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
The "phones are bad and suck your life away" crowd has gotten way too big. Yes, it's easy to waste time on them, but that's just something you gotta learn, like not watching TV series all night. You're a grown up, deal with it. Also maybe you feel bad for spending all that time on your phone just because feeling bad for that feels cool? It's actually your life you can spend it however you want. You don't need to be productive or successful to be a worthy human. Be a lazy shit that plays stupid phone games while on a train to work.
The contemporary disdain for postmodernism was a Psy op designed to completely destroy philosophy from the inside. And the supposed replacements for post modernism (metamodernism or whatever) were just pop culture millennial distractions that just took attention away from the philosophical issues of the inadequacies of language and crisis of our communications systems. We became stuck in limbo. Cultural conversation dumbed down by useless culture wars articulated in low attention span pop culture commentary and therapy speak.
The world actually did end in 2012.
This is hell.
First-past-the-post voting should be replaced so people can vote outside the two party system with no spoiler effect.
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
DND is not a good universal game system. It's pretty good at being DND, but that's a particular beast that's mostly about resource management.
You can definitely use it for a game about social intrigue, or horror, or modern day anything, but it's not really good at any of that. Like using a hammer to put screws in, you'll probably get something done, and if you're hanging with your friends you'll probably have a good time. But it's a weird tool to reach for.
Personally, I don't think the core of the rules system is very good at all. Flat probability feels weird. Armor as all-or-nothing is weird. Hit and damage being split into two rolls is slow and weird. In the latest edition, making very few choices about your character often feels bad. Levels are a very coarse unit of growth. The magic system somehow manages to make magic not feel like magic- no wonder, no mystery, it's just safe and standardized. I could go on.
But it's mega popular and people are emotionally invested, so there's not much to be done about it. There are dozens of people playing the thousands of other games out there.
Also a lot of people have never played anything else, so their analysis and defense of it is often lacking. Like if I've only ever played baseball, and never even watched any other sports, I wouldn't feel qualified to talk about bowling. But you get people saying like "no you need to wear cleats that's a universal property of sports" when bowling comes up. Like, not every game has six stats. Not every game has attributes like that at all.
And again, if you're having fun with dnd then that's the primary goal achieved. We don't need to maximize fun and efficiency in all things all times. I just think that it would be a good experience to branch out more, even if it's scary, because that will lead to a richer experience overall.
Vinyl sounds shit. It reintroduces all the issues digital audio solved decades ago. I have heard vinyl rips made with equipment that costs as much as a new bmw and it has constant and frequent quality issues like static. It also has to downgrade audio sometimes to prevent the needle from physically flying out. It is impossible for vinyl to sound as good as the digital master or flac version of it that it was made from. It WILL always sound worse even thanks to the fact that physical world is very flawed and imprecise.
People arguing otherwise are either deaf or need to look in the mirror and accept the fact that they enjoy vinyl for the experience not the sound quality.
The really steep one that'll give me a heart attack.
Don’t debate on things we have little to no expertise/personal experience in. [insert really divisive issue here], I am not [this group of people], [other group of people], and don’t have the legal/medical/[insert other relevant thing] background to comment on this issue.
If you ignore those hot issues, you can focus on the important things that matter in life. Like what’s for breakfast tomorrow morning.
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.
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.]
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.
Bootstrap CSS is the cancer of web development and its use implies a misunderstanding and ignorance of your craft.
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.
They only got the Predator's mandibles right in the first movie.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.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.
Yes but the icing is what i want.
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.
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
That this question has been posted every single day for the last week.
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
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.
Walpurgis is Homura's witch
Icing is the best part of the cupcake OP 🤌 come on!
Anything more than the bearst hint of icing is not for me, personally.
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.
Systemd is a pile of shit that is actively ruining Linux.
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.
You say 70% icing like it's a bad thing
Quickly gets lost in definitions, but the reason men are at the "top" of all societies, is because men are biologically advantaged to do so
You're not going to tell me 2 million years of human evolution doesn't know what it's doing
It does not mean that women or any other group are not valuable, it's just that nature has slotted us in our places
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.
Whipped cream sucks.
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.
If the ingredient of whatever snacks/dessert you're making is mostly chocolate, only use couverture or don't even try. There's place for compound but not here.