. 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
- No one should be allowed to own a second home until everyone has one.
- Static typing sucks.
Can we share the first hill?
The race of a voice actor doesn’t matter
I have only a single exception. In Lower Decks, there’s a crossover episode with Strange New Worlds where you see two of the animated characters in the live action show because their voice actors look like their characters. The other two main characters don’t. One would need to be painted green and could probably pass but the other character, Rutherford, is a black guy voiced by an Asian Pacific guy, and …yeah he could probably pass but that’s…well it’d be a much easier call if the character and the VA’s “race” matched.
(In the star trek universe this wouldn’t matter at all, I’m only pointing out the IRL conflict. In fact, I believe they went with only two crossover characters for budget reasons)
I always thought Rutherford was SEA though.
. No matter how intelligent a person is, they can still make the simplest mistakes for their entire lives, because they stick by of what they’ve learned and die on that hill.
. Black holes will be proven to not exist. And in the list of cosmological errors, that’s the most obvious one. [edit] What people are observing, at least for the “stellar sized black holes”, are UV/X-ray/Gamma ray stars, much like there are red stars and blue stars. [/edit]
. For what it implies, Star Trek is far more evil than Star Wars despite all the anti-war rhetoric and perpetual war of the latter, as the former implies “Marx was wrong, Fourier was right. We CAN have a socialist utopia quietly evolved from an empire that began as a group of slave owners on stolen land with the flag of an oligarchic spice and slave trade corporation, who decided that a small sales tax, where most countries have VAT, on a single good, one that turns hot water into a tasty drink, was theft and so they decided that “this means war” and called for independence. Then a few decades later they created a manifesto saying that half the continent and more is simply theirs because they’re so exceptional. The empire with the two-party system to ensure the purest form of kleptocracy, an ingenious way to silence dissent and perpetual struggle, moreso than any dictatorship empire has tried in the past.
The continuation of THIS empire, the empire of deception, is the one taking over the galaxy, destined to seize the entire universe because they’re so enlightened as said by one of the gods in the Star Trek universe.” And no, STD and Picard doesn’t do it any justice. Star Trek doesn’t tell why the Federation is or isn’t progressive. At least Star Wars explained how the Republic collapsed as a queen appointed a harebrained mudskipper to be her representitive in case she was absent, who then got manipulated into giving a tyrant unchecked power.There are many reasons why black holes exist and we’ve even imaged one via radio telescopes.
AI generated slop from scrubbed data are not images. One real image shows what clearly is a star.
I think you’re missing some key parts of the Star Trek lore. America didn’t peacefully evolve into the Federation. Earth wasn’t able to get past it’s self destructive tendencies until after World War III, a conflict so devastating that 30% of the Earth’s population was killed. My knowledge is more fuzzy on this, but I don’t think the American empire survived WWIII as an entity.
Also we have images of black holes.
A romanticized repeat of world war II isn’t remotely true of the current trajectory the US is heading into and that’s not a fluke, unlike how the cold war ended through no solution to a petrodollar scheme until around 1996 when natural gas could mitigate the issue of fossil fuel flight in oil dependent nations.
The US empire surely survived in Star Trek as “the easteners” were defeated, Cochrane became a hero, the names of the ships are all NASA names. Just take one look of the opening theme of Enterprise. It’s 100% US-oriented.Images of “black holes” are artist conceptions, AI generated (the first “real” picture is this) from data to suit preconceived notions of what the object should look like or this
The last one is an actual picture of a so-called black hole in X-ray light. That’s not a hole with an accretion disc. That’s a star that shines in X-ray light.
black holes don’t exist?
Cygnus X-1 is a star, not a black hole.
Furthermore, space cannot bend; time cannot bend; spacetime is an irrational concept and even if the concept was rational it still cannot bend, because concepts do not have the properties of objects and therefore some verbs cannot be applied to them literally or you’d be making reification fallacies.Just to be clear, you’re not just saying black holes don’t exist, but you’re rejecting Relativity - the bedrock of modern physics - in its entirety?
Yeah that one needs some explanation.
I mean realistically it would have happened without jar jar anyhow. Palpatine wasn’t gonna give up because he lost an election by a single vote.
True. But it tells of a power structure based on laws that is rotten, as the laws preventing the power structure turning into one of absolutism could easily be dismantled by a lesser appointed official and a secret army. If Jar Jar could get the job, imagine how many other idiots would have been representatives in the Galactic Senate, that were appointed by people from the galactic senate themselves. It’s a classic case of nepotism.
