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Cold drinks that have to be cold to be good, are bad.
If you want your drink to be good, it has to be competitively good at room temperature, first.
You should not expect your native culture to follow you when you move abroad.
Adapt or leave.
I think all land should be returned to my county’s indigenous people. I’m descended from the colonizers.
Making out and fucking are basically the same and I don’t get why one is tolerated in public and the other is not.
Children are a distinct category from adolescents (and shouldn’t be lumped together), and both categories should have more autonomy over their own lives, bodies, and education. That includes being able to not consent to child genital mutilation (whether biologically male or intersex, female is already illegal), being able to consent to immunisations against the wishes of their parents/guardians - and likewise for puberty blockers/HRT later on, if they’re trans - and having autonomy over their schoolday, which school they go to, and what their schedule looks like.
Are you as wise and knowledgeable today as when you were a child?
I’m wise enough to know that my life would be a lot better if my opinions over my own body and education were respected at the time.
Did you have such useless, immature, childish parents that your decision making and understanding of the world were on par with theirs when you were little? If so, fair enough, but know that’s a rare, shameful case (for your parents, not you, ofc). Usually, you can rely on your parents’ wisdom and love, especially when you’re young and dumb.
Sunny weather fucking sucks. Overcast is by far the best weather. You don’t have to deal with sun in your eyes, or glare or feeling like your skin is burning after 30 minutes of standing outside. You can still see everything just fine.
I got to live in San Francisco for a few years and going outside to 10 C cloudy, foggy or overcast weather (almost) everyday was amazing. It was literally the most perfect weather I have ever experienced and the only thing I miss about that city.
Consciousness is fundamental to reality. Science-based thinking (but not science itself) has put matter as the fundamental element but actually has never been able to prove it. To be able to prove that matter gives rise to consciousness, you’d have to step out of consciousness and point to matter. Which you cannot do. Not talking about individual consciousness where you can just point at someone’s brain: that experience of pointing at someone’s brain is happening inside consciousness, how else would you know about it.
Not to be confused with Solipsism, that’s the thinking mind. I’m talking about Idealism, the raw state of pure experience before thought.
You’d have to prove all matter has consciousness for this right? Rocks, the sun, hydrogen atoms. We have evidence for the existence of reality before life but not the other way around.
So just to be clear, you think an electron is conscious in some small way? Or are you saying consciousness exists with or without matter?
The US isn’t the great Satan, they are quite contemporary satan. Russia, China and Iran are all imperialist, anti democratic and have even worse human rights violations.
You don’t have to pick a side, these are all asshats, some more than other though.
This is either American cope, pure misinformation, or both. Certainly not an opinion, and easily verifiable nonsense (do you want to do it by number of foreign interventions, coups, murders? You name it and, if it’s in the last century, the answers won’t be surprising at all). USA #1, right? And yes, no serious person “picks sides”, this isn’t football, this is geopolitics.
IDK how controversial this one is, but I’d say Batman Beyond is a near perfect “I am the new Batman” type sequel series. Rather than having a series where it’s all future versions of the villains facing off against future Batman, they either made new villains or reinvented one you never really saw anywhere besides a few old comics.
From what I’ve seen/heard of the non tie-in comics, they aren’t as good, IMO, for the introduction of characters such as a future Catwoman and a few minor changes to some original characters, like turning that one Joker gang member into some sort of hybrid Joker and Two Face.
Very similar reasons as to why I think Loonatics s1 is vastly superior to season 2. Hand me original villains for a series over rehashed versions of old villains.
Cars 2 is the best of the series.
Apparently saying new Star Trek is trash writing is enough to get banned from certain instances.
“But NU TREK IS MY ENTIRE PERSONALITY, IT MAKES ME FEEL SMART AND DIFFERENT (and if you dislike it, you dislike me 🥺)!”
They’ll never say it but they don’t have to.
It is, though.
Plastic straw pollution doesn’t have a measurable impact on the environment.
The entire thing about banning plastic straws comes from some high schooler using back-of-a-napkin math to guess how many straws are in the ocean in what was clearly a successful attempt at starting a science fair project the night before it was due. Some news station picked it up, and then a bunch of science-illiterates ran away with it.
