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It’s back up now!

Tesla sues Swedish agency as striking workers stop delivering license plates for its new vehicles (abcnews.go.com)

Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish state via Sweden’s Transport Agency after striking postal workers in the Scandinavian country stopped delivering license plates for new vehicles manufactured by the Texas-based automaker

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…closely followed by Saudi Arabia. Yeah, I’m not a big fan of these happiness reports.

Masimatutu , (edited )
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I do agree, but I don’t think China performing well qualifies as World News, because subjective well-being is only loosely connected to actual experiences.

Masimatutu , (edited )
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I meant subjective as in what you say. All that humans do is to strive to fulfill their own motivations, and communication is just doing so through interaction with other humans. The only reason for that what we say is connected to what we actually experience is that we don’t like people finding out we are misleading them and as a result like us less.

Nobody else can really measure our happiness, though, so there is no concrete motivation to respond to such questions as accurately as possible, so we’re much more inclined to just say what is socially the most favourable.

Like, do you genuinely reply how you are feeling when someone asks you how you’re doing? I’d say most people don’t.

Masimatutu , (edited )
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Yes, but in the end, there is no real motivation to respond accurately to surveys either. It’s just that it’s our reflex based on our previous social interactions that it feels wrong to respond inaccurately. Similarly, it will feel wrong when responding in a socially unfavourable way to a question about well-being, even if it’s a survey.

Additionally, longer-term happiness is a quite vague experience so there isn’t much keeping one from interpreting it however you like.

Of course, I’m not saying that there is no truth to the report. I’m just saying it’s not particularly newsworthy because the numbers aren’t particularly concrete and it doesn’t describe any single important event at all.

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Here’s a link to the comment: lemmy.ml/comment/6075385

Masimatutu , (edited )
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While I completely agree, a partial solution is to use clients that open fediverse links locally. I use Eternity which does it nicely.

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Yeah. I really hope someone writes a Firefox extension or something which automatically redirects all Fediverse links to one’s preferred instances. Enforcing a standard across a giant decentralised network is difficult.

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Well that didn’t quite work, did it? Here’s the screenshot:

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Update: I’m on Universeodon, which has comparatively modest numbers compared to mastodon.social. Mastodon.social has registered 249 boosts as of now! Favourites are difficult to measure but based on upvotes registered on lemmy.ml minus the ones registered by mander.xyz it’ll be around 400. Way to go, Fediverse!

Sheep in Human Clothing (thejenkinscomic.net)

alt textFour panel comic by THE JENKINS COMIC 1. Three sheep in a trenchcoat approach a theater box office. The top sheep says “One adult ticket, please.” 2. The box office clerk says “I can tell you’re three sheep in a trenchcoat.” The sheep replies, “Are you sure?” 3. Box office clerk says “Yes. Look, one, two,...

Happy Black Friday (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)

alt textRed guy and Blue guy sitting at an empty lemonade stand. Red guy: “maybe we should have a sale?” Blue guy: “But we can’t go any cheaper!” while pointing to the “$1” price tag on the sign above him. Red guy, while writing on a board, looks confused and replies: “cheaper?” Final panel: The lemonade stand...

Terms of Service (media.kbin.social)

alt text(parodical) YouTube popup: Going to pee during the ad break violates YouTube’s Terms of Service - It looks like you selfishly left the room while our ads were playing. Don’t you know that by watching youtube you entered a CONTRACT?! - We killed the competition by operating at a loss for a decade. We paid good money...

Majestic Fortress (files.mastodon.social)

alt textA four-panel comic. 1. A king with a red cape and crown proudly gestures to a yellow castle, exclaiming, ‘Behold, I have built this majestic fortress.’ 2. His servant with a pointy hat and robe, responds skeptically, ‘But my lord, your castle is made of marshmallows.’ 3. The king stands atop the castle,...

Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)

alt textthree rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right. In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled “$899.99” and Wallace says “hold”. The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same. In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with...

Masimatutu OP ,
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Yes, and the user. I’ll report them on their home instance as well.

Masimatutu OP ,
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Oh, you’re too kind. I can’t nearly compete with the masterpieces shown over at alttexthalloffame.org :))

Masimatutu OP ,
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There was a spam account that posted innocent seeming links to gore content.

Masimatutu OP , (edited )
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Found it on Mastodon, I don’t know if it’s the original source. The XKCD does have a good point, of course. But I mean, if we’d all think like that, no good standards would ever develop, so people shouln’t cite it as a fundamental truth everywhere and avoid all meaningful discussion.

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I usually check alt text before shamelessly stealing it, but you caught me there! Here’s the source: wetdry.world/@boxy/111455959207468101

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