Nothing too serious, i want to hear your petty, your eccentric, your off beat takes.
Whoever invented jetskis and didn’t call them boatorcycles seriously fucked up
I now can’t help but completely agree, that would have been so much better
Instagram really should be a weed delivery app.
So what is the cycling part of it? Just curious 😇
They were originally called Water scooters
Isn’t JetSki a trademark? Like either Kawasaki or Yamaha’s brand name for them? Kind of like Polaris and Seadoo (and their snowmobile Skidoo, which my Alaskan college roommate insisted was pronounced “skiDOO” with a short i and not “SKEE do”
Jet Ski is a registered trademark for Kawasaki.
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Dark mode should be the default on phones, websites, programs, apps, and all electronics.
My AMOLED screen draws less power this way.
Not inconsequential. Dark mode is unpleasant to read for people with astigmatism. That’s 1/3rd of the US.
I have that in both eyes and I still prefer dark mode.
Same
That’s depends on levels of astigmatism tbf, dark mode is pretty an accessibility issue
. . . Shit. Do I need to change away from dark mode? I highly prefer it but I do have mild astigmatism…
Nah not really, it won’t make it wkrse or anything, it’s just that some astigmatic people have more problems with dark mode or it’s straight up unuseable
people with astigmatism
…and no proper glasses?
Astigmatic people can still have some issues with glasses, especially ones with more acute astigmatism
Eg:
It isn’t this strong for everyone, ofc
What? I have astigmatism and never ever had this problem.
walruses should be called saber-toothed seals
Only if sabre tooth tigers are renamed walrus tigers also.
This sounds reasonable
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Advertising destroys everything nice (communities, websites, roads, clothes, architecture, privacy, quality of life, etc.).
Coldest Take ever.
Advertising is literally a major reason our planet and our society is where it’s at as it induces unnecessary consumption and materialism.
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If Thanos snapped his fingers and sent all of the marketing MBAs to “Planet Marketing”…nobody would fucking miss them. Nobody.
My related hot take: If I’m going to be subjected to Ads, I’d actually prefer to see relevant Ads (generally demographically, geographically, etc. while retaining some anonymity) than ads for products and services I’m never going to care about.
Semi-related, on my language learning journey I’ve discovered that as I watch more things in the language I’m learning via YouTube, Netflix, and other ad supported streaming services I see more and more ads in the language I’m trying to learn. And surprisingly (even to myself) I genuinely enjoy these ads because the language is usually simple and without much idiomatic use, it’s all clearly enunciated, and it’s directly related to the action on screen. Of course, everyone else in my household is now also getting those kinds of ads and I can’t help but be amused.
Ads in real life spaces though? Unless it’s telling me about some specific local thing or place, it is just ugly clutter on the scenery and architecture.
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Oh yeah, gambling ads are the worst. That’s like a whole other can of worms. I feel the same way about them, predatory and exploitative. They shouldn’t really be allowed anywhere. But I feel the same way about ads for casinos, day trading websites, Bitcoin, predictive markets, state lotteries, managed stock market funds, short term loans, multilevel marketing schemes, etc. The all prey on the same ignorance and insecurities.
YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable numeric date format and should be the standard taught in schools.
Making your bed every day is useless.
Nobody’s gonna see it and you can’t use it without messing it up.
Prefacing this with saying I’ve previously worked in wildlife conservation for years.
Limited hunting of big game in Africa is perfectly fine. Dipshits willing to pay $100K to shoot something fund entire villages, put kids through school, and define a value of the living animals that make it easier to define how much money anti-poaching efforts need, etc. Even if not well-managed, even with expected corruption, it ends up working out.
Absolutist conservation stances never take into account how ridiculously manipulated these ranges are already. There’s not much still natural about an ecosystem in a reserve. Predator/prey relationships are weird, tourism focuses only on charismatic megafauna, and tourist sites bring staff and place humans close to wildlife anyway. Absolutist stances end up being horrible for animals long term because the ecosystems are so messed up, so populations boom, then crash. Why would anyone want to watch hundreds of animals starve to death as a way to “manage” a population when someone is willing to pay to do the same thing in a specifically managed situation?
In most species, the most useless thing there is, is an older male. Humans let them run their counties, which is stupid. Elephants, rhinos, lions and hippos run them off because they get violent and kill their own kind. Humans haven’t recognized that’s what ours do, too. But when a rich dipshit wants to pay $100K to be brought 30 meters from an old lion and shoot it before it kills 3 cubs from a rival… I’m very OK with that.
Poaching is the real threat, and most people are too ignorant of stupid to know the difference because of an abstract fear of firearms, rather than logically looking at the whole problem.
All I heard is that we should have a hunting season for leaders over 65.