Star Trek on the other hand thought that utopian socialism was almost upon us, with a world war repeat in between, as social democracy was implemented in the US out of fear of a socialist uprising.
-for humanity to survive, it must eliminate the rich
-pineapple can go on pizza. You can put whatever you want on pizza. You don’t have to like it for it to be a valid topping. Some people just hate things because they heard about it online.
-new York pizza is not the best pizza in the universe.
- the people who want to change the date of celebrating Halloween to the last Saturday of October (or anything similar) are childhood hating assholes who think that it’s more important to keep the capitalistic society going than celebration human culture. They would rather things be convenient for them and their bosses than to let people celebrate things when they please. There’s also probably a bias against non Christian religions. If you find it inconvenient you should be mad at the system that makes it inconvenient for you to do something on a Tuesday night, not a holiday that’s centuries older than your job. Work should work around holidays not the other way around.
I’ve seen crushed boiled eggs on pizza. Also ones with green olives on top that still had the pits inside.
I’d try the egg pizza. Olives with the pits is a choking hazard, because people won’t necessarily be expecting it.
I had no idea the pit was still in the olives. And I bit into it.
Yeah…
Pineapple is fine on pizza in small amounts. Sliced tomatoes don’t belong on pizza because they are mostly water and make the pizza soggy.
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.
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Rainy, damp, cloudy, windy weather is peak weather and beats a “nice sunny day” 80% of the time.
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Ice cream is winter food and not summer food because of how fatty it is. Popsicles are summer food and not so appealing in the winter.
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All countries should be making a 100% effort towards eliminating all meat (except that produced by subsistence farmers and the like) in their diets for the sake of the climate. Poverty is not an excuse because vegetarian diets use many many times less resources (which is why wealthy countries eat much more meat).
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Large wealthy countries should provide free vitamin supplements worldwide to reduce diseases.
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Thongs aren’t uncomfortable
I’m a fat, unsexy dude, I bought a goofy leopard-print thong to get a laugh out of my
lifewife onceIt’s not my favorite pair of undies by a longshot, I still prefer my usual boxer-briefs, but it’s certainly not uncomfortable. Even wore it to my city’s naked bike ride to bike around in.
Yeah sure dude, you totally did it cuz it was funny.
Same here. There not my favourite but there not as bad as people make them out to be. I mostly wear them as men like them. I did a music video a few years back as a backup dancer and I woar one underneath some sweatpants. Maybe it’s because I have histrionic personality disorder but I like to look sexy. Not like a hooker or a stripper but more in a seductive way like a belly dancer or a show girl.
Small typo in my comment, was supposed to say get a laugh out of my wife
It served its intended purpose. It was for Valentines or our anniversary or something, so I was waiting in the bed for her to come home in my leopard thong, rose petals scattered around, and some funky 70s porno music playing, and she cracked the fuck up.
That’s oddly sweet.
I love this! That’s kinda how it started for me and now I’ve got a whole collection of them. Fun patterns and colors. They always get the laugh.
Personally I’ve gone in on Hawaiian shirts, bit less good for a laugh, but still attention grabbing and easier to show off in public. No one wants to see my fat hairy ass sporting a whale tail.
¿Por qué no los dos?
Just the same, the confidence to wear it in public is what really matters whether you still do or not. When you don’t give a shit, nothing can touch you. Total liberation. Except if there’s kids around. That just feels creepy lol.
The feet ones or the butt ones?
Butt ones as this isn’t Australia, lol. It wasn’t until I was older myself I realized that thong had a different meaning around the world. I remember as a kid taking trips to Australia people used to always call things “thongs” and thought anything of it. As a New Zealander they’ll always be Jandals to me.
As long as the pouch on the front isn’t too constricting for my male bits and there isn’t too much material and stitching in the seam underneath, I agree. Just like anything, gotta find the right fit.
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.
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.
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.
Instead of trucks, this should be based on vehicle dimensions. All vehicles around the size of modern pickup trucks.
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.
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.
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?
Everyone needs a bidet. Literally clean yo stinky ass up!
well what if i only shower once a week and none of my friends complain?
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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.
“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.
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!
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.
Similarly, something being deprecated & something being depreciated.
In our nightmare world where fame is money, being deprecated IS being depreciated!
I am happy for not having seen this mistake.
- 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.
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.
What about RFC 3339? It’s technically different.
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.
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‽
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.
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
- 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.
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
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?
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.
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.
