Fancy cupcakes are 70% icing, really not that nice and a waste of money
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The world actually did end in 2012.
This is hell.
Nuclear energy is currently the best way to achieve energetic independence until we find out how to maintain a fusion core running for more than 20 minute.
All billionaires are evil people that decide to accumulate wealth instead of distributing the surplus and living off enough to not have to worry about the future. All. Of. Them.
Yes, even Taylor Swift and Gabe Newell. They have enough money that they could set 100m aside, live off that and charge break-even prices for their products so more people could enjoy them or they could charge the same thing and redirect their share of the profits into charities, they choose not to.
I’m a Taylor Swift fan (not a Swifty) but I’m 100% with you.
I pirate her music (tbf all music). I’ve gotten into heated arguments on Lemmy on how she’s one of the “good” ones.
No such thing as a good billionaire.
My completely unbiased exception is LeBron.
“Ain’t no party like a Diddy party”
So wholesome.
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She became a billionaire by selling tickets for more than necessary and makes the choice to continue doing so to enrich herself.
As I said, there’s no reason she couldn’t have started doing shows that only broke even once she had enough money to live off of for the rest of her life, she decides not to do that and she decides to continue accumulating wealth we can’t even imagine.
Remember when Musk said if he could prevent famine for 6B he would do it, he was presented with a plan and didn’t do it? All billionaires are guilty of doing the same thing and the way they accumulate the means to do that is by selling us things for more than they’re actually worth.
All the people who work at the venues could be paid lots more.
wait what, shes a THOUSAND MILLIONS DEEP ???"2? wtf thats stupid
You also HAVE to exploit people in order to get there.
I agree and it’s pretty obvious if you think about it for a short while.
Even religions know this, it’s just a simple fact of life.
You are completely correct. There are so many exits before becoming a billionaire that any normal person would take.
Once you have millions you can live comfortable. Tens of millions and you’re set for life, you can live in luxury without ever doing another day’s work.
Hundreds of millions and you can buy anything you ever want or need. The only reason to continue accumulating money is because you get some fucked up pleasure from it.
You can claim you “earned it” through “working hard” but it’s a pathetic assertion. The simple fact is money is only gained at the expense of others.
Isn’t Gabe’s net worth literally just the value of Valve? In order to cash his money out, he’d have to sell Valve.
I don’t want him to sell Valve. I like him being in charge of Valve, he’s doing a decent job.
He’s got a yacht collection, six of them, costing him more to maintain a year than you and your children will ever be worth.
you and your childrenentire neighborhoodsBoycott Steam and support GOG and itch.io!
Buy, Borrow, Die. Rich people don’t sell shares. They take very low interest loans banks are more than happy to lend them. Use their shares as collateral. Then pay no taxes and only a small amount of interest. They do this forever until they die.
It’s why everything is associated with “make number go up”.
I’m so out of shape right now, it’ll probably be whichever one I try to climb next.
Vinyl sounds shit. It reintroduces all the issues digital audio solved decades ago. I have heard vinyl rips made with equipment that costs as much as a new bmw and it has constant and frequent quality issues like static. It also has to downgrade audio sometimes to prevent the needle from physically flying out. It is impossible for vinyl to sound as good as the digital master or flac version of it that it was made from. It WILL always sound worse even thanks to the fact that physical world is very flawed and imprecise.
People arguing otherwise are either deaf or need to look in the mirror and accept the fact that they enjoy vinyl for the experience not the sound quality.
Depending on how the next four years go, probably Capitol.
First-past-the-post voting should be replaced so people can vote outside the two party system with no spoiler effect.
Electoral Reform Videos
First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)
Videos on alternative electoral systems
American cakes, cookies, and breads have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much sugar. (Eating American white bread hurts my teeth.)
Had my boss bring over twinkies from the states because I was curious. Holy moly that stuff is sweet, it’s like distilled sugar or something.
Most people in the States don’t like Twinkies either, I’ve got no clue who is buying them.
It’s not just the baked products either!
I just bought some lemon pepper seasoning.
Now you’d t think that the top ingredient would be either lemon, pepper, or salt right?
Well uh, no. It’s sugar for some reason.
Its not just baked goods, we put sugar/corn syrup in everything! sausages don’t need to be sweetened! Vegetables don’t need to be sweetened!
