What hills are you dying on?
. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter
. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy
. You don't need to shower everyday
. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
. Monty Python is very overrated
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You should have to get a special license to drive something as big as a modern pickup truck.
And you should have to have a justifiable reason to buy and own one.
And there should be restrictions on where they can be driven.
Basically most people shouldn't have pickup trucks.
I would go further. Most cars don't belong in places where people live. They injure and kill people on the regular, the noise pollution causes mental and physical health problems, the light pollution disrupts sleep, the particulate pollution causes cardiovascular disease and dementia, as well as damaging ecosystems, driving adds to obesity and issues related to a sedentary lifestyle, the physical space they take leads to sprawl and ecosystem destruction, and the sprawl also bankrupts cities and towns. As well, driving in traffic just plain sucks as an activity, and makes people angry and miserable.
Oh yeah. Cars are bad on like every metric.
Socially they isolate people. You don't interact with anyone when you're driving except to get angry. The micro interactions you have on the train matter. Seeing people that aren't just like you, also annoyed that the train is delayed, or just having a nice time with their kids, matters. More than makes up for when other people are annoying.
Economically they hurt. It's much harder to just pop into an interesting looking shop when you're cruising along at 40mph. All the space dedicated to parking could be used for other stuff- housing, commerce, communal space, whatever.
They make spaces less safe. Other than the direct impact (no pun intended) of people getting hit by cars, or crashing into stuff, a space that has steady foot traffic is generally safer. If everyone was in their car instead, you'd probably be alone on foot with no one to help if something happened.
They're bad for the environment. Air pollution, micro plastics, whatever.
Drunk driving is way more dangerous than drunk "riding the train".
The more non-car options are built out, the better it will be for people who need to drive for whatever reason.
Cars culture is trash and if we ever escape from it, it's going to take years.
Going to disagree with your second point. In the UK at least, there's a lot of friendly "no, after you" type activity. If the road narrows due to an overhead railway bridge or parked cars etc. generally speaking one or both will pull over, flash their lights to signal the other one can go first, and get a friendly wave of thanks when they pass. Letting people in at junctions isn't uncommon either, though tends to be more the exception than the rule.
There is anger too of course, but usually only aimed at people who aren't following the rules of the road, have done something stupid/dangerous, or are hesitating for far too long.
The only reason Americans started buying pick up trucks on mass is because of Tarifs put on Japanese car manufacturers in the 1970s and pick up trucks had no taxes on them suddenly became one of the cheapest and more affordable cars in the United States. Rick Wolf explained this somewhere I can’t remember where exactly.
There were also reduced fuel economy requirements for trucks and off-road vehicles, which contributed to the rise of SUVs.
Love how the bed of the truck is basically the same size (if not smaller) as well so really you can't use the excuse of needing the bigger truck for hauling stuff.
Where i live 9/10 they dont even have a hitch installed.
Come to India. Seems like your dreamland.
I‘d love to move to India again. I just don’t know how I could get a job there. I don’t have any fancy degrees.
Id love a pickup…but it would be impractical, expensive to buy and run, the back space is basically useless cause even if you do put a cover on, the locks are crap. So I won’t be getting a pick up truck. Plus, where I live, it would go missing.
Its even worse in SEA. Some countries like Nam have these small dick pick-up driving shitheads but what they don't have is America's huge roads and streets.
Alphebetizing by the "The" should be a criminal act.
Looking at you, Google Play Library.
This seemingly simple thing enrages me on a daily basis.
How difficult can it fucking be to write some damn code to omit “the” from sorting if it is the first word of a title? JFC
If “the” appears first, then “ignore” must surely be a thing, right??
Fans of The The in absolute shambles.
We should organize libraries not by name, or even the Dewey decimal system, but simply by title length. Fiction, non fiction, jounrla articles, doesn't matter. It's all just in one stupid long list, shortest title to longest title.
If I do not have or cannot easily get root access to a computer, I don't really own it.
Same for phones. But that's the norm unfortunately
A phone is a computer. A smartwatch is a computer. The computers running a car's infotainment and engine control systems are computers.
That's what I always say to my fellow hacker on hackthebox
Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.
The word Data was originally a plural word, and should be again, for all time
Data is plural of datum, which also corresponds to the English word date. When Gregorian calender was introduced in Europe, for decades dates were the only things written in Indian style numerals.
datus/data means "given", as in the metaphysical sense of the word, since the word started being used for statistics in a period where measurements were considered an objective observation of material reality, which was in fact considered "given" and not interpreted.
Seconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty.
Also a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and that’s the hill I’m dying on. Clean your stinky arse up.
I just shower because I like it. A more important factor in personal hygiene is if you wash your hands or not. I see so many people who piss and shit and then just run their hands under water quickly it’s fucking gross.
I used to think that as well. But what if it turned out that over-showering was actually the thing that makes you stinky?
well what if i only shower once a week and none of my friends complain?
You are vastly underestimating the social awkwardness that comes with telling someone they smell. Maybe you have a very different relationship than most do with their friends, but it would take quite a lot before I would bring that kind of thing up. In a professional setting, I would want to get HR involved before pointing that out to someone. I would let them figure out a polite way of asking the coworker to fix their B.O.
At the canteen table, I brought it up once during a tangentially-related conversation and they were all very surprised. Minutes later, while the others were getting the fill, one of them even privately went up to me and confirmed.
Everyone needs a bidet. Literally clean yo stinky ass up!
"Seconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty."
Monty Python is for insane British "people" who think drag is the height of comedy.
"Also a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and that’s the hill I’m dying on. Clean your stinky arse up."
Not even true. Daily showers are entirely performative. I'll have you know there are many people in your life who don't take showers every day and you don't even realize.
Isn't data uncountable in english?
A set of multiple things is a plural, friend. A set of dishes, a set of clothes, a set of knives, a set of tools. THESE tools, THESE clothes, THESE knives, THESE data.
"Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad."
How? I didn't even say it was bad just not as good as people say it is. It's ok but it can only be random for so long. Once you've seen one episode you've seen them all. Monty Python is no different to those old asdfmovie videos.
Sir, these are not Big Bang theory episodes.
You're right. There worst
12 hour time is an inferior standard, and we should be on 24 hour time so developers don't ever default to 12 hour time. Way too many instances of mission critical things getting swapped on am/pm by mistake. That is never a problem with 24h time.
I’ve been trying to move over to 24 hour time. I swear switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius was easier.
