Perspectivist
@Perspectivist@feddit.uk
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on LMAO too much ID tv here. If I wanted to bury a body in my yard, should I still call the hotline so I don't hit a gas line or something? I nominate this for stupid question of 2026 2 days ago:
Only if you use an excavator. You’re probably not going to break it with a shovel.
- Comment on Knowing one's place 1 week ago:
Me neither. I asked an LLM to translate this and it said:
Am I imagining this feeling that Lemmy is just recycling Reddit’s cultural memes in a way that makes them seem less genuine?
- Comment on Are horses in the wild "ravished" by the Stallion? 1 week ago:
Sometimes the stallion gets kicked in the head, shits himself and dies.
You can find the video if you’re interested.
- 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? 1 week ago:
I highly recommend going into settings and hiding downvotes from yourself. Stick to dealing with the people who at least bother to engage in written form.
Downvoting is lazy and adds zero value. It’s pure masochism to let yourself get even a tiny bit annoyed just because some rando on the other side of the world spent 0.5 seconds clicking a down arrow on your comment - which they probably didn’t even read to the end.
- 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? 1 week ago:
I’ve had posts with hundreds of upvotes and one or two downvotes. It’s interesting to contact the downvoters via PM. Not in an accusatory tone but with curiosity.
- 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? 1 week ago:
Nothing about that comments comes across as defending it. Also, pedophilia is not synonymous with sexual abuse.
- Comment on Tried to carefully install the faucet immediately after gluing and caulking the sink 1 week ago:
I don’t pick the faucet models - my customers do. I just install them.
If they were unhappy with the previous one, they’d choose something different next time, but they don’t. To me, that says they see zero issue with it.
I can literally walk into any house around here, and the bathroom faucet will be nearly identical to this one. Kitchen faucets are bigger, and most places have a utility sink too, but this is the standard for bathrooms.
I have installed ones that I think were genuinely bad as well but again - the customer chose it, not me. I’m not going to start talking them out of it.
- Comment on Tried to carefully install the faucet immediately after gluing and caulking the sink 1 week ago:
I genuinely don’t see the issue with that. I’ve installed probably around 500 faucets in my career, and not once has a customer ever pushed for a different model just because they don’t want to make physical contact with the sink.
I’d get it if it was so tight it actually got in the way of washing your hands, but that’s not the case here.
- Comment on Tried to carefully install the faucet immediately after gluing and caulking the sink 1 week ago:
I have no trouble with it myself.
- Comment on Tried to carefully install the faucet immediately after gluing and caulking the sink 1 week ago:
I said brand, not model.
- Comment on Tried to carefully install the faucet immediately after gluing and caulking the sink 1 week ago:
I meant the toilet itself.
And yes!
- Comment on Tried to carefully install the faucet immediately after gluing and caulking the sink 1 week ago:
This came with installation hardware too, but a lot of new toilets don’t even have holes for bolts nowadays. The adhesive is more than sufficient to hold it down to the floor tiles. The silicone caulking I use to tidy it up afterwards just adds to that hold.
The main reason to not use bolts is to avoid drilling into the floor and puncturing the water proofing membrane or floor heat pipes/cables.
- Comment on Tried to carefully install the faucet immediately after gluing and caulking the sink 1 week ago:
I try an talk all my customers into using this brand due to the quality and serviceability of them. They should be paying me a provision. I just replaced one that was 38 years old.
- Comment on Tried to carefully install the faucet immediately after gluing and caulking the sink 1 week ago:
I’ve never seen a toilet seat that wasn’t bolted to the toilet.
First time for everything. It’s a friction fit.
But yeah I mean the toilet. In my language toilet refers to the entire room and toilet seat is the thing you shit into.
- Comment on Tried to carefully install the faucet immediately after gluing and caulking the sink 1 week ago:
Yeah, silicone-like adhesive. It sits on top of a cabinet, and that’s exactly how the manufacturer says to install it.
- Submitted 1 week ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 46 comments
- Comment on I'm looking for the best free online storage site my files. That is heavily encrypted and respect people's privacy, what would you suggest? 2 weeks ago:
You’re describing a paid service. With “free” and “respects privacy” you can only pick one. Free services like that are paid by violating your privacy.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Probably either wasn’t the guy you thought he was or he thought of it as a scam.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 3 weeks ago:
Billionaires don’t have billions in their bank accounts. That’s not how wealth works. It’s not like they’re sitting on a pile of cash and just want more. The vast majority of it is tied to property and businesses. Thinking that just because one could comfortably retire that they should is kind of like telling a runner to stop running after having completed their first marathon. They’re a runner - runners run. A person who became a billionaire views making money the same way. It’s what they do. It’s what they’re good at and derive meaning from.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 4 weeks ago:
Nolla-yks in my language
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s a false assumption that AI bubble popping means we suddenly stop using AI and all these data centres will be running idle.
We didn’t stop using the internet when the dotcom bubble burst either.
AI bubble is about companies being overvalued. Not about the underlaying technology being worthless. The bubble popping means these values get adjustest to more reasonable levels. Some companies will go under but not all of them and almost definitely not the big ones.
- Comment on If you had too, how would go about running a Instagram account? 4 weeks ago:
You wont reach anyone on Instagram with pictures alone - you need to post videos.
I have a carefully curated landscape photography feed on Instagram for which I’m quite proud of. I’ve been managing that page for closer to 15 years. I get more likes on my posts on my few year old Pixelfed profile.
I still have Instagram as it’s a place I can point most people to but nobody is going to independently find me there.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been doing that since -01
- Comment on Recommendation for Android File Manager 4 weeks ago:
I’ve always used Solid Explorer.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 4 weeks ago:
Trump is an individual. My criticism is about the blanket judgement of everyone rich and powerful.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but that’s a bit of a motte-and-bailey. It’s like saying that one wishes death for all black people and when challenged they then retreat back to claiming that they were talking about just the ones who rape and murder.
My point is that wishing death for someone simply for being rich and in an executive position is barely different from wishing that to someone because they’re black. It’s unreasonable to be categorically against something purely based on superficial features. It’s a thought-terminating cliché that ignores all nuance and reduces a diverse group of people into a stereotype.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 4 weeks ago:
Wishing death to someone for any reason is quite an extreme position to take outside of these niche internet bubbles that influenced you to think this way in the first place. I honestly struggle a bit when I try to imagine how you deal with the cognitive dissonance of trying to distinguish yourself from the worst people in history. You might not have the power to do the atrocities that they did, but your aspirations aren’t that different in practice. You just have a different justification for why you think what you wish to happen is actually a good thing - just like these people did as well. You even admit that you don’t really care whether they’re actually bad people or not. Your criteria is “rich and executive position,” which is quite indiscriminate.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 5 weeks ago:
Artificial Intelligence is the broad field of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence, such as reasoning, learning, or perception. Machine Learning is a subset of AI where systems learn from data without explicit programming. Large Language Models are a specific type of ML model trained on vast text data to generate or understand language. LLMs are very much AI, and while they’ve popularized the term “AI” recently, the hierarchy stands: LLMs are ML, and ML is AI.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 5 weeks ago:
No, it’s not predefined - chess has about 10^120 possible games. That’s astronomically large number which is way too vast to pre-store or hardcode. It’s intelligence through computation, not a script.
Believe what you like though.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 5 weeks ago:
Entertainment value - not monetary. I don’t pay for an AI because it makes me money. I do it because I enjoy using it.
