All billionaires are evil people that decide to accumulate wealth instead of distributing the surplus and living off enough to not have to worry about the future. All. Of. Them.
Yes, even Taylor Swift and Gabe Newell. They have enough money that they could set 100m aside, live off that and charge break-even prices for their products so more people could enjoy them or they could charge the same thing and redirect their share of the profits into charities, they choose not to.
She became a billionaire by selling tickets for more than necessary and makes the choice to continue doing so to enrich herself.
As I said, there's no reason she couldn't have started doing shows that only broke even once she had enough money to live off of for the rest of her life, she decides not to do that and she decides to continue accumulating wealth we can't even imagine.
Remember when Musk said if he could prevent famine for 6B he would do it, he was presented with a plan and didn't do it? All billionaires are guilty of doing the same thing and the way they accumulate the means to do that is by selling us things for more than they're actually worth.
Buy, Borrow, Die. Rich people don't sell shares. They take very low interest loans banks are more than happy to lend them. Use their shares as collateral. Then pay no taxes and only a small amount of interest. They do this forever until they die.
It's why everything is associated with "make number go up".
You are completely correct. There are so many exits before becoming a billionaire that any normal person would take.
Once you have millions you can live comfortable. Tens of millions and you're set for life, you can live in luxury without ever doing another day's work.
Hundreds of millions and you can buy anything you ever want or need. The only reason to continue accumulating money is because you get some fucked up pleasure from it.
You can claim you "earned it" through "working hard" but it's a pathetic assertion. The simple fact is money is only gained at the expense of others.
If you ever make your own bathroom or get your choice in the matter, go full french: get the separate porcelain fixture that has separate hot and cold valves, with the soap and towel.
I have a Toto seat and, while it's nice, the stream is small, leaking potential poo water down your legs onto the inner edges of the seat is... (It doesn't seem to happen, but still), and the internal warm water tank is small.
I used my ex's much cheaper one a bunch when we were dating, and his was cold only but like a garden hose flow rate. It was so fucking fast and felt so much nicer. But didn't oscillate, have aim, pressure, heated seat, dryer, or any of that stuff..
Plus, without the soap, I don't really want to use a towel to dry my bits off.
So ideally, it would be temperature adjustable, PORCELAIN AND NOT PLASTIC, high flow/adjustable, be an actual bidet where you can fit your hands down there to wash yourself with soap and water, and then have a designated towel so that you eliminate more if not all tp usage.
They're are cheap bidets out there, and the are premium ones. The premium ones (like toto) are worth it, but I'd start with an inexpensive one to see if you enjoy it first.
It's exactly what it sounds like in this context. Think of a garden hose attachment with a trigger. You point it at the right spot, pull the trigger, and wash your bum clean.
My mental image is in the shower.......... Yeah, actually, why not just use the shower with a cooter cleaner instead of a bum gun? Or... Are we talking about the same thing?
I have one, it's just like the sprayer thing for doing dishes on many kitchen sinks except attached to the refill hose for the toilet. You just aim and spray, it's fantastic and easy to clean cause it's not actually inside the toilet bowl
You just gave me a really good idea for a portable bidet actually. I normally use a little squeeze lotion bottle but it doesn't have the required water power... Now I gotta find some of those tiny water guns we used to have as kids.
Hard agree. Bidet + soap is the most hygienic way. I was actually surprised to learn that even some bidet users don’t use soap and literally just blast their ass and hope it washes away everything. You’re already halfway there, might as well use soap and be completely clean.
Some people can't see well from birth.. doesn't mean you can't get glasses, or in your case go see a doctor (and get a poop infusion to fix your gut flora XD ).
But seriously, it could be worth checking out. Maybe you have a tumor or cancer or one of those beowold smeagals or whatever
Edit: bezoar. Seriously it could be curable and you could poop once a day. Think of the free time for activities!
I also poop several times a day. Went and saw a doctor and he said "yup, totally common, and nothing to worry about." Normal humans poop between 1-6x a day. Pretty crazy that there can be such a variance.
I do several rounds as well and I can tell you washing with soap and water using a bidet is much milder than wiping yourself raw with toilet paper. Washing once per round also takes the same amount of time as wiping several times until you feel “clean”.
Would it? Paper is nice and dry but washing your ass at the bathroom sink and towel drying is faster in my experience. It's just more of a hassle, but it does feel a lot cleaner.
I don't eat American white bread either, most other Americans I know eat sourdough or 'actual' bread, not that weird loaf of angel food cake they call bread here lol
I posted a comment on Reddit telling about how the word racism really means a person who is a subscriber to the pseudoscience that is race.
Tons of people downvoted me then reddit admins removed the content for harassment, of all things. (None of it made sense to me)
I'm sad that people still think that people are different races, and to not be racist you just have to not put one over or under another, when the crux of the problem is fundamentally that people don't get that race was made up because long ago dumb people thought that people that looked different were a literal different species but couldn't prove it so made up the word race as a subcategory in the taxonomic system, but finally scientists realized it's complete bullshit since it's impossible to define, total bullshit, wildly inconsistent, and massively harmful... and I'm sad that people there literally couldn't comprehend that, and got so mad or offended that they censured the information and thought I was arguing against the existence of systemic racism or something that only a dumb piece of shit would misinterpret.
I linked the Wikipedia page for racism which explains all of it, including history and stuff.
I was triggered for like a week trying to figure out what I said wrong, and honestly still kinda bothered.
But, that is what race is: a bigoted idea that different people are different races and shouldn't/can't interbreed. And that's the stupidest bullshit that MOST people don't understand, and I'll die on this hill, explaining that we gotta stop all being racists. Yeah, fix the problems like systemic racism, but stop thinking of people with darker or lighter skin as different - they're just warm weather humans or cold weather humans, the same way buff or skinny humans are. Fuck. We're all literally just humans, an amazing species, capable of adaptation and survival.
I think you're right, but imo the disagreement i feels like really stem from the way you put it, as you talk about race in a biological science while they think you're talking about ethnicity(social science?), and then there's this odd fixation with no compromise which kinda what caused the friction, even though i think both party might agree with each other.
Also reddit and online forum is mostly made up of weird people so idk.
Read the introduction. It's complicated but mostly race is arbitrary. But that's the whole discussion I want to bring to people for awareness of concept and language.
Man.. I got banned from a kink community sub because I edited my comment with a automagical editor..
It replaced my text with gobbledygook and then was going to delete it..
The mod came across the text said something to the extent of "this makes no sense" and banned me under their "because we can" rule.
I sent the mod a message with links and an explanation.. he came back with your original post is gone. So you are too.
My reddit account is 14 years old..
It bothered me for a while too.. and still dones I guess since I'm here talking about it.. but honestly mods are gonna mod.. they are small people with a smidge of "power" you could have said hope "you folks have a great day!!" And gotten banned.
Yeah I'm stopping using Reddit because of how fascist things are now around the world, in hopes of keeping access to my similarly old account because there may be a lot of porn on there, but there's also a ton of good resources and important things.
Maybe if things turn around in a few years, I'll consider resume using reddit. But the more-intelligent-than-a-rock part of me knows otherwise.
Too many people getting banned for fascist and sketchy reasons. So instead of participate there, it's now just an archive to me.
I've been thinking like that for a long time but recently I've been thinking about it in terms of internalized opposition. One of the most pernicious elements of the fight against stupid and bad ideologies is when their framings gain dominance even in the minds of their opponents.
At some point, someone said 'black people are blah, white people are bleh,' and the person next to them probably said 'What do you mean black people?' because the concept was new but the ideology of race turned into such a common one that people who were oppressed by it were forced to consider what the powerful thought about it, like an atheist prisoner being forced to think about how to convince a Christian jailer to be less awful to them. They internalized it. And now even people who are 'anti-racist' often treat 'blackness' and 'whiteness' as if they were real, and not just conceptually different in the same way you can live in a different country without moving because the lines on a map change. Even as they battle the concept, they try to do it from within the system, prisoners demanding to be free without acknowledging the world outside the prison walls.
We are all different, I don't know how you can deny that. And some differences can depend on where your ancestors are from.
If it's not "race" then is there another way of describing it?
In animals we call it breeds. Sounds weird.
I think as an advanced species we should be capable of ascending beyond the descriminating behaviour based on origin. I know it's possible as I can. Seeing other people first reactions to meeting people get described with race undertones is alien to me and feels disrespectful.
Well the problem with trying to subdivide humans is that
A) it's actually really really hard to do, so hard in fact that it's impossible and is a pseudoscience
B) it basically always results in comparison. Which gets bad REALLY quickly because suddenly there is a better or worse, an inferior and superior.
I'm not saying we aren't different, I'm not saying that.
But, as far as species, we ARE all the same. You, your sister, your neighbor, your great great great grandfather. We all have our differences and generic differences, but they're infinitesimally small, we are just VERY good at telling the differences because we're so used to staring at the same face over and over.
There's just so much crossover and mixing and volatility. People can change from one to the other or halfway and stuff, there's no clarity. Like, me, for example: I'm a mix that people look at me and get very wrong 95% of the time. And then if I have kids with somebody that doesn't have the exact same mixed heritage with me, it's like... Wtf do you even call me?
And then if you learn some anthropology and learn that long thin limbs and people are from hot climates close to the equator, and short ratioed people are from further (surface area to mass ratio, keeping warmth) away from the equator where it's cold.
Like.... You can be vague and descriptive a little about it, but when you realize that reality is just that we're all the same species, with no limits to interbreeding, it makes so much more sense.
Let's say you take a pale-ass white guy and strand them near the equator for ten years outdoors. Does that guy suddenly become a different breed or race or whatever you want to call it? No.. it's the same person, the same species, even if he looks different - he just adapted and his body is like "holy fuck it's hot and I'm trying my best to not get skin cancer and the right amount of vitamins from the sun".
And same thing for brown skinned people (let's just say Mexican natives). You take a young couple with darker brown skin, and move them to norway or somewhere cold with VERY little sun (latitude). They are going to lose melatonin in their skin and become paler. Let's say they have kids and you inbreed them for a few generations. They will get progressively more pale, and start to look more adapted to the region, likely even take on regional issues.
And the reason why is because we're all the same type of monkey. (Not actually monkey because that's a different offshoot, but primate; we're great apes!).
I mostly agree with you. And I commend your principles.
Some of your examples need improving is all I'll say.
Like sending a white guy to the equator for a decade. Okay fine, they go dark skinned. But bring him back up north and he is white again. Send a super dark skinned guy far north and he will get somewhat paler, so it works both ways. But they retain that difference because they are different.
We have developed differences mostly based on our origin in the world, be it Asian, African, Egyptian, Indian, etc, but we are such an internationally mixed people the differences are meaningless.
If you take a white person and put them in the equator for multiple generations, they'll turn brown. If you try to put the result back north, it'll take them multiple generations to get pale again.
There isn't really an inherent difference between us. There are small mutations or diseases that can kill, like Alzheimer's, but those are all basically incidental. Your genes can change, that's what evolution is.
We ALL came from Africa, anyway, and then settled down in various places for a while, adapting. The longer people have adapted, the more they've adapted. But it doesn't set anything in stone, and everybody still retains that ability to adapt.
There you go the key to all of this is "meaningless differences" justification to divide people, then make one group appear less than human, then exploit, steal from and murder the savages for the profit of the few.
Racism is a taught trait. Children aren't racist until their peers or guardians teach them their racist world view. I think we agree on almost all points, I just don't think it is pseudoscientific.
Yeah humans are actually all pretty close genetically compared to other species. And "race" as defined by society isn't even a good predictor of genetic similarities, so for example if you take random people A and B who are black, and person C who is white, B and C will often be more closely related than A and B.
Also as a sidenote, we are monkeys. Apes are now considered to be a type of monkey taxonomically.
Yes I agree, this is human. Just the same as all dogs wag their tail and bark. Like other posters have said, the differences are subtle and we are all more the same than different.
Breeds are defined by organizations that determine breed based on lineage, followed by conformation. They do not align across different countries. Dogs have the AKC, CKC in America. They don't follow the same definitions. It also causes lots of issues to classify things like this and leads to bad decision making by lots of people. Even as it is now, there's no clear definition for things like Pit Bulls. There's also a ton of health issues that arise from defining breeds and trying to follow this logic.
Humans are not controlled and bred based on these things so a Breed Standard would not be possible. There is simply a continuous line of people.
Perform a cluster analysis on dogs - they will kind of fall into clusters because we bred selectively for them. But humans, which have not been selectively bred even in smaller geographic regions, would not provide decent clustering results based on race categories.
Without good clustering, whatever groups you make have more inaccuracies than accuracies in your grouped statements. (Border collies are high energy, greyhounds are lazy > 65% true at best) this is because of the insane complexity of DNA and the lack of selective breeding artificially limiting the DNA diversity. Plus other stuff.
Can't see what your original comment was, so missing a lot of context here.
I agree with what you said, but race as a biological thing is not how most people think of it. Most people interpret race in the context of skin color and ethnic groups, i.e. in a sociological context, and within that context it makes absolutely no sense to claim that race does not exist. It would be nice if it didn't exist, but that's not where we are right now as a society.
Lol so true dogs have hundreds of "breeds". Then you have cate, which are all just cats, The people who will argue about their "mesothelioma short hair tuxedo chocolate" are just weirdos.
I'm admittedly not a cat person, however there seems to be quite a difference between a Maine Coon and a Sphynx. I agree though that long hair vs short hair of the same breed is negligible and doesn't need to be an entirely separate breed.
There's another comment in this thread that points out how slippery a slope it becomes when you try to apply breeds to humans, but that is kind of the idea isn't it? You seem to accept it in the case of dogs. Either way, I don't really have a hard stance either way, was just more curious of your reasoning.
