My intuition says that there’s probably less people who are angry that IG is showing them less political content than there would be angry users when they found out there was an option to limit it in the settings that they didn’t know of. Like seriously. Who the heck opens social media and thinks: “there should be more politics here”

Well I mean if it wasn’t for Steve Jobs we probably wouldn’t have had iPods, iPhones, Macs etc. but besides some individual design choices it’s not like it was he personally who made them. I still think it’s still reasonable for him to have much of the credit. You can change half of the engineers and designers and still end up with the same product but if you change Steve then you wont. I think this pretty much applies to the stuff Elon is doing aswell. It’s not him building and placing the implants but without him there wouldn’t be implants to begin with.

Testimonials complaining of depression and anxiety.

Well this part is not completely untrue. It does often seem to cause mood swings for example and sometimes lowers libido. It’s why my SO stopped taking them some years ago. I mean it makes sense. If you take medicine that distrupts your natural hormonal cycle then it wouldn’t be at all surprising if it’s having unwanted effects aswell.

The mental gymnastics needed to turn even every positive news article against Musk is quite amusing. When it’s bad Elon did it personally and when it’s good he had nothing to do with it.

If I remember correctly the total wind power capacity is around 5000MW but solar is much lower even though it is a viable option here as well excluding the darkest winter months. Even if we had the capacity to store infinite amount of energy there still would need to be an extremely high and diverse amount of production if we were to go 100% to renewables. Even with a million windmills you still couldn’t match demand on calm days and alternatively when it’s windy there would be an insane amount of excess production.

I’m not against energy storage in any way. The technology is fascinating. It’s just that I don’t see what you’re suggesting as an viable near term solution to the energy needs in my country. We need more nuclear. I don’t agree with the claim that it’s somehow particularly risky. Even less so the more modern plant we’re talking about.

I live in Finland. At winter time there’s effectively zero solar energy production and more often than not the coldest days are also the calmest. On days like this the price of electricity skyrockets because closer to half of the energy production is down and we’re entirely dependent on nuclear and hydro power. It’s also when the need for heating is the highest. Conversely on a warm windy days the price of electricity sometimes falls to negative because of the massive amount of wind farms generating at full power.

It’s not in any way unlikely scenario. It happens every single time the wind stops blowing at winter. For example literally at the moment of me writing this. Wind energy production is 57MW and Solar 2MW (granted that it’s dark outside). Hydro 2000MW and nuclear 3000MW

Ad hominem? I simply expressed my doubt about your claim and even specified what I think the flaw in your argument to be. If I believe you to be wrong then by definition it means that you don’t fully understand what you’re talking about. I apologize if that came thru as an insult but that wasn’t my intention.

Well no wonder you get downvoted if this is how you deal with the subject.

I’m not sure you fully understand the amount of energy storage a country would need in order to run for days on just that while then also being able to recharge the storage while also powering itself when the wind does start blowing again.

Don’t you mean playing with your iPhone while your Tesla drives itself?

Deviating from the group narrative is the major one.

The content of your post doesn’t really matter if you’re making the right sounding noises. As long as you somehow indicate that you’re “one of us” then you’re probably safe. If you talk shit about Facebook/AI/Elon Musk/Capitalism/Police etc. it doesn’t really matter if what you’re saying is literally true. If you’re speaking to the right audience you’re going to get pats on the back nevertheless. Conversely when someone like me then comes and points out that no, Elon Musk actually did not turn off Starlink in Crimea to prevent the Ukrainian attack I’m guranteed to get downvoted for it despite the fact that I’m correct.

I’m guessing the two mains reasons people downvote comments like that are cognitive dissonance; refusal to accept new information that goes against your prior beliefs and alternatively the false assumption that if someone is in any way defending an unpopular person/idea they then must be one of the “other” and thus we can dissmiss what they say without even considering it.

My guess is that the answer will be unintuitive. For many people regular work schedule is what the rest of their life is built around. If you remove the need for work eveything else falls apart too and this would derail the lifes of the vast majority of humanity. Ofcourse there’s some number of people that do have interesting hobbies and other projects that could take the place of their previous job but for many people this is not the case and they would now just be sitting around with nothing to do and no purpose to their life.

If I had to guess what the optimal situation would be it would be something like UBI + less work. UBI would give you the peace of mind to not have to constantly stress about your personal finances which would then allow you to choose a job you actually like doing and instead of doing it 8 hours a day 5 days a week you could perhaps work only 3 days or every day but just for 5 hours or so.

I guess I’m stupid but I don’t see where’s the evidence. I don’t understand anything that’s going on in that screenshot. Eli5?

EDIT: Not stupid, just blind

In my experience it’s like Instagram but with no one to follow or to react to your posts.

It’s a quite diverse group of people of whom some are extremists.

They can scape your post history. Anyone can. You can only prevent this by not postin.

As someone having just graduaded from crippling anxiety to only being moderately stressed I find that the only difference between those two states of mind is the lack of the previous negative emotion. It’s not like I gained a new emotion or my existing ones somehow evolved. It’s more like you have pain and then wake up one morning and no longer do. Everything else is the same - just no more pain.

When asked about what does success feel like a person replied that it feels like a relief. I think that’s pretty accurate.

Absolutely. No question about it.

If fact I find that exercise is the only thing that brings instant relief. There’s not a single time I’ve went to the gym feeling shitty and came out not feeling better. I believe it’s scientifically proven that exercise is as good or better treatment for depression than anti-depressants.

This is the way to go. I encourage everyone to block users too. Lots of them. It really does affect your experience of the site. I sometimes scroll thru the comments of some controversial topic only to find the most extreme commentors that bring nothing of a value to the conversation just so that I can pre-emptively block them. I’d say that 3 times out of 4 when I log out to see a comment that a blocked user wrote I just find that I did the right decision.

Subscribed and if I want more after that then I go check all too but that basically means subscribed + memes as I have blocked around 400 communities that I’m not interested about.