Really? That’s really surprising to me. I’m from Denmark where we use 24h time a lot so I’m used to it, but except for edge cases it’s easy to switch between them. Using Fahrenheit however is a struggle. I have to convert it every time, I have no idea about the temperature until I see it in celsius really. I guess it comes down to me having been exposed to both clock formats but only really on temperature unit.
My guess is I’d do better if every clock I owned was on 24-hour time. That’s how I did the Celsius switch, every device (except my car, which I haven’t been able to figure out how to change) I set to Celsius.
I live in a household that is divided between Celsius (me) and Fahrenheit (wife). I wish I could switch every device, but I have to pick my battles. So I expose myself as much as possible and recite the following
30 is hot 20 is nice 10 is cool 0 is ice
Fortunately my wife is both gracious and adventurous in this regard, and is cool with having most of our stuff on Celsius. I switched before we were married, and she’s slowly learning by virtue of everything being on Celsius except her phone.
Edit: Also, this may be helpful, I came up with a heuristic early on to approximate Fahrenheit values to help me learn.
I memorized every 10 (and eventually every 5) and then approached from the nearest memorized point using 2°F per 1°C instead of 1.8.
For example, if something said 22°C, I’d start at 20°C=68°F and work my way up, adding 4, to get to 72°F. Since the actual value is 71.6°F, that’s close enough.
If you forget a 10 or a 5 it’s easy to recalculate them if you know another, because it’s 9°F per 5°C. So if 20 is 68, and 30 is 86, then 25 is 77.
(Obviously you could also do the full conversion but that takes me more time.)
Ooo I like that. Thanks!
Celsius makes more sense for everything but normal to hot temps. 100 being about as hot as is tolerable. 75 being perfect 50 being tolerable cold.
How does that make sense, it's just arbitrary numbers. I can give you arbitrary numbers for celsius too: 30 being hot but tolerable, 20 being perfect, 10 being cold but tolerable.
24hr time is based. 1600 > 4PM. Always.
I used math tricks at first. But honestly, just switching even one clock like your watch or phone makes it pretty easy over time.
1pm is easy to remember as it's 13, a prime number
7x2 = 14(00)
3x5= 15(00)
4x4 =16(00)
5pm is 17, also a prime.
6x3 = 18(00)
7pm is also a prime, 19(00).
20, 21, 22, 23, and 00 also have math tricks, but you can also just remember that after 8pm, you have less than four hours till midnight :)
I find it easier to just add/subtract 12, the problem is that I sometimes accidentally add/subtract 10.
Yeah, I knew about that trick, but for me, it was easier to just break down 16 into its smaller components. Or remember that 19 was a prime, which belonged to 7. After a bit of time (heh), it all just started to meld for me. Nothing like immersion-based learning!
Stop using timezones? So every day would actually be two weekdays because at some random point in time it would switch date during the day. Let's meet next Monday wouldn't even specify a single day anymore in most countries. And there is no real benefit to stop using timezones, just downsides. Yes you'd know which time it is anywhere but you still wouldn't know of they are awake or not and have to either look it up or remember it - the same you have to do now.
No. Let's go for the craziest option. Continuous time zones! Your clock changes a bit every mile east or west you go.
ISO dates, 100%.
Time zones...I could see arguing to rework them, but abolish them? How would that even work?
Typically people propose switching everything to UTC.
The read this doesn't work is because humans are still bound by a diurnal cycle and you won't have everyone wake up at 0800, since for some people that's the time in the middle of when the sun sets and rises.
So you still need to communicate to people across space where the sun is or will be for you at a time in the future, or otherwise relate where in your wake cycle you'll be.
Tied to this is legal jurisdictions. Within a legal jurisdiction it's important for regulatory events to be synchronized. For things like bank hours, school hours, government office hours, things like "no loud noises when people tend to be sleeping", "teenagers old enough to have a job aren't allowed to work late on school nights", and what specifically constitutes "after hours or weekend labor" for the purposes of overtime and labor regulation you need your definition to be consistent across the jurisdiction. Depending on where you are in relation to Greenwich a typical workday can start at 1900 Friday night/morning, and extend until 0300 Saturday morning/afternoon. Your "weekend" would start when you woke up around 1800 Saturday evening/morning.
Right now we solve this problem by deciding on a consistent set of numbers for where the sun is across some area that inevitably lines up with legal jurisdiction. Then we use a lookup table to translate our conception of where the sun is to where it is elsewhere.
Without timezones you instead need to use the same type of lookup table to find the position of the sun at the time and place of interest, and then try to infer what the situation would be.
We have UTC now, and people inevitably already use it where it makes sense. It's just usually easier to have many clocks that follow similar rules than it is to have one clock that's interpreted many different ways.
We could use UTC.
You can use UTC, right now. Nothing's stopping you.
Check this out. I'm a business with at least one office in every US state. You want to know when my New York office opens so you can come by. Instead of seeing "Offices are open 9 AM to 5 PM" You now need to check every office... by state.. by city? Time zones would be helpful even if we all used GMT, so that you could easily determine which time zone a business is in to set a reasonable time to be open.
DST can fuck off though.
That's a pretty specific use though. A case like this only makes sense because we all somehow decided 9AM - 5PM is a standard business time, when society could benefit from having different business/services open at different times.
That was an example of a situation where time zones make sense. Any time it is important where the sun is in the sky, the time that it occurs will differ depending on where you are in the world. When is lunch break? When do backups run? When can you see the eclipse? If we weren't in an interconnected world, it wouldn't matter much but we need some convention to communicate information that is dependent on where the sun is, as that very often dictates human activity.
It seems like a universal time makes sense but I can't think of a way to get around the fact that activity will vary according to timezones anyway.
What about RFC 3339? It's technically different.
Good point! We should only use date formats that are allowed by both standards! https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
The way they are and divide them in half so that the western side of the current time zone gets the same-ish amount of light as the eastern side of the time zone
By springing ahead permanently, right? Right‽
As a British person I agree with your second point. Everyone should use Greenwich Mean Time which is obviously the correct time. Even if it means that noon is in the middle of the night for some people.
I want the most anti-British option. I know! We're going to do away with clocks entirely. We wake up when we wake up. We work when we work. We forget counting the days. Forget the calendar entirely. Live forever in an eternal now.
Dampening is making things wet. Damping is reducing oscillations in something.
Every time I hear or read people using them interchangeably is infuriating.
Thanks for this actually, I didn't know
Dampening is making things -wet- ...
moist, or slightly wet.
The meaning of this word stops short of "drenching/dousing something".
One might even say that dampening is making things damp!
Similarly, something being deprecated & something being depreciated.
