Credibly_Human
@Credibly_Human@lemmy.world
- Comment on Save us!!! 6 hours ago:
Best reason to fight climate change
- Comment on PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE 6 hours ago:
It’s funny due to the obvious absurdity
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I’ve always cut this way, using a fork for a subtle curve, and it allows for 3 fairly equal bites, that feel like the right size for my mouth.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 days ago:
I’d say, at least for me, I try to remember that “cynical” is not always correct. Under the same idea as “trust, but verify"
Isn’t that already what cynicism prescribes?
Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others.
Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness.
Expressing jaded or scornful skepticism or negativity.
Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
It would seem, at least to me, we might not be disagreeing much but instead at a point of not quite getting our ideas across to each other, which is fair because words can have multiple meanings even within the same context.
I would say my point of contention are these 2 sentences
I extend the benefit of the doubt, but less so when there is some real risk or cost to me.
I lose little to nothing in keeping myself open to the possibility (and hope) that someone is being honest with me, while still looking for the signs that they might not be.
As to me, they seem somewhat contradictory, as the first with the benefit of the doubt seems contrary to the second with looking for the signs that they might not be worthy.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 days ago:
I find that viewing the world cynically is self-reinforcing, and it is a difficult cycle to escape from. Accurate or not
I know I cut partially into another sentence but to me its what my big takeaway is. There is an attitude that thinking cynically is bad, even when its accurate, and I don’t see the appeal. It seems to have the mild positive of letting people believe in their fellow man more, but then a bevy of negatives from allowing people to be manipulated more easily.
I prefer to think of humans as broadly better than that, without sacrificing pragmatic vigilance for the parts of my life where assumptions of potential innocence aren’t too risky
What level is that though? I’m struggling to think of a point where it doesn’t pay to accurately have a feeling of what the potential of the other person is.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 4 days ago:
They choose between half the whole population and the whole population (very roughly as it aligns alongside exponents of 2)
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 4 days ago:
Legally speaking, I think the only legally correct (very much not morally) correct thing to do is absolutely nothing whatsoever.
You might be required to call the authorities, but given that either option in theory may eventually lead to the loss of life I think you’d be most safe legally, if you didn’t touch a damn thing.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
Hanlon’s Razor is a good thing to keep in mind to keep from becoming cynical about the whole of humanity.
I think its terrible precisely because of that. It has people make excuses for other people doing terrible things.
If you try to apply it as a general rule that doesnt apply to anything in particular, what good is it doing? Is it not then only clouding your judgement of groups?
- Comment on card game shop 4 days ago:
Your history is literally mostly short thoughtless insults hurled at other users.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
What is the use of a rule of thumb that is only useful in exceptional cases and requires so much additional filtering?
More than, that, I’m not sure I agree as many types of manipulative behaviours thrive of people using your ruleset. Think many things sales people do, basically most police questions, and on and on.
Pen testers for companies regularly abuse the fact so many people think like this to breach companies with tactics as simple as “aw shit, I forgot my badge at home”.
- Comment on RIP Dick 4 days ago:
I’d love for this to be the case, because it would imply the problem could be educated out of them.
Instead, I believe, based on a mountain of evidence being in what the actual talking points of the republicans are, that people are instead so much more focused on hurting the people they believe should be hurt, that they are willing to make ridiculous, absurd, obviously poor trade sacrifices in order to hurt those people.
I think that they basically majority feel this way, until they specifically are hurt, and then in those situations, its not like their viewpoints have changed, except that they don’t want to be hurt themselves.
To me, this is the only theory that makes sense and explains everything, like even how some marginalized people like many latin people (such as cubans) support the regime.
They believe themselves to be better than their neighbours and think their neighbours deserve pain. Only when they themselves, personally, experience that they, infact, will never be accepted as the ingroup, do they actually have a temporary change of heart.
Unfortunately, for all of these people to have that temporary change of heart, so many would be dead it wouldn’t make a difference.
This is just one of the many reasons its wasted effort to try to convert maga people, and makes much more sense to try to wake up the people with voter apathy.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
I imagine due to media beauty standards being quite racist
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
Gwyneth seems to mean well albeit ignorant,
Giving this much benefit of the doubt to people will be the end of us all.
