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That this meme is low effort content and it's spamming everywhere

It's the first time I've seen it.
- Can I borrow the rock you've been under?
Memes are low effort in general
- The more effort a meme takes to make, the less likely it will become well-known.

health insurance != healthcare

health insurance profits only exist at the expense of human suffering.

but lets make sure everyone has insurance but not care

I thought this thread was for hot takes 😉
- Is this your first time in an "unpopular opinion" thread? lol
health insurance isn't really insurance either.
it's like a health services subscription plan with a million convoluted rules.
- I wish more people understood this. Insurance is an extra cost paid to protect from catastrophe. Anything that saves you money on a regular basis is not insurance: where does the extra money come from?
  Pet insurance is another bizarre misunderstanding of this nature. Unless there are procedures you are unwilling to forego to save your pet, but completely unable to afford, you are throwing money away in the long run. The entire actuarial profession exists to ensure this fact. Take what you'd spend on premiums, and invest it in a good savings vehicle instead.
Yeah, there shouldn’t be health insurance, just health care. Some things are uncertain like whether you get in a car accident, or whether a weather event causes damage to your house. Health problems are not uncertain. People will all have them. Just spend the money on training and hiring doctors and nurses to treat these issues in a large enough quantity that the care is sufficient.

Copyright is far too long and should only last at most 20 years.

Actually, George Washington would agree with me if he was still alive. He and the other founding fathers created the notion of copyright, which was to last 14 years. Then big corporations changed the laws in their favor.

Myers Briggs is posh astrology.

Young people are people and deserving of rights, including but not limited to the vote. There is no stupid thing a young person could do with their vote that old people don't already do and we don't require them not to in order to keep their vote.

No taxation without representation. Either teens get to vote, or they don't pay taxes. Anything less is un-American.
When I was mid 20s I thought young kids were too naive. I got older and saw how fucking stupid most adults are and think young kids are much smarter than their predecessors. They should absolutely have a voice in elections. 16 seems like a good age to me
- If you can legally work, you should be able to legally vote!
- They have a lot less lead poisoning today than those kids from 20th century past, too.
Yep. I'd say 12 is a good age to start, because most will be able to read and understand government.
- because most will be able to read and understand government
  People with dementia and other mental illnesses don't lose their voting rights, neither is it coupled to IQ. And imo with good reason.
  So I am actually not sure why we are applying this hurdle to children to begin with, when we aren't doing it in other situations.
- 12 year olds voting, Jesus Christ
Hell yeah! People say that kids and teens don't have enough life experience to make decisions, but also it's really difficult to gain life experience when you're constantly shielded from everything.
I agree. I wish the voting age was 16. (Or even younger, but 16 would be a big step in the right direction.)
At 16, students could take half the day off to go vote. Hell, it should be a grade-level field trip. Research shows that those who vote in their first eligible election are likely to continue voting, and democracies are dying from a lack of political engagement.
The West Wing had a segment with some kids arguing for suffrage, and it convinced me. Everyone else I've talked to, however...
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Young people will typically just vote how their parents tell them to. They typically just repeat what their parents say without critically thinking about things. They typically haven't fully developed the mental capacity for things like empathy. They haven't experienced what it's like to work or struggle to survive.
- Plenty of people vote how their parents did; that's just how values work.
  Plenty of people vote against how their parents did; that's just how having your own identity works.
  Plenty of people vote who think critically about nothing despite their so-vaunted capacity to; those people are idiots, but we don't require them not to be. And really, most of our politicians could use some lessons in empathy, technically capable or not.
  None is a reason for denying suffrage.
  And nobody should have to struggle to survive; that's a failure of modern society. And again, it's not something we require old people to be tested for; silver spoon trust fund kids who will never know what "struggle" means aren't kept from voting.
  We don't require old people to justify their votes. They don't have to be rational enough, empathetic enough, or anything else enough. Old people can vote by rolling dice and nobody will stop them.

People are crazy when they promote closed-source AI (okay, okay, generative model) projects like ChatGPT, Bard etc.

This is literally one of the most important technologies of the future, and after all the times technology companies screwed them (us) up big time and monopolized the Internet, they go into the same trap again and again.

First they surrendered the free Internet, now they surrender the new frontiers.

Wake up, people. Go HuggingFace, advocate for free AI, and ideally - for a GPL one. We cannot afford for this part of our future to be taken away from us.

Hawaiian pizza is good.

Not that it's the best pizza, or even my favorite. It's just a fine option.

Religions are mostly just popularized conspiracy theories. Believing in God is about as realistic as believing the world is flat.

Any comment that gets more than one upvote fails the subject.

Disruptive protest, no matter how annoying, is valid and should be protected under law. When the government moves to ban protest and dissent, they've crossed the line into authoritarianism.

The right to protest is a fundamental of democracy, and we should not accept any erosion of the fundamentals of democracy.

Pitbulls are not more genetically predisposed towards biting or mauling than other breeds and the supposed "statistical data" on the subject is based around a confluence of inaccurate metrics caused by 1) people not being very good at accurately identifying dog breeds, 2) existing groups that hate pitbulls pushing bad statistics for political purposes, and 3) a self-fulfilling prophecy of pitbulls having a bad reputation and actively being sought out by people who want vicious dogs and who will treat their dogs in such a way as to encourage that behavior. And I say all of this as someone who does not own a pitbull and probably never will.

People overlook vegetarianism and semi-vegetarian lifestyles as an option too much and it is not helpful that real life examples of vegetarian cultures, get co-opted by Vegans purists as "Vegan cultures" in easily disproven claims- thus hurting the whole movement

