TranquilTurbulence
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- Comment on Creepy companies don't ask for your consent. 52 minutes ago:
Can confirm. These are the three cancers of the internet. Amazon is the fourth.
- Comment on if "you are what you eat", and you only eat vegans, you're both vegan and not at the same time 10 hours ago:
Microbes eat filth, so they are filth. Bugs eat the microbes, so bugs are also filth by extension. Rats eat those bugs, foxes eat the rats, humans eat the foxes etc. It’s just filth all the way.
- Comment on Creepy companies don't ask for your consent. 16 hours ago:
True, but this kind of psychopath level behavior is very telling. You’ll know exactly how much they respect you.
- Comment on Creepy companies don't ask for your consent. 16 hours ago:
When those companies roll out new features, are they opt-in, opt-out or sneaky stealth assassin features that just stab you in the back one day without any warning?
- Submitted 16 hours ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 22 hours ago:
It’s a bit more complicated than that though. Most people can’t buy a property, because they don’t have enough money. In order to go around that problem, they either borrow money or rent the property. Either way, some extra money always goes somewhere.
Some of it is justified, because you need to go around the problem not having enough money to buy a house. However, there are many cases where that extra expense is absolute wild and rooted in greed.
Actually, if you happen to own the property, some extra money will go to periodic maintenance and miscellaneous expenses you never even think of if you just rent the place. You just don’t pay for those things every month a little bit at a time. Instead, you pay a large bill once a year or an enormous bill every 10 years.
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 3 days ago:
Boiling it in nitrogen is so much more fun.
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 3 days ago:
Gastronomy and botany can’t agree on anything…
- Comment on what does it mean being nice to your coworkers to you? 3 days ago:
On top of that, knowing a bit about your colleagues makes it more comfortable to work with them. It will be easier to approach them and ask for help or advice when you need it.
Obviously, everyone isn’t quite that social, so you need to respect the boundaries — your own and theirs. If you can come to an understanding about what can be shared, how much, and when, then you start to see the benefits. The atmosphere becomes more chill, and you’ll have more energy to get stuff done.
Alternatively, you may find out that you don’t want to be around some people, and that’s valuable information too. Some people are toxic, and getting to know them a little bit will help you make more informed decisions in the future. If you never chat with anyone, those toxic people might end up hurting you later.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 5 days ago:
Just a random coworker, nothing more important than that. We’re not even on any projects together, and I think I would rather keep it that way.
Having thought about this case a bit more, the risks are definitely uncomfortably high. Avoiding him seems like the best option. Besides, he rambles on an on about some drama that isn’t really helpful in my job anyway. Not really the kind of person I need around me.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 6 days ago:
There’s this guy who talks way too much about himself and how he is right about something and how other people don’t get it and so on. I was just wondering if I should start avoiding him like the plague.
- Comment on It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it 6 days ago:
That’s the bizarre thing about English. Maybe native English speakers don’t really think about it, but as someone looking at this mess from the outside, I can tell you that it’s really nice when verbs and nouns are distinct.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 6 days ago:
I know they definitely are into rubber and strapping though.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 6 days ago:
Yeah, it gets ridiculous at times. If you’re in a niche community, you can expect to see some “professional jargon”, but in general communities like asklemmy and nostupidquestions using those types of niche acronyms just don’t make much sense.
If you’re in a car specific community, you can throw your acronyms around, but outside it you shouldn’t expect people to know what a BSM is. Be considerate and call it a blind spot monitor instead.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 6 days ago:
Thanks for the advice. I better be cautious with this one.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 6 days ago:
Hmm… That is a good point. Seems like a risky experiment.
The idea with this test setup is based on the idea that the result could potentially provide new information instead of just confirming what I already believe to be true. An inferior experiment would just involve mild flattery, but that can only result in confirmation bias instead of rejecting a hypothesis. Not my favorite type of experiment.
I guess and observational approach is the way to go in this case.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 1 week ago:
Hmmm… That gives me an idea.
I know someone who might be a narcissist. Maybe I could exploit this vulnerability to expose him. You know, just to test my suspicions. Could just say something that mildly challenges his ego and see how he responds. If he menages to keep his cool like a normal person, then my hypothesis was wrong and I don’t have to be so suspicious of him any more.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s actually great. Vegetables are therefore fully under gastronomy, so there’s no possibility of naming collisions. We should have more terms like that. You know, like “tasty”, “spicy”, “yummy” etc. are not technical terms, nor should they be.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Goes to show that gastronomical and botanical terms have more than just a few contradictions.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 1 week ago:
Don’t know about household plumbers, but in a B2B setting you totally do charge for mobilization. Usually, the site is like 500-2000 km away from the specialist you happen to need today. Those service engineers need to travel everywhere in the EMEA region anyway, so a distance like that is just another Thursday for them.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 1 week ago:
Doctors call it “pharyngitis”, because they need to be specific in their documents. Normal people just call it “sore throat”, because that’s close enough and easy to understand. Same thing should apply to various brain disorders too.
If you aren’t writing to medical professionals, go with whatever description you understand better. It’s going to be easier for everyone involved.
If you’re in America, you should look up the relevant TLA and use that instead. Every American seems to be born with the innate ability to know all of them, so it’s just as good as using the easily understandable two word description.
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 1 week ago:
Yeah…… and that’s exactly why I’m still here.
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 1 week ago:
The old web is dead. The fediverse lives.
- Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded? 1 week ago:
Expelling gas removes that bit of thermal energy (heat) from your system, but it shouldn’t alter your temperature in any way. Next, the warm gas mixes with air. The new gas mixture will have more heat than it had before, which will increase its average temperature a little bit. Probably not an easily measurable effect.
- Comment on Is This Social Media? 1 week ago:
One of the broadest definitions I’ve seen included email in the list. People don’t really think of it as a social media, but it fits the description.
This highlights the problem with binary definitions — they rarely fit in the real world. Like, where you draw the line between religion and way of life/philosophy/etc. Same thing here. If you look at the list of things that are commonly considered social medias, you can derive some rules from them. As usual, applying the rules leads to some bizarre classifications where email gets labeled as a social media or Lemmy gets excluded or whatever.
Real life is messy, and doesn’t fit neatly into a binary box. Sone tentacle will always peak out from some of the corners, holes or cracks.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 1 week ago:
I was just thinking about that. If the copyright is tied to the author being alive, that’s essentially putting a huge target on your back. People have mysteriously died for much less than that.
- Comment on There are definitely people learning a second language being accused of AI slop. 1 week ago:
Children aren’t obsessed with technically correct punctuation, whereas LLMs are. For example, they just love to use em dashes — like this.
- Comment on Is it better to: [A] watch videos content on a flagship/midrange smartphone that you already have, OR [B] get a cheap tablet (say, around $200 USD) to watch videos? 2 weeks ago:
On top of that, location matters. Not that many people carry a tablet with them when sitting in a tram, or waiting at a subway station. A phone would be so much nicer in that case. If you’re just chilling at home, a tablet will be more convenient.
- Comment on "make out" has an awful lot of meanings for two words that seemingly don't make any sense together 2 weeks ago:
Some of those feel made up.
- Comment on What weight would you this to be at 4’11? 2 weeks ago:
The correct weight.