I mean, nobody's saying dogs are different races, there's just dogs with different phenotypic traits. When they match a certain known pattern that's a "breed".
It's about as real as beer recipes matching certain styles. Race isn't a real thing, it's just sets of traits that people are used to seeing in certain populations.
You assumed I accepted it at dogs just because I pointed out the irony of all cats just being of the house variety. To me dogs are dogs guess what wolfs are dogs too. You dirty ape. :)
If you're smart enough to know all that, you're smart enough to know that being suspicious of differences is how our species survived, and we're not going to evolve out of it anytime soon.
God damn tomato slices in everything from hamburgers to toasted sandwiches as if everyone is supposed to like raw tomato by default is pure discrimination against the non tomato eating populace.
Tomatoes are notorious for being impossible to remove from a burger. 6 children died last year trying to remove them. So many vegetable-adverse people put through incredible pain having to ask for it to be held. When will this injustice end?
Isn’t this the original canon? Wasn’t there an edit in the 90s or early 00s that changed it? I feel like I remember downloading the original cut project that went around a while ago and in it Han shoots first. I think it was called the “Despecialized Edition”.
Yes, in the original hon shot first later on in the 90s it was edited so Guido shot first then in the early2000s when it was released on DVD it was edited so they both shot almost at the same time and I believe it was edited again-to where it looked like Han shot slightly after and he also somehow managed to dodge The shot with his head. You can look it up on YouTube all of the edits and it’s hilarious. I love George Lucas, but sometimes I don’t know…
Probably a literal one, I like hillwalking and am clumsy
Metaphorically, it's guitar tonewoods. If you've got a solidbody electric guitar you can make the body out of a goddamn breezeblock and it'll sound absolutely fine. Whatever difference the body/neck material makes is negligible compared to strings, scale length, pickups, resistors, and amps. Acoustic guitars are another matter, but for solidbody electrics it is 99% delusion and marketing
The Petty One: Optical Media is Bad. It has always been and always will be. We used it for as long as we did because there was no better choice. But when it came to music I went straight from tape to mp3 because I never trusted CD's, and I will continue not to trust CD's.
The Serious One That Might Ruffle Feathers: The entire school curriculum of every country should be wiped out -- And replaced with fifteen years of nothing but reading comprehension. We live in an era where information is extremely cheap but knowledge is priceless. And to go from information to knowledge, one needs to have a well developed reading ability and bullshit filter. There's no point memorising a bunch of nonsense when it is easier and faster to use technology -- We stopped doing recitations when we invented writing, you know? -- What IS important is understanding what you are seeing and recognising lies for what they are.
Reading comprehension is incredibly important. Bullshit filter also sorely needed. I get very frustrated when I see people falling for obvious false information. I've been shown AI videos that are clearly fake but they believe it.
I think my favorite are conspiracy theories who won't believe something backed with like, facts, but will believe this 30 seconds tik Tok from someone they don't know quoting someone they also don't know.
I don't think I can put into words how much worse my life would be if we followed your second suggestion. There are a great many things I never really wanted to learn about, but I'm incredibly glad I was still taught them - starting from basic stuff (like maths etc) over arts (especially poetry and literary analysis) to sciences (especially physics and chemistry).
I would understand far less about the world, I could never engage as deeply with media as I love to, and I couldn't have built so many things that require holistic insight into our world.
I'd be a far less developed version of myself, because I wouldn't be able to follow my interests the same way.
I must wonder why not. Like, clearly those things are enriching to you, aren't they? Why wouldn't you have learned them on your own terms? Assuming nothing was stopping you? You seem not to be an incurious person? Again, information has never been cheaper, you just have to look for it.
Like I'm not trying to make fun of your explanation or even say you're wrong. Just... Genuinely wondering how come
I wouldn't have known how much I enjoy some of those things. Let's stick with literary analysis - I hated doing that in school, really hated it. It was a slog to get through. Until I one day read something I enjoy, and started feeling the things I learned to analyze. Suddenly the text wasn't just a text, it was a conversation with the author. It made me engage with reading on a different level, and also taught me to utilize the same techniques in my own writing.
But I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have been able to force myself to learn that stuff on my own. Writing literary analyses and having them read, critiqued and graded by my teachers was essential to learning it. Yet I would have gone on thinking that it's a waste of my time, had I not been forced to learn it.
Go on... so what's the right one? I can't understand why anyone would go to attack others without offering a superior alternative. Like, you may as well just not say anything, then. If you don't have a better idea, then theirs isn't worse because you didn't even provide a rebuttal.
I'm not even on the side of the person you responded to, but why would you not want to state what would work better? That's just trolling.
But you're not offering even any example of possible models so how can anyone take your position seriously if you refuse to share more of your stance when asked? Lack of transparency is not cool, as well as assuming; I never once said one-size-fits-all.
"Given your performance?" Since when were discussions, heated or not, a performance? I never said anyone was right or wrong here with their stance towards education, but you've only said to not treat it as a single issue and nothing more, which is what I have beef with. When I asked, "so what's the right one," I didn't say that I believe there is any "one" right way of education, but you're continually saying to just read "a modern textbook on education" without even suggesting exactly what to read. What such book do you recommend?
I have not once called you "arrogant," I have not called you "a techie," and I have not said you have been "spewing drivel"; name-calling is the territory of Reddit and I hope we can agree to leave it there, but you didn't even bother to reply to the original commentator's response, maybe because he's right; that's what I was going off of. All I'm getting at is to not troll people in that closed way.
That's correct. In school the most important thing you can possibly learn is to learn. Information is abundant and easily accessible, the school, university or even research labs are no longer gatekeepers of information. But knowing HOW to find resources, HOW to filter it, HOW to use it, HOW to sit your ass down and work with information in a meaningful way is a specialized and rare skill.
Ironing clothes is stupid and useless and shouldn't be a thing. I haven't ironed any of my clothes for decades now and they never look any different than the clothes that were ironed. It's a scam! And humanity won't be able to progress if we keep doing it!!
Ironing clothes became a thing when all clothes were made from 100% natural materials.
Today, unless you specifically go out of your way to make sure, chances are that none of your clothes are made from 100% natural materials.
One of the advantages of plastic fibers is that they don't wrinkle as much.
There's a hill I'll die on: screw that 19th century-ass business dress crap.
Nobody gives a crap outside of a bunch of boomers who are still arguing about how offended they'll be if you don't put on a monkey suit to sooth their egos, so like, we should just stop that crap.
Also: ties. Who the hell came up with the brilliant idea of wearing a noose?
It really depends on the garment. I've rarely ever ironed my clothes, only random occasions where the item I want to wear got wrinkled and I didn't have the time to fix it any other way. I've also never had a job that required anything fancier than business casual, so that could be part of it.
Nuclear energy is currently the best way to achieve energetic independence until we find out how to maintain a fusion core running for more than 20 minute.
Fahrenheit is a perfectly cromulent unit of measure when the use case is for referencing human comfort.
The rage it incites in others on the internet is just a side benefit. It's hilariously awe-inspiring just how wound up some people get over a personal preference for a unit of measure. Mr. Fahrenheit should be proud of what he accomplished.
You feel like Fahrenheit is good enough because it's what your used to. Just say that and it's all good.
I use Celsius for weather because a) I'm used to it and b) where I live, knowing the temperature relevant to the freezing point of water is extremely relevant when considering the weather. You use Fahrenheit for the weather only because you're used to it. There's no benefit other than that.
I do use Fahrenheit for cooking, but not because it's better in any way, but simply because I'm used to it. I know the effect setting the oven to 400, 350, 300, etc, will have. It's not a better unit of measure, I'm just used to it, and in the context of using my oven, it's not worthwhile to me to learn the equivalents in Celsius.
It's ok to say you prefer something simply because that's what you're used to using. But Celsius is a better unit of measure, just you're not used to it. You know what 70F, 80F, 90F, 100F feels like from experience, ie. you're used to using that scale. It's fine... just weird to say something is better simply because it's what you're accustomed to.
The problem with Celsius and it's relation to the freezing and boiling point of water is that water is a rare chemical that is less dense as a solid so it will freeze AND boil at different temperatures depending on pressure.
Freezing temperature isn't 0 at 1500 meters and it doesn't boil at 100 either.
Do you think water boils at 212F at high altitudes? No matter which temperature scale is used, the "billions of people" living at high altitudes need to understand how pressure affects the boiling point of water.
I think the billions of people you imagine living on top of Mount Everest understand they may need to make adjustments to cooking instructions regardless of what temperature scale they're using. If they don't, using Fahrenheit won't solve their problems.
My hell dude, you're missing the point so hard you're either a troll or so belligerent you're not worth talking to. Never once did I say Fahrenheit was better, it's like you're just shadowboxing with yourself at this point.
I never said Fahrenheit was better, just that it was perfectly acceptable for use as a measure of human comfort.
I'm not going to get into what I usually go into because I only commented to answer OPs question, not start a(nother) internet flame war. A lot of people who use Celsius go absolutely NUTS when someone so much as hints that Fahrenheit has some usefulness.
It's a deprecated unit of measure. In a lot of forums like this one, there's a lot of people that work in the technology field and we're always annoyed by people that insist on sticking with something that's deprecated because people invent rationalizations for why the thing they're used to is better. I use Fahrenheit for cooking but I'm not telling people I do that because it's better in some why, I know I'm using a deprecated unit of measure solely because I'm used to it.
The issue is not in the accuracy, ease, and convenience of describing and being compatible with the human experience. It has never been that.
The issue is Fahrenheit's/imperial units' compatibility and division factor of 10's compatibility with other units, and all of those scales and units being consistent and predictable.
It's literally just two philosophies of going about seeing the world.
To disclose my bias, I was brought up with imperial units. The problem in most discussions of these two ideas facing off is that nobody discusses the real topic: The pros and cons of unification vs. the rote arbitrariness of the human existence and whether or not we want to stand behind yet again another self-centered description of the universe.
Measuring horses with hands is fucking weird, but because we experience horses from our own perspective, which is limited to our physical body, measuring in hands is a really easy way to understand that unit of measurement, as opposed to decimals of meters.
However, I must point out, Celsius is not metric. It's been adopted as the step-child of SI, but it's not metric. You can't meaningfully multiply and divide degrees Celsius; 100°C is not ten times hotter than 10°C Celsius. Sure. you can use the metric prefixes, just like i could measure things in kiloinches, that doesn't make it metric. It's just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit, and people have to make arguments regarding water and life to try to pretend otherwise. True, it's officially defined in terms of Kelvin, but then, so is Fahrenheit.
I was watching a video just before where an american measured two impact craters on a piece of steel, read off some gibberish fractional inches for each one then commented "my math isnt great, but i think that one is about double". My dude, your calipers read off approximately 5mm and 10mm, your life would be so much easier if you toggled it to metric units.
Analog media was better and more fair to artists, and easier to make money off of (why sell an album when people will stream it), and allowed people to become more intelligent and involved music fans. The digitization and non stop consumption of media cheapened it. Not to mention, I'd bet 90% of young Americans have never heard a good home stereo that actually represents how the music is supposed to sound.
Yeah unless you get good quad driver in ears, I'd rather have any speakers over headphones. I get that they take up space and not everyone can have them, but there's also so many good headphones out there i cringe so hard when I see people wearing sony or beats.
Other than speaking to people, it’s how we interact with others. It can be professionally, casually, or with friends. Friends we can be pretty informal and slap emojis all over if that’s your style. But casually, even online interaction, people should favor more formal writing until “reading the room”. Professionally there’s no excuse, IDGAF how “brilliant” someone might be and suddenly they get a pass for whatever comes down the email pipeline (unless that brilliance comes attached to some bonafide neurodivergence or something), the awful writing I’ve seen come from some “professionals” is anything but.
There should be a general speed limit of 20mph/30kmh on city streets.
Also no parking on public space for any vehicle that isn't for deliveries, emergencies, trades, or people with disabilities.
If you want to park your car at home, or want your customers or employees to park near your business, you need to buy or rent space for parking privately.
Any citizen documenting a parking infraction with photo evidence should have the option of giving police their bank details and will then receive part of the paid fine.
Of course there will be valid exceptions, like a private emergency, moving, a woman in labor, and such.
Just imagine what our cities could be like if there weren't long rows of cars parked along every street.
The freed space could be turned into bicycle lanes, wider sidewalks, outdoor seating for cafes, green lanes, urban gardens and so much more.
Car lanes could be separated from bike paths and sidewalks by hedges in most places.
Children could play and move safely in public.
Also who gives a shit about what some bearded weirdo that died over a century ago thinks about problems involving things that didn't exist in his lifetime? Marxism is like a weird cult now, an opiate that's an obstacle for any positive change.
The closest bus stop to my workplace is over a mile away and has a significant hill. It also snows here. Believe me, I'd love to ditch the car if possible, but... it's just not possible in my current living situation.
The town planning and public transit options would be absurdly different, were private ownership of motor vehicles actually outlawed. The bus stop would be a lot closer. There'd be more buses. There would be dedicated, protected bike lanes that got plowed immediately in the snow. The sidewalks would be plowed by the city. Etc.
Colour me shocked, public transport? A thing? Gadzooks! /j
There is a weird internet cult about him, true. But the things he said were important, adding greatly to the body of thought that makes the world we live in today.
Its pretty flippant to disregard his words on the control of resources, just because he never sat behind the wheel of the 20th Century cart.
Marx had some interesting things to say about economics, but he was a complete bonehead about politics. The works of John Maynard Keynes supersedes everything Marx did on economics, so we're just left with a boneheaded political ideology which is more of religious movement than anything else.