And then we add excessive amounts of salt to counterbalance the sweetness.
As an American, yes they do and it sucks. Especially since I’m trying to lower my sugar consumption due to my family history of type 2 diabetes
Omg I totally agree. I went to America a few years ago and the bread was so sugary
I don’t eat American white bread either, most other Americans I know eat sourdough or ‘actual’ bread, not that weird loaf of angel food cake they call bread here lol
And yet “Wonder” Bread still sells in huge amounts. Someone is eating it!
Fondant isn’t icing and is cheating when making a cake. It also tastes gross.
We should be using soap and water after popping, toilet paper alone is barbaric
Bum gun or Bidet. The humane way to toilet.
I have yet to experience one but bidets seem like the dream.
If you ever make your own bathroom or get your choice in the matter, go full french: get the separate porcelain fixture that has separate hot and cold valves, with the soap and towel.
I have a Toto seat and, while it’s nice, the stream is small, leaking potential poo water down your legs onto the inner edges of the seat is… (It doesn’t seem to happen, but still), and the internal warm water tank is small.
I used my ex’s much cheaper one a bunch when we were dating, and his was cold only but like a garden hose flow rate. It was so fucking fast and felt so much nicer. But didn’t oscillate, have aim, pressure, heated seat, dryer, or any of that stuff…
Plus, without the soap, I don’t really want to use a towel to dry my bits off.
So ideally, it would be temperature adjustable, PORCELAIN AND NOT PLASTIC, high flow/adjustable, be an actual bidet where you can fit your hands down there to wash yourself with soap and water, and then have a designated towel so that you eliminate more if not all tp usage.
They’re are cheap bidets out there, and the are premium ones. The premium ones (like toto) are worth it, but I’d start with an inexpensive one to see if you enjoy it first.
There’s very cheap options if you want to feel clean
You just gave me a really good idea for a portable bidet actually. I normally use a little squeeze lotion bottle but it doesn’t have the required water power… Now I gotta find some of those tiny water guns we used to have as kids.
Tf is a bum gun
It’s exactly what it sounds like in this context. Think of a garden hose attachment with a trigger. You point it at the right spot, pull the trigger, and wash your bum clean.
My mental image is in the shower… Yeah, actually, why not just use the shower with a cooter cleaner instead of a bum gun? Or… Are we talking about the same thing?
Well a bum gun is specifically designed for the job, but yeah it’s probably the same idea as what you’re thinking of.
You could use the shower but the shower heads are not typically installed next to the toilet.
I have one, it’s just like the sprayer thing for doing dishes on many kitchen sinks except attached to the refill hose for the toilet. You just aim and spray, it’s fantastic and easy to clean cause it’s not actually inside the toilet bowl
Hard agree. Bidet + soap is the most hygienic way. I was actually surprised to learn that even some bidet users don’t use soap and literally just blast their ass and hope it washes away everything. You’re already halfway there, might as well use soap and be completely clean.
Oh no, I’m not washing my ass with soap every time, but I commend you for commitment to the cause.
Ikr, bidet yes, I don’t have one but I have used one and its better. Soap though sounds like a way to have a really dry butt.
No idea if it’s barbaric but it certainly is not as clean as it should be. At least, I think so.
I sort of agree, but I also poop 5times a day. That would take up a lot of my time.
Have you checked with a doctor?
Yep, I’ve always been like that.
Some people can’t see well from birth… doesn’t mean you can’t get glasses, or in your case go see a doctor (and get a poop infusion to fix your gut flora XD ).
But seriously, it could be worth checking out. Maybe you have a tumor or cancer or one of those
beowold smeagalsor whateverEdit: bezoar. Seriously it could be curable and you could poop once a day. Think of the free time for activities!
I also poop several times a day. Went and saw a doctor and he said “yup, totally common, and nothing to worry about.” Normal humans poop between 1-6x a day. Pretty crazy that there can be such a variance.
It’s even funnier for babies. It’s normal for them to poop in between every 12 days or 12 times per day.
That doesn’t sound healthy
I do several rounds as well and I can tell you washing with soap and water using a bidet is much milder than wiping yourself raw with toilet paper. Washing once per round also takes the same amount of time as wiping several times until you feel “clean”.
… I don’t think that’s normal bud
Would it? Paper is nice and dry but washing your ass at the bathroom sink and towel drying is faster in my experience. It’s just more of a hassle, but it does feel a lot cleaner.
