If someone disagrees with that, then by “consciousness” they mean something other than what I mean by it.

I’m talking about the fact of experience. That there’s something it is like to be.

It undoubtedly is like something to be whatever “me” is. That couldn’t possibly be an illusion, because an illusion is an experience in itself and thus just further proof of consciousness. Everything I’m observing might be fake but the fact that it’s like something to be the observer is not.

Certain selection bias there - we only hear from the dumb people who are dumb enough to demonstrate their stupidity loudly. Though perhaps the sense to shut the fuck up is itself a sign of a certain level of intelligence that’s missing from the even dumber ones.

Colors don’t exist in the physical world. Yellow is just how our brain intreprets a certain wavelenght of light. The qualia of it exists only in your consciousness.

Consciousness is the only thing in the universe that I’m absolutely certain is not an illusion.

Carbon steel isn’t inherently sharper than stainless. It’s just easier to get sharp. In the case of Opinel, much of why it cuts so well is due to the single bevel grind on the blade which makes the apex incredibly thin.

Perhaps you’re not aware of who that “someone” in the video was but if it takes close to 4 minutes for him to pick a masterkeyed lock containing “dissapointing discs” by using a custom built tool, then that’s unpickable lock to 99.999% of people.

Picking isn’t really an option when it comes to Abloy disc detainer locks as you need a custom built device to pick it along with the skills to use it. However, anyone can just break the window and open the door from inside which is why I’m not particularly worried. That and the fact that I barely own anything worth stealing in the first place.

I’m aware but not worried.

Not shown in the pic: 1 meter keychain tape measure.

I’ve wondered the same about dogs’ sensitive sense of smell. What’s that like?

Lemmy.world obviously as it’s the biggest instance. Then ofcourse the usual suspects: Hexbear and Lemmygrad. Looking at that list the only other instances that seem slightly over-represented are dbzer0 and blahaj

I don’t have enemies nor am I a particularly revengefull person.

Doesn’t change much. Equally made-up reasons. Only a willingly ignorant interpretation pulls that out of what OP actually said.

Yet another ban that only demonstrates the mod’s personal world view rather than enforcing the community rules.

I know many young people with expensive cars and not one was given to them. Not everyone can afford an expensive car but almost anyone can get one if they wish.

No, but then again how would I know when I only leave home to the bike trails

They aspire to become the least intelligent person in that room.

If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.

The more you think you know, the less you understand.

This doesn’t quite make sense to me.

That would suggest that my perceived knowledge about plumbing systems is a strong indicator that I don’t actually understand them - despite having done it professionally for over a decade.

What I think is true is that someone with a very basic level of knowledge simply doesn’t know what they don’t know - which explains the strong conviction and lack of nuance, for example. But I don’t think that the belief in one’s knowledge or abilities alone is an indicator of the opposite being true.