Any company using insecure cryptography in any new product or service should be dissolved.
Water is wet and I’m tired of people arguing about it. Wet literally means “covered in or consisting of liquid,” and yet everyone seems to think water can’t be wet just because it also makes other things wet, which it does but that doesn’t mean it isn’t itself wet
Left: “Water is wet and I’m tired of people arguing about it…”
Right: “Dihydrogen monoxide drowns babies, I saw it on the news!”.
Seems you added a word to the definition that just so happens to be the one word your entire argument rests on.
Isn’t all the water below the surface layer covered with a liquid?
I can’t think of a compelling reason to treat the water on the surface as a distinct entity, though.
Counterpoint: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wet
Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
I would say this still works.
Assuming we are not compressing it, you cannot fit more water into water. Therefore, water is saturated with itself. Therefore, it is soaked. Therefore, it is wet.
Bidets should be mandatory and toilet paper should be banned
Maoist left with a strong aftertaste of eco-consciousness.
I could live with a bidet-centric society tbh
Yea that was too easy, my bad
It could also be ecofascism, though. 🤔
and toilet paper should be banned
Are you just rocking a wet ass post-bidet application?
The complete lack of thought for obvious disastrous consequences is how you recognize a true Maoist policy.
I welcome or wet-ass bidet future, comrade.
Right? TP ban sounds like something a person who has never used a bidet would say. Even the bidets that “dry your bum” take forever and don’t fully dry.
Hand towels exist though
so what do you dry your bum with after a shower?
A towel.
I don’t take shits in the shower though, so there’s really no risk of me wiping shit on my towel when drying my ass after showering. The bidet is good, but won’t necessarily get everything 100% clean. Two squares of TP to get dry + ensure that everything is completely clean is a very cheap insurance policy.
that’s why i actively reach in and scoop out as much shit as possible from my anus
Just wait a minute and it will dry. I’m going to be sitting there for a couple more minutes on my phone anyway.
I’m totally fine with just using two squares of paper to both get dry faster and to ensure that everything is fully clean post-bidet application, to be honest
Shooting things in your butthole: gay and left.
Admitting it is left. Creating a whole bigoted persona around how bad it is while secretly engaging in it anyway would be right.
stop subsidizing cars and trucks
Left.
nah that’s actually right wing (in theory)
in reality, it’s left… the world is a weird place
I mean, people on the left generally aren’t against subsidizing transportation, the problem is with cars specifically. Their dominance is generally bad for society as a whole, but good for a few already very powerful people.
Nah, driving is a very cultural and now traditional practice, changing it is a change in those domains so it’s left
The purpose of life is to maximise pleasure and anyone yapping against that is either trying to control you or still hasn’t deprogrammed from puritan cultural influence.
That sounds a lot like utilitarianism, which is historically left leaning.
If maximising pleasure is left, to maximise suffering is right-wing or just bdsm?
We both got buckets of chicken. Wanna do it?
Suddenlytf2
Doesn’t like puritan cultural influence, left.
im playing and frolicking and hagvbing fune
Sending the government anything official (like passport or jury summons response) through the post should include free shipping for letter sized envelopes.
left - free stuff
Freesocially fundedAlso because the right wants to dismantle the post office
free
Not free, paid for with taxes. And as we all know, all taxation is theft. Except for the roads I need to drive my lifted truck on.
Wait, you have to pay to send your government official stuff?? Anytime the government wanted me to send them anything (mail-in votes, tax return) they include a free envelope with shipping paid (the netherlands).
Well, if OP is from the US we typically have to pay at just about any interaction with the government.
They haven’t managed to charge us to vote yet, but I genuinely can’t think of any other meaningful, direct interaction I’d have with a government office that doesn’t involve me playing money.
Edit for clarity: by paying money, I mean by a means other than taxes.
They haven’t managed to charge us to vote yet,
I mean… they did. Until the 24th admendment in 1964 abolished it for federal elections.
Oh I’m definitely expecting them to try going after the 24th sooner or later.
Public school teachers shouldn’t have to pay income tax
This is a dumb opinion. Don’t make tax rules more complicated than they need to be.
If you want teachers to earn more (and that’s fair: you should), just…pay them more.
just… pay them more?
exceptions to taxes just makes them a target. others will point at them and go “why do they get to keep their money while i have to pay the government my hard earned dough?” and start complaining about unfair treatment.
if the problem is that public school teachers aren’t being paid enough, then just fix the problem itself.
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Cows should have curly tails like jack russels
Incoherent nonsense — Right
quickly judging cow opinions - Right
It’s a moo point.
i think it’s possible to have too many buttholes. like, from a functional standpoint. it’s probably super uncomfortable.
