Thorny_Insight

@Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee

I prioritize ethics over optics even if it means facing criticism.

Sharing my honest beliefs, welcoming constructive debates, and embracing the potential for evolving viewpoints. Independent thinker navigating through conversations without allegiance to any particular side.

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Thorny_Insight ,

I don't think most countries reveal the true scale of their stockpiles.

Thorny_Insight , (edited )

So he infact did not suggest nuking Gaza.

Why is media like this? Someone says something stupid and then they lie about it claiming they said something even more stupid. How am I supposed to take these articles seriously? What else do you lie about?

Thorny_Insight ,

There's also the possibility that because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear weapons have never since been used. What would cold war been like in that case?

Thorny_Insight ,

Oh. Sorry about that. This is how much I pay attention to American politics.

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I hate this so much. I swear I have never in my life returned a bottle without the cap. How would you even lose it in the first place? What psycho opens a bottle and discards the cap? Now my pocket knife usage has increased 300% as I'm cutting this sharp plastic thinghy away every time and I'm creating way more plastic waste than ever before. I agree with a lot what the EU does but this is idiotic.

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The cap pokes my face if I try to drink from it without tearing it off. When I tear it off there's then a sharp edge that pokes my hand every time I open or seal it.

https://i.imgur.com/aWnMBwN.jpeg

Thorny_Insight ,

My pocket knife aswell. I used to recycle 100% of my plastic bottles before. Now I recycle 99.8% as there's always this tiny piece that I cut off and throw in the trash. Same as that metal clip on lighters that's supposed to stop children from being able to ignite them. It's the first thing I rip off when I buy a new one.

Thorny_Insight ,

It's attached by two "leashes" and if you yank it a bit the other rips off making it pretty much what you described but it'll still tangle all over your face when you try to drink straight from the bottle and also now you have the sharp bit poking you every time you screw and unscrew the cap. This is not the only design we have. I just happen to shop at LIDL and their bottles are all like this. Some other designs are slightly better.

Thorny_Insight ,

The rent for the fanciest apartment I've ever lived in (and ever will) was a little under 10k a year. New building, top floor, massive bathroom with sauna, a big balcony, a storage unit and a covered parking slot for my car all included. Oh and a lake view.

Thorny_Insight ,

About 7 years ago. I bought a house since and my mortage is way less than that now.

Thorny_Insight ,

Nah. A mid-size city in Finland

Thorny_Insight ,

Mid-size city in Finland. I moved away after my relationship ended because 740€/month was too expensive for a single person to pay. The single room apartment in the middle of the city I had before that was around 450€/month.

Thorny_Insight ,

This might be a weird question but when people tip for a good service, what exactly is good service?

If I go to a restaurant I expect them to take my order, bring me the food and when I'm done bring me the check. That's it. I want nothing else from them. Should I tip them for not spitting in my food or not stumbling and throwing it all over my clothes?

Thorny_Insight ,

Oh wow that sounds awful. I already don't like when they come check on me mid-meal about wether the food is good or do I need anything.

Thorny_Insight ,

I'm happy with the service at the local Burger King and sushi buffet.

E-Bikes Should Not Require Pedaling, Proposes U.K. Government, Diverging From E.U. ( www.forbes.com )

E-bikes could get faster, more powerful and not require pedaling, in a move announced today by UKGOV. Cycling organizations are opposed to the plans.

Thorny_Insight ,

People who do this kind of stuff are the reason the rest of us can't have nice things. Same as with Surrons fucking up bike trails and then getting all ebikes banned from there.

Thorny_Insight ,

Pedal assist is always laggy

On Aliexpress bikes, sure.

Thorny_Insight ,

Hub motor I assume. My mid-drive 250W e-fatbike climbs near-vertical hills effortlessly.

Thorny_Insight ,

As long as the speed limit remains the same as for pedal-assist bikes then I don't really see any difference wether the rider is pedaling or not.

Thorny_Insight ,

They should be free to do that up to a point. A moped needs a licence to drive and it needs to be registered and insured and you need to wear a motorbike helmet while riding one and you're not allowed to ride it on the sidewalks or on forest trails. If your ebike is effectively a moped then the same rules should apply.

Where I live a pedal-assist ebike with 250 watt motor that's limited to 25kph is considered a bicycle and you're allowed to ride it where ever you're allowed to ride a bicycle aswell. However if it goes faster than that or is a more powerful then I think it's only reasonable that there's a different set of regulations for a bike like that. I'm not allowed to drive a car on the sidewalk either even if I go slow so I don't see how electric motorbike is that much different.

Thorny_Insight ,

I have a feeling that the only short-term solution is heavy content curation by the users themselves. Nobody is incentivized to do it for us. It takes time and effort but the only thing that has made any kind of difference is blocking everything you don't want to see. And I mean ruthlessly doing so. Someone replied with a clown emoji to this thread and they're now blocked. That's how petty I'm about it nowdays. The vast majority of users on social media just add to the noise and it's this group of people I'm trying to get rid of.