I don't eat meat or dairy, so i technically i'm a vegan, right? But i wouldn't identify as a vegan. When someone cooks and says: oh i forgot that you are vegan, and i used butter, still eat it. When i'm at a bbq and there is a steak leftover, and no one eats it and it goes to the trash, i would eat it. I find the idea of factory meat absolutely repulsive therefore i don't support it in any way. Once i talked to a vegan guy, and he was super weird so we didn't have a lot to talk about. I told him something like: when i was a kid i was really into chicken wings, and now in hindsight, i don't think chicken is actually good. And he said: oh, you are one of THOSE people. Meat eater are like pedophiles, once you fucked a kid, you'll always be a childfucker.
Eh... Okay, i'll just stand over there and make sure to never talk to you again
- this is called flexitarianism and is totally valid in terms of not wasting food and cohabitating in society. unfortunately some vegetarians would bully a person like you since ideological purity is more important than not wasting food to them
- That's probably one in 100,000 vegans
- Woah this got dark.
- I eat whatever I am able to afford and local to me. And I continue to eat what tastes good to me.
I've had debates with vegans on something similar:
I'm not vegan, I'll never be vegan. That's a complete non-starter for me.
What I have done is reduce my meat intake from 2/sometimes 3 meals a day to 1 meal per day - occasionally (less than once per month) two. Once Lab-grown meat is a viable alternative on cost/taste/texture, I'll be all over that. I still won't be vegan. Even if I reach a point where no animals are harmed from my diet.
I believe it is far easier to convince 1 Million people to do this than it would be to convert 100,000 people to full veganism. A Million people doing this would save Billions more animals per year than 100,000 vegan conversions and maybe even in itself convert a few of those people to full veganism along the way.
They're never interested. It's all or nothing. Black or white. Vegan or Animal killer. They usually have issues with lab grown meat, as well.
It's as though they're a member of an elite club and membership is more important than actually saving animals.
- I mean, most vegans would still commend your effort to reduce animal product consumption.
  But from a moral standpoint, simply eating less animal products really doesn't have much value. Imagine using your argument for other moral dilemmas.
  "Racism is wrong, so I reduced the amount of racial slurs I use to only 1/3"
  "Rape is wrong, so I only rape on Mondays now" (in reference to meatless Mondays)
  I hate to be so militant about it, but you either think animal abuse is acceptable or you don't.
  Now, what I do think could be a moral standpoint, if you really want to still be able to eat meat, is to only eat "humane" meat. I put "humane" in quotes because even farmers with the best intentions are still killing animals young. I don't personally believe any animal product can be humane, but even then I can recognize that any animal that was raised on a pasture and ate real food is more ethical to eat than one in a factory.
  So if you genuinely only ate pasture raised beef and chicken (and you were sure about it), then I would say that is quite honorable.
- I find it so crazy when i stumble across a post of yours in the wild! Hi!
- They're never interested.
  This is disingenuous AF. The vegans I've known would have all taken this huge win
- You're probably still eating way too much animal products and you'll most likely get bowel cancer and gout if you keep eating like that.
I've never been closer to vegan than I am now. And I love meat and animal products and have long given up on the illusion of any ethical consumption in capitalism. It just turns out meat is way overpriced and you can make some tasty meals for cheap without meat and most animal products.
- I'm a vegetarian just because it's the cheapest option. Meat is absurd in prices while going fully vegan, where I live, isn't feasible either.
  So I live off a mostly vegetarian diet. It's not even for ethical reasons. It's literally a "I want to save money" motivation.
- Honestly I feel like the idea of "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" is so lame. Like I understand that you could find something technically ethically wrong with everything, but that statement just feels like a way for people who don't want to give up certain things to justify themselves.
  Capitalism, especially modern day capitalism where the government and companies collaborate, does lead to a lot of ethical issues. And yes, I understand that it is not liveable to give up everything that is unethical. But you can still have boundaries.
  I mean like, buying oats and grains from a grocery store, which are typically grown domestically, compared to buying dead abused animals or bananas from a company that uses slave labor. Those are totally different things.
  If you prioritize buying things that are made in countries that have better labor laws, and avoid animal products, then that's a pretty damn good start.
You absolutely can't let perfect be the enemy of good.
To be honest, I could see myself as a vegetarian. I can still eat eggs, have mayo, and most importantly, eat cheese. Also with vegans, they don't just abstain from eating animals, they also abstain from consuming animal products, and using them in general meaning that not only are you giving up on eggs and cheese, but also leather boots and jackets etc. That's too much. We are omnivores. Our ancestors survived on the scraps left by lions and other predators. Our only way to keep warm was leather skins. We could survive on berries and fungi, but we couldn't keep warm with fire only. Anyways, I'm taking this a bit too far, but my point is, I'm supportive of vegetarians, but not of vegans.
- human are omnivore, it's a biological trait not a diet. Being omnivore doesn't mean that you need to consume animal products, in the contrary, it means that you can avoid them and still strive, as opposed as carnivore.
  own your choices, plain and simple. don't blame other for taking action to reduce suffering, CO2 and waste of ressources.
- I think our ancestors also hunted large game which is why we evolved to be endurance hunters. Not that we are bound so tightly to our evolutionary as all that. But still.
  I support vegans and respect their decisions, I just have little interest in being one myself.
  Although when I buy leather products (belts shoes) I tend to buy ones that last decades. So there's that. And yeah I try to reduce meat consumption and I strive to do better.
- Humanity has changed a lot over the years, much of it by choice.
- There's no such thing as the diet police. No one not terminally-online really gives a shit about movement-purity. Just eat as ethically as possible.
- What? You're saying that because we needed leather in the past, we can't wear cotton now to keep warm? At one point we didn't have easy access to plant-based proteins so we should continue eating animal products? By that logic, we didn't have vaccines in the past, so does that mean we can't use them now? Our ancestors also didn't have the internet, so why are you here?
  The past was a completely different world. Don't let it hold you back from doing better now.
the fact that you label some vegan as purist says more about your own conflicts that the way vegan choose to live. vegan purist is a nonsense. you are either vegan or not.
you choose what you consume, but don't put the blame on vegan. for me being vegetarian or carnist is not so different. vegetarian are still supporting the status quo and it's fair to state this fact.
once again it's your choice. own it.
- Sorry, but I just don't think this attitude is useful for reducing harm to animals. It's rare for people to hear about veganism and then go straight from eating meat to eating 0 animal products, for 100 reasons. I spent like 10 years vegetarian before finally going vegan.
  This overly critical attitude and stereotypes associated with it do a lot to push people away from bothering with making any steps at all.
  No one is able to fully eliminate animal harm from their lives, and any steps that anyone is making on the road to reducing it should be applauded. It's our only option if we want to be anything other than a hated minority.
I exclusively eat meat but I consider myself Vegan because my species comes from the Vega star system.

That pedos shouldn't be subject to extra-legal punishments. Think being lynched and shit. I also don't think they should be getting their own special cases in the law beyond those with a clear purpose of preventing reoffending.

Don't get me wrong, I think they are pure scum.

But things we allow on the basis of the accused being a pedo or terrorist have a habit of spilling over and affecting the general population. A lot of bad laws have made it onto books by blaming these two groups, for example.

A lot of bad laws have made it onto books by blaming these two groups, for example.
You can't even classify or discuss pedophilia as a sexual disorder and not an intentional decision without sounding like a pedophile.
- I think the worst thing we do is basically shut down non-harmful outs.
  We attack therapists who don't outright vilify non-offending pedos, without considering the fact that said pedos come to them because they don't want to offend, don't want to hurt.
  If these people don't have harmless outs, they will instead turn to harmful outs and covering up their crimes.
- “Conservatives” hate disorder research, because they are most of them.
- Yeah, it seems like people just lose all reasoning when that's the subject of the argument.
An egregious crime should have an egregious sentence but only in accordance with a fair due process. I also feel like far right groups are packing gunpowder in the barrel of the musket with hate for pedophilia (an easy thing for anyone to hate) and are planning to use it to invoke violence on people with fabricated evidence against them. It’s becoming a dangerous powder keg
- Absolutely. As for your second point, they do this with LGBT+ groups all the time, trying to tie them to pedophilia to get the FUD going.
It's possible to think both "these people deserve to have their fingernails removed" and "a just society cannot inflict cruel punishment"

Lilo and Stitch is the best Disney movie.

Many, many spoilers below. But, seriously, this movie is 21 years old. Get over yourselves.

Check it: a young girl adopts an illegal alien (killing machine from deep space) and protects him from the U.S. (and galactic) government (Military-Industrial complexes), while keeping her incredibly depressed sister (slices both ways) from giving up completely as they keep their Indigenous Hawaiian family together in their co-opted homeland. One sister works a series of dead-end tourism jobs; the other has anger issues. The hate each other and love each other fiercely, though they are about 12 years apart in age.

Oh, yeah, and their parents are dead.

