What's your unpopular opinion?
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This “hydration” crap.
Up until the late 1970’s for approx 300,000 years of humans being around hydrated themselves just fine.
Long as there was water available one would drink when their body signaled them by getting thirsty (don’t care about exceptions to the rule where someone has a medical issue or if water was limited in high school, your a big person now). All of a sudden humans forgot to drink fluids?
Bullshit.
It’s just yet another scam the drink makers have perpetrated to get people to buy the various liquid products they sell.
It’s just yet another scam the drink makers have perpetrated to get people to buy the various liquid products they sell.
you know you can still drink water, right? you dont need dr pepper or airup or whatever scam is currently trending to be hydrated, just water
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The stock market is a scam, value has become meaningless, and capitalism is a slow march to societal breakdown and revolution.
that would be unpopular on twitter, not here
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I think education should be demanding, so much so that we should all be fine with kids failing at it instead of blaming the school for it. I think grades should only and honestly reflect the level of understanding of each student on whatever they are supposed to be learning, not make them feel good about themselves.
The school should not be there to make the student feel 'good' or 'understood' (that's the family's job). School main purpose should be to make them smarter, which is something that demands practice and efforts, like anything.
Making them smarter means making them better equipped to deal with the real world, that is not a fairy tale kingdom filled with nice people and magical animals that will make them feel welcome and where they lived happily ever after.
Instead of lying to those kids, the school should help them prepare to become an adult person able to face a not-perfect world with a not perfect population, and teach them how to use their effing brains to solve any of the many problems they will face in their life (personal as well as professional)—and for that making them study their lessons, aka memorize stuff (even stupid shit one will never use again) and having to do their stupid homework, and get a failing grade when they don't, is still the best and the simplest way to develop.
Kids that are being told they're amazing perfect little creatures (they're not), and that they should never have to break a sweat in school (they should) are being lied to. Even more sadly for them, compared to those other kids that are still encouraged to face that they're aren't perfect angels and that they should put in the work, every single day, all year long, they're the ones being screwed up. Big.
Feel free to downvote as much as you want.
YES
and also stop calling kids "gifted" for a couple of good grades
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People who complain about multiple once-in-a-lifetime events happened in their lifetime really are snowflakes.
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It’s just yet another scam the drink makers have perpetrated to get people to buy the various liquid products they sell.
you know you can still drink water, right? you dont need dr pepper or airup or whatever scam is currently trending to be hydrated, just water
Yup. I drink water and odd fruit juice. The drink makers wish/hope otherwise and willing to advertise to do so.
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Could you decide that punching yourself in the face—hard—is enjoyable?
In the past, I have participated in auto mutilation, yes. At a certain point you want to feel anything.
The decision to change is always driven by discomfort with that emotional reaction, another stimulus.
You're right! And it's very scary, facing the thing that's causing the discomfort.
That's why I spend so much time trying to occupy my mind with puzzles, code, games, alcohol. Anything to distract me! Anything to direct that racing mind towards. But in the end I had to face the discomfort, walk inwards, towards it, to find where it came from.
It wasn't my body, it wasn't the calculating part of my mind.
In short, if we all react to the same stimulus in predictable ways, where's the free will?
Luckily we don't all react to the same stimulus in the same way. We can look back and learn from past mistakes.
We can share experiences, learn from eachother.
We can look eachother in the eyes.
I'm sorry that you've had such troubles in the past. Learning from past mistakes isn't an example of free will, though.
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thats also 300000 years of forced marriages where a gigantic pimple didn't matter and nobody cared about beauty
I have to say that I doubt that very much.
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Sorry for the double post lol idk if this is really upopular but I love chavvy men. hell yeah give me a tattooed bad boy who likes wearing plaid and tracksuits
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The phrase you are looking for in English here is dichotomous logic.
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Work is a funny thing. When it is gone from your life suddenly, at a young age, the loss of purpose that work brings is felt very acutely. That is the biggest challenge, or it was for me in the 3-5 year range after the crash.
I can understand that. I escaped death by sheer luck but surviving meant I had to quit the job I had and the job I dreamed of doing, as a kid. It took me a few years to get over it... And I never worked with the same intensity after that.
I am a Maker; a crafts person.
So am I. Not only with my hands (I even learned to sew, aged 40 and learned soldering electronics in my early 50s) but with my head too. I see no difference except that we don't use the same raw materials
In all of these things, the common thread is finding purpose in doing whatever thing. It is a seeking of an internal sense of accomplishment
100%. It's even more important after the loss of something wed used to be able to do and enjoyed doing so much (not even mentioning we may have been good at doing it). Be it in a car accident like it happened to you, or for any other reason. Feeling we're doing something that's worth it that is key. And I know will start to sound like a broken record but imho that sense of accomplishment is also something that is being taken away from younger people. They're not allowed to feel proud of themselves anymore, which is very... destructive.
I don’t get a sense of satisfaction from politics in general.
