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The one I live in: Finland

The only thing I don’t like is the short summer and long winter but I try and convince myself that it’s the 4 distinctive seasons and the shitty winter that makes me truly appreciate summer. It’s also good for the human character which probably partly explains why we’ve been voted the happiest country in the world who knows how many years in a row. It may be less true now but it’s still in our genes; in the past you better be nice to your neighbour because once the winter comes and food runs out, your life may depend on them.

I bought a pick-up truck because I’ve wanted one ever since I was a kid and one day I just realized I’m an adult with money and I can buy whatever I want.

Well I started my own business a few years later so it turned out to be quite useful purchase in the end anyway

Unfortunelately no, I live on the opposite side of the planet

I’ve only been doing this for around 6 months so I haven’t had any that special jobs so far but I did a small kitchen remodel to one customer where I tore down the old and build a new one for her which was quite enjoyable job.

My favourite jobs are ones that require creativity and problem solving. When ever I can fix something instead of replacing it is fun. This is a recent example of such job:

It’s honestly easier to list what I don’t do which is building something bigger than a shed, electric work, work inside tanks / wells, challenging tree fellings, jobs that require more than one person such as roofing, asbestos demolition and jobs where I need to deal with refrigerants.

It wouldn’t really matter. If I knowingly install something “wrong” it’s on me even if it’s how the customer wanted it. I wouldn’t agree to something like this if I was worried about it causing issues in the future. After 2 years it’s no longer on my responsibility.

I was a nervous wreck for months while getting the preparations done to start up. Never been that anxious before. I just had to do it because I knew I’d regret if I didn’t.

It is. The problem is that vinyl carpet floor can be too soft for vinyl planks and thus in the worst case the seams might open up. Laying vinyl planks on laminate or parquet wouldn’t be an issue because it’s a hard surface.

It’s the original vinyl flooring in this case and even though it’s not generally recommended to lay “luxury vinyl planks” on top of it, it usually is not a problem and the customer didn’t want me to tear out the old flooring due to how much extra work that would cause.

I would notice but what I would be even more concerned about is how they got into my house

I like hearing this so it must be true

Well, I’m on Lemmy myself, so perhaps that’s some sort of an indication of where I prefer to discuss thing with people in general, not just about AI. My list of blocked users is rather vast though, so a big part of the loudest haters are being filtered out from my feed. That surely contributes to the better experience here - or atleast less bad.

Definitely prefered it over there at reddit, but I’m a man of principle so I’m not going back either.

Well I’d say that for a person to be evil they’d need to be doing evil things with the sole intention of causing harm with nothing good coming out of it. Perhaps a good caricature of an evil person would be someone wanting to destroy the world including themselves. Admittedly such people absolutely does exists so maybe that debunks my own claim.

However if someone draws joy from causing harm to others I wouldn’t still call it evil but more like extreme disregard; you don’t care how others feel, only how it makes you feel. This is why I don’t think billionaires abusing the system for their own benefit makes them evil because causing harm is a byproduct of their selfish goals but not the intention of them. Similarly someone like Hitler wasn’t evil either because causing suffering to the jews was not the reason he set up the death camps but rather a way to achieve his other goals.

No, but probably the dedicated subreddit

I couldn’t think of a worse platform to try and discuss this topic than Lemmy. The consensus here is essentially that big companies = bad, AI companies = big, and thus AI = bad.

…is how generative-AI haters redefine terms and move the goalposts to fight their cognitive dissonance.

Well first of all, I don’t personally think evil even exists.

Secondly, I don’t think these people are any more or less “evil” than the rest of us. They just operate on a much larger scale that affects many more people. If any of us normal folk would be put under equivalent level of scrutiny as these guys with journalists combing thru our every social media post and paparazzis following us around combined with the intention to dig up dirt and contribute to the negative narrative that sells better than a positive one, we’d all look like them. Most people don’t like Gates, Musk or Zuck because that’s the conclusion they’ve independently arrived at. It’s how they’ve been told to think by the media.

Reading this message chain makes me want to buy ones.

To be honest I’d feel stupid saying that alout at anyone. They’re not called that in my native language - I think.

Both spoons are the same size. Different size ones wouldn’t fit together like that.