Iconoclast @ Iconoclast @feddit.uk

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

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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.

That bird must be scared shitless

I'm obviously being facetious.

I'm talking about forest trails. That's where most people ride MTBs. Obviously I have zero issue with people riding electric motorcycles on roads.

Big wheels roll over potholes better.

Finnish law treats 250W pedelec the same way as bicycle meaning that I'm allowed to ride it pretty much anywhere - even on private property. Mopeds however I'm only allowed to ride on public roads or on private property if I have a permission from the land owner.

The moment bicycles become as powerful as mopeds is when they get banned from most of the places where I ride now and that's because of "ebikes" like this. This will very likely include low powered ones as well.

I have nothing against electric mopeds - just don't call them bicycles and don't screw up things for cyclists by pretending to be one.

I don't think you understood the point of an elimination diet. It's not about what you eat but about what you stop eating.

If you stick to meat for 30 days and start feeling better, it's not necessarily because meat is good for you - it's because you stopped eating something else that your body was responding badly to. After 30 days you can start adding other foods back in one by one. If you suddenly notice a decline in how you feel, the last thing you added is the likely culprit.

It's much easier to remove everything and reintroduce them one by one than to randomly cut out certain things to see if that makes any difference.

This isn't an example of a broken clock being right twice a day. Torvalds is complaining that his inbox is flooded with bug reports because everyone's monkey suddenly started outputting Shakespeare.

Duplicates don’t add anything to the conversation

But it's not the same person reporting the same bug multiple time but rather a new tool enabling multiple people to discover that same bug at the same time.

Not reporting it because "someone else probably will" is a sociopsychological phenomenon called diffusion of responsibility.

Friends? Love?

People could just buy EV SUVs and Pickup trucks so the degrading road infrastructure would be less of an issue.

Or they could order doordash once less a month and put that money towards the common good.

I find it makes absolutely no difference whether you go link by link or just douse the entire chain. It'll attract dirt just as much either way.

I consider this one of those biking trends everyone follows because they've seen others do it, but nobody ever questions what the point even is. Like aligning your valve stem with the branding on the tire - don't be ridiculous.

Most people are financially illiterate, so this kind of article works well when there's nothing else worth reporting on (as if that's the case now). When the markets are up we can shame wealthy investors for "profiting on a crisis," and when they're down we can bask in the schadenfreude of them "losing millions" - even though in both cases we're talking about unrealized gains and the whole article is irrelevant a month later.

Are you refering to the companies adopting AI into the workflow or the AI companies themselves investing billions into developing these models?

In the latter case they're trying to rush towards AGI because who ever gets there first will have their investments paid back millionfold and the one placing second gets nothing.

Savotta / Varusteleka camping gear and clothes.