true, but when i said this in another thread multiple folks told me what an asshole I was being for leaving my phone at home. because it’s rude, inconsiderate, and abusive to people who might need to talk to me right now, this instance, it can’t wait, and how dare I not reply asap.

Bernie Sanders.

most comedians are far too centrist for me, but i enjoy how they piss on the extreme left and the extreme right and their delusional self-destructive agendas. it’s terrifying how many people take extremest views seriously.

piefed blocks more stuff and makes it easier to block stuff. it generally has poorer federation.

lemmy is better if you want more content, piefed if you want more control.

she tried to get pregnant and baby trap me.

she confessed one night, drunk, and then was SHOCKED that i broke up with on the spot, and began screaming and throwing stuff at me. I kicked her out of my place, I had to put hands on her and shove her out the door, and I never spoke to her again.

that wasn’t even the worst breakup I had. haven’t had a relationship since. just many years of casual dating that goes no where because we’re so incompatible.

practice

No. LLM is code, determined inputs make determined outputs.

Biological neurons don’t work like that. You can give them the same input and they can have wildly different outputs.

they don’t teach romance and mystery books either.

because they aren’t literature. they are popular entertainment.

English teachers don’t love it, they teach it because it’s part of the standard curriculum of books they are allowed to teach. there are standard lists of books from which they get to pick, usually selected by the state or school board.

which is why pretty much every student reads the same books across the country, give or take a few different ones.

It’s dumb.

there is a reason it’s assigned to 8th graders. they tend to enjoy dumb stories, that require a minimum effort to read and very little effort to understand.

It’s not a scam if your town/well water is shitty or causes issues.

I don’t have one, but many restaurants in my city have them because the city water is hard, and will destroy pipes and equipment. Like, if you ran an espresso machine in my city w/o a filter the machine would clog every other week from mineral build up. So in terms of lowing your plumber and equipment bills it’s a very good investment. Often in my city water heater tanks, for example, will last 5-10 years instead of like 20. Also, a lot of people find the hard water in my city unpalatable.

The info about your water should be available through your town or city. The water in my city isn’t treated because it’s perfectly safe and clean, it just has high mineral content. I have lived in places where the water was treated with softeners because it was too hard, and that has other drawbacks.

If I was building a new home in my same town, I would totally install one because it would pay for itself in the long run. I use a Brita filter and that’s good enough for me to clean up the taste, and I do call a plumber to flush my pipes and all that every couple of years to prevent the build up that eats away at them, so that is an ongoing cost I have to eat. And retrofitting a filter system would be stupidly expensive for my building.

those things are well understood. consciousness isn’t.

and again, not everyone believes in them.

free will is your choices. whether or not you believe those choices are determined or undetermined, is the problem where people don’t agree.

yes, but you’re likely destroy it in the process. bite valves are not designed to be cleanable or fixable, but rather replaceable.

buy a new one. and yeah if it’s too old, they won’t make new ones, so time for a new bladder.

I’ve broken every bite valve I tried to fix.

It’s not necessarily your problem. Especially on the internet.

Don’t let the opinions of strangers who are often willfully and ignorantly interpreting you dictate what you mean.

If you have certain discussions you want to be a part of, well read up on that topic, get informed. And choose sources, which, as you say, are interested in understanding things, rather than proving a point or ‘winning’.

They exist. But boy oh boy is most of the info out there some weird petty dummy who just wants to beat up on anyone else who has a different opinion. And most often this is the type of person you will encounter in discussions, both IRL and on the internet, and the best response to those people is to ignore them and focus your energy on folks who want to engage you in the way you want to be engaged.

seriously. the only time strange women ever approach me and compliment me it’s to sell me something.

usually it’s to ask me to join their church/cult.

There are lots of us around. You just won’t see a ton of the content they post or comment because the tankies and other extremists will downvote and report it to try and get it removed.

It sucks. I once was on a thread about trans issues months ago, that was so wonderfully empathetic and nuanced and graceful… I went back and forth and felt so much was shared and learned. But then it was brigaded by a LGBT instance’s users, who reported everything as bigotry and hate speech, and then the mods removed all the posts and all that was left two days later was just a ton of short asinine posts that reduce everything into a binary stance of ‘support lgbt always and forever or you are an evil person’ nonsense.

Which is to say, moderate speech that considers a plurality of views on an issue, or the real world complexities of an issue, typically doesn’t last very long on lemmy, due to the population of extremists who regard it as ‘hate speech’. Because they want to reduce every discussion to name-calling and bumper sticker slogans and false binary choices of being ‘for/against’ things, and a bizarre paranoia about everything being nazi or facist.

I barely can go a day i the fediverse without my pro-peace socialist democratic views being classified as facism or nazi-apologia.

There are a lot of users who are ‘eternally vigilant’ and think anyone who isn’t with them, is automatically their enemy.