Turning waste heat into electricity is a very old goal but it really does come up against problems with entropy fast. Basically if you have a LOT of heat in one place you can boil a great deal of water and make electricity. If you have a lot of heat spread over a wide area there’s no good way to “herd” it together enough to boil water in appreciable amounts.

Your logic is perfect as long as therapy is perfect, which it is not. Before you judge anyone on this, you need to allow for the fact that psychology is still a very inexact science and has also done a fair amount of harm over its history.

“No muscle for self-improvement” is not synonymous with “I don’t go to therapy.”

I would cautiously agree with you that it’s also not healthy to be totally against therapy. However in this tweet some men enjoyed a nice break from society and this tweet immediately went to making fun of them for not attending therapy.

THAT is a very big LEAP.

Yeah some of them are little moral parables and some are just setups for a thrill/shock twist.

This “button” episode was actually from the 80s reboot of TZ, not the Rod Serling original.

$200,000 - which if you consider that it was 1980s money, makes Mr. Beast’s $10,000 look very small.

By “originally meant to” I think you are referring to the short story it was based on ending that way.

A despondent Norma asks the stranger why her husband was the one who was killed. The stranger replies, “Do you really think you knew your husband?” strongly disapproved of the Twilight Zone version, especially the new ending

Frankly I find the twilight zone ending more chilling and suspenseful. The “do you think you really knew your husband” line is kinda sad trombone.

I believe the idea is that if you push the button, it goes on to someone else. If they DON’T push the button, they get skipped. It goes to someone else besides them. And so on, until SOMEONE does push the button. And at that point, the last person who pushed the button gets iced.

And so in that way, every person who pushes the button inevitably gets killed, removing selfish people from the world while morally upright people get passed over.

This isn’t detailed in the episode, it’s just my mind filling in between the lines.

There’s this cool thing called linking, too.

Yes it was clear that someone somewhere in the world “who you don’t even know” would die. The characters have a debate:

“Maybe it’ll be just some Chinese peasant.”

“What if it’s someone’s newborn baby!”

More than anything I’m shocked at the casual dismissal of the Chinese peasant. WTF?

Anyway at the very end of the show the same guy who brought them this dilemma comes to collect the device and he very pointedly uses the same language to say “now it will go to someone new that you don’t even know.”

This is an old twilight zone episode. A women is given a box with one button on it and told to press it is she wants the money, but someone she doesn’t even know will die.

She decides the push the button, and then someone comes to collect the button device, saying that it will now be reset and taken to someone else now for the same challenge. Some random person on earth. Implying that she will be the next to die if the button gets pushed.

Frankly not a bad system. Slowly cleanses the selfish from the earth.

It has nonzero value for many but that doesn’t elevate it to the status that we should shake our heads at people who don’t go. Like this tweet does.

It also communicates an overconfidence in therapy as some kind of obvious, proven cure. I’m not sure therapy has proved itself to that degree, especially for men.

And yes. I’ve been to therapy.

But we have to find a way to blame the men for something. I mean… they’re men.

I thought the complaint here was that you got this warning for no reason. Now it looks like you’re saying you do ride unsafely, you just object to this being detected and warned.

Oh man… but if we let all the people who don’t have books just fuck each other instead of us… isn’t that how we get Idiocracy / this timeline?

before asking others how to think

Well, I’m back to telling you to go fuck yourself. Shame.

If you want a movie of his that’s very accessible, I recommend Pecker. The stuff he’s most known for was just a bit too out there for my tastes.

If you want to take a look at yourself and profit from this exchange, here’s how.

Consider that there are two types of people in this world.

Some people get excited when someone asks about a topic they know: they’re happy to show off their knowledge and help someone who’s interested in what they know.

And then there are people who look down on others for asking, and think that everyone should soldier out of ignorance all on their own by googling and going to the library. No asking others! These people self appoint as gatekeepers of the entire community’s time.

You were #2 here. Why? Stop talking about what frustrates you in other people and ask why you couldn’t be the first kind of person.

You remind me of a guy I once knew. I asked if I could borrow his cable crimper over the weekend and he thought about it, sighed, and said no -because the only reason he owned one is that no one was around to loan him theirs. So he was going to do me a favor and make me buy my own.

It was such an unnecessary, grim, douche bag little speech he gave me. He was a bitter fuck and he decided to pay his bitterness forward. I now own a cable crimper which I haven’t touched in 20 years.

Don’t be that guy.

Surely no one has ever shown up at a book club having missed a detail.

You obviously started this to try to feel superior to someone. How do you feel now that you’ve been downvoted? Let me guess - still confident in your superiority.

That’s your wank dude, and I’m done participating in it. Fuck off now bye.

My bad I use 3rd party app clients for both Reddit and Lemmy and they look much alike.

It makes no difference though, because Lemmy is a place for talking to people too.

When you already know the answer it’s very easy to “ackshually” someone and tell them just how they could have googled it in a second.

But when you don’t know what you don’t know, it’s not so simple. For example: when my question is “how do we know Jellyfin will not eventually go down the path of enshittification as well?” It doesn’t occur to me to just start reading their homepage and see if I stumble into an answer. Excuuuuuuuse me.

Anyway…

I’m never going to apologize for asking questions on Reddit or Lemmy. This is a place for talking to people. In the time it took you to chastise me you could have stuck your thumb up your ass 17 times.

Meanwhile, I got a perfectly good answer from someone else. Thanks for nothing.

Hey I’m just learning about Jellyfin and have one question that maybe you have a take on.

How do we know that Jellyfin isn’t just one step behind Plex on the enshittification scale? Is it structurally different somehow? Open source or something?

There was a time when Plex was the bees knees and everyone loved it, and now they’re putting th screws to us. Why should we believe another group won’t do the same?