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,

Oh don’t worry. They’re fine.

Thorny_Insight,

It’s the winter that makes summer so enjoyable. Can’t appreciate nice weather if it’s like that every day.

Thorny_Insight,

With that much money I could buy 8 houses like the one I live in right now.

Thorny_Insight,

I didn’t get a pickup so that I could transport groceries but I can’t imagine having to do all my grocery shopping by bike. It’s a +20km round trip and I usually come back with 2 - 3 bags of food which would be impossible to transport by either of my bikes so I would need a third one or a trailer just for grocery shopping and even in that case the issue that remains is that my SO couldn’t come with me unless she also rides a bike.

I mean I could do it if I absolutely had to but having a car makes it so much easier. I tried bike commuting for a while too but quickly realized that it’s turning an enjoyable hobby into a chore that I approach with apprehension, so I stopped doing that and instead only ride bikes as a hobby and for fun.

Thorny_Insight,

I need a car for work so getting rid of it is not an option either way so I don’t feel any guilt about using it to haul groceries. There’s a lot to improve infrastructure-wise to encourage other means of transportation but I don’t see cars as inherently bad. It’s only bad when you force everyone to get one (or two) to even be able to live their lives.

Thorny_Insight,

Oh yeah there’s definitely a lot to improve. A ton of people would be more than willing to ditch their cars if there was viable alternatives that don’t massively inconvenience our daily lives.

There is a grocery store only about 500 meters from my house but small ones like that are so much more expensive than the one I go to now. I’m easily saving my monthly fuel costs just by shopping there.

Thorny_Insight,

Grocery trips are just a tiny portion of from where my fuel costs come from. I use the truck for work. I’d save practically no money at all by walking to the store.

Thorny_Insight,

It’s not inherently toxic but I’d argue the experience is a net-negative. Social media rewards all the bad and inflammatory behaviour that makes it so. The incentives are not aligned with being nice to each other.

One of the culprits in my mind are visible like counts. The ability to up- and downvote messages is a good one but the scores shouldn’t be visible to anyone. Comments like “ACAB” or “eat the rich” bring zero value into the discussion but rather are just meant to fish likes from your own team and annoy the opposition. I doubt that removing that feature now would no longer solve the issue but it’s one of the main things that trained us to act that way.

Personally I’m hoping for more powerful tools for curating our feeds. It’s probably going to have to be AI based as I can’t imagine how else you’d do that but on top of just simple word and domain filters (which even lemmy doesn’t have) we need smart filters aswell that you could enable which filters out topics you don’t like seeing. Kind of like with enough people using adblockers it would discourage ads-based bussines models and incentivices companies to come up with alternatives. With enough people using similar blockers for toxic content the people creating would quickly realize they’re shouting into the void.

Thorny_Insight,

Negativity get’s more engagement on Lemmy aswell. The vast majority of content on the front page is about the world being on fire.

Thorny_Insight,

This is the only way. Ruthlessly blocking everything you’re not interested about seeing.

By blocklist on Lemmy is 1200+ users and communities long and even though I still see plenty of toxicity the difference is still noticeable. The only issue with it is that it’s quite blunt tool. An user might be making inflammatory comments only on threads about a certain topic and then get blocked for it but then I’m not seeing any of their other content either which rarely is all toxic.

Thorny_Insight,

The only reason I don’t do the same thing is that I want to be aware of how prevalent the toxicity is.

I’m not sure I entirely agree with the logic here. I did a similar thing years ago by pretty much stopping paying attention to the news. You’d think that would lead to me not being aware of what’s going on in the world but turns out one does not simply just turn off the news. When something actually newsworthy happens I’ll hear about it just the same way as everyone else. It’s effectively impossible to avoid even if you try to. The only kind of news I more or less totally insulated myself from is celebrity gossip and other similar entirely meaningless trash.

Also I don’t block people to create an echo chamber for myself. More often than not it’s not what people say that get them blocked, it’s how they say it. I’m more than willing to engage an actual nazi on a debate as long as they’re approaching it in a good faith even to some extent. It’s people that are just throwing shit that I’m trying to get rid of. I’m basically just trying to improve the signal-to-noise ratio but the noise will only get quieter but never dissapear completely.

