aesthelete
@aesthelete@lemmy.world
- Comment on The internet connects people 1 day ago:
Yeah I’ll remain ignorant because I didn’t read some poorly composed wall of text written by some random stranger on the Internet.
You know what, you’re right after all. This is a great community. I can feel the sense of belonging already. 😆
- Comment on The internet connects people 1 day ago:
I ain’t reading all that.
- Comment on The internet connects people 1 day ago:
That seems like the problem and what’s creating the perception making you agree with this.
No, you just personalize everything.
Again, I’m not making up the statistics. I’m not writing the books or doing the analysis. People who spend their whole career doing this stuff are doing it, and you find it easy to dismiss all of it because you agree with the “criticisms” section of a wikipedia page, have a confirmation bias, and you like the little tech bubble you live in…so it must not be a problem overall if it doesn’t affect you personally.
- Comment on The internet connects people 1 day ago:
I’m sorry you’re struggling with loneliness, personally I’m definitely not and I can’t say I know anyone who is.
It has nothing to do with me personally. I’m a bit of a hermit myself. I’d say my social needs started to not be met around 2022 (after approximately 2 years of near total isolation due to COVID) but now I’m completely back up to baseline again.
It has to do with the country: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone.
The data also doesn’t tell the story you’re telling anecdotally here: wgbh.org/…/loneliness-most-prevalent-for-bisexual…
Yes, it’s possible for people in marginalized communities to reach each other digitally using the Internet, it’s also possible for them to encounter more hatred and bigotry online than they used to in real life (albeit with hopefully less dire consequences).
Sounds like we’re just measuring mental health awareness, plus the rise in boomers using the web and often exposing people to their alienating rhetoric.
I don’t think I’m “just measuring” anything. If you want to plug your ears and pretend that I’m not talking about real problems, that’s all fine and dandy. Go ahead about your day and enjoy your dating apps, but social media isn’t all roses.
There is research indicating that, for one thing, these platforms cause real harm to girls in adolescence specifically: noemamag.com/social-media-messed-up-our-kids-now-…
- Comment on Ironing 2 days ago:
We’ve got a collective fetish for being lightly choked all day while in an air conditioned space and attending meetings about “north star visions”.
- Comment on The internet connects people 2 days ago:
😆
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 2 days ago:
Dude we’re discussing kindergartners.
A kindergartener having to even be in high trauma situations in the first place is a societal failing, and one that probably shouldn’t be papered over by giving them first aid training but instead be handled by addressing the reasons why you’re putting so many kindergarteners in traumatic situations in the first place.
- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 2 days ago:
Not like these people had any warning that they might be dealing with a shitty product designed and sold by a pathological liar /s:
And the glass is virtually indestructible instantly smashes
- Comment on The internet connects people 2 days ago:
Would you say smaller forums where people largely know each other are communities then? IRC? Discord?
Probably not, but they’re at least closer. Real communities provide you care, support, relief from loneliness, a sense of purpose, etc. etc. etc.
It’s possible for some to find tiny nuggets of these benefits in even the worst online “communities”, but by and large it’s does not exactly scratch the same itches that your grandma’s sewing circle or bridge club used to.
Because I struggle to think what else could or has ever fit such a strict definition.
It’s difficult to reason about because if you’re anywhere close to my age group (old ass millenial) online “communities” appeared and replaced existing physical communities across the country (I’m speaking in US terms). We’re now basically as lonely as we’ve ever been as a country, and I think it’s at least partially related to us going inside and screen timing it up for a number of decades on these platforms where “the community” is a bunch of strangers angrily typing messages to you through the Internet.
I find it no small coincidence that loneliness in America skyrocketed even as people became more active on social media. It points at the exact lack of benefit you get out of these “communities” that you used to get out of the old type.
- Comment on The internet connects people 2 days ago:
Yeah but that doesn’t mean I think it’s a “community” that I am “joining”.
