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Iconoclast

@ Iconoclast @feddit.uk

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

  • Lyft driver caught blatantly using Gemini AI (with watermark) to fake damage to his car and charge riders extra for cleaning fees

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

  • What are you honestly tired of people bitching about by this point?

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  • 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.

  • What are you honestly tired of people bitching about by this point?

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  • 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.

  • What are you honestly tired of people bitching about by this point?

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  • 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.

  • What are you honestly tired of people bitching about by this point?

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  • 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.

  • What are you honestly tired of people bitching about by this point?

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  • How dare they answer the question OP presented. What a hypocrite!

  • A drone for handicapped birds offers one more chance to experience flight

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  • That bird must be scared shitless

  • Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car

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  • I'm obviously being facetious.

  • Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car

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  • Big wheels roll over potholes better.

  • Everyone should try a 30 day elimination diet

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  • 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.

  • The 4th Linux kernel flaw this month can lead to stolen SSH host keys

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  • 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.

  • The 4th Linux kernel flaw this month can lead to stolen SSH host keys

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  • 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.

  • X announces significant restrictions to free accounts; 50 posts and 200 replies per day

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  • Well people using twitter surely aren't to blame for that which is what I was responding to here.

    People using LLMs do drive up the demand for computer components, I'll give you that, though even there it's a bit more nuanced than that.

  • X announces significant restrictions to free accounts; 50 posts and 200 replies per day

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  • That same logic makes you a communist then. And me a communist fascist I guess? Go figure.. Difficult to keep up with the insane troll logic you're displaying here.

  • Lemmy fell off

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  • I've been building such feed for over 2 years already. I have over 250 keyword based content filters and I don't follow any political communities and I've blocked most of the news communities too. It helps but the issue still remains quite bad.

    Also, blocking only removes content but doesn't replace it with better one - it just slows down the already slow feed even further.

  • How do you brag to your friends about your love?

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  • Friends? Love?

  • Lemmy fell off

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  • That's the thing. I don't mind politics on my feed. It's only when it's nothing but politics that I start blocking and adding new content filters. It's a forced binary choice. I'd consume a moderate amount of that kind of content if it was an option, but it's not. It's all of it or none of it.

  • Lemmy fell off

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  • The thing is, though, that the people on Lemmy aren't even united by common political views - just common enemies.

  • Lemmy fell off

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  • What? You don't want to spend the whole day talking about things that you don't like and make you angry?

    Are you sane?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    If only the person who did this ceiling had their tools even half as well calibrated as mine are

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I bought my first table saw

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is an issue you had to deal with in the past but not anymore and what did you do to fix it?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Who are your instant watch/listen/read media producers?

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    There's at least one person in this picture

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    A large number of people who complain about private cars do so because they can't afford one themselves.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    You need to secure a load onto trailer using just plain rope and then untie it later without using a knife - how screwed are you?

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    This piece of rope I made from hay a year ago and left around a tree was still there when I visited recently

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    A corner is an ontologically parasitic feature of a table that can't exist on its own.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Should I tell my dad that his mistake almost cost me a fortune?

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Camouflage experiments alone in the woods

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I bought a camo net to better hide my bike whenever I go on foot

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I'm in my mid thirties and I like to play with puddles

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    I am monitoring the situation.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    This is my happy place

  • Photography @lemmy.world
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    Taking my new camera out for a spin

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    If you love what you do you'll never work a day in your life

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why do I almost never see people flying drones?

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    I want AI powered content filtering that doesn't just rely on keywords