Demanding butthole conformity is a classic argument of the right.
i mean i guess you could read it that way. i should probably think of a better way to word that when i’m less tired
It’s possible to have too many buttholes but that’s a subjective thing and doesn’t matter
Or what if it just spreads the load, reducing strain on each butthole, making the experience better
Wait, we talking series buttholes or parallel buttholes? Does plumbing work like electoral you know what for arguments sake let’s say yes
We have series buttholes. When you feel like you need to poop that’s cause it’s cleared the last inner butthole
well i mean you do. we’re talking mad science here
But I think there’s a maximum number of comfortable butt holes. 2 sounds good while 200 doesnt
3 is too many is all i know. i was part of some… experiments.
copyrights should only last 5 years.
Typical pirate party talking point: left
(Although classically liberal)
Anti-capital & pro-public ownership, definitely left wing
People really actually should learn how to make bugs into more widespread, varied, and tasty cuisine.
Meat is about to get much, much more expensive.
Addendum: Ask the vegans about their most cost effective, most sustainable protein sources.
left
Exploiting other creatures is anything but left.
It’s harm reducing compared to exploiting mammals and devastating the environment with ranching and it’s supporting agriculture. Also - you will eat the bugs.
Beans, it’s always beans
Came here to say this. Don’t be weirdos trying everything to eat new animals, and eat some BEANS immediately
I mean, I mostly agree, beans and legumes are very, very practical…
But … beans and bugs?
Variety is the spice of life?
Maybe there is some kind of way to process crickets or ants into basically… ‘meat’ patties, ala impossible burgers or what not?
Do you really think they’d taste better than just eating an impossible burger though?
All plants are good protein sources, and you probably don’t need as much protein as you think. The most sustainable plants are grown on a local farm. Investing in a CSA share makes it more economically sustainable for both the farmers and consumers. The most cost effective is probably something gross and drowning in pesticides (not sustainable).
Ah see, this is the problem though.
I agree with all you’ve said.
But… CSA won’t feed 8 billion people.
Full stop, it won’t.
Not without a magically generated total overthrow and reworking of world capitalism as it exists, toward some kind of eco based localized socialsm or something… yep, it would be nice if that would happen, but magical thinking is dumb.
So, that can’t be the generalized proposed framework for the future, unless you’re just fine with a few billion people starving to death.
Bugs though?
Might be a more cost effective solution for protein that can actually work at scale, allow CSA to focus on the healthier and more sustsinable plants, and bugs as a protein source would probably be a hell of a lot less resource intensive and more sustainable than… our current level of cows, chickens, pigs, etc.
We use so much farmland to grow food for pigs cows chickens.
We could probably use a lot less farmland if that went to feeding crickets or something, and then use the saved farmland for healthier vegetables.
At least, this is my rough and broad understanding/idea.
You nailed this one
lol oh my god it is still ongoing after my comment ahahah!
I’m gonna be honest I’m not eating ze bugs
Fair enough lol.
We should train mountain lions to be comfortable around humans, so they can hunt down feral cats and dogs to stop them from killing local wildlife and polluting rivers.
Eagles could work too.
All active duty soldiers should be get a free, non-transferrable 1000+cc motorcycle.
Cities/towns under 1 million should ban cars within the city limits, but remove all liscensing requirements for <200cc motorcycles.
Being someone that thinks all noisy motorcycles should be banded, I think these are neither left or right, just wrong. Make them electric bikes.
Chain drive electrics are fine, if a tad boring, but they currently lack range.
Also smaller motorbikes aren’t loud, just ban loud exhaust.
Mountain lions cannot catch cats and dogs easily. Also, plenty of people would straight up murder mountain lion with a gun or their car to save a dog or cat.
Catch, Neuter, Release diminishes wild cat populations dramatically over just a couple generations, and it doesn’t involve having to facilitate their deaths.
Edit: I am a fan of the motorcycle idea. We should make sure they’re electric to cut down on their driving volume.
i was gonna say, my favorite vehicles i’ve owned goes in order: my etrike, the hot red turbocharged 90s sportscar i drove in college, the late 80s nissan convertible with the popup headlights i learned to drive in, the hybrid we got right now, all the rest, and then that piece of shit barely worked had a door held on with duct tape and those awful automatic seatbelts but these made a RUHRUHRUH sound because they didn’t retract all the way when you got out and it had a leaky radiator that the dude who owned it before me thought you could fix by cracking an egg into it fucking garbage 94 Ford Tempo. It was Blue.
which is to say i’m a big fan of the motorcycle idea or just ebikes
Come to vietnam. Outside of HCMC and Hanoi, where there are so many bikes they recreate the issues with cars, the freedom and flexibility of 90%+ of the population using motorbikes is good for your soul. The emissions of 8 million 10 year old bikes is bad for your lungs tho.
