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- Comment on I repainted the hood of my truck using rattle cans 12 hours ago:
Around 300 euros and like 4 evenings. I’m going to do it again as I have a replacement door already waiting.
- Comment on I repainted the hood of my truck using rattle cans 13 hours ago:
I had sanded it to 600 grit after primer but not since that. I might wet sand it with 2000 grit once it’s fully cured and then polish it. It does look pretty good already tough. It has evened out significantly while drying.
- Comment on I repainted the hood of my truck using rattle cans 13 hours ago:
It wasn’t quite that much but they aint cheap.
- Comment on I repainted the hood of my truck using rattle cans 17 hours ago:
Way more than it needed to - but if I were to do it from scratch knowing what I know now, I’d say: 3 cans of primer, 5 cans of base coat, and 3 cans of clear coat. That’s 1 coat of primer, 3 coats of paint, and 2 coats of clear coat.
- Comment on When voting for judges in elections, how are you supposed to know which are good? (Since none of them publicly express their political opinions, judges are *supposed* to be neutral) 18 hours ago:
As far as I know, many of the judges Trump appointed during his first term are now making rulings against his interests - despite having been seen as “aligned” when appointed. So in other words: you can’t know. Just make sure they’re competent and fit for the task.
- Comment on I repainted the hood of my truck using rattle cans 18 hours ago:
I used Wurth zinc primer, SprayMax Acrylic base coat mixed to match my truck’s color and SprayMax Clear coat.
With the 2K clear coat you take the red cap and attach it to the bottom of the can. Once you press it down it breaks the hardener capsule inside the can.
- Comment on I repainted the hood of my truck using rattle cans 18 hours ago:
I didn’t realize to take one before I started sanding it but here’s one from when I bought it. There was in total 4 dents on it and few stone chips that had started rusting.
- Comment on I repainted the hood of my truck using rattle cans 19 hours ago:
There are a handful of dust specs embedded in the clear coat, but I consider that acceptable for an 18-year-old truck painted with rattle cans in an open, windy garage with a gravel floor.
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- Comment on Why don't more people use Bilibili instead of YouTube? 21 hours ago:
Because I have no issues with YouTube. I’d much rather use American spyware than Chinese one.
- Comment on Does using ChatGPT change your brain activity? Study sparks debate 1 day ago:
Everything you do changes your brain activity.
This isn’t about using ChatGPT broadly, but specifically about the difference between writing an essay with the help of an LLM versus doing it without. And in this case, I think it all comes down to how you use it. If you just have it write the essay for you, then of course it won’t stimulate your brain to the same extent - that’s like hiring someone to go to the gym for you.
Personally, the way I use it to help with my writing is by doing all the writing myself first. Only after that do I let it check for grammatical errors and help improve the clarity and flow by making minor structural adjustments - while keeping the tone and message of my original draft intact.
For me, the purpose of writing is to convert abstract thoughts into language and pass that information along, hoping the reader understands it well enough that it forms the same idea in their mind. If ChatGPT can help untangle my word salad and make that process more effective, I welcome it.
- Comment on Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report 1 day ago:
The ones stopping us from making a change are the same people who are completely unaffected by others just complaining about them online. The ones most affected by hatred and anger are the hateful and angry people themselves - and the people around them.
- Comment on Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report 1 day ago:
No, but engaging with chronically angry people here on a daily basis has led me to believe that’s not the way forward either. There’s enough hate in the world already, and I don’t intend to partake in it. If you feel that being angry at strangers online leads to a better world, then go ahead - I don’t.
- Comment on Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report 1 day ago:
I don’t get any pleasure from hating on people. I prefer to look for solutions rather than ones to blame but hey, you do you.
- Comment on Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report 2 days ago:
I’d say it’s pretty pointless to blame individuals for taking advantage of a broken system. It’s probably more productive to focus on criticizing and changing the system itself.
- Comment on Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report 2 days ago:
It’s compounding interest. The more money you have invested in the stock market, the easier it becomes to make even more. No “squeeze” is required - just sit back while your money works for you. You don’t even need to be in the global top 1% to take advantage of this. Even I passively earn the equivalent of a few months’ salary each year just by investing my savings - and I’m by no means rich; I do manual labor.
- Comment on Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report 2 days ago:
It plays a factor but there are many others as well. There are no simple explanations to complex problems.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 3 days ago:
This headline format makes me irrationally annoyed.
They shouldn’t be making assumptions about what the reader thinks. It almost feels like they’re planting a bias first and then presenting the facts - instead of just laying things out and letting people make up their own minds.
- Comment on Why does good faith matter ? 3 days ago:
I don’t think actually believing the views you defend is relevant here. Playing devil’s advocate can be done in good faith. In fact, I’d argue that being able to clearly articulate a view you don’t hold is a sign that you’ve genuinely understood your opposition’s arguments. You don’t need to be convinced by them yourself.
