. The race of a voice actor doesn’t matter
. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy
. You don’t need to shower everyday
. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
. Monty Python is very overrated
You should have to get a special license to drive something as big as a modern pickup truck.
And you should have to have a justifiable reason to buy and own one.
And there should be restrictions on where they can be driven.
Basically most people shouldn’t have pickup trucks.
The only reason Americans started buying pick up trucks on mass is because of Tarifs put on Japanese car manufacturers in the 1970s and pick up trucks had no taxes on them suddenly became one of the cheapest and more affordable cars in the United States. Rick Wolf explained this somewhere I can’t remember where exactly.
There were also reduced fuel economy requirements for trucks and off-road vehicles, which contributed to the rise of SUVs.
It was on Volkswagen Transporter pick ups in the 1960s, in response to German taxes on imported US chicken.
Actually, full sized pick ups are not liable to light truck tariffs, but they have no market outside of the US.
Love how the bed of the truck is basically the same size (if not smaller) as well so really you can’t use the excuse of needing the bigger truck for hauling stuff.
Come to India. Seems like your dreamland.
I‘d love to move to India again. I just don’t know how I could get a job there. I don’t have any fancy degrees.
Id love a pickup…but it would be impractical, expensive to buy and run, the back space is basically useless cause even if you do put a cover on, the locks are crap. So I won’t be getting a pick up truck. Plus, where I live, it would go missing.
Its even worse in SEA. Some countries like Nam have these small dick pick-up driving shitheads but what they don’t have is America’s huge roads and streets.
Alphebetizing by the “The” should be a criminal act.
Looking at you, Google Play Library.
This seemingly simple thing enrages me on a daily basis.
How difficult can it fucking be to write some damn code to omit “the” from sorting if it is the first word of a title? JFC
If “the” appears first, then “ignore” must surely be a thing, right??
Fans of The The in absolute shambles.
If I do not have or cannot easily get root access to a computer, I don’t really own it.
Owning a pug is animal cruelty
EDIT: adding bulldogs and other snub-nosed pets that wouldn’t exist without selective breeding by humans.
Even if it’s a rescue? Maybe breeding pugs (without trying to reverse the damage done to them) is pretty shitty, but I could see rescuing one is fine. I mean, what’s the other option, killing them all?
Fair, but it still fuels the market. Somebody rescues one. Somebody else sees it and wants one but can’t find a rescue or doesn’t want a rescue, and goes to a breeder.
I’m pretty sure that if someone wanted a pug, seeing one person who did a rescue wouldn’t be the tipping point.
And there are people who are trying, through breeding, to reverse the damage done to these poor animals.
So yeah, I think there are ethical ways to own a pug.
Dog breeds go through trends just like anybody else. Your fav valuable has a pug? You might want a pug. Maybe not you, but that’s how trends work. The aristocracy tells you what to like. That’s the whole reason they exist in the first place.
And there’s a trend to un fuck up pugs through breeding now, but you think that’s unethical as well because that’s still owning a pug.
I know about retro pugs. I’m only against owning snub-nosed pugs.
- No one should be allowed to own a second home until everyone has one.
- Static typing sucks.
I’ve never heard the thought about owning a second home before. That’s a fascinating thought. I wonder if that would incentivize the rich to buy/donate homes. Or if there would just be some kind of rich only club loophole
What is your problem with static typing
I’m not super fond of dynamic typing either. I like untyped or uni-typed languages like ‘everything is an array’ (APL) or ‘everything is an integer’ (Forth, assembly).
I’m of the same opinion as Chuck Moore who once observed, “Strong typing merely creates errors so that they can be detected.” In my experience, the amount of complexity added by these systems is staggering. To such a degree that they cause more errors than they prevent. More types, more opportunities to use them incorrectly, after all.
I also prefer the ‘build the program while it’s running’ workflow, which is inhibited by static typing.
One time I found a C++ library where everything was of a single type, the “untype” essentially. It removed all type safety, in other words, to allow pure binary access to all data. I mean, there’s an occasion now and then when one needs that sort of thing, but I found in every case it was just a headache. Now I know there’s two people like that, haha.
Well, I don’t agree with you, but I respect a hot take about coding when I see one. My own a-little-less-spicy-than-yours take is that OOP is overated.
You should use your blinker when turning into a parking space
Apple products aren’t any better than anything else, it’s just marketing and branding. They’re like the Starbucks of computers.
heh it truly depends on a lot of factors. I don’t want to “cheap out” on a high-end windows laptop, their thermals are shit, the battery life is non-existent, the keyboard is trash, and the computer frame are rarely decent.
A macbook is expensive, yes, but I’ve never experienced having to doubt the hardware, or get weird issues with it. It’s a peace of mind I’m willing to pay a premium for. I even have a mac mini as a server for the extremely low power consumption & extremely good CPU performance (seriously, this thing competes with i9s for a fraction of the power (I’m exclusively interested in single thread applications))
As for iphones & apple watches, I like to tinker with my stuff way too much for them to make sense to me (which my macbook allows me to do as much as I want)
I’m exclusively talking about my experience with apple silicon, idk how it was before the M1 chips came out.
I switched to iPhones after my partner got one over a decade ago… I’ve only had three. They’ve lasted over five years. I just got my third.
I’m only now contemplating replacing my first gen Apple Watch cuz it dies before the day is done.
I can’t comment on computers but for phone and watch, I’ve had stellar experiences.
