Something that’s not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
I am convinced beyond contestation that carpeting a bathroom is an exceptionally stupid thing to do.
This is not warm, this is cold hard facts
The assignment was “not super controversial, but I still really stand by it.”
My bathroom was carpeted. By my direct ancestors. They built the rest of the world I live in, too.
Lukewarm water is great for showering
Pizza is one of the best food forms we’ve ever come up with. I don’t even care if you use wildly nontraditional toppings, like a chicken vindaloo pizza or a chili dog pizza. Just put the shit you wanna eat on a giant dough, cook it, then cut it up and eat it. Genius.
I’ve been doing a lot of batch cooking lately, and come to the conclusion that everything is a soup.
Pizza is just soup on top of bread.
One of my siblings just… doesn’t like pizza. All of the individual components are fine in other dishes, but not together. I don’t understand.
chicken vindaloo pizza or a chili dog pizza.
Go on, I’m interested…
The fevered dreams of a madman, for now. But if in some sitcom plot, I ever inherit a pizza place form a long-lost uncle, those will be called the Dave Lister and the Blue Hedgehog respectively (I have to assume Sega is more litigious than the BBC).
I once made a seafood and butter sauce pizza for a highschool gf. Hated it myself but she still talked about it years after we spit. Pizza and Sandwiches are the peak of human civilization
It’s no coincidence that most pizza shops also sell sangwiches
Amen
“Brutal honesty” motherfuckers just want to be mean. Also they can’t handle honesty from others at all.
Almost nothing worse than a thin skinned bully. If you can’t take it, don’t dish it.
Allied with - “I just say it like it is”, nope motherfucker, you say it like you see it, consider you might be wrong.
And the ‘I said what I said’ and ‘Fact!’ dipshits.
“Makes you think!”
Any home that doesn’t have central air conditioning should at least have a dedicated circuit outlet by each window. It’s like home designers are trying to make people sweat.
I moved out of my last shitty apartment because the entire thing was wired to two 15amp fuses. If the Fridge compressor happened to kick on while I was cooking on the electric stove and had like the microwave also going it would blow a fuse. My new apartment has circuit breakers, but things aren’t much better. The stove and fridge are on their own circuits. However all of the outlets are on a single breaker. If I try to run the AC in the bedroom at the same time as the living room it trips. It’s rage inducing.
I don’t want to hear about your dog or baby.
What about baby dogs?
oh, go on then
Puppies are always nice
I don’t like puppies. Also unrelated Christmas. I’m a kid’s cartoon antagonist ready to happen.
I get that. The idea of Christmas is nice, and I like that it’s a day off for me, but it is just a lot of extra stress. I’m not even Christian but there’s still just so many societal expectations.
Dogs, fuck yeah. Babies, ugh.
Awe but they’re so cute!
Water is really good, you should drink it every day.
My girlfriend prefers her water room temp, and as someone who loves ice cold water, it’s so weird to me. So I think I’m gonna start thinking of this as her lukewarm take.
I am also a woman of room temp water preference, I’m glad to know there is hope for me in finding a boyfriend
I’m a woman myself too, but I see that @Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world has chimed in as well! So it looks like there’s hope, haha
Room temp water guy here, but already happily married lol
There are dozens of us!
I didn’t know I had to put this on my tinder bio, you have changed my life
Your girlfriend scares me quite a bit!!
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Bleu cheese is the best cheese.
To each their own, I think a good parmesan is my favorite, but blue cheese is pretty up there
Shropshire blue 🩵💛🧀
People who are the most uptight about manners and language are the rudest and most vile shit talkers.
A great realization that I had was that many of my language pet peeves were really preferences and not hard and fast rules. Language constantly evolves, regardless of how any one person feels. Clinging to my pet peeves was really just a form of elitism.
Grammar is descriptive, not prescriptive. <- The fancy way to say what you said. :-)
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The most important political issues are education and the environment, because those determine the future.
Humans have intrinsic value and nobody should be treated cruelly without cause. Aside from in relatively marginal places, that worldview has largely won.
I’d extend it to “people are basically the same everywhere”, but there’s actual disagreement about that.
Except for Nazis
That’s with cause.
The Hague has a modern, Western prison, and a relatively comfortable one at that.
Edit: So no, people convicted of heinous things aren’t always made an exception. And, yes, that’s cause.
Back in the day, anyone could become a slave, and depending on setting anything could be done to a slave. That’s because human rights weren’t really a thing yet.
People who are always the hero of their own stories are not trustworthy narrators.
I’m okay with piracy. I think a lot of people feel the need to justify it with phrases like “it’s not stealing it’s just copying,” among others. To me that seems like being in denial about the moral ambiguity of what you’re doing. There’s so much free media out there you don’t need to pirate the stuff that isn’t.
Personally I’m okay with being told I’m a thief and am scamming the creators who worked hard on a product. Idc I’m broke, bored, interested in your thing and can steam it in HD from a website instantly. No login, no ads, no worries. I’m a pirate through and through and part of being a pirate is being morally bankrupt lol.
You are mostly scamming the corpos who host the content, which is a-ok in my book. If you really want there are lots of ways to support the actual creator much more cheaply than paying for a subscription to the hoster of the content. It always helps me to remember all the times that those companies screw us by changing rates, adding ads, restricting starting options, etc without providing better content to justify it. This is just payback, really. See also, stealing from your employer
Copium bruh. The creators are making this content with the expectation of being paid for their labour. By pirating you are denying them of this regardless of your reasons for doing so. Saying it’s mostly “corpos who host the content” is the ones you’re scamming is just shifting the blame. If nobody paid for subscriptions etc corporations wouldn’t profit and thus wouldn’t host or fund content and it’s creators. Obviously giving creators a larger slice is better, but denying them of anything because you think that is hypocritical (which I am)
You are assuming the corpos didn’t just buy the rights. Cause if they did, the creators got paid already.
Why did they buy the rights from the creators, tell me. Go on. Think a little.
Kudos to you, I did intentionally ignore that point for brevity. No point in addressing it if noone was going to followup on it. It is going to take a lot more piracy, like 500x to make buying the rights not a lucrative investment. So at present it just reduces their gains. In the long term it actually made it so that they stopped buying rights, then they might go back to royalties or something to reduce thier upfront investment. That would actually be good overall for both us and creators as it would increase the chances of the creator making out big early in thier career when something small takes off. Creators themselves are more likely to invest that early money on higher risk projects which will lead to more variety in the overall offerings and more new creators being able to make a living creating.
From a technical standpoint and a legal one, piracy is copyright infringement, not theft. It’s a similar behavior but fundamentally different altogether at its core, largely because the victim of piracy does not lose anything tangible, only a perceived opportunity of a sale (which can be argued as not having been an opportunity in the first place depending on who is performing the piracy).
Both are bad, but people calling piracy theft have a terrible misunderstanding about it.
Studies consistently show that piracy increases sales.
Got any of those?
Yeah seems like there is about a 5% loss in sales for new movies and negligible loss for everything else according to that source. Notably the source does not say that piracy increases sales but of course it didn’t why would someone read a fucking source before citing it. I mean it’s not like the source addresses specifically what questions the source attempts to answer and the results they found in the opening fucking paragraph.
Just call it training the AI in your brain. You couldn’t be expected to be successful if you had to pay for all that training material…
It’s not a misunderstanding. It’s deliberate misinformation.
Honesty is the most important factor in any relationship.
