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  • psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What sunglass brands do you recommend for its quality?English
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    13 days ago

    I worked in a Costa del Mar warehouse once. The generic shades were $20, and right next to the brand name shades ($200). The brand name might have had some invisible enhancement, but they looked exactly the same to me besides the logo embossed into them. Both were polarized and mirrored exactly the same way.

    What I’m saying is this: buy cheap generic ones. If you must have that logo, glue one on or something. I don’t understand brand worship.

  • psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the weirdest defense you've seen used to justify belief in God?English
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    14 days ago

    “I don’t personally understand it, therefore God did it” (Argument from Ignorance, or God of the Gaps fallacy)

    I hear this with regard to evolution, chemistry, bacteria, weather. They don’t know how something works, that’s proof enough for them. Eventually they say “then how was the universe created? There had to have been a creator!” (First cause argument) Or “The eye is so complicated, it had to be designed” (Watchmaker Fallacy)

    I used to listen to The Atheist Experience podcast, but it got repetitive hearing the same arguments from religious people, over and over. I also didn’t like how mean the hosts could get sometimes, but I understand their frustration…

  • psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some tech products that you want that you can't seem to find?English
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    17 days ago

    I want an open source cellular baseband chip. That’s the chip that acts as a networking connection to cell phone towers. Not only would the drivers be open, but the hardware as well. It might be a little larger than most, as I would want it to be possible for users to dismantle it (destructively, of course) and verify against tampering.

    Bunnie Huang’s Precursor was a good start, but it lacks networking (as far as I know)

    (Are crowdsourcing links allowed? I’m not going to link to the crowdsupply page, just in case, but it is more informative)

  • psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Denizens of Lemmy, how did your hamster die?English
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    18 days ago

    He was way too damn smart, a real escape artist. He opened the door on his cage. I wrapped a paperclip around it to add security. He still escaped.

    Couldn’t find him for a day or two. Heard him inside my bed which was not on a frame, so he chewed his way inside from the side. Gorged himself on foam and was fully blocked up. Died of intestinal trauma.

    I couldn’t keep him locked up, and he killed himself.

  • psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you do when people don't care?English
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    29 days ago

    I care, you care, and many of us here on lemmy care. We should work on how to coordinate ourselves together rather than try to change minds.

    I’ve tried, a lot, to change minds. I started with the most difficult person, and recently a new hire at work is kinda centrist-left and I tried to convince him. No matter whether it’s a nazi you’re talking to (ahem… the first one) or a liberal, minds can only change themselves. They have to want it, you cannot hack their brain and override it.

    I gave up, because even the people who are closest to me politically seem to move further to the right when faced with uncomfortable reality. They don’t engage with icky thoughts like “What if police killed an innocent man?”. They rationalize it to keep their comfort zone intact. “Well, if they just followed police instructions…” blissfully unaware of many cases like Daniel Shaver.

    You point to an example that breaks their rationalization, and they will diminish it. “Oh that cop made a mistake”. Point to many examples and they suddenly got to go wash their hair. People’s psyche protects them from stress.

    And that is the default mindset in this society. Avoidance of discomfort and inconvenience. Fear of the unknown. They want their life to be neat and happy and to all make sense. They don’t appreciate it when someone tries to take that away from them.

    Do you think there’s something about people like us that makes us more accepting of challenging our own worldviews? I have some thoughts but I’ve written enough.