This is refreshing to see. So many people are ignorant about conservation. These places like you said actually keep the population in check and the wildlife healthy, vs watching an old animal starve to death… because nature. Animal lovers can be some of the dumbest and most ignorant people out there. A lot of them would literally put animals through years of agony because they are “rescuing” them.
Thank you for this nuanced take. People get too caught up in ideas that they don’t think of the broader picture.
Like veganism, what happens to all the farm animals if we don’t farm them?
I respect your take, but I don’t think it’s inconsequential enough to fit the question
The real thing the US fast food market is missing is Indian food and it could be a serious game changer in terms of providing healthier / vegetarian options.
Upvoted, but I only partly agree. The way things are now you can order takeout from local small businesses, and there won’t be consistent quality or speed or prices, but they’re not a huge corporate machine. (At least at the endpoints). A big conglomerate moving into the space may put most of the local ones under.
There’s an indian place by my work that has a tikka masala wrap, thought it was genius as a takeaway item. Super delicious, but an extreme mess… the idea that it would be portable was a big miss.
My area has a really high Indian population, which means our local restaurants have a lot of Indian fusion. There is a sports bar near me that sells a chicken tikka masala thin-crust pizza that is amazing. It’s basically like eating crispy naan with chicken and tikka masala drizzled over the top. I wouldn’t have thought of combining the two, but it works so well.
Something like the 3 Cheese Flatbread Melt from Taco Bell, but with tikka masala filling. Could be paneer instead of chicken for a veg option. Small and cheap should be possible here
I’ve been having frozen samosas for lunch lately and you aren’t wrong
I want a fast soup restaurant. Very healthy vegan soup, which may take a while to make, but it’s already made in the morning so it’s fast.
it’s called Panera :3
I generally agree, especially if you could get like naan burritos. Something quick and easy to make
Similarly in ohio and a few other places there’s a place called piada which basically is Chipotle but Italian food and I miss it so much. It’s such good fast casual
“Lgbtq+ rights” is a mouthfull. We should call it rainbow-rights instead.
I guess this hot take depends on the audience… But if you don’t have bay leaves on hand for a recipe, your family and friends aren’t going to notice the difference. When push comes to shove, it’s probably the least important part of any recipe. If you’re making soup or a stock, it’s gonna be fine without it.
Bay leaves are kind of like bass in music. It adds an earthy undertone to everything. Whatever you’re making won’t necessarily be bad without it, but it’ll be thin and less impactful.
I agree. They’re obviously not mandatory but I really like them being there
Bay leaves are so stupid
Yeah, it’s not as important as professionals make it out to be. Like, if you under-salt a dish, people will notice that the meal doesn’t taste as good as the last time you made it, even if they can’t identify why. But the “depth” that bay leaves are supposed to add to a dish, probably won’t even register for most people. I don’t think bay leaves are entirely useless, but I do think it’s safe for home cooks to consider it an optional ingredient. If you have them, use them. If you don’t this time? Don’t worry about it.
I was about to go off about who didn’t have bay, laurel (and rosemary and the third thing I forgot what is called. It’s yellow.) grow like weeds up here.
What do you mean y’all don’t live where I live
Turmeric, cumin, mustard?
i don’t put turmeric in my mustard but that one batch with cumin was good
You can notice the difference, its just that you probably won’t know what is missing.
I’m partial to kombu over bay leaves, though it’s hard to source where I am. It is at least edible after you cook it to death, and it has some additional merit as a folk cure for flatulence.
If anybody flips my table because I forgot to add bay leaves, they’re not getting invited back. Nevertheless I do keep them on hand because they’re not nothing.
We should continue to gently correct spelling and grammar mistakes online.
Hershey is giving other candy/food manufacturers below-market deals on chocolate or above-market licensing deals to produce their chocolate candies in the USA so Americans don’t discover how much better chocolate tastes without butyric acid. Inexpensive foreign chocolate could destroy The Hershey Company and there are big companies like Nestlé or Mondelēz that could do it relatively easily but instead let Hershey’s produce their brands under license with butyric acid added.
Here I am living in Ecuador the land of caco literally drive anywhere here and it’s on the streets for miles yet we go to the store and all you can buy is sabor de chocolate (chocolate flavored)… Shits nasty… I want my butyric acid over this crap
“Fuck lawns” energy, but for graveyards. (no not like that, stoppit!)
Or postmortem services in general. If you want to give something to someone, do it when they’re still around to appreciate it. Once they’re dead, they won’t give a fuck about the fancy funeral or coffin or w/e you bought for em.
All post death stuff is for those still living, to
phelp them cope*edit: I’m a careless typer
Functionally yes, but those partaking generally see it as a gesture for the deceased, not therapy in disguise.
I’m all for therapy, it’s just the way we go about it in this context is stupid and wasteful.
Everyone gets together for an event that’s seen as important, comforting things are said, then everyone goes and eats together and tells each other stories about the person they lost. Seems like a great way to go about it to me.
