Critical_Insight @ Critical_Insight @feddit.uk

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Age of Empires 2

They actually did a remaster on it, and they did it good.

Just watched a video of a guy doing no-paint dent removal on a rivian bumper after a bodyshop had quoted him 41k USD for repair. That's 4 times the value of my truck.

I'd really love to see what the twitter (or YouTube) feed is for a normal user. I don't doubt that the algorithms push extreme content, because that's what humans are naturally drawn to. After all, we want to look at car crashes aswell. However, I'm just really curious on why these people simply don't train the algorithm better.

Every now and then I get some right-wing(ish) video recommendation on YouTube and after I mark it as "not interested" it dissapears and it just goes back to recommending me stuff I'm actually interested in. Same with 1 minute long videos. I don't need to flag too many of them before it realizes it's not the content I don't like but the short lenght. In my personal experience twitter is way less agressive at pushing such content but even when it does the same solution works there too. "Not interested" and it stops showing up. Except for cat videos. Those never stop showing up no matter how often I mark it.

I was riding my moped on a dark gravel road back home with my buddy and as I make a left turn, I can see in my headlights someone doing jumping jacks on the middle of the road ahead. I pull aside thinking what the hell did I just see as my friend who was following me pulls next to me, lifts up his visor and is like 'did you fucking see that?!' We immediately go back to inspect and there's no sign of anyone anywhere.

In that top three is also my previous Audi A6

15mph is usually at where ebikes are limited to aswell. Not many cyclists are passing me at those speeds.

Imagine being forced to shit a log, so that some fancy pants can have exotic coffee

We need more of this, and less of the bland stuff

if you protest against a politician trying to approve a law that fucks everyone for the benefit of his personal business

Even in this case, going after them as a person, instead of protesting against the law itself seems counter-productive. If I make an argument and someone then calls me stupid, it's not going to change my mind, nor anyone else's who agrees with me. It's just makes it sound like they simply don't have a better argument. It's maybe a bit different when the personality flaw in itself is the issue, as is the case with Trump and lying for example, but if one then starts making fun on his small hands that just makes them look petty.

However, I still want to aknowledge, that humans are social animals and such public ridicule has been a powerful weapon throught the ages, so even though I personally don't want to act in this way, and in my ideal world no one else would either, it is still possible, if not even likely, that such ridicule is very effective. Then again, shooting them is effective aswell, but I don't want to live in a world where we solve disagreements that way.

I never disconnected. I just stopped doing certain things in front of other people.

I can't think of a single person who became a billionaire, yet added nothing of a value to the world. Sure they may have manipulated and exploited while at it, but there's still usually a product of some sort in the end, and the fact that they became wealthy indicates there was demand for said product.

I disagree with the statement 'punching up is good' but I wasn't sure I disagreed with what the person making that claim actually means by it, so before writing an essay on why that is wrong, I'd rather first ask them to clarify their stance to make sure I'm arguing against their actual view, instead of the view I'm only imagining them holding.

'Don't punch down' is a rule I mostly agree with it. There are exceptions, but you're probably not a bad person even if you resist "punching" in those cases. 'Punching up is good' however not only says that it's okay to do so, but that it's actually a virtuous thing. That I disagree with, and since most people in this thread seems to think "the golden rule" (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you) is a good rule to live by, then I'd also like to draw attention to the apparent conflict between these two.

Personally I'm of the mind that punching, be that literal or figurative speech, is almost never good. Punching, to me atleast, sounds like something that's directed towards a person instead of ideas. There is nothing too holy to criticize or anyone too privileged to criticize it. That doesn't mean all critique is valid, but that's what discussion and debate is for. As long as you're coming in good faith, then all critique is fair game.

Sorry, am I being impolite, hostile, jerk or something or why I'm not allowed to discuss this? 'I disagree' is too simplified definition and does not represent my view. I'm interested in hearing how people think, and even if it turns out I disagree, then that's fine. Atleast I can now properly steelman the position of the people I disagree with.

Whatever Samsung has as default. Not sure I've ever even heard it

So this is not coming to EU at all?

Spotify is and will always remain a music streaming app for me. I spend way more time listening to podcasts instead of music, but I don't do that in Spotify.

It's either paid by the users or by the advertisers, or do you have a better plan on how to fund running such platform?

Yeah, well not much I can do about that, except not use their services at all. Generally what ever I post online is meant for public consumption so have at it. It's quite limited how much data they can gather when I'm not using their proprietary software and as long as I don't need to watch those ads it's fine. They're going to scrape everything I post into Lemmy/Pixelfed aswell.