I think it would be hard to feel otherwise. no matter where one lives. Here in France, say the whole EU, things are not looking great either. But then I consider our last 500 years of history and realize all the hardship our societies have gone through and how they managed to get out of those better/stronger and I think to myself we may be able to go through what is bound to happen, no matter the incompetency/dishonesty of too many of our politicians.
I often feel frustration and injustice. It is a dangerous feeling for a capable but disabled Maker; to feel such a frustration; to feel like one is not in control of one’s destiny. So I avoid it for now, because worrying about things I cannot change is a waste of energy.
I wish so many more people would think likewise. All that saved energy could then be put to good use. Like making stuff
BTW, 3D is something that I've been interested in for years but living my spouse in our small apartment (a choice we made decades ago) makes it very difficult to say the least.
wrote last edited by [email protected]::: spoiler First off, thank you for your kindness in conversation. I do not have the most polished of conversational skills. I tend to get into far too much detail without conveying my actual train of thought if I quote or structure my words. I could do far better, if I wrote in draft and then run a few revisions of refinement, but such effort is then a much larger investment of time for the endorphins of casual social engagement. Few people follow my abstract streaming thoughts as I casually write them; often taking them out of context. Each one is really a response to something you wrote or a theme of the conversation from some abstracted perspective; illustrative of my perspective thoughts and values, and the layers of engagement in my mind. I realize few people understand my abstracted perspective or link the intended perceptual threads. Often those that continue do so out of kindness and to flex their conversational and social skills to overcome a challenge. So to that I say in either regard, thanks for the conversation.
Now you seem to have this theme or frame of thought about younger people's opportunities and motivations. I find this perspective personally odd in abstraction. First I think in terms of statistics and sociology. It is a common perspective to say about youth that comes with age as seen in a thread running throughout all of recorded history. So for me I am skeptical of the concept from the outset as a fallacy common to age.
Second (third, fourth, fifth...), back before the crash that disabled me, I had confronted myself about my weight and bad health many years before. I had asked myself what good was it to be able to do so much to modify a car when I failed to modify myself. I started riding a bicycle everywhere as a result and this quickly lead to working in a bike shop and eventually becoming the wholesale Buyer for a chain of bike shops. I even got into amateur criterium racing on many weekends.
As part of the job of a professional Buyer in very high end shops, I had to analyze a lot of statistics to look for patterns and make educated predictions leveraging a lot of money while carrying considerable risk to the business. Much of that experience is about overcoming biases in a similar vain to this perspective on youth. A common example I often mention is just cycling socks. It is not the greatest parallel to this situation, but habits... Most people or owners will buy several colors or patterns of socks to stock in inventory. The least observant of these will buy the same number of socks in each size. This type of person will run the business into bankruptcy within just a few years. The next type of person will buy a staggered number of units for each size realizing they will never sell some sizes as much as others. The rarest type of person will develop statistics across a season by buying a limited variety of conservative colors and patterns and supporting reordering directly to ensure never to run out of stock. In so doing the person will learn that it is perfectly reasonable to place an order like
20-xs | 10-s | 50-m | 300-l | 25-xl. Then they will buy most socks like this in much larger orders that can be negotiated for better margin and terms for credit. The second business might last a decade at most. I can manage such a business sustainably at break even numbers or better because I treat the entire store like this kind of researched problem and I am not afraid to follow the numbers even when they clash with my intuitive logic or conservative anxiety.As part of being a Buyer, I managed any overburden inventory, so stuff like edge case sizes that did not sell in the store, or things the mechanics ordered incorrectly to work on a customer's bike that I failed to catch in the background were overburden to offload elsewhere. I used eBay a lot for that part of the business. On eBay, I learned to generate money on demand using no reserve auctions. The trick is to think in terms of the average person and their life patterns. Most people live paycheck to paycheck, or at least their spending habits largely reflect their paycheck cycle. Most people also pay rent or a mortgage and the majority of these are due at the first of the month. In this cycle, the largest number of people that have excess money to spend is always on the weekend that follows the 15th of the month. On eBay, the highest volume of traffic for people that are willing to bid on an auction is on Sunday evenings at around 9pm for the West coast of the United States as this will be midnight on the East coast of the US. I always ended my listings at this time and only on months where there is not a holiday or major event. Like, February is terrible. Between the Superbowl and Valentine's day no one is making some major purchase, and the short month means money is much tighter. When I did eBay, I consistently set the high mark for similar items sold in eBay's history by 10-20% more than others within a few years time. I had many other tricks too that were unrelated to these demographics.
One of the challenges in bike shops is understanding how large the entry level market really is compared to everything else. I sold very high end race stuff. I even supported the professional ShoAir team for a year out of my back office. The entry level market was over 80% of my total sales volume. It was only around 20% of my actual retail floor space, but it dominated my storage. People love to come into a shop and see the high end stuff, but they want to buy something cheap.
In all of this experience, I see an abstract spectrum of people and patterns that are very numerous in demographic motivations. There are certain areas where these groups meet and overlap but their motivations are extremely varied.