Eh, there’s a line to be sure. if folks want to have a potluck in remembrance of a loved one, I have have zero issue with that. I guess it’s more the industry surrounding it that offends me - the expensive venue, specialty vehicles, the resources dumped into making a fancy box to keep the corpse in, and then just bury, and ofc the insanely wasteful use of land to give basically housing to corpses. It all feels very exploitive, like you ‘owe’ your dead mom the nice polished marble tombstone. …and I’m here to tell you, your dead mom doesn’t give the tiniest shred of fuck what her tombstone’s made out of. Or that she has a tombstone at all.
Well, in particular, my Mum was cremated as per her wishes, and that’s what my Dad plans too, but I don’t begrudge the coffin or the cars - none of us were in a fit state to drive and we weren’t about to shove her in the incinerator in a body bag out from someone’s boot. I don’t know what else you wanted us to do instead. She has a little stone in the kerb lining the path to the crematorium, because we didn’t want there to be nothing physical left after we scattered her ashes. The funeral directors were very good at their job, very useful to have around, and a great help on a difficult day. All your contempt for having a ceremony and making an event out of it, by contrast, not so helpful. If you ever meet anyone on real life who’s grieving, please don’t talk to them like you vent online.
I work in healthcare, I meet people grieving pretty regularly. My opinions stay at the door - I’ll even go as far as praying with patients, and I don’t have a shred of religion in me… to the contrary, I fucking despise religion; but if that’s what brings them comfort, then fuck it, I’ll play along.
Your case is basically the same gig - if having a mom urn brings you comfort, then you do you. Difference is that you already know my opinion, so we’re bashing heads right out the gate, but I’ll remind you of the thread topic to proclaim an unpopular opinion that we know doesn’t mean shit.
I don’t know what else you wanted us to do instead.
Dude, you don’t need to justify your decisions to me, and you certainly don’t need to change your behavior based on an internet stranger’s ‘hot take’. Where you see comfort in ceremony, I see an industry that relies on predation of people during an extremely vulnerable time. Engaging with that industry makes me feel taken advantage of; but there’s a lot of social pressure to conform which makes it feel even more uncomfortable. Our opinions don’t need to be reconciled.
As someone who makes out with goth girls: no, we need cemeteries. They’re just really edgy parks
Just throwing a link to Caitlin Doughty’s channel here for anyone interested in green burials and such!
Logically what you’re saying makes perfect sense.
But there’s just something so strangely beautiful about the thought that on a certain planet in the middle of nowhere, there is a species of animal that buries their dead in groups all facing the same direction. No one is quite sure why they do this, not even them
I took a folklore class once where we visited a graveyard and had to write about graveyards as if explaining it to a culture that has no idea what they are. One of my classmates took the opportunity to express how stupid he thought graveyards were.
I am tempted to agree with you, I mean we’re going to run out of graveyard space if we keep it up. We need something like crypts for all the graves from several hundreds of years ago to move into, and then we need to keep on moving people from graveyards into crypts ad infinitum - this way we could still provide graveyard space to people who are remembered by living relatives. I’d say the cut-off could be 3 or 4 generations.
Of more importance to peoples’ descendants long term is having good documentation of who their ancestors were, when they were born, married, and died (see websites like: https://www.freebmd2.org.uk/ , if you need this information yourself. this one is UK and i don’t know about any american one, sorry.)
As long as you have that information for your records, a grave for your great great great something is not important.
The Last Jedi sucks, but not for the reasons right-wing chuds complained about. The premise of the entire chase rests on a bunch of Macguffin’s (they can suddenly track ships through hyperspace, fuel is an issue for the first time ever, no one can escape except when they can), the Canto Bight sequence is pointless and contrived, the light-speed kamikaze blows a plot hole in basically every other movie, and Poe should have been executed for mutiny.
Structurally, I get what Johnson was doing; everyone complained that The Force Awakens was a beat for beat retelling of A New Hope, so he basically inverted the plot structure of The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a fun idea, but his desire to end on a Hoth sequence ruined what could have been a perfect ending. I was having problems with that movie, but after Snoke gets murdered, Rey and Ben have one of the best lightsaber fights in Star Wars history, and Ben asks her to join him, I was expecting the credits to roll, and I was ready to leave on one of the greatest cliffhangers in movie history. But then there’s another 30 minutes of movie, and while the Luke stuff is cool, it mostly just drags on.