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

I’m glad you like it!

The twigs stand out due to the lighting conditions. I didn’t do anything to intentionally make them pop. Them beight light colored and me bumping up the “whites” probably plays a factor though.

I generally try to underexpose my pictures to avoid blowing out the highlights and I then bring back the shadows in post-processing. My editing usually consists of playing with shadows/highlights and blacks/whites so that I get maximum detail from the shadows without any too bright spots around the edges distracting from the subject of the photo. Generally this also includes adding vignette and often also a gradient filter on the top/bottom of the photo to lead your eyes to the centre. I also try to keep the darkest parts of the photo dark gray instead of black. For moody photos like this I usually also bring down the vibrance for more realism. In daylight shots I do the opposite. I do this all by eye.

Almost all my photos also contain some amount of “dodge and burn” meaning locally brushing in darker and brighter spots all around the picture to make the lighting more interesting. I never use any color filters but I tend to adjust the white balance more towards the warm side.

One good tip for editing is to not save it when you think you’re done. Put it away for a little while and then come back to it. Our eyes get used to the look of it pretty quick and we tend to go a overboard with the editing. More often than not I end up toning it down a bit.

Here’s the settings for this picture:

https://i.imgur.com/RNoLdj1.jpeg

I’ll PM you a link to my Pixelfed incase you want to see my other pictures. You’ll probably be able to pick out the common theme between them.

Thorny_Insight,

Thanks!

Unfortunelatley I noticed logging markings on the trees which is what prompted me to take this as a “before” photo. I expect this forest no longer to be here next year as is the case with huge number of nice spots like this around where I live.

I agree that forests like this are quite nice looking but they’re not natural. These are all planted trees intented to be cut down once they mature. That’s why it’s all the same specie trees with zero undergrowth.

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

Thanks! I shot it wide open at f/2.8 at 50mm and focused on the foreground but I must admit I was slightly conflicted about the background being out of focus.

Thorny_Insight,

Salty liquorice ice cream, probably.

It’s not a weird taste to me but I’d imagine the vast majority of non-Finnish people would absolutely hate it.

Thorny_Insight,

I remember seeing on a food show years ago a burger with a doughnut as a bun. I’ve never tasted one but I thought to myself that might actually work.

Thorny_Insight,

I don’t know what the difference is. Liquorice and salty liquorice are similar but separate products.

Thorny_Insight,

Did it get stuck to your teeth when you tried biting it? May have been a Merkkari

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

Fair enough. I don’t use Discord so I’m not sure but my understanding is that it’s free to use. So how do they fund it? I presume by collecting user data to target advertising or to be sold to 3rd parties.

My point here being that collecting data to figure out the user’s age and gender isn’t particularly uncommon.

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

No, the other user is claiming that they don’t have a “working” full self driving but is being vague about what they mean by “working”.

Full Self Driving is just the name of the software. There’s also autopilot but that’s different. The end goal of it is to eventually be capable of level 5 self driving so that’s why it’s named like that even though it has been a work in progress all of it’s existence. Wouldn’t make much sense to call it “partial self driving under supervision” because Full Self Driving is a better marketing term. Misleading? Well yeah perhaps but that’s what marketing teams do. Nothing new there. Not a single Tesla owner is under the illusion that you can just enable the system and take a nap. Doesn’t mean people don’t do that but they know that they shouldn’t. The system tells you that every single time you enable it.

Personally I don’t see a huge issue with that name. It’s level 2 meaning that it needs driver supervision and it’s by no means flawless but it does what the name implies: drives itself. It’s not just an advanced cruise control like for example the Mercedes Drive Pilot but it is actually capable of independently driving itself and especially with the V12 it’s actually getting quite good at it.

Thorny_Insight, (edited )

I’ll grant you that the name is misleading. They should change it. It’s also plausible that there’s some number of customers for which the false marketing claims may have been the deciding factor in their purchase decision.

Is there something else you feel I’m confused about?

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