GregorGizeh
@GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 6 days ago:
Ahh that makes more sense then!
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 6 days ago:
You got like 50% fairly popular opinions in there, and then some hopefully deeply unpopular ones, lol.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 6 days ago:
Super unpopular around these parts, i’m sure
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 1 week ago:
Another example that maybe makes it clearer coming to mind: warhammer is a massive business, for decades. But why do people like to buy unpainted little plastic models and then do a usually mediocre job themselves painting those, taking forever? They could just buy them fully painted by professionals, that would look obviously much better.
But the enjoyment and emotional attachment comes from doing that yourself. It is your little sci fi army even if their lines are smudged. You look at those figures and remember the hours spent painting them, progressively getting a little better with each. It is the same with the instrument, the husband fixed it up, spent a lot of love and effort on it, learned something in the process. Now thats all gone and instead he has some product.
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 1 week ago:
Cant you see how someone might value an instrument they repaired (and probably taught themselves how to do that) themselves a lot more than a store bought, flawless replacement?
There is value in doing things yourself, even if you could get always a better result by paying someone professional to do it for you.
- Comment on Fuck AIPAC 2 weeks ago:
You are just fucked in the head my guy.
Mass killing people is never acceptable, especially based on convicions or ideologies.
If you think whatever it is you desire politically is worth building on a genocide then you should really get a room with yahu and trumpet.
*i am specifically arguing arguing against genocide. The people in power enabling and perpetrating it need to be severely punished, with execution decidedly on the table. That is a whole different beast than killing kids because of who their parents are though. Cant believe im even arguing about this.
- Comment on Fuck AIPAC 2 weeks ago:
No, what the fuck. Zionists maybe, but the ww2 winners didnt kill the german population and children either. Why? Because it is fundamentally wrong.
Cant be a mass murderer in any case and still be a good guy.
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 3 weeks ago:
Actually ☝️🤓, that is a common urban myth. We have mapped virtually everything down there, we were not everywhere with submarines and cameras but as far as i know virtually all of the deep sea has been mapped from the surface and the general consensus is that there is nothing spectacular or extraordinary down there.
Maybe an unusual or unknown species here and there, but nothing like some unknown frontier for mankind with potentially revolutionary discoveries.
- Comment on I made a game. It is short adventure about bying bread during the war. It is free to play. And i am looking for feedback. 3 weeks ago:
I will have a look at this, thank you for sharing your work! But also, i hope you listen to the other commenter and reach out if you need any help an online stranger can provide.
- Comment on Gotta make sure your watching its back 3 weeks ago:
Do you sometimes look in the mirror and question the life choices that made you a person who talks about worshipping feces on the internet?
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 4 weeks ago:
How so? Shareholders are the worst cancer on the economy, but at the same time hard to eliminate without a revolution.
The proper order should be that people invest in a company they believe will do well, not because they seek to exert control over it. If you do not believe the company is operating in a profitable manner you should not buy, or sell your, shares.
You state this is wrong. Why? In my opinion, if we must have institutionalized gambling, we should seek to keep it from exerting undue influence, even in the shareholders own long term interest. Of course this would not allow the leadership to just do whatever with the money, reporting and oversight should if anything be improved upon.
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 4 weeks ago:
You give that money to the Corp to get profits in return. Not a say in how the company is run, at least youre not supposed to for healthy business operations. One of, if not the biggest reason that for example steam continues to win is just they are being not overtly greedy and shortsighted. That is obviously a much healthier business model.
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 4 weeks ago:
… If i had a company and it were successful, and i decided to go public, i would only issue that kind of voteless share or whatever they are called, so that i would be protected from shareholder pressure to some extent. Was that not clear somehow? Or did you just want to go for the snark
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 4 weeks ago:
Is it? That is, if i were to own a public company, the only way i would ever allow anyone else to own a part of it. It is my company, i don’t want fucking shareholders pressure me for more profits and shortsighted decisions. If the vultures want a share of the profits they get just that, not a voice at the table.
