It is not really an alternative. So many people here complaining about quality, and the constant desire for this not to become the new Reddit.
But that’s exactly what it needs to become. A place where mindless users can post the same silly crap every day, without getting shit for it. And without being rattled by entitled mods that feel they should be compensated for doing what they want to do.
Let communities talk and mods just be mods, not critics.
Probably language barrier. That figure of speech is not the easiest for Germans to grasp.
The first thing coming to mind is “we tried to add a checkbox, but failed, it just wouldn’t work”
To my German mind, failing means “trying and not managing it, giving up in the end.”
Failing to so somehing by forgetting doesn’t really make sense. :) How can you fail something you’ve never attempted.
It’s just a figure of speech, I know.
Have you read the article? It was about misrepresenting historical figures, racism was just a small part.
It was about favoring diversity, even if it’s historically inaccurate or even impossible. Something Disney is very good at.
It’s okay when Disney does it. What a world. Poor AI, how are they supposed to learn if all its data is created by mentally ill and crazy people. ٩(｡•́‿•̀｡)۶
What do you mean, the same group of people? You take the vaccine once, usually when you are a child. So if you got it for your kid, and they decided you are an archaic, brainwashed fool and didn’t get it for theirs, there you go.
It’s the “they don’t even think about it” part that makes me feel this way.
With cars, it just leads to wasted space and resources.
Working in a hospital, that same thinking leads to Dialysis, Metabolic Disease and amputations. I see it multiple times per day.
Often intelligent people, but acting moronic. Not using their intelligence. That’s quite apparent in SUVs. They cost a fortune, so it’s usually not stupidity. It’s just them being mindless. And without a second thought about others.
I stand by my choice of words.
Sometimes, yeah, an SUV makes sense. Then again, driving it into a congested city, that doesn’t make sense.
If I saw someone driving it through a mountainous region, I wouldn’t say anything. That’s fine. :)
And having it being used by one person without any gear or load at all for 98% of the time.
Kinda like an immediate moron-indicator. Whenever a new neighbor moves in, or an existing one buys an SUV, we know not to interact with them. Saves time. Same with looking for work. If the boss drives an SUV, just move on. I love moron-indicators, but I prefer smaller ones.
What do people like about them? I get Americans. They have big roads and lots of space. Here in Europe, you have trouble parking a SMART.
In the end, how is that different from not praising all the library coders and open source parts?
Praise goes to the marketing guys. And rightly so. Without them, nobody of consequence would buy or use the code. ;)
You do get searchable auto-transcripts of videos now, so that’s a good thing. Some people work better with videos and find them more accessible. Best of both worlds. As long as they are not auto-playing and pre-caching, I’m fine with them existing.
I have never heard of alt+left, and I’ve been using the Internet since Mosaic was all the rage. Shame on me, it seems to be implemented in all browsers. How could I have missed it?
What you are saying sounds romantic and all. I’d love to hear a single instance of any such example of earth-shattering discoveries that actually changed something in our daily lives.
I actually don’t believe that ancient Mars aliens would change a single thing. The big players want to go there in hopes of finding weapons. After not finding them, we’ll stop going there. No bases or colonies. We could have been on the moon, but there’s no profit to be made. So we aren’t.
I have no soul. That’s great. That’s why I ditched my work as a developer to work in a hospital to help people reduce their suffering. I thought for a long time that progress and science will save humanity. It has the potential. But romanticizing potential won’t save anyone. Most menial jobs create suffering elsewhere, all to elevate one’s personal status. Fantastic.
I am now convinced that it will be done by actually helping humans, saving the world, that is. Not having a soul feels great.
And I don’t even have to degrade others to make a point. So enjoy your hobbies, enjoy your life. And continue to accept suffering and pain while seeking answers in the past, or by playing online games from the safety of your couch. That’s fine. Just be aware that you do.
Morals are made up things, so are ethics and standards. It keeps most people from killing each other, at least. I’m texting and chatting online. Also, a waste of time and effort. We all need some distractions.
We could also use some more dullness and focus. At least until we don’t have a billion people starving for food and water, half a billion waging war, and two billion facing obesity and metabolic disease resulting from not so dull lives. But that’s my standard. That’s just the ones that are immediately suffering. Right now.
If soul is responsible for all that ignorant bliss and suffering, you can keep it. But feel free to enjoy it. I can’t. But that’s just me.
You might be confusing soul and ego though.
Not what I said at all. Knowing about the basis of our attitudes doesn’t change them. Hence, getting rid of the discipline would change nothing.
Of course, it’s interesting. Ancient humans are fascinating. So are pyramids. Finding out how they were built would change nothing though. Egyptology is in the same ballpark. Interesting, yes.
Fundamentally changing? Not at all. We could find out that it was ancient aliens, and it wouldn’t change a single thing today. Another discipline that could just vanish, and nothing would change for anyone except the people currently involved with them. Deep space sciences is another field.
There are many deeply interesting and fascinating fields of research and science that are completely irrelevant. At least in any practical sense.
The poor should be the standard metric.
How to make the world work with the least amount of employment imaginable.
Just means that their ignorant and vague theories of the past are now shaken up, leading to new, even more ignorant and vague theories of the past. None if it has any relevance to modern life at all.
Just a self-sustaining cash-grab. You could get rid of the entire discipline and the effect on current events would be zero.
30% doesn’t sound absurd. 300% would sound absurd. “AMD IPC gains for Zen 5 CPU jumping one generation?” Maybe.
It’s not my post, nor my picture.
The worlds population needs a revolution. It would be 6 billion peace-supporters versus a few hundred thousand war-likers.
The only power able to end all wars is the power of unity.
Possibly because many users coming to Lemmy are pissed off by something. It’s not a platform for fun users, but for grumpy old cats wanting their unachievable utopian discussion forum, where all behave the same as they do. ;)
Criticise lemmy and prepare for downvotes deluxe.