Meanwhile, the alien is a political refugee and freedom fighter fleeing from his own people who want him dead for —get this— existing. A lab-grown, indestructible terrorist, he seeks asylum on an island — but he can't swim.

He does learn to surf.

The only downside to this film is that Disney produced it. And Elvis.

"Ohana means family. Nobody gets left behind or forgotten."

Teachers should be paid 50% more. If you want good teachers to stay, you have to walk the walk, otherwise you'll get a perpetual cycle of overwhelmed grads being bossed around by rusted-on bottom teer heads.

TikTok and YouTube shorts are brain-rotting garbage, and if you use them regularly you need to stop now. Yes, even if you claim you only watch educational stuff.

Also giving a child under the age of 8 or 9 a personal internet-connected device should be seen on a similar level as neglect if not full-on abuse.

Piracy equals culture preservation in an age of subscription services.

You don't need to get married or have kids to have a happy and fulfilling life

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If you actually want to do some about climate change, step 1 is to stop having kids.

Copyright should have stayed the original initial 14 years with possible renewal to 28 years. But like in France back then, also include the original authors (last one alive, if several) lifespan. Hence, a copyright would last either the authors lifespans or 28 years, whichever is longer.

Moreover, the patent system is being abused and does not serve the original goal of "any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement there on not before known or used." It granted the applicant the "sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used" of his invention.. It needs major changes, including the requirement to have the "invention" be under examination by reputable third-party laboratories (such as Intertek, SGI, Underwriters Laboratories, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technischer Überwachungsverein, SGS - Société Générale de Surveillance, etc…) before being granted a patent. Nowadays, patents are given almost willy-nilly to anyone no matter how vague or obvious the supposed invention.

Nowadays, patents are being misused in Patent Ambush mechanisms and scenarios, meanwhile Patent Trolls and Hoarders whole existence is are to impede/obstruct legally and impose exorbitant levies/fees onto organization and companies actually innovating and developing useful art/process/devices. Even more incredible, there are Submarine Patents being hidden away to suddenly take hostage existing products and process of various companies by imposing extortionate royalties.

The vast majority of humans are actually nice, altruistic and not selfish if you treat them with respect. And hence anarchism would not resolve in everyone killing each other.

Privately owned cars are fine, but we should abolish minimum parking requirements in zoning codes and outlaw on-street parking. Keep your car, but finding somewhere to park it is your own problem, not society's.

Zelda BotW and TotK are not fun. The stamina system is pointless and the weapon durability is frustrating. On top of that, the world's are just sooo empty. There's really nothing in them. Oh look, an interesting ruin... it's another repetitive shrine. Oh, that geological formation is really unique aaannnddd it's another fucking korok seed. That's all you ever got for exploring. Shrines and korok seeds.

I did like slapping random shit onto my weapons in tears of the kingdom though. All in all to me the games are fine but not really Zelda games.

The metric system should be redone in base 12, and RPN should be the norm for teaching arithmetic.

Not a single one of the Marvel movies are good. They just use dopaminergic techniques to teach brains to enjoy them.

Force damage in D&D 5E is too poorly-defined to be a good part of the game and exists solely for when the designers don't want any characters or creatures to have access to resistance against the thing in question. Either we need an actual description of what happens to a thing that gets hit by it or it should be cut; the vast majority of the things that deal it could perfectly easily be magical bludgeoning / piercing / slashing. Spiritual weapon and Bigby's hand are particularly egregious

exists solely for when the designers don't want any characters or creatures to have access to resistance against the thing in question
Broach of shielding grants resistance to force damage
- There's also armour of resistance and potion of resistance in the DMG, which can be force resistant. But that's very few items, and in 5E the magic items you get are entirely dependent on your DM giving them to you. Note how they're all in the DMG, after all. Compare this to, say, fire damage. Three player races have resistance, the 1st-level absorb elements spell gives most casters easy access to fire resistance, and two barbarian subclasses and two sorc subclasses can get it regularly. With force damage, I think the only option presented to the player is one of the aforementioned barb classes and a couple of abilities that give general resistance to all damage.
  On the DM's side, of the literally several thousand creatures published for 5E, there are 5 with immunity, 12 with resistance, and 2 with vulnerability. 19 total creatures out of over 3,000 have any unusual interaction with the damage type. Compare this to 90 for radiant, another very low one; 552 for fire; 671 for bludgeoning (including the ones that only interact with mundane bludgeoning). 19 creatures is so vanishingly rare that I don't think my description is an unreasonable one.
I don't know what or if there are any cannon explanations, but I always had understood force as well... force. Bludgeoning, piercing, slashing are damage amplifiers that make do with limited force. But if you trying to damage say, a rock, they are basically irrelevant. But you put a rock in a hydrolic press and apply a enough force, and boom it cannot withstand. So being hit by an eldritch blast is less like being shot and more like being hit with a high pressure oil leak.
- Physically this doesn't make sense. Bludgeoning piercing slashing all have effects on breaking a rock.
  A hydraulic press is just a slow application of high forces from a pressure trick.
  Getting hit by a high pressure oil leak can certainly resemble being shot.
- We know what the damage type of a crushing force is in 5E, though. It's bludgeoning. That's why the grasping hand effect of Bigby's hand does bludgeoning, as does any constricting attack from the likes of giant snakes.
  High-pressure fluid jets can cut through things if sufficiently narrow and fast, but at that point you're still just looking at piercing or slashing. The injury isn't different to being poked with a sharp stick other than that you are also wet now. If it's not enough to cut with... well that's bludgeoning again
I dunno, I think it makes sense. B/S/P all imply a physical impact of some sort, force is just a wave of energy, magic or not. Like a nonmagical example would be microwaves or radiation from nuclear materials (I know sickening radiance says it does radiant damage but that's 100% wrong, radiant implies holy or positive as the inverse of necrotic, which is unholy and negative, I will kill on this hill, the devs fucked it up just like they fucked up T3/T4 play.)
- I'd be fine with it if they actually described and treated it as, like, nuclear radiation or something. But they haven't.

What we're currently calling AI isn't AI but just a language processing system that takes its best guess at a response from it's database of information they pilfered from the internet like a more sophisticated Google.

It can't really think for itself and it's answers can be completely wrong. There's nothing intelligent about it.

Timezones are fucking stupid. Everyone should just use UTC or Zulu

There's no such thing as unskilled labor. Labor is labor, specially if someone else has to do it even if you don't want to.

a "civilization" that involves "money" is simply not civilized.

shut up, you're fucking wrong. it said so in the post.

All drugs should be legalized. Not quiet the whole World but a large portion.

Doing drugs should be decriminalized, but not legal. Ideally when someone is found addicted to drugs they would be provided help rather than punishment. Selling drugs should remain criminal but consequences should be determined based on the amount found selling and to who (like a child or someone who's pregnant would be a higher penalty at the discretion of the court), legalizing would just give a tax incentive for pushing drugs similar to gambling.
Edit: I want to clarify, I'm talking about addictive drugs with known negative health effects like meth. Weed can be legal, who cares.

All DST and time zones should be removed and we should only have one global time. People in different locations would just get up at different times on the clock. Communication about times would get so much easier, communication about schedules would get so much easier. "The same time every week" would have an actual meaning all year around regardless of any notions about getting up later relative to local sunrise in the darker time of the year.

