. 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
Ok, I don’t like making generalizations, but let’s play the game:
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Dynamically typed programming languages are for babies.
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Having depression is not being sad. Having anxiety is not being nervous. Mental health exists and it’s very complex.
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We should start trating unhealthy use of social media as an actual addiction, and the platforms should be held accountable for the damage they have and still are causing.
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Sometimes older people have actual knowledge and wisdom that is only gained by experiencing life, and younger people shuld learn to shut the fuck up some times and stop pretending they were born knowing everything.
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Data is pronounced data and not data.
We should be boycotting all art and entertainment from Big Media in its entirety, but nobody is willing to do so
You should have to get a special license to drive something as big as a modern pickup truck.
And you should have to have a justifiable reason to buy and own one.
And there should be restrictions on where they can be driven.
Basically most people shouldn’t have pickup trucks.
I would go further. Most cars don’t belong in places where people live. They injure and kill people on the regular, the noise pollution causes mental and physical health problems, the light pollution disrupts sleep, the particulate pollution causes cardiovascular disease and dementia, as well as damaging ecosystems, driving adds to obesity and issues related to a sedentary lifestyle, the physical space they take leads to sprawl and ecosystem destruction, and the sprawl also bankrupts cities and towns. As well, driving in traffic just plain sucks as an activity, and makes people angry and miserable.
Oh yeah. Cars are bad on like every metric.
Socially they isolate people. You don’t interact with anyone when you’re driving except to get angry. The micro interactions you have on the train matter. Seeing people that aren’t just like you, also annoyed that the train is delayed, or just having a nice time with their kids, matters. More than makes up for when other people are annoying.
Economically they hurt. It’s much harder to just pop into an interesting looking shop when you’re cruising along at 40mph. All the space dedicated to parking could be used for other stuff- housing, commerce, communal space, whatever.
They make spaces less safe. Other than the direct impact (no pun intended) of people getting hit by cars, or crashing into stuff, a space that has steady foot traffic is generally safer. If everyone was in their car instead, you’d probably be alone on foot with no one to help if something happened.
They’re bad for the environment. Air pollution, micro plastics, whatever.
Drunk driving is way more dangerous than drunk “riding the train”.
The more non-car options are built out, the better it will be for people who need to drive for whatever reason.
Cars culture is trash and if we ever escape from it, it’s going to take years.
Going to disagree with your second point. In the UK at least, there’s a lot of friendly “no, after you” type activity. If the road narrows due to an overhead railway bridge or parked cars etc. generally speaking one or both will pull over, flash their lights to signal the other one can go first, and get a friendly wave of thanks when they pass. Letting people in at junctions isn’t uncommon either, though tends to be more the exception than the rule.
There is anger too of course, but usually only aimed at people who aren’t following the rules of the road, have done something stupid/dangerous, or are hesitating for far too long.
The only reason Americans started buying pick up trucks on mass is because of Tarifs put on Japanese car manufacturers in the 1970s and pick up trucks had no taxes on them suddenly became one of the cheapest and more affordable cars in the United States. Rick Wolf explained this somewhere I can’t remember where exactly.
There were also reduced fuel economy requirements for trucks and off-road vehicles, which contributed to the rise of SUVs.
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.
Where i live 9/10 they dont even have a hitch installed.
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.
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.
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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.
Agree, as a further measure It should be criminal to name stuff with “the” to begin with.
This seemingly simple thing enrages me on a daily basis.
How difficult can it fucking be to write some damn code to omit “the” from sorting if it is the first word of a title? JFC
If “the” appears first, then “ignore” must surely be a thing, right??
Fans of The The in absolute shambles.
We should organize libraries not by name, or even the Dewey decimal system, but simply by title length. Fiction, non fiction, jounrla articles, doesn’t matter. It’s all just in one stupid long list, shortest title to longest title.
If I do not have or cannot easily get root access to a computer, I don’t really own it.
