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It’s controversial in countries like Australia…
We need to standardise English, and we need to accept the US won in spelling.
Conversely, the US needs to accept they lost the metric/imperial war and start changing their shit to be less stupid.
What the fuck is 90
stone? How long is 2.5 miles? Pounds = lbs? How? (Okay US doesn’t use stone)Don’t get me started on the “19 hamburgers is equal to 5 eagles” memes.
Also, everyone needs to accept the ISO date format.
YYYY-MM-DD
You’re objectively wrong if you think any other format is comparable.
Also also, you can keep using feet and inches for your own height as long as you’re between 5-6 feet.
Otherwise I get confused.
I both think people have a right to dignity, which by extension means they should have a say of how to live their lives. I also think that the general population shouldn’t vote. Against Democracy is a really good read if you haven’t read it.
For the record, I literally will drive people to the polls (since our current system creates better outcomes if more people vote) but I do really wish that most of them wouldn’t XD.
Okay so i haven’t read against democracy but it seems to take the socrates position. Instead of limiting votes to only the highly educated (which i take as an issue because this disadvantages the poor significantly due to higher education costing lots of money) why not just build a society in which everyone is educated enough to meet the standard for an informed voting population?
There are a few ways that the Socratic position (epistocracy) could be implemented and he covers them in the book. I am partial to a panel of experts that can only veto laws in their area of expertise.
For example. Congress passes a law to allow offshore drilling and the climate change panel vetos it.
Firstly, I don’t agree with anyone in this chain, but man… there are just some people who damn near physically incapable of learning.
There’s also the simple fact that a huge portion of the population just don’t care about politics or government. If “didn’t vote” was an option for eligible voters, it would have won every election in US history.
The great thing about representative democracy is that idiots don’t actually vote for anything. They only vote for whom to represent them.
I’ll admit, I’m somewhat of an ignorant idiot myself. I haven’t read nor understood the entirety of all laws. That’s why I choose someone else to represent me.
I think it’s only fair that mentally handicapped people are also allowed to choose someone to speak their case.
The problem in US isn’t the idiots. It’s the two party system. In countries with multiple parties, truly idiotic votes would be scattered randomly all over different parties, or they would be placed on the party that represents idiots the best.
That doesn’t work in US, because you actually only have one political party and then the opposition. It’s really easy for an opposition to trick idiots into voting against everything.
Yeah this is a good one.
I agree that the majority of the populace chooses how to cast their vote based on limited information, overwhelming biases, and erroneous misconceptions.
However, I don’t know that there’s a better more equitable alternative? I’ll have to read Against Democracy, for sure.
mandatory voting is better than any sort of voter controls, the catch is you also have to combine it with a properly funded/structured public education system designed to grow well rounded individuals capable of critical thought (instead of mindless factory drones, like the US’s).
I am not sure I buy the conditional statement
“If a population is well educated then they will vote well”
There is a component of research time that greatly limits ones ability to vote in most matters.
Furthermore the afformentioned conditional statement ignores the litany of cognitive biases that would influence a vote.
insofar as falling for the obvious propaganda the US oligarchs pomp out, i think an educated populous helps immensely. at the very least, it drives the worst of humanity back into hiding when they no longer feel safe operating out in the open
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Everyone who can should live vegan. If you don’t live vegan and call yourselve an animal-lover, you’re a hypocrite.
I don’t think children and teenagers should be (physically) allowed to transition to another gender. They should at the very least be 18, though I believe we should have people wait until brain matured, and a better understanding on consequences is built in.
I am talking about taking drugs, hormones, surgery.
Kids/teenagers/early adults have little to no understanding of definitive actions.
I am all for trans rights, I think transitioning leads to less suicides and happiness. And overall, my stance is if it makes you happy and doesn’t harm anyone, go for it.
The same applies to gambling, driving, or anything implies long term effects.
I would also love to see strong support systems put in place to accompany youth as a whole. The world is complex and its increasingly difficult to take it in, and navigate the absolute hurricane that is it.
I am, of course, open to be further educated on the matter. Openness and education is key to progress
No one should feel obligated to be an organ donor. And telling someone they must because they “aren’t using their body anymore” is fucked up. If a person has to be coerced, guilted or bullied into giving the “gift of life” they aren’t doing so freely. If they have to be manipulated into it then it’s not a gift. It’s theft. Nevermind the fact that corporations make big bank off the organ and tissue trade by piecemealing out donors and sellings the parts, but no one talks about THAT because lives are being saved.
(I’m not against organ donation. I just don’t like that we use manipulation tactics to procure body parts and that there isn’t transparency about who is profiting).
That religion is for gullible people.
