Iconoclast

@Iconoclast@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plastic hinges on modern headphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Juice” is mostly water and sugar. I’m not sure what you expected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could have said “souls” instead, because that’s just another word for consciousness.

  I’d refine that a bit. By “soul” most people are referring to a perceived “center” of consciousness where the experiencer is located. Things happen in consciousness, but the “soul” or “self” is what we think those things are happening to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t need to be supernatural though - just something we don’t yet understand. Aliens aren’t supernatural - they’re just life from a different planet. It’s not just lack of evidence why I don’t believe in God. The whole concept collapses under scrutiny.

  Aliens at least seem like something that could conceivably be real. We already know there’s life in the universe. Claiming we’re alone is already a kind of a crazy position in itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is that unicorns on Pluto is something you just made up right now as a smug dismissal of a reasonable stance.

  Ghosts, on the other hand, are our attempt to explain an unexplainable phenomenon that tens of millions of people have personally experienced here on Earth. Outright dismissing the idea that there’s zero chance something weird is going on isn’t that far from claiming absolute certainty that ghosts are real.

  A few hundred years ago you’d have been thrown into an insane asylum for insisting there are these tiny invisible living beings all around us - and that it would be smart for surgeons to wash their tools before sticking them inside another person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a foreigner doesn’t automatically mean something is bad - just unfamiliar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumerism ahhhhh moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ads work. Consumer behavior is among the most studied phenomenoms in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to pay someone to create an excel sheet for me?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of the things LLMs are actually pretty good at

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is amperage more "obscure" than voltage (or watts)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, or mAh might be a little confusing though - two different batteries can have the same Ah rating but wildly different capacities.

  I always convert everything to watt-hours by multiplying ampere-hours by voltage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cut thinner slices? Idk. That never happens to me and I slice cucumber daily. I don’t think I could make a slice roll even if I tried to - they just fall over.