All streets should have a speed limit of 20 mph. All roads 35 mph. Highways 50 mph. Stroads should not exist.

We learn and teach inferior personal computing practice, and most people don't realize how much they are missing.

The vast majority of people outside of enthusiast circles have absolutely no idea what a personal computer is, how it works, what is an operating system, what it does, and how it is supposed to be used. Instead of teaching about shells, sessions, environments, file systems, protocols, standards and Unix philosophy (things that actually make our digital world spin) we teach narrow systems of proprietary walled gardens.

This makes powerful personal computing seem mysterious and intimidating to regular people, so they keep opting out of open infrastructures, preferring everything to come pre-made and pre-configured for them by an exploitative corporation. This lack of education is precisely what makes us so vulnerable to tech hype cycles, software and hardware obsolescence, or just plain shitty products that would have no right to exist in a better world.

This blindness and apathy makes our computing more inaccessible and less sustainable, and it makes us crave things that don't actually deserve our collective attention.

And the most frustrating thing is: proper personal computing is actually not that hard, and it has never been more easy to get into, but no one cares, because getting milked for data is just too convenient for most adults.

Completely agree. Now my hot take for this thread:
If governments some time in the 90s had decided from the start to ban computer hardware from being sold with pre-installed software then we wouldn't have this problem. If everyone had to install their own operating system from scratch, which like you say isn't hard if it's taught, it would have killed the mystery around computing and people would feel ownership over their computers and computing.
How to learn this? The way it's taught is so people don't know they don't know. What are good starting resources?
- I am not a professional educator, but in general I think it is worth to start with basic computer literacy: identifying parts of a PC, being able to explain their overall functions, difference between hardware and software, and what kinds of software a computer can run (firmwares, operating systems, user utilities etc.). This would also be a perfect time to develop practical skills, e.g. (assuming you are a normatively-abled person) learning to touch-type and perform basic electronics maintenance, like opening your machine up to clean it and replace old thermal compounds.
  After that taking something like "Operating systems fundamentals" on Coursera would be a great way to go on.
  It really depends on your goals, resources and personal traits, as well as how much time and energy you can spare, and how do you like to learn. You can sacrifice and old machine, boot Ubuntu and break it a bunch of times. You can learn how to use virtualization and try a new thing every evening. You can get into ricing and redesign your entire OS GUI to your liking. You can get a single-board computer like RaspberryPi and try out home automation.

Less than 50% of the opinions in this thread are in any way unpopular.

There. There's my opinion.

Keep your mouth shut in public transport and other crammed public spaces.

This is a very popular opinion
- I just wish the people I commute with had it, too.
Then how breathe?
- humans normally breath through their noses.
- Through you nose...

There's no public debt crisis. People don't understand how government debt works. One casualty of this is the slow green transition which will cost us dearly in the future.

ITT: people with actual unpopular opinions are being downvoted whole the popular ones are upvoted.

Here’s mine: unpopular opinions should be upvoted in this context.

Leadership has the capacity and capability to change things for the better and continue to fail to do so because true leadership means making decisions that at times may hurt and may not be universally liked.

This is as true in politics as it is in business.

In short our leaders are not leading out of the fear of repercussions of leading.

"Andor" is the best Star Wars series.

Console gaming has its benefits over PC gaming and often times is better.

Large corporations are, indeed, soulless and thankless. No amount of their pandering to the masses with charity campaigns and outreach programs ever end without them making money.

Knowing this, I prefer to take everything at face value. If I start concerning myself with the ulterior motives of these people that don't believe in class equality, I will very quickly want to put a lightbulb in my mouth.

For those familiar, Destiny 2 (a video game by Bungie, the originators of the Halo franchise) has come under scrutiny lately due to mass layoffs, and the following PR nightmare it has turned into. With every day that passes, we learn more thanks to the diligent work of journalists doing their job.

I appreciate knowing to help me make informed decisions about who I fiscally support, but I will spend my money on entertainment based on the value it gives me. Not the morals I'm told I should have by people bickering on the internet, and content creators that use these situations as clickbait.

And that all goes for any corp, I'm just largely invested in this one example. I am aware that Nestle is garbage ass company, but due to me not existing in their world view, I will buy a KitKat when I want one, thanks.

Eating meat and dairy is not sustainable in terms of resources and greenhouse gases, and non-vegan environmentalists are clowns on the level of people flying private jets to climate conferences.

I mostly agree with you, with the caveat that industrial meat and dairy is not sustainable. Communal farms could be.
I saw it somewhere, and now I use it all the time. If you need an example of why capitalism is destined to fail, just look at the cheese caves. We have to bury cheese like nuclear waste just to be able to keep its market value up to a level that makes it worth producing.
- This so much this. A mostly vegetarian lifestyle with the occasional meat IS sustainable. People forget that before industrialization, we ate meat like once every one or two weeks. You could count the number of times we ate meat in a month on one han
Well the main flaw in your reasoning is thinking that it's an issue addressed at the individual level rather than a greater systemic issue that cannot be addressed by the choice of individuals. And on top of that you colpevolise would-be allies whose life you don't know, ironically playing right into oil tycoons and meat industry's hands
- It has to be both. Our World in Data puts it one way:
  We have a number of options – some fall on the shoulders of consumers; some on producers.
  Or to cut through the flowery language - farms need to stop producing meat, and people need to stop eating it.
  The biggest reduction would come from the adoption of plant-rich diets. Emissions would be halved compared to business-as-usual.

I don't mind paying for YouTube premium because I think YouTube is a valuable service and recognize it's expensive to host videos.

US Senators and congressmen are underpaid. Their salaries should be doubled. The president should make at least a $1 million a year, directly paid by taxpayers.

Reason: If I, the taxpayer, pay them, then they have to work for me. The payment makes that service relationship explicit. I pay you, you work for me. And, yes, the current pay is too little, $174,000 - barely comparable to tech workers.

Only taking $1 is an invitation for corruption. (Not claiming it happened, but it is an invitation.)

The song The Piano Man fucking sucks.

8÷2(2+2) comes out to 16, not 1.

Saw it posted on Instagram or Facebook or somewhere and all of the top comments were saying 1. Any comment saying 16 had tons of comments ironically telling that person to go back to first grade and calling them stupid.

