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- Comment on How do I deal with a very negative inner voice/second conscience that's constantly loud? It's like I have two different people in my head but they're both me, telling me opposite things endlessly. 6 days ago:
Lots of good advice here already, especially regarding IFS, which is a therapy approach that works with splitting one’s inner monologue into a conversation between different voices.
Since a lot of commenters seem to equate inner voices with schizophrenia or psychosis I’d like to let you (and them) know it’s not that unusual to have inner voices with different personalities! I found my inner voices very helpful to deal with my mental challenges and this never turned into anything uncontrollable. I had a similar very critical inner voice which I then recognized as mainly being my mother’s way of criticizing me - even after I went no contact with mom, she was still occupying space in my head telling me everything I did wrong.
The way out was really simple, CBT-based: a therapist reminded me to be kind to myself and I just practised - like giving myself an inner hug every time I used the unkind voice and remembering that kindness to myself is important (not beating myself up for being unkind!), and to avoid self-deprecating humour. It just took some time, maybe a year, and now I see clear improvements. The voice is pretty much gone. At the moment I have no need to separate into different voices and feel quite at home within myself. Hope you get there soon, you seem a be on a good path towards it!
- Comment on Germans must be pretty happy. 1 week ago:
The majority of German media reports as if Trump was a normal politician doing normal politics stuff. Where I would expect some voices calling out the absolute awfulness of human rights violations being committed and laws disregarded it all sounds like “This is fine! We might not agree, but there is nothing outrageous! He’s just a very silly guy who happens to be the president of the USA!” - It is absolutely chilling to not have any larger news outlets getting absolutely alarmed, all is just business as usual. But then it’s the same with Israel - “12345678 more children died in the ongoing conflict (we are not going to tell you that they were murdered and who did it)” instead of “Israel commits murder and genocide and needs to be stopped.”
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 1 week ago:
Ah beautiful, that’s the way!
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 1 week ago:
And as rocket fuel we use? You are all a fucking bunch of nuclear cartoon clowns, please just go and switch yourselves off.
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 1 week ago:
Not if you could express it in a more accessible way without loss of meaning, and especially not if you claim to want a broader public to opt into your cause. Mostly it’s smartassery. I understand that there’s situations where you want to speak about scientific topics and need specific terminology for precision, but this is definitely not it.
- Comment on Germans must be pretty happy. 1 week ago:
I’m German and terrified. I find it difficult to grasp that the playbook that was used in Nazi Germany is right there to compare, how the whole thing happened has been taught in schools to several generations in a row, there’s memorial places to visit - the whole wealth of information is there so it doesn’t happen again!!
And here we are, and it is happening again - in what seems an even more overt way than old Adolf ever dared to pull off. They just built a concentration camp in Florida and are loudly bragging about it. People are randomly being kidnapped from the street, based not even on their immigration status but their skin color, by groups of unidentified thugs. All while the media - even international media - still seem to be unable to call “Fascism” to what is happening.
I would have hoped that us being the eternal Nazis would at least have a deterring effect on other people to not fall into the same trap.
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 1 week ago:
Okay thanks, though I wish you hadn’t used AI. I’m fiercely against AI, which is why I voiced my disappointment that a cause I stand behind is obfuscated by pseudo-radical word salad.
Anyway I don’t believe OP wrote the manifesto themselves, so my criticism is most likely not arriving at the right address anyways.
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 1 week ago:
This particular OP rather than suffering from mania is suspiciously bot-like. It’s the second account I encounter in a few days whose posts and comments seem ever so slightly off - in this case it’s just the completely random stuff they post and an uncanny and distanced way of commenting.
I’m a bit dismayed that I now have to make an effort to distinguish real people from bots and that if I block those I find suspicious it includes the risk of blocking some real people who are just having a weird way of expressing themselves.
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 1 week ago:
More of an integral protestation of the inherently unknown in the paradigm of embedded meta-complexities, but you do you ;-)
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 1 week ago:
Or is it the text of the manifesto itself that makes the AI shitrobot explode? Maybe I misunderstood.
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 1 week ago:
The problem with most manifestos is that every second word is more than 10 characters long. Why? Can you not write what you want to say in as few words as possible, and in a way it even can be understood by people whose native language is not English? Come on, give me an ELI5 please, I want to fight AI but I don’t want to have to wade through word salad to do so.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 1 week ago:
It was probably a range of plants and fungi seeking interaction with a species that could care for them and bring them to new places. Maybe wheat and yeast ganged up to control the apes? However the first plant humans propagated were fig trees, and apparently the first plant we grew in a gardening context was the bottle gourd (pot to ferment stuff in!) Maybe we find out one day which of those fuckers are responsible for us having credit scores and 9-5 now!!
- Comment on Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet? 1 week ago:
I guess I have to keep asking every time this shit idea of nuclear as green energy pops up: where to put the waste? Have we figured that out yet? Or will we continue hiding that stuff somewhere and hoping it stays there? 20 years ago I joined the protests in this location, where they were going to store nuclear waste in an abandoned salt mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorleben_salt_dome
Despite thousands of people blocking roads the train full of nuclear waste arrived anyways. Guess what, briefly after that (or who knows, they probably knew anyways) they found the salt mine wasn’t such a great idea. And now that shit sits there in some storage building waiting for an accident to happen. Maybe Russia wants to drop a drone onto it when they feel like it, or in time the whole thing just gets abandoned because nobody has money to care anymore.
