Iconoclast @ Iconoclast @feddit.uk

Refusing to reduce complex reality into slogans and clichés since 19XX

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I like seeing how my "meadow" keeps getting more and more diverse each year since I stopped mowing that part of the yard. In the fall I mulch it all with the mower and then let it grow freely again the next year. Last year I bought a bag of hundreds of flower bulbs and just dug them in randomly all over.

I think some people take their yards a bit too seriously. For me it's my playground. I just throw stuff at it and see what sticks.

No, the trees will definitely get burned if my house catches on fire.

A lot of "smart" has been traded for fun and convenient here.

I live next to this old granny who does nothing but tidying up her yard all day every day and it's flawless. I bet she secretly does some stealth weeding on my side as well.

Some bikes need derailleur hanger adjustment straight from the factory. On my bike it changes depending on how tight the rear tire quick release is. I need to calibrate it with the wheel on and then try and tighten it equally much every time after I'v removed it. You can mess with the derailleur settings for ever without getting it to shift smoothy if the hanger is not aligned.

I don't even have the hanger calibration tool btw. I do it with a meter long steel ruler and pliers. Every time I catch a rock with the derailleur and shifting goes to shit I simply just re-calibrate it. I never touch the adjustment screws again after the first setup.

Soil looks pretty wet and the pot quite small.

They must've bought it here on a trailer as it's quite narrow street and no airport anywhere near.

Andrew Camarata and Foresty Forest are the first two that come to mind.

I joined a subscription-based social media platform recently that's focused on intellectually honest and good faith discussion about pretty much anything. I never thought a bunch of strangers could act that civilly toward each other online. The contrast to other platforms like Lemmy cannot be overstated. No outrage, no grandstanding, no smug and dismissive responses, and no insults whatsoever. There's plenty of disagreement there, but it's all handled the way you'd expect adults to behave.

Don't know whether it'll stay that way, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

My old army canteen has worked just fine. At the gym I use an old plastic orange juice bottle. Makes literally no difference to me for as long as it holds water.

I don't believe in free will either but that doesn't imply that I think decisions aren't being made. You're simply just not authoring those decisions - at least not the way you think.

We do things for two reasons: either you have to or you want to. There's no freedom in neither one.

Most Ferrari buyers already have a Ferrari. This isn't targeted for those but the ones who don't yet have one.

It's a subscribtion based platform and has nothing to do with crypto. It's effectively a subreddit turned into independent platform to escape everything that's wrong with reddit.

Right. Well add cynicism to the list of reasons why this place is so depressing.

It's a bit incoherent to criticize me for both not revealing the platform and advertising it in the same sentence.

That is 100% engagement bait. That user will not change their mind, none ever do.

Maybe, but it's interesting to see them engaging with the immense pushback they're getting. They might not change their mind, but it definitely gives me insight into what's actually going on in the mind of a person like that. Nine times out of ten a post like that immediately devolves into personal attacks and name-calling, and no sane person wants to take part in that. I find this vastly more productive.

I used these yesterday for adjustable legs on customers' bathroom counter.

The audacity of some people... I simply cannot comprehend it. I'd feel so ashamed of myself.

And I don’t mean expressing distaste for something when it’s relevant to the discussion.

I don't personally find that post complainy in the way I was talking about. It's frustrating and kind of funny. I don't sense any negative vibe there at all.

The kind of complaining I'm talking about is the exhausting kind to be around. Even there I express my frustration but also say I have a solution for the problem.

Pointing out everything wrong with the world without offering anything even remotely like a sustainable, realistic alternative is incredibly unproductive

Ofcourse I too complain sometimes. I just try not to but I'm not perfect.

It's the people who took action that brought us here - not the ones who just complained.

"How can we make things better?" Is not complaining. "Everything sucks and it's everyone else's fault but mine" is.

These people also don't seem to know their history very well when they're using the French Revolution as an example.

Once the common enemy was defeated the revolutionaries realized that they no longer have the thing that united them so they turned on eachother next. Just like the US and USSR turned on eachother once the Nazies were defeated.

You'll be hard-pressed to catch me complaining about anything. I don't like hearing others do it, so I don't take part either.

And I don't mean expressing distaste for something when it's relevant to the discussion. I mean the kind of unprompted whining we're all exposed to here on a daily basis. I'm too aware of the social game being played there, and even the thought of joining in makes me cringe. Pointing out everything wrong with the world without offering anything even remotely like a sustainable, realistic alternative is incredibly unproductive - it's mostly just tribal signaling.