Let's see.
8÷2×(2+2) = 8÷2×4
At this point, you solve it left to right because division and multiplication are on the same level. BODMAS and PEMDAS were created by teachers to make it easier to remember, but ultimately, they are on the same level, meaning you solve it left-to-right, so....
8÷2×4 = 4×4 = 16.
So yes, it does equal 16.
- Depends on whether you're a computer or a mathematician.
  2(2+2) is equivalent to 2 x (2+2), but they are not equal. Using parenthesis implicitly groups the 2(2+2) as part of the paretheses function. A computer will convert 2(4) to 2 x 4 and evaluate the expression left to right, but this is not what it written. We learned in elementary school in the 90s that if you had a fancy calculator with parentheses, you could fool it because it didn't know about implicit association. Your calculator doesn't know the difference between 2 x (2+2) and 2(2+2), but mathematicians do.
  Of course, modern mathematicians work primarily in computers, where the legacy calculator functions have become standard and distinctions like this have become trivial.
- Under pemdas divisor operators must literally be completed after multiplication. They are not of equal priority unless you restructure the problem to be of multiplication form, which requires making assumptions about the intent of the expression.
- 8÷2×(2+2)
  But that's not the same thing as 8÷2(2+2). 2x(2+2) is 2 Terms, 2(2+2) is 1 Term. 8÷2×(2+2)=16 ((2+2) is in the numerator), 8÷2(2+2)=1 (2(2+2) is in the denominator)
And both you and people arguing that it's 1 would be wrong.
This problem is stated ambiguously and implied multiplication sign between 2 and ( is often interpreted as having priority. This is all matter of convention.
- I see what you're getting at but the issue isn't really the assumed multiplication symbol and it's priority. It's the fact that when there is implicit multiplication present in an algebraic expression, and really best practice for any math above algebra, you should never use the '÷' symbol. You need to represent the division as a numerator and denominator which gets rid of any ambiguity since the problem will explicitly show whether (2+2) is modifying the numerator or denominator. Honestly after 7th grade I can't say I ever saw a '÷' being used and I guess this is why.
  That said, I'll die on a hill that this is 16.
- A matter of convention: true
  Unless you specify you aren't using pemdas, that's generally the assumed order of ops.
  This is not one of the ambiguous ones, but it's certainly written to be. Multiplication does indeed have priority under pemdas.
- both you and people arguing that it’s 1 would be wrong
  No, they're correct Order of operations thread index
  This problem is stated ambiguously and implied multiplication
  It's not ambiguous, there's no such thing as implicit multiplication
  This is all matter of
  ...following the rules of Maths.
No, 2+2 = 🐟 so it would be 8÷2🐟 and since 🐟 is no longer a number it becomes 4🐟. So the answer is 4 fishes.
- since 🐟 is no longer a number
  It's still a pronumeral though, equal to 4, so the answer is still 8÷8=1.
Back in gradeschool I was always taught that in Pemdas, the parenthesis are assumed to be there in 8÷(2×(2+2)) where as 8÷2×(2+2) would be 16, 8÷2(2+2) is the above and equals 1.
- Not quite. It's true you resolve what's inside the parentheses first, giving you. 8÷2(4) or 8÷2x4.
  Now this is what gets most people. Even though Multiplication technically comes before Division the Acronym PEMDAS, that's really just to make it sound correct phonetically. Really they have equal priority in the order of operations and the appropriate way to resolve the problem is to work from left to right solving each multiplication or division sign as you encounter them. Giving you 16. Same for addition and subtraction.
  So basically the true order of operations is:
  Work left to right solving anything inside parentheses
  Work left to right solving any exponentials
  Work left to right solving any multiplication or division
  Work left to right solving any addition or subtraction
  Source: Mechanical Engineering degree so an unfortunate amount of my life spent in math and physics classes.
- Yes, it's The Distributive Law.
Under normal interpretations of pemdas this is simply wrong, but it's ok. Left to right only applies very last, meaning the divisor operator must literally come after 2(4).
This isn't really one of the ambiguous ones but it's fair to consider it unclear.
- Pemdas puts division and multiplication on the same level, so 34/22 is 12 not 3. Implicit multiplication is also multiplication. It's a question of convention, but by default, it's 16.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations
- This isn’t really one of the ambiguous ones but it’s fair to consider it unclear.
  #MathsIsNeverAmbiguous if you follow all the rules of Maths (there's a lot of people here who aren't).
Great explainer on the subject: https://youtu.be/lLCDca6dYpA?si=gUJlQJgfDxi-n_Y6
And a follow up on how calculators actually implement this inconsistently: https://youtu.be/4x-BcYCiKCk?si=g5pqwXvBqSS8Q5fX
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://piped.video/lLCDca6dYpA?si=gUJlQJgfDxi-n_Y6
  https://piped.video/4x-BcYCiKCk?si=g5pqwXvBqSS8Q5fX
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
- Both of those Youtubes debunked in this thread.
Math should be taught with postfix notation and this wouldn't be an issue. It turns your expression into this.
8 2 ÷ 2 2 + ×
- It already isn't an issue if people just follow all the rules of Maths.
2(4) is not exactly same as 2x4.
- 2(4) is not exactly same as 2x4
  Correct! It's exactly the same as (2x4).
8÷2(2+2) comes out to 16, not 1
No, it's 1, and only 1. Order of operations thread index
P.S. this is Year 7 Maths, not Year 1.

An opinion so strongly shared by a vast majority is worth being sceptic about.

I believe a vast majority of people would strongly share the opinion that pigs don't have wings
- Tapes a chicken wing to a pig.
  What now athetits
- That's worthy to be sceptic about indeed, because its a fact rather than an opinion
You can of course always be skeptic, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. I would argue most opinions shared by nearly everyone are probably valid.
- Depends where they got the opinion. If it's something that most people have experienced then they probably have a pretty grounded opinion but if its something they're only aware of because of news then there's reason for skepticism. Ask people on the street their opinions on something related to the economy and its a mess.

Lore is not story. Sekiro is the best From Soft game. Sekiro's second half doesn't fall apart or disappoint. The puzzle boss is acceptable. The combat actually feels like Seven Samurai and Star Wars: a flurry of blocks and parrys, culminating in a coup de grace.

Chipping hit points with a light sabre or a battle axe is dumb as shit and it's been normal so long we don't notice.

Owning pets is not moral and I think it's strange how normalized it is to have pets

30000 years of evolution says what?
Mind you I'm not arguing against that exotic pets are abnormal, but the normalized pets are felines and canines which actually evolved into a symbiotic relationship with humans on their own accord.
And keep in mind. 30k years. That's more than 10% of our existence as a species. It's a concept more ingrained in us than even the idea of civilization itself. It's more logical to question civilisation itself than to question humanities relationship to felines and canines
- To be fair though, if we go by evolutionary standards, all pets then should be free roaming.
- If we are making evolutionary arguments, I find dogs that have been bred in such a way that they commonly die from cancer or heart disease in 10 years to be exotic. But they certainly are successful in passing on their genes, so it is an increase in fitness. But at what cost?
  I also do not think that something evolving to be a certain way makes it a moral choice.
Is it different for you if someone said having pets or “animal friends” instead of owning?
- Well, do they own the animals or not? I think ownership of other animals is part of my core issue.
  Owning the animals, then calling it another name is worse in my view. Especially animal friends, I think owning another living thing but calling it your friend is the foundation of a unhealthy relationship. You purchased the animal. I do not have friendships that begin with buying them.
I agree. The one caveat being that there are thousands of animals in shelters who are going to live in cages for years until they're killed. If the alternative is someone can adopt them and give them a happy life in a loving home, that's the obviously better option.
Breeders can go fuck right off, though. Every cat or dog bred into existence condemns an animal in a shelter to die.
- Part of how I think about this is that the demand people have for owning animals creates the demand for breeders to make them. Simply not wanting pets would doom less to this fate.
  Of course, this perspective is too reductive to capture what's really going on in reality. But I suspect it could prevent a good bit of animal harm.
Yes! I still question myself because I adopt when I can just so they don't stay in the streets, but I don't call my family of dogs pets. I treat them with respect and don't judge them based on human prejudices, but the rest of the people expects me to treat them as inferior and disrespect them ;:/
And guess what?: those people are usually the ones that are abusive to the dogs/cats that live with them.