It was funny to me that each shop owner I worked for obsessed about social media presence when I first started working for them. I told them all, "test your assumptions empirically." They all assumed that the whole world was present on social media in places like Facebook. The first shop spent a bunch of money on ads, insisting that it drove traffic into the shop. I told them to simply pick any item they feel is extremely popular and in very high demand. Then try to give it away for free on a social media platform. Tell people it is free and there are no strings attached and see how long it takes for someone to come into the store and ask for the item based upon social media alone. The fastest I saw was 3 weeks, and I believe the owner actually told the person to specifically come pick up the item out of shear embarrassment. I never had to upkeep social media presence after those experiments.
My point in all of these examples is that, the presence of people in any given space or slice of life is an extremely small fraction of demographics and motivations. If I based buying on what I like myself or what I perceive on the sales floor as customers make purchases and a few interact with me, I would be incorrect by a long shot. I'm pretty good at spotting styles trends and innovations in the upcoming market, but even this is a somewhat ungrounded bias. You see, in this experience I learned the numbers do not lie but my perception and bias does. When you say 'kids these days...' my brain sends up a red flag against this experience as likely an ungrounded perceptive bias.
Like when I was on reddit, I was very concerned about information bubbles and if I was being manipulated. It was much the same on YouTube; I wondered how I was being influenced in unexpected ways when I could not explain why exactly I went down some rabbit hole project and made purchases in retrospective reflection. I don't do such things now after exclusively using Lemmy, so speculatively there may have been some merit, but that is probably more demographic bias. However, Lemmy shows a lot of demographic bias too. We are self selecting our information bubbles even without some masterful or nefarious steering.
Ultimately, I think we are likely some outlier niche demographic; aged and disconnected from who we were as our younger former selves on the oath to now. Forces beyond our awareness self select and separate us from those like us at an earlier stage. Over the last 500 years, as you put it, we have made immense progress. That only happens through incremental improvement across each generation. Therefore I must counter that you and I must still exist in a new and improved revision as time marches on and we hang our hats on the racks of our time.
For 3d printing, a Prusa in not so bad for being reasonably quiet, especially if it is slowed down (if you do not mind longer print times). A small enclosure also helps a lot. The following photo is just a couple of $10 IKEA Lack tables hacked together with a bathroom shower curtain on three sides and a sheet of 2mm plexiglass (that still needs a latch and handle designed). That is enough to print advanced materials and there is no smell in the room. (Forgive my current project clutter around it.) The printer sits on a 50mm hard foam rubber knee/kneeling pad which is the best way to silence audible resonance coming from the table or enclosure.
If you want to get into CAD design, the topological naming issue is all about the way every object builds math references in different spaces relative to each other in a tree. When Sketches are used, each sketch starts in a new topological space making them independent from the object. The faces of the 3d object are all in a single namespace tree. If a change is made to somewhere up-tree in the history of the object, it breaks references that are down tree. The biggest reason for the complexity and why it matters is because all computers must truncate π. Avoid creating references that compound upon π. It is that easy
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and also stop calling kids "gifted" for a couple of good grades
and also stop calling kids “gifted” for a couple of good grades
Indeed. Those are most certainly linked.
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You don't need more protein, you need more fiber.
Depends on where you live
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People who say schools don’t teach anything useful are failed students.
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We should not try to save every creature, plant, business, whatever that is threatening to become extinct. Maybe it's just their time.
Businesses are obviously very different - but this is a very short-sighted view of plants and animals. It's only their time because we've massively changed ecosystems in very short timespans, and their extinctions will often further affect their respective ecosystems and other species negatively, leading to further extinctions.
The only times when this many species went extinct was when literally most species went extinct. It's naive to think this won't include billions of human deaths.
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Anime and Weeb culture are a stain on humanity and objectively bad.
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I'm sorry that you've had such troubles in the past. Learning from past mistakes isn't an example of free will, though.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Learning from past mistakes isn't an example of free will, though.
Doing so, or not doing so, either one is a choice out of free will.
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Learning from past mistakes isn't an example of free will, though.
Doing so, or not doing so, either one is a choice out of free will.
or is also the outside world that enforces that?If it's free will, why would somebody not do it if it would make their life better? All of the reasons that I can think of are either in-born traits (e.g. anxiety, ego, getting more pleasure out of drugs than other people), or external influences.
Anyway, LLMs can learn from past mistakes, too.
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If it's free will, why would somebody not do it if it would make their life better? All of the reasons that I can think of are either in-born traits (e.g. anxiety, ego, getting more pleasure out of drugs than other people), or external influences.
Anyway, LLMs can learn from past mistakes, too.
wrote last edited by [email protected]why would somebody not do it if it would make their life better?
Because they don't want to get better
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why would somebody not do it if it would make their life better?
Because they don't want to get better
Well, why would somebody not want to get better? Would somebody decide that of their own free will for no reason at all?
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Well, why would somebody not want to get better? Would somebody decide that of their own free will for no reason at all?
wrote last edited by [email protected]In my case it was a combination of fear, and misery being comfortable. What's your reasoning?
