paintbucketholder
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- Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app 11 months ago:
Is it intentionally hostile on Apple’s part to bar androids from joining? Yes. But the reactions from Apple users aren’t entirely unjustified
The reaction from Apple users is to blame Android users - which is entirely unjustified.
But of course, post purchase rationalization and brand loyalty play a big part in why people want to externalize blame rather than questioning their own decision or blaming their favorite company for providing a shitty cross-platform messaging experience.
- Comment on Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive 11 months ago:
It’s probably just a definition thing.
To me, constructive criticism means that the criticism doesn’t just point out failure, but that it then also shows how to correct that failure.
By itself, “you’re doing it wrong” is just destructive: it takes something apart, it destroys it. Without a subsequent “and here’s how you would do it right,” it doesn’t become constructive, it doesn’t help in putting things back together in the correct way.
Sure, as a first step, “you’re doing it wrong” is completely justified when something is actually wrong.
But without the second step - the constructive part - it just doesn’t constitute constructive criticism. By itself, it’s just criticism.
- Comment on Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive 11 months ago:
Is saying “you’re doing it wrong” really constructive?
- Comment on 'It was animal slaughter': Israeli festival survivor describes horror 11 months ago:
I’m not the one justifying any mass murder.
- Comment on 'It was animal slaughter': Israeli festival survivor describes horror 11 months ago:
Yeah, that totally justifies the cold blooded murder of 265 people.
- Comment on Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather 1 year ago:
Yeah. Wanting a Tesla 5 years ago is very different from still wanting a Tesla today, in 2023, after Elon has told everyone, in public, exactly who he was.
- Comment on Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather 1 year ago:
Since you seem know a lot about Tesla: when people pay those $12,000 for the “Full Self-Driving package,” does Tesla tell them they can’t use it when it gets cold outside?
- Comment on I Donated My Eggs to Help Pay Off My Student Loans 1 year ago:
Plus you have to be marketable, which involves an interview process where you prove you’re healthy, attractive, not fat, free of mental/physical illness, and have good family history.
That has to be true for men as well, right?
- Comment on Captain, remember your breathing exercises. They're not worth it. 1 year ago:
Regular counselor? Sure, doesn’t need to be on the bridge.
Mind-reading empath, though? Massive strategic advantage in any encounter, friend or foe! Put her on the bridge!
- Comment on Printer driver failure: All hands abandon ship! 1 year ago:
If you think transporter room duty is boring,
Side note: why are they even using the transporter room at all? Site-to-site transport exists, and the transporter can be controlled from any terminal.
So why, when there’s an emergency, do people frantically run to the turbolift, traverse a dozen decks, run along corridors, enter the transporter room and jump unto those little platforms, when they could just beam to wherever they need to go right from where they’re standing?
Same question about medical emergencies - why is it not standard procedure to simply beam people to sickbay? Instead, doctors are running along corridors, taking turbolifts up and down and across decks, running some more along corridors, only to arrive at a patient and declare “bring him to sickbay immediately!!!”
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X removes New York Times’ verification badge 1 year ago:
At this point, one of the things keeping Twitter alive is that 99 percent of journalists and media outlets have refused to leave, despite all the evidence that there’s nothing to be gained for them on that platform.
It’s just their own FOMO that keeps them there.
I’d wish they’d follow the lead of those organizations who simply left, or, better yet, started up their own Mastodon instances.
- Comment on Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them 1 year ago:
Chinese electric car makers get absolutely massive state subsidies. There are companies like Nio that have never made a single dollar of profit. Nio has been losing money on every single car they sell, to the point where they’ve been losing almost a billion dollars in the last quarter alone.
However, China doesn’t care. The state keeps financing these companies, because if they can undermine European and American auto makers to the point where they’re simply unable to compete and maybe even completely collapse, then Chinese car makers will be the only ones left in the market, and they’ll be able to charge any price they want.
And realistically, which American or European car maker will be able to compete with a multitude of Chinese competitors that all can afford to lose billions and billions every year without batting an eye?
So that’s why they want to fight “low prices.”
- Comment on SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds 1 year ago:
I never said there’s no new technology because there is
Well, alright then: what is the new emissions reducing technology that 2023 SUVs have, but smaller 2013 cars don’t have?
- Comment on SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds 1 year ago:
Right.
So no changes between 2013 and 2023 standards for petrol cars. No new technology to reduce harmful emissions either.
So there’s no actual argument in favor of a new SUV over a 10 year old car, outside of marginal degradation of the catalytic converter or degradation of the combustion process - most of which should still be caught in emissions tests.
And even then, properly maintaining the car, replacing the catalytic converter or even replacing the 10 year old car with a new car of the same size instead of upsizing to an SUV would all be better for the environment than buying a new SUV.
- Comment on SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds 1 year ago:
How so? Cars have to pass emissions tests, and ten year old cars have to pass them, too.
Also: what significant improvements in filtering out “other types of emissions” have there been made in consumer vehicles in the last 10 years, and what “other types of emissions” are those?
- Comment on SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds 1 year ago:
It’s also such a race to outsize other vehicles.
I know SUV drivers who bought an SUV because “everyone owns an SUV, and if you’re driving around in a smaller car, you can’t see anything around you any more.” They’re not even wrong, in some communities it’s getting really hard to participate in traffic of you’re constantly surrounded by much larger, taller cars on all sides.
But of course, they’re now just perpetuating the problem.
- Comment on Parents told to delete social media apps to prevent kids from seeing Hamas atrocities — Facebook, X, TikTok and other social media services have been filled with graphic imagery 1 year ago:
It’s not that you’re not saying it often enough, it’s that you’re stopping halfway through what’s being proposed here.
