[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The only hell you might get from pirating and other "easy sources of excess pleasure" is the hedonic treadmill. I'd say Steam sales are more likely to cause this at this point but we're definitely seeing the effects of easy entertainment on the general population. Brainrot and all that. It's not fire and brimstone but the world ain't looking great. But personally I'd take notes from Buddhism rather than Christianity as the latter is way more preoccupied with what happens after this life (the religion of kicking the can down the road).

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

lol @ gale, very on point

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

That the idea of a constant Barbie-box description "self" is a fiction. Failure to discover "who I really am" wasn't proof that I was faulty, just the normal human experience before cultural and social conditioning.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

I'm against it because of the questionable ways AI gets trained (stealing art or books for example) and also because of the environmental impacts.

With the unethical training habits and energy consumption from megacorps, in addition to just being brain-killing slop, AI generated content should have no place in social media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Damn. I wanted it to be real.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

It's gonna be rough but I for one welcome EU to make use of USA's mistakes. Just need to make sure that populism doesn't gain any more foothold here.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Chop wood and carry water.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Weird only to a mind that's used to being constantly bombarded with low quality entertainment, lulled into comfortable numbness with mostly unnecessary material goods. While this is overly extreme (and potentially hazardous... though that being 4chan it's probably exaggerated, if even true), most people would do well to take periods of disconnecting entirely and have minimal entertainment available. Zen Buddhist retreats are great by my experience. Yoga Retreats are nice but you need to weed out the ones that are really just masturbatory Wellness holidays for rich white women. Vipassana retreats are probably good too tho I personally haven't been to one of those. But just starting meditation would be great. https://www.wakingup.com/ is a low bar access point with guided meditations but also a lot of great philosophical discussions from several different branches of thought (notably Stoicism and Buddhism but others too). And you can get it for free (request scholarship) if the price seems steep.

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There have been a few times like this but I ran into it again today. I need to buy a simple custom cork for a project and I just sought a native vendor, pretty sure that I wouldn't find one.

Lo and behold, I was wrong. I found two Finnish sites selling cork products. But something doesn't feel right. Maybe it's the amount of products, there's too many - what would have to be a fairly small producer wouldn't have that large of a catalogue, I don't think. I read their About Page and it's just some fluffy "we're a family business" bit with photos that just look like random buildings. No place names, no people.

Their contact page points to Poland: Nowosolska 12 60-171 Poznan, Poland

Okay so we have an address but it really doesn't seem like a manufacturing place, it looks like a warehouse (sorry for Google). Their site doesn't have any info about where their products are produced etc. though they fluff about "high quality portugese cork".

It feels like an European front for a Chinese manufacturer.

I had the same experience looking into a cosmetics line from Flying Tiger / Normal stores. I dig into the brand and just find some random address in Denmark that doesn't seem to have anything like a factory in it. See: https://www.sence-essentials.com/, https://www.brandfix.dk/ or https://www.karium.com/ for a similar thing in UK. And at least for the latter product, I have the handcream that says "made in UK"... but I am very doubtful because I can't find any information about the manufacturing. Everything on their site is just marketing fluff. Linkedin is a bit better but because their sites are so... insubstantial I don't feel confident in the Linkedin either. There are no people on their sites though (besides what could just be stock models), maybe at most some name for a "contact us" person. At least when I check for example, Lumene, which is an established finnish cosmetics brand, I can take a look at their page and see pictures of what look like a real store, with real people, and I can see their factory at the street view with brand logos etc.

Am I just being kinda overly critical and paranoid or are others noticing this? Between Shopify sites that pretend to be small artisans just reselling Temu junk and AI generated webpages I've become really doubtful of every product that doesn't have very transparent production process with real names and faces attached to them.

Edit: Also yes btw, doing this type of digging is annoying and time-consuming. I want more rigorous labeling standards.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

That's fucking great news. If there ever was a time I wish Finland copied something from Sweden, this is it.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Here's hoping.

[-] [email protected] 78 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Communication. Communication. Communication. Don't try to strategize. Don't try to manipulate the situation to your desired end. And most of all, do NOT "should" him. He is under no obligation to meet your needs or figure them out for himself, and same goes for you. It's just a question of if he is naturally inclined to meet your needs and act according to your values after you clearly communicate them to him. If he is not inclined, then it's up to you to decide how far you're willing to level with him or if you would be better off pursuing a relationship with someone else.

Learn to distinguish your subjective STORIES from what you are actually feeling. For example "I feel like you don't love me" is NOT a feeling. Putting "I feel" in front of some statement does not magically make it valid. "I'm scared this relationship might not last", also not a feeling. Any sentence starting with a "You..." is a story. More truthful: "when you don't message me in X amount of time, I feel insecure, and I start to worry about the future of the relationship". Now you're just speaking candidly, honestly, saying what is actually happening. You're not putting blame on him, just acknowledging something that hopefully everyone can agree is happening (he's not messaging you), and saying what the impact is on you emotionally, and what kind of thoughts it triggers in you. He's following some girls on social media? Can everyone agree that's happening? Okay, how does that make you feel AND, distinct from those feelings, what does it make you think? Please also flip it to positive "when you give me flowers, I feel love and I think this relationship is going well." Clear, straight-forward communication without shoulding. You can also do it on something that hasn't even happened "I'd love to go on a vacation together some day, if we work together for that goal, I believe I'd feel secure, and I'd believe you love me" (you're young and still learning your likes and dislikes, so please be aware that sometimes some ideas don't turn out as great as you hoped, and that's okay). Feel free to try to find a way to make the conversation more natural but stick to the same logic.

You may want to look into this: https://pastebin.com/ZHhS044M

And especially this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Understandable tbh, they clearly don't have a lot of intelligence to share.

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Tämä nyt kyllä vähän harmittaa. Just haluan enemmän eroon jenkkien palveluista.

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