You can’t determine the impact of pollution by count. Straws are tiny and weigh almost nothing. If you skip buying one pair of sneakers in your life, then you’ve successfully reduced your plastic use by almost a lifetime of plastic straws.
Removing plastic straws is probably the single least impactful way to reduce plastic pollution. It’s pure virtue signaling: it’s about presenting an image of being environmentally conscious while doing effectively nothing to help the environment.
Yes, but I don’t think this is particularly controversial, perhaps just not widely known.
I think it’s more of the same strategy from polluters - privatise profits and socialise detriments.
If a government says to plastic producers “what can we do to help you minimise use of plastic” answers like “make straws and shopping bags illegal” are of course in their favor. They don’t cost producers anything to implement, and they make consumers feel like they’ve already done the “hard work” of solving plastic waste.
Of course a much better approach would be to tax products that include any kind of plastic, as that would have a meaningful impact but would ultimately cost producers as they pivot to other materials.
I’d like to up you one on this and include the EU law requiring soda caps are tethered to bottles.
From the link:
The European Commission estimated that plastic caps and lids represented around 13 per cent of plastic marine litter caught in the nets of fishing vessels between 2011 and 2017.
I don’t understand where this number comes from, but it seems suspicious. Does the mean people properly throw the bottle away and just say, “meh, I’ll go out of my way to throw the just the cap into the ocean” or does the bottle “breakdown” (into microplastics) at a different rate than the cap? If so, then having them tethered won’t change anything, right? Or maybe this is just some “feel good number” to make government officials feel like “their making meaningful change”, without actually changing anything.
Apartments and big cities are hell. People shouldn’t be shoved together like sardines.
You’re probably exactly right for the places you’re thinking of, but neither of those things have to be hell. Apartments originally were spacious places like the home-sized ones, the justification for their existence being that you get to live in the city centre rather than that being the only selling point.
If you want to see good examples of big cities with nice levels of public space, look at urban design in south korea and china
Agreed on it being a hell. People shouldn’t be shoved together too, but thing is that they chose to.
They chose to? All of them?
Most people live the life in front of them. Few people live the life of most resistance.
People live in cities because that’s what society demands so that they can be “productive” and not starve to death. Or they’re born there. Or or or…
It’s easy to ignore the realities of others.
I live in a city because searching for affordable housing doesn’t leave much choice. Waiting lists are months or even years long, so when a spot opens up, you take it.
I lucked out massively by landing the neighborhood I got. Traffic has its moments (mainly when events are going on at the local arena), but not any worse than I’ve experienced elsewhere outside the city. The walkability is a huge plus that outweighs it anyway, and is something that I never had in the suburbs.
It’s not heaven, but it’s certainly not hell. That said, I didn’t have a choice, and that’s the real issue at the heart of it all.
What do you do when your population outpaces your land mass?
Honestly? We should discourage continued population growth and transition to a sustainable way of living (I especially mean not depending on economic systems which rely on eternal population growth and which focus instead on long-term stability).
In the current real world? You build vertically as much as is reasonably comfortable and expand outwards by investing in public transit and in housing growth outside of city limits. At the same time, start seriously working on point number one.
Ranked voting. Fined heavily if you don’t. Politicians need to reveal their donors and sponsorships and lobbyists at the start of every speech like a YouTube reviewer does when they receive something for free. We shouldn’t need sites that reveal who is owned by AIPAC, etc.
OP asked for the most controversial. You listed a few. Which do you think is most controversial?
Forget ranked voting.
This suffers from low explainability, so score voting is better imo.
Interesting. Will read up on this.
You should always look in the oven before turning it on.
Seems simple to me. Before making the oven hot, make sure there’s nothing in there you don’t want to get hot (and that the racks are in the right place.) Takes maybe a second.
But a lot of people seem to find the idea that they (or anyone in their household) would ever leave something in the oven, when not cooking, to be deeply offensive.
I don’t mean harm but this reminds me of the political compass and centrists who just want to grill. Like, if this is your most controversial opinion lol
Controversial opinions for those who have never left the house, watched or listened to media, or conversed with a fellow human.
I had an American guest over in Denmark, where he offered to cook. Her turned the oven on with all the trays inside, and then went on an angry rant that those should never be stored in the oven. It’s my house, my rules, mother fucker!