In our nightmare world where fame is money, being deprecated IS being depreciated!
Finally someone who understands. I see this mistake everywhere made even by supposedly intelligent people.
Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. People can be ignorant about a topic and still be intelligent.
I am happy for not having seen this mistake.
Owning a pug is animal cruelty
EDIT: adding bulldogs and other snub-nosed pets that wouldn’t exist without selective breeding by humans.
Even if it's a rescue? Maybe breeding pugs (without trying to reverse the damage done to them) is pretty shitty, but I could see rescuing one is fine. I mean, what's the other option, killing them all?
Fair, but it still fuels the market. Somebody rescues one. Somebody else sees it and wants one but can’t find a rescue or doesn’t want a rescue, and goes to a breeder.
Simple. They should only be legal to own if they're fixed.
That’s a good compromise, but the dogs all have to undergo surgery. The breed needs to go somehow.
I'm pretty sure that if someone wanted a pug, seeing one person who did a rescue wouldn't be the tipping point.
And there are people who are trying, through breeding, to reverse the damage done to these poor animals.
So yeah, I think there are ethical ways to own a pug.
Dog breeds go through trends just like anybody else. Your fav valuable has a pug? You might want a pug. Maybe not you, but that’s how trends work. The aristocracy tells you what to like. That’s the whole reason they exist in the first place.
And there's a trend to un fuck up pugs through breeding now, but you think that's unethical as well because that's still owning a pug.
I know about retro pugs. I’m only against owning snub-nosed pugs.
There needs to be a mandatory parenting training course if you're expecting a child.
Religion needs to be taken out of the state level completely
I like this in theory. But I know in practice some idiots will always manage to get their hands on the curriculum.
Me too but it'd turn into eugenics so quickly.
I was fucking baffled walking out of the hospital with my baby. No training, no proof of education, no tests. Walking out with the nurse in tow asking them "yeah are you sure i don't need to like sign something?
In the UK we almost have this in something called NCT (National Childbirth Tr. .. ust).
It's not compulsory and most only do it for their first but you're kinda so shit scared that most tend to do it.
The knowledge is good but getting a close network of 5 other couples having a baby within a month of each other is invaluable...for the mums, the dad's are shit at keeping in touch typically lol
I sometimes tell my kids about things I was taught, and survival habits I picked up in the "dad qualification program". I based the idea of the program on a brief description of air force officer survival training in the book The Hatchet, and a generous dose of imagination. The kids have never questioned it.
I agree with sentiment, but as stated that's just eugenics with extra steps. By controlling the cost, availability and/or accessibility of the course, you control who can have children. Also how are you going to enforce this policy, forced abortions?
Better imo to make childrearing a part of the school curriculum with a highly encouraged refresher course later on. That achieves the same end without risking peoples liberties.
Apple products aren't any better than anything else, it's just marketing and branding. They're like the Starbucks of computers.
With the exception of intel macs, they are the Lexus of computers because they are Overbuilt and long after they're discontinued you pop Linux or even Windows on them and they keep on ticking and due to the metal body they survive children better 😅. Not sure about newer apple silicon though.
Apple Silicon is impressive as hell. The power consumption per performance is remarkable. A buddy of mine said on his M2 MacBook Pro, Factorio ran better even through emulation than it had on his other laptop. And much better once recompiled for the ARM architecture.
(That said, I’m sticking with the x86_64 I know and love to hate, since while I like other Apple products I’ve never gotten the hang of OSX.)
I used to do data recovery and working on macbooks was a dream compared to every other plastic-and-clips cheapo laptop.
The soldered on memory is stupid but overall the build quality on them is very apparent and only comparable to very high end PC-laptops.
Linux on ARM is getting better all the time!
I would argue they are worse! I had iPhones and a MacBook Pro for years. Switched to Android, Windows, and Linux. Apple is great for people who want a device that just works out of the box, but those devices can't be tweaked to better fit your personal needs. Many features that have been present on personal devices for decades are blocked on Apple devices. They even make up terms like "side loading" so it sounds like you are doing something immoral. Downloading an application from whatever source of your choosing should be #1 feature of any device. As far as I know, you can only download apps from Apple's own store now. All iPhone browsers are reskinned Safari. Apple refuses to adopt existing standards so that users feel inclusive when they see blue texts over green. The list feels endless...
heh it truly depends on a lot of factors. I don't want to "cheap out" on a high-end windows laptop, their thermals are shit, the battery life is non-existent, the keyboard is trash, and the computer frame are rarely decent.
A macbook is expensive, yes, but I've never experienced having to doubt the hardware, or get weird issues with it. It's a peace of mind I'm willing to pay a premium for. I even have a mac mini as a server for the extremely low power consumption & extremely good CPU performance (seriously, this thing competes with i9s for a fraction of the power (I'm exclusively interested in single thread applications))
As for iphones & apple watches, I like to tinker with my stuff way too much for them to make sense to me (which my macbook allows me to do as much as I want)
I'm exclusively talking about my experience with apple silicon, idk how it was before the M1 chips came out.
I switched to iPhones after my partner got one over a decade ago… I’ve only had three. They’ve lasted over five years. I just got my third.
I’m only now contemplating replacing my first gen Apple Watch cuz it dies before the day is done.
I can’t comment on computers but for phone and watch, I’ve had stellar experiences.
I recently switched to Android. IPhones work great, the hardware is all there, the software is probably more polished, etc... but on Android you can get the phone to do basically anything with a bit of effort. There's an app that lets you easily install most linux packages, and one that can emulate most Windows apps and games. There's a ton of open source software, and you can actually find apps that don't shove in-app purchases in your face (because devs don't have to pay $100 a year just to stay on the store)
I got PrusaSlicer to work on my phone, through the Windows emulator, and sliced one relatively complex 3D model with it. For some reason it crashed every time I tried to start it after that, but it's still pretty neat that it worked at all. PrusaSlicer has a linux build for ARM so whenever I find the time to set up one of those linux desktops on my phone I'll probably try that.
Well I know iphones are great quality devices & have long lasting support, but if I can't tinker with it then to me it's hardly better than a gilded brick
By "tinker with it" I mean installing apps like youtube revanced, playing morrowind, having access to a terminal etc
That’s fair! I have ZERO interest in tinkering on my phone. I have like eight computers to worry about. I just want my phone to browse the internet, take the best pictures possible, and last forever on battery. When I have to go into the office, I can watch videos all day at full brightness and go home to 60% battery or more. It’s perfect.