Same for phones. But that’s the norm unfortunately
A phone is a computer. A smartwatch is a computer. The computers running a car’s infotainment and engine control systems are computers.
Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.
The word Data was originally a plural word, and should be again, for all time
Data is plural of datum, which also corresponds to the English word date. When Gregorian calender was introduced in Europe, for decades dates were the only things written in Indian style numerals.
datus/data means “given”, as in the metaphysical sense of the word, since the word started being used for statistics in a period where measurements were considered an objective observation of material reality, which was in fact considered “given” and not interpreted.
Seconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty.
Also a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and that’s the hill I’m dying on. Clean your stinky arse up.
I just shower because I like it. A more important factor in personal hygiene is if you wash your hands or not. I see so many people who piss and shit and then just run their hands under water quickly it’s fucking gross.
I used to think that as well. But what if it turned out that over-showering was actually the thing that makes you stinky?
well what if i only shower once a week and none of my friends complain?
You are vastly underestimating the social awkwardness that comes with telling someone they smell. Maybe you have a very different relationship than most do with their friends, but it would take quite a lot before I would bring that kind of thing up. In a professional setting, I would want to get HR involved before pointing that out to someone. I would let them figure out a polite way of asking the coworker to fix their B.O.
At the canteen table, I brought it up once during a tangentially-related conversation and they were all very surprised. Minutes later, while the others were getting the fill, one of them even privately went up to me and confirmed.
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Everyone needs a bidet. Literally clean yo stinky ass up!
“Seconded on Monty Python - he should feel terrible about that travesty.”
Monty Python is for insane British “people” who think drag is the height of comedy.
“Also a shower per day minimum for everyone is necessary and that’s the hill I’m dying on. Clean your stinky arse up.”
Not even true. Daily showers are entirely performative. I’ll have you know there are many people in your life who don’t take showers every day and you don’t even realize.
The word Data was originally a plural word
and because of that its not “data is beautiful” it’s “data are beautiful”
Isn’t data uncountable in english?
Except data usually refers to a single set of data, so it is both plural and singular.
A set of multiple things is a plural, friend. A set of dishes, a set of clothes, a set of knives, a set of tools. THESE tools, THESE clothes, THESE knives, THESE data.
“Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.”
How? I didn’t even say it was bad just not as good as people say it is. It’s ok but it can only be random for so long. Once you’ve seen one episode you’ve seen them all. Monty Python is no different to those old asdfmovie videos.
Once you’ve seen one [Monty Python] episode you’ve seen them all.
Sir, these are not Big Bang theory episodes.
12 hour time is an inferior standard, and we should be on 24 hour time so developers don’t ever default to 12 hour time. Way too many instances of mission critical things getting swapped on am/pm by mistake. That is never a problem with 24h time.
I’ve been trying to move over to 24 hour time. I swear switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius was easier.
I used math tricks at first. But honestly, just switching even one clock like your watch or phone makes it pretty easy over time.
1pm is easy to remember as it’s 13, a prime number
7x2 = 14(00)
3x5= 15(00)
4x4 =16(00)
5pm is 17, also a prime.
6x3 = 18(00)
7pm is also a prime, 19(00).
20, 21, 22, 23, and 00 also have math tricks, but you can also just remember that after 8pm, you have less than four hours till midnight :)
I find it easier to just add/subtract 12, the problem is that I sometimes accidentally add/subtract 10.
Yeah, I knew about that trick, but for me, it was easier to just break down 16 into its smaller components. Or remember that 19 was a prime, which belonged to 7. After a bit of time (heh), it all just started to meld for me. Nothing like immersion-based learning!
Really? That’s really surprising to me. I’m from Denmark where we use 24h time a lot so I’m used to it, but except for edge cases it’s easy to switch between them. Using Fahrenheit however is a struggle. I have to convert it every time, I have no idea about the temperature until I see it in celsius really. I guess it comes down to me having been exposed to both clock formats but only really on temperature unit.
