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Why are you a car guy/gal? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Not a car guy, but it makes more sense to me than people who collect expensive watches. At least a car is fun to drive and goes vroom. A rolex is just some jewelery for guys.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    I don’t collect watches, but I appreciate really well designed mechanical/analog devices. I think spending money on brand names is stupid, but I honestly would love an intricate self winding watch.

    Not a watch, but check out the mechanics in this cassette player. I love anything like this.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    that's a cool hobby! I used to love watching the parts of my tape deck move as a kid. Te parts clunking into pace, the gentle pace of the rotation. That's a very nice player you've got!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Hell yes, this is art. Just like how to me some cars are art (240z with itbs....hnnnng).

    Most cars are boring toasters that society is over reliant on. I myself dont own a boring car since i enjoy driving so I can't speak to that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    My new rule for myself is everything I bring into my house has to be art. I got this beautiful hand made cutting board the other day. Anything can be art, and it doesn’t all have to be pricy. I threw some pathos I propagated into a soup can the other day. Boom art!

    This is mostly me trying to cope with all the AI slop that is slowly eating digital and physical art forms. For me, art is anything human made, and I want to surround myself with it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Im the same way.

    Everything is losing its human and visceral-Ness. Im convinced its a big reason there's so much depression- people dont feel any more.

    Yeah, its sad the age of any computer produced art (graphics, electronic music, coding) is over because of corpo ai slop. But all the more reason to go outside and build something real in the workshop or put on a folk concert.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yeah. Though I don't think coding will be tapped out for awhile. I'm a little biasses as that's what I do for work. Tech Twitter is full of people claiming AI is going to replace engineers. I work on a very successful team of very talented engineers, and if I told them AI is going to replace them, they would laugh. But I would be lying if said I didn't fantasize about switching to a job where I get to build something with my hands.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    But still kind the same…the guys i know that are into watches dont buy just one and done. They are collectors. Like one for each type of outfit almost. So this could compare to buying numerous car parts. And there’s always the unobtainable dream watch that probably costs as much as a nice car…

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