dream_weasel
@dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 4 days ago:
It’s the style, or more specifically what it is turning into. Seems like when I got my first tastes of hip hop in the 90s it was more… musical / music forward? and now it kinda feels like just another rap flavor.
Same with greatest rapper and greatest country singer of all time: I would be inclined to steer clear since it’s just generally not my thing.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 5 days ago:
I don’t know how to help you, but I’ll tell you that I have the opposite perspective. The two artists I’d most like to avoid are the ones you mentioned, so if there was a way I could eliminate suggestions from anyone who was like “fuck yeah Kendrick and Drake” I would absolutely do that.
Taste over time is totally divergent and you’ve probably got your work cut out for you to find your exact niche :).
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
Yo ho, yo ho…
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 week ago:
You have simultaneously also described why you can’t easily unite a left-leaning base. My issue is obviously the most important (and so is everyone else’s to them) at every moment. Also if you are a rep you are honor bound to resign and recuse and be a perfect parent of the children in the other camp.
Yes, we can walk and chew gum, but you can’t chase every car in the lot at the same time and you can’t shoot yourself in the leg out of honor when the competition is going to shoot your other leg for spite.
- Comment on They say your body is the only instrument that doesn't require any lessons 1 week ago:
I usually use the heel of my hand and hit it right on the 57.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
If the question is why do people hate XXX, doesn’t it matter who is the most critical of lifestyles? It seems to me that if you provide an unprovoked critique, unless the subject of the critique agrees with your perspective they are likely to… dislike said critique or the person providing it, yeah?
Hence the relevance of who provided the first critique: right or not, people might not like it.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I would absolutely agree with you if there was only one surefire way to making earth uninhabitable, but luckily we’ve got several of those on the table at once.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
As a thread reader here (not really contributor for this part) I see your point and I appreciate it, but I don’t know if it actually helps your case?
Basically you have established a moral high-ground and visceral reaction from the perspective of the non meat eating type and I can empathize with it, but doesn’t every group have this? Like if you said “Oh but it’s not just about birth control it’s about intentionally thwarting human life” as an argument for Catholics being against birth control… I can understand it but it isn’t an argument yeah? It’s an argument if I agree with your perspective, but otherwise I don’t think you’ve done anything different than the guy you replied to from a purely argumentative standpoint: you both gave a perspective and neither of you met in the middle.
From a debate perspective he’s got you by the short hairs because, even though he may not be absolutely right, you’ve made yourself look a little dickish to the rest of us.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
What if I told you the quiet part loud? I don’t think every life is fundamentally created equal.
I’m a farm boy turned liberal and if you’re going to argue about climate change and the benefits of a vegetarian diet in that respect, you’ve got the right of it and I’ll eat less meat (I’m trying). If you’re going to say “cow abuse is child abuse!” I will personally come murder a cow for you and eat it with you (or against you, I guess?).
You are barking up the wrong tree and have missed the point whenever you come to this argument. Plants and animals grown for food ARE. FOR. FOOD. and you will not turn me to your way of thinking by crying foul about their treatment. I would love to minimize animal suffering / I am not into animal torture, but you’re just not going to get there unless you’re literally demonstrating widespread suffering for sport of livestock animals. If there was a raccoon outside right now screwing with my dog or my kid or my house or whatever I would absolutely end it and not lose a second of sleep, without considering it’s children or parentage or treatment.
I am who you are dealing with and who you are trying to convert. The “proper way to live” has nothing to do with it. I grow food, I eliminate pests, I eat the food I intended to raise. Cow, corn, pig, dog, cat, unicorn, etc: it gets to grow and flourish as much as I can provide, then it gets harvested to eat, unless it is invasive then it gets summarily removed.
It’s not about callousness or disregard for the beauty of life, my situation has just been fundamentally different than yours unless you also spent childhood raising your own food.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I mean, you are basically always in a group that is fucking the planet or society to some measure or another. Tell me about your religious choice, your political affiliation, your operating system/ phone / perspective on privacy, your opinion on nature vs nurture (or education vs indoctrination), and your perspective on micro- and macro-economic policy and I’ll be happy to tell you were and how you’re a giant irredeemable piece of shit.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
And who, in your estimation, threw the first rock?
- Comment on Found this great deal on a new chair for my living room. Almost 50% off! 1 week ago:
So the other one for $100 and boom free chair
- Comment on Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand? 1 week ago:
Not in the nightstand. That’s just the right height and security for any little kid visitor to end up on the news.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
It’s a form of targeted religious fairness testing for sure, but I wouldn’t call TST a protest org. Nobody really stands outside and holds a banner as much as just filing lawsuits.