I recently switched to Android. IPhones work great, the hardware is all there, the software is probably more polished, etc… but on Android you can get the phone to do basically anything with a bit of effort. There’s an app that lets you easily install most linux packages, and one that can emulate most Windows apps and games. There’s a ton of open source software, and you can actually find apps that don’t shove in-app purchases in your face (because devs don’t have to pay $100 a year just to stay on the store)
I got PrusaSlicer to work on my phone, through the Windows emulator, and sliced one relatively complex 3D model with it. For some reason it crashed every time I tried to start it after that, but it’s still pretty neat that it worked at all. PrusaSlicer has a linux build for ARM so whenever I find the time to set up one of those linux desktops on my phone I’ll probably try that.
Well I know iphones are great quality devices & have long lasting support, but if I can’t tinker with it then to me it’s hardly better than a gilded brick
By “tinker with it” I mean installing apps like youtube revanced, playing morrowind, having access to a terminal etc
That’s fair! I have ZERO interest in tinkering on my phone. I have like eight computers to worry about. I just want my phone to browse the internet, take the best pictures possible, and last forever on battery. When I have to go into the office, I can watch videos all day at full brightness and go home to 60% battery or more. It’s perfect.
Summer is a crappy season, fall is superior.
The best season is the short window in spring where it’s warm out but the bugs aren’t out yet.
I forgot to mention. If you use country balls to explain something I’m not taking you seriously.
-Businesses should be run by people who are passionate about the giving a great product and/or service and not some shitty MBA who only except 10x return on his investment.
. The race of a voice actor doesn’t matter
The race and gender of an actor don’t matter. Ask Shakespeare
RIP Apu apparently
Not only is Gacha a bad game monetization from a consumers perspective, the moment it’s implemented the game is shit, and you should be ashamed to play it.
I dont care about Genshin’s cultural impact, Fortnite’s mechanical depth or how hot the latest team fortress character is, you should always have the thought of supporting the indefensible in the back of your head while playing them and consider it a guilty pleasure. Meaning: keep your damn pulls to yourself!
And since I used to say it too: “You can absolutely play without paying money” isn’t an argument when you need to pay with time instead, doing dailies is a chore, not leisure.
Genshin’s cultural impact? I guess I am out of touch, I have no idea what it is and just now had to look up gacha lol
- Modern flip phones (e.g. Samsung Fold) are stupid and gimmicky industrial design failures.
- Humans are not good by nature. They are taught to be good but even babies cry and get angry without anyone teaching them.
- The Cat in The Hat movie with Mike Myers was not as bad as critics claim and actually had good undertones patched together with modern humor that is more profound in recent times than when it was originally released. It was actually ahead of its time.
- Apple/MacOS isn’t actually a better platform and is only designed to give the impression that it is simpler even though people still have to learn how to use it.
- Adult services should be legal in all countries and the workers involved should get paid with benefits/protections just like everybody else. This is assuming capitalism cannot be removed from the picture.
- VTubers shouldn’t be showing their actual bodies. It defeats the purpose of using the moniker in the first place.
- Education should be free without any debt involved. There is legitimately no good reason why education and knowledge should be pay-walled.
- Euthanasia should be legal where the person no longer wishes to subject themselves to failing health is granted control over their body. Forcing such people to keep living is selfish and pertains cruel and unusual.
- Hollywood should not be idolized and is actually part of the problem with things being f’d up rn. There is no good reason why actors or any kind of artist should be making all that money while the rest of society gets by with the scraps we toss around while the rich get richer. The same goes for any kind of celebrity, really. I don’t even leave out sports people in this.
This took me twice as long to finish because every other point I ended up with something political. So this is pretty much the least triggering or offensive I can make my list. Good grief.
I’m gonna have to ask what you define as good because I don’t think having emotions is bad, even if you’re a baby
That’s a good point. Let me rephrase then: I believe all humans are selfish by nature and so inherently are more easily prone to acting out even if it affects others negatively (intentionally). As in, there’s probably a reason why the baby is crying sometimes or there’s a reason the baby gets angry. Humans have to be taught to tame their demons because without empathy, everything would be an eye for an eye. By default, I don’t think humans have it in them to see right from wrong unless they’re taught either directly or indirectly. Something something nature and nurture something something. My 2 cents.
I’d say that mortality for humans is a social trait, because it’s something that benefits a small tribe social species. Stealing is “wrong” because it’s bad for small group survival, while “sharing” is good because it helps it. My that measure, humans are also inherently good because they engage in pro social behavior on an instinctual level.
The issue I think comes up with other survival traits that end in antisocial behavior. Tribalism is good for survival against other competing small social groups, but terrible when you’re trying to expand social cohesion.
Do you also think animals are inherently evil because they act in accordance with their own self oriented survival?
Misuse of their there and they’re.
You/your/you’re wrong. Other mistakes take precedence.
It’s too much to remember
There shouldn’t be borders.
I’d one up that and say there shouldn’t be countries. The concept makes no sense. US propaganda always tries to make China and Russia out to be the “enemy” meanwhile when its Trump doing bad things, the world also says its the US causing problems. All of the sudden, what one or two bad people do somehow means the whole country is at fault. If we took out all the bad people and chucked them out, we could all just be people. No nations, no nothing—just people.
Nationalism also works the other way. The wins of the privileged are framed as ‘WE’RE winning!!’. Big companies exploit you more and profit? It’s spun as The Economy is going well. GDP went up. That sounds good for you, doesn’t it?
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