Perspectivist
@Perspectivist@feddit.uk
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- George Orwell
- Comment on Do bats have an option on their phones that turns photos upside down automatically? 4 days ago:
Bats being blind is a common misconception. They actually are believed to have a quite good eyesight.
- Comment on Knowing one's place 4 days ago:
Me neither. I asked an LLM to translate this and it said:
Am I imagining this feeling that Lemmy is just recycling Reddit’s cultural memes in a way that makes them seem less genuine?
- Comment on YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words 4 days ago:
Just because I don’t want to see certain news doesn’t mean I want to block all news communities. The only way to achieve this is with keyword-based content filtering.
- Comment on Are horses in the wild "ravished" by the Stallion? 5 days ago:
Sometimes the stallion gets kicked in the head, shits himself and dies.
You can find the video if you’re interested.
- Comment on One of the most detrimental things to a productive society is when people think their actions don't make a difference 6 days ago:
The way I think about this to myself is “if everyone did this, would it make world a better place?” If the answer is yes then it’s worth doing no matter how small thing it is. Yes, it might not make a difference but at least you did your part and didn’t contribute to making things worse.
- Comment on I did a complete bathroom remodel 1 week ago:
The protective outer sleeve is clamped down here as well but you can still pull out the inner pipe. It’s not alway the easiest job but it can be done.
- Comment on I did a complete bathroom remodel 1 week ago:
The pipe carrying water sits inside a larger protective sleeve. If it ever leaks, the water runs into that sleeve and drips out the ends onto the floor instead of soaking into the walls or structures.
You can then disconnect both ends, pull the damaged pipe out, and slide a new one in. No joints hidden behind the walls, and leaks in the middle of the pipe are super rare - you’d basically have to drill into it.
- Comment on I did a complete bathroom remodel 1 week ago:
The good thing about having a drain in the floor is that in the extremely rare event that your toilet overflows you can just hose down the entire room.
- Comment on I did a complete bathroom remodel 1 week ago:
So did the mold
- Comment on I did a complete bathroom remodel 1 week ago:
I just asked someone here about this a while back. Didn’t get a good answer to explain the difference.
- Comment on I did a complete bathroom remodel 1 week ago:
Customer prefered it that way as well
- Comment on I did a complete bathroom remodel 1 week ago:
I did it for money.
- Comment on I did a complete bathroom remodel 1 week ago:
Not too bad actually. I’m a plumber by training and it’s all done in PEX which is quite easy to work with.
Here it’s still mostly visible
- Comment on I did a complete bathroom remodel 1 week ago:
Tile - mortar - water proofing - primer - plaster board (wet space rated) - plywood.
Normally I wouldn’t use plywood there but it was under the old tiles and plasterboard so I just left it in place.
- Submitted 1 week ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 35 comments
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 1 week ago:
I highly recommend going into settings and hiding downvotes from yourself. Stick to dealing with the people who at least bother to engage in written form.
Downvoting is lazy and adds zero value. It’s pure masochism to let yourself get even a tiny bit annoyed just because some rando on the other side of the world spent 0.5 seconds clicking a down arrow on your comment - which they probably didn’t even read to the end.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 1 week ago:
I’ve had posts with hundreds of upvotes and one or two downvotes. It’s interesting to contact the downvoters via PM. Not in an accusatory tone but with curiosity.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 1 week ago:
Nothing about that comments comes across as defending it. Also, pedophilia is not synonymous with sexual abuse.
- Comment on Blackboards were the OG dark mode 1 week ago:
It was actually just that the world was black and white before that.
- Comment on Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie 1 week ago:
I hate how it’s advertised
Wher are you guys seeing ads for AI? I’ve literally seen zero ever unless we start redefining news articles as ads which still wouldn’t make any sense as 99% of them that I come across are critical of AI rather than praising it.
- Comment on Even if you're living in a hot country, cold showers are disagreeable. 1 week ago:
Yeah I dont think hot climate changes anything - it’s just as bad even then. It’s like going swimming to hole in the ice or rolling in the snow from sauna. The fact that I was in a 80 degree C room just a moment ago doesn’t make it one bit less painful.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
Saksa in finnish. And Finland is Suomi in finnish.
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 1 week ago:
AI has existed since 1956
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Is this kind of broad generalization and a binary way of framing the left and right an example of the kind of objective truth seeking you’re talking about?
- Submitted 1 week ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 9 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It would indeed. Now you can be 90% onboard but disagree on a minute detail and you get called fascist for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Let’s be honest here - Lemmy isn’t the tiniest bit less of an echo chamber - it’s just echoing different stuff.
- Comment on YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy 2 weeks ago:
If something catches fire it’s probably the cheap plastic controller rather than the blanket itself. I just don’t leave mine plugged in when I dont use it.
- Comment on YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy 2 weeks ago:
That’s not true. That thermal mass takes energy to heat too. Whatever “excess” heat stored in the oil was put there when you turned the radiator on.
For an oil-filled radiator to be cheaper to run than a regular electric one, it’d somehow need to be over 100% efficient - which it isn’t. They’re both resistive heaters that convert 100% of the electricity into heat.
- Comment on YSK that electric blankets are cheap and incredibly cozy 2 weeks ago:
We have those at our cabin. The building I often sleep in is unheated too. Late in the fall, it can get near freezing. It feels crazy to start undressing in a cold cabin, but then when you slip under the blanket, it’s like sliding into a warm pocket. Quite euphoric.