Colitis Ulcerosa? My sympathies.
Had a bidet. Had to get rid of it.
The toddler thought it was hilarious.
DND is not a good universal game system. It’s pretty good at being DND, but that’s a particular beast that’s mostly about resource management.
You can definitely use it for a game about social intrigue, or horror, or modern day anything, but it’s not really good at any of that. Like using a hammer to put screws in, you’ll probably get something done, and if you’re hanging with your friends you’ll probably have a good time. But it’s a weird tool to reach for.
Personally, I don’t think the core of the rules system is very good at all. Flat probability feels weird. Armor as all-or-nothing is weird. Hit and damage being split into two rolls is slow and weird. In the latest edition, making very few choices about your character often feels bad. Levels are a very coarse unit of growth. The magic system somehow manages to make magic not feel like magic- no wonder, no mystery, it’s just safe and standardized. I could go on.
But it’s mega popular and people are emotionally invested, so there’s not much to be done about it. There are dozens of people playing the thousands of other games out there.
Also a lot of people have never played anything else, so their analysis and defense of it is often lacking. Like if I’ve only ever played baseball, and never even watched any other sports, I wouldn’t feel qualified to talk about bowling. But you get people saying like “no you need to wear cleats that’s a universal property of sports” when bowling comes up. Like, not every game has six stats. Not every game has attributes like that at all.
And again, if you’re having fun with dnd then that’s the primary goal achieved. We don’t need to maximize fun and efficiency in all things all times. I just think that it would be a good experience to branch out more, even if it’s scary, because that will lead to a richer experience overall.
Respect pornstars.
Blessing someone for a sneeze is the most useless human interaction I know of and we should do away with it.
Things where better when the internet was one spot in your house. Not in your pocket at all times
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I posted a comment on Reddit telling about how the word racism really means a person who is a subscriber to the pseudoscience that is race.
Tons of people downvoted me then reddit admins removed the content for harassment, of all things. (None of it made sense to me)
I’m sad that people still think that people are different races, and to not be racist you just have to not put one over or under another, when the crux of the problem is fundamentally that people don’t get that race was made up because long ago dumb people thought that people that looked different were a literal different species but couldn’t prove it so made up the word race as a subcategory in the taxonomic system, but finally scientists realized it’s complete bullshit since it’s impossible to define, total bullshit, wildly inconsistent, and massively harmful… and I’m sad that people there literally couldn’t comprehend that, and got so mad or offended that they censured the information and thought I was arguing against the existence of systemic racism or something that only a dumb piece of shit would misinterpret.
I linked the Wikipedia page for racism which explains all of it, including history and stuff.
I was triggered for like a week trying to figure out what I said wrong, and honestly still kinda bothered.
But, that is what race is: a bigoted idea that different people are different races and shouldn’t/can’t interbreed. And that’s the stupidest bullshit that MOST people don’t understand, and I’ll die on this hill, explaining that we gotta stop all being racists. Yeah, fix the problems like systemic racism, but stop thinking of people with darker or lighter skin as different - they’re just warm weather humans or cold weather humans, the same way buff or skinny humans are. Fuck. We’re all literally just humans, an amazing species, capable of adaptation and survival.
I think you’re right, but imo the disagreement i feels like really stem from the way you put it, as you talk about race in a biological science while they think you’re talking about ethnicity(social science?), and then there’s this odd fixation with no compromise which kinda what caused the friction, even though i think both party might agree with each other.
Also reddit and online forum is mostly made up of weird people so idk.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
Read the introduction. It’s complicated but mostly race is arbitrary. But that’s the whole discussion I want to bring to people for awareness of concept and language.
You are absolutely correct: “race” is a social construct that is created along artificial lines (pigment, facial features, etc).
The truth is that we share ~99.9% of our DNA with every other person, a gene pool so small that there is more diversity between troops of Chimpanzees.
Man… I got banned from a kink community sub because I edited my comment with a automagical editor…
It replaced my text with gobbledygook and then was going to delete it…
The mod came across the text said something to the extent of “this makes no sense” and banned me under their “because we can” rule.
I sent the mod a message with links and an explanation… he came back with your original post is gone. So you are too.