China is kinda ahead in that they have both bikes, ebikes/scooters, and public transit, but theres way more cars.
I miss the Saigon of 2007, when I first moved there. There were hardly any cars other than taxis. Over the 6 years before I stopped living there, the change was immense. And last time I went back, in 2022, it was overrun with cars. And worse: it’s cars driven by people clearly trying to drive like they’re on motorbikes. All over the place, not sticking to lanes. It was absolute chaos. Especially down some of the narrow laneways clearly not built for cars.
The average car driver has gotten a bit better, I’ve only been hit by 1 driver not understanding how big their vehicle was (and 1 driver not hitting the ebrake/engaging the clutch and rolling back into my bike before I could get out of the way). But yeah, even 1 car for every 20 bikes fucks up traffic for everyone, especially when they have to stop to crawl by a parked car or something. I have some hope things will improve as Hanoi bans ICE engines inside the city and other cities take notice.
Even so, I will take riding in the worst HCMC traffic over America’s psychotic, egotistical drivers.
oh, i don’t need to visit vietnam for that, i live near (and used to live in) a college town with about three times as many bicycles as cars. only time we got in the car was to leave town.
I’m not exaggerating about seeing 10+ bikes for every car in some locations. https://vietnamnews.vn/economy/1690616/only-nine-per-cent-of-households-in-viet-nam-own-a-car.html
The important part isn’t that you have the bike, its that very few people use cars, so there streets have the capacity to transport hundreds a minute, a dozen people can park in front of a 15 foot wide shop.
that sounds like the main bike corridor of this town, yeah. only place in the state i know of where police take the laws around bikes like helmets and lights at night seriously.
Cougars absolutely can and do eat cats and dogs; their natural prey is primarily deer but they’ll absolutely hunt smaller animals if given the opportunity. It’s also not unheard of for them to stalk children and even adults.
It is a hoax that feral and domesticated cats are destroying the environment in places where they have predators, which is almost everywhere except Australia and some isolated islands. Cats live near humans precisely because they have so many predators in the wild.
Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s moral or ethical and vice versa.
Left
Libertarian
Libertarian on its own means nothing. Am I left libertarian (anarchist) or right libertarian (ancap)?
Ancaps are just boot lickers that smoke weed.
…when their boss lets them have a break.
Libertarian
on its own it just means opposition to authority; both have a similar chance of believing in what you said
Libertarian on its own means nothing. AnCaps are perfectly fine with a “tyranny of corporations” and are therefore not anti-authoritarian. The concept of private property necessitates an authority to enforce property rights.
This ia the correct opinion. Have an upvote.
True, but they’ll agree with the “legal \neq moral” statement regardless because they think it won’t bite at them.
Why would it mean nothing, just because it doesn’t fit the left-right false dichotomy?
👏 SCIENCE 👏 FICTION👏 DOES👏 NOT👏 INCLUDE👏 FANTASY👏
believes in rigid categories - right
Of course not, because it’s the other way around
Fair enough
Define fantasy. Soft scifi just has more fi than sci and can totally go into the realm of fantasy
Concur and I have no issue with the crossover itself in stories. Fantasy is largely predicated on magic systems and creatures. Science fiction begins with known science. Maybe I should have been more specific and said “hard science fiction.” Some of my favorite stories contain elements of both, but sometimes I want hard science like Rendezvous with Rama, Red Mars, or Tau Zero. It can be frustrating to look through aisles or catalogs for hard science fiction and find mostly stories of magic. It’s a mood
But then again, as Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
I have a magic crystal, it contains many secrets. At my and only my touch, it will reveal its bounty.
This crystal fits in my pocket but also contains the world. Upon uttering the correct incantation, my crystal will allow me to speak to those far across the realm.
But I must be cautious, pondering my crystal for too long can be addictive and one must exercise restraint, lest nothing else is done beyond contemplation of the depths of the world.
SciFi is just a matter of perspective; to a medieval king my cellphone is a magic crystal. The ability to travel significantly faster than a horse; would have seemed like magic; imagine the talk of great power; if rather than the weeks of travel between London and Edinburgh in the 1700’s you had a personal air craft able to do it in a few hours.
But you’ve identified the differentiating factor. In Fantasy, the hand-waving is mystical. In Sci-Fi, the hand-waving is technical. If ya mix the two, you get Shadowrun, or Star Wars before the midichlorians.
Building on this, Star Wars is fantasy
Agreed
Language changes. “Literally” also means “Figuratively” now. The pronouciation of “gif” is regional. To fight against it is pointless.
linguistic descriptivism (left)
definitely not conservative
Linguistic descriptivism is generally quite a progressive and pro-science ideology
I also think both the examples I gave are incredibly stupid that they are true, it’s just pointless to fight against.
Boo
“Old man yells at the cloud”
