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- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 22 hours ago:
Looking nice and spending time reflecting on your morals and interacting with your community - ooooh nooooo!
I’m not religious, but seriously, it you remove all the “hate gay people” rhetoric, going to church is a positive thing for both the individual and the community. Hating on it just makes you look like a neckbeard.
- Comment on Yeah, I was staring at her heart 1 day ago:
Yeah, if only they had cute boobs to state at…
- Comment on Yeah, I was staring at her heart 1 day ago:
Like boobs!
- Comment on Fear of 'being cringe' blamed for lack of dancing on nightclub dance floors 3 days ago:
Kids these days are a bunch of fuckin nerds.
Signed, an older nerd.
- Comment on YSK: Do you have documents to prove you are a US citizen? If not, here's how 3 days ago:
Are those numbers for passports only, or do they include “passport cards” which are only good for Canada and Mexico?
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 days ago:
That’s reasonable. I, too, like to keep things low tech as much as possible. But I also recognize that there is a legitimate place in the world for wifi enabled BBQs.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
Government doesn’t exist to serve the people. It exists to serve those who have the power to influence the government. Sometimes this is the people. Sometimes it isn’t.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 days ago:
I mean, I personally am not going to buy one. But if someone was adamant that this would measurably improve their life, who am I to contradict them?
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
Because I decided to care about my own happiness more than virtue signalling. When a politician says that they will impose a pigouvian tax on meat, I’ll vote for them. But I’m not gonna make myself miserable for literally no change in climate outcomes.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 4 days ago:
Kill all the billionaires -> another crop step in to fill the power vacuum - likely more likely to hire excellent security teams.
Revolution, overthrow capitalism -> the power hungry psychopaths who wanted to be billionaires pivot and seek positions in seats of government power. They continue living lives of opulant luxury on the public largess, and propagate fossil fuel and factory farming industries since this is one of the ways they skim their wealth from the public coffers.
Reform, throw out all the opulant bureaucrats. Maybe murder them. Introduce a new level of transparency in government. Install leaders who follow the public will, even to their own detriment. But the public will likes things mostly the way they are, and doesn’t want to give up their cars because they are used to them and see them as a symbol of their success in achieving whatever socioeconomic status, and doesn’t want to give up meat because meat is delicious. Because everyone likes getting things for free and the elected representatives do exactly what the public demands, entitlement programs grow rapidly while taxes stay the same or get lower. No one does work, because perfect communist utopia provides people with all their needs, so people just spend all their time driving cars and eating meat. A few do-gooders talk about how we are destroying the environment and going bankrupt. Everyone tells them to shut up and stop being nerds.
Economy collapses due to no incentive to work. Everyone admits that capitalism was pretty flawed, but was still pretty good at getting people to build houses and shit even when they would rather be driving cars and eating meat. Start capitalism again, but with better rules about lobbying and regulatory capture and all that jazz. Also, better education and support for children so the next generation grows up less fucking stupid. Elect good politicians who are good at spinning necessary hardships to their constituents. Apply a carbon tax to meat and gas and give people the tax money directly, because most people feel like they come out ahead when they get free money.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 4 days ago:
I continued eating beef 4 years ago. It was also a great decision.
- Comment on Are some people just unable to become fluent in a foreign language? 4 days ago:
I mean, this is a valid point, but framed negatively.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 4 days ago:
Iirc, you can also control the temp, presumably by interacting with the pellet hopper or fan. This will be specific enough for a BBQ that an integrated component makes sense.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 4 days ago:
Iirc, these grills are wifi connected so you can remotely monitor and control temperature. Makes sense if you are bbqing something that is gonna be in there for 12 hours. But then, you kind of lose one of the benefits of bbqing - sitting next to a grill and drinking beer with your friends for 12 hours.
- Comment on Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain. 5 days ago:
I mean, what is actually needed is a secure messaging app that scrapes wraps existing apps. So when two people send messages through FancyMessages, they are secure. But then if only one person has FancyMessages, and the other has Facebook messenger, then they could still comminicate - the FB user using Messenger as usual, and our hero’s FancyMessages app picking up the FB messages and passing them on through the FancyMessages UI.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
This seems like a flaw in the design of the platform…
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
You aren’t wrong. But being a social media influencer is something almost no one would accidentally fall into. People who do it intentionally are doing it to chase a dream of fame and fortune and glamor - but because there is a limited amount of attention in the world and it is highly concentrated, you are really rolling the dice on a dream if you decide to commit to it. There is a very high probability that even if you put your whole heart and soul into it and done everything perfectly, you will still never achieve much more financial success than a child’s lemonade stand.
It’s basically the same thing as wanting to be a blockbuster film actor or a rock star or an NBA player. If you are struggling and unsuccessful… Well yeah, that’s exactly what everyone told you would happen. Go get a different job. And if you are successful and famous and making tons of money - “oh no, boohoo, it must be so hard to be successful beyond your wildest dreams.”
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Speaking of rainbow parties - that was actually a great idea. How come we never do that?
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 1 week ago:
Next they pay attention and learn algebra
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 1 week ago:
The fact that you used the term we usually use to describe quitting alcohol and cigarettes is probably a good sign that they should be banned.
- Comment on Yellow from the egg! 1 week ago:
Totally down with that idea. I want to have chickens in my back yard, but I spend a lot of time out of town, so I’d need to figure out how to get my housemates to take care of them when I’m not around.
- Comment on Yellow from the egg! 1 week ago:
As an American, I heard that the euros don’t refrigerate their eggs. And I thought “well that’s good… One less thing to refrigerate!” And I stopped doing it about 15 years ago.
I have not had salmonella once. Worst case is that about once every two years, I crack a rotten egg into my breakfast scramble and it smells like Satan’s hangover farts. But ya know, ya win some, ya lose some.
- Comment on Yellow from the egg! 1 week ago:
As an American, this mostly scares me because I can’t read german
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 1 week ago:
I’m sure there are some out there. But they won’t be any good.
Tinder, Hinge, Bumble. That’s what people are on. Maybe there is something else popular in your area - ask your friends. If you try to go somewhere else (unless you are trying to fit a specific niche like being gay or kinky or a farmer) then you will miss out on most of the online dating market. And spoiler: it will be the good part you are missing out on. The guys you want to match with aren’t making accounts on “random dating app lolz”, because there is no one there so it is a waste of time.
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 1 week ago:
And also how they assessed “being a bully”
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 1 week ago:
Or the other option: all kids are equally capable of being dicks to each other. It just depends who has social capital. Kids who have the traits necessary to gain social capital - intelligence, athleticism, attractiveness, confidence, etc - end up on top of the social hierarchy in school and also end up going farther in life.
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 1 week ago:
I know plenty of moral smart people who are doing very well in life.
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 1 week ago:
Eh, I bet the pay is shit
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 1 week ago:
Well yeah. What you believe is literally all reality is. Of course it’s important. I believe I’m sitting in a chair typing on my phone right now - if I didn’t have those beliefs, my reality would be completely different. That’s important
- Comment on I require nothing more 1 week ago:
Dead plastic plant. For when you want everyone to know you are irresponsible, but without the responsibility