My reddit account is 14 years old…
It bothered me for a while too… and still dones I guess since I’m here talking about it… but honestly mods are gonna mod… they are small people with a smidge of “power” you could have said hope “you folks have a great day!!” And gotten banned.
It happens. Sucks tho
Yeah I’m stopping using Reddit because of how fascist things are now around the world, in hopes of keeping access to my similarly old account because there may be a lot of porn on there, but there’s also a ton of good resources and important things.
Maybe if things turn around in a few years, I’ll consider resume using reddit. But the more-intelligent-than-a-rock part of me knows otherwise.
Too many people getting banned for fascist and sketchy reasons. So instead of participate there, it’s now just an archive to me.
I’ve been thinking like that for a long time but recently I’ve been thinking about it in terms of internalized opposition. One of the most pernicious elements of the fight against stupid and bad ideologies is when their framings gain dominance even in the minds of their opponents.
At some point, someone said ‘black people are blah, white people are bleh,’ and the person next to them probably said ‘What do you mean black people?’ because the concept was new but the ideology of race turned into such a common one that people who were oppressed by it were forced to consider what the powerful thought about it, like an atheist prisoner being forced to think about how to convince a Christian jailer to be less awful to them. They internalized it. And now even people who are ‘anti-racist’ often treat ‘blackness’ and ‘whiteness’ as if they were real, and not just conceptually different in the same way you can live in a different country without moving because the lines on a map change. Even as they battle the concept, they try to do it from within the system, prisoners demanding to be free without acknowledging the world outside the prison walls.
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We are all different, I don’t know how you can deny that. And some differences can depend on where your ancestors are from.
If it’s not “race” then is there another way of describing it?
In animals we call it breeds. Sounds weird.
I think as an advanced species we should be capable of ascending beyond the descriminating behaviour based on origin. I know it’s possible as I can. Seeing other people first reactions to meeting people get described with race undertones is alien to me and feels disrespectful.
Well the problem with trying to subdivide humans is that
A) it’s actually really really hard to do, so hard in fact that it’s impossible and is a pseudoscience B) it basically always results in comparison. Which gets bad REALLY quickly because suddenly there is a better or worse, an inferior and superior.
I’m not saying we aren’t different, I’m not saying that.
But, as far as species, we ARE all the same. You, your sister, your neighbor, your great great great grandfather. We all have our differences and generic differences, but they’re infinitesimally small, we are just VERY good at telling the differences because we’re so used to staring at the same face over and over.
There’s just so much crossover and mixing and volatility. People can change from one to the other or halfway and stuff, there’s no clarity. Like, me, for example: I’m a mix that people look at me and get very wrong 95% of the time. And then if I have kids with somebody that doesn’t have the exact same mixed heritage with me, it’s like… Wtf do you even call me?
And then if you learn some anthropology and learn that long thin limbs and people are from hot climates close to the equator, and short ratioed people are from further (surface area to mass ratio, keeping warmth) away from the equator where it’s cold.
Like… You can be vague and descriptive a little about it, but when you realize that reality is just that we’re all the same species, with no limits to interbreeding, it makes so much more sense.
Let’s say you take a pale-ass white guy and strand them near the equator for ten years outdoors. Does that guy suddenly become a different breed or race or whatever you want to call it? No… it’s the same person, the same species, even if he looks different - he just adapted and his body is like “holy fuck it’s hot and I’m trying my best to not get skin cancer and the right amount of vitamins from the sun”.
And same thing for brown skinned people (let’s just say Mexican natives). You take a young couple with darker brown skin, and move them to norway or somewhere cold with VERY little sun (latitude). They are going to lose melatonin in their skin and become paler. Let’s say they have kids and you inbreed them for a few generations. They will get progressively more pale, and start to look more adapted to the region, likely even take on regional issues.
And the reason why is because we’re all the same type of monkey. (Not actually monkey because that’s a different offshoot, but primate; we’re great apes!).
I mostly agree with you. And I commend your principles.
Some of your examples need improving is all I’ll say.
Like sending a white guy to the equator for a decade. Okay fine, they go dark skinned. But bring him back up north and he is white again. Send a super dark skinned guy far north and he will get somewhat paler, so it works both ways. But they retain that difference because they are different.
We have developed differences mostly based on our origin in the world, be it Asian, African, Egyptian, Indian, etc, but we are such an internationally mixed people the differences are meaningless.
Actually, yes, and actually, no.
