Like the Romans used to drink from lead cups. Something like that.
(it appears that the moderator is removing any replies with which he disagrees. It might be a piefed issue. But all the removed replies are top level and upopular. Stranger coincidences have happened I suppose.)
Being on our phones constantly.
nooooooo. i love my rat. it squeaks to me. it flickers happy dreams into my eyes
Eating way too much meat.
The unhealthy obsession of cleansing and abstinence from vices. Enjoy your beer/meat/smoke/etc just don’t make it a problem.
Yeah, smoking from time to time is surely healthier than not smoking. /s
Going to a hasish bar once a month/week with friends is not the end of the world
one of the moderators came through and removed every reply that he disagreed with
All comments are intact on my end, i.e. on Lemmy.world, except for two deleted by the author. Check for yourself (in a browser). The one by [email protected] is a joke written that way by the commenter.
Some of the people running Piefed are known to be rather crazy.
P.S. That said, I opened the post on Piefed, and everything is also there. OP is just butthurt that their comment got downvoted.
I think that advertising is much more harmful than commonly thought of
You should read Propaganda by Edward Bernays.
Also it goes hand in hand with disinformation.
Btw, Trump is weirdly quiet about fake-news now that the techbros have sucked up to him?
Definitely. The affects of advertising sticks for generations. Nazi is basically a very successful advertising campaign for motivating traumatized Germans. The “Just Say No” campaign created an entire generation with an irrational hatred of drugs. I still remember with perfect clarity tv advertising slogans from when I was a kid. We are basically dropping atomic meme-bombs on ourselves.
I have my own unproved theory that the increase in problems with focus and attention spam of children are not from screens, tik tok, or infinite scroll. They are from advertisements, a format deliberately crafted to be short, intense and to mess with your brain so you buy.
Advertisements in media have been growing over the years and becoming more hypnotic and intense also.
attention spam
Not even sure whether that’s a typo or a pun
Tiktok emulates the advertising format as user-generated content.
On screens, I believe they are not a root cause, but contribute to the attention span problem. The reason is that they have limited real estate, and thus lend themselves to presenting information piecemeal. This leads to the user failing to get a big picture view, and new generations who use only phones may eventually atrophy the capability to even form a big picture. Small screens are effectively blinders for the modern brain.
Cooking with non-stick pans.
Forged iron gang!
I use cast iron regularly now that I’ve learned it’s easier to clean than I previously thought.
Driving cars.
We should ban all cars except for ambulances and fire engines.
Screenshot? Like a few others mentioned, I’m seeing everything on my client with no removals.
Commuting back and forth five days a week working mindless jobs producing next year’s landfill so you can pay for food that half of it ends up in the trash, while talking earnestly about pollution and climate change.
We had the chance to build a low-emission leisure society.
OH LOOK, ONE OF THE MODERATORS CAME THROUGH AND REMOVED EVERY REPLY THAT HE DISAGREED WITH.
(These replies were not slurs or racist or any of that. There are just some things that some people thought were unhealthy. They were quite tamely phrased. There was nothing to be offended by there. But I guess the moderator disagreed, so we can’t talk about it. One referred to alcohol, another to reading. not sure about the others.wtf??)
So number one on my list is “remove comments in a random harmless and apolitical discussion without explanation”
I’m trying to find what OP is talking about in the modlog and can’t seem to see anything that was removed in this thread? Is this another one of those piefed nonsense issues?
I think I can still see the replies they’re referring to
I replied to a couple comments that they seemed to imply had been removed. We’ll see what happens. These were also comments in which they claimed reading was unhealthy, so I don’t expect much coherent discussion.
Using AI. Aside from all its ethical, environmental, and legal issues, I’ve been shocked to see the cognitive decline in folks using AI regularly. Not only do they forget how to do things like write on their own or do Internet searches by themselves, they even lose higher skills they’ve spent years acquiring.
Was talking with a developer the other day, and he said he’d almost had a panic attack recently when trying to do something during a recent outage when he was trying to code something relatively simple and couldn’t even think about where to begin. He said he’d cut back after that, but honestly not sure he will. Every frequent AI user I know seems to be on a junkie trajectory and unable to cope when their supply gets interrupted.
Every powerful technology brings with it the risk of atrophy. Cars, processed foods, language.
What irritates the ever loving crap out of me is that all the search engines have gotten so bad that you have to use AI to get the answers now… And…! AI scrapers are so hard on bandwidth and servers housing that all the old how-to tech blogs by actual smart people have packed their bags and left. I used to find loads of great self hosting guides by doing a Google search for “Proxmox npm setup guide” and clicking one of the top three results. Now: sponsored, slop, slop, shilling paid product, old Reddit post, etc.
Yeah, it’s not perfect, but I’ve taken to using https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ - it’s not as good as Google used to be, but it’s pretty functional for most things
my bro in tech was doing this quite alot, and he was depending on it to answer every question, and it wasnt giving him useful answers. i dont know if vibe codes with it. i think alot people who had been laid off has been have developed a dependancy on it.
The latest PISA study shows that students who heavily use LLMs are a full year behind their fellows who don’t.
As a heavy AI user I wonder if there’s a difference in how it affects people who can literally have the AI do some amount of their actual work for them compared to a tradesperson like myself who can only rely on it (to a certain degree) for instructions but it won’t hang drywall for me or replace a faucet. I still have to do the actual work myself. The AI is just a tool.
Here’s a pretty typical question I ask it. I can’t really see how that is cognitively detrimental to me nor how I would even google that, and why.
spoiler
Even reading that (atrocious) output is going to influence how you write and speak, because humans learn language via mirroring and imitation. Taking the output as truth also means you are trusting something that is unreliable and easy to influence (I know many companies are deliberately writing to manipulate LLM output).
What’s so atrocious about it?
That feels like a reasonable use of ai.
Sure, you could go searching for all that info manually, but it would take a decent chunk of time, so you probably wouldn’t have bothered…
Always feels like “reasonable use of A.I.” is kind of vague and hard to understand for most people. Since it can somewhat follow instructions I wonder if it makes sense to force it to be used in a reasonable way? Like instead of putting the blame on people for becoming brain dead, why not tell the LLM “if someone asks you do to all the work for them, say no” or something
Alcohol
It’s generally known that alcohol is unhealthy.
What do you mean? Like a beer once a week or a 24 every night?
Could you please have some sense of proportion?
No amount of alcohol is healthy
I mean technically true but a little alcohol won’t have any noticeable effect on your quality of life.
Unfortunately some of us don’t know what a little alcohol is.
Breathing city air. It has been proven to cause cardiologic issues.
The online outrage culture seems extremely exhausing from the outside. It’s like some people just want to look for reasons to get mad about.
It’s a variant of the domination urge, I think. Getting offended turns the whole of culture into a gun in your hand. Then you shoot your opponent. Then you win.
Reading and posting on social media.