Only way to make energy green is degrowth, so spending less of it. Every single way of producing energy is damaging to the environment, and inventing new stuff or rebranding old stuff as “green” isn’t going to change it. They tear up the country I live in for lithium and the people can’t grow their gardens anymore, common lands are now filled with wind power and the people cannot send their herds onto the mountain anymore, they produce fuel out of maize and large areas of monoculture now grow fuel instead of food, huge areas of agricultural land are being filled with solar panels. It all causes damage, just stop spending so much energy. Don’t produce shit nobody needs, switch the fucking AI off, stay at home and just relax.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 1 week ago:
A lot of fermented stuff like bread, cheese, wine and beer most likely started as “stuff forgotten in a pot” - not very complicated. In case of bread you need: two stones for milling the grain, a pot to mix it with water and store it, and then a fire to bake it. Not medieval tech, but way earlier.
Beer has been known since at least the bronze age, there are recipes known today, but the initial stage was, yet again, mill some grain, mix with water, forget in a pot.
Wine: forget some fruit in a pot.
Source: Reading history, plus my ADHD brain keeps forgetting stuff in the kitchen. I accidentally invented soda one of these days, because sometimes the forgotten stuff gets fizzy, too (you do need to invent the hermetically closing jar for that though, open clay pot doesn’t work in that case)!
Btw one of my crazier theories (although I’m not the only person considering it) is that it wasn’t us domesticating the world, but that we were domesticated by yeast. So it was inevitable that we kept producing vessels and feeding the fungus with sugar in ever more refined ways. Fungus wants to grow.
- Comment on Belkin is ending support for nearly all its Wemo smart home devices 1 week ago:
It’s nice you found a way to have your smart home working with open source solutions.
Sorry for having to bring this up, but I really wish you didn’t have to include the ‘wife stupid with tech’ trope in your post and that awful phrase ‘the wife’ that seems to be so popular with some guys these days. It seems so disrespectful to talk in this way about the person you share your life with.
- Comment on Belkin is ending support for nearly all its Wemo smart home devices 1 week ago:
And another pile of junk has been created in the endless "Buy-this-cool-shit -> Sorry-this-cool-shit-is-obsolete -> … " cycle. Poor environment.
My home is dumb as fuck. My light bulbs only obey the flick of old fashioned light switches. My fridge doesn’t try to engage in conversation. I have to close my curtains by hand. I monitor my health by figuring out how I feel. This old fashioned life of manual drudgery still leaves me sufficient time to laugh about the fools who buy this kind of stuff.
Every bit of tech you buy these days is just conspiring to make you buy more tech. The best option for your financial and mental health is to avoid everything marketed as “smart and innovative must-have” like the plague.
- Comment on The dreaded she's typing icon 1 week ago:
Was gonna say that but you did it better
- Comment on Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power? 2 weeks ago:
world’s first
Good for them. Leaves the question where they put all the waste not produced in Finland.
- Comment on Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power? 2 weeks ago:
Has anyone solved the problem of nuclear waste yet? As far as I know the waste I protested against as a young girl 30 years ago, which was going to be stored in some super safe former salt mine, is still standing around over ground in some storage facility in Germany, waiting for an accident to happen. The only thing we can afford at this point is degrowth.
I’m sick of any new or old ‘green’ tech being used as an excuse to keep ramping up our energy use. It’s all money making schemes to fill the pockets of investors, no matter if it’s EVs and stupid lithium mines or nuclear and its fucking waste. And of course the mines and the waste never end up in the backyards of those who peddle that shit.
- Comment on Is there a federated LinkedIn? 2 weeks ago:
Search for tech coops, quite a few seem to be popping up recently. I’m not directly in tech and still haven’t found who I’d really love to work for, so I can’t help much, but it’s a lovely question and I’m curious about other people’s answers!
- Comment on One UI 8 gives us our first look at Samsung's upcoming tri-fold phone 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget that you have to pay for an additional subscription to use SamsungShave with your new 5 fold and that your have to give the app access to all your private data - but who wouldn’t do that for a really close shave!
- Comment on Meta has found another way to keep you engaged: Chatbots that message you first 2 weeks ago:
'“This allows you to continue exploring topics of interest and engage in more meaningful conversations with the AIs across our apps,” a Meta spokesperson said. ’
‘meaningful conversations with the AIs’ makes me want to laugh, or cry. Welcome in a world where meaning has lost all meaning.
- Comment on One UI 8 gives us our first look at Samsung's upcoming tri-fold phone 2 weeks ago:
The Gillette-ization of phones? How exciting /s
- Comment on Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatments 2 weeks ago:
Horror might be more entertaining than depression, but the sheer idea of letting some techbro implant shit in my brain is so ridiculous, I’d probably try DIY lobotomy before I consider the AI option.
- Comment on Next-Gen Brain Implants Offer New Hope for Depression: AI and real-time neural feedback could transform treatments 2 weeks ago:
Thinking about AI trying to fix my brain cured my depression, thanks.
- Comment on Why do Conservatives physically look evil? 3 weeks ago:
I won’t fight a war together with any moron who will fight others based on their looks, so I guess you’re on your own there … I’ll probably fight others based on their actions, so hit me up again once you’ve reached that stage of moral development.
- Comment on Why do Conservatives physically look evil? 3 weeks ago:
Guess what, to the conservatives you look evil. Let’s just not play this game, it usually doesn’t end well.
- Comment on Hot enough for ya? 3 weeks ago:
Oh wait I do have a solar cooker already, parked in front of my house. No need to waste time building one. Gotta remember next time it gets hot and sunny!
- Comment on Lights out 4 weeks ago:
Best fucking nosebleed of my entire childhood!
- Comment on How not to lose your job to AI 4 weeks ago:
Huh, I wonder what wrote this stupid article on this not at all fishy fucking website. /s