It’s also clear that Johnson wasn’t just inverting plot structure, but Star Wars norms. Everything that is established is questioned and turned on it’s head. The problem is, by the end of the film, it’s all thrown out and the status quo is hastily reestablished with little justification. What’s the lesson from Canto Bight and DJ? “Rebellion? Empire? Two sides of the same coin for the weapons dealers. The real battle is between the haves and have-nots.” How does the movie end? “Get on the princess’ space ship, we’re not done fighting the Empire!” The entire Rey/Luke/Ben aspect of the film? “Light? Dark? Jedi? Sith? They’re just artificial constructs. Let them die. Burn the temple.” How does the movie end? “Don’t worry, Rey didn’t join the Dark Side and she’s got all the magic Jedi books!”
Anyway, there’s also a lot of stuff I like (the Rey/Luke scenes are excellent), and it’s bad in an interesting way, which makes it better than the rest of the trilogy by default. I guess this is more of a small essay than a hot take, but TL;DR: chuds think The Last Jedi sucks because of wokeness, but it actually suckes for lot of structural, thematic, and plot weaknesses.
Lawns are stupid and I think they look boring
Also pigeons are underappreciated and we are gonna go to pigeon hell for how dirty we did them
Bio 20-30 should be mandatory
I got so many hot shit takes somebody stop me
What is a bio 20-30
Canadian for high school level biology
Isn’t high school level biology already mandatory in most countries?
Canadas response to the pandemic (oops we did a convoy)makes a lot more sense now dont it :')
Convoy = Canada. Got it.
Convoy = Canada
Nah, it’s more a combo of bad schooling, Flatlander Dementia, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and any kind of a stressor that populists can leverage to de-platform scientists, giving us hicks weaponized by talk show hosts masquerading as leaders into the Flu Trux Clan and their Karen Konvoy
No mention of the kitchen sink with all of that verbal flotsam and jetsom? Now that’s restraint!
I had a choice between biology or chemistry. But, that was a long time ago.
I was going to answer but I think my experience from 2006 - 2008 is likely not accurate anymore either 😅
What is a bio 20-30
Canadian for high school level biology
Never heard of it. Am Canadian, went to uni. Were you to say ‘Chem 11’ or ‘Math 12’, then yeah.
That’s basic level, like you can pick science 20/30 or you can pick two from chemistry, physics, or bio at those levels. The mandatory one is science 30 but I think bio 30 should be baked in because we clearly did not teach enough people how their whole shit works
They’re iridescent doves, love em
Regarding lawns, I think it’s the feeling of accomplishment when you’ve mowed them that’s the kicker. A wild garden can look better, but there’s something about the smugness of having a freshly cut lawn that gives you a slightly virtuous buzz.
You wouldn’t happen to be german, would you?
No but I do really fux with their compound language
Are these common German beliefs, am I in the wrong country?
Idk i just have a german friend that would 500% agree with you
I like the cut of his jib
In germany gardens are quite boring. Short cut grass to 6mm, hedges, front garden is stones. Barely and flowers. That is it. Not as brutalistic as american “gardens” because german gardens atleast the oder once have at least a BIT of british garden style.
I am german and this is the reason i dont want a garden. Because the image of owning a garden for it just to be boring has been ruined for me. Now classical english gardens. Oooh they are true beauty!!! If i would get a house and garden, then that would be the garden i’d get. But im pretty sure for all that i would have to go threw lots of governmental institutions…also these flowers sadly arent very well suited for the climat change heat from what i know. The other type of garden i’d love is a bog garden.
Buuut i dont know how faar i’d be allowed to get it to act like a natural bog. Mind this area used to be a bog until it got drained in the 50s-60s and its peat got harvested away :(
My neighbour just mowed the lawn (we take turns). Was the grass long? No. It’s dead. We’re in our 5th heatwave this year.
She only mowed the clover (which is (was) doing well) and the wild flowers that the other neighbour mowed around. What was (dead) grass is now dirt.
What is wrong with you, Germany.
I WISH I KNEWWW!!! THIS IS A CRY FOR HELP!!
Canadian gardens are generally boring also, though there will always be that one down the street where they go all out. But I have come to realize these are, in fact, necessary. You need to feel humiliated and apologetic about the state of your own yard. It builds national character.
You’re right about England though! Wow, even the rolling countryside looks so carefully manicured. Really drives home to any Canadian our colonial peasantry roots. Highly recommend the visit. 10/10!
“Eight! I mean nine!!”
pigeons are underappreciated
Second only to gulls in my hate list. All of 'em.
Aw i love seagulls, i love any creature that finds a way around our mess and makes a niche inside of it. Plus they learned how to steal and that’s kinda fun.
I’m with you about the lawns, but pidgeons?Hate them.
If they were professionally raised and stayed within their area, naybe. City flying rats which have 0 care for everything, nest inside people’s balconys (I’ve had pictures of them sitting on/near anti-pidgeon deterrents), and shitting on everything everywhere, hell nah.
I’d get rid of my lawn for a patch of ground with native vegetation but want my dogs to have a decent area to poop on so it’s tolerated for that.
They can poop on native groundcover still!