I’m serious. Hanlons razor, that stupid rule of thumb, has probably caused the most harm of any phrase ever uttered.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 5 days ago:
They only see anything when it affects them, and you have to remember at the core of his actual beliefs, past the bullshit he says so he can sound like a semi not piece of shit human, is that he wants to hurt marginalized people.
It backfired on him a little bit too much for his liking, but many more are completely fine paying a big sacrifice to that end.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 5 days ago:
Its been happening increasingly though, and I truly fear because while you might sometimes be able to tell, on average, people arent, and the owners are therefore able to control a significant proportion of the population.
I truly believe like 30% of the population focus on making life worse for others, 20 percent want things to generally be better, and 50 percent are just blowing in the breeze with a mildly positive on average take.
If they can get that 50% to think that the common opinion is hateful and shitty, they’ll just adopt that thinking that its the path of least resistance.
I don’t know how we combat that without bot armies of our own, while fighting on their home turfs as they own these platforms.
- Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 1 week ago:
You literally didn’t tho
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean, yea, trends exist.
The world progresses.
This thing is good.
What’s bad is the marketing dark patterns and mtxs.
- Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 1 week ago:
What grounds do they have to pull those videos?
You are aware there is no law called “If you show someone how to modify the product I sold to them (licensed to them too, as that makes no difference) I get to pull down their content” right?
- Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 1 week ago:
You are out of your god damned mind to be logically equating modifying your OS with piracy.
- Comment on Download Chrome for Windows, complete with built-in malware... 1 week ago:
First time they’re being honest.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 week ago:
Also fuck giving saudi arabia money.
“bUt ThEy DoNt OwN tHeM yEt”
The price has been settled on, so any success from here on out absolutely does directly benefit the saudis.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 1 week ago:
If everyone was idealistic about every aspect of life, we’d all commit suicide very rapidly.
You might think this is super important, but to someone else, the reach of mainstream social media might be worth it for they care about an issue they feel is more important than yours that needs attention, or just straight up focus on other things.
You a vegan? You have solar panels? You buy clothes that you are absolutely 100% sure comes from fairly paid people the whole way down the line? You buy a fairphone? You using a linux pinephone? You… Its never ending.
Purity dramatics like that of your comment arent actually helpful and just demoralize people who are likely there with you 99% of the way generally.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 1 week ago:
If you wanted to know why you post was removed, you should have asked the original and try to work with them.
You clearly do not understand how reddit moderation works. Unless mods actively choose to be known, your message goes to a general queue one of any number of mods can read, respond to, and hide from the other mods. Worse still, you have no idea which mod took action, and in this case it was an auto or AI mod first.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 1 week ago:
With comments like yours, I’m sure they’ll soon be disillusioned with Lemmy too.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 week ago:
Now can we stop being so mean to those poor heartless megacorp voting shareholders?
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 week ago:
Probably get bloated from the beans
I get it.
- Comment on NOW! 1 week ago:
Yup. Thats the type of chart I would call a rolling sales chart. Amazon does the same, as does Bestbuy.
Many retailers do frankly.
Waiting a week can often save you 25-30%, and the high price would have been labelled a sale just the same as the low price, so no one would be any wiser to this without tracking the price.
- Comment on NOW! 1 week ago:
A term for a regular sales price that comes back at normal not specifically event related intervals.
For instance many clothing stores will just have a “sale” every 4 weeks fore the same prices as the sale 4 weeks ago.
Another example is consumer electronics. Look at any price tracker and they’ll usually follow a very loose pattern
Relevant random example of some harddrive Image
- Comment on Just FYI 1 week ago:
I hate not using that phrasing because I know I am fallible, but to many normal people, even if you know you can be wrong, you give a confident response.
If there is any chance I could be slightly incorrect I use this phrasing, but this really has meant that some people are more grating to me than others because they will think you arent confident or smart if you show any signs of being able to acknowledge your fallibility
- Comment on Shower. I hate the wet place 1 week ago:
Any time I have to handwash anything, I think “Why in the fuck did I not triple check that this was dishwasher safe, I should buy a dishwasher safe one so I don’t need to waste time standing over the fucking sink doing what a hunk of metal could save me the time doing, and more efficiently to boot”.
Showering is either a power fantasy or dread.
Before sleeping is definitely dread.
Public spaces is “why in the fuck are so many people so fucking nasty”.