If you take a white person and put them in the equator for multiple generations, they’ll turn brown. If you try to put the result back north, it’ll take them multiple generations to get pale again.
There isn’t really an inherent difference between us. There are small mutations or diseases that can kill, like Alzheimer’s, but those are all basically incidental. Your genes can change, that’s what evolution is.
We ALL came from Africa, anyway, and then settled down in various places for a while, adapting. The longer people have adapted, the more they’ve adapted. But it doesn’t set anything in stone, and everybody still retains that ability to adapt.
That’s basically evolution lol if you go down that route then we are all plankton, animals and all.
There you go the key to all of this is “meaningless differences” justification to divide people, then make one group appear less than human, then exploit, steal from and murder the savages for the profit of the few.
Racism is a taught trait. Children aren’t racist until their peers or guardians teach them their racist world view. I think we agree on almost all points, I just don’t think it is pseudoscientific.
Yeah humans are actually all pretty close genetically compared to other species. And “race” as defined by society isn’t even a good predictor of genetic similarities, so for example if you take random people A and B who are black, and person C who is white, B and C will often be more closely related than A and B.
Also as a sidenote, we are monkeys. Apes are now considered to be a type of monkey taxonomically.
Whaaaaat… Looks it up
You’ve never had infants around other infants.
We all have the same child. They all act the same behavior is the same… Patterns are the same Etc…
Humans don’t really start to develop in different directions and speed until they are like 18 months old.
Our coloring and physical features might not be the same… but the basic operating system and internals are all the same across humanity.
Yes I agree, this is human. Just the same as all dogs wag their tail and bark. Like other posters have said, the differences are subtle and we are all more the same than different.
Breeds are defined by organizations that determine breed based on lineage, followed by conformation. They do not align across different countries. Dogs have the AKC, CKC in America. They don’t follow the same definitions. It also causes lots of issues to classify things like this and leads to bad decision making by lots of people. Even as it is now, there’s no clear definition for things like Pit Bulls. There’s also a ton of health issues that arise from defining breeds and trying to follow this logic.
Humans are not controlled and bred based on these things so a Breed Standard would not be possible. There is simply a continuous line of people.
Perform a cluster analysis on dogs - they will kind of fall into clusters because we bred selectively for them. But humans, which have not been selectively bred even in smaller geographic regions, would not provide decent clustering results based on race categories.
Without good clustering, whatever groups you make have more inaccuracies than accuracies in your grouped statements. (Border collies are high energy, greyhounds are lazy > 65% true at best) this is because of the insane complexity of DNA and the lack of selective breeding artificially limiting the DNA diversity. Plus other stuff.
Can’t see what your original comment was, so missing a lot of context here.
I agree with what you said, but race as a biological thing is not how most people think of it. Most people interpret race in the context of skin color and ethnic groups, i.e. in a sociological context, and within that context it makes absolutely no sense to claim that race does not exist. It would be nice if it didn’t exist, but that’s not where we are right now as a society.
If you’re smart enough to know all that, you’re smart enough to know that being suspicious of differences is how our species survived, and we’re not going to evolve out of it anytime soon.
Lol so true dogs have hundreds of “breeds”. Then you have cate, which are all just cats, The people who will argue about their “mesothelioma short hair tuxedo chocolate” are just weirdos.
Depending on which association you ask there are at least 45 breeds of cat.
Association of weirdos.
I’m admittedly not a cat person, however there seems to be quite a difference between a Maine Coon and a Sphynx. I agree though that long hair vs short hair of the same breed is negligible and doesn’t need to be an entirely separate breed.
So we should make bald men a separate breed of human, and NFL lineman another?
There’s another comment in this thread that points out how slippery a slope it becomes when you try to apply breeds to humans, but that is kind of the idea isn’t it? You seem to accept it in the case of dogs. Either way, I don’t really have a hard stance either way, was just more curious of your reasoning.
You assumed I accepted it at dogs just because I pointed out the irony of all cats just being of the house variety. To me dogs are dogs guess what wolfs are dogs too. You dirty ape. :)
I mean, nobody’s saying dogs are different races, there’s just dogs with different phenotypic traits. When they match a certain known pattern that’s a “breed”.
It’s about as real as beer recipes matching certain styles. Race isn’t a real thing, it’s just sets of traits that people are used to seeing in certain populations.
