Obligatory monthly "what's your hot take?" question
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To the kids who make your clothes, you are excessively wealthy.
Yeah. Not a lot of people in the west are comfortable acknowledging the fact that the life of relative luxury we enjoy is a result of decades to centuries of exploitation of other cultures. We enjoy things like cheap clothing, food and electronics because the people who make these things aren't being paid a fair amount.
The reality is for people reading this comment, a sustainable future is one where you have less. And to get to that future you have to give things up. That is not a popular opinion and basically makes you unelectable. People love to blame capitalism for always demanding more, but the population at large won't accept less than they already have. People don't want to stop eating meat; people don't want to pay more for clothing or electronics.
Personally, I try to do what I can. I went vegan, I stopped driving, I try to use what I have before I get something new. Globally I have more than average, I'd happily live in a world where the collective wealth of humanity is distributed equally among us all. Even if that means I would personally have less.
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People who can't stand being corrected. Instead of learning and improving, they feel diminished and hateful.
Maybe they are just hatefull from the start, and you correcting them puts you in their line of sight?
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Oh god I almost don't want to say this in this environment...
Techy people aren't the most intelligent in other/all areas just because they have some technical expertise.
I have worked with, and interacted with people, all my life who are technically very intelligent in some specific way, and even been one of these people... Who thinks that one area of proficiency grants them unearned respect in other areas.
Eg." I'm great at maths therefore I'm logically infallible". Or "I'm an engineer, so I know exactly how society should function best"." I'm a doctor so my every opinion on everything is more important than yours".
I'm not like this but I am very curious.
When I went to the dentist and they were taking molds of my teeth I shared that I was a 3D printing hobbyist and wanted to know a bit about the process. I always start with an apology "sorry I'm curious by nature as an engineer but could you share details on X?"
Dude was the owner and gave me a full run down. He even told me about the time he got a free rental for a crown 3D printer to have on site. It was stupid expensive but it was free to use for a few months. Then pay to keep it. Get crowns in hours instead of days. He returned it because labs do much better work.
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For some reason, people using the contraction "everyday" as a noun drives me insane. "Everyday" is an adjective (e.g., an everyday activity), "every day" is the noun (e.g., I do this activity every day).
It doesn't matter. It doesn't.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I see it everyday. I blame autocorrect for not picking up the grammar.
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Family and blood relation means absolutely nothing.
It's just that people decided that due to blood relation and marriages a certain set of people should not only know each other, but like each other and put up with each other's bullshit for far longer than for other groups like friends.
Meanwhile these relations are no different from being coworkers.
Similarly, lacking this blood relation doesn't matter aside from family anamnesis (and perhaps organ/bone marrow transplants), in case of adoptions.
I don't understand why people go through so much struggle for their kids to be "their own" while there's many waiting and hoping to get adopted. People don't think anything special about adopting a cat or dog, after all, there is no other way, and yet they'll fully love their pet. But suddenly when it's small humans, which is even the same specie, it matters a lot.I don't understand if people really feel something towards having really similar DNA, but I don't see any logic in it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeap.
I've written off family members due to toxicity and swore off having kids (before the economy went into the shitter).
Wife also doesn't want to have kids herself, but loves children. If we want kids I'm going to adopt in a few years. Late 40s early 50s. Aiming to provide a good home and support to one or two in need.
We might start as a foster parents.
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Mine's that people who insist on correcting others grammar on internet forums are little shits who peaked in grade six as a teacher's pet and get off on exerting their "superiority" on others.
Fuck you "less than" is just better than "fewer then." Think I'm wrong, tell me what these symbols are called "< >" that's what I thought loser.
“It gets better” is an awful statement. You don’t really know that. Bit of a thought terminating cliche for people who still have such a chance.
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Mine's that people who insist on correcting others grammar on internet forums are little shits who peaked in grade six as a teacher's pet and get off on exerting their "superiority" on others.
Fuck you "less than" is just better than "fewer then." Think I'm wrong, tell me what these symbols are called "< >" that's what I thought loser.
My hot take is that I don't care what other people's hot takes are.
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Mine's that people who insist on correcting others grammar on internet forums are little shits who peaked in grade six as a teacher's pet and get off on exerting their "superiority" on others.
Fuck you "less than" is just better than "fewer then." Think I'm wrong, tell me what these symbols are called "< >" that's what I thought loser.
People should be able to get suicide assistance.
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Mine's that people who insist on correcting others grammar on internet forums are little shits who peaked in grade six as a teacher's pet and get off on exerting their "superiority" on others.
Fuck you "less than" is just better than "fewer then." Think I'm wrong, tell me what these symbols are called "< >" that's what I thought loser