What hill will you die on?
What hill will you die on?
Fancy cupcakes are 70% icing, really not that nice and a waste of money
What hill will you die on?
Fancy cupcakes are 70% icing, really not that nice and a waste of money
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.
Testosterone is the devil.
The big Costco muffins were 1000x better than the new ones.
2FA is too inconvienient* and I think using a password manager to generate a very long password is good enough.
Software 2FA is not even that much more secure to be worth the inconvienience.
And for hardware 2FA keys, there is a higher chance for me to misplace those keys than getting hacked. (I don't have friends to put a backup key in and I don't wanna pay for a safe deposit box)
[*For me personally, your security needs might be different. I don't work with any sensitive classified info or anything like that.]
I really hate services that use 2FA but the app runs on your phone. Like the android app for ms teams still wants me to enter a 2FA code that I recieve on the same phone! This adds zero extra security, the teams app should just directly ask for my fingerprint if that is even necessary.
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.
Ketchup has no place in the world except to cover the taste of spoiled meat.
Especially in the US, a third of the bottle is sugar. Hot dogs? Put ball park mustard on it, the spices in the mustard complement the dog.
Ketchup is a fascist condiment. You start with a little, then it drowns out and dominates everything you put it on and all you’re left with is a sugary tomatoey bullshit taste in your mouth.
good hill, but the acidity of the mustard and the sweetness of tom sauce on a dog is dream like
Respect pornstars.
I pay ‘em my respect every other night, like a gentlemen.
Also those who haven't become stars.
Sex work is work.
Let's get real.
Disrespect for such proffesions spells out, what is pretty fucking obvious (Pun intended, obviously), to everyone that isn't the narcissist and his cult of Jesus Snow Crash. He isn't crippling the market and preventing the exchanges. He's stealing money from both side of those in the exchange and preaching to the cult that all things wrong and responsible with labels.
This, because the fact is that he's so ugly, incompetent, lacking self care, and predominantly of zero integral character deserving any respect. He's mad about people that are just ugly or whatever getting laid by any means when he tried and burnt half his face and body when he tried not to listen to her say no and she already saw it coming.
Not only is it acceptable to consider such to not be criminal, it's fucking respectable and when she says no and you can't deal with it, or shit, start some narcisstic denial cult...
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They only got the Predator's mandibles right in the first movie.
Depending on how the next four years go, probably Capitol.
Nice
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.
Reminds me of Stephen Fry's Language monologue.
Spellynge and gramere ben of greet importaunce.
At the leeste, assayeth to doon it wel.
Save speche with folk, it is the manere whereby we commune with othere. It may be in craft (that is, professional wise), or in lightnesse (casually), or with felawes and frendes. With frendes, men mowe be ful unceremonious, and yif it be thy wone, thou mightest strowe thy writ with signes and ymages (emojis). Natheless, in casual wise, eek in writen wordes upon the net, folk oughten first to usen more formal stile, til they han y-espied the mood of the compaignye.
In matters of craft and office, ther is noon excusacioun; I care nat how “brighte” a man is holden, ne sholde he have licence for what-so-ever slouthe cometh doun the email weye (save his wit be y-joined with som sothfast diversitee of wit, as neurodivergence or swich). The vile writ that I have seen y-come from “professionals” is naught but shameful.
I mean if you're using modern English you're using hundreds of years of accumulated error.
(Be glad I only reached back to Middle English. Nobody wants to see what Old English looks like for this. What's that? You do?)
Stæfcræft and stæfgewritnes sind swiðe mære.
At læste, wyrc þu þæt wel.
Būtan spræce mid folce, is þæt þæt we mid oðrum sprecath and dōð. Hit mæg beon on cræfte (þæt is, on weorce), oððe on lætlicum wisan, oððe mid frēondum. Mid frēondum mæg man beon untrum and spedig, and gif hit is þīn gewuna, þu miht asettan hīehte-tācn (emojis) swā hit þē licað. Ac on lætlicum wisan, eac on netgewritum, scyle man fremian þæt he brūce māre stiðre gewrit, oð þæt he ongyte hū þæt folc þearf hæfð.
On cræftum and weorcum is nænne forlætenes; ic ne gymð hu “glēaw” sum mann sy, ne sceal he hæbban forlætenes for swelc slæwð þæt cymð þurh þā e-mail weg (butan þæt glēawnes sy gemæne mid sōðfæstum mōdlicum ungelīcnesse, swā swā ānra gehwilc hæfð). Þæt yfel gewrit þe ic geseah of sumum “cræftum menn” is nāht būtan sceamu.
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
I've been very seriously considering a dumb phone.
I recently got a small basked a little larger than my phone. I put my phone in it when I get home from work. It's a good example for my kids and it helps me to actually be present with my kids instead of being on my phone half of the time.
I'm so out of shape right now, it'll probably be whichever one I try to climb next.
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this is some real /r/suicidebywords material right here
You mean */c/suicidebywords
Fondant isn’t icing and is cheating when making a cake. It also tastes gross.
Fondant can be good, but it takes a hell of a baker to do so. A friend of mine's mom made my wedding cake and the fondant she made was fucking bomb as hell. I was really skeptical of the fondant until she made the test cake, and I'm disappointed every time I have anything with fondant because I know it will never live up.
Ask her for the receipe and post it here, please.
Yes but the icing is what i want.
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.
It didn't ruffle my feathers. It just made me laugh.