Phones have become boring and are all the same. I want options like we had with Nokia back in the day. So a music phone, gaming phone, business phone etc. but with a modern OS. All we have now are camera phones. Google announcing that they've added a second possible function to The Button in settings just doesn't excite me. Smartphones have become shit and it's not because we've perfected them or some shit, it's because chasing lines on marketing graphs and playing follow the leader has resulted in no choice anymore and everything being lowest common denominator, mass produced slop.
Why are all "modern" phones so full of cameras? One on the fucking screen & at least 2 on the back. I just want a phone with no cameras. Even 1 might be O.K., so long as it's on the phone's backside.
Because different lenses are good at different things. On a three-lens setup, one is usually a telephoto lens for distance, another is a standard wide-angle lens for normal photography, and the third is an ultrawide angle for capturing more of a scene and for macro ultra-close-up photography.
Also you can film in 3D using two of the three.
Multiple lenses are a big part of why phone images are as high quality as they are these days.
And the one on the front is obvious, it enables things like video chat, selfies, and sometimes facial recognition (though that can also work by infrared and lidar).
But many people don't use any of those features. I get that many do, but every single smartphone with features I require has them.
all that effort and all I care about is scanning QR codes :(
They actually track this and most people 51%+ use their phones for video calling, so you're in the minority
Huh, really? Do you remember where you read this?
Planet earth?
100% with you on this. All I need is a QR code scanner. I don't care about the pixel count, I want everything in my phone to be in performance / screen quality
Actually even for qr codes the pixel count (or rather camera quality) makes a huge difference. Got a new phone last year with much better camera then previous. Suddenly during presentations i didn't need to awkwardly semi stand up and try to get closer. Just recognized the code immediately
I think it has more to do with compute speed. I have a trash camera but high-end CPU on my device, QR codes are instantaneous
Yep, this is why my next phone will be a Fairphone with their OS, or a Unihertz or something. I miss the old days where a different brand of phone meant a totally different OS, and there were loads of brands.
Maybe my next phone (I hope)
You should use your blinker when turning into a parking space
And you should back in.
I never understood the benefit of this. You need to go backwards at some point regardless.
Simple: Visibility and speed. You look at a parking spot, and if it's empty, it's definitely empty. It's virtually guaranteed to stay that way as you back in, so you don't need to monitor what's in it. No cars, cyclists, pedestrians, emergency vehicles, et cetera, are going to enter the parking stall as you back in. That's not true of a street or lane when you back out into it. It's often difficult to even see traffic coming, as backup cameras don't have the wide-angle coverage, and there's always the possibility that you didn't see somebody.
As a result of both of those factors, with practice, backing in can be done in seconds, and pulling out is a breeze. Pulling in forward is a breeze, but for most people, backing out is a slower, more nerve-wracking maneuver. (At least that's my assumption from watching how long it takes.) On the other hand, the people who just YOLO it back out into traffic are psychopaths.
That makes a lot of sense actually.
What about the grocery store? How do you load your groceries into the trunk when you're backed in? How do you even get the cart back there? All logic breaks down at the grocery store.
Want to really make a power move in life? Go through your grocery store clockwise, like a psychopath. Just to show you won't let the system control you!
One of life's profound truths!
You.... don't? It is literally mandatory to do that in Germany, so I'm a little confused about this one.
Summer is a crappy season, fall is superior.
People on Lemmy aren't "normal" people and shouldn't use their personal views as the norm.
I disagree vehemently with one of these and I thought it might make a fun little mystery, but on second thought I'll just state up front it's the Monty Python one.
-Businesses should be run by people who are passionate about the giving a great product and/or service and not some shitty MBA who only except 10x return on his investment.
I forgot to mention. If you use country balls to explain something I'm not taking you seriously.
I didn't think your original points seemed controversial enough to even be hills, but this ONE! This right here... I don't even have a clue what it is.
AKA Polandball
I'm picturing testicles wearing a cowboy hat.
You can about geopolitics in a simplified and comedic way but there's a limit. If I used sock puppets to explain the election to you wouldn't you would think that I thought you were the stupidest person ever?
It's like, I'm an adult I can understand the concept of countries not liking each other without the need of simplistic cartoons. This is how you would explain geopolitics to a five-year-old.
I'm American. Speaking about geopolitics at a five-year-old's level is often far too advanced for many people. Sock puppets might help actually.
that's why I use my city balls to explain stuff
Not only is Gacha a bad game monetization from a consumers perspective, the moment it's implemented the game is shit, and you should be ashamed to play it.
I dont care about Genshin's cultural impact, Fortnite's mechanical depth or how hot the latest team fortress character is, you should always have the thought of supporting the indefensible in the back of your head while playing them and consider it a guilty pleasure. Meaning: keep your damn pulls to yourself!
And since I used to say it too: "You can absolutely play without paying money" isn't an argument when you need to pay with time instead, doing dailies is a chore, not leisure.
Genshin's cultural impact? I guess I am out of touch, I have no idea what it is and just now had to look up gacha lol
Genshin Impact is literally spawning so many "open world anime gacha games" trend from so many companies across the world due to its success. It's one of the top grossing games on mobile games (note: huge chunk of top grossing games (PC and mobile) these days never gets release or popular in the West)
Some anime-style game franchise that always a single player for more than a decade suddenly releasing "open world anime gacha games" that dead in less than 2 years.
Not shower every day depends very much on the situation.
In summer there are certain coworkers who most fuckingly definitely should shower every day unless I'm allowed more wfh.
This took me twice as long to finish because every other point I ended up with something political. So this is pretty much the least triggering or offensive I can make my list. Good grief.
I'm gonna have to ask what you define as good because I don't think having emotions is bad, even if you're a baby
That's a good point. Let me rephrase then: I believe all humans are selfish by nature and so inherently are more easily prone to acting out even if it affects others negatively (intentionally). As in, there's probably a reason why the baby is crying sometimes or there's a reason the baby gets angry. Humans have to be taught to tame their demons because without empathy, everything would be an eye for an eye. By default, I don't think humans have it in them to see right from wrong unless they're taught either directly or indirectly. Something something nature and nurture something something. My 2 cents.
I'd say that mortality for humans is a social trait, because it's something that benefits a small tribe social species. Stealing is "wrong" because it's bad for small group survival, while "sharing" is good because it helps it. My that measure, humans are also inherently good because they engage in pro social behavior on an instinctual level.
The issue I think comes up with other survival traits that end in antisocial behavior. Tribalism is good for survival against other competing small social groups, but terrible when you're trying to expand social cohesion.
