keyboard + laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a small desk just big enough for a laptop, ergonomic keyboards aren’t an option. However, if you have a large desk but still can’t fit a nice keyboard, consider decluttering to create more space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In colder parts of the world you actually drive with mittens on. I have no idea how’s that going to work with modern touch screen cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ergonomic keyboard + laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use both. Switching is easy, because you get used to it eventually. If you need to type a lot, an ergonomic keyboard will be a lot nicer, so you’ll end up preferring that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "feel" gender?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe societal expectations of masculinity and femininity have become distorted over time. Conforming to these rigid categories will just lead to sadness.

  If you’re a woman who enjoys tinkering with electronics, go for it. If you’re a man who feels comfortable expressing your emotions, do so. Why not explore both while you’re at it?

  In matters like these, it’s perfectly fine to disregard cultural norms and follow your own path. There’s no reason to conform to societal expectations that contradict your true self. You don’t need to identify with any specific gender; simply be a human and engage in human activities.

  I think gender has become another “tribe” that people naturally gravitate towards and identify with. It seems quite human to desire such social groupings. Thousands of years ago, your family and literal tribe fulfilled this role. Today, we seek similar social connections through other means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is usually the right answer. In the past, logging in was a simple pipeline with no forks along the way. That’s why a simple username + password did the trick. Nowadays, logging in has become a complicated journey with several ways to get to the destination. Once the site knows your email, it knows what’s the next step in your case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I only know one method. You just destroy the rivet completely with a small metal drill. It’s not clean or nice, but who cares as long as it works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And if glue isn’t holding it together, consider using rivets or screws instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried reading my local and federated feeds but found little value in them. While most posts are interesting, they’re either too niche, too boring or just fly straight over my head. Consequently, I prefer to stick with the subscribed feed almost exclusively. That’s where I can reliably find stuff worth my time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do .ml users get a bad rep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t asked the admins, but here’s my guess.
  Being the most well known instance means that you get a lot of traffic. Let’s say that 1% of the people using your instance are annoying morons. In a smaller instance that 1% translates to maybe one ban a month or whatever. In a bigger place, it becomes a constant onslaught stupid idiot bullshit nobody has the time or energy to deal with. Either you get a bunch of admins and mods to deal with that nonsense or you start banning users more aggressively.

  However, some part of that drama is public on https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world. Have a look. Just scroll down to censures given and read the reasons why lemmy.world has defederated from so many instances.