My guess is I’d do better if every clock I owned was on 24-hour time. That’s how I did the Celsius switch, every device (except my car, which I haven’t been able to figure out how to change) I set to Celsius.
I live in a household that is divided between Celsius (me) and Fahrenheit (wife). I wish I could switch every device, but I have to pick my battles. So I expose myself as much as possible and recite the following
30 is hot 20 is nice 10 is cool 0 is ice
Fortunately my wife is both gracious and adventurous in this regard, and is cool with having most of our stuff on Celsius. I switched before we were married, and she’s slowly learning by virtue of everything being on Celsius except her phone.
Edit: Also, this may be helpful, I came up with a heuristic early on to approximate Fahrenheit values to help me learn.
I memorized every 10 (and eventually every 5) and then approached from the nearest memorized point using 2°F per 1°C instead of 1.8.
For example, if something said 22°C, I’d start at 20°C=68°F and work my way up, adding 4, to get to 72°F. Since the actual value is 71.6°F, that’s close enough.
If you forget a 10 or a 5 it’s easy to recalculate them if you know another, because it’s 9°F per 5°C. So if 20 is 68, and 30 is 86, then 25 is 77.
(Obviously you could also do the full conversion but that takes me more time.)
Ooo I like that. Thanks!
Celsius makes more sense for everything but normal to hot temps. 100 being about as hot as is tolerable. 75 being perfect 50 being tolerable cold.
How does that make sense, it’s just arbitrary numbers. I can give you arbitrary numbers for celsius too: 30 being hot but tolerable, 20 being perfect, 10 being cold but tolerable.
24hr time is based. 1600 > 4PM.
- ISO 8601 (e.g., 2025-05-23) are the only correct date formats.
- We should stop using time zones and daylight saving.
Stop using timezones? So every day would actually be two weekdays because at some random point in time it would switch date during the day. Let’s meet next Monday wouldn’t even specify a single day anymore in most countries. And there is no real benefit to stop using timezones, just downsides. Yes you’d know which time it is anywhere but you still wouldn’t know of they are awake or not and have to either look it up or remember it - the same you have to do now.
No. Let’s go for the craziest option. Continuous time zones! Your clock changes a bit every mile east or west you go.
You mean true solar time?
ISO dates, 100%.
Time zones…I could see arguing to rework them, but abolish them? How would that even work?
Typically people propose switching everything to UTC.
The read this doesn’t work is because humans are still bound by a diurnal cycle and you won’t have everyone wake up at 0800, since for some people that’s the time in the middle of when the sun sets and rises.
So you still need to communicate to people across space where the sun is or will be for you at a time in the future, or otherwise relate where in your wake cycle you’ll be.
Tied to this is legal jurisdictions. Within a legal jurisdiction it’s important for regulatory events to be synchronized. For things like bank hours, school hours, government office hours, things like “no loud noises when people tend to be sleeping”, “teenagers old enough to have a job aren’t allowed to work late on school nights”, and what specifically constitutes “after hours or weekend labor” for the purposes of overtime and labor regulation you need your definition to be consistent across the jurisdiction. Depending on where you are in relation to Greenwich a typical workday can start at 1900 Friday night/morning, and extend until 0300 Saturday morning/afternoon. Your “weekend” would start when you woke up around 1800 Saturday evening/morning.Right now we solve this problem by deciding on a consistent set of numbers for where the sun is across some area that inevitably lines up with legal jurisdiction. Then we use a lookup table to translate our conception of where the sun is to where it is elsewhere.
Without timezones you instead need to use the same type of lookup table to find the position of the sun at the time and place of interest, and then try to infer what the situation would be.
We have UTC now, and people inevitably already use it where it makes sense. It’s just usually easier to have many clocks that follow similar rules than it is to have one clock that’s interpreted many different ways.
We could use UTC.
