Ogmios

It’s absolutely worth an entire lifetime of exploration. But dismissing things you can’t explain away immediately with chemical processes, as some sort of unknowable sorcery, is exactly why I call it reductive. As far as I’m concerned, maintaining a reverence for the fact that you will never be capable of conclusively explaining such things, because there is vastly more detail involved than even a thousand lifetimes could ever uncover, is necessary if you want to actually begin to learn about what’s really happening.

Frankly, this kind of reductive deconstruction of human experience is a huge part of what’s going wrong with society. Music is created by people who dedicate themselves to exploring the world we experience, and discovering nuance which evokes feelings that can not be simply explained, betraying the existence of deeper layers of human experience than anything directly available to cold analysis.

Certainly there are then those who copy the form of works created by such artists, who actually do treat music that way, but the result is like the output of a LLM, and repetition of such a style is like training AI on it’s own data, progressively degrading what was once there.

I mean, before the Internet people spent a hell of a lot more time just hanging around with a small group of friends. You don’t need to buy expensive tools or reach a prospective audience to do anything like that. Boredom motivates people to find ways to entertain themselves, which has unfortunately been one of the largest casualties of online ‘life.’

I’m not attempting to defend the system as they’re trying to build it, but rather to seek understanding of why they take these actions without imagining them as hateful, soulless people.

You could get a hobby. Maybe try to actually make something interesting out of your life instead of just consuming entertainment?

They want people to actually be productive though, not just zombies.

Dude. Most people can’t understand it TOADY.

We’ve noticed.

When companies treat you as a criminal even when you do try to do everything their way, it really becomes hard to care.

The way many companies act, you’d think they believe that you have to be a sucker to buy/use their own products.

Saw a great idea recently:

Write down all your fears for what will happen over the next four years. Then, re-read your list every few months and check off everything which has actually happened.

I was part of the first generation brought up with computers, and I’ve been spending my entire life since trying to figure out what went wrong and how to teach myself all of the things that computers failed to convey, while everyone tries to exploit the “gap” to attack their political opponents. It’s been a riot.

Apparently I earned a site wide ban from lemmy.ml, but their posts keep showing up here. Annoyingly, I learned that when you get banned the “block community” button is hidden, so you have to add each community you want to block manually. So just blocking the entire instance solves my problem.

Ah, thanks. I had to scroll down a ways because my individual community block list was large enough to push that one out the bottom of the page I guess.

How do you filter out an entire instance as a single user? I was just trying to figure that out the other day, but it didn’t appear possible.

While some people may sit in their cars alone for long periods, there are many more who never do, so it’s still strange behaviour to many. Believe it or not, even being on your phone excessively in public without a car looks strange to many people.

Best I can do is more hats.

Tencent

That’s all you had to say.

That’s horrible! I can’t believe how these criminals are wasting the money that should rightfully be getting used for cheese pizza and hot dog parties!

A thin layer of carbon on the surface of something is a sure sign that it’s been exposed to Earth’s atmosphere. Even just a second is enough to completely coat something with carbon.

Sometimes we’re just not in the same space mentally though.

Best to log off the Internet for the last time then, before it’s too late.