The US homesteading is not the standard in a lot of places. Loads of places put all the houses together in a little village and the farmers go out to the fields instead of living isolated at their farm. Also, you have to remember that if we actually did outlaw private motor vehicle ownership, commercial transportation would explode. Much, much smaller towns would have access to regular bus and train schedules. Furthermore, the business landscape would change and your standard stores would again be more accessible in smaller towns.
Would there be some disadvantages? Absolutely. Would there be some advantages? Absolutely.
I consider the advantages to be more than worth it, even in the more trying situations.
I live in Japan and we do have little groupings of houses out from which the farms radiate, but it's like 10-12 houses and not what I might call a village. It's about an hour to the train station that runs once per hour (2-3 times on a weekday during morning rush hour, but oddly not the evening one). We have no continuous bus service (you can call and try to reserve it and it should come). The gaps are filled by taxis that, generally, stop running at 18:00 most nights and more like 20:00 on rare occasions. You could be waiting a long time to get one.
I guess I technically am a business as of this year, if that matters, though only a sole-proprietorship and not a corporation.
The problem it doesn't solve is that I'm not going to the farm supply store or home center and getting that stuff back on a train; loads of block, fertilizer, a wood chipper, etc. to go through a few of my recent purchases. Nor would any taxi here be willing to handle most of that.
Edit: just want to be clear: I still do use pedal-assist ebikes to do what I can as weather permits and my main vehicle is a 649cc kei car which, hopefully someday, I will replace with something electric. I am all for reducing car reliance and ownership, I just don't think it makes sense to do in 100% of cases.
You would probably have a small flatbed for your business, or rent one from a local, as needed. But it sounds like you have enough need that owning a vehicle would be worth it. I would imagine that, in practice, gaining access to a vehicle would be a business perk, kind of like how a lot of micro businesses will be generous with what they consider to be a business expense for tax purposes. Also, sure, in reality farm equipment would probably be exempt.
Anyway, society is filled with rules and design choices that create winners and losers. Right now, with the current motor vehicle standard, many people gain the convenience of having a car or truck for personal use. But it means we have to spend a lot on roads to carry all the extra traffic, lots of people die in accidents, we're polluting the air, we're dumping rubber into the soil and water (from tires), we're living more sedentary lifestyles, etc. Whenever someone purposes a change to society's rules, it is very common for people to only think of the current positives and the potential negatives, while ignoring the current negatives and potential positives.
Not that this proposal is ever gonna fucking happen.
I hate cars, but we've also allowed people to build developments in absolutely idiotic places that either need cars, or perhaps private bus systems. All because some idiot developer built a ton of grey, prefabbed houses 30+ miles away from the city in the middle of (what used to be) untouched forest.
I see you there planning using that trash money to fund a weed growing operation! Before we know it people will be turning into glowing cyclops! cyclopi? cyclopses? (Seriously on that last part whats the plural?)
We spend a lot of time pursuing staggeringly and self-evidently pointless and stupid shit while suppressing and teaching being ashamed of sex and sexuality, to the point many just categorize their sexuality under potential trauma if engaged.
If we spent a lot less time grinding for nothing of import and more time fucking one another rather than fucking one another over for paper simulacra of supposed value, our species would be far more well adjusted. Even the difference between less prudish Europe and the puritanical US in general mental health is extremely apparent.
The way we treat sex, as something to shame behind close doors rather than celebrate, as we glorify plastic and silicon garbage, is beyond ridiculous and leads to shame and trauma in girls who become women and anger and resentment in boys that become men. We aren't economic value producing machines, we're fucking machines. We denied that at our peril, and now very few are happy with the state of things. Breathtakingly bad priorities.
The point of what? Life? Humanity? Existing? Existence?
I get the anti-anti-sexuality, but doesn't this boil life down to.... Not even procreation, but ... Sex?
What about asexual people? What about... Wonderful moments or beautiful things or cake or socializing beyond sex? What about WORDS and complex thought and ideas and puns and coffee and art and adrenaline and naps and music?
I can't say I entirely disagree with you, but I also don't agree, primarily because I'm not sure exactly what the hill you're dying on is. Can you elaborate a bit to help me/us understand exactly what you're trying to say?
I'm saying that human civilization, and especially puritanical societies of this civilization of which we are one in the US, have walled away the core of what we are, animals that want to fuck, trained us through a prism of shame to loathe that part of us, that we darkly call being civilized, and filled our days generating things that will provide us no meaning, as the closest thing to meaning that can be derived by our biology is getting as much dopamine and serotonin as possible through physical human connection, and we spend most of our time being told the greatest lever for that is shameful and harmful usually because it doesn't make strangers richer, which is ridiculous in an age where if we had the correct priorities we would be able to do for fun as procreation that comes as a result is now chemically optional.
My point is humanity spends a whole lot of its time being miserable, toiling for widgets, to pursue or accept sexual partners in a roundabout way because we've made that that a small, token, conditional cookie for doing the "important" stuff, which I find sad and fascinating to observe. The point being used as a bargaining chip for the pointless, and then all parties wondering why they're still anxious and depressed because they either didn't come to terms, or because they did and it turns out all the plastic, silicon, and tea in china can't provide even a passing shadow of the fulfillment of genuine, physical human connection can, and even that physical human connection is tarnished being turned into just another form of currency or coercion for stuff that doesn't matter at all. How much does humanity toiling for that does not matter instead of fucking?
Tldr humanity would be happier if we were trained to see sex as connection with one another and not that dirty, evil thing of which we rarely speak and if we do it is with the utmost sense of serious danger. It's too late for most existing humans though, as you can't go to full grown adults steeped in that cultural stigma and say "oops we fucked up, our sexuality isnt some taboo evil thing with no place in society." The damage is done. My hill is that shouldn't continue that harmful culture going forward, but I recognize I'll die on that hill as a tiny minority that sees the harm it does.
Hedonism is an oft criticised motivation. Yet when we think of what we want for our kids, our families, our friends; so often it boils down to "I want them to be happy".
Just to be a devil's advocate, his life was pretty full of heavy amphetamine addiction from the late 50s to the 90s.
His recording sounds like a man singing about the hurt he no doubt caused to himself and those he loved during the decades of drug abuse, no matter how shiny that life looked from the outside.
Hahahaha right! Like there's so much depth in the original version, the ending is (to me) a little hopeful, a broken man who is going to find a way to keep himself and find a way, to paraphrase the song 🤣
Starship Troopers isn't a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie, it's a moderately intelligent movie with pretensions of being a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie.
With Starship Troopers, it all hinges on what you feel when Dizzy dies. Personally, I was legit angry at the bugs when that happened, and then had the realization of "oh... so that's how fascist propaganda works." I think it had to be on the nose a bit for the message to come across.
The movie ends with a guy in an SS uniform saying they've made the enemy afraid and everyone cheers, and still a lot of people didn't get it. So it may not have been dumbed down enough for a lot of people to get the message.
This is the first I've heard of Branston beans, but now I'm excited to try them when I'm back in England in a couple of weeks.
I was there for Christmas and bought a relatively huge jar of pickle before I remembered I wasn't going to be able to fly with it. A lot of pork pie was eaten that day.
DND is not a good universal game system. It's pretty good at being DND, but that's a particular beast that's mostly about resource management.
You can definitely use it for a game about social intrigue, or horror, or modern day anything, but it's not really good at any of that. Like using a hammer to put screws in, you'll probably get something done, and if you're hanging with your friends you'll probably have a good time. But it's a weird tool to reach for.
Personally, I don't think the core of the rules system is very good at all. Flat probability feels weird. Armor as all-or-nothing is weird. Hit and damage being split into two rolls is slow and weird. In the latest edition, making very few choices about your character often feels bad. Levels are a very coarse unit of growth. The magic system somehow manages to make magic not feel like magic- no wonder, no mystery, it's just safe and standardized. I could go on.
But it's mega popular and people are emotionally invested, so there's not much to be done about it. There are dozens of people playing the thousands of other games out there.
Also a lot of people have never played anything else, so their analysis and defense of it is often lacking. Like if I've only ever played baseball, and never even watched any other sports, I wouldn't feel qualified to talk about bowling. But you get people saying like "no you need to wear cleats that's a universal property of sports" when bowling comes up. Like, not every game has six stats. Not every game has attributes like that at all.
And again, if you're having fun with dnd then that's the primary goal achieved. We don't need to maximize fun and efficiency in all things all times. I just think that it would be a good experience to branch out more, even if it's scary, because that will lead to a richer experience overall.
I would deny you that a surface that's designed to tilt when touched and collects fingerprints as if that's its primary function is anything but abominable. Let alone the models that are designed to operate with a keyboard and touchpad facing down and making contact with whatever surface they're resting on!
Joke's on you: I lay on my bed, bring up my knees, use my laptop on my waist while leaning against my legs, and touch the screen as needed when I can't navigate by keyboard.
I can't possibly do that with a non-touchscreen laptop anywhere near as easily.
Granted, that's probably it's only decent use case, but even so, for various, occasional operations, the touch capability is helpful.
its been almost 20 years now that people have been using smartphones where touching the screen is the only way you can do anything. when you notice fingerprints on your phone's screen you just wipe them off. why would that suddenly be an issue when it comes to laptop screens?
For Linux to be a considerable contender for the average user, they need to make it more simple and like a Windows or Mac os.
I used Windows my whole life pretty much. Switching to Mac for a 5 year period was easy. Switching to Linux was easy. Using it was not. Installing a different distro was easy, using it was not. Rinse and repeat 3 more times and hello windows 11, looks like I'm using spyware. Because it just works.
My hill is that whatever os you're already familiar with, will always feel easiest. Everything that does something differently, will feel more difficult no matter which one is easier for someone who has no prior experience of either one.
I could tell you how painfull it was when I had to start using windows at work knowing pretty much only Linux beforehand, but that too would be just an useless anecdote.
I think the most effective approach to increasing Linux userbase would be to adopt the same strategy Microsoft is using: Push for using Linux in schools, so that it would be the familiar OS for new generations.
Maybe. But switching from Windows to Mac, and again the opposite wasn't an issue. The learning curve was just changing the way my hands work with keyboard shortcuts. Functionality was so similar. Until Linux can get away from using terminal it'll be an issue. It may be anecdotal, but my anecdote is significantly more common than yours when you reach past Lemmy. Everything about Linux is awesome, except for the user experience itself and ease of use and it won't be mainstream until its structured in a way that makes it so. I'm very much pro FOSS and pro decentralization but I also only have so many hours in the day to be Sisyphus, pushing the rock up the hill of trying to understand Linux only to be in the same position and more frustrated than when I started.
And putting Linux as it is right now in schools will do no good. Kids are on phones. Right now, more than ever. They are used to and demand the easy os/app/website/etc.
Switching back to Windows shouldn't be an issue. Going in the first time is horrible. Whatever the many papercuts of a given os are, you won't even notice them if you're used to working around them.
As for the kids, they'll get their first experience sooner or later, depending on The curriculum of your country. But he same principle applies no matter wether it happens in university or elementary school.
The problem has been that Intel and Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive strategic execution to ensure that each would be a winner over the course of most of our lifetimes. That’s why “Wintel” became a household term over the late 90s.
Now, if you’re building any sort of hardware, why would you pay developers to write drivers for Linux, a hobbyist operating system that had no money flowing around it? Absolute saints cobbled together drivers for video, audio, modem, and other hardware just to make things barely usable, often with buggy behavior. Without insider knowledge of the hardware and firmware design, nor the sheer manpower to do development, Linux floundered in graphical user environments for a long time.
There were proprietary codecs, browser plugins, winmodems, and all sorts of things tailored to Windows user environments that were difficult or impossible to get working on Linux. Linux experts became surly and inaccessible due to the heavy burden of helping newbies just get the system booted and their VGA settings properly set. And so, Linux remained a hobbyist operating system for a long time. User groups finally got companies like NVIDIA to help write drivers for their hardware, and now, getting to a working Ubuntu desktop is arguably simpler than Windows 11.
IMO the problem remains collaboration, engineering, and gaming. The new Winmodem is AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and BG3. Until the Linux user base grows to a point that it can’t be ignored by the companies developing these products, it’ll remain a very niche OS.
I switched to fedora (with no nvidia or however you spell the company I avoid) and everything mostly worked as it should, and when I had questions about how to do X or Y I could actually find answers online like I could on old windows (after like 7 it became "reinstall for every little issue" any time I searched for windows help. Great.) Did I have to learn how to access my com ports to use CHIRP to program a baofeng? Sure, but now that I know my user needs to be added to the dialout group, I've both learned something and solved the issue within 10min. Did I also have to figure out how to install the drivers for the CP210X to UART bridge on windows? Yes, and Fedora came with them (or somehow didn't need them.) And don't even get me started on fixing a broken flash drive with Diskpart instead of gparted or KDE partition manager, ugh. At least windows is insecure and let me mount my drive bypassing my windows pin through a live booted linux distro to save my data when w10 decided it can't get past the login screen anymore, so that's something!
Ymmv, but your experience isn't universal (nor is mine) and windows can also come with it's own headaches (and spyware, and resource hogging to run said spyware...)
I will never play a game that needs admin elevation to run, I don't care how good it allegedly is.
I've missed out on playing several games with friends due to this stance. Star Wars: The Old Republic was the first I can remember. Marvel Rivals is the most recent.
Cubic meters and tonnes suck when you’re talking about numbers bigger than 1000, which is pretty much every time. Just use liters or grams and slap on whatever SI prefix that makes the most sense for the order of magnitude you’re dealing with.
Who wants to see numbers like 7900000000 W, 500000 V or 0.00001 g. Nobody, that’s who! Use SI prefixes to make the numbers easier to read and understand. We’re already doing that in many places. It’s not that hard.