What does make it bad faith is if you put those arguments forward but then refuse to engage with the counterarguments - that’s where the line gets crossed.
For example, I don’t agree with the reasons Russia has given for attacking Ukraine, but I can still lay out those arguments in a way a pro-Russian person would recognize as accurate. That, on its own, isn’t bad faith. But if someone responds by calling me a delusional Nazi or something similar, that is bad faith - a strawman, specifically - even if that person genuinely believes people who argue that position deserve such a label.
- Comment on Why does good faith matter ? 4 days ago:
they don’t believe in the argument they are presenting
I don’t think that’s the case here. While people might lie when there’s something to gain from it, we generally don’t hold views we don’t believe in - because that creates cognitive dissonance.
More often, I think it’s that people hold views they feel are true on an intuitive level, but these beliefs usually aren’t something they’ve arrived at independently from first principles. Instead, they’ve adopted them from somewhere else - social groups, media, culture - and haven’t really thought them through.
The belief becomes part of their identity, and they accept it at face value. They know they’re right, so anyone who disagrees must automatically be wrong. That makes it easy to dismiss or ridicule opposing views rather than trying to understand where that “false belief” comes from. After all, why waste time listening to someone who just doesn’t get what you already know to be true?
What people need is humility. There’s no way one can be right about literally everything - we just don’t know what we’re wrong about. It might be something trivial but it also might be one of our core beliefs. The truth is not always intuitive or something that we like. Sometimes the truth is uncomfortable.
- Comment on Why does good faith matter ? 4 days ago:
So you think twisting people’s words, lying, cherry-picking information, and attacking them personally - rather than addressing their actual point - is a good way to make them change their minds?
I don’t think you really believe that either, but if I were to engage with you in bad faith, that’s what it would look like.
Good faith doesn’t mean you have to be polite - it means you make a genuine effort to understand what someone is actually saying and engage with that, rather than a cartoon version of their argument. That cartoon version might get you cheers from the audience, but it’s not going to change anyone’s mind. And if minds aren’t being changed - and no serious effort is even made to try - then what’s the point of the debate in the first place?
I’d argue that if someone is genuinely trying to persuade another person, it’s virtually impossible to debate in bad faith. Acting in bad faith means you don’t care whether the other person changes their mind - you just want to dunk on them, be mean, pretend they said something they didn’t, and rally a mob to dogpile on them. Then you tell yourself you’ve “won” the debate because you’re getting upvotes and they’re not - even though all you’ve really done is push them further into their corner.
- Comment on I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician) 5 days ago:
Name for this kind of slogan is a “Thought-terminating clishé”
A thought-terminating cliché (also known as a semantic stop-sign, a thought-stopper, bumper sticker logic, or cliché thinking) is a form of loaded language—often passing as folk wisdom—intended to end an argument and quell cognitive dissonance with a cliché rather than a point.
- Comment on Some people want wealth because it means power over others. Some people want wealth because it means they can minimize interactions with others. 5 days ago:
I’m still waiting for that ease of mind. I could live 2 years off my savings yet most of my anxiety remains financial.
- Comment on How not to lose your job to AI 1 week ago:
Working with your hands is a good way. I feel like online discussions often forget that people like this even exists.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don’t see why it would be a bad thing. There’s probably more to gain there than to lose if you want to think it that way.
I go discgolfing with one of my customer regularly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The ads-based business model is one of the main reasons so much of the internet sucks so bad. It should either be completely free or run on donations or subscriptions.
I don’t have an issue with YouTube ads because I’ve never actually had to see any - thanks to adblocking. But when they eventually figure out how to prevent that, I’d rather just pay a monthly fee than deal with ads. I think their pricing is completely reasonable, and I can’t morally justify blocking ads - I do it because it’s easy and free. Honestly, I’ve subscribed to services that cost more and give me less value than YouTube does.
- Comment on YSK: WD-40 is perfect for removing adhesive left behind by stickers 1 week ago:
Lighter fluid works great as well
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 1 week ago:
As much as I hate dealing with their shenanigans, I can’t really blame them either. As long as I can get away with using an adblocker, I will - but honestly, YouTube gives me more value for free than a lot of services I actually pay for. I have no moral argument for why YouTube should let me watch videos for free, even though I like free stuff just as much as the next guy.
- Comment on Both drive by wire and conventional throttle bodies are controlled by a wire. 1 week ago:
Drive by wire uaually references to steering though the official definition is more broad.
- Comment on For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source 1 week ago:
It is the source most Americans get their news from wether it’s technically a news source in itself.