The way I think about it is by imagining a room with 100 random people. Do I want to talk with all of them? No. I'd rather talk with the couple most interesting ones among them and ignore the rest. I don't have the time and energy to pay attention to the constant feed of meaningless nonsense.

Block subs you're not interested in. Block users that dont bring any value. Add content filters for topics you're sick of reading about etc. You're not going to miss out on anything. You're not going to run out of content. You'll hardly notice any difference but after some time the signal does start to get stronger and the noise does quiet down a bit.

Thorny_Insight ,

If they actually used a tactical nuke or attacked a Nato member and we retaliated by shooting hundreds of cruise- and ballistic missiles into Russia, I wonder how many they would actually be able to intercept. I'm starting to get the feeling that not many.

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They barely have the manpower to push forward even in Ukraine. Then again if they ever want to do it now is the time because in a few decades they're not going to have enough fighting age men. I just really doubt this. If the current war has taught us anything it's that they would get absolutely obliterated by Nato and there are no winners in a nuclear exchange. Also them using nukes in Ukraine/Europe would mean nuking themselves too because that's the direction wind is going to push the fallout. Though that assumes they would care about their civilian population which they clearly don't.

Thorny_Insight ,

Hating on everything AI is trendy nowdays. Most of these people can't give you any coherent explanation for why. They just adopt the attitude of people around them who also don't know why.

I believe the general reasoning is something along the lines of not wanting bad corporations to profit from their content for free. So it's just a matter of principle for the most part. Perhaps we need to wait for someone to train LLM on the freely available to everyone data on Lemmy and then we can interview it to see what's up.

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  • Beef jerky
  • Salmon
  • Cashew nuts
  • RedBull
  • Fresh asparagus
  • Raspberry jam
  • Corona Extra
  • Freeze dried fruits and berries
  • Fresh orange juice
Thorny_Insight OP ,

Swordfish? Interesting.. What's that like?

Thorny_Insight ,

I was just thinking yesterday what car I would get if I had infinite money and while I'm sure such one probably exists I couldn't came up with one that I'd like better than my -07 Nissan Navara. I mean yeah I would ofcourse do a total overhaul on it and add a bunch of offroad accessories and such but the truck itself basically has everything I need and switching to a newer one would just add stuff I dont want.

I like cars and trucks but I'm extremely uninterested in most of the new ones. Something similar happened with them as with smartphones when they turned from tools into fashion accessories you use to show off to your friends. Can't we just have ones that are decent looking and come with the basic necesary features and nothing more? I want it simple, reliable and easy to fix. I don't want a computer on wheels.

Thorny_Insight ,

Buying a new car never really made sense to me even when you could afford it. 2 - 3 year old model is effectively brand new but a lot cheaper. Why pay more if you can pay less?

Thorny_Insight , (edited )

It's a spectrum. A pedal-assist electric bicycle and a Surron are both considered "e-bikes" yet they're wildly different with the other effectively being a motorbike. In europe the vast majority of e-bikes are pedal assist with a 250W motor and maximum speed of 25kph (15mph)

EDIT: Pedal assist (pedelec) means the motor only runs when you're pedaling and usually the harder you pedal the more it assists but it cuts off at 25kph and if you want to go faster it's muscle power only from there on.

Thorny_Insight ,

I used to never wear a helmet when commuting to school etc. but since I started mountain biking getting one seemed like a no-brainer and now it's like putting on my seatbelt. Riding without a helmet feels wildly irresponsible and I even put it on when doing a test-drive around the block after having done some maintenance.

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Jokes on them. I endlessly scroll on my computer while my smartphone mostly just acts as a phone/music player/navigation device.

Thorny_Insight ,

I don't think it's a reason to not go ahead with it either but then again it's not too far off from the similar argument about replacing actors/knowledge workers with AI or factory workers/truck drivers with automation. It is true that while it may provide better and even cheaper product it does also come with a loss of work for ton of people.

Thorny_Insight ,

If Hamas wasn't using their own population as human shields and shooting rockets from next to the refugee camps then perhaps there would be no need for it. I also find it quite ironic how they're yet again criticized for bombing civilians while there's a perfect example right there of to which lenghts they're going to warn them beforehand. I doubt Hamas did that before shooting rockets at the aid delivery corridor a few days back. Again, 350 meters from a civilian campsite.

Thorny_Insight ,

I brought up the roof knocking because it's what Israel does aswell as dropping leaflets and sending text messages and making phone calls before the strikes. This goes against all the accusations about genocide and intentionally targeting civilians. It would be quite cynical to think that this all is just a cover up so that they can continue with their plan of murdering every single Palestinian. I'm just not buying that. The high number of civilians in that area are a huge inconvenience for Israel and killing them is extremely bad PR. They know this and Hamas knows it aswell.

For the high number of civilians killed I think the most simple explanation is also the most likely to be true; it's urban warwafe on a country with extremely tiny land area and a population of millions. You could blindly drop a bomb quite literally anywhere there and you're likely to hit someone. This is what war looks like.

what's a good way to stick a laser leveler to the wall?