- Comment on This is not a stereogram. If you look at it a certain way it will not resolve into anything. 1 week ago:
Swordfish or shark? Hard to do this on mobile.
- Comment on we must go back and fix this 1 week ago:
Damn it, hitler.
- Comment on we must go back and fix this 2 weeks ago:
Who do I have to kill to stop the genre in the cradle?
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
Welcome
- Comment on Yep 2 weeks ago:
Peak television lol
- Comment on Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs 2 weeks ago:
I would say there is a second thing: the uniform pricing and direct to customer sales model.
- Comment on Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs 2 weeks ago:
It would free many of us. I’ve got 2 Teslas in my garage and nothing that uses gas anymore. Tesla made a decent EV / Tech, but the car itself is shitty and cheap. If there was another all electric car built by an established manufacturer with it’s own network I’d buy that in a heartbeat.
The only other thing that Tesla really nailed (and that I would miss) is uniform pricing with online order. I don’t want to go play the dealership middle salesman game ever again if I can help it.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 2 weeks ago:
Shoot, I guess it was worth the wait even though I didn’t.
- Comment on Yep 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 2 weeks ago:
Idk if jerboa even has instance blocking in app yet. I switched to Voyager because it seemed always behind.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
On all of that we can absolutely agree.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
There is no obligation to sacrifice anybody. This is a question of risk vs law vs driver requirement which has got to be sorted out. Sure, point out that musk is shit and his factories are shit, it’s true. He’s also a liar. All true. What I take issue with is saying that the cars are 4 wheeled death machines killing everyone in their path. That is not true. It is also not true that other companies are solving the same problem without risk. They are solving a different problem of highly mapped cities and solutions for specific scenarios.
It’s a people problem and drivers (people) are irresponsible. I bet lift kits have killed more people than Tesla has had autopilot accidents by people not adjusting headlights. People are gonna fuck up. It has to happen, then laws have to be implemented and revised. There’s no hop skip and jump that solves autopilot on a closed course and has zero incident in practice. Conditions on the whole are just too varied. Of course, machine learning is my job so maybe I’m just a pessimist in this regard.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
We get it, you hate Elon Musk. That’s a fine position to take.
You are beta testing for anyone and everyone who is doing anything on the road. You can say “look at this lending tree report” and see accident rates, or look at the article you posted, and compare to human drivers to know which is safer. Or you can say it’s an unknowable lie in which case why are we citing anything besides you saying I hate Musk? Again valid.
He’s making money regardless, so yeah I’m glad that spaceX lands reusable boosters and Tesla pushes the limits of what is possible with an EV so at least we get something back. Considering how many other people hate the shit out of Tesla, I’m sure every time someone hits a raccoon in a Tesla we will get to read about it.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
There will be legal battles for sure. I don’t know how you can argue for anything besides the manufacturer taking responsibility. I don’t know how that doesn’t end up with auto pilot fatalities treated as a class where there’s a lookup table of payouts though. This is the intersection of liability and money/power, so it’s functionally uncharted territory at least in the US.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
That’s kind of a tough article to trust if I’m being honest. It may in fact be true, but it’s an opinion piece.
I find it a little weird to look only within sales for the year and also not to discuss the forms of autopilot or car use cases.
For example, are we talking about highway only driving, lane keeping assist, end to end residential urban, rural unmarked roads? Some of these are harder problems than others. How about total mileage as well? I’m not sure what the range is on a Nissan leaf, but I think comparing it to a Taycan or mach e seems disingenuous.
All that being said, yeah Tesla has a lot of deaths comparatively, but still way less than regular human drivers. I worry that a truly autonomous experience will not be available until and unless a manufacturer like Tesla pushes the limits on training data and also the fed responds by making better laws. Considering Elon douchiness, I’m also kinda happy Tesla is doing that and catching flak, but paving the way for more established manufacturers.
We were early adopters of Tesla, and trust me the cars are made cheap and the “autopilot” drives like shit even now, but it’s amazing the progress that has been made in the last 6 years.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
The answer is the person behind the wheel.
Tesla makes it very clear to the driver they you still have to pay attention and be ready to take over any time. Full self driving engages the in cabin nanny cam to enforce that you pay attention, above and beyond the frequent reminders to apply turning force to the steering wheel.
Now, once Tesla goes Mercedes and says you don’t have to pay attention, it’s gonna be the company that should step in. I know that’s a big old SHOULD, but right now that’s not the situation anyway.