Iconoclast
@Iconoclast@feddit.uk
- Comment on If you're sexually frustrated & can never find a mate & decide to live a life of "nofap," what are the effects that buildup of sexual frustration has? 2 days ago:
Using the term “NoFap” in the title is a bit like putting “AI” in there - it pretty much guarantees zero productive conversation in the comments and instead acts as a bug light for certain people to just chime in with their personal views on that one thing.
I don’t even bother writing a response to the actual question because I don’t want to spend the rest of the day defending views I don’t even hold.
- Comment on Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses it 4 days ago:
It’s almost like they know people aren’t going to read past the headline.
- Comment on I almost got to try my new quick clamp 5 days ago:
It’s about 4mm too short. It’s a classic trope with clamps that you never have enough/the right one.
- Comment on I almost got to try my new quick clamp 5 days ago:
The solution is always more clamps
- Comment on I almost got to try my new quick clamp 5 days ago:
This is absolutely true. I have 1.5 meter pipe clamps as well but the first time I tried using them ended up the same way: not long enough.
- Comment on I almost got to try my new quick clamp 5 days ago:
The price difference would’ve bought me 4 hot dogs!
- Comment on I almost got to try my new quick clamp 5 days ago:
I did, but lets not talk about that.
- Submitted 5 days ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 32 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
You drive an old car to protect yourself from hackers. I drive an old car because I’m broke. We’re not the same.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
If it’s connected to the internet then it can be hacked. Though in the literal meaning of the term virtually anything can be hacked. It just means finding an unconventional way to operate something.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 5 days ago:
Me as well. Easy choice as no other device came even close to having the features I wanted.
- Comment on Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’? 1 week ago:
Well, all I’m going to say is that I’ve been on a few hikes with my ex and it wasn’t me complaining the whole trip.
- Comment on how is lemmy funded? 1 week ago:
They came up with a system that turns outrage into cash and they’re literally printing money right now.
- Comment on Could my daughter, who is a lawyer, defend my son’s girlfriend, who killed my cousin’s family in a DUI accident? 1 week ago:
As long as they weren’t taking part in illegal street racing.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 1 week ago:
I rarely do. I don’t understand the point of it. I just ate and now you want me to eat more? If anything - we should’ve started with the dessert.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
I don’t. That’s what makes it even more bizzare. I don’t get what they have to gain from trying to stain an anonymous account.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
I hope you got squared away ok
Nah, they’re still on it - and considering how much you’ve been discussing AI here too, it’s more than likely you’ve run into them as well.
Being careful with your words helps to some extent, but then there are people like this who don’t really care what you actually say. If they perceive you to be on the wrong side of an issue they care deeply about, they slap this cartoon-villain stereotype on you and treat it as fact. It’s not about what you said - it’s about who they think says those kinds of things. It’s intentional misinterpretation and ad hominems all the way down. No point even trying to engage with their insane troll logic.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
That hasn’t really been my experience. Lemmy seems nicer on the surface because most of the userbase is ideologically aligned, so conflict is less likely. But once you make the wrong noises about something, plenty of people show up ready to prove just how mean and horrible they can actually be.
Also, on Reddit I never had anyone follow me around trying to cause reputational damage by spreading false accusations about me.
- Comment on Why is AI so bad at coming up with dialogue? 1 week ago:
LLMs not being AI is one of the most common confidently strong statements I see spread here as fact pretty much every day.
We’ve had AI systems since 1956.
It simply refers to any system designed to perform a cognitive task that would normally require a human. For an LLM that task is generating natural language. For an Atari chess opponent it’s playing chess. They’re both still AI - narrow AI, but AI nonetheless.
People seem to expect general intelligence from these systems, and when they don’t get it, statements like this pop up. But AGI is not synonymous with AI. It’s also an AI system, just a subcategory of AI - same as GenAI is. No company claims to have a true AGI system.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 week ago:
No. That would imply belief in the kind of free will I don’t think exists.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I doubt that it was a genuine question. Looking at their post history I’m suspecting that they’re just posting about controversial topics in hopes to start up something.
- Comment on What should we actually turn our aggression towards? 2 weeks ago:
I turned my attention on the aggression and the aggression went away.
It’s impossible to stay angry at anything for longer than few seconds unless you constantly feed that anger with the stories you’re telling youself. You don’t have to keep telling those stories. Unless you want to stay angry ofcourse.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Only you can see those deleted posts - nobody else can.
- Comment on How many times a year do you wash your jeans? 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t worn jeans for probably over 15 years. They don’t last a year so I stopped buying new pairs and go with cargo pants instead.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 3 weeks ago:
I have been looking for a brand that is willing to support buy it for life and right to repair
I have headphones from Meze (Massdrop X Meze 99 Noir) and my understanding is that they don’t use glue in the contructrion of their headphones but everything is held on by screws so that it can be repaired if necessary. I however don’t know where you can get the actual spare parts for them - I’m assuming you need to contact Meze directly for that.
- Comment on I just want juice, is that so much to ask? 3 weeks ago:
“Juice” is mostly water and sugar. I’m not sure what you expected.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 3 weeks ago:
What the US has often done in the past is provide air support for aligned local rebels on the ground. In this case, though, that rebel force doesn’t really exist, so I figure the reasoning is to show the people of Iran that if you want to take back your country, now’s the time - and we’ll help you. There’s at least some evidence that a big chunk of the Iranian population is fed up with the Islamist government but whether this’ll lead to an uprising or regime change remains to be seen.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a state that’s always been hostile toward the US and its interests - both directly and by funding groups that share the same goals as Iran does. Over the past few years, though, the war in Ukraine, Israel’s strike on Iran, the US follow-up bombing of their nuclear sites, and the special Maduro operation have all shown that Russian air-defense systems aren’t much of a threat to Western fighter jets anymore. So they probably figured that if they’re going to do this, now’s the time - while Iran’s at its weakest - instead of waiting around. Countries like North Korea have dodged the same fate by holding Seoul hostage, but Iran doesn’t have that kind of leverage.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 4 weeks ago:
That’s why I said perceived center of consciousness. I don’t think self exists either.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 4 weeks ago:
I once saw something I can’t explain. Had I been alone, I would’ve just told myself I was imagining things, but the fact that right after I saw it my friend goes: “Did you fucking see that?!” convinced me there really was something there.
We went back immediately and it was gone - despite this happening in the middle of an open field with nowhere for it to disappear to. Do I think it was a ghost? No, it was most likely a human. But it was an unexplainable, genuinely weird event. Having experienced something like that makes me a lot more sympathetic toward other people who claim to have seen similar things. This wasn’t a floorboard creaking and my mind filling in the blanks. I absolutely saw a figure.