Do you also think animals are inherently evil because they act in accordance with their own self oriented survival?
To your last point: By that logic you could argue that no one should be able to get compensated for their skills in an open marketplace. The actors and athletes get paid a lot because someone is willing to pay that money, and they are willing because only a miniscule part of humankind has exceptional skills/talent. Most people are average in every way.
Putting resources into things simply because someone is willing to pay money for it is a huge problem in our world. Once we put a dent in poverty and other existential crises, then let's consider paying people millions and billions for simply entertaining people with skills and talent. Entertainment, arts and culture are certainly important, but their industrialization and overemphasis under capitalism comes at a very real cost, both to their art and entertainment itself, and to the rest of society.
Here's a related hill: I am for the abolition of the professional sports industry. Focus on local competitions, actual participation and sports that encourage socially-useful skills, like the Firemen's Olympics and its modern siblings.
I see. So you are saying that every CEO is paid what they are worth?
By definition yes. Their worth is determined by negotiation between the company and the employee.
And there are no other external factors that could possibly influence their compensation besides their objective "worth" to the hiring organization?
Edit: To clarify, might personal bias from the employer lead to a higher compensation? If two CEOs are interviewed and one went to the same college as several members of the board, or if several members of the board know one personally, but the known CEO isn't as accomplished... is it possible that the CEO benefitting from bias is going be hired? Will the benefitting CEO receive a lower compensation, higher compensation, or the same compensation?
Is it possible for a CEO to lie about their ability and get hired under false pretenses? Is it possible for a CEO to be hired for political or "public image" reasons rather than talent/productivity reasons? Are these reflected in their compensation?
That doesn't seem to track, to me. Maybe it would be better if the huge amounts of money generated by films were shared more equitably among the cast and crew?
This assumes that these people are indeed genuinely exceptional, in some sort of superhuman way. Do you think the selection process for actors and athletes is both extensive and foolproof enough that you can guarantee that all and only the best and most talented people in the world get recognition? I know for sure that, for example, there are plenty of amazing musicians out there that haven't even crossed the radar of any music agencies. Surely the same is true of actors and athletes. No, the majority of actors working today are the result of nepotism and a narrow focus on what counts as talent - are the camera workers not talented? The people making the sets? The costume designers? Etc etc.
Folds are awesome! I hope it gets even better eventually, but it's very fine as it is now. Sent from my Galaxy Z Fold 6.
I respect your opinion even if its different than mine.
important cat in the hat watching (rest in peace, Scoot)
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All boobs are beautiful.
You are the perfect example of why I love the block feature. That's my hill.
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I said what I said.
I’m confused. Are you so vehemently opposed to the notion that all boobs are beautiful regardless of size that it merits a block?
The thread asked what hills people will die on. I've been yelled at about my boobs since primary school and I'm sick of hearing opinions about them. The obsession is pathetic and the need to inject it into everything irritates me.
I love your boobs too, bro!
The joke being that boobs are called hills
That is just needlessly mean. Done that once to some rando, even worse. I dumped a rant on them. They deleted the post and their account. I felt bad. Don't be like me.
The race and gender of an actor don't matter. Ask Shakespeare
Bart Simpson has been played by a woman his entire existence
It's a common practice, a problem with authentic child actors is they generally change once the original actor hits puberty, so higher pitched adult voices are common.
One of the behind-the-scenes videos on a Ed Edd n Eddy disc had some funny stories of the voice actors meeting fans (e.g. Ed's VA spotting some kid watching the show on a TV while on vacation in Jamaica and throwing in a "huh huah, thut guy is funneh..") and Kevin's VA had to keep doing their voice since kids didn't believe her whenever she mentioned it.
RIP Apu apparently
Python sucks.
Not only is it extremely inefficient, it is also a pain in the ass to work with if you have to use APIs that heavily rely on dynamic type wrapping and don't provide stubs. Static analysis via Pylance is not possible then and you're basically poking around in the dark, increasing the difficulty enourmously to get to know such an API. Even worse if there isn't even a halfway decent documentation.
-for humanity to survive, it must eliminate the rich
-pineapple can go on pizza. You can put whatever you want on pizza. You don't have to like it for it to be a valid topping. Some people just hate things because they heard about it online.
-new York pizza is not the best pizza in the universe.
That's a hill you will die on from old age. I have never once heard someone say pineapple is not a valid topping in a way I thought was meant to be taken literally and not as a hyperbolic way of saying "I don't like it".
Some nice cold grape jelly goes very well on a hot slice of pepperoni. The sweetness and greasyness just go so well together.
For me that sounds exactly as appealing as using pineapple.
I'd try the egg pizza. Olives with the pits is a choking hazard, because people won't necessarily be expecting it.
There are a couple places here with "breakfast" pizzas that have cheese sauce (or sausage gravy), scrambled eggs, and bacon.
I'm sure it's an abomination to hardcore pizza aficionados but holy shit it's a tasty slice.
Pineapple is fine on pizza in small amounts. Sliced tomatoes don't belong on pizza because they are mostly water and make the pizza soggy.
My three operating system hills:
I declare war on this hill!
I might give you Windows 7 on functionality, it has been forever since I used either. But definitely not design. 2000 has a UI that is consistent throughout, clear, and professional. It's a masterclass in UI usability engineering. Plus it's also heavily customizable if you want to do so. A lot of that was lost with Vista and some with XP.
AppImages are precompiled archives with extra steps. Meh. No, some of my problems with Flatpak are:
Some of that (and why it's necessary in the first place) is due to Linux's incredible fragmentation and lack of an extensive backwards-compatible system API (such as macOS's Cocoa), which causes a lot of other problems everywhere – but a lot of it is also self-inflicted. In fact, the massive focus on Flatpak and looking like that is the direction the Linux desktop is going was partly what drove me to try out a Mac.
Peak MacOS was 10.4. Before they started compromising on desktop UX to make it more familiar to mobile users. You could put a folder in the dock, right click it and navigate the file hierarchy right there in the context menus. Same for dragging files into a subfolder there.
I'm partially very sad but also kinda glad that I never got to use 10.4 or other previous versions (first one I used was Ventura). The more I hear about it, the more it sounds like I would have absolutely loved it and would be incredibly mad right now at the changes they made since.
Yeah, I use Linux now.
I like AppImages, because I only have to put as much effort into it as the receiver needs me to.
People without empathy shouldn't have the right to lead people (politics, work, ...).
There should be an upper limit to personal wealth.
Russia should be denuclearised and split up.
American cheese is cheese as much as sausage is meat.
