angelmountain
@angelmountain@feddit.nl
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 11 hours ago:
This kid needs spelling lessons indeed, time to sign up for extra lessons.
- Comment on I did something really terrible when I was 6 years old. Is it normal I still feel bad even though I'm trying to do good and redeem myself? 11 hours ago:
You can’t hold 6 year old kids accountable for stupid stuff they do. I totally understand your feelings, but the best thing you can do is just be a nice person. So take care of others, but also of yourself. Only give when you have something to give, but also only take what you really need. The hurt and shame might stay, but try to nourish it. Us it as inspiration for being a good person from now on. Feed it with more self-punishment and it will only get heavier, like a stone arouns your neck that’s growing and pulling you under. Nobody will be happier when you drown, so don’t. Just do your best, that’s all you can do ❤️
- Comment on The Collapse of GPT: Will future artificial intelligence systems perform increasingly poorly due to AI-generated material in their training data? 1 day ago:
It’s not much different from how humanity learned things. Always verify your sources and re-execute experiments to verify their result.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 3 days ago:
Speak up, tell people what you think and why.
If that doesn’t work: something was added to your constitution for this situation, the second amendment. You can use your six shooter to go up to the government’s tank and gunships. Good luck.
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 3 days ago:
Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand, koning der Nederlanden, Prins van Oranje-Nassau, jonkheer van Amsberg for instance does.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 4 days ago:
I would pay 10 bucks to use them in my survival kit as a fire starter.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 6 days ago:
Maybe refrain from using running chainsaws, but apart from that the park sounds like a great place to practice juggling!
- Comment on Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure all law firms do that nowadays. And they are quite stupid if they don’t. As long as they check the output…
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 3 weeks ago:
Because old people die soon, so it’s difficult to really mess stuff up. It’s like an automatic failsafe.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No because once outside of the US people realise the country is shit and they don’t want to come back anymore, so this will not work sadly enough.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 4 weeks ago:
Linux. For desktops I like it as well, but I can understand some arguments against it. However, for all other cases there is hardly any match. The internet basically runs on it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Depends where you live. In America? Yes you’re a jerk because you are questioning the American “dream”. Anywhere else? As long as you explain why and support your kid in whatever choice he/she makes you’re fine.
- Comment on Any tips for setting up a Mac? A 15+ years Linux user needs help 5 months ago:
Welcome to Apple. You just do what they tell you, there is not really any other option.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I don’t really need any form of TikTok im afraid
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 6 months ago:
With that logic we should give everyone a nuclear bomb and teach them not to press the button. Let’s see how that works out.
Big tegh companies spend billions on ways to influence your behaviour, making it even difficult for adults to not fall for their traps, let alone kids with still very much underdeveloped brains. Just look at all the stupid things you had done when you were a kid.
- Comment on Honey 6 months ago:
My point is that there is no real way to explain what “vegan” really is, since it means different things to different people and all of these people have the best intentions.
So my point actually is, instead of focussing on what to call “vegan” and what not, the discussion should be about bees.
For instance, do they care if you take their honey? Are they harmed? And should I care about whether they are harmed?
- Comment on Honey 6 months ago:
True. Though marketing is a cancer in itself. But I guess that’s a different discussion 😬
- Comment on Honey 6 months ago:
Stupid discussion. It does not matter whether something is in the box “vegan”. Ask yourself why you would or would not eat something. If you don’t want to eat(/drink) dairy because of the way the animals that produce the dairy are treated, would you be ok when they are treated differently? Are bees treated in the same way? Does it matter if you treat them in this way? Those should be your questions, not “does it belong in this box?”.
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 7 months ago:
Indeed, instead of what they need. It’s like only giving sugar to your kid to eat instead of vegetables, because that’s what they “want”. Oh wait that’s actually what happens as well
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 7 months ago:
People like to read those stories because it gives them hope it also happens to them. Media print stories that you want to read, that’s how they make money.
Other stories people like to read: how to world is going to shit (evolutionairy important to prepare to survive), what someone that’s familiar to you did (evolutionary important to be social to work together to survive), stories about how someone else did something stupid (complaining about that toghether gives yoh a sense of belonging) and stories about how a pet cat was retrieved (tickling that instinct to care for others again).
As you can see, media is looking for stories that tickle your most basic insticts and needs, because they know that’s what you will be interested in, making you read their stories so they can make more money.
Welcome to capitalism, you are the product.
- Comment on What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu? 7 months ago:
For me:
- It tells time and is always correct, also during daylight saving season
- It tells the weather forecast, I check it before leaving my house.
- I like that the alarm wakes me up with vibration mode, but not my partner (yes I wear my watch at night, but around my ankle, pro-tip)
- I like to easily read important notifications (I am quite strict in what it does show, so only texts from important people, my calendar and like bank notifications get through). Added benefit is that I don’t get distracted with other stuff because I don’t open my phone.
- I often lose my phone, my watch is able to find it.
- I use my watch to get simple navigation option when I go running/inline skating in an area I don’t know yet. Works better than the phone because I don’t have to hold the phone in my hand.
- I set it up so my partner can see where I’m at. When I see a notification from them asking where I am I can easily (and safily) start the tracking without having to pull out my phone.
- It tracks my heartrate, so I can do heartrate based training.
So is it really necessary? No obviously not, I will survive without it, but I do like it a lot and would miss it of it wasn’t there. But that’s how it is for me, that does not mean it will be the same for you.
- Comment on What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu? 7 months ago:
You’ll be probably be happier with a higher quality watch than with one that barely works. I would not recommend going for an option because it’s cheap, instead go for the one that’s good enough for you needs.
No need to buy the same one as I did, but I have been very happy with my “not the cheapest, not the most expensive”-garmin watch for years. It is reliable, does what i need it to do and is not so expensive that i am afraid of breaking it for instance. I did need to make choices to be able to get it, i could not spend that money on other things, but that only made me feel better when I got it.
More on topic: it’s easy to find accesoires/replacement parts for my watch, it’s easier to get it repaired, both at garmin as well as a local shop, the software has a lot of integration option with other software (strava, komoot, etc.) and i can download apps and watch faces other people with the same watch built and i can be sure my alarm goes off in the morning. I don’t expect the temu watch to have these things. For me it was worth to pay a bit more. Sidenote: I did get a screen protector for my watch from AliExpress, so apparently I’m not against that 😏