Canconda
@Canconda@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 4 hours ago:
What people boycott matters. So many things are effectively monopolized that only things people are willing to actually go without can effectively be boycotted.
It worked with Jimmy Kimmel because there’s neither a substitute entertainer that will satisfy cancelers nor is there an alternate disney owned streaming service they can funnel said canceler’s to.
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- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 6 days ago:
AI is works well for mindless tasks. Data formatting, rough drafts, etc.
Once a task requires context and abstract thinking, AI can’t handle it.
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 week ago:
We also have a less people capable of maintaining/repairing those machines. Parts are probably harder to get.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
If you have the charisma to start a church without working your way up you might as well skip straight to starting a cult.
- Comment on how can I train myself not to burst out laughing when I do something really silly? 1 week ago:
Probably get a lot farther with deadpan sarcasm and some weaponized incompetence.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
That’s 100% what it is. That’s why I’m a poor SOB that knows the tldr.
- Comment on Are vertical farms really the answer? A new study reveals their surprisingly large footprint | ironically, vertical farming even uses twice as much *land*, by using farmed jute fibers as root casings 1 week ago:
TLDR they require electricity. Yawn.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
the tldr is you have to follow the fundamentals of investing AND just bet against humanity. The real ROI starts when the human rights and environmental regulations stop.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
the tldr is you have to follow the fundamentals of investing AND just bet against humanity. The real ROI starts when the human rights and environmental regulations stop.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
the tldr is you have to follow the fundamentals of investing AND just bet against humanity. The real ROI starts when the human rights and environmental regulations stop.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
Definitely this. Right now americans are confused as to why their fat cat democrats have been unable to prevent a clearly incompetent gaggle of morons from burning the house down. Americans stopped holding democrats accountable and gave them too many free lunches. Now they have no teeth and the only solution is to primary the vast majority of them asap.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
Vote democrat but ffs vote in the primaries as well!
The democratic party is comprised of individuals of whom some are either incompetent in preventing/stopping, or complicit in, the republican’s tearing everything down.
You are the one who is checked out.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
The republicans and the democrats are the sword and shield of the wealthy elites respectively.
Tell me which of those democrat accomplishments you expect to matter in the slightest once trump finishes consolidating power? Especially the impeachments.
None of them will. Unless democrats do something about it.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
Vote democrat but ffs vote in the primaries as well!
The way to fix the Do Nothing Democrats is stop giving them a free pass every election. If Americans would just primary all the bought and owned politicians they could take back their democracy for good instead of 1 step forward 2 steps back every 8 years.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
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Find a hobby that will get you out of the house and around people. Isolation is how they limit your thinking. Other people expose you to new ideas, experiences, and perspectives.
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Now that you’re “woke” you need to come to terms with the fact that people wake up at their own pace. Just because you’ve seen the light doesn’t mean you can pull the wool from other’s eyes.
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You need to curate a list of reliable sources. For me, I don’t really take any sensationalist science or astronomy news seriously until I hear established voices I’m familiar with talking about them. With politics its a little less straight forward, but the same principle applies.
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Educate yourself. Learn about the mechanisms that these cycles operate on top of. Learn methods of critical thinking. Learn the scientific method, learn the basics of money over time, learn how stocks/mortgages/bonds/real-estate functions.
If you know nothing about how the world actually works than you’ll never be able to discern a liar from a valid source.
- Focus on building and contributing to your immediate community. It will help ground you in more ways than I can describe.
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- Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 2 weeks ago:
This sounds nuts but there is a possibility that he really believes what he is doing is correct, and became a useful idiot in the process
You’d have a harder time convincing me a brain wormed, road-kill eating, fried potato has the capacity for such a lie.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
Kimmel got fired for pointing the spotlight back at Trump and Epstein. Had nothing to do with Kirk.
- Comment on The most devious lick in history 2 weeks ago:
Ah makes sense. ty
- Comment on The most devious lick in history 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been informed I’m too old for this joke
- Comment on The most devious lick in history 2 weeks ago:
This is what I needed. Ty.
- Comment on The most devious lick in history 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I thought but OP’s title references a guitar lick
- Comment on The most devious lick in history 2 weeks ago:
I’m OOTL. Barely listen to NIN. Can someone ELI5?
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 2 weeks ago:
I mean Pythagoras is useful but what are you foiling? Or are you misconstruing “that math” for “all math”?
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 2 weeks ago:
o shit. Im gonna be expanding my garden next year. Didn’t know Id need my math text book haha
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 2 weeks ago:
IMO you’re just describing a closed mind versus an open mind. Learning the concept that you might be wrong is fundamental to having an open mind.
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 2 weeks ago:
Memorizing data doesn’t make one smarter… but learning concepts absolutely does.
The classic, “we’ll never need this in adult life” is math like Pythagoras’ theorem, or factoring binomial equations (remember FOIL?). We don’t learn that math because it’s practical for adult life… we learn that math so that grown ass adults don’t think someone using algebra is performing black magic.
Seems silly… but it’s just like how many folks never learned past middle school biology and now think XX&XY are the only chromosomal possibilities.
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 2 weeks ago:
TLDR she’s educated but had some clashes with academia and basically leans into an anti-establishment slant on everything. She’s kind of like an enlightened centrist but for science and conspiracy.
She also doesn’t really say a lot for how long she takes to say it.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 2 weeks ago:
Not farting in your underwear makes them smell fresher for longer, anyway.
Bro wtf? I know that was a casual one liner… but it leaves sooo many unanswered questions!
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 3 weeks ago:
That’s a kind way of saying some of them would have an aneurism thinking too hard. /s
- Comment on Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation? 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure luigi is the only one who’d smoke in that group.