Sausage is meat, just ground up. People use the term "american cheese" to refer to a variety of products, ranging from almost all real cheese with a small percentage of emulsifier added, to shit like Kraft singles which is mostly milk protein concentrate and emulsifier with a small percentage of real cheese added (allegedly). The latter is usually labelled "pasteurized process cheese food/product" or something similar, US law forbids actually calling it cheese if the cheese content is less than 95% iirc
Misuse of their there and they're.
You/your/you're wrong. Other mistakes take precedence.
It's too much to remember
How so? They are 3 different words with 3 different meanings.
“their” is about possession “there” is a place “they’re” is “they are”
Han Solo shot first. Screw any of the remakes or special editions he was a pirate and was just protecting himself from an even more dangerous pirate.
VI > Emacs
Jinx > VI
Literally tried looking for a jinx text editor for a minute
*they're
I'll die on this every day and twice in Friday
Along the same lines....
"I could care less"
It doesn't even make sense, just stop it America.
I like to say "I couldn't not care less" just to annoy people. But I've said it too often and now I'm doing it involuntarily.
They're their.
My country has 300 ethnics groups, so they tend to match character ethnic to its voice actor. But if it's not, no one gets angry. People is simply happy when various culture is celerated.
Though, when it comes to international movie/series/games, it truly does not matter as there's no way to 100% match voice actor race or ethnic groups. Sometimes, people that outside the groups actually do a better match for a specific character.
Paid refers to money. Payed is a nautical term.
Thongs aren't uncomfortable
I'm a fat, unsexy dude, I bought a goofy leopard-print thong to get a laugh out of my
lifewife onceIt's not my favorite pair of undies by a longshot, I still prefer my usual boxer-briefs, but it's certainly not uncomfortable. Even wore it to my city's naked bike ride to bike around in.
Yeah sure dude, you totally did it cuz it was funny.
Same here. There not my favourite but there not as bad as people make them out to be. I mostly wear them as men like them. I did a music video a few years back as a backup dancer and I woar one underneath some sweatpants. Maybe it's because I have histrionic personality disorder but I like to look sexy. Not like a hooker or a stripper but more in a seductive way like a belly dancer or a show girl.
Small typo in my comment, was supposed to say get a laugh out of my wife
It served its intended purpose. It was for Valentines or our anniversary or something, so I was waiting in the bed for her to come home in my leopard thong, rose petals scattered around, and some funky 70s porno music playing, and she cracked the fuck up.
That's oddly sweet.
I love this! That's kinda how it started for me and now I've got a whole collection of them. Fun patterns and colors. They always get the laugh.
Personally I've gone in on Hawaiian shirts, bit less good for a laugh, but still attention grabbing and easier to show off in public. No one wants to see my fat hairy ass sporting a whale tail.
¿Por qué no los dos?
Just the same, the confidence to wear it in public is what really matters whether you still do or not. When you don't give a shit, nothing can touch you. Total liberation. Except if there's kids around. That just feels creepy lol.
The feet ones or the butt ones?
Butt ones as this isn't Australia, lol. It wasn't until I was older myself I realized that thong had a different meaning around the world. I remember as a kid taking trips to Australia people used to always call things "thongs" and thought anything of it. As a New Zealander they'll always be Jandals to me.
As long as the pouch on the front isn't too constricting for my male bits and there isn't too much material and stitching in the seam underneath, I agree. Just like anything, gotta find the right fit.
Being vegan is a moral base line.
Don't ask for more when you already have enough.
People are sheep and they will never stop paying for streaming services.
Onlyfans destroyed porn industry and reddit porn side.\
Oh boy I originally read this as that we needed to pick one of your listed hills and get behind it, and I liked the concept
I was 100% in agreement with all of them until the last one.
Lol
spelling "catsup" as "ketchup" is as juvenile as spelling "night light" as "nite lite"
Ohio isn't part of the Midwest
all of Rory's boyfriends in The Gilmore Girls were terrible, but Logan is the worst
using a slur "because it's not a bad word in my culture" still isn't okay
Question about the first one. Do you consider English a living language that evolves over time?
To that point, do you ever phonetically say boatswain instead of bosun? Which way do you spell it? How do you (personally) pronounce Worcestershire sauce? How do you feel about onomatopoeias in general?
I would argue that words evolve with vernacular and sometimes the spellings become antiquated. In the case of Worcestershire sauce, pronunciation can vary greatly from spelling. If ketchup bothers you, are onomatopoeias even words to you?
Eventually, insisting on the old spelling becomes more ridiculous than going with the newer. Since you spell it catsup, can you bring yourself to use a squeeze bottle for it or are you still tapping that 57 hoping to get it to ooze?
Seriously though, since this is the hill you'll die on, convince me otherwise about vernacular and spelling.
Yes
I never have occasion to say either.
Wursht-uh-shur
Love 'em. My current favorite is "shakshuka".
yeah, by definition
Given the choice between looking ridiculous to others and feeling ridiculous to myself, I will always choose the former.
They're not mutually exclusive. I also use packets and those giant pump containers.
I'm not interested in convincing you away from a position with which I agree almost completely. Words change, language evolves, slang becomes informal speech becomes recognized usage. Some changes are improvements, some are not, but neither you or I have much hope of shifting the tide either way. While my time lasts, though, I'll keep spelling the vinegary condiment as "catsup" and the pastry as "doughnut" and the cultured dairy as "yoghurt".
For the first one... Not sure I get it. It was originally ketchup, and has been predominantly spelled that way for hundreds of years. It was spelled that way before ketchup even had tomato in it.
It's not new vs. old. Like many loanwords (hummus, shwarma) there was never one standard English spelling, but multiple phonetic transliterations.
It's just that one looks like an adult wrote it and one looks like a child did. It happens that Heinz, when their "57" brand became popular, used the latter spelling, and that spelling became popular along with it. Other brands used different spelling.
To each their own I suppose. "Catsup" has always just seemed like a weird affectation to me.
I didn't even know that "catsup" was an option until now. Where I'm from, we call it "tomato sauce" and "ketchup" is the American word as far as I've ever known.
What I consider ketchup/catsup includes much more sugar and vinegar than what I consider tomato sauce. Is that not the case where you are from or is there a different word used?
I think that is kinda true. Like, American brands that sell here are branded as "Heinz Ketchup" for example. And it's definitely more processed or whatever. But I feel like most people would still say "pass the tomato sauce", or if they say ketchup it's in a joking way. I couldn't speak for my whole country though.
