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For context, pinkdrunkenelephants said in a different comment, that they are "fat as a pile of pig shit" (direct quote) and consumes a lot of doughnuts and sugary drinks like coke.

That user is sugar addicted, and the reason why they are posting what they are is to justify their actions. Because if there is no sugar addiction, they cannot be an addict.

Add to it: they need to have the money too. Getting a cheap frozen Pizza is by far cheaper than to get all the components fresh and preparing everything yourself.

I recently tried making a few of the simple and cheap foods you can easily buy ready-made.

Do you know how much time and money goes into making a simple Döner Kebab if you don't have industrial kitchen equipment?

Or sausages?

When sugar became a rare commodity in Jewish ghettos in Nazi-controlled territory, people would literally trade diamonds to get it.

To second your point with something that's easier to grasp:

It's quite common for people who are heavily addicted to nicotine to be able to enjoy a little bit of alcohol sometimes or completely go without. Or be able to go shopping without getting addicted to it.

Being addicted to one thing doesn't mean you automatically get addicted to all other things that people can get addicted to.

You are projecting. I hate doughnuts. I do eat sugar but not excessively so. And I am not overweight. I also don't care about petty beauty ideals like "getting ripped". I am not 15 anymore.

Let me get this straight though: You say that you are "fat as a pile of pigshit", say that you eat donuts and drink cokes all the time and that you "could stop at any time, you just don't want to". That's 1:1 addiction speech.

You are addicted. Because being addicted means that you keep doing something even though you know it's really bad for you. Being addicted means, that you are not in control.

Saying "I could quit at any time, I just don't want to", while your body is rotting away, means not only can you not quit even if you wanted to, but that you have so totally given up on trying, that it has become part of your identity.

That's the exact same line you hear from old smokers with amputated legs and lung cancer.

Yes, you can find videos of people who have not been addicted.

Please go and read up just a little bit about what addiction is. Apparently, being completely unaware about the concept does not stop you from commenting.

I don't understand either how you came up with the idea that I am addicted or overweight. I was just talking about the concept addiction and the difference between sugar addiction and other addictions.

You are making a fool of yourself.

Found the miracle healer!

You want to get out of addiction, just decide "I want to stop".

Do you offer the same solution for other issues as well?

Depression: "Just don't be sad"

Broken leg: "Just decide that it's not broken any more"

If you can give something up just like that, you weren't addicted to it. Please read my post again. There is a huge difference between "using a substance that can cause dependence" and "being addicted to said substance".

For that very reason there are people who enjoy some wine, rarely, in specific settings, and at the same time there are alcoholics who actually are addicted.

The thing that really causes addiction isn't so much the physical dependence, but the psychological dependence.

Almost all drugs (including Cocaine) have only very short term withdrawal effects. If it was only physical dependence, all you'd have to do to break any substance addiction is to lock that person up for a few weeks, until the drugs are out of the system and that's that.

The long-term effects are purely psychological. Usually, your life is shit, you got some pretty heavy problems or you have other psychologial issues like depression. And you know that substance X will help you to feel good, even if only for a short time. So you take the substance again to forget and feel good.

Because of this, you can get severely addicted to stuff like gaming, smartphones, social media, shopping or gambling, even though there is no substance involved at all.

Remeber the high-profile study about a rat that was locked alone in an empty cage and the only things it had available to distract itself from it's misery where a bottle of regular water and one filled with cocaine water.

The rat used cocaine until it died of an overdose.

This experiment was repeated, but this time there was a whole rat family in a really nice cage with a lot of things to do. This time some of the rats did a bit of cocaine sometimes, but never in excess and no rat overdosed.

Sugar, together with the physical withdrawals (which do really exist), is really tough on the psychological side due to its extremely easy availability and omnipresence.

To get cocaine you need to find a dealer, spend a rather big amount of money and you are always aware that if you are caught, there are some very serious consequences.

To get sugar, you walk into the kitchen. Worst case, you go down to the next shop, spendless than an Euro on the substance and consume it completely legal without fear of any repercussions.

Or you wait until someone gifts you some sugar for birthday, Christmas, Easter, or any other holiday. Or just because they are nice.

This super easy availability means, there are hardly any barriers where you can say "Actually, I wanted to stop" and stop what you are doing.

The issue with reliability is a completely different one between web search and AI.

If you search something on Google, there are quite a few ways you can judge the quality of the answer with "metadata" around it. If you find a scientific paper, it's probably more reliable than a post on a parents forum. If the source is a quality newspaper or Wikipedia, that's also more on the reliable side, but some conspiracy theorist website is not. And if the source is some kind of forum or Q&A site, wrong answers often have comments under them that correct the error.

Also, you can follow multiple links and take a wider sample on the topic that way.

With AI that's not possible. Whether it is wrong or correct, the AI will give you an answer in the exact same format, with the same self-confident tone. You basically need to know the correct answer to know whether the answer is correct.

Sure, you can re-roll and ask it again, but that doesn't make the result more likely to be correct.

For example, I asked ChatGPT which Harry Potter chapter is the longest. It happily gave me a chapter, but it wasn't the longest. So I asked again and again and again, and each time it gave me a new wrong answer, every time with made-up word counts.

XFCE is really bad with this. KDE is much better, but still when setting up something a bit more complicated, you are quickly back to reading man pages. And man pages really aren't great.

Very good points!

Yeah, right now, you could only write to any of the mods directly, but that mod might not be the mod who did the mod action at all.

Moderation tools are lacking pretty bad, but in both directions.

1. makes it especially hard for users to know what the exact rules aree, as all three of these groups can have different rules, and usually only the community mods put their rules into the community.

And the modlog doesn't show which mod/admin actually did a moderator action, so it's almost impossible to appeal to the person who e.g. banned you and clear up potential misconceptions.

Someone was writing counterfactual garbage about a religion on worldnews@lemmy.ml and I corrected the statement.

They banned me for 14 days with the reason that I am a Nazi, because I "defended" a "white nationalist religion". Mind you, it's about a religion with 29% of non-white membership in the USA and more 59.4% of the members living outside the USA.

A consistent system settings app that actually handles all configs without requireing manual editing of config files.

Sadly, it was done manually. I had to migrate it to this brand new bleeding edge technology, Apache Velocity. That's not great either, but it's much less terrible than XSLT.

For that task I had to learn two templating languages at the same time to port it from one to the other. Wasn't an easy task.

Yeah, because people selling AI products have a great track record on predicting how their products will develop in the future. Because of that, Teslas don't have steering wheels any more, because Full Self Driving drives people incident-free from New York to California since 2017.

The thing with AI development is, that it rapidly gets to 50% of the desired solution, but then gets stuck there, not being able to get consistently good enough that you can actually rely on it.

I recently had to work with XSLT (may it's inventor burn in hell for their crimes).

That's pretty much programming in XML. It's probably the worst possible thing.

The part about Google isn't wrong.

But the second half of the article, where he says that AI chatbots will replace Google search because they give more accurate information, that simply is not true.

Jackpot if the person with Lawful Chaotic alignment is a lawmaker.

Since the speedlimit is exact and vehicle speed is not, everyone constantly gets fined for being too fast or too slow.