If we're using SI prefixes, shouldn't we be dropping usage of litres in favour of cubic decimetres (or whichever prefix is appropriate for the volume you have)?
Square and cubic units are not making my life easier. Quite the opposite.
For example, when you jump from square kilometers to square megameters, the surface area just explodes even though there’s plenty of interesting and useful stuff going on in between the two. You would end up having a stupid number of digits which totally defeats the purpose of having prefixes in the first place. Same applies to cubic units, but the problems are just even bigger.
That’s why I prefer to use ml, l, kl, Ml, Gl, Tl etc. for volumes. We could do the same with surface area too. Maybe dig up the archaic are unit and start using sensible prefixes to make calculations easier.
True, but in many cases the product is graded by quality. And the low quality graded product goes in the more generic labeled packaging. This doesn’t matter for something like flour or baking soda, but open a can of green beans and compare.
Stores like Trader Joe’s differ from this by specializing in rebranding overstock or by ordering additional run instead of buying cast offs. So you’ll often get goood quality from their store brand merchandise.
True, but in many cases the product is graded by quality
Well, mostly. Yes, the highest quality product is def. going to go into the name brand stuff. But if everything off the line is high quality for a given production period, then the store-branded and generic stuff is also going to be high quality. So quality on overruns, etc. is going to have more variance than what you'd get from a name brand.
I've never had complaints about Trader Joe's, other than the fact that I really don't buy a lot of prepared foods; I prefer buying fresh ingredients, and making my own whatever when I can. I do remember buying a TJ Islay whiskey once; it was solidly okay. Not great, not as bad as Jack Daniels, just okay.
When you're travelling, you are outside. Open the visor, breathe in the pine wood air. Unlike a car where you're effectively disconnected from your surroundings, you're much more in them. You can also reach much more secluded places, so you can just go to "that spot" and spend the night there. It's almost as good as bicycles or hiking in that regard but unlike those two, you can also cover distances, spontaneously deciding to just hit the road for a day and sleep 1000 km further south the next night.
I live near the A7, a North/South directed highway in Germany going all the way from DK to AT and I also live near a motorcycle hotspot/meetup point.
In the summer, there are so many Scandinavians doing just that, making long distance travels with motorcycles, sometimes even with these small motorcycle trailers attached. They go camping in my town and continue the next day further south (or back up north respectively).
I don't have a bike nor do I like camping, but I love seeing these guys every time :D
Calling Buddhism or Confucianism not a religion is a political claim which the speakers usually have zero knowledge of and I’m sick of it. The history of what is religion in China from the republic onwards with the very Protestant understanding of what is a world religion is very important to understand this question. But most people either claim this for their hippy means or to be derogatory
I mean, it really comes down to how you define religion. A lot of people's conception of religion is grounded in the Abrahamic traditions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam), and other traditions don't fit neatly into that framework. It's useful to identify the Christian/Abrahamic lens through which various traditions have been historically seen and to reexamine whether the actual reality is in line with the picture we have of them. Whether such traditions are ultimately classified as religions or not is semantic, but it's worthwhile to examine them as they are and to question assumptions about them.
You’re 100% right. Religious studies went through exactly what you described. Thinking of religion as Abrahamic, opening up to world religions through the former lens, opening up to more that would have been considered cults or bad, then now I think quite open to most religions. Defining religion is a boring but important part of the field that many monographs feel it’s their duty to do.
Being neuroatypical isn't a fashion accessory. Growing up in the 80s and 90s and not being "normal" was marginalising and hard for everyone around. You're not special or trendy because you self-diagnosed autism using an online questionnaire in 2023, you're just an unbearable twat and you want to not have to take accountability for your own shitty attitude.
Techno killing all the other music genres + its not underground anymore! It's not combining techno with house or trance, but making techno tracks with some house/trance elements in it. Not to mention that since it was played in big festivals, it lost its label underground.
If the ingredient of whatever snacks/dessert you're making is mostly chocolate, only use couverture or don't even try. There's place for compound but not here.
The "phones are bad and suck your life away" crowd has gotten way too big. Yes, it's easy to waste time on them, but that's just something you gotta learn, like not watching TV series all night. You're a grown up, deal with it. Also maybe you feel bad for spending all that time on your phone just because feeling bad for that feels cool? It's actually your life you can spend it however you want. You don't need to be productive or successful to be a worthy human. Be a lazy shit that plays stupid phone games while on a train to work.
People will all change. In the past, I strongly opposed my wife's purchase of luxury goods, such as LV handbags. And we even quarreled because of such matters. Looking back now, it really wasn't necessary at all. So, people's concepts will indeed change.
LV handbags (or anything they make) are so gaudy and broadcast a certain airheadedness that I'd also struggle to see my spouse buy those.
But you're right, it doesn't make any difference in the bigger scale of things.
A lot of these brands used to mean quality merchandise that lasted, which is why they were so expensive. But after the conglomerates get ahold of them, it becomes commodity crap with a recognizable label slapped on it. It doesn’t help when the brand starts to stratify (like Izod) selling different levels of quality at different price points.
The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (not Sonic the Hedgehog/SatAM) cartoon 4 year old version of Tails is absolute peak Tails.
As a pretty big Tails fan, I really like this very childish Tails who has little to no filter when he speaks, sometimes.
Have yet to play forces, but I've seen the cutscene where Tails calls out for Sonic's help and I absolutely love it because it reminds me of that cartoon version of Tails who at times is just absolutely helpless and needs Sonic to come rescue him.
The contemporary disdain for postmodernism was a Psy op designed to completely destroy philosophy from the inside. And the supposed replacements for post modernism (metamodernism or whatever) were just pop culture millennial distractions that just took attention away from the philosophical issues of the inadequacies of language and crisis of our communications systems. We became stuck in limbo. Cultural conversation dumbed down by useless culture wars articulated in low attention span pop culture commentary and therapy speak.
That exclusive content in physical games is a cruel disservice to late discoverers. "Exclusive" content should just be delayed public release content instead - something for the early adopters, but not unavailable to people years later.
Even just the normal game, if they're discontinuing production, should be made available as a digital purchase (including STL and print-ready files) for people coming along years later. We have the technology to not screw over potential future fans, and it's not that expensive to keep a small website running - especially if they're still going as a company. Looking at you, CMON Games.
Yes! Give me some bullshit supermarket cupcakes all day over one of those dumb boutique shops, and homemade over that but who's got the time these days.
While I'm here cakenuts != donuts, donuts require dough not batter and all dunkin style "donuts" are a big ol' lie which would be ameliorated by admitting they're cakenuts.
The icing is the only part I like - I literally eat the cake separately so that I can maximize the icing-to-cake ratio in a single bite.
This is mostly because frosting is "wet" and offsets how dry the cake is. I dislike the dryness of the cake so much I prefer to eat most of it in one go and get over it, and then enjoy the rest of the cupcake with my preferred 9:1 proportion of icing to cake. 😆
People that tell you to use *nix are so limited in a technical sense, they cannot be trusted
It's just a tool, it's like somebody telling you that you need to use a certain brand of Philips head screwdrivers because they're the best tool
It's revelatory that the person does not have a robust understanding of technology really
And before you come at me, I spent more than two decades in tech, two of them were professional game developer and web startup dude, don't even try me.
Keeping a girlfriend/wife is easy. Just eat pussy. It's like the skeleton key to women's hearts and minds.
If you're consistent and eat with joy, even after breakups...you will find they want you back. The simple reason is....the other guys just don't eat like you did.
Modern medicine, no matter how smart and clever we think we are, still mostly involves doing things that just keep the patient amused while letting nature take it's course.
All billionaires are evil people that decide to accumulate wealth instead of distributing the surplus and living off enough to not have to worry about the future. All. Of. Them.
Yes, even Taylor Swift and Gabe Newell. They have enough money that they could set 100m aside, live off that and charge break-even prices for their products so more people could enjoy them or they could charge the same thing and redirect their share of the profits into charities, they choose not to.
I'm a Taylor Swift fan (not a Swifty) but I'm 100% with you.
I pirate her music (tbf all music). I've gotten into heated arguments on Lemmy on how she's one of the "good" ones.
No such thing as a good billionaire.
All the people who work at the venues could be paid lots more.
She became a billionaire by selling tickets for more than necessary and makes the choice to continue doing so to enrich herself.
As I said, there's no reason she couldn't have started doing shows that only broke even once she had enough money to live off of for the rest of her life, she decides not to do that and she decides to continue accumulating wealth we can't even imagine.
Remember when Musk said if he could prevent famine for 6B he would do it, he was presented with a plan and didn't do it? All billionaires are guilty of doing the same thing and the way they accumulate the means to do that is by selling us things for more than they're actually worth.
wait what, shes a THOUSAND MILLIONS DEEP ???"2? wtf thats stupid
My completely unbiased exception is LeBron.
"Ain't no party like a Diddy party"
So wholesome.
You also HAVE to exploit people in order to get there.
Isn't Gabe's net worth literally just the value of Valve? In order to cash his money out, he'd have to sell Valve.
I don't want him to sell Valve. I like him being in charge of Valve, he's doing a decent job.
He's got a yacht collection, six of them, costing him more to maintain a year than you and your children will ever be worth.
Boycott Steam and support GOG and itch.io!
Buy, Borrow, Die. Rich people don't sell shares. They take very low interest loans banks are more than happy to lend them. Use their shares as collateral. Then pay no taxes and only a small amount of interest. They do this forever until they die.
It's why everything is associated with "make number go up".
I agree and it's pretty obvious if you think about it for a short while.
Even religions know this, it's just a simple fact of life.
You are completely correct. There are so many exits before becoming a billionaire that any normal person would take.
Once you have millions you can live comfortable. Tens of millions and you're set for life, you can live in luxury without ever doing another day's work.
Hundreds of millions and you can buy anything you ever want or need. The only reason to continue accumulating money is because you get some fucked up pleasure from it.
You can claim you "earned it" through "working hard" but it's a pathetic assertion. The simple fact is money is only gained at the expense of others.
We should be using soap and water after popping, toilet paper alone is barbaric
Bum gun or Bidet. The humane way to toilet.
I have yet to experience one but bidets seem like the dream.
If you ever make your own bathroom or get your choice in the matter, go full french: get the separate porcelain fixture that has separate hot and cold valves, with the soap and towel.
I have a Toto seat and, while it's nice, the stream is small, leaking potential poo water down your legs onto the inner edges of the seat is... (It doesn't seem to happen, but still), and the internal warm water tank is small.
I used my ex's much cheaper one a bunch when we were dating, and his was cold only but like a garden hose flow rate. It was so fucking fast and felt so much nicer. But didn't oscillate, have aim, pressure, heated seat, dryer, or any of that stuff..
Plus, without the soap, I don't really want to use a towel to dry my bits off.
So ideally, it would be temperature adjustable, PORCELAIN AND NOT PLASTIC, high flow/adjustable, be an actual bidet where you can fit your hands down there to wash yourself with soap and water, and then have a designated towel so that you eliminate more if not all tp usage.
They're are cheap bidets out there, and the are premium ones. The premium ones (like toto) are worth it, but I'd start with an inexpensive one to see if you enjoy it first.
There's very cheap options if you want to feel clean
Tf is a bum gun
It's exactly what it sounds like in this context. Think of a garden hose attachment with a trigger. You point it at the right spot, pull the trigger, and wash your bum clean.
My mental image is in the shower.......... Yeah, actually, why not just use the shower with a cooter cleaner instead of a bum gun? Or... Are we talking about the same thing?
Well a bum gun is specifically designed for the job, but yeah it's probably the same idea as what you're thinking of.
You could use the shower but the shower heads are not typically installed next to the toilet.
I have one, it's just like the sprayer thing for doing dishes on many kitchen sinks except attached to the refill hose for the toilet. You just aim and spray, it's fantastic and easy to clean cause it's not actually inside the toilet bowl
https://www.qwant.com/?t=images&q=Bum+gun
You just gave me a really good idea for a portable bidet actually. I normally use a little squeeze lotion bottle but it doesn't have the required water power... Now I gotta find some of those tiny water guns we used to have as kids.
Hard agree. Bidet + soap is the most hygienic way. I was actually surprised to learn that even some bidet users don’t use soap and literally just blast their ass and hope it washes away everything. You’re already halfway there, might as well use soap and be completely clean.
Oh no, I’m not washing my ass with soap every time, but I commend you for commitment to the cause.
Ikr, bidet yes, I don't have one but I have used one and its better. Soap though sounds like a way to have a really dry butt.
No idea if it's barbaric but it certainly is not as clean as it should be. At least, I think so.
I sort of agree, but I also poop 5times a day. That would take up a lot of my time.
Have you checked with a doctor?
Yep, I've always been like that.
Some people can't see well from birth.. doesn't mean you can't get glasses, or in your case go see a doctor (and get a poop infusion to fix your gut flora XD ).
But seriously, it could be worth checking out. Maybe you have a tumor or cancer or one of those
beowold smeagalsor whateverEdit: bezoar. Seriously it could be curable and you could poop once a day. Think of the free time for activities!
I also poop several times a day. Went and saw a doctor and he said "yup, totally common, and nothing to worry about." Normal humans poop between 1-6x a day. Pretty crazy that there can be such a variance.
It's even funnier for babies. It's normal for them to poop in between every 12 days or 12 times per day.
That doesn't sound healthy
I do several rounds as well and I can tell you washing with soap and water using a bidet is much milder than wiping yourself raw with toilet paper. Washing once per round also takes the same amount of time as wiping several times until you feel “clean”.
... I don't think that's normal bud
Would it? Paper is nice and dry but washing your ass at the bathroom sink and towel drying is faster in my experience. It's just more of a hassle, but it does feel a lot cleaner.