You’re seeing it as a one-sided, negative thing for the Palestinian side that the atrocities of Hamas are being “singled out” - but you’re completely ignoring the fact that they’re being “singled out” in order to be hidden from children.
This means that children would never learn - at least not on their own, via social media - of these atrocities committed by Hamas. That would appear like a net positive for the Palestinian side.
You’re getting caught up in the “singling out” part while ignoring the “in order to hide it from children” part.
- Comment on It was worth the trip 1 year ago:
There’s been really no follow-up on whether or not that STD ever cleared up, either…
- Comment on Parents told to delete social media apps to prevent kids from seeing Hamas atrocities — Facebook, X, TikTok and other social media services have been filled with graphic imagery 1 year ago:
That’s an argument, sure.
It just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, at least if presented as an argument criticizing Israel.
“We want kids to see all the atrocities committed by our side, but none of the atrocities committed by our enemies” would at the very least be an unconventional approach to war time propaganda.
You know what I’m getting at?
- Comment on Parents told to delete social media apps to prevent kids from seeing Hamas atrocities — Facebook, X, TikTok and other social media services have been filled with graphic imagery 1 year ago:
OP is implying parents should be ok with Israeli violence, but not ok with Palestinian violence.
Parents **should want **their kids to see violence committed by Israel, but they should want their kids to not be able to see violence committed by Palestinians?
Why?
- Comment on Parents told to delete social media apps to prevent kids from seeing Hamas atrocities — Facebook, X, TikTok and other social media services have been filled with graphic imagery 1 year ago:
Wait, I don’t get this argument.
You’re saying parents are cool with it if they’re kids see atrocities committed by Israel, but as soon as a Palestinians terrorist group commits atrocities, parents don’t want their kids to see it - implying parents want to protect the reputation of Hamas?
- Comment on Apple AirTag Stalking Has Led to Murder, Amended Class-Action Lawsuit Says 1 year ago:
However, the onus to mitigate problems created by one company shouldn’t be their on competitors.
Apple launched AirTags alone, leveraging its massive Find My network, in order to have an immense advantage in the market, and this helped Apple rake in millions and millions of dollars.
It could have coordinated with Google even before the AirTag launch, but this would have probably resulted in missing out on millions in profits. So Apple chose profits over mitigating ethical and moral concerns, and only fixed problems a long time after it started selling the product to customers.
- Comment on EU opens investigation into X over alleged disinformation - The European Union announced today it is opening an investigation into X for allegedly spreading illegal content and disinformation, incl... 1 year ago:
If Twitter is doing business and earning money in the European Union, then it has to abide by national law - just like any other business operating in the EU.
In a scenario where Twitter doesn’t comply with the law, the European Union can fine Twitter, appropriate earnings from the European market, sue in the United States or income bilateral agreements, file for extradition, or shut down Twitter in the EU via IP ban and having the app removed from the various national app stores. Google and Apple will comply for their app stores, and European providers will comply regarding an IP ban. Some people might still be able to figure out how to access Twitter via sideloading and VPN, bit it would effectively destroy Twitter’s business in the European Union.
So yes, there’s a lot the EU can do.
- Comment on Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits 1 year ago:
No that was an observation.
An observation about the argument is part of a debate, an observation about the person that is making the argument is an ad hominem.
It’s literally the definition of “ad hominem.”
In that regard, your defense that you were merely making an observation is irrelevant. It’s relevant what you were making an observation about.
I’m not judging you for it, I don’t think you’re of poor character due to it.
Again irrelevant, and I don’t particularly care either way what you may or may not think about me.
The relevant point is that instead of tackling the argument that was being made, you decided to instead attack my comprehension.
That’s an ad hominem, an attack on the person you’re having a conversation with.
I’m not complaining about that, by the way, I’m merely providing you with an explanation since you’re apparently ignorant - i.e. lacking the knowledge - of what does and what doesn’t constitute an ad hominem.
You, on the other hand, are the one complaining about being attacked after bringing the conversation down to a level of ad hominem attacks, and you seem to be interested in maintaining that low level of discourse by throwing in another ad hominem here.
So my suggestion to you would be: either refrain from attacking other posters and focus on the arguments they’re making, or try not acting insulted when you’re being treated the same way that you’re treating others.
- Comment on Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits 1 year ago:
Of course, I’d be happy to!
It was when you questioned my comprehension of the argument that was being made instead of the argument itself by saying “you just haven’t understood the position.”
That’s literally an ad hominem.
- Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage 1 year ago:
I just had that conversation with a group of adults who all had iPhones and were unwilling to add non-iPhone people to a group or change messaging apps.
The reasons given were:
- My iPhone is too old, I can’t install another messaging app.
- I’m not going to install another app where I have to remember another password.
- Messages don’t go through when we add a non-iPhone user to the group.
The conclusion by the group was “just buy an iPhone!”
And that’s a group of adults. I can’t imagine the bullying and peer pressure teenagers have to face over something as idiotic as messaging apps.
- Comment on Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits 1 year ago:
Why complain about ad hominems after attacking me? You’re the one who lowered the level of the discourse - why are you complaining now?
- Comment on Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits 1 year ago:
You were clearly arguing against a position that nobody here took.
That means you either lack the reading comprehension to understand what was stated, or you’re purposefully creating a strawman to argue against.
- Comment on Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits 1 year ago:
I’m merely reiterating the position of the poster you replied to.
You can disagree with that position, but you seemed to be replying to a position that nobody was even taking.
- Comment on Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits 1 year ago:
they implied the root comment was saying that two things couldn’t be bad or only one could be solved.
I don’t agree with that interpretation.
They simply stated that ranking things by “badness” also implies a ranking in terms of which one of those bad things is more urgent and should be addressed first - not that one thing was bad and that the other want, or that only one thing could be solved.