Religion and conservativism.

Inverted controls are just better.

Humanity cannot and will not change its practices fast enough to avoid running out of resources we keep ourselves dependent on because it's "profitable." We are a doomed species and won't be around for very much longer. We are likely living in the flash of bright before the long dark. I don't think the world my grandchildren live in will be remotely like the one we have now.

I'm perfectly fine hedging my bets and living life normally, but I think our longevity is an uncomfortable truth most people don't want to face.

Darth Vader is a very bad guy and saving his son at the end changes none of that. He shouldn't be idolized the way he is by fans.

That capitalism is not the cause of most societal grief. Pathological self preservation is a fundamental human problem. It’s the reason we’re okay with seeing hordes of homeless people, or with killing people to resolve geopolitical issues. Greed can optimize any system to work for itself, people who are or will be adept at such optimization would thrive under any kind of socioeconomic or cultural system, including extremely leftist systems. Just spit ballin’ tho, haven’t thought about it much tbh.

I was gonna write something political but nah.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon are some of the best Pokemon games, better than most of the (especially newer) main series games. I started with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon so I may be biased though.

pineapple goes on pizza but everyone who likes it is doing it wrong. it needs to be fresh pineapple, grilled, with red onion.

That objective facts must be rooted in evidence. Billions of people in this world seem to not share that view.

Postcredits scenes in movies are bad, always were and always will be.

Oh no. Not falling for this one again.

The main story of Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty bland and mediocre.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a phenomenal game! The companion arcs, acting and overall presentation are still next level, some sidestories are very good, and it’s great how faithfully they adapted the D&D rules. But the main story ...

A lot of people have to die for the world to sort itself out. I see it starting now, soon there will be wars on every continent.

World Peace is no longer an idea. It's happening, and will be the norm before most of us die. The United Federation of Humanity will happen, relatively soon.

OJ did it.

All forms of communication that promotes any level of division between the general population, and the idea of payback or revenge is very wrong and toxic and are some of the main reasons for the shit we all go through these days, yet most people either don't think it's a big deal or think it's necessary. We're gonna end up killing ourselves and we're all gonna lose, but at least you got to punch the guy that punched you first, right? Or kill all the ancestors of the guy that punched your great great great granddad, then their ancestors killing yours for killing their ancestors, right? You deserve to kill them all, they had it coming, so did your ancestors, right?

Until the childish ideas of revenge and division is gone from our adult society, i don't see us surviving as a civilization before we kill each other first.

I'm tired of hearing people justify either. It's all nonsense, illogical, and childish.

Assembly language is fun to learn, fun to use, and still relevant professionally.

Cars > public transportation. I forget things & often have to turn back, and I like the freedom to change my mind at any point, stop where I want, and go wherever I want. I also hate being forced into shared public spaces. I also hate the idea of trusting the government to make any of it in any way near efficient. Fuck public transportation.

Gender is the cultural outcome of primary and secondary sexual characteristics and in no meaningfully physical way exist. In other words, we traditionally have a "boy" culture and a "girl" culture, not a gender. We are artificially indoctrinated and assimilated into a given culture based on primary or secondary sexual characteristics.

Likewise, it follows that all other gender identities are similarly a cultural phenomenon and not the outcome of some essential characteristic of the individual.

Gender cultures are, at least historically speaking, bad. They've generally been used to persecute people who aren't in the dominant (boy) gender, and the conditions dictating mobility between genders is so intensly arbitrary that it warrants abolishing the whole stupid idea. Gender dysphoria is a symptom, generally, of the tyranny of these conditions.

(PS, I totally am open to being wrong about this.)

We are trying to solve computer/rocket-age problems with a caveman brain. If we don't start genetic engineering humans soon i'd wager we'll eradicate ourselves before we colonize other planets and stars.

There should be no wars or conflicts of any kind anywhere whatsoever. Everyone should leave in peace and respect each other.

The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars movie since the OT. Then they "course corrected" after listening too closely to online discourse, and ended up really ruining the franchise.

Onions taste gross and have no tangible benefit to cooking. Fight me.

Vegans oppose animal cruelty.

Vegetarians don't, as the production of eggs, milk, etc is cruel.

You're not really arguing against the whole crowd there, a lot of people (wrongly) hold the same opinion. The problem is thinking of the door swap as an independent event when it's not; the result is directly related to the original choice of door. If we label the doors A, B, and C and put the prize behind door A, here's the possible options:

Initial Choice A - Stick: win - Swap: lose Initial Choice B: - Stick: lose - Swap: win Initial Choice C: - Stick: lose - Swap: win
Two out of three times swapping wins.
Edit: I see you added a table to your comment, but you're miscounting pretty badly there. You're giving double weight to initial choice being correct.
It is technically true that when you pick A the presenter can open either B or C, but then you need to account for that in your odds; it's 50% either way so the win/loss rate is halved. In other words:

