Iconoclast
@Iconoclast@feddit.uk
- Comment on AI 2027 2 weeks ago:
Every post with “AI” in the title turns into a “here’s what I think about AI” thread thanks to the high concentration of anti-AI NPCs on this platform.
If only there was a community for serious, dispassionate conversation about technology…
- Comment on If you're sexually frustrated & can never find a mate & decide to live a life of "nofap," what are the effects that buildup of sexual frustration has? 2 weeks ago:
Using the term “NoFap” in the title is a bit like putting “AI” in there - it pretty much guarantees zero productive conversation in the comments and instead acts as a bug light for certain people to just chime in with their personal views on that one thing.
I don’t even bother writing a response to the actual question because I don’t want to spend the rest of the day defending views I don’t even hold.
- Comment on It's telling when you're the one always asking "how are you doing?" But never asked how you're doing 2 weeks ago:
I don’t like when people ask me that. Just say hi. If you genuinely want to know how I’m feeling, ask that later instead of using it as a greeting when you’re not actually expecting an honest, detailed answer.
I hate this little social game where people ask questions they don’t really want answers to, and I end up lying by saying “I’m good, you?”
- Comment on US ties Ukraine security guarantees to Donbas withdrawal, Zelensky says 2 weeks ago:
“We’ll only agree to peace if you let us occupy the land behind your defensive lines - the ones you’ve spent years building that we can’t break through with force. But rest assured, we won’t advance any further if you just do this first.”
- Comment on Iran says 243 students and teachers killed as nearly 500 schools targeted 3 weeks ago:
the attacks have also affected nearly 500 schools and 266 medical facilities
That’s a bit different than 500 schools being targeted.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You drive an old car to protect yourself from hackers. I drive an old car because I’m broke. We’re not the same.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If it’s connected to the internet then it can be hacked. Though in the literal meaning of the term virtually anything can be hacked. It just means finding an unconventional way to operate something.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 3 weeks ago:
Me as well. Easy choice as no other device came even close to having the features I wanted.
- Comment on YSK: Economic Abuse is a Thing 3 weeks ago:
While housing is undeniably getting less affordable, it’s still something you can influence a lot through individual choices. My sister and I live in the same city. Her house cost 300k€ and mine cost 100k€. Both are located in similar neighbourhoods too - my house is just a lot smaller and older.
- Comment on YSK: Economic Abuse is a Thing 3 weeks ago:
1 day old account with 100 comments being obnoxious. I see what’s going on in here.
- Comment on I think about food for considerably more time than I spend eating, same can be said for sex. 3 weeks ago:
I guess it would technically count as cooking, yes. I call it the bare minimum.
- Comment on I think about food for considerably more time than I spend eating, same can be said for sex. 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if those two are correlated as I spend no time thinking about neither. I only eat so that I don’t die.
- Comment on Huge study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD 3 weeks ago:
I was about to come tell how that has not been my experience at all but then I realized I read the headline wrong.
- Comment on how is lemmy funded? 3 weeks ago:
They came up with a system that turns outrage into cash and they’re literally printing money right now.
- Comment on YSK fuel is heavily taxed, but you can avoid the taxes and reduce waste by making your own diesel without expensive equipment 3 weeks ago:
This is only marginally more practical than drilling your own oil.
- Comment on We hardly remember how our parents raised us when we were newborn/infants. How can we be expected to raise our own kids after they are born ? 3 weeks ago:
Your own parents were in the exact same situation. And their parents. And theirs…
- Comment on French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure 3 weeks ago:
You still need to know where to point that spy satellite’s camera at. If you take picture that covers hundreds of square kilometers then you don’t have enough resolution to spot the ship but you can’t zoom in much either because you don’t know where to zoom.
It’s different with buildings because you know where they are.
- Comment on 4Chan responds to £520,000 Ofcom fine with AI picture of hamster 3 weeks ago:
My parents’ porn VHS collection didn’t ask for my age and neither did my grand-dad’s titty magazines hidden in the tractor shed. Internet wasn’t even a thing for most people then yet I had already seen plenty of porn before I turned 10.
It clearly did affect me and I don’t deny that but I doubt it would’ve made much of a difference had I have to wait untill I was 18 for the flood gates to open. Nobody would’ve seen me for months if that was the case.
- Comment on Could my daughter, who is a lawyer, defend my son’s girlfriend, who killed my cousin’s family in a DUI accident? 3 weeks ago:
As long as they weren’t taking part in illegal street racing.
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 3 weeks ago:
Not a single person here is advocating for having sex with kids.
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 3 weeks ago:
Are you seriously going to dodge every single hole people have poked in your flawed reasoning by redirecting attention to the person themselves - questioning their moral purity or hidden motives? Because that’s literally all you’ve done here so far.
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 3 weeks ago:
You seem to have plenty of time for moral grandstanding, but the second someone asks you to make a coherent argument, time’s suddenly up.
“Disgusting, you’re probably a pedophile, I don’t care that there’s no victim, it’s obvious so I don’t need to explain it” has been your entire contribution so far. If you don’t care about trying to change anyone’s mind, then I don’t know what you’re even doing here besides just making noise.
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 3 weeks ago:
Adult men having sex with adult women is fine with me.
Adult men having sex with another man? Hell no. Engaging in that is the thin end of the wedge in my view.
Why is this not a valid reason to ban homosexuality but it’s good enough to ban sex dolls?
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 3 weeks ago:
That’s a moot point since having sex with a doll doesn’t involve another person at all.
You justified the ban with it being disgusting so I repeat the question: Why not ban scat fetish then as well?
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 3 weeks ago:
is absolutely disgusting
Why not ban scat fetish then as well?
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 3 weeks ago:
there doesn’t need to be a victim for it to be disgusting.
That’s the main justification for banning homosexuality as well.
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 3 weeks ago:
It’s a moral panic - pure and simple. The same reason some countries want to ban cartoon/animated pictures where the fictional character looks too young. I guess the underlying assumption there is that it’ll increase the number of people offending towards real children but I don’t think there’s any evidence to back that up.
If it was up to me, the criteria would be whether an actual person is being hurt directly or as a consequence of. That would include real violence, real pictures and possibly also GenAI stuff if it’s trained on real content.
- Comment on In theory vs. in practice 4 weeks ago:
Sketchup
- Comment on In theory vs. in practice 4 weeks ago:
Correct.
I’m not from UK though.
- Comment on In theory vs. in practice 4 weeks ago:
I forgot to take pictures of how I attached the top ends of the vertical studs to the wall. I didn’t want to drill holes into the container, so I used the existing tie-down points. I bent some threaded rod into a U-shape, slipped it through the tie-down loop, and tightened the 2x4 to it with washers and wing nuts.