Colitis Ulcerosa? My sympathies.
Had a bidet. Had to get rid of it.
The toddler thought it was hilarious.
Had my boss bring over twinkies from the states because I was curious. Holy moly that stuff is sweet, it's like distilled sugar or something.
Most people in the States don't like Twinkies either, I've got no clue who is buying them.
Omg I totally agree. I went to America a few years ago and the bread was so sugary
I don't eat American white bread either, most other Americans I know eat sourdough or 'actual' bread, not that weird loaf of angel food cake they call bread here lol
It's not just the baked products either!
I just bought some lemon pepper seasoning.
Now you'd t think that the top ingredient would be either lemon, pepper, or salt right?
Well uh, no. It's sugar for some reason.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/irish-court-rules-subway-bread-is-not-bread
Its not just baked goods, we put sugar/corn syrup in everything! sausages don't need to be sweetened! Vegetables don't need to be sweetened!
And then we add excessive amounts of salt to counterbalance the sweetness.
As an American, yes they do and it sucks. Especially since I'm trying to lower my sugar consumption due to my family history of type 2 diabetes
I'm so out of shape right now, it'll probably be whichever one I try to climb next.
I posted a comment on Reddit telling about how the word racism really means a person who is a subscriber to the pseudoscience that is race.
Tons of people downvoted me then reddit admins removed the content for harassment, of all things. (None of it made sense to me)
I'm sad that people still think that people are different races, and to not be racist you just have to not put one over or under another, when the crux of the problem is fundamentally that people don't get that race was made up because long ago dumb people thought that people that looked different were a literal different species but couldn't prove it so made up the word race as a subcategory in the taxonomic system, but finally scientists realized it's complete bullshit since it's impossible to define, total bullshit, wildly inconsistent, and massively harmful... and I'm sad that people there literally couldn't comprehend that, and got so mad or offended that they censured the information and thought I was arguing against the existence of systemic racism or something that only a dumb piece of shit would misinterpret.
I linked the Wikipedia page for racism which explains all of it, including history and stuff.
I was triggered for like a week trying to figure out what I said wrong, and honestly still kinda bothered.
But, that is what race is: a bigoted idea that different people are different races and shouldn't/can't interbreed. And that's the stupidest bullshit that MOST people don't understand, and I'll die on this hill, explaining that we gotta stop all being racists. Yeah, fix the problems like systemic racism, but stop thinking of people with darker or lighter skin as different - they're just warm weather humans or cold weather humans, the same way buff or skinny humans are. Fuck. We're all literally just humans, an amazing species, capable of adaptation and survival.
I think you're right, but imo the disagreement i feels like really stem from the way you put it, as you talk about race in a biological science while they think you're talking about ethnicity(social science?), and then there's this odd fixation with no compromise which kinda what caused the friction, even though i think both party might agree with each other.
Also reddit and online forum is mostly made up of weird people so idk.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
Read the introduction. It's complicated but mostly race is arbitrary. But that's the whole discussion I want to bring to people for awareness of concept and language.
Man.. I got banned from a kink community sub because I edited my comment with a automagical editor..
It replaced my text with gobbledygook and then was going to delete it..
The mod came across the text said something to the extent of "this makes no sense" and banned me under their "because we can" rule.
I sent the mod a message with links and an explanation.. he came back with your original post is gone. So you are too.
My reddit account is 14 years old..
It bothered me for a while too.. and still dones I guess since I'm here talking about it.. but honestly mods are gonna mod.. they are small people with a smidge of "power" you could have said hope "you folks have a great day!!" And gotten banned.
It happens. Sucks tho
Yeah I'm stopping using Reddit because of how fascist things are now around the world, in hopes of keeping access to my similarly old account because there may be a lot of porn on there, but there's also a ton of good resources and important things.
Maybe if things turn around in a few years, I'll consider resume using reddit. But the more-intelligent-than-a-rock part of me knows otherwise.
Too many people getting banned for fascist and sketchy reasons. So instead of participate there, it's now just an archive to me.
You are absolutely correct: “race” is a social construct that is created along artificial lines (pigment, facial features, etc).
The truth is that we share ~99.9% of our DNA with every other person, a gene pool so small that there is more diversity between troops of Chimpanzees.
I've been thinking like that for a long time but recently I've been thinking about it in terms of internalized opposition. One of the most pernicious elements of the fight against stupid and bad ideologies is when their framings gain dominance even in the minds of their opponents.
At some point, someone said 'black people are blah, white people are bleh,' and the person next to them probably said 'What do you mean black people?' because the concept was new but the ideology of race turned into such a common one that people who were oppressed by it were forced to consider what the powerful thought about it, like an atheist prisoner being forced to think about how to convince a Christian jailer to be less awful to them. They internalized it. And now even people who are 'anti-racist' often treat 'blackness' and 'whiteness' as if they were real, and not just conceptually different in the same way you can live in a different country without moving because the lines on a map change. Even as they battle the concept, they try to do it from within the system, prisoners demanding to be free without acknowledging the world outside the prison walls.
We are all different, I don't know how you can deny that. And some differences can depend on where your ancestors are from.
If it's not "race" then is there another way of describing it?
In animals we call it breeds. Sounds weird.
I think as an advanced species we should be capable of ascending beyond the descriminating behaviour based on origin. I know it's possible as I can. Seeing other people first reactions to meeting people get described with race undertones is alien to me and feels disrespectful.
Well the problem with trying to subdivide humans is that
A) it's actually really really hard to do, so hard in fact that it's impossible and is a pseudoscience B) it basically always results in comparison. Which gets bad REALLY quickly because suddenly there is a better or worse, an inferior and superior.
I'm not saying we aren't different, I'm not saying that.
But, as far as species, we ARE all the same. You, your sister, your neighbor, your great great great grandfather. We all have our differences and generic differences, but they're infinitesimally small, we are just VERY good at telling the differences because we're so used to staring at the same face over and over.
There's just so much crossover and mixing and volatility. People can change from one to the other or halfway and stuff, there's no clarity. Like, me, for example: I'm a mix that people look at me and get very wrong 95% of the time. And then if I have kids with somebody that doesn't have the exact same mixed heritage with me, it's like... Wtf do you even call me?
And then if you learn some anthropology and learn that long thin limbs and people are from hot climates close to the equator, and short ratioed people are from further (surface area to mass ratio, keeping warmth) away from the equator where it's cold.
Like.... You can be vague and descriptive a little about it, but when you realize that reality is just that we're all the same species, with no limits to interbreeding, it makes so much more sense.
Let's say you take a pale-ass white guy and strand them near the equator for ten years outdoors. Does that guy suddenly become a different breed or race or whatever you want to call it? No.. it's the same person, the same species, even if he looks different - he just adapted and his body is like "holy fuck it's hot and I'm trying my best to not get skin cancer and the right amount of vitamins from the sun".
And same thing for brown skinned people (let's just say Mexican natives). You take a young couple with darker brown skin, and move them to norway or somewhere cold with VERY little sun (latitude). They are going to lose melatonin in their skin and become paler. Let's say they have kids and you inbreed them for a few generations. They will get progressively more pale, and start to look more adapted to the region, likely even take on regional issues.
And the reason why is because we're all the same type of monkey. (Not actually monkey because that's a different offshoot, but primate; we're great apes!).
I mostly agree with you. And I commend your principles.
Some of your examples need improving is all I'll say.
Like sending a white guy to the equator for a decade. Okay fine, they go dark skinned. But bring him back up north and he is white again. Send a super dark skinned guy far north and he will get somewhat paler, so it works both ways. But they retain that difference because they are different.
We have developed differences mostly based on our origin in the world, be it Asian, African, Egyptian, Indian, etc, but we are such an internationally mixed people the differences are meaningless.
Actually, yes, and actually, no.
If you take a white person and put them in the equator for multiple generations, they'll turn brown. If you try to put the result back north, it'll take them multiple generations to get pale again.
There isn't really an inherent difference between us. There are small mutations or diseases that can kill, like Alzheimer's, but those are all basically incidental. Your genes can change, that's what evolution is.
We ALL came from Africa, anyway, and then settled down in various places for a while, adapting. The longer people have adapted, the more they've adapted. But it doesn't set anything in stone, and everybody still retains that ability to adapt.
That's basically evolution lol if you go down that route then we are all plankton, animals and all.
There you go the key to all of this is "meaningless differences" justification to divide people, then make one group appear less than human, then exploit, steal from and murder the savages for the profit of the few.
Racism is a taught trait. Children aren't racist until their peers or guardians teach them their racist world view. I think we agree on almost all points, I just don't think it is pseudoscientific.
Yeah humans are actually all pretty close genetically compared to other species. And "race" as defined by society isn't even a good predictor of genetic similarities, so for example if you take random people A and B who are black, and person C who is white, B and C will often be more closely related than A and B.
Also as a sidenote, we are monkeys. Apes are now considered to be a type of monkey taxonomically.
Whaaaaat... Looks it up
You've never had infants around other infants.
We all have the same child. They all act the same behavior is the same.. Patterns are the same Etc..
Humans don't really start to develop in different directions and speed until they are like 18 months old.
Our coloring and physical features might not be the same.. but the basic operating system and internals are all the same across humanity.
Yes I agree, this is human. Just the same as all dogs wag their tail and bark. Like other posters have said, the differences are subtle and we are all more the same than different.
Breeds are defined by organizations that determine breed based on lineage, followed by conformation. They do not align across different countries. Dogs have the AKC, CKC in America. They don't follow the same definitions. It also causes lots of issues to classify things like this and leads to bad decision making by lots of people. Even as it is now, there's no clear definition for things like Pit Bulls. There's also a ton of health issues that arise from defining breeds and trying to follow this logic.
Humans are not controlled and bred based on these things so a Breed Standard would not be possible. There is simply a continuous line of people.
Perform a cluster analysis on dogs - they will kind of fall into clusters because we bred selectively for them. But humans, which have not been selectively bred even in smaller geographic regions, would not provide decent clustering results based on race categories.
Without good clustering, whatever groups you make have more inaccuracies than accuracies in your grouped statements. (Border collies are high energy, greyhounds are lazy > 65% true at best) this is because of the insane complexity of DNA and the lack of selective breeding artificially limiting the DNA diversity. Plus other stuff.
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Can't see what your original comment was, so missing a lot of context here.
I agree with what you said, but race as a biological thing is not how most people think of it. Most people interpret race in the context of skin color and ethnic groups, i.e. in a sociological context, and within that context it makes absolutely no sense to claim that race does not exist. It would be nice if it didn't exist, but that's not where we are right now as a society.
Lol so true dogs have hundreds of "breeds". Then you have cate, which are all just cats, The people who will argue about their "mesothelioma short hair tuxedo chocolate" are just weirdos.
Depending on which association you ask there are at least 45 breeds of cat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cat_breeds
Association of weirdos.
I'm admittedly not a cat person, however there seems to be quite a difference between a Maine Coon and a Sphynx. I agree though that long hair vs short hair of the same breed is negligible and doesn't need to be an entirely separate breed.
So we should make bald men a separate breed of human, and NFL lineman another?
There's another comment in this thread that points out how slippery a slope it becomes when you try to apply breeds to humans, but that is kind of the idea isn't it? You seem to accept it in the case of dogs. Either way, I don't really have a hard stance either way, was just more curious of your reasoning.
I mean, nobody's saying dogs are different races, there's just dogs with different phenotypic traits. When they match a certain known pattern that's a "breed".
It's about as real as beer recipes matching certain styles. Race isn't a real thing, it's just sets of traits that people are used to seeing in certain populations.
You assumed I accepted it at dogs just because I pointed out the irony of all cats just being of the house variety. To me dogs are dogs guess what wolfs are dogs too. You dirty ape. :)
If you're smart enough to know all that, you're smart enough to know that being suspicious of differences is how our species survived, and we're not going to evolve out of it anytime soon.
Canada will NEVER be the 51st state.
Yeah, Puerto Rico and DC first.
So Canada can be the 53rd state?
(/s, we shouldn't be annexing anyone for any reason)
God damn tomato slices in everything from hamburgers to toasted sandwiches as if everyone is supposed to like raw tomato by default is pure discrimination against the non tomato eating populace.
Tomatoes are notorious for being impossible to remove from a burger. 6 children died last year trying to remove them. So many vegetable-adverse people put through incredible pain having to ask for it to be held. When will this injustice end?
Imagine a world where all hamburgers are custom and properly made.
I want a burger now.
Harvey’s baby!
Yeah. Tomato goes on pizza. Why the fuck are we not putting pineapple, something that doesn't belong on a pizza, on hamburgers instead?
We do in Australia. You can get a hamburger with the lot that often includes an egg, bacon, beetroot and a pineapple ring.
This, but about onions.
Fondant isn’t icing and is cheating when making a cake. It also tastes gross.
Depending on how the next four years go, probably Capitol.
Unless the post itself is a commentary, posters should put their own opinions in the comments, not the title or description.
That way they can be up/downvoted and discussed separately.
Yep I should have thought
No worries, it's just a hill I'll die on :)
why not both? Put it into the post and the comments?
Han Solo shot first.
Isn’t this the original canon? Wasn’t there an edit in the 90s or early 00s that changed it? I feel like I remember downloading the original cut project that went around a while ago and in it Han shoots first. I think it was called the “Despecialized Edition”.
Yes, in the original hon shot first later on in the 90s it was edited so Guido shot first then in the early2000s when it was released on DVD it was edited so they both shot almost at the same time and I believe it was edited again-to where it looked like Han shot slightly after and he also somehow managed to dodge The shot with his head. You can look it up on YouTube all of the edits and it’s hilarious. I love George Lucas, but sometimes I don’t know…
Wrong. Greedo never shot. Han murdered him in cold blood.