Certainly by some definition of the word you can call these things communities just because that’s how language works. Using “community” in this way is so pervasive I laughingly recall a tech bro watch company calling the people that buy their watches a “community”.
But from the meaning of the word before the rise of social media, social media platforms and the loosely structured groups underneath that you “form” by “joining” (AKA sometimes just looking at a video or web page or something) them definitely don’t resemble nor replace a community.
- Comment on The internet connects people 2 days ago:
I don’t understand how anyone thinks any social media platform resembles a community.
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 2 days ago:
The problem is the slaughterhouses hiring children, not that the children working there can’t moonlight as EMTs. 🤦
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 2 days ago:
Probably has fair few bots, foreign actors looking to stir up shit, and a half dozen corporate shills looking to alter public opinion as well.
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 2 days ago:
Like industrial accidents from bad management and OSHA/child-labor violations.
Yes, which certainly we’d expect a kindergartener to encounter. /s
If you have a situation in your country where you’re regularly expecting kindergartners to perform first aid, you’ve failed them before you’ve even kicked off the lesson.
- Comment on Rock Eagle Flag 2 days ago:
Problem is, gun are useful.
Problem is, people are stupid.
- Comment on Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot 1 month ago:
Aww, how great, the nerds finally invented themselves a friend.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
They suck ass. Stop paying them money.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 month ago:
Good.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 month ago:
It also is going to take another leap in algorithm.
It was a hard problem to solve when Google’s founders cracked it, but it’s an even harder problem to solve now that you have state of the art spam bots filling the Internet full of shit that looks like it was composed by humans.
If someone cracks how to figure out whether something is ai or not (for real, not the fake solutions we have now) and adds that to a good search algorithm and filters the fake shit by default, they will have a hell of a product on their hands.
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 1 month ago:
You’d be like this guy if you made furniture: youtu.be/dTcvmmOkqJI
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 1 month ago:
There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.
That’s where I would recommend one thing to other software people as a software person myself: make your own tools.
I started writing a little notepad type thing just so I could have a cross platform tool with a set bunch of capabilities no matter what OS I’m on.
It’s very rewarding to just want something, make it, and use it.
It can be simple, it can be complicated… It can work like everything else does or only in a way that works for you.
It’s very freeing to work on something where you don’t have to ask fifteen people what the requirements are and then have them change under you. If your tool is useful and you use it you don’t even need testing overhead either.
I highly recommend it. Build your own tools when you find the existing ones to be frustrating.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 month ago:
I don’t know how you don’t understand how this is different. You could literally buy a better phone that can run lots of other Android apps faster for $200.
Everything else you listed there has unique attributes, it’s not just a crippled, crappy phone running a single app. A drone flies, a smart HVAC control…controls your HVAC… 🤦♂️
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 month ago:
Would you pay $200 for an android app?
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 month ago:
It’s an experimental device and by buying it you invest into r&d.
This is laughably untrue. By buying this you’ve proven to them that their marketing oriented approach to product development is correct, and that customers will throw away good money on half-designed, disposable shit.
By the looks of this shitty project, they spent most of their money on design idiots that think they’re the next coming of Steve Jobs, and blathering marketing morons that think of they say AI and “the future” enough that it doesn’t matter that the products they actually deliver are half-done, also-ran, clout-chasing-garbage with hardware from the clearance section of Alibaba.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 month ago:
And in 10 years everyone will have similar ai-enhanced devices.
In 10 years (or actually 0 years because it’s already true to an extent) people will have an AI enhanced device… And it’ll be a phone.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 month ago:
Dude it’s an android app they are trying to sell for $200. Get some better expectations.
- Comment on high energy 1 month ago:
Spoon was right: they want your soul.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 1 month ago:
Good.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 2 months ago:
Twenty years of sweet freedom from ads
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
I get that it’s probably technically possible to bypass, but it wouldn’t matter. In some cases, it’d actually be illegal to bypass and almost nobody would do it.
But hey, it’s not happened (yet) so this is purely speculation.