Critical_Insight
@Critical_Insight@feddit.uk
- Comment on Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover 5 months ago:
Or I just have cheap taste buds. While to other people food is a pleasure to me it’s fuel.
- Comment on Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover 5 months ago:
I prefer Burger King over most restaurants.
I’m probably going to order a burger anyways so I don’t see the need to pay extra for a fancy one that I need a knife and fork to eat when I can get just as tasty burger from BK.
- Comment on What's the best way to read a book in a dark room? 5 months ago:
That’s not why the light is red lol
Red light doesn’t mess up your night vision. With a red light you can turn it off and still see as long as there’s some ambient light such as moonlight. With white light you need to wait for 10 to 15 minutes for your eyes to get accustomed.
- Comment on AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says 5 months ago:
Asbestos and holes in the o-zone layer were real issues though and both have now been more or less resolved. It’s not like new problems mean the previous ones weren’t valid.
- Comment on Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 5 months ago:
Continuing the trend of completely butchering the rear end of the vehicle as is the case with many other modern cars aswell.
- Comment on Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem 5 months ago:
Do human artists not take any influence from art they’ve seen before? I could name you the photographer that has influenced me the most and if you compare our photos it’s quite apparent. Is my art just a hoax?
- Comment on Are flying cars finally here? 5 months ago:
Looks like a helicopter to me
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 5 months ago:
This was a highway test though, not how EPA test the ranges
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 5 months ago:
What am I wrong about? What happened to Venus was caused by the eruption of super volcanoes. That’s the exact example I used above of an actual existential threat.
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 5 months ago:
According to who? I’m sure you can link me some study to back up those claims.
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 5 months ago:
An asteroid impact or super volcano eruption has the potential to kill every single human on earth and end the human race. That’s what I mean by existential threat. I feel like many people think of climate change as something that’s on the same scale but it really isn’t. Saying stuff like “climate change will ruin us all” just isn’t true. There are degrees of bad and while climate change definitely is up there in the bad end of the spectrum there’s still events that are orders of magnitude worse.
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 5 months ago:
It will be catastrophic. At no point have I claimed otherwise.
It will however not be civilization ending. It’s not an existential threat humanity like an asteroid impact or super volcano eruption would be.
- Comment on Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture 5 months ago:
Climate change is bad but it’s not an asteroid hit or super volcano eruption bad. It will not “ruin us all” and no credible scientist is claiming it would. Uneducated fear mongering like this is what causes extreme anxiety to people that don’t know any better.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 5 months ago:
It has the aerodynamics of a brick
- Comment on NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian 5 months ago:
Surprised it’s not encrypted in the first place. You haven’t been able to listen to police communications in Finland since the 90’s
- Comment on Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals 5 months ago:
The friend’s coworker did it daily for months
That’s both extremely stupid and irresponsible but also quite impressive on Tesla’s part.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals 5 months ago:
What do you mean it clearly isn’t atleast somewhat close to ready?
- Comment on Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals 5 months ago:
Full Self Driving is still in beta stage.
AI DRIVR has good content on Tesla FSD if you’re actually interested in knowing how good it is.
- Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. 5 months ago:
This is the sole reason my gaming rig is now running on Ubuntu. I have never had Linux on my personal computer but since I was forced to update the OS anyway, I thought might aswell give Linux a shot.
- Comment on Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. 5 months ago:
I can assure you that my car isn’t tracking anyone. It even lets me go sideways without needing to ask for permission first.
- Comment on Bluesky posts are finally open to the public 5 months ago:
You have my attention
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 5 months ago:
Yeah I agree. The apologia for Russia, China and just communism in general (or what ever you want to call it) fucks with your mind a bit. If Lemmy is the only social media you use it quickly starts to seem like this kind of thinking is far more common than what it really is and it can make one question their own sanity when reasonable sounding critizism of this is met with huge flood of downvotes. Especially if the discussion is happening on a place like lemmy.ml. As an outside observer I find it interesting as I haven’t really met people like this before but trying to engage with them is one of the most frustrating things I’ve experienced especially since a mod is going to ban you mid-discussion for “misinformation and bigotry” or something similar while it’s clear to everyone it’s just CCP level cencorship to silence all dissidence.
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 5 months ago:
I’ve been slowly getting back into reddit lately. While I want Lemmy to thrive and will keep contributing to help it do so it’s still hardly a replacement for reddit. Compared to it, Lemmy is basically a single moderately active subreddit. If I had to name a type of person Lemmy at its current state is ideal for I’d say a left-wing activist type whose into tech and politics. While that has some overlap with what I’m interested about it still leaves out all my deepest passions and to be honest I feel really uncomfortable knowingly being in such an obvious echo chamber. I’d really wish there was more of the kind of users here that most of you probably dont want. Just to even things out a bit.
- Comment on Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep 5 months ago:
I’m barely getting a decent 4G connection. My phone does support 5G but I haven’t even considered paying for it as I see no point. Even 3G is fast enough for my needs.
- Comment on Does anyone wish they could go back to the beginning of schooling and re-live their education/school experience from the start? 5 months ago:
Fuuck no! While there sure are thing I miss about my childhood and teenage years school isn’t one of those. School fucking sucked.
- Comment on 'The Last of Us' Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023 5 months ago:
It’s one of the few shows that peaked my interest as I love zombies and post apocalyptic worlds but I only got thru like 4 or 5 episodes until I stopped watching as it was utter garbage as are most things that’s on TV nowdays. That’s why I don’t feel like paying for it either. I don’t seem to be in the target audience for most things.
- Comment on Chinese Carmaker Overtakes Tesla as World’s Most Popular EV Maker 5 months ago:
Atleast Musk and Tesla shareholders aren’t commiting a genocide so the argument could be made that it indeed is less bad.
- Comment on Chinese Carmaker Overtakes Tesla as World’s Most Popular EV Maker 5 months ago:
Perhaps consider an used car instead of a brand new one? New electric vehicle is worse for the environment than one that already exists even if it runs on petrol/diesel
- Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next. 6 months ago:
Can confirm
- Comment on X Is The Biggest Source Of Fake News And Disinformation, EU Warns 7 months ago:
Trying to correct misinformation on Lemmy be like:
I think most people prefer their own bubble over the harsh reality.