Controversial
Respect pornstars.
Probably a literal one, I like hillwalking and am clumsy
Metaphorically, it's guitar tonewoods. If you've got a solidbody electric guitar you can make the body out of a goddamn breezeblock and it'll sound absolutely fine. Whatever difference the body/neck material makes is negligible compared to strings, scale length, pickups, resistors, and amps. Acoustic guitars are another matter, but for solidbody electrics it is 99% delusion and marketing
Worth saying that different woods can look really nice and that is probably worth something if youre not going with a paintjob.
Oh for sure. I'm not against someone going for flame maple because it just looks great. That's still honest about what it is and why
It should be illegal for vehicles so noisy that I can hear from kilometers away to drive inside cities and close to people.
It is illegal in most places. Enforcement is the problem.
Things where better when the internet was one spot in your house. Not in your pocket at all times
Post made using Boost for mobile phone
The world actually did end in 2012.
This is hell.
The Petty One: Optical Media is Bad. It has always been and always will be. We used it for as long as we did because there was no better choice. But when it came to music I went straight from tape to mp3 because I never trusted CD's, and I will continue not to trust CD's.
The Serious One That Might Ruffle Feathers: The entire school curriculum of every country should be wiped out -- And replaced with fifteen years of nothing but reading comprehension. We live in an era where information is extremely cheap but knowledge is priceless. And to go from information to knowledge, one needs to have a well developed reading ability and bullshit filter. There's no point memorising a bunch of nonsense when it is easier and faster to use technology -- We stopped doing recitations when we invented writing, you know? -- What IS important is understanding what you are seeing and recognising lies for what they are.
Reading comprehension is incredibly important. Bullshit filter also sorely needed. I get very frustrated when I see people falling for obvious false information. I've been shown AI videos that are clearly fake but they believe it.
I think my favorite are conspiracy theories who won't believe something backed with like, facts, but will believe this 30 seconds tik Tok from someone they don't know quoting someone they also don't know.
I don't think I can put into words how much worse my life would be if we followed your second suggestion. There are a great many things I never really wanted to learn about, but I'm incredibly glad I was still taught them - starting from basic stuff (like maths etc) over arts (especially poetry and literary analysis) to sciences (especially physics and chemistry).
I would understand far less about the world, I could never engage as deeply with media as I love to, and I couldn't have built so many things that require holistic insight into our world.
I'd be a far less developed version of myself, because I wouldn't be able to follow my interests the same way.
I must wonder why not. Like, clearly those things are enriching to you, aren't they? Why wouldn't you have learned them on your own terms? Assuming nothing was stopping you? You seem not to be an incurious person? Again, information has never been cheaper, you just have to look for it.
Like I'm not trying to make fun of your explanation or even say you're wrong. Just... Genuinely wondering how come
I wouldn't have known how much I enjoy some of those things. Let's stick with literary analysis - I hated doing that in school, really hated it. It was a slog to get through. Until I one day read something I enjoy, and started feeling the things I learned to analyze. Suddenly the text wasn't just a text, it was a conversation with the author. It made me engage with reading on a different level, and also taught me to utilize the same techniques in my own writing.
But I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have been able to force myself to learn that stuff on my own. Writing literary analyses and having them read, critiqued and graded by my teachers was essential to learning it. Yet I would have gone on thinking that it's a waste of my time, had I not been forced to learn it.
I would like to congratulate you on choosing the most assholish way you could have possibly phrased that :>
Go on... so what's the right one? I can't understand why anyone would go to attack others without offering a superior alternative. Like, you may as well just not say anything, then. If you don't have a better idea, then theirs isn't worse because you didn't even provide a rebuttal.
I'm not even on the side of the person you responded to, but why would you not want to state what would work better? That's just trolling.
But you're not offering even any example of possible models so how can anyone take your position seriously if you refuse to share more of your stance when asked? Lack of transparency is not cool, as well as assuming; I never once said one-size-fits-all.
"Given your performance?" Since when were discussions, heated or not, a performance? I never said anyone was right or wrong here with their stance towards education, but you've only said to not treat it as a single issue and nothing more, which is what I have beef with. When I asked, "so what's the right one," I didn't say that I believe there is any "one" right way of education, but you're continually saying to just read "a modern textbook on education" without even suggesting exactly what to read. What such book do you recommend?
I have not once called you "arrogant," I have not called you "a techie," and I have not said you have been "spewing drivel"; name-calling is the territory of Reddit and I hope we can agree to leave it there, but you didn't even bother to reply to the original commentator's response, maybe because he's right; that's what I was going off of. All I'm getting at is to not troll people in that closed way.
That's correct. In school the most important thing you can possibly learn is to learn. Information is abundant and easily accessible, the school, university or even research labs are no longer gatekeepers of information. But knowing HOW to find resources, HOW to filter it, HOW to use it, HOW to sit your ass down and work with information in a meaningful way is a specialized and rare skill.
Hard agree, fancy cakes are all looks, taste is secondary.
Give me an ugly tasty cake every damn time!
Funnily enough, they don't look tasty.
They look like over processed sponge.
I mean they aren’t not that, but sometimes they just hit, I prefer them frozen…
I've never seen them here, so I'm going just on the image
Ironing clothes is stupid and useless and shouldn't be a thing. I haven't ironed any of my clothes for decades now and they never look any different than the clothes that were ironed. It's a scam! And humanity won't be able to progress if we keep doing it!!
Ironing clothes became a thing when all clothes were made from 100% natural materials.
Today, unless you specifically go out of your way to make sure, chances are that none of your clothes are made from 100% natural materials.
One of the advantages of plastic fibers is that they don't wrinkle as much.
I have a handheld clothes steamer! Changed ironing for me forever I fucking love it
True for jeans and hoodies, not true if you need to wear nice pants, button down shirts and blazers to work.
There's a hill I'll die on: screw that 19th century-ass business dress crap.
Nobody gives a crap outside of a bunch of boomers who are still arguing about how offended they'll be if you don't put on a monkey suit to sooth their egos, so like, we should just stop that crap.
Also: ties. Who the hell came up with the brilliant idea of wearing a noose?
It really depends on the garment. I've rarely ever ironed my clothes, only random occasions where the item I want to wear got wrinkled and I didn't have the time to fix it any other way. I've also never had a job that required anything fancier than business casual, so that could be part of it.
I've only ever ironed work clothes. I had an ex that used to iron my jeans. I thought it was insane but they enjoyed it.
Nuclear energy is currently the best way to achieve energetic independence until we find out how to maintain a fusion core running for more than 20 minute.
Fahrenheit is a perfectly cromulent unit of measure when the use case is for referencing human comfort.
The rage it incites in others on the internet is just a side benefit. It's hilariously awe-inspiring just how wound up some people get over a personal preference for a unit of measure. Mr. Fahrenheit should be proud of what he accomplished.
You feel like Fahrenheit is good enough because it's what your used to. Just say that and it's all good.
I use Celsius for weather because a) I'm used to it and b) where I live, knowing the temperature relevant to the freezing point of water is extremely relevant when considering the weather. You use Fahrenheit for the weather only because you're used to it. There's no benefit other than that.
I do use Fahrenheit for cooking, but not because it's better in any way, but simply because I'm used to it. I know the effect setting the oven to 400, 350, 300, etc, will have. It's not a better unit of measure, I'm just used to it, and in the context of using my oven, it's not worthwhile to me to learn the equivalents in Celsius.
It's ok to say you prefer something simply because that's what you're used to using. But Celsius is a better unit of measure, just you're not used to it. You know what 70F, 80F, 90F, 100F feels like from experience, ie. you're used to using that scale. It's fine... just weird to say something is better simply because it's what you're accustomed to.
The problem with Celsius and it's relation to the freezing and boiling point of water is that water is a rare chemical that is less dense as a solid so it will freeze AND boil at different temperatures depending on pressure.
Freezing temperature isn't 0 at 1500 meters and it doesn't boil at 100 either.
Edit to add examples:
On Mount Everest water boils at 72 degrees
In Denver, Colorado water boils at 94 degrees
I don't live on the top of Mount Everest LOL.
Nobody ever said you did, but billions of people don't live at sea level and because of that water doesn't boil or freeze at 0 and 100 for them.
Do you think water boils at 212F at high altitudes? No matter which temperature scale is used, the "billions of people" living at high altitudes need to understand how pressure affects the boiling point of water.
I think the billions of people you imagine living on top of Mount Everest understand they may need to make adjustments to cooking instructions regardless of what temperature scale they're using. If they don't, using Fahrenheit won't solve their problems.
My hell dude, you're missing the point so hard you're either a troll or so belligerent you're not worth talking to. Never once did I say Fahrenheit was better, it's like you're just shadowboxing with yourself at this point.
I never said Fahrenheit was better, just that it was perfectly acceptable for use as a measure of human comfort.
I'm not going to get into what I usually go into because I only commented to answer OPs question, not start a(nother) internet flame war. A lot of people who use Celsius go absolutely NUTS when someone so much as hints that Fahrenheit has some usefulness.
It's a deprecated unit of measure. In a lot of forums like this one, there's a lot of people that work in the technology field and we're always annoyed by people that insist on sticking with something that's deprecated because people invent rationalizations for why the thing they're used to is better. I use Fahrenheit for cooking but I'm not telling people I do that because it's better in some why, I know I'm using a deprecated unit of measure solely because I'm used to it.
Ok
The issue is not in the accuracy, ease, and convenience of describing and being compatible with the human experience. It has never been that.
The issue is Fahrenheit's/imperial units' compatibility and division factor of 10's compatibility with other units, and all of those scales and units being consistent and predictable.
It's literally just two philosophies of going about seeing the world.
To disclose my bias, I was brought up with imperial units. The problem in most discussions of these two ideas facing off is that nobody discusses the real topic: The pros and cons of unification vs. the rote arbitrariness of the human existence and whether or not we want to stand behind yet again another self-centered description of the universe.
Measuring horses with hands is fucking weird, but because we experience horses from our own perspective, which is limited to our physical body, measuring in hands is a really easy way to understand that unit of measurement, as opposed to decimals of meters.
However, I must point out, Celsius is not metric. It's been adopted as the step-child of SI, but it's not metric. You can't meaningfully multiply and divide degrees Celsius; 100°C is not ten times hotter than 10°C Celsius. Sure. you can use the metric prefixes, just like i could measure things in kiloinches, that doesn't make it metric. It's just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit, and people have to make arguments regarding water and life to try to pretend otherwise. True, it's officially defined in terms of Kelvin, but then, so is Fahrenheit.
I was watching a video just before where an american measured two impact craters on a piece of steel, read off some gibberish fractional inches for each one then commented "my math isnt great, but i think that one is about double". My dude, your calipers read off approximately 5mm and 10mm, your life would be so much easier if you toggled it to metric units.
The best is the one you're used to.
Analog media was better and more fair to artists, and easier to make money off of (why sell an album when people will stream it), and allowed people to become more intelligent and involved music fans. The digitization and non stop consumption of media cheapened it. Not to mention, I'd bet 90% of young Americans have never heard a good home stereo that actually represents how the music is supposed to sound.
And no, I'm not 80 years old!
Not till next year right?
I'm going to add to this to call out earbuds, they suck. To truly experience some sound with headphones you need ear covering.
Also not 80.
Haha!
Yeah unless you get good quad driver in ears, I'd rather have any speakers over headphones. I get that they take up space and not everyone can have them, but there's also so many good headphones out there i cringe so hard when I see people wearing sony or beats.
First-past-the-post voting should be replaced so people can vote outside the two party system with no spoiler effect.
::: spoiler Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
STAR voting
Alternative vote
Ranked Choice voting
Range Voting
Single Transferable Vote
Mixed Member Proportional representation :::
Spelling and grammar matter.
At least take a stab at doing it well.
Other than speaking to people, it’s how we interact with others. It can be professionally, casually, or with friends. Friends we can be pretty informal and slap emojis all over if that’s your style. But casually, even online interaction, people should favor more formal writing until “reading the room”. Professionally there’s no excuse, IDGAF how “brilliant” someone might be and suddenly they get a pass for whatever comes down the email pipeline (unless that brilliance comes attached to some bonafide neurodivergence or something), the awful writing I’ve seen come from some “professionals” is anything but.
There should be a general speed limit of 20mph/30kmh on city streets.
Also no parking on public space for any vehicle that isn't for deliveries, emergencies, trades, or people with disabilities.
If you want to park your car at home, or want your customers or employees to park near your business, you need to buy or rent space for parking privately.
Any citizen documenting a parking infraction with photo evidence should have the option of giving police their bank details and will then receive part of the paid fine.
Of course there will be valid exceptions, like a private emergency, moving, a woman in labor, and such.
Just imagine what our cities could be like if there weren't long rows of cars parked along every street.
The freed space could be turned into bicycle lanes, wider sidewalks, outdoor seating for cafes, green lanes, urban gardens and so much more.
Car lanes could be separated from bike paths and sidewalks by hedges in most places.
Children could play and move safely in public.
Honestly, personal ownership of cars should just straight-up be illegal. Commercial vehicles are fine.
Not really a fan of allowing corporations 'control over the means of transportation'.
I bet Marx could come up with a great explanation of why its a bad idea.
But i'm not him so i'm just gona go with Dennis Denuto's, "its the vibe".
The Castle, The Vibe - Youtube
Public transit is a thing you know...
Also who gives a shit about what some bearded weirdo that died over a century ago thinks about problems involving things that didn't exist in his lifetime? Marxism is like a weird cult now, an opiate that's an obstacle for any positive change.