I suppose the context of condiment vs. ingredient is enough. I don't think many recipes use ketchup/catsup and most meals don't leave tomato sauce out to be used as a condiment.
I feel like maybe some more context I could add is that we have "tomato sauce" that's pretty similar to ketchup. Comes in a bottle to pour from and is one of the most regularly used sauces. Still processed I guess but thicker and better tasting and definitely not as sweet as the American stuff. As opposed to tomato paste or tinned tomato or whatever.
I've never once heard anyone call it tomato sauce in my neck of the woods in america. It's always been ketchup.
I live in Pittsburgh however, Heinz is headquartered here and the factory is still operational downtown. Hell, the Steelers football field was called Heinz Field and had giant ketchup bottles by the scoreboards up until a couple years ago.
Must be a regional thing.
For the “Midwest”, in my opinion:
see, i've always felt that kansas is just about the most midwest there is
That's not an opinion, you're just wrong on the facts. And that's okay! The first step of learning is discovering your own ignorance.
It's a knight light. It keeps the monsters away.
The red nub on IBM/Lenovo laptops is far superior to a touchpad
People should be educated on FOSS software & Fediverse and try to use it whenever possible.
My favourite hill is Mount Robson so I guess that one
I could easily die on Mt Washington, NH.
Both employer related:
The hill upto the finishline on my local park run this morning was way harder than usual, so (almost) that one today!
The big hill in my neighborhood park.
Capital Hill
I don't really know of any other hills or why I would be near them so if I die on a hill it will probably be one of these.
Don't say "acronym" when you mean "abbreviation"!
"Acronym" specifically refers to an initialism that forms a new word. For example,
It's acro- (height) -nym (word) - a word that exists on top of / above other words.
In contrast "NIH" is not an acronym because it isn't pronounced or read as a word. It's appropriate to say, "'NIH' is an abbreviation" or "'NIH' is an initialism". But saying "'NIH' is an acronym" is wrong!
Daylight savings time needs to be gotten rid of.
The imperial measurement standard needs to be gotten rid of.
The UN security council veto should be able to be overridden by the general assembly.
Collective responsibility for a democracy's crimes should be a thing.
The country of Israel should be moved to an open area of land with no people on it. Siberia, Alaska, Greenland, or the jungles of South America.
There should be a corporate death penalty when they commit crimes.
All kids should have food.
All humans should have access to very basic water and food. Like beans and rice for everyone, no exceptions.
Basic sanitation is a human right.
Religion should not be respected any more than any other bag of philosophical ideas. Stupid parts of religions should be called out and discussed, not hallowed and treated with respect even if its utter nonsense.
It is "Math" and not "Maths"
Soft serve is not ice cream
Using "themselves" for a non-binary person or unspecified gender is grammatically incorrect.
It's "themself." (Unless they're plural.)
Also, "Latinx" is performative white ally cringe. It's not pronounceable in Spanish. Use "Latine." -e is the obvious gender neutral ending.
My hill: Laws that give “unnecessary” rights to people are still good overall and shouldn't ever, EVER, be reversed. Laws that give “unnecessary” rights keep society stable and have come from past times soaked in blood. If you reverse 60-100 years of these gains, then society will collapse.
Can you give examples of unnecessary rights?
Sure. Some people think it’s not necessary to have local anti-discrimination laws against minority groups here. Some people think why should LGBTQ get married in a fucking church, can’t they just sign a paper saying legally they are as good as married without sullying the institution?
Ah ok, well those laws are there because of those people. Otherwise it would just be common sense. So yes, those should never be reversed.
This is a one-way ticket to everyone being the dominant race behind the scenes because studios won't hire other races.
I've said it somewhere earlier today, I'll say it again here. I think Windows XP was bad, and that Vista was good.
But Windows in general is still absolute rubbish anyway.
I would be willing to die on Kum just to sound funny.
Ok, I don't like making generalizations, but let's play the game:
Dynamically typed programming languages are for babies.
Having depression is not being sad. Having anxiety is not being nervous. Mental health exists and it's very complex.
We should start trating unhealthy use of social media as an actual addiction, and the platforms should be held accountable for the damage they have and still are causing.
Sometimes older people have actual knowledge and wisdom that is only gained by experiencing life, and younger people shuld learn to shut the fuck up some times and stop pretending they were born knowing everything.
Data is pronounced data and not data.
I have only a single exception. In Lower Decks, there's a crossover episode with Strange New Worlds where you see two of the animated characters in the live action show because their voice actors look like their characters. The other two main characters don't. One would need to be painted green and could probably pass but the other character, Rutherford, is a black guy voiced by an Asian Pacific guy, and ...yeah he could probably pass but that's...well it'd be a much easier call if the character and the VA's "race" matched.
(In the star trek universe this wouldn't matter at all, I'm only pointing out the IRL conflict. In fact, I believe they went with only two crossover characters for budget reasons)
P=NP
the good ones
We should be boycotting all art and entertainment from Big Media in its entirety, but nobody is willing to do so
Obviously written by NixOS sectarian.
Pajamas shouldn't leave the house.
Unique names and unique spellings of names are terrible. There should be a government approved list of names to choose from.
Religion is the worst thing humanity has made up.
Waterworld is a fantastic movie.
Linux > Windows.
Android is the worst anti-consumer shit I've ever seen in software and should be illegal
Butts >>>>>>> Boobs
Not doing something considered for women (like cooking, cleaning, sewing, etc) doesn't make you more of a man, it makes you more useless.
"Separating the art from the author" is mostly an excuse to not feel discomfort or guilt about enjoying a work.
Nostalgia is only bad if it leads you to unbridled consumerism. Better to use nostalgia to create new things.
Sonic 3 & Knuckles >>>>>>>>> Sonic Mania
. No matter how intelligent a person is, they can still make the simplest mistakes for their entire lives, because they stick by of what they've learned and die on that hill.
. Black holes will be proven to not exist. And in the list of cosmological errors, that's the most obvious one. [edit] What people are observing, at least for the "stellar sized black holes", are UV/X-ray/Gamma ray stars, much like there are red stars and blue stars. [/edit]
. For what it implies, Star Trek is far more evil than Star Wars despite all the anti-war rhetoric and perpetual war of the latter, as the former implies "Marx was wrong, Fourier was right. We CAN have a socialist utopia quietly evolved from an empire that began as a group of slave owners on stolen land with the flag of an oligarchic spice and slave trade corporation, who decided that a small sales tax, where most countries have VAT, on a single good, one that turns hot water into a tasty drink, was theft and so they decided that "this means war" and called for independence. Then a few decades later they created a manifesto saying that half the continent and more is simply theirs because they're so exceptional. The empire with the two-party system to ensure the purest form of kleptocracy, an ingenious way to silence dissent and perpetual struggle, moreso than any dictatorship empire has tried in the past.
