. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Instead of trucks, this should be based on vehicle dimensions. All vehicles around the size of modern pickup trucks.
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.
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!
“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.
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.
You’re right. There worst
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.
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.
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.)
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.
- No one should be allowed to own a second home until everyone has one.
- Static typing sucks.
Can we share the first hill?
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.
Rather than banning that just tax the shit out of people who have multiple homes
We cAn tax them 1 home for every excess home and donate that home to a homeless person
You could just build housing with the revenue from taxing it
We don’t have a lack of housing. We have a distribution problem. We can’t just build infinitely, we need to redistribute.
The Welsh did that (or just some Welsh councils?), pretty sure it was very popular among the people actually living in the area.
Apple products aren’t any better than anything else, it’s just marketing and branding. They’re like the Starbucks of computers.
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.
Summer is a crappy season, fall is superior.
Winter totally trumps other seasons. It’s just so cozy.
I’m a spring bitch cuz it’s the furthest from winter
But where I live, winter is BRUTAL
Scandi, canadian ? Or worse 😐??
Is there worse than Canada? Hahaha
I suppose Russia, since I wouldn’t count Antarctica as only science bois live there.
I suppose its very telling what a person’s favorite season is by where they live or were raised.
I tell people I’m weird because I like winter.
I like spring because its not exhaustingly warm, and I like being outside in rain anyway.
allergies
Imagine not being able to go outside because of plant cum (pollen), couldn’t be me.
spoiler
/s hay fever and allergies suck.
Fucking trees and their cum eveywhere
Im camping on your hill.
Agreed, the sea is still warm too. In spring the sea is still freezing.
The best season is the short window in spring where it’s warm out but the bugs aren’t out yet.
You should use your blinker when turning into a parking space
And you should back in.
I forgot to mention. If you use country balls to explain something I’m not taking you seriously.
I didn’t think your original points seemed controversial enough to even be hills, but this ONE! This right here… I don’t even have a clue what it is.
I’m picturing testicles wearing a cowboy hat.
You can about geopolitics in a simplified and comedic way but there’s a limit. If I used sock puppets to explain the election to you wouldn’t you would think that I thought you were the stupidest person ever?
It’s like, I’m an adult I can understand the concept of countries not liking each other without the need of simplistic cartoons. This is how you would explain geopolitics to a five-year-old.
I’m American. Speaking about geopolitics at a five-year-old’s level is often far too advanced for many people. Sock puppets might help actually.
that’s why I use my city balls to explain stuff
-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.
Congrats, you are a communist!
People on Lemmy aren’t “normal” people and shouldn’t use their personal views as the norm.
but we’re on Lemmy 🤔
Probably shouldn’t assume that guy’s personal view is the norm.
Well now I’m just confused.
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
You’re shifting the blame to individuals. Gacha games and gacha mechanics are gambling and should be banned.
