ContrarianTrail @ ContrarianTrail @lemm.ee

Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

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I have a youtube channel. My most viewed video has 1.2 million views, though it's copyrighted content and thus I cannot get any revenue for it.

I upload new videos rarely, about one or two a year and I've only got around 250 subscribers. I never intented to become a YouTuber per say, it's just something I do for fun. I have few old gaming videos, camping videos and the most recent ones are about repairs for my truck. Basically if I can't find a tutorial for a repair job I need to do, then I'll do it myself as I know I'm not the only one looking for that. I like hearing from people who've found my videos useful at helping them work on their vehicles.

I don't see why anyone would need to go thru all that when we're talking about parts that will need to be replaced at some anyway point no matter how good care you take of them.

For me, my bike is to be used and abused. Yeah maybe my chain and cassette wears faster than with a proper maintenance but I also just keep riding way past that untill it effectively becomes unuseable. My chain is already stretched to the point I'm supposed to replace it and there's several teeth missing on my rear cassette but I notice no difference in performance. The shifting is going to be more or less shit either way because a new derailleur stays straight on my use for about 3 days. I've already mastered the trail-side derailleur adjustment by grabbing it with bare hands and bending it straight(er)

My chain maintenance takes about 2 minutes: soak it with some cheap multipurpose oil and wipe off the excess with an oily rag. I repeat this once every 2 weeks or so and it has worked good enough so far. When it's extra wet outside and my bike is covered in mud when I get back home I usually go thru it with an garden sprayer filled with hot water. Then I add the extra step of drying the chain with compressed air and re-lube it for storage after every ride.

I can't believe how little news coverage there has been about this. Seeing that thing land was probably the most impressive thing I've ever seen.

It wasn't the first starship launch but it was the first where they tried to land onto the chopsticks. Last time I believe they simulated the same thing but landed in the ocean instead. They did get just one try with this particular rocket since if it was unsuccesfull the rocket would now be in a million pieces.

That's not a claim, it's the name of the company. I'm not aware of Altman being the one who even came up with it.

What does?

How dare you imply that humans just make shit up when they don't know the truth

..or you can just keep watching videos from human creators like you have done so far. If the content you're consuming is already the kind that's difficult to tell from AI in the first place then not much will change.

Further proof that what ever criticism one can come up with about how this war is being fought very likely applies to both parties involved.

What's an example of a claim Altman has made that you'd consider bullshit?

No wonder you guys are so damn stressed if you really think climate change is literally going to end human existence on earth.

To me, being an intellectual doesn’t necessarily mean someone is exceptionally smart in the traditional sense. I’ve always taken it to mean a person who can take a few steps back and dispassionately, honestly evaluate things from a distance. It describes how they think, not what they think.

I listen to a lot of podcasts with guests/hosts I’d consider intellectuals, and I’ve often found that, given the same information, these people tend to land on the same or similar conclusions on unrelated topics. Another common trait of an intellectual is that their ideas don’t map neatly onto a political ideology. They don’t adopt ideas wholesale but instead form opinions on different subjects individually. Maybe I’m talking about intellectual honesty now, which might be slightly different, but that’s my take on it. I remember Sean Carroll defining intellectualism along these lines on an old podcast, and it resonated with me.

There have been two recent events that, in my view, serve as good tests of a person’s intellectual honesty. First was the Trump assassination attempt. One of the thinkers I admire most is also one of the most anti-Trump people I know, but I was confident they’d still condemn political violence like this, which they did. The second event was just a few days ago: the landing of the Starship 1st stage. If a person is so blinded by their hatred of Musk that they can’t admit how impressive that was, then I don’t consider them an intellectually honest thinker.

It's a common tactic of news outlets to choose bad pictures of people they're against and good pictures of people they're for. Once you see it, it cannot be unseen.

you know he’s not personally involved in the design or manufacture of these things right?

He actually is. Everyday astronaut has done several interviews with him and the dude knows about rockets and engineering.

Can a malicious actor remotely do stuff with your thing you connected to the internet?

Yes.

Cause more terror how exactly?

There's not? Why?

There was 50 years worth of oil left 20 years ago too

If SpaceX landing and reusing rockets is not impressive to you then what is?