Initial Choice A - 33% - Presenter opens B - 50% - Stick: win (16.5%) - Swap: lose (16.5%) - Presenter opens C - 50% - Stick: win (16.5%) - Swap: lose (16.5%) Initial Choice B - 33% - Presenter opens C - 100% - Stick: lose (33%) - Swap: win (33%) Initial Choice C - 33% - Presenter opens B - 100% - Stick: lose (33%) - Swap: win (33%)
As shown, including which door the presenter opens does not affect the odds. When sticking, you win (16.5% + 16.5% = 33%) and lose (33% + 33% = 66%), when swapping you win (33% + 33% = 66%) and lose (16.5% + 16.5% = 33%).
Dude you can't argue mathematics
- Hell yeah I can. Why the fuck is Jimmy buying 35 watermelons on an average day???
- That's mathematically correct!
That's not an opinion, that's an incorrect statement.
You can have an opinion and still be factually wrong I suppose
I was stubborn about this for so long, and I'm still not entirely sure I understand it, but here is a perspective that made me doubt my belief.
Imagine the Monty Hall Problem, but with 100 doors and only one grand prize. You pick one; it obviously has a 1/100 chance of being a grand prize. Then Monty reveals 98 doors without grand prizes in them such that the only doors left are the one you chose and one that Monty left unopened. Monty obviously arranged for one of those two doors to have the grand prize behind it. The "choice to switch" is really just a second round of the game, ~~but with a 1/2 chance of winning~~ (wrong, your odds change only if you "participate" in round two).
If you stick with your door, you are relying on your initial 1/100 chance of winning. If you switch, you are getting the ~~1/2~~ odds of the "second round".
Apparently with three doors, switching gives you a 2/3 chance of winning, but I don't understand the math of how to get that answer and I wouldn't be able to calculate the odds of the 100 door version. I just know intuitivey that switching is better.
- With 100 doors swapping wins 99 out of 100 times; the only time you lose is when your initial door (1 in 100) contained the prize.
- With 100 doors switching should give you a 99% win rate.
  You're essentially concentrating the entire thing into this one vs not this one, and when you initially chose there was a 99% chance it was not this one.
  After Monty opens all the other doors, the odds that the right answer is not this one is still 99% except that now the entirety of not this one is represented by that single other door. The Grand Prize has nowhere else to be, and the odds that you picked it first is still only 1%.
  So, to bring it back down, with three doors, the odds that the right answer is not this one 66%, and we end up exactly where we expected to be.
- but I don’t understand the math of how to get that answer
  There's four total outcomes of the problem:
  Scenario 1: you originally pick the winning door (1/3) and don't switch (1/2), therefore winning. Probability = 1/6
  Scenario 2: you originally pick the winning door (1/3) and did switch (1/2), therefore losing. Probability = 1/6
  Scenario 3: you originally pick a losing door (2/3) and don't switch (1/2), therefore losing. Probability = 1/3
  Scenario 4: you originally pick a losing door (2/3) and do switch (1/2), therefore winning. Probability = 1/3
  Now consider scenarios 1 and 3 together, these two are when you don't switch. P(S1) is 1/6 and P(S3) is 1/3, meaning S3 is twice as likely than S1. So if you don't switch, you are twice as likely to lose. And now consider scenarios 2 and 4 together. P(S4) is 1/3 and P(S2) is 1/6, meaning if you switch you are twice as likely to win than to lose.
  You can also consider this problem in terms of conditional probability like this:
  P(win as long as no switch) = P(win and no switch) / P(no switch) = P(S1)/(1/2) = (1/6)/(1/2) = 2/6 = 1/3
  P(win as long as switch) = P(win and switch) / P(switch) = P(S4)/(1/2) = (1/3)/(1/2) = 2/3
  P(win as long as switch) > P(win as long as no switch)
- But by staying on your door you're still making a choice relying on that ½ chance...
- The "second round" of the game is always just, "flip your odds of winning if you swap". That's all it is.
  Monty will always open the proper doors to ensure this happens every time. Did you pick the winning door in the first round? Monty will eliminate all other doors but leave one of the losers. Did you pick a losing door in the first round? Monty will eliminate all the other losers and only leave the winner. It's always the opposite of what you picked. Therefore, if you swap, you will simply get the opposite odds of the first round.
  100 doors to pick from, only 1 winner? 1/100 chance to win if you just picked at random and ended it there. Now Monty offers a swap. Without the swap, you have 99 different ways to lose this. But with the swap, all 99 of those ways become winners, because Monty will always swap the opposite with you.
You can't have opinion on maths
- Yes you csn, for example: math is what scientists do while on meth

An America-centric one. I've stopped tipping altogether. When the credit card reader at my grocery store deli suggested 15% I snapped.

Both Mario Odyssey and SMB Wonder are only innovative in a vacuum where Mario is the only platformer franchise. Which for a lot of people I imagine is the extent of their knowledge about platformers.

The things people call "innovative" about Mario Odyssey are just half Kirby and half Banjo-Kazooie. Yeah Odyssey's biggest maps are way bigger than Banjo-Kazooie, but SMO runs on hardware that can emulate the N64, and it still has quite a few maps on the smaller side

SMB Wonder... I don't actually know what people call "innovative" about SMB Wonder, but I've seen people call it "innovative." It's the best 2D Mario made in the 21st century and it has a pretty cool gimmick. What's innovative about this?

From a human experience standpoint, Fahrenheit is more meaningful than Celsius.

0°F - Too damned cold 100°F - too damned hot

0°C - Jacket weather 100°C - He ded

Blue Cheese is the king of cheese

NFTs are an interesting and valuable technology that will be useful in the future as a means of digital media 'ownership' in place of 'perpetual licensing' like we see when we 'buy' media from servers today.

There's more to it than monkey pictures, and if people saw that, we would have greater control over media libraries than in the present.

Note I own 0 NFTs

NFTs are nothing but a new way to record ownership. It does fuck all about the actual thing it is about.
I could use NFTs to sell my copy of Star Wars to another person. But doing so wouldn't mean that I actually lose my copy of Star Wars. And neither would it mean that the other person gains a copy of Star Wars. NFTs are not better than a piece of paper recording a sale.
And there are far cheaper ways of recording a sale.
- It's a little more than that. It's a way of trustlessly proving ownership. Certainly, a company like Valve will be against NFTs because they benefit from having complete control over things like the CS skin market. But I also play Warframe. The main market is an unofficial third party web site which let's you copy text into chat to organize a sale. It's clunky. I think the Warframe trading situation would benefit from items being associated with an NFT so the third party service could actually make the trades rather than simply facilitate. DE benefits from trading being a bit awkward so people buy plat instead of trade for it, so that'll never happen.
  Overall, I suspect NFTs will be the most likely of the crypto ideas to actually find some real use cases. Not needing a central authority to verify ownership is too useful of an idea.
"brave!... But foolish."
- This is hilariously accurate. This meme format is pretty validating though.
  Maybe I'm wrong, IDK. Time will tell. I have no stake in this take so I don't really care lol.

im da king of da highway

Butter under Nutella

Mad Max Fury Road was a boring, plotless waste of time

I have to agree with the plotless aspect. I will, however, defend it solely for its special effects. I think modern films should strive for the standard that movie set in my mind.
😱
Edit: Sure the plot is nothing to write home about but in this sense it's a pure action movie and as an action movie it's of a much higher quality than what the industry has given us for a very long time.
Dammit, I wanna argue against this so bad. I feel like Fury Road is among the rare, if not only, reboot or sequel or whatever you'd call it for movies that had a fresh entry after so long that holds pretty decent in light of the originals. It has awesome visuals, pretty good pacing, immersive characters, decent interactions.
Yet now I feel like the main plot is kinda stitch-together, "rise up people!" Marvel kind of garbage, with catchy "witness me" kinda stuff sparkled. Local settlement warlords in style of Farcry 3 and up.
- “They hated him because he told the truth”
Bro didn't notice all the 'show, don't tell moments' in the movie
- You’ll have to explain I just saw production design no plot

Basically any opinion I have about capitalism. 🤷

C is not a great language but is the best language we have.

Karma happens after death.

From personal experience, hexbear isn't as bad as people claim it is

The HBO adaptation of The Last of Us sucks ass

Rogue One sucks.

I don't want to get rid of daylight savings, because it's still a better option than keeping either summer or winter time.

Edit: another one: not having kids does not in any way contribute to solving environmental problems, we need MORE young, educated minds who have a chance to figure it out (as terrible as it sounds to push problems on the new generation), and we should ensure that in the event that we do manage to stabilize the situation, we won't instead have fucked up demographics to deal with.

All things, including human life experiences, are absolutely and completely predetermined as part of a chain of causal events.

Fractional measurements are better than decimal measurements for anything where the level of precision is important.

Decimal measurements can only increase our decrease in precision by a factor of 10.

For example if your precision is accurate to 1/4 of a unit, you can represent that with fractions no problem.

What is that in decimal? "0.25" implies precision to the hundredth of a unit.

What if your measurement is half a unit, but it's precise to 1/64 of a unit? Just don't reduce the fractions. "32/64ths" is more precise than .5.

That it's silly to reply with disagreements for a question that's asking for disagreeable opinions. 😉

Fallout 4 is a better game than New Vegas.

The Last Jedi was one of the best Star Wars movies, and Luke's redemption arc was great, even if the setup for it was rushed.

