Thorny_Insight

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What are the best steps to reduce the wealth of billionaires?

There are a myriad of news articles here on Lemmy that display the abhorrent influence billionaires have on our society (especially the US, where I reside). I consistently read comments where the posters appear hopeless and despondent of the situation, while others jokingly refer to the guillotine....

Thorny_Insight,

But then you’d be a billionaire aswell and would need to be excecuted for the horrible person you are.

Thorny_Insight,

Another thing that’s curious about these lights which also applies to your computer/smartphone display aswell is the fact that it’s able to produce yellow color despite only having red, green and blue leds in it. If you open up a yellow picture on your monitor and look closely with a magnifying glass there’s no yellow there.

Looking for exploration game reccomendations that work on linux and work with controllers

Hi! I recently played Tokyo Ghostwire and really liked it. I did not play a lot of similar games before. So I am looking for more cool games with exploration and interesting worlds, or similar games in general, that will actually work with controllers and work on linux. Did you pirate something like this recently that you liked?...

Thorny_Insight,

People jokingly call DayZ a hiking simulator because it includes so much running in the woods between towns. It truly is one of a kind of game. I haven’t ever played anything else like it. The learning curve is steep though and I recommend watching few tutorials as trying to survive as a new player will be brutal. There will be alot of starving to death and dying to infections and diseases. Best would be teaming up with a more experienced player but trying to find ones that are friendly can be tricky.

Thorny_Insight,

I’m not exactly sure what you mean by exploration but DayZ works on Linux. It’s an open world zombie survival multiplayer game with a massive map. I have 650 hours on this game and there are still probably few towns I haven’t ever visited.

Thorny_Insight,

My plumber salary has been more than enough for me. I hope I can maintain it as self-employed aswell.

Thorny_Insight,

Well ofcourse it’s a combination of things but I feel like there something to the theory of how overstimulation like that drains your dopamine reserves (or something) and kind of makes you numb to more mundane positive experiences.

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    Thorny_Insight,

    Not sure about the front page but when searching for videos you can often use - symbol to exclude results with certain words so for example if you search for amateur you can add -step -friend -daughter -dad -brother -mom and it’ll exclude all results containing those words.

    Thorny_Insight,

    I haven’t seen Interstellar yet. It’s probably the biggest one though i don’t really watch movies or tv series much anyway so I haven’t seen almost anything recent. Also Godfather, Friends, Reservoir Dogs …

    Thorny_Insight,

    Well I’ve only had two but my current one is basically my dream car so the answer is 2007 Nissan Navara King Cab, 2.5 litre turbo diesel 4x4, all black and murdered out.

    Thorny_Insight,

    I go thru the top 12 hours posts from the communities I’m subscribed to and if there’s nothing new there I switch to active and all.

    Huge caveat here is that I have hundreds of communities blocked so that my “all feed” is even somewhat tolerable.

    Anyone else feels like they want to destroy their old sim and never give their contact to anyone ever again?

    If signal gets the new username feature, this just might be what i do, so fricking tired of people just blindly giving random apps and websites their contact permissions and they get my contact as well, and there’s nothing i can do about it

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    I just don’t like that anyone with my number can simply just call me whenever they want and not answering is seen as something that needs an explanation. Don’t get me wrong, I think that being able to make phone calls is a great thing but not in it’s current form. Would be much better if people had to send a message first and I could then call back when it suits me or something. It’s crazy that you can just demand my full attention to yourself when ever you want. For the very least it should be something truly urgent.

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    If you keep talking, I can’t stop listening, but I can always stop reading. That’s why I sit in silence at work, but online, I have an opinion for a ton of stuff. Including on what you just prompted me to say.

    I write for the pleasure of me. If I manage to make even a bit of sense while doing so, even better.

    Thorny_Insight,

    Yeah. I’ll like every video I watch and comment too every now and then.

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    The AI that fascinates me is just an idea. No such thing, or really even anything close to it exists. Atleast not yet. It’s more of a thought experiment and a philosophical dilemma. That however doesn’t make me any less worried of it. This technology keeps making big leaps forward.

    ChatGPT for example will contradict itself and hallucinate information

    So do humans. I agree though. At best GPT4 only shows *signs of *intelligence. Still nothing close to AGI. Can’t deny it’s not impressive though.

    Thorny_Insight,

    As a person who loves talking about AI I’d like to note that by AI “we” usually mean AGI (artificial general intelligence) and not generative AI like chatGPT or midjourney.

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    Yeah if you consider Instagram a dating app. Went thru accounts of local women, found an interesting one and sent her a message and we’ve been together for 7 years now. No swiping left and right or any of that shit. Just one well thought out private message.

    Thorny_Insight,

    Lemmy doesn’t display your score anyways except for individual posts/messages. Atleast not the web view.

    I truly don’t get why it matters. On reddit I made a new account once a year or so anyways and on Lemmy I’ve got like 6 of these. I never paid any attention to my or anyone else’s karma either.

    Thorny_Insight,

    Yeah I agree, but I don’t feel like that’s what I’m doing? My stance on the subject at hand is based on the evidence that’s available.

    Thorny_Insight,

    I just mean that usually when I say something controversial, the people arguing against that are from all over the place, but in this case the opposition seems to be coming from these two instances almost exclusively. Even in this thread, that’s been posted on lemmy.ml there’s still a disproportionate amount of Hexbear users replying. I can’t say for certain, but it sure feels like they’re looking for me rather than just stumbling across this post.

    Thorny_Insight,

    That still doesn’t explain the disproportionate amount of replies from Hexbear and Lemmygrad users. You should see my inbox.

    Thorny_Insight,

    EMP would not affect devices that aren’t connected to the grid. Atleast I don’t think it would, and even if it did, there’s still plenty of older diesel powered machines that don’t need electricity to run such as some diesel heaters. If nothing else I could trade it for something more useful then.

    Thorny_Insight,

    I mostly stock up on items I’m using anyways such as rice, beans, noodles, sugar, coffee, crackers, honey, peanut butter etc. and I’m constantly using the oldest packages from my stock and replacing them with fresh ones.

    Thorny_Insight,

    Watching youtube without ads is kind of like eating meat. I can’t morally justify my behavior, but I will keep doing it untill it becomes a real inconvenience. I can’t make a good faith argument about why youtube should serve me amazing video content for free.

    Thorny_Insight,

    When the sponsor is baked into the video itself, there’s no way for the advertiser to know how many of the people who watched the video, skipped past the sponsor. The only way they know wether their ads are working or not, is by seeing how many people used the discount code from said channel. If you’re the kind of person going thru the effort to install additional software on top of adblocker to get rid of this sponsored content aswell, I think it’s quite safe to assume you weren’t going to buy their product anyways.

    Also if you’re still feeling bad about it, just donate few bucks directly to the content creator. That’s way more than they’re ever going to profit from you watching ads anyways.

    Thorny_Insight,

    First I only saw screenshots of others getting it. Then I got it once, cleared the catche, updated and hoped for the best. The next day I got it again. Today I’ve gotten it 4 or 5 times. I wonder what’s up tomorrow.

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