- Comment on Computers can't do everything 4 weeks ago:
Definitely good points you are making, but his art has also variously been described as soulless or things to that effect, because he can perfectly play a musical piece or make an almost photorealistic painting, but struggles to go beyond surface concepts (not to mention when he is asked to sculpt music).
Though ultimately i would agree that data is not the best example, because as you said he sometimes gets a taste of what he is lacking, and also, because he has an actual consciousness.
- Comment on Computers can't do everything 4 weeks ago:
This is a great and succinct summary of the core issue of “ai”. Without consciousness there can never be anything that makes art art.
Just Data algorithmically crafting poems about cat facts, if you excuse the trek reference.
- Comment on Plenty! 💪🏼 5 weeks ago:
When youtube had quality content
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 5 weeks ago:
In my opinion this is applicable to virtually any political discourse on lemmy though. Overwhelmingly progressive, left leaning, politically informed.
I myself am often annoyed with the literal echo chamber effect of people dropping facts and entire paragraphs in the comments like there is an audience to be convinced, when in fact everyone already knows and has read and heard the argument dozens of times.
At the same time i don’t want to engage with right wingers either, so political monoculture it is.
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 5 weeks ago:
That is also a gesture of domination for them, as far as i know. They werent necessarily horny, just trying to put the other in their place
- Comment on Setvo-Mitch 5 weeks ago:
Poor eogunn, that is one cruel fate for him
- Comment on Anon ruins christmas 1 month ago:
This had me thinking of why the english language uses cocoa. Obviously it is cacao, most other languages use the real name as well. One of those “too hard to pronounce” situations?
- Comment on This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school. 1 month ago:
Eh, i kinda miss it. Of course its carefree living, but it also is a symptom of our individual detachment from society at large. We don’t relate to the people around us, we handpick those connections digitally for the most part, where shit is just as shallow as it supposedly was in reality before that.
Sure, you dont care what you look like in the street. But if you have mainstream social media as well i would bet you have made an effort for your profiles that other people can see. Good looking pics, possibly edited too, relatable posts and personal information.
We just shifted most of our presentation online.
- Comment on This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school. 1 month ago:
My personal theory is that it is a symptom of societal decay. People would dress nicely and look good when going out, so others would see and be impressed or attracted.
Now i have literally not worn anything else but different sweatpants for the last year or so, because i could not care less what other random passerbys perceive me as, since i am decidedly not interested in them either.
Nobody cares about real life impressions any more because the people that matter to them are in their phone. Friends and family are not necessarily in the same location as you, and romantic options are for the most part also in your phone now. Why brother looking good when potential partners are expected to judge you by your social media presence anyway and i’m just here for groceries.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 1 month ago:
I mean, yeah of course, but preparing camping supplies and going for groceries seems not quite the same thing.
As a European, being longer than maybe a weekend cut off from external help (or the general concept of a natural disaster as a possible occurence) is not really a thing. Worst that happens is some flooding near rivers and the coast on rare occasions.
Dubious water quality is also not a problem people have to deal with on a frequent basis, at least in germany. You can give your landlord major shit if you don’t have access to proper, clean water. (If you own your place it is your problem of course)
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 1 month ago:
We use bottles… But yes, generally you can just drink your tap water.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 1 month ago:
Americans buy water in plastic jugs??
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Vertical feels more right to me, because elevator go up and numbers too
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 month ago:
I would be rather surprised to find an oven going to 400*C though, thats quite hot lol
I’d say ovens here in EU usually go to 200-250 degrees.
- Comment on What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”? 1 month ago:
Schreibtischoberflächenwahlrecht
- Comment on Star Trek Picard's Most Underrated Character Is Returning For New Series: Everything Known So Far 1 month ago:
Oh great, more seven! But also, oh great, more super high stakes plot. World ending yet entirely unheard of threat, i’m sure.