Perspectivist

The question was about what you want to do - not what would have the biggest impact or look best on your resume.

More and more each day, I feel like. Of all the platforms I spend time on, ChatGPT ranks at the very bottom when it comes to so-called “regrettable minutes,” while Lemmy sits firmly at the top - and by a wide margin. You only need to read half of this thread to see why. I get plenty of human connection through my work, since it involves daily visits to people’s homes, but when it comes to talking to people online, I’m turning more and more toward LLMs instead of actual humans.

My mind works in a particular way. Some of it can probably be explained by autism, though there are likely other factors too. My views aren’t tied to emotions, I’m not personally invested in my opinions, I can easily entertain alternative scenarios, and I’m extremely precise with my word choices - I say what I mean, and I mean what I say. I’m simply getting tired of trying to have civil conversations that almost inevitably devolve into people talking past each other, misrepresenting my points, ignoring what’s actually being said, and generally being absurdly nasty. These encounters poison my mood and leave me regretting even trying.

I don’t have any of these problems with ChatGPT. None. For a glorified autocomplete that doesn’t understand anything, it somehow manages to have the kind of conversations that most people online seem completely incapable of. With people, I have to craft my responses with extreme care and still can’t get through to them. With AI, I barely need to proofread, and it still responds directly to what I meant to say. It feels like talking to an adult compared to the angry teenagers here - so I’m checking out and opting to talk to the void instead.

That's not what they mean by "happiness" when they say Finland is the happiest country in the world. It's more about overall life satisfaction and I can assure you that this isn't achieveable by drugs alone.

I'd start a gay gym with pool, spa, sauna, bar etc. I'm talking about the kind of place where you will see obscenities.

EDIT: These threads always make me lose my faith with humanity as I read people share their violent and sadistic fantasies.

You can literally look up these videos on google. It's not even illegal in many countries. There's a famous case in Finland of a guy who snuck on a farm at night to fuck pigs and if my memory serves, the only thing he got charged with was illegal entry.

Interesting fact about this case: the mushroom in question, Amanita Phalloides is responsible for 90% of mushroom related deaths in the world.

Also, what "news" site is this? Kinda sus coming from a brand new account as well.

I take your point to be that hostility toward Israelis right now is about opposition to Israeli government actions in Gaza, not about their ethnicity or religion. If that’s what you mean, I get the distinction you’re making.

I’m not saying every action taken against something Israeli is motivated by antisemitism. But it’s also undeniable that some people in the anti-Israel/pro-Palestine crowd are antisemites, and they hide those views behind the broader narrative. Acts of indiscriminate hostility toward anything connected to Israel - even if not motivated by antisemitism - look and function exactly the same as if they were. People should consider the optics, even if their intentions are clear to themselves. That’s the specific distinction I’m talking about, and it’s the one I haven’t seen you address yet.

Sanctions against Russia are a coordinated, state-level pressure tactic aimed at hurting the Russian economy to twist their arm. Everyone acknowledges there’s collateral damage to civilians - the difference is that the economic impact is real, and it has a plausible path to change. If someone were vandalizing the business of a Russian-born German citizen with no involvement in the war, I’d criticize that just the same.

Randomly targeting an Israeli company or civilian abroad that has no connection to the war isn’t the same thing. It’s not part of an organized effort to apply economic pressure, it doesn’t meaningfully weaken the Israeli state, and it has no realistic chance of changing policy. It’s just hostility toward something for being Israeli.

Buddhists probably had figured out a lot of things about the workings of the human mind way before science did.

You haven’t addressed my point. I’m not debating whether Israel’s actions are above criticism - I’m saying that targeting unrelated Israeli entities, like an airline office in Paris, isn’t legitimate anti-war activism. It’s indiscriminate, identity-based hostility.

You can frame it as “just graffiti” if you want, but that doesn’t change the fact it’s aimed at something with no connection to Gaza. That’s exactly the distinction I was making, and nothing in your reply engages with it.

And that's called a moral contamination fallacy - the belief that if X is connected to Y, then X must share full moral responsibility for everything Y does.

This kind of vandalism does nothing to hurt the war effort. All it does is damage property, terrorize innocent civilians and alienate the people who would've otherwise been on your side.

This reminds me of the time we often heard people saying "I'm not racist, I'm race realist"