I commend you for voicing this opinion and disagree with you with every fiber of my being.
Why introduce astral projection instead of having Luke become one with the Force and then stall Kylo? The outcome is the same, but it doesn’t require the introduction of a new Force power and doesn’t imply that Luke used up his life force or whatever, which is also a completely new thing in the Star Wars universe. Having Luke’s Force ghost instead aligns with Episode IV when Obi Wan says that when he joins the Force he’ll be more powerful than Vader can possibly imagine.
I'm with you on this one. I will admit that there is also a degree of appeal in winding up two specific friends of mine that hate it

Gender when it comes to athletic sports should be determined by XX and XY chromosomes in order for it to be fair sports.

Josh Groban has an annoying singing voice.

People divide America into South America and North America, just to allow themselves to call the USA, America.

Subscription service is really convenient.

The Last Jedi was the best movie of the sequel trilogy

My opinion is this: if you can't be bothered to use proper grammar and spelling and express yourself clearly, you should shut the fuck up.

Bottom quoting in emails

Being cold gives me a cold. Yes, I understand that the cold virus is correlated than causal. I just can't buy it.

However everyone touts the "you huddle more in winter areas together" as if that makes sense. Pretty sure we do that more and in better weather.

Banana and Dijon mustard on toast is pretty good.

If you want a source for a claim, Google it yourself. This isn't the 70s where you have to go to a library and flip through a card catalog to find information. The answer is literally a few seconds away.

I don't know man, being poor doesn't seem great either.
Hear me out, I don't want to be Musk. I want to be in a situation where I don't have to work and I don't have to worry about money for the rest of my life. If today I want to lay in my bed until 11, get up and play games until 3pm, start binging a new series until 10pm, and then go clubbing until 4am, I wouldn't have to worry about whether it's Tuesday or Saturday, whether I have a project due tomorrow, whether I have food in the fridge, whether I can afford to pay my bills, all because I get a stream of money coming into my account every month, enough to cover all my expenses and then some, so if I want to start a project that can develop into a successful business, I can do that. And if I just want to tinker with some random piece of hardware I found on eBay, I can do that. And if I just want to go through the routine above, I can do that. That's what I seek. That level of freedom. Money is just a way of achieving that freedom.
Yeah not having an existential crisis every other day seems nightmarish
it's fun that this accurately represent the image, as few people are filthy rich.

The machine learning models and developments we see these last years called "AI" for some reason, is as big, if not bigger than the IT and internet revolution, and has applications on a broader spectrum than anyone can currently imagine.

Worker Cooperatives are better than traditional corporations or state owned firms.

George W Bush was right when he said that faith based charities should not be excluded from receiving federal grants just because they're faith based.

Zelda II: The Adventures of Link is a better game than most people give it credit for, and it deserves a remake.

Tipping is good.

I’m American and have worked in the service industry in the US and Germany. I fully support tipping in the US, because waiting tables is one of the few jobs in the US where you can actually earn a good living without breaking your body (as much as construction, as a comparison) and without a training program. In a place where unions actually make a difference, it’s just a nice thing to do, and that’s obviously a better solution generally, but that’s not currently the case in the US.

Or…maybe if the restaurants paid a good living wage to servers then tipping wouldn’t be necessary. In my experience, my opinion here goes against the grain in the US :)

BG3 is too buggy in act 3 to win goty

Monogamy feels like an archaic social convention enforced by unhealthy possessive behaviors and jealousy

Selfishness is coded into us by evolution. It's genetic. Lots of people will agree with me on this.

What I get a lot of pushback on, is that selflessness is the same. It has evolutionary benefits for a familial group, and so gets selected for.

Elden Ring sucks.

Andor was a garbage show, and The Batman (Robert Pattison) was a garbage film. Both are lauded and deserve less than none of the praise they get

Quake Champions is by far the best modern shooter eSport

Neal Stephenson is a talentless hack.

4e was peak D&D and anything before or after is a pale comparison.

Hear me out and this sounds crazy but
Use whatever system fits your group the best. Sometimes that results in some system that isn't dnd in the first place
- Basically the whole reason Pathfinder exists. Or, ridiculiusly broadly, the reason ANY other system exists 😁

Starfield is fun.

Episode 7 is better than episode 6.

Parents who purchase animal products care more about their “personal choice” than the world they’re leaving for their children. Bacon is more important to them than their own kids.

all memes including this one are unfunny and lazy as hell type words instead

Having children is immoral and selfish

Your are assailed by many threats: the religious, the nihilists, the corporatists, the fascists, and the alleged "collectivists". Extreme authoritarian "leftists", A.K.A. “tankies” (i.e., apologists for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the CCP, the DPRK, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Xi Jingping, etc.), are threats to a free, egalitarian, and open society, are just as violently authoritarian as their religious, corporatist, and fascist competitors, and should be treated with the contempt, distrust, and ridicule they deserve.

They claim to speak and fight for the proletariat, promising a new utopia, never before seen, once their revolution executes the last “class-traitor”. In practice, once they’re finished with “seizing the means of production”, they’ll never relinquish control and become the new ruling class.

They’ll assume the mantle of an enlightened elite post-revolutionary administration to guide the proletariat to their promised utopia of “each according to their ability, to each according to their need”. In practice, "the party leadership needs the most, because they’re obviously the most able” in reorganizing the economic and political structure of society. The utopia of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” will never exist, only the dictatorship of the “revolutionary party”. Repression and execution await those who question their claims and decisions.

These supposed champions of labor are really harbingers of death - of the mind and the body. They claim to be the true authoritative “voice of the people”. Understand what they really are; power over everything and everyone, forever, is what they seek. They want you either as a true believer (a willing pawn) or dead, just like all of the other supposedly benevolent dictators who promised utopias throughout history.

They’re akin to the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm, the loudest voices in the revolution, usurpers of a righteous cause, but a bit “more equal” than everyone else after the farmer is done away with. Fortunately, the pigs, like the farmer, got their comeuppance in the end of the story. Make these pigs squeal.

Here's something about American politics to provoke a lot of people, especially on this site:

Donald Trump should be elected in 2024 purely to serve as an exam to the left. Liberalism clearly doesn't work anymore, there's a lot of discontent in the world and a shift towards far-right politics, while left is almost non-existent in almost any country, it doesn't have an answer. With Donald Trump getting elected for his revenge term and demolishing democracy, hopefully it's a catastrophe strong enough for the left to wake up.

I'm not cut out for this politically correct shit. I say one historical fact people act like I'm making shit up and they delete my comment and call me dumb even though it's a universally established tradition of ancient states. I really can't deal with this "you have to be sensitive about others' feelings" so much so that you can't talk about real historical facts! I say fuck you to all.

The stock market should not exist. Investing in companies is fine, but we shouldn't be able to buy our sell investment shares like a commodity.

All subsidies should not exist. They only alter the supply/demand in unnecessary and damaging ways. This must come with ending commodities trading like stock market investing.

Chick-fil-A isn't that great.

I would never eat there because of their bigoted politics, but I am always shocked at how many people act like they can't live without it. Weird.

Pineapple is good on pizza

C and C++ are awesome and I hope they survive for another 50 years. Sorry Python folks. I just can't get past the strange syntax. Gimme my curly braces, away with this function block spacing crap.