You can use UTC, right now. Nothing’s stopping you.
We should stop using time zones
Check this out. I’m a business with at least one office in every US state. You want to know when my New York office opens so you can come by. Instead of seeing “Offices are open 9 AM to 5 PM” You now need to check every office… by state… by city? Time zones would be helpful even if we all used GMT, so that you could easily determine which time zone a business is in to set a reasonable time to be open.
DST can fuck off though.
That’s a pretty specific use though. A case like this only makes sense because we all somehow decided 9AM - 5PM is a standard business time, when society could benefit from having different business/services open at different times.
That was an example of a situation where time zones make sense. Any time it is important where the sun is in the sky, the time that it occurs will differ depending on where you are in the world. When is lunch break? When do backups run? When can you see the eclipse? If we weren’t in an interconnected world, it wouldn’t matter much but we need some convention to communicate information that is dependent on where the sun is, as that very often dictates human activity.
It seems like a universal time makes sense but I can’t think of a way to get around the fact that activity will vary according to timezones anyway.
What about RFC 3339? It’s technically different.
Good point! We should only use date formats that are allowed by both standards! https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
We should stop using time zones…
The way they are and divide them in half so that the western side of the current time zone gets the same-ish amount of light as the eastern side of the time zone
… and daylight saving
By springing ahead permanently, right? Right‽
As a British person I agree with your second point. Everyone should use Greenwich Mean Time which is obviously the correct time. Even if it means that noon is in the middle of the night for some people.
I want the most anti-British option. I know! We’re going to do away with clocks entirely. We wake up when we wake up. We work when we work. We forget counting the days. Forget the calendar entirely. Live forever in an eternal now.
Dampening is making things wet. Damping is reducing oscillations in something.
Every time I hear or read people using them interchangeably is infuriating.
Thanks for this actually, I didn’t know
Dampening is making things -wet- …
moist, or slightly wet.
The meaning of this word stops short of “drenching/dousing something”.One might even say that dampening is making things damp!
Similarly, something being deprecated & something being depreciated.
In our nightmare world where fame is money, being deprecated IS being depreciated!
Finally someone who understands. I see this mistake everywhere made even by supposedly intelligent people.
Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. People can be ignorant about a topic and still be intelligent.
I am happy for not having seen this mistake.
There needs to be a mandatory parenting training course if you’re expecting a child.
Religion needs to be taken out of the government completely
I agree with sentiment, but as stated that’s just eugenics with extra steps. By controlling the cost, availability and/or accessibility of the course, you control who can have children. Also how are you going to enforce this policy, forced abortions?
Better imo to make childrearing a part of the school curriculum with a highly encouraged refresher course later on. That achieves the same end without risking peoples liberties.
There needs to be a mandatory parenting training course if you’re expecting a child.
I like this in theory. But I know in practice some idiots will always manage to get their hands on the curriculum.
Me too but it’d turn into eugenics so quickly.
I was fucking baffled walking out of the hospital with my baby. No training, no proof of education, no tests. Walking out with the nurse in tow asking them "yeah are you sure i don’t need to like sign something?
In the UK we almost have this in something called NCT (National Childbirth Tr. … ust).
It’s not compulsory and most only do it for their first but you’re kinda so shit scared that most tend to do it.
The knowledge is good but getting a close network of 5 other couples having a baby within a month of each other is invaluable…for the mums, the dad’s are shit at keeping in touch typically lol
I disagree about religion. It should be subordinated to the government. That should stop them from promoting reactionary rethoric. (Assuming the government is half decent in the first place. Otherwise there’s not much difference.)
I sometimes tell my kids about things I was taught, and survival habits I picked up in the “dad qualification program”. I based the idea of the program on a brief description of air force officer survival training in the book The Hatchet, and a generous dose of imagination. The kids have never questioned it.
Owning a pug is animal cruelty
EDIT: adding bulldogs and other snub-nosed pets that wouldn’t exist without selective breeding by humans.