The continuation of THIS empire, the empire of deception, is the one taking over the galaxy, destined to seize the entire universe because they're so enlightened as said by one of the gods in the Star Trek universe." And no, STD and Picard doesn't do it any justice. Star Trek doesn't tell why the Federation is or isn't progressive. At least Star Wars explained how the Republic collapsed as a queen appointed a harebrained mudskipper to be her representitive in case she was absent, who then got manipulated into giving a tyrant unchecked power.
I think you're missing some key parts of the Star Trek lore. America didn't peacefully evolve into the Federation. Earth wasn't able to get past it's self destructive tendencies until after World War III, a conflict so devastating that 30% of the Earth's population was killed. My knowledge is more fuzzy on this, but I don't think the American empire survived WWIII as an entity.
Also we have images of black holes.
A romanticized repeat of world war II isn't remotely true of the current trajectory the US is heading into and that's not a fluke, unlike how the cold war ended through no solution to a petrodollar scheme until around 1996 when natural gas could mitigate the issue of fossil fuel flight in oil dependent nations.
The US empire surely survived in Star Trek as "the easteners" were defeated, Cochrane became a hero, the names of the ships are all NASA names. Just take one look of the opening theme of Enterprise. It's 100% US-oriented.
Images of "black holes" are artist conceptions, AI generated (the first "real" picture is this) from data to suit preconceived notions of what the object should look like or this
The last one is an actual picture of a so-called black hole in X-ray light. That's not a hole with an accretion disc. That's a star that shines in X-ray light.
World War III isn't a romanticized repeat of World War II in Star Trek, though. It is an extremely destructive war that just about destroys most major national governments. There isn't a winner with a peace treaty; all sides collapse.
There are many reasons why black holes exist and we've even imaged one via radio telescopes.
AI generated slop from scrubbed data are not images. One real image shows what clearly is a star.
You are wrong
I mean realistically it would have happened without jar jar anyhow. Palpatine wasn't gonna give up because he lost an election by a single vote.
True. But it tells of a power structure based on laws that is rotten, as the laws preventing the power structure turning into one of absolutism could easily be dismantled by a lesser appointed official and a secret army. If Jar Jar could get the job, imagine how many other idiots would have been representatives in the Galactic Senate, that were appointed by people from the galactic senate themselves. It's a classic case of nepotism.
Star Trek on the other hand thought that utopian socialism was almost upon us, with a world war repeat in between, as social democracy was implemented in the US out of fear of a socialist uprising.
black holes don't exist?
Yeah that one needs some explanation.
Cygnus X-1 is a star, not a black hole.
Furthermore, space cannot bend; time cannot bend; spacetime is an irrational concept and even if the concept was rational it still cannot bend, because concepts do not have the properties of objects and therefore some verbs cannot be applied to them literally or you'd be making reification fallacies.
Just to be clear, you're not just saying black holes don't exist, but you're rejecting Relativity - the bedrock of modern physics - in its entirety?
From a recent argument on here.
If you back-in to park in a typical parking lot, instead of just pulling in, I fucking hate you. I don't give a shit what your dumbass excuses are. It's NEVER faster or safer. There's no epidemic of backing over people. You could back in over someone same as backing out over someone. But that basically never happens anyways. But there's certainly shitloads of morons who clearly can't handle their vehicles or geometry and inconvenience the hell out of others as we sit and wait forever for your poor attempts to back-in and then straighten out two more times.
For everyone's insistence on doing this, they sure as hell fucking suck at it.
Now go buy a smaller car since you can't handle yours, learn to pull in and back out since it's simpler, and stop justifying the idiocy.
I'm not downvoting you, because this is the type of comment the thread is asking for. But I really need to question this one. To me, it's obviously geometrically easier to back into tight parking lots. I'm not sure if you're in the US, but here in Norway, parking lots are generally a lot tighter than american parking lots. When you have only about a meter of total clearance and a narrow road along it, there is no way in hell to pull in front first.
On the east coast of the US, most parking lots are wide enough for 2.5-3 cars. Much wider than a single perpendicular parking space. Backing out into that wide driving path is so much simpler than backing into a single car-width.
Regardless, I simply am going off my experience having to sit and watch and wait as people constantly take far longer to back-in than when I have to wait for those backing out.
When the lots are wide or several spots are free, I agree, I might pull in front first. But tight parking lots need that extra precission you get by backing into a lot. I have far more often been stuck for a while behind someone trying to pull in front first into a tight spot when backing in would have been quick and easy.
Backing into parking spots is some cop shit. I learned really early in to not buy, uh, things, from people that backed into spots. They're cops ready to pull out and chase you.
I totally agree, it's not changing the amount of backwards maneuvers you have to do, so what's the point? It's only slowing you and everyone else down on your way in, which is generally when people do not want to be slowed down. If the concern really is about backing into people, then maybe they can learn to be cautious, use/install rear cameras, and get a grip lmao.
Also, ditto on the smaller car thing, I wish hatchback sedans with a hitch were more common than SUVs, they're just better for everyday use/fuel mileage/maneuverability.
There are certain things people say that should be banned:
Perhaps a social critique of our post-capitalist hellscape? We no longer "live" anywhere. We just stay places.
I'll tell you what, I've not been to the car wash in a min. Last time i couldn't get my back seat window all the way up and it made the back seat damp for days. Sucked too cause that's basically where i was staying at for the time. Amazeballs.
Word replacement is fine and dandy, just don't have a physical reaction to moist. I have seen people like that and made me lose respect for them.
Can you give me an example of the first two points? I haven't encountered that colloquialism yet. I've heard "a hot minute," which is clearly a just a figure of speech and would be absurd to ridicule, but it sounds like you're talking about something else. I just don't understand the second. I'm absolutely certain there's some slang being used in circles I don't frequent, so I'm not questioning you, I'm just curious. What's the hip new slang, dog?
I admit to using amaze-balls. So does my wife, sometimes. It's an amaze-balls term.
Millennials?
The second one I get the closer I am to inner city areas. The first I have been hearing more in suburban areas and outside of the inner city regions that it originated.
Anime and weeb culture is a plague on humanity. It's objectively bad and anyone who likes it is fucked in the head. I've never met a weeb who isn't a creep.
Go to an anime con. Face your fears.