The closest bus stop to my workplace is over a mile away and has a significant hill. It also snows here. Believe me, I'd love to ditch the car if possible, but... it's just not possible in my current living situation.
The town planning and public transit options would be absurdly different, were private ownership of motor vehicles actually outlawed. The bus stop would be a lot closer. There'd be more buses. There would be dedicated, protected bike lanes that got plowed immediately in the snow. The sidewalks would be plowed by the city. Etc.
Oh, yes, I always vote for and note in comments recommendations towards increased public transit options whenever I can!
Fair fair!
Colour me shocked, public transport? A thing? Gadzooks! /j
There is a weird internet cult about him, true. But the things he said were important, adding greatly to the body of thought that makes the world we live in today.
Its pretty flippant to disregard his words on the control of resources, just because he never sat behind the wheel of the 20th Century cart.
Marx had some interesting things to say about economics, but he was a complete bonehead about politics. The works of John Maynard Keynes supersedes everything Marx did on economics, so we're just left with a boneheaded political ideology which is more of religious movement than anything else.
I am a farmer living on the edge of nowhere; this just wouldn't work in a lot of situations.
The US homesteading is not the standard in a lot of places. Loads of places put all the houses together in a little village and the farmers go out to the fields instead of living isolated at their farm. Also, you have to remember that if we actually did outlaw private motor vehicle ownership, commercial transportation would explode. Much, much smaller towns would have access to regular bus and train schedules. Furthermore, the business landscape would change and your standard stores would again be more accessible in smaller towns.
Would there be some disadvantages? Absolutely. Would there be some advantages? Absolutely.
I consider the advantages to be more than worth it, even in the more trying situations.
I live in Japan and we do have little groupings of houses out from which the farms radiate, but it's like 10-12 houses and not what I might call a village. It's about an hour to the train station that runs once per hour (2-3 times on a weekday during morning rush hour, but oddly not the evening one). We have no continuous bus service (you can call and try to reserve it and it should come). The gaps are filled by taxis that, generally, stop running at 18:00 most nights and more like 20:00 on rare occasions. You could be waiting a long time to get one.
I guess I technically am a business as of this year, if that matters, though only a sole-proprietorship and not a corporation.
The problem it doesn't solve is that I'm not going to the farm supply store or home center and getting that stuff back on a train; loads of block, fertilizer, a wood chipper, etc. to go through a few of my recent purchases. Nor would any taxi here be willing to handle most of that.
Edit: just want to be clear: I still do use pedal-assist ebikes to do what I can as weather permits and my main vehicle is a 649cc kei car which, hopefully someday, I will replace with something electric. I am all for reducing car reliance and ownership, I just don't think it makes sense to do in 100% of cases.
You would probably have a small flatbed for your business, or rent one from a local, as needed. But it sounds like you have enough need that owning a vehicle would be worth it. I would imagine that, in practice, gaining access to a vehicle would be a business perk, kind of like how a lot of micro businesses will be generous with what they consider to be a business expense for tax purposes. Also, sure, in reality farm equipment would probably be exempt.
Anyway, society is filled with rules and design choices that create winners and losers. Right now, with the current motor vehicle standard, many people gain the convenience of having a car or truck for personal use. But it means we have to spend a lot on roads to carry all the extra traffic, lots of people die in accidents, we're polluting the air, we're dumping rubber into the soil and water (from tires), we're living more sedentary lifestyles, etc. Whenever someone purposes a change to society's rules, it is very common for people to only think of the current positives and the potential negatives, while ignoring the current negatives and potential positives.
Not that this proposal is ever gonna fucking happen.
I hate cars, but we've also allowed people to build developments in absolutely idiotic places that either need cars, or perhaps private bus systems. All because some idiot developer built a ton of grey, prefabbed houses 30+ miles away from the city in the middle of (what used to be) untouched forest.
Yeah it would require a significant redesign of some poorly planned areas.
This and also being paid by weight for putting trash in public bins.
I see you there planning using that trash money to fund a weed growing operation! Before we know it people will be turning into glowing cyclops! cyclopi? cyclopses? (Seriously on that last part whats the plural?)
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Sexuality is the point.
We spend a lot of time pursuing staggeringly and self-evidently pointless and stupid shit while suppressing and teaching being ashamed of sex and sexuality, to the point many just categorize their sexuality under potential trauma if engaged.
If we spent a lot less time grinding for nothing of import and more time fucking one another rather than fucking one another over for paper simulacra of supposed value, our species would be far more well adjusted. Even the difference between less prudish Europe and the puritanical US in general mental health is extremely apparent.
The way we treat sex, as something to shame behind close doors rather than celebrate, as we glorify plastic and silicon garbage, is beyond ridiculous and leads to shame and trauma in girls who become women and anger and resentment in boys that become men. We aren't economic value producing machines, we're fucking machines. We denied that at our peril, and now very few are happy with the state of things. Breathtakingly bad priorities.
The point of what? Life? Humanity? Existing? Existence?
I get the anti-anti-sexuality, but doesn't this boil life down to.... Not even procreation, but ... Sex?
What about asexual people? What about... Wonderful moments or beautiful things or cake or socializing beyond sex? What about WORDS and complex thought and ideas and puns and coffee and art and adrenaline and naps and music?
I can't say I entirely disagree with you, but I also don't agree, primarily because I'm not sure exactly what the hill you're dying on is. Can you elaborate a bit to help me/us understand exactly what you're trying to say?
I'm saying that human civilization, and especially puritanical societies of this civilization of which we are one in the US, have walled away the core of what we are, animals that want to fuck, trained us through a prism of shame to loathe that part of us, that we darkly call being civilized, and filled our days generating things that will provide us no meaning, as the closest thing to meaning that can be derived by our biology is getting as much dopamine and serotonin as possible through physical human connection, and we spend most of our time being told the greatest lever for that is shameful and harmful usually because it doesn't make strangers richer, which is ridiculous in an age where if we had the correct priorities we would be able to do for fun as procreation that comes as a result is now chemically optional.
My point is humanity spends a whole lot of its time being miserable, toiling for widgets, to pursue or accept sexual partners in a roundabout way because we've made that that a small, token, conditional cookie for doing the "important" stuff, which I find sad and fascinating to observe. The point being used as a bargaining chip for the pointless, and then all parties wondering why they're still anxious and depressed because they either didn't come to terms, or because they did and it turns out all the plastic, silicon, and tea in china can't provide even a passing shadow of the fulfillment of genuine, physical human connection can, and even that physical human connection is tarnished being turned into just another form of currency or coercion for stuff that doesn't matter at all. How much does humanity toiling for that does not matter instead of fucking?
Tldr humanity would be happier if we were trained to see sex as connection with one another and not that dirty, evil thing of which we rarely speak and if we do it is with the utmost sense of serious danger. It's too late for most existing humans though, as you can't go to full grown adults steeped in that cultural stigma and say "oops we fucked up, our sexuality isnt some taboo evil thing with no place in society." The damage is done. My hill is that shouldn't continue that harmful culture going forward, but I recognize I'll die on that hill as a tiny minority that sees the harm it does.
Hedonism is an oft criticised motivation. Yet when we think of what we want for our kids, our families, our friends; so often it boils down to "I want them to be happy".
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt doesn't deserve the praise it gets. If anyone else recorded it, no one would care. His singing sounds bad.
And to add to it, it's a song about drug addiction and depression....but the music video is a highlight real of how awesome Cash's life was.
Just to be a devil's advocate, his life was pretty full of heavy amphetamine addiction from the late 50s to the 90s. His recording sounds like a man singing about the hurt he no doubt caused to himself and those he loved during the decades of drug abuse, no matter how shiny that life looked from the outside.
Songs still sounds like shit and the music video i of still a highlight reel
This is also my hill
People always talk about how emotional the cover is...
That's just the warbly singing voice of an old man
HAVE YOU HEARD THE ORIGINAL??? Talk about emotion. It's not even a contest
Hahahaha right! Like there's so much depth in the original version, the ending is (to me) a little hopeful, a broken man who is going to find a way to keep himself and find a way, to paraphrase the song 🤣
CDs are better than vinyl.
Not true, everytime i put a cd on a record player, it ends up all scratched up.
Starship Troopers isn't a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie, it's a moderately intelligent movie with pretensions of being a smart movie pretending to be a dumb movie.
Robocop, on the other hand, is a masterpiece.
Agree 100% on Robocop.
With Starship Troopers, it all hinges on what you feel when Dizzy dies. Personally, I was legit angry at the bugs when that happened, and then had the realization of "oh... so that's how fascist propaganda works." I think it had to be on the nose a bit for the message to come across.
The movie ends with a guy in an SS uniform saying they've made the enemy afraid and everyone cheers, and still a lot of people didn't get it. So it may not have been dumbed down enough for a lot of people to get the message.
My first thought was "damn, well, at least Rico might have a shot with Carmen again" and I'm worried about what that says about my political views.
Both are quite entertaining.
RoboCop remake, though, sucks hairy donkey balls, I'll dienonnthst hill with a smile
Branston beans are superior to Heinz beans.
Fuck Heinz in general. They don't make things taste like actual things, just sweet crap.
Their tomato sauce is terrible. Tomatoes taste tangy, not sweet.
This is the first I've heard of Branston beans, but now I'm excited to try them when I'm back in England in a couple of weeks.
I was there for Christmas and bought a relatively huge jar of pickle before I remembered I wasn't going to be able to fly with it. A lot of pork pie was eaten that day.
I am appalled
Yes!!! I have some Branston beans, always chosen over Heinz any day.
The M&S own brand beans are the best I've had. I found Heinz to taste too artificially sweet.
I'll have to give them a go!
DND is not a good universal game system. It's pretty good at being DND, but that's a particular beast that's mostly about resource management.
You can definitely use it for a game about social intrigue, or horror, or modern day anything, but it's not really good at any of that. Like using a hammer to put screws in, you'll probably get something done, and if you're hanging with your friends you'll probably have a good time. But it's a weird tool to reach for.
Personally, I don't think the core of the rules system is very good at all. Flat probability feels weird. Armor as all-or-nothing is weird. Hit and damage being split into two rolls is slow and weird. In the latest edition, making very few choices about your character often feels bad. Levels are a very coarse unit of growth. The magic system somehow manages to make magic not feel like magic- no wonder, no mystery, it's just safe and standardized. I could go on.
But it's mega popular and people are emotionally invested, so there's not much to be done about it. There are dozens of people playing the thousands of other games out there.
Also a lot of people have never played anything else, so their analysis and defense of it is often lacking. Like if I've only ever played baseball, and never even watched any other sports, I wouldn't feel qualified to talk about bowling. But you get people saying like "no you need to wear cleats that's a universal property of sports" when bowling comes up. Like, not every game has six stats. Not every game has attributes like that at all.
And again, if you're having fun with dnd then that's the primary goal achieved. We don't need to maximize fun and efficiency in all things all times. I just think that it would be a good experience to branch out more, even if it's scary, because that will lead to a richer experience overall.
I personally really dislike icing. Anything it's on I think is ruined. The only thing that's worse is meringue. Hate that stuff.
This comment really confused me after reading 6 about bum-washing.
To be fair I made it when there was just one comment about butt washing.
Ooh! Can we be cake buddies? When it comes to cake, corner pieces are my favorite because the icing is usually the only part I want.
Absolutely! You can have all the icing you want from me.
no problem. send any icing you dont want over to me. i am here to help
Touchscreen laptops, and by extension "two-in-one" laptops, are an absolute abomination of a form factor that should not exist.
they are convenient for me. would you deny me this?
I would deny you that a surface that's designed to tilt when touched and collects fingerprints as if that's its primary function is anything but abominable. Let alone the models that are designed to operate with a keyboard and touchpad facing down and making contact with whatever surface they're resting on!
Joke's on you: I lay on my bed, bring up my knees, use my laptop on my waist while leaning against my legs, and touch the screen as needed when I can't navigate by keyboard.
I can't possibly do that with a non-touchscreen laptop anywhere near as easily.
Granted, that's probably it's only decent use case, but even so, for various, occasional operations, the touch capability is helpful.
Mostly agree, but my thinkpad x220t with the full spin and flip screen and stylus is just fun to use!!
its been almost 20 years now that people have been using smartphones where touching the screen is the only way you can do anything. when you notice fingerprints on your phone's screen you just wipe them off. why would that suddenly be an issue when it comes to laptop screens?
Spanish food sucks! Although I think I already died in that hill today.
For Linux to be a considerable contender for the average user, they need to make it more simple and like a Windows or Mac os.
I used Windows my whole life pretty much. Switching to Mac for a 5 year period was easy. Switching to Linux was easy. Using it was not. Installing a different distro was easy, using it was not. Rinse and repeat 3 more times and hello windows 11, looks like I'm using spyware. Because it just works.
My hill is that whatever os you're already familiar with, will always feel easiest. Everything that does something differently, will feel more difficult no matter which one is easier for someone who has no prior experience of either one.
I could tell you how painfull it was when I had to start using windows at work knowing pretty much only Linux beforehand, but that too would be just an useless anecdote.
I think the most effective approach to increasing Linux userbase would be to adopt the same strategy Microsoft is using: Push for using Linux in schools, so that it would be the familiar OS for new generations.
Maybe. But switching from Windows to Mac, and again the opposite wasn't an issue. The learning curve was just changing the way my hands work with keyboard shortcuts. Functionality was so similar. Until Linux can get away from using terminal it'll be an issue. It may be anecdotal, but my anecdote is significantly more common than yours when you reach past Lemmy. Everything about Linux is awesome, except for the user experience itself and ease of use and it won't be mainstream until its structured in a way that makes it so. I'm very much pro FOSS and pro decentralization but I also only have so many hours in the day to be Sisyphus, pushing the rock up the hill of trying to understand Linux only to be in the same position and more frustrated than when I started.
