*Lemmings. (I was going to use that as an answer to your post, but someone learning something new never gets me even the slightest bit miffed.)
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Most scam products like “power saver” plug-in modules for your home, fake ODB2 gas saver modules for cars or those little stickers for cell phones that are sold as “antenna boosters”. Also, anything that is marketed as a “detox” product will piss me off.
All of those products are actively being sold on Amazon, EBay and at some other major retailers or in malls. They are openly sold because people refuse to learn that magic does not exist.
Please. Stop buying these things.
No no, you don’t understand. They get rid of “toxins”.
… which toxins? Uh …
The most stupid thing I have seen so far, the “Vehicle molecular de-icer”
Haha, yeah, sorry about that. Came back to Lemmy last week, so I just came up with something. Almost went with “Lemmers”.
The scam products also tend to get me pissed as well, it’s so stupid and just downright low tbh.
Fedizens?
Kbin was a flop (at least in the direct sense), but Mbin and sometime Sublinks will be released allow federation with Mastodon and some other stuff, so this is more inclusive.
Also Leftist Lemmies may become a thing, bc of all that about the origin of the code and supporting genocide in China (and sometimes Russia), so Fedizen avoids that?
Are we… (Star Trek) Fedizens ✨? Learned (Loony?) Lemmites? We’ll decide at some point. :-P
Many instances have already adopted the lemming as a mascot, like my home instance:
Still though, you do you. I got no complaints about what people want to call things. ;)
Well I am not in charge, but I did think I’d offer that thought for consideration, as it offers greater inclusivity. :-)
I almost prefer lemons of Lemmy 🍋
I know what you mean. It’s like a stupidity tax. Being ignorant makes you fall for those kinds of products and schemes. Ignorance is expensive.
I’ve lived long enough, to learn that there is not just one stupidity tax. And like you said…“Being ignorant,” is more of a lifestyle than it is a bad habit(s) IMO.
And yet humanity invented this device that fits in your pocket and allows you to access unlimited knowledge. It’s sad, really.
Knowledge can only take us so far. It’s how ‘we’ use that knowledge, that matters the most. But be carful, as false information can, and has been passed off as knowledge. Knowledge: the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association
True, and as if that was not enough we now have to deal with LLM generated content feeding on misinformation and allucinated content generated by other LLMs.
That is going to get very annoying very fast.
Cannabis is fun and has some medical benefits, like if you’re a cancer patient trying to stimulate your appetite, but it also genuinely does lower your IQ.
I’m a relatively good driver (not the greatest) I’ll never understand how people don’t understand there’s more you can do to control your vehicle speed besides just hitting the gas then the brake. It’s terrifying seeing someone speed up on someone then hit the brakes ever every 3 seconds. I’ve had my set of brakes on for nearly 7 years I know people who change them yearly and I’m strictly talking about the ones I know for a fact get the same level of quality brakes that I get. I own a truck hauling stuff around nearly every day so in theory I should be going through brakes WAY more than the average person.
What frightens me is when you see a vehicle put on their brake lights while they are clearly accelerating. I tend to back way away from that type of driver.
Or the people who slow down at the bottom of a hill to accelerate UP HILL. Also all automatics you can shift to neutral and coast too.
That reality is not defined by our wishes, but by observable, verifiable facts.
Sadly, a large amount of people cannot accept this.
Reality is what you can’t turn away from.
Reality is that which continues to exist when you stop believing in it.
People in developed worlds live such comfortable lives, we start to feel entitled to things. Like “genocide should not happen”… okay then, so how about investing some effort to stop it instead of just talking through our mouth holes about it?
One for the USA: we know how the electoral college works, and especially now with WFH many people could live anywhere, so will we go somewhere to flip districts, in order to both stop genocide (at least the Russian variety, and maybe Chinese, if not also Israeli; but the other side wants to do more genocide not less) and also preserve rights for women, and minorities and every other thing we claim to value?
Answer: no, at least so far we have not. It is not so easy or simple… and I don’t blame anyone especially women of child bearing age for not wanting to move to a place that could be dangerous. BUT then in that case we need to accept the consequences of our choices, and that’s the part I almost never see, especially on social media.
If you are advocating for people to uproot their lives from their communities, friends, family, and every other connection they have to where they live – for political reasons – I would argue that’s a very bad idea. I think it would ruin society.
Fwiw, I agree with you. I even tried it myself personally, but then moved back into a city. So I understand what you are saying, believe me I do. All I meant is that we need to see clearly as we move forward, and that means questioning our own biases and preconceptions, so that we can accurately chart out a course forward that does not fall again in the same old traps, e.g. that HRC fell into by not bothering to campaign in the midwestern states (Obama likewise ignored rural in favor of urban areas, though in his case it seems more defensible since many racists were never going to vote for him regardless of his platform or activities?).
Quantum mechanics would like a word…
It is so obvious: I am the smartest person on earth.
But they are all too dense to realize it. 🤐
Tell us: with that level of density, is the earth going to be okay? Like, do we need to send some people away, or will we turn into a black hole or some such? (Sorry, I’m just one of those plebes - I know nothing okay!?)
that level of density, is the earth going to be okay?
Of course, yes. Don’t fear. That level hasn’t changed for several thousand years.
Like, do we need to send some people away
There’s only a handful who deserve that. One of them wants to leave for Mars anyway.
Fear? Oh yes right, I do “not” desire to become a black hole, um, yeah… 😜
Well, you’ve convinced me! What should I do, o wise one?
Tell everybody about me.
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I’ll jump on board with this too. Someone’s got to be the smartest person on earth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I agree with lemmings
How to park.
I dont drive just yet, I’m sorry 😭
lol you’re not doing anything wrong yet then 😄
That we’d all be better off if we accepted our own fallibility. That we are not perfect little robots, and as a result more tolerance and forgiveness in the world is necessary.
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Humans are not descended from apes. They have the same ancestors.
Why is that so hard to understand?
Put your dry erase markers in the holder basket thing CAP DOWN. jfc, the amount ruined, dried out markers could probably fill a landfill
If this is the case, they should put a ring around the base with what color the markers are. As long as the lid is the main indicator of color, people will put them lid up. Is lying down ok, or does that ruin them too?
Yeah, one of the biggest selling brands is hopeless for this. I have to colour the base of each one.
It’s like the company wants the marker to dry out and for me to go buy more.
! waaaaait a minute!
It’s like the company wants the marker to dry out and for me to go buy more.
Capitalism 101, friend.
Never put some thought into that, don’t usually deal with dry erase markers, but it makes total sense!
That the start menu has a search bar. You would think that everyone would know this after almost 2 decades, but too many people still navigate through their computers like it’s 1998.
There’s a whole community of young men who wear thigh highs and cat ears while they game and design
LLMs are not general AI. They are not intelligent. They aren’t sentient. They don’t even really understand what they’re spitting out. They can’t even reliably do the 1 thing computers are typically very good at (computational math) because they are just putting sequences of nonsense (to them) characters together in the most likely order based on their training model.
When LLMs feel sentient or intelligent, that’s your brain playing a trick on you. We’re hard-wired to look for patterns and group things together based on those patterns. LLMs are human-speech prediction engines, so it’s tempting and natural to group them with the thing they’re emulating.
God isn’t real. No deities exist. Stop being delusional.