Everybody has an opinion on education. Most of them are single-issue. Almost all of them are wrong.
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.
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
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.
Walpurgis is Homura's witch
Icing is the best part of the cupcake OP 🤌 come on!
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.
Both are quite entertaining.
RoboCop remake, though, sucks hairy donkey balls, I'll dienonnthst hill with a smile
Spanish food sucks! Although I think I already died in that hill today.
Oh crikey that's controversial
That's at least a very controversial opinion! Wanted to downvote you so bad ;-)
You don’t like tapas?
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.
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 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.
Outside of Original Trilogy, the best Star Wars movies movies were the ones that JJ Abrams made.
What trilogy? There were only ever two Star Wars movies: Star Wars, and The Empire Strikes Back.
Everything else is an unfunny Internet conspiracy theory.
Three decades ago or so I read 13 novels in the Star Wars Story. Got tired of Sci-fi and went Fantasy because in that last one Luke got laid and didn't lose his Jedi powers like he was supposed to.
Whatever. I put that last book as not real to the story and like the dozen that came before I read to be what I respected. Still didn't give a flying fuck to read any more Star Wars.
Then GL comes back from the grave and summons it all again, finally. After a few movies popped up the super duped fan club psyched up and asked him what his fucking stand held on all these SW novels written were regarding the matter and if they had any cannon.
He muttered and I couldn't here him so obviously the're fucking cannon and literally everything he's vampirised the entire notion from and to just didn't fucking happen. If you were a sucker to his reverse mechnics on a trash truck and tried to say fucking anything to me, then I facepalmed crying out laughing because I called it again but gorram not even that candidly such. He Cash Cows over all the ressurected fan club to the biggest business butcher brand co. on the planet like dissing the joint on your leg for respecting them, ever. Suckers.
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.
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.
This and also being paid by weight for putting trash in public bins.
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.
wait what, shes a THOUSAND MILLIONS DEEP ???"2? wtf thats stupid
Tswift is an interesting case. She supports progressive identity politics, and it's not as clear cut as to how her wealth generation comes about by the exploitation of workers when compared to other billionaires. Of course no billionaires should exist, she's a nepo baby, her music is overrated at best and super annoying at worst, and she could be a lot more charitable than she is. There's certainly no shortage of more evil billionaires than her, though, either.
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.
American cakes, cookies, and breads have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much sugar. (Eating American white bread hurts my teeth.)
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
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.
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.
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.
That this question has been posted every single day for the last week.
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.
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)
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.
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?
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.
I have a handheld clothes steamer! Changed ironing for me forever I fucking love it
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.
Han Solo shot first.
Wrong. Greedo never shot. Han murdered him in cold blood.
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…
Controversial
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 :)
We should be using soap and water after popping, toilet paper alone is barbaric
Bum gun or Bidet. The humane way to toilet.
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.
I have yet to experience one but bidets seem like the dream.
Tf is a bum gun
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.
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?
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.
It doesn't matter which side you put the toilet paper in. I'm poly-dextrous and it is the way
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.
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.
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.
redditors
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!).
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.
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.
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.
Oh, man, as the network admin for several hundred machines, "Windows" and "works" in the same sentence is hilarious.
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.
These, while all probably true (I lack the technical chops to evaluate), don't matter for most people.
What matters to most people is having a computer that doesn't actively interfere with their ability to do their work. And that's where Linux fails, regardless of the reason.
Nobody cares that their machine doesn't do X on Linux because of some cabal behind the scenes arranging it. They care they can't do X on Linux, but they can on Windows.
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.
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!
This, but about onions.
CROCKS AND SOCKS ARE PEAK FOOTWARE! I WILL STILL WARE THEM AND YOU CANT STOP MEEEEE!
:)
Puddles
Hard agree on crocs being optimal footwear. I only add socks situationally.
Socks and sandals is awesome.
You do you! I respect that
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
CDs are better than vinyl.
Not true, everytime i put a cd on a record player, it ends up all scratched up.
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
Touchscreen laptops, and by extension "two-in-one" laptops, are an absolute abomination of a form factor that should not exist.
Mostly agree, but my thinkpad x220t with the full spin and flip screen and stylus is just fun to use!!
they are convenient for me. woulds your 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!
Javascript is a great language
I can think of worse ones and at least knowing JavaScript has paid my bills for 8+ years.
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.
The KISS (keep it simple, stupid) philosophy often results in *nix being the best tool for the job (philosophically speaking). Other OSs obviously have their merit, but when the goal is simplicity (in terms of "moving parts") then LFS, DSL, or Gentoo are going to be the simplest (in terms of moving parts) options for most tasks.
You have proven my point, you don't seem to understand that *nix and all it's variants, and all the FOSS built on top of it it's just one set of tools in a gigantic suite of available tools, and there are specific uses, and it's totally inappropriate to ever talk about it as the best tool for anything, ever.
Anything more than the bearst hint of icing is not for me, personally.
Branston beans are superior to Heinz beans.
Yes!!! I have some Branston beans, always chosen over Heinz any day.
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.
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!
I am appalled
I personally really dislike icing. Anything it's on I think is ruined. The only thing that's worse is meringue. Hate that stuff.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Store brand is as good or better than A-brands in about 90% of all cases.
Except cheap macaroni
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.
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
You say 70% icing like it's a bad thing
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
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
That is the correct way and is even given as examples. What is wrong with people