I have a laser level that I'd like to use for lining up pictures on my wall. I'm doing this by myself otherwise I just have someone else hold it. It has a couple holes in it that look like maybe you could use screws or nails and I'd rather not have to put holes in the wall to do this. Any suggestions?

Thorny_Insight ,

A tripod is what I use. Laser levels have the same threads in them than cameras do. There's also stands for them which you pin between the floor and ceiling and can then place the laser at any height aswell as wall-mounts with magnets and stuff but all this seems a bit excessive for hanging a picture. Perhaps use a bubble level and a measuring tape instead?

Thorny_Insight ,

I'd love to drive my truck in places I'm not allowed to. I would do urban offroading, drive on private land and inside malls and stuff.

Maybe I'd also find an abandoned building or two and set them on fire but first I would smash all the windows. Actually now that I think about it, I'd make molotov cocktails and set all kinds of things on fire.

I would also like to try if I could fall a radio mast by cutting the guide wires with an battery powered angle grinder. This is one of the things I've always wondered when looking at these masts and thought there's no way it could be that easy.

Maybe I'd finish my day by raiding a hardware store and stealing all the tools I don't already have and probably one or two other things aswell.

Thorny_Insight ,

Yeah if the law (or fear of god) is the only thing that prevents one from doing horrible things, then they're probably not the most balanced person to begin with.

Thorny_Insight ,

Yeah but would that be enought to make the entire tower fall if you cut all of them on the one side. Seems like it would but also seems like something they would take into account when designing these as that would be quite easy to sabotage and how's anyone even going to catch you since they're usually located in the middle of forest.

Thorny_Insight ,

What are you talking about? Blocking works just fine. Both on Lemmy and Twitter.

Thorny_Insight ,

"Go die for using the social media platform I don't like" doesn't seem unreasonable at all.

Thorny_Insight ,

This is how I think about social media in general. It's a spectrum from mostly fake to all fake. Even the least fake profiles still only show the good parts of their life and unedited photos are still hand-picked from a bunch of other ones they don't want people to see.

Hell even my own Pixelfed feed which is 100% landscape photography is all more or less fake. I take hundreds of photos and only publish one or two of the best ones and even those are heavily edited. It gives a totally false impression of how good of an photographer I really am.

Thorny_Insight ,

If it's someone I'm never going to meet either way then it doesn't matter if they're real or not. What matters is the quality of content.

Should I avoid or engage in current news right now?

During the last 'election summer' things went haywire but ultimately nothing meaningful really happened, and not a whole lot really changed as a result of that unrest. This time things are going haywire again, and it seems like something big will happen but people thought that the last time... Would it just be better to ignore...

Thorny_Insight ,

My thinking here is that I don't need to pay attention to the news. When something happens that I should know of it'll find its way into my awareness one way or another. I don't need to go looking for it. If by ignoring the news I manage to avoid hearing about something entirely then it wasn't important to begin with.

Personally I only go to one news site few times a day and I just scroll past most of it. On social media I block almost all of it, especially relating to politics. I'm still able to discuss current events with people and the topics that I cant, for example what some individual politican has said or did I'm not interested to discuss anyway.

Thorny_Insight ,

With silicone the proper way is to first wipe the surfaces clean with acetone. Then apply a thick bead of silicone making sure it sticks to both surfaces with no gaps (very important), doesn't need to look pretty. After that you spray it with soapy water which prevents it from sticking where you don't want it to and then use a wet/soapy popsicle stick (or a dedicated tool) to scrape off the excess. After that you can spray it again and super gently pull your finger over it to smooth it out. Should come out looking something like this.

I've gotten good results doing caulking like this aswell but some people say that acrylic caulk may react with the water/soap and you should instead use a dedicated tooling agent.

Thorny_Insight ,

Yeah. XCover 6Pro is the only device that met my requirements and is the one I went with.

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I believe in voting with your wallet. Giving money to companies that practice anti-consumer behaviour sends them the signal that you're okay with what they're doing. I'm not okay with it so I'm sticking to my principles.

I never bought a device with non-removable battery either and now thanks to EU it seems that I don't ever need to either.

I also bought an older model MacBook because it had a better keyboard aswell as HDMI port and SD-card reader. Now the newest models have them again because enough people like me refused to buy the inferior models.

My friend's boyfriend's therapist said that he is an abuser who is trying to look like the victim. What does this mean?

My friend has been talking with this 24 year old man online since early 2022. She is into stereotypical nerds that are on the chubbier sides. He is a stereotypical nerd both inside and out, and is 350 lbs at 5"11. She thinks he's the cutest man she's ever seen. She met him on Reddit, he lives in California while she lives in...

Thorny_Insight ,

I don't see any major red flags there personally. To me he sounds like a tired and depressed man whose probably trying to avoid getting his hopes up so he doesn't get hurt again. He's probably not going to move to England and think she's likely not going to move to the US either so why bother. This relationship has an end date anyway.

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