ContrarianTrail
@ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
I prioritize ethics over optics even if it means facing criticism.
Sharing my honest beliefs, welcoming constructive debates, and embracing the potential for evolving viewpoints. Independent thinker navigating through conversations without allegiance to any particular side.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
I’m sure that’s true in some cases, but I wouldn’t generalize it as the explanation for most incel’s situations that they simply had too unrealistic standards
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
Your typical incel is that quiet guy in school with bad skin, plain clothes, and oily hair, whose only friends were the other outcasts. Like everyone else, they just wanted a normal relationship with a normal woman. It’s the repeated failure to form those relationships that leads to the resentment and anger we now see. They weren’t always like that. The bitterness and hatred is a coping mechanism for their situation, not the cause of it.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
I think you’re being a bit unfair there. These attitudes often stem from their inability to form relationships. The struggle came first, and the resentment followed. They aren’t without sex and relationships because they’re inherently hateful people; rather, the hatred emerges from prolonged frustration and rejection.
In most cases, I believe the inability to get into relationships is less about character and more about factors like social awkwardness, lack of friends, poor hygiene, unfortunate genetics, spending too much time online or gaming, etc.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
I don’t think that’s fair. It’s not just sex they are after; they want a relationship but are unable to get into one.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
Depends of which definition you go by, I guess. I prefer the literal meaning of the word; involuntary celibate. A person who is celibate against their own will.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
Well not really. Those are different things. Black pill is about how you think, while incel is about what you are.
- Comment on Why does Facebook and Instagram still provides web interface when most of their users use the Android or IOS app? 1 day ago:
I’m glad they do as that’s the only way I use those platforms. Same applies for twitter. Usin an app means I can’t block ads.
- Comment on What does "blackpilled" mean? 1 day ago:
These terms are usually used when talking about the dating scene and they originate from the movie Matrix where taking the blue pills means you’ll stay blissfully ignorant where as red pill means seeing the hars reality of the world. In dating contex this usually means the idea that women only want rich and high status men who are over 6 feet tall, muscular and have a huge dick and if you want a quality mate you need to achieve these things one way or another.
Black pill just takes this one step further. It’s basically like going from determinism to fatalism meaning that since you didn’t win the genetic lottery there’s nothing you can do about it so just accept the fact that this is going to be your life untill you die.
- Comment on can you ELI5 the physics of bleeding radiators on an apartment building? 2 days ago:
Plumber here.
It’s a closed circuit. When you’re bleeding out air the pressure in the system drops. When there’s no sufficient pressure the water wont reach the upper floors.
Under normal circumstances the system is bled of air once and then they add more water untill the optimal pressure is reached and that’s it. You shouldn’t need to bleed air or add water ever again. The fact that you keep bleeding it indicates that new air is introduced somehow. Usually this means there’s a leak and someone keeps topping it up with fresh water which contains air that then need to be bled out again.
Alternatively the issue could also be non-plumbers like yourself who keep bleeding the radiators on their own and then the maintenance keeps adding more water and wondering why it always drops again. In my part of the world it’s forbidden for the residents to bleed their radiators for this very reason.
Also, the radiator lines are usually steel. The reason they don’t rust is lack of oxygen. Now with constantly more water and thus air being added to the system the corrosion keeps on advancing.
- Comment on Anon needs to pay the rent 3 days ago:
Right? Who the hell would agree to a price like that. That would cover my mortage for 2 months.
- Comment on Why are people on the internet (and Lemmy) so quick to say someone "deserves to die" 1 week ago:
Most people are led by emotions rather than cold and analytical reasoning. I believe everyone has the capability to think objectively but that capability gets clouded when ever they’re taken capture by strong emotions. That’s why they can reasonably consider an abstract but difficult trolley problem but then lose their minds when Elon says something stupid on Twitter.
I want to believe that the majority of people around me would infact not want to cast death sentences haphazardly like that but rather they’re just expressing how they feel. It’s a way to signal to the group. “Elon is a nazi and deserves to die” roughly tanslates to “boo Elon”
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Thank god for hexbear and lemmygrad though. Imagine the effort needed to block them all individually if spread over all the other instances.
- Comment on Where do you even meet people anymore? 1 week ago:
I’m meeting all the single women on my are (mostly moms and elderly widows) by setting up a company that does plumbing, home improvement and property maintenance jobs.
- Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence? 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps your personal bias is cluding your judgement a bit here. You don’t seem very open minded about it. You’ve already made up your mind.
- Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence? 2 weeks ago:
If artificial intelligence doesn’t work why are they trying to make us all use it?
But it does work. It’s not obviously flawless but it’s orders of magnitude better than it was 10 years ago and it’ll only improve from here. Artificial intelligence is a spectrum. It’s not like we succesfully created it and it ended up sucking. No, it’s like the first cars; they suck compared to what we have now but it’s a huge leap from what we had before.
I think the main issue here is that the common folk has unrealistic expectations about what AI should be. They’re imagining what the “final product” would be like and then comparing our current systems to that. Ofcourse from that perspective it seems like it’s not working or is no good.
- Comment on I think I am socially ostrasized, what should I do? 2 weeks ago:
Everyone, just like you, are thinking about themselves. Nobody is thinking about you.
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I know how clickbait titles work. “Who do boomers with birdfeeders hate squirrels so much” would’ve been the accurate and non-clickbait version of this one. It’s no different from a news headline saying “USA will ban ICE cars by the year 2035” and then in the article itself it specifies that it’s about the sale of new cars.
That’s besides the point anyway. My argument equally addresses the over-generalization made in the body, which you conveniently ignore and focus on defending the title and attacking me as a person rather than what I’m saying, ad hominem.
Every boomer with a bird feeder hates squirrels.
That is an absolute statement claiming that every single boomer with a bird feeder hates squirrels. Not 50% of them, not 80%, not 99%, not 99.999% but 100% of them. That is an over generalization which I disagree with which leads us back to my original comment; I disagree with the premise. Not every boomer hates squirrels. Not even every boomer with a bird feeder.
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 2 weeks ago:
And I think you don’t like admiting it’s bit of an clickbait title.
My comment was very clear; I disagree with both, the assumption made in the title and I equally disagree with it after reading the subtext. Implying all boomers with birdfeeders hate squirrels is over-generalization.
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 2 weeks ago:
The title talks about boomers in general. Only in the subtext is it specified to mean the ones with birdfeeders.
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 2 weeks ago:
Loud noises? The only noise I’ve heard a squirrel make is the “Tsk, tsk, tsk” -sound while agressively staring me down and whipping their tail and it’s not by any means loud.
- Comment on Why do boomers hate squirrels so much? 2 weeks ago:
I disagree with the premise. Not every boomer hates squirrels. Not even every boomer with a bird feeder.
- Comment on Dawn Breaks 3 weeks ago:
There’s always more goatse