oshitwaddup @ oshitwaddup @lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz

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Realistically it probably doesn't matter much. You could probably become one of those legendary posters where there's always a twist at the end (e.g. the guy whose dad is always beating him with jumper cables) if you enjoy it but feel bad deceiving people, or put in your account bio that you like to make up stories.

Fairphone might be a good option. Designed to be able to easily replace the battery, plus more ethically sourced than anything i'm aware of

If that's all you need, sway may be perfect for you

Also, front window reflector shields that you put up when your car is parked make a massize difference

See also, the video where linus tech tips tries linux and totally borks his install after ignoring all warnings that what he's doing is probably not what he wants to do

Clicks on everything or is too scared to click on anything and never learns how to use the software

It's not just high school -> college. I remember in elementary school they were always like "oh you think this is hard wait till you're in middle school"

and then in middle school "oh you think this is hard wait till you're in high school"

And then in high school "oh you think this is hard wait till you're in college"

But each step it felt like some things got easier and others got harder but in general it felt like a pretty smooth progression with no major change in difficulty

One thing i find particularly fascinating, that could be confirmation bias but i don't think it is, is that value/purpose/meaning is inherently and only generated by sentient beings. Even from a theistic point of view where god is all knowing and defines morality, it can only matter if that god is sentient in some way or another. Probably not explaining that super well but it's a train of thought that i find extremely interesting

I grew up in a religious home and was always pretty religious myself. In college i ended up leaving the church and religon entirely. I think the last straw was that there are so many mutually exclusive religions, but only one or none can be right, so how did all the "wrong" ones form? Turns out humans are very good at creating religions and cults, and it's way more likely that my religion is no different.

Leaving the church set me on a path of having to actually think about ethics rather than just going by "whatever the bible says", but besides not going to church on sundays my life didn't change a whole lot. But in thinking about ethics the only thing that seemed to be able to solidly root ethics was pleasure/pain, or more broadly wellbeing/needless suffering, not an in-the-moment stereotypical hedonistic view of it but broader, factoring in long term results and the impact on others.

That was fine for a while, until an argument with my dad where he pointed out "if that's what you base ethics on, why don't you include animals in it" and at first i was like yeah obviously kicking a puppy is wrong and that's captured by my view, but it got me to think deeper about it and my actions and i realized that all sentient beings are morally relevant, and i could no longer eat them for my own pleasure. After that i also learned fish are sentient and that the dairy and egg industry are very cruel too, and i couldn't support them either, and i went vegan.

Now my perspective is more refined, i would describe my ethical views most succinctly as sentientism, an antispeciesist extension/improvement on humanism

Yeah i hate the thickeners that huel adds. I prefer plenny or soylent since they don't add those

I much prefer plennyshake. Huel adds thickeners which i can't stand, it makes it so much harder to get down and makes it harder to wash the bottles. I drank huel for a while before finding out about plenny. Also i prefer plenny bars to huels

Sorry, I didn't realize you were just trying to vent. I agree that they should have some kind of option to default to a different tab, or some better solution. They do a lot of shitty and annoying stuff as a company. But also, it's not really a fictional world to just stick to those tabs, it's more like an extra tap once the app opens. You might even be able to set up a tasker thing or something like smart autoclicker on fdroid to immediately switch tabs as soon as the app opens

Well yeah, reflecting on what you're saying i think any recommendation on the home page is an ad. But I agree the podcasts are more intrusive, especially if you never listen to them.

Why don't you just stick to the search or library tab if you don't want the recommendations on the home page? Ideally they'd have an option to set the default tab, but if you don't want any recommendations they're pretty easy to avoid

Ah i see. Idk if i'd call that an ad any more than any other recommended playlist or album on the home page being called an ad

Pretty sure the only ads on spotify podcasts are the ones built in to the podcast recording, like the audio file includes the ads

At least i never get any ads from spotify listening to podcasts, unless the people doing the podcast have ads

Idk the april fools one was pretty great

Someone who you convinced via a massive disinformation platform that it's not happening 🤔🧐

Done 🫡

I think the case where i run into issues with singular + plural they the most is if i already said the persons name, so it would be awkward to say it again

Ultimately not a big deal tho, i just like to complain sometimes

Tbh i'de prefer if a third, more neutral singular pronoun, whether it's "xe" or something else was more common. It's a pain in the ass when i'm referring to someone who uses they/them, or who's gender i don't know, and a group of people.

"They went with them to the store" there are now two "they/thems" in this sentence, and while this isn't a great example, there are times where it gets really ambiguous and unclear exactly what i'm trying to communicate

Hell i'd be down for separate singular pronouns for nonbinary people and people who's gender i don't know