AstralPath
@AstralPath@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I'm intrigued 4 days ago:
It seems like you don’t know the definition of the word truth or you’ve been taught an inaccurate version of it. They way you write makes me think that you read a lot online and I’ve noticed in the last five or so years that there seems to be a push by some people (typically with ulterior motives from what I’ve seen) to dilute the definition of truth to accomodate the propagation of their worldview.
The truth of the conversation is that the guy was wrong. Calamari is not caviar = True.
This idea of adapting the word “true” to conveniently dodge outright wrongness on a topic is a problem. You’re using the wrong word if you’re saying things like “my truth” or “your truth”. It would be more accurate to say “my/your understanding”.
As I mentioned before, the truth is something that exists outside of you. You refer to facts to describe the truth to the best of your ability. No one expects anyone to have a complete understanding about everything. Incomplete knowledge is just fine so long as you accept when others fill in the gaps or correct you.
Its OK to be wrong. If people accept their own fallibility, they grow with every conversation they have.
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' 4 days ago:
Nothing is eternal if you purposely limit the ability to preserve things.
- Comment on I'm intrigued 5 days ago:
How did you get that from what I said?
Here lemme flip the script on you. If you can’t listen to someone and absorb information without immediately conjuring negative assumptions about them, you might not be fun to be with either.
The point was that facts are facts. The fact that calamari is not caviar is not malleable (unless you’re in Estonia I suppose lol). It’s just a cold hard fact that outside of Estonia they’re two completely different things. In this situation there is no spectrum of rightness. You’re just either right or you’re wrong.
I’m not saying that its worth dying on the calamari hill in public. Handle that debate however you see fit.
- Comment on I'm intrigued 5 days ago:
Facts exist outside of you. Facts are already confirmed/researched and we just call upon them in conversation.
If an argument is based around a fact, there is indeed a right and wrong side. The accuracy of your recall of a given fact is the meaure of rightness in the argument.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 6 days ago:
iHeartRadio is a cancer. They’re just consolidating everything like Ticketmaster did with venues.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 1 week ago:
Times Square had massive Mullvad ads last time I was there.
- Comment on It just hits different now 2 weeks ago:
This is me with watermelon.
- Comment on Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore 3 weeks ago:
I still have my library of tracks from the mid 2000s on a drive in my PC. Hell, I still have my iPod Classic.
That said, I spend 99% of my time streaming music.
That said², I never ever engage with playlists. They only serve to poison the well that is my algorithm. I have a tightly curated Youtube video algorithm and, even though Youtube Music’s algorithm is dogshit compared to Spotify, I still protect it at all costs.
You can still be an active listener on streaming services.
I’m currently three quarters of the way through Decapitated’s Organic Hallucinosis record while I clean the house. For the last month straight I’ve been mainlining Steven Wilson’s solo records as well as Porcupine Tree records. Music is not dead for the active listeners in the world. The focus should be on encouraging kids to appreciate a good album every once in a while.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 3 weeks ago:
Personally, I’m not feeling that same vibe. I think the solidarity against the US is a very good thing, but the sheer amount of ways Canada is just “America Light” is very depressing. Its to the point that our flag has been so sullied by absolutely shit tier movements in the last 5 years that I can’t stand to see it anymore.
Every time I see a private flag pole, bumper stickers or anything kind of patriotic merch my knee jerk reaction is “I bet this dude’s a fuckwad.” I know that I’m painting with a huge and shitty brush but I just can’t even fight against it anymore. I know it’s wrong. I just don’t care, and that makes me sad.
I live comfortably here, but given even a minutely convenient reason to emigrate I think I’d take it.
Canada is a car infested, anti-human shit hole just like America. To paraphrase Steve Harris of Iron Maiden a bit "We oil the jaws of the
warcapitalist machine and feed it with ourbabiesimmigrants. - Comment on Royal Fuckup 4 weeks ago:
Who is this?
- Comment on I just saw that Mick Jagger is attending Jeff Bezos's wedding when did he sell out? 4 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty insane threshold. I say that as a die hard underground metal fan.
- Comment on LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tasks 5 weeks ago:
Salesforce is so fucking AI-pilled its insane. I hate having to use their shit-tier CRM.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 1 month ago:
Black holes don’t just roam around looking for planets to snack on.
Don’t be so sure. There’s plenty of cases of black holes devouring entire star systems. There’s so many black holes just drifting around that you could make a case that they are just roaming around looking for their next snack.
- Comment on Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts? 1 month ago:
If I saw anyone harm any animal intentionally outside of self-defence, that’s an instant and permanent write off. I’d literally take any opportunity to talk shit about said person beating animals and would take pride in beating their ass if the moment was right.
Anyone hurting animals gets a big ol’ irrevocable “fuck you” from me.
There’s like 8 billion people on this planet you can be friends with. Don’t roll with or enable abusers.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Phobophile rules.
- Comment on I made a terminal-based hacker simulation game for CLI nerds. It's free. Feedback? 1 month ago:
Bitburner is pretty cool too.
- Comment on 007 First Light - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 1 month ago:
Yeah man, all of this except for the balls part. Shit’s a bit too much for me bro and I was there in the 90’s. You do you though, I guess. 🤷
- Comment on Talented child artist 1 month ago:
Yeah that’s what I was thinking too. At a certain age where they’re not just finger painting randomness anymore, why not let a kid run wild with their room. It’s not the end of the world if you need to re-paint the walls if you need to move.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Right? Dude just spurned one of the easiest ways to get a comment from a girl, smelling like something girls would likely choose as a candle scent or other aromatic. Dude would probably rather smell like aged free-range bull piss “for the pheromones” or some shit.
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 1 month ago:
Yeah, they were all stepping in phase with each other. Pretty cool physics going on there.
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 1 month ago:
Two people will be about 3 dB higher, four people would be 6, eight people would increase the level by 9 dB, sixteen would be 12 dB higher and so on.
This is only the case if they’re making identical sounds in phase with each other. The real life scenario of people walking would not scale in this way as there are too many variables. No two footsteps are the same no matter how hard you try.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 1 month ago:
If you actually view the site, I think it’s pretty clear that its a well intentioned site with a genuine interest in providing travel tips and info to people. There’s no reason that site should have had its traffic obliterated.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 month ago:
I think you’re misunderstanding the concept of priority.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 month ago:
Sounds to me like you’re not considering that they likely have a massive list of priorities to address and a flashlight attachment is simply not even close to the top of the list.
Nothing exists in a vacuum.
- Comment on If you build it, they might come 2 months ago:
Ouroboros, the new standard.
- Comment on I cheat on as many people as I want to 2 months ago:
Yeah, open relationships aren’t my thing, but consensual anything really doesn’t bother me one bit.
- Comment on I cheat on as many people as I want to 2 months ago:
I’d voluntarily be subjected to endless physical and mental torture before I ever even considered betraying my wife’s trust. I’d literally rather die.
Cheating is unforgivable. It happened to me when I was in my 20s.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In Peru (and some islands in the Pacific as well IIRC), some regions have nine digit numbering plans. This may have been a call from one of those areas. More likely its spam.
- Comment on Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People' 2 months ago:
You’re self-filtering yourself from the community. Based on these interactions, I think you’re doing the lord’s work. Keep it up!👍
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 2 months ago:
C’mon man. Social anxiety isn’t some niche mystery. Cut OP some slack.
