cadeje

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[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm glad you're doing something, despite the pain you're in. I simply want bring your attention to the fact that the doom and gloom attitude is harmful for the fight. In fact, many consider the onslaught of apocalyptic headlines and the new industry of climate fear to be a new tactic to get people to do nothing. Michael E. Mann, famous climatologist, has talked about this problem as well.

[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, that's up to you. But I guarantee you will both feel better and maybe help save the world if you try doing something beyond getting angry and then disassociating.

Consider the fact that headlines that instill fear and doom work against us. What use is trying if it's all fucked anyway? The thing is it isn't over until it's over. I can't make you have hope, but hopefully you can come to realize that hope does a lot more for us than giving up. If you can envision a better future, you can work towards it! You can help advocate in your local Citizen's Climate Lobby chapter, develop a good garden for local wildlife and pollinators, or even just helping others be aware of the issue can help. There's no one coming to save us, so it's up to us to save ourselves.

Or you can just get angry and do nothing.

I understand the anxiety. I was frozen from it for a long time. But what helped more than anything else was simply going outside and tending a garden. Find a love for the life on this planet, and try to protect it. There's so much worth fighting for.

[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Our fate is never sealed. Undirected anger is as useless as apathy. Have hope, and work towards that hope.

[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

All the David Cage sbfp let's plays are fuckin gold. I don't watch playthroughs anymore but I will go back and watch those every now and then

[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the big risk with AI is its use as a disinfo tool. Skynet ain't no where near close, but a complete post truth world is possible. It's already bad now... Could you imagine AI generated recordings of crimes that are used as evidence against people? There are already scam callers that use recordings to make people think theyve kidnapped relatives.

I really feel like most people aren't afraid of the right things when it comes to AI.

[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I just scrolled through to see if anyone shouted out Mark of the Ninja. I hate stealth games, but absolutely loved that one.

[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/watching-movies-tv-with-subtitles/674301/

This article encapsulates everything I feel about the subject. I hate using subtitles, but sometimes I just have to in order to hear what people are saying due to streaming services messing with the actual sound mix using their stupid algorithms. As for reasons I hate subtitles: they distract from the actual film and can occasionally spoil things happening. If subtitles are on the screen, my brain forces my eyes down to read them, and I inevitably lose out on some of the nuances of the visual part of the visual media.

Additionally, if I'm watching foreign films, I get this urge to learn the language so I can stop using subtitles. Maybe I'm a curmudgeon, but I just can't stand them. I can't imagine watching Redline for instance with subtitles on. Yuck.

[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Huh. It actually runs fine for me on android and firefox. I did the thing though where you can download a website as an app:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-web-apps-firefox-android

Let me know if that runs any better for you.

[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

UN peacekeepers famously did not get involved when the Serbs massacred Bosnian people in Srebrenica in their own "safe zones". I don't know if there are counter examples since then that demonstrate peacekeepers actually keeping peace, but that was the worst situation imaginable, and they still didn't get involved and just let it happen.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53346759

[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

This is incredible. I hope they get married.

[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see a lot of people quick to hate on PHP while not really knowing anything about it's modern usage... but the thing I think of most is how people praise Lemmy for using Rust and diss Kbin for using PHP, but at the end of the day it's HOW those tools are used that determines the quality of something. Language changes, but fundamentals stay the same, and in the end all anyone should care about is whether or not something works.

Programming language wars have always seemed a tad shallow to me.

[–] cadeje@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for the reminder that I should definitely plant some of these. Fresh blackberry jam is heavenly! Definitely one of the most underrated berries imo

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