A: America and many other nations will soon need to create economic systems from the ground up. Capitalism and the rules we have to govern it, are just inertia with bandaids being used to keep it from hurling itself over a cliff. Socialism, Autoism (AI), and other ism’s we don’t know, will start outright replacing what we knew. The process will be chaotic and painful.
B: The death penalty and quicker judgments should be a thing, at least for America. The wheels of justice are too slow - and explicit terrorists like ICE are allowed to roam freely. They should be rounded up and put to the rope. Should the good guys win a 2nd American Civil War, all members of ICE and MAGA should sway in the wind, so that their ideas and character are not passed down to future generations of humanity. The mistaken mercy granted to the Confederates and Nazis, should not be given to the Dogey.
C: Peter Monyleux’s best games are Magic Carpet 1 & 2.
D: AI is good, but we will need it to be publicly owned by society, freely available, and open-sourced to ensure that it remains that way. The social problems with AI largely stem from the wealthy exerting their influence over the poor, as they do in all things.
E: The hardware drought for RAM and GPUs will pass, and we will have much better hardware choices for our local gaming and AI.
Heterosexuality is not natural.
There is no moral way to raise a cat.
Either they live inside and live an entire life in a few thousand square feet at best for 16-20 years, or you let them outside to hunt and they kill tons of wildlife and are exposed to becoming roadkill/coyote food etc.
My personal dodge is to adopt old cats that have already been indoctrinated into inside life and who could never be let out anyway.
UK Rock bands and singers are galaxy away from US Rock bands and singers.
I have a bunch. I think the biggest one is that some people are naturally dumber than other people and can’t be fixed by education. I don’t think this broadly applies to any specific ethnic group or anything, but I do think that there is likely a genetic component to intelligence. I also don’t think that we should prevent these people from breeding or treat them as inferior, but I also think that sending these people to college is a waste of time and expecting them to do well on college either waters down the college education experience or puts unfair expectations on them. I worry a lot about how these people will fare in an increasingly automated world and the answer is not good at all.
Depends on your definition of “controversial”, for which I have two.
- In the sense of controversial meaning “a mainstream opinion that a large portion of the population finds morally reprehensible”: The death penalty.
It’s pretty much my singular strongly held conservative viewpoint, and as such one I’ve been open to frequently challenging throughout the years. I’ve heard out all the arguments against it: it costs the taxpayer too much money, sometimes people sentenced to death were actually innocent, the state shouldn’t be granted that amount of power to begin with, etc etc…
But to me, it’s always come down to an argument of morality. “Is it right to take another life, even if that life may endanger or harm others?” And this is usually where I would insert a thoughtful and nuanced philosophical paragraph or two to support my viewpoint…
But ever since all this Epstein shit has gone on to continuously spew out each day I’ve pretty much just been taking a well-deserved victory lap lol (Btw, I’m out of the loop… did Jizzstain ever end up successfully petitioning for her release after a few months of hugging puppies in max security?)
- In the sense of controversial meaning “what have you been smoking and can I have some”: A very, very niche conspiracy theory about the nature of UFOs.
Warning to alien enthusiasts: This is the Santa's-not-real equivalent of ruining your childhood (so if you love the idea of little green men, just keep your mystery)
So a long time ago, I read a really obscure publication discussing the nuances behind famous “alien sightings”, that halfway through makes the bombshell reveal that a majority of the so-called UFOs were mostly Russian spy technology, which coincides with a lot of certain historical events, ie. things like Roswell at the start of the Cold War, as well as “what they’re hiding” in Area 51… etc. Essentially, the whole “little green men” / “the grays” mysticism can be chocked up to a cover-up government conspiracy. “Oh no, you can’t go in there! There’s uh… secret aliens!! And UFOs!! Top Secret.”
The only time in my personal life I can ever recall having experienced a genuine UFO sighting (where I saw round lights rotating in a circle above cloud cover right over our building in broad daylight) was once as a kid while visiting my relatives… in Donetsk. So yeah, it kind of checks out. And going off of US history in general, I wouldn’t put it past them that it’s far more likely that most UFO “abductees” with PTSD were actually abducted and brainwashed by the government, especially since they’ve done that sort of thing before…
It’s kind of a shitty reveal. But hey, don’t let me ruin aliens for you, as even though little green men may be a complete fabrication (and seems way more obvious once you stop and think about how simplistic their design is lol…), that doesn’t necessarily equate to disproving all possibility of alien life. Just like with religion, you can’t really prove a negative. Fermi’s Paradox and all that.
So there’s technically no real evidence that extraterrestrial life couldn’t exist… Even if there’s a 99% chance that any strange things you’ve personally encountered wasn’t actually aliens, lol
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