And putting Linux as it is right now in schools will do no good. Kids are on phones. Right now, more than ever. They are used to and demand the easy os/app/website/etc.
Switching back to Windows shouldn't be an issue. Going in the first time is horrible. Whatever the many papercuts of a given os are, you won't even notice them if you're used to working around them.
As for the kids, they'll get their first experience sooner or later, depending on The curriculum of your country. But he same principle applies no matter wether it happens in university or elementary school.
The problem has been that Intel and Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive strategic execution to ensure that each would be a winner over the course of most of our lifetimes. That’s why “Wintel” became a household term over the late 90s.
Now, if you’re building any sort of hardware, why would you pay developers to write drivers for Linux, a hobbyist operating system that had no money flowing around it? Absolute saints cobbled together drivers for video, audio, modem, and other hardware just to make things barely usable, often with buggy behavior. Without insider knowledge of the hardware and firmware design, nor the sheer manpower to do development, Linux floundered in graphical user environments for a long time.
There were proprietary codecs, browser plugins, winmodems, and all sorts of things tailored to Windows user environments that were difficult or impossible to get working on Linux. Linux experts became surly and inaccessible due to the heavy burden of helping newbies just get the system booted and their VGA settings properly set. And so, Linux remained a hobbyist operating system for a long time. User groups finally got companies like NVIDIA to help write drivers for their hardware, and now, getting to a working Ubuntu desktop is arguably simpler than Windows 11.
IMO the problem remains collaboration, engineering, and gaming. The new Winmodem is AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and BG3. Until the Linux user base grows to a point that it can’t be ignored by the companies developing these products, it’ll remain a very niche OS.
That was the point I was trying to make ultimately, but apparently failed to articulate it well enough.
Oh, man, as the network admin for several hundred machines, "Windows" and "works" in the same sentence is hilarious.
Yeah, that's fair haha. I'm talking home use for sure
I switched to fedora (with no nvidia or however you spell the company I avoid) and everything mostly worked as it should, and when I had questions about how to do X or Y I could actually find answers online like I could on old windows (after like 7 it became "reinstall for every little issue" any time I searched for windows help. Great.) Did I have to learn how to access my com ports to use CHIRP to program a baofeng? Sure, but now that I know my user needs to be added to the dialout group, I've both learned something and solved the issue within 10min. Did I also have to figure out how to install the drivers for the CP210X to UART bridge on windows? Yes, and Fedora came with them (or somehow didn't need them.) And don't even get me started on fixing a broken flash drive with Diskpart instead of gparted or KDE partition manager, ugh. At least windows is insecure and let me mount my drive bypassing my windows pin through a live booted linux distro to save my data when w10 decided it can't get past the login screen anymore, so that's something!
Ymmv, but your experience isn't universal (nor is mine) and windows can also come with it's own headaches (and spyware, and resource hogging to run said spyware...)
I will never play a game that needs admin elevation to run, I don't care how good it allegedly is.
I've missed out on playing several games with friends due to this stance. Star Wars: The Old Republic was the first I can remember. Marvel Rivals is the most recent.
Cubic meters and tonnes suck when you’re talking about numbers bigger than 1000, which is pretty much every time. Just use liters or grams and slap on whatever SI prefix that makes the most sense for the order of magnitude you’re dealing with.
Who wants to see numbers like 7900000000 W, 500000 V or 0.00001 g. Nobody, that’s who! Use SI prefixes to make the numbers easier to read and understand. We’re already doing that in many places. It’s not that hard.
If we're using SI prefixes, shouldn't we be dropping usage of litres in favour of cubic decimetres (or whichever prefix is appropriate for the volume you have)?
Square and cubic units are not making my life easier. Quite the opposite.
For example, when you jump from square kilometers to square megameters, the surface area just explodes even though there’s plenty of interesting and useful stuff going on in between the two. You would end up having a stupid number of digits which totally defeats the purpose of having prefixes in the first place. Same applies to cubic units, but the problems are just even bigger.
That’s why I prefer to use ml, l, kl, Ml, Gl, Tl etc. for volumes. We could do the same with surface area too. Maybe dig up the archaic are unit and start using sensible prefixes to make calculations easier.
You know what, fair points
Store brand is as good or better than A-brands in about 90% of all cases.
I have had enough times in which this was not the case, so dispute the percentage. But this can be the case, yes.
Store brands are often made in the same factories and on the same production lines. The differences can be truly negligible.
True, but in many cases the product is graded by quality. And the low quality graded product goes in the more generic labeled packaging. This doesn’t matter for something like flour or baking soda, but open a can of green beans and compare.
Stores like Trader Joe’s differ from this by specializing in rebranding overstock or by ordering additional run instead of buying cast offs. So you’ll often get goood quality from their store brand merchandise.
Well, mostly. Yes, the highest quality product is def. going to go into the name brand stuff. But if everything off the line is high quality for a given production period, then the store-branded and generic stuff is also going to be high quality. So quality on overruns, etc. is going to have more variance than what you'd get from a name brand.
I've never had complaints about Trader Joe's, other than the fact that I really don't buy a lot of prepared foods; I prefer buying fresh ingredients, and making my own whatever when I can. I do remember buying a TJ Islay whiskey once; it was solidly okay. Not great, not as bad as Jack Daniels, just okay.
Except cheap macaroni
Motorcycles are the best means to go camping.
When you're travelling, you are outside. Open the visor, breathe in the pine wood air. Unlike a car where you're effectively disconnected from your surroundings, you're much more in them. You can also reach much more secluded places, so you can just go to "that spot" and spend the night there. It's almost as good as bicycles or hiking in that regard but unlike those two, you can also cover distances, spontaneously deciding to just hit the road for a day and sleep 1000 km further south the next night.
I live near the A7, a North/South directed highway in Germany going all the way from DK to AT and I also live near a motorcycle hotspot/meetup point.
In the summer, there are so many Scandinavians doing just that, making long distance travels with motorcycles, sometimes even with these small motorcycle trailers attached. They go camping in my town and continue the next day further south (or back up north respectively).
I don't have a bike nor do I like camping, but I love seeing these guys every time :D
Anything more than the bearst hint of icing is not for me, personally.
They only got the Predator's mandibles right in the first movie.
The big Costco muffins were 1000x better than the new ones.
Blessing someone for a sneeze is the most useless human interaction I know of and we should do away with it.
Modern flip phones (e.g. Samsung Fold) are stupid and tacky and will never be as good as previous gen flip phones. Just won't. Sorry not sorry.
Yes but the icing is what i want.
The really steep one that'll give me a heart attack.
Calling Buddhism or Confucianism not a religion is a political claim which the speakers usually have zero knowledge of and I’m sick of it. The history of what is religion in China from the republic onwards with the very Protestant understanding of what is a world religion is very important to understand this question. But most people either claim this for their hippy means or to be derogatory
I mean, it really comes down to how you define religion. A lot of people's conception of religion is grounded in the Abrahamic traditions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam), and other traditions don't fit neatly into that framework. It's useful to identify the Christian/Abrahamic lens through which various traditions have been historically seen and to reexamine whether the actual reality is in line with the picture we have of them. Whether such traditions are ultimately classified as religions or not is semantic, but it's worthwhile to examine them as they are and to question assumptions about them.
You’re 100% right. Religious studies went through exactly what you described. Thinking of religion as Abrahamic, opening up to world religions through the former lens, opening up to more that would have been considered cults or bad, then now I think quite open to most religions. Defining religion is a boring but important part of the field that many monographs feel it’s their duty to do.
Percentile dice (two ten-sided ones) are read with one die representing the 10s digit, the other the ones digit.
00 and 0 = 100
10 and 0 = 10
The shit people come up with as alternatives to reading the results are wrong
That is the correct way and is even given as examples. What is wrong with people
How else are people reading them?
A guy I played with in university's read them as addition, which is the same as reading them as digits with the exception of the tens.
00 + 0 was 10 (because the "0" on a d10 is usually read as 10)
10 + 0 was 20
90 + 0 was 100
Being neuroatypical isn't a fashion accessory. Growing up in the 80s and 90s and not being "normal" was marginalising and hard for everyone around. You're not special or trendy because you self-diagnosed autism using an online questionnaire in 2023, you're just an unbearable twat and you want to not have to take accountability for your own shitty attitude.
Systemd is a pile of shit that is actively ruining Linux.
CROCKS AND SOCKS ARE PEAK FOOTWARE! I WILL STILL WARE THEM AND YOU CANT STOP MEEEEE!
You do you! I respect that
Puddles
Socks and sandals is awesome.
Hard agree on crocs being optimal footwear. I only add socks situationally.
It doesn't matter which side you put the toilet paper in. I'm poly-dextrous and it is the way
Techno killing all the other music genres + its not underground anymore! It's not combining techno with house or trance, but making techno tracks with some house/trance elements in it. Not to mention that since it was played in big festivals, it lost its label underground.
If the ingredient of whatever snacks/dessert you're making is mostly chocolate, only use couverture or don't even try. There's place for compound but not here.
The "phones are bad and suck your life away" crowd has gotten way too big. Yes, it's easy to waste time on them, but that's just something you gotta learn, like not watching TV series all night. You're a grown up, deal with it. Also maybe you feel bad for spending all that time on your phone just because feeling bad for that feels cool? It's actually your life you can spend it however you want. You don't need to be productive or successful to be a worthy human. Be a lazy shit that plays stupid phone games while on a train to work.
People will all change. In the past, I strongly opposed my wife's purchase of luxury goods, such as LV handbags. And we even quarreled because of such matters. Looking back now, it really wasn't necessary at all. So, people's concepts will indeed change.
LV handbags (or anything they make) are so gaudy and broadcast a certain airheadedness that I'd also struggle to see my spouse buy those. But you're right, it doesn't make any difference in the bigger scale of things.
A lot of these brands used to mean quality merchandise that lasted, which is why they were so expensive. But after the conglomerates get ahold of them, it becomes commodity crap with a recognizable label slapped on it. It doesn’t help when the brand starts to stratify (like Izod) selling different levels of quality at different price points.
That this question has been posted every single day for the last week.
Javascript is a great language
I can think of worse ones and at least knowing JavaScript has paid my bills for 8+ years.
Typescript on the other hand...
I like TS too lol
You say 70% icing like it's a bad thing
The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (not Sonic the Hedgehog/SatAM) cartoon 4 year old version of Tails is absolute peak Tails.
As a pretty big Tails fan, I really like this very childish Tails who has little to no filter when he speaks, sometimes.
Have yet to play forces, but I've seen the cutscene where Tails calls out for Sonic's help and I absolutely love it because it reminds me of that cartoon version of Tails who at times is just absolutely helpless and needs Sonic to come rescue him.
The contemporary disdain for postmodernism was a Psy op designed to completely destroy philosophy from the inside. And the supposed replacements for post modernism (metamodernism or whatever) were just pop culture millennial distractions that just took attention away from the philosophical issues of the inadequacies of language and crisis of our communications systems. We became stuck in limbo. Cultural conversation dumbed down by useless culture wars articulated in low attention span pop culture commentary and therapy speak.
That exclusive content in physical games is a cruel disservice to late discoverers. "Exclusive" content should just be delayed public release content instead - something for the early adopters, but not unavailable to people years later.
Even just the normal game, if they're discontinuing production, should be made available as a digital purchase (including STL and print-ready files) for people coming along years later. We have the technology to not screw over potential future fans, and it's not that expensive to keep a small website running - especially if they're still going as a company. Looking at you, CMON Games.
I think you're in the wrong thread mate!
Haha omg I meant to post this on "how is your week going"! 😂 😅
Haha np I've done similar many times!
Whipped cream sucks.
Outside of Original Trilogy, the best Star Wars movies movies were the ones that JJ Abrams made.
Yes! Give me some bullshit supermarket cupcakes all day over one of those dumb boutique shops, and homemade over that but who's got the time these days.
While I'm here cakenuts != donuts, donuts require dough not batter and all dunkin style "donuts" are a big ol' lie which would be ameliorated by admitting they're cakenuts.
The icing is the only part I like - I literally eat the cake separately so that I can maximize the icing-to-cake ratio in a single bite.
This is mostly because frosting is "wet" and offsets how dry the cake is. I dislike the dryness of the cake so much I prefer to eat most of it in one go and get over it, and then enjoy the rest of the cupcake with my preferred 9:1 proportion of icing to cake. 😆
Walpurgis is Homura's witch
Icing is the best part of the cupcake OP 🤌 come on!
People that tell you to use *nix are so limited in a technical sense, they cannot be trusted
It's just a tool, it's like somebody telling you that you need to use a certain brand of Philips head screwdrivers because they're the best tool
It's revelatory that the person does not have a robust understanding of technology really
And before you come at me, I spent more than two decades in tech, two of them were professional game developer and web startup dude, don't even try me.
Keeping a girlfriend/wife is easy. Just eat pussy. It's like the skeleton key to women's hearts and minds.
If you're consistent and eat with joy, even after breakups...you will find they want you back. The simple reason is....the other guys just don't eat like you did.
Peach is favorite food!
Someone gets it!
Unless you marry a prude. Oops.
Probably the last one I’m standing on.
Modern medicine, no matter how smart and clever we think we are, still mostly involves doing things that just keep the patient amused while letting nature take it's course.
Quickly gets lost in definitions, but the reason men are at the "top" of all societies, is because men are biologically advantaged to do so
You're not going to tell me 2 million years of human evolution doesn't know what it's doing
It does not mean that women or any other group are not valuable, it's just that nature has slotted us in our places
Testosterone is the devil.