Even if it’s a rescue? Maybe breeding pugs (without trying to reverse the damage done to them) is pretty shitty, but I could see rescuing one is fine. I mean, what’s the other option, killing them all?
Fair, but it still fuels the market. Somebody rescues one. Somebody else sees it and wants one but can’t find a rescue or doesn’t want a rescue, and goes to a breeder.
Simple. They should only be legal to own if they’re fixed.
That’s a good compromise, but the dogs all have to undergo surgery. The breed needs to go somehow.
I’m pretty sure that if someone wanted a pug, seeing one person who did a rescue wouldn’t be the tipping point.
And there are people who are trying, through breeding, to reverse the damage done to these poor animals.
So yeah, I think there are ethical ways to own a pug.
Dog breeds go through trends just like anybody else. Your fav valuable has a pug? You might want a pug. Maybe not you, but that’s how trends work. The aristocracy tells you what to like. That’s the whole reason they exist in the first place.
And there’s a trend to un fuck up pugs through breeding now, but you think that’s unethical as well because that’s still owning a pug.
I know about retro pugs. I’m only against owning snub-nosed pugs.
Apple products aren’t any better than anything else, it’s just marketing and branding. They’re like the Starbucks of computers.
With the exception of intel macs, they are the Lexus of computers because they are Overbuilt and long after they’re discontinued you pop Linux or even Windows on them and they keep on ticking and due to the metal body they survive children better 😅. Not sure about newer apple silicon though.
Not sure about newer apple silicon though
Apple Silicon is impressive as hell. The power consumption per performance is remarkable. A buddy of mine said on his M2 MacBook Pro, Factorio ran better even through emulation than it had on his other laptop. And much better once recompiled for the ARM architecture.
(That said, I’m sticking with the x86_64 I know and love to hate, since while I like other Apple products I’ve never gotten the hang of OSX.)
I used to do data recovery and working on macbooks was a dream compared to every other plastic-and-clips cheapo laptop.
The soldered on memory is stupid but overall the build quality on them is very apparent and only comparable to very high end PC-laptops.
Linux on ARM is getting better all the time!
I would argue they are worse! I had iPhones and a MacBook Pro for years. Switched to Android, Windows, and Linux. Apple is great for people who want a device that just works out of the box, but those devices can’t be tweaked to better fit your personal needs. Many features that have been present on personal devices for decades are blocked on Apple devices. They even make up terms like “side loading” so it sounds like you are doing something immoral. Downloading an application from whatever source of your choosing should be #1 feature of any device. As far as I know, you can only download apps from Apple’s own store now. All iPhone browsers are reskinned Safari. Apple refuses to adopt existing standards so that users feel inclusive when they see blue texts over green. The list feels endless…
heh it truly depends on a lot of factors. I don’t want to “cheap out” on a high-end windows laptop, their thermals are shit, the battery life is non-existent, the keyboard is trash, and the computer frame are rarely decent.
A macbook is expensive, yes, but I’ve never experienced having to doubt the hardware, or get weird issues with it. It’s a peace of mind I’m willing to pay a premium for. I even have a mac mini as a server for the extremely low power consumption & extremely good CPU performance (seriously, this thing competes with i9s for a fraction of the power (I’m exclusively interested in single thread applications))
As for iphones & apple watches, I like to tinker with my stuff way too much for them to make sense to me (which my macbook allows me to do as much as I want)
I’m exclusively talking about my experience with apple silicon, idk how it was before the M1 chips came out.
I switched to iPhones after my partner got one over a decade ago… I’ve only had three. They’ve lasted over five years. I just got my third.
I’m only now contemplating replacing my first gen Apple Watch cuz it dies before the day is done.
I can’t comment on computers but for phone and watch, I’ve had stellar experiences.
I recently switched to Android. IPhones work great, the hardware is all there, the software is probably more polished, etc… but on Android you can get the phone to do basically anything with a bit of effort. There’s an app that lets you easily install most linux packages, and one that can emulate most Windows apps and games. There’s a ton of open source software, and you can actually find apps that don’t shove in-app purchases in your face (because devs don’t have to pay $100 a year just to stay on the store)
I got PrusaSlicer to work on my phone, through the Windows emulator, and sliced one relatively complex 3D model with it. For some reason it crashed every time I tried to start it after that, but it’s still pretty neat that it worked at all. PrusaSlicer has a linux build for ARM so whenever I find the time to set up one of those linux desktops on my phone I’ll probably try that.
Well I know iphones are great quality devices & have long lasting support, but if I can’t tinker with it then to me it’s hardly better than a gilded brick
By “tinker with it” I mean installing apps like youtube revanced, playing morrowind, having access to a terminal etc
That’s fair! I have ZERO interest in tinkering on my phone. I have like eight computers to worry about. I just want my phone to browse the internet, take the best pictures possible, and last forever on battery. When I have to go into the office, I can watch videos all day at full brightness and go home to 60% battery or more. It’s perfect.
- No one should be allowed to own a second home until everyone has one.
- Static typing sucks.
Phones have become boring and are all the same. I want options like we had with Nokia back in the day. So a music phone, gaming phone, business phone etc. but with a modern OS. All we have now are camera phones. Google announcing that they’ve added a second possible function to The Button in settings just doesn’t excite me. Smartphones have become shit and it’s not because we’ve perfected them or some shit, it’s because chasing lines on marketing graphs and playing follow the leader has resulted in no choice anymore and everything being lowest common denominator, mass produced slop.
camera phones
Why are all “modern” phones so full of cameras? One on the fucking screen & at least 2 on the back. I just want a phone with no cameras. Even 1 might be O.K., so long as it’s on the phone’s backside.
Why are all “modern” phones so full of cameras? One on the fucking screen & at least 2 on the back.
Because different lenses are good at different things. On a three-lens setup, one is usually a telephoto lens for distance, another is a standard wide-angle lens for normal photography, and the third is an ultrawide angle for capturing more of a scene and for macro ultra-close-up photography.
Also you can film in 3D using two of the three.
Multiple lenses are a big part of why phone images are as high quality as they are these days.
And the one on the front is obvious, it enables things like video chat, selfies, and sometimes facial recognition (though that can also work by infrared and lidar).
all that effort and all I care about is scanning QR codes :(
But many people don’t use any of those features. I get that many do, but every single smartphone with features I require has them.
They actually track this and most people 51%+ use their phones for video calling, so you’re in the minority
Huh, really? Do you remember where you read this?
Planet earth?
100% with you on this. All I need is a QR code scanner. I don’t care about the pixel count, I want everything in my phone to be in performance / screen quality
Actually even for qr codes the pixel count (or rather camera quality) makes a huge difference. Got a new phone last year with much better camera then previous. Suddenly during presentations i didn’t need to awkwardly semi stand up and try to get closer. Just recognized the code immediately
I think it has more to do with compute speed. I have a trash camera but high-end CPU on my device, QR codes are instantaneous
I found out that they give military personnel such phones.
Oh no, I think I might’ve missed my chance, then.
But seriously, I have abslutely no use for a “selfie camera” & feel uncomfortable with the whole concept of having a camera constantly facing you. At least with laptops it’s easier to put something in front. Even with a back-facing camera, its use is very limited & would prefer to be without one, let alone a handful.
Phones have become boring and are all the same.
Yep, this is why my next phone will be a Fairphone with their OS, or a Unihertz or something. I miss the old days where a different brand of phone meant a totally different OS, and there were loads of brands.
What would a music phone look like? I’m not arguing, I’m genuinely asking what features are ‘camera phones’ lacking that could be installed into a ‘music phone’ (but not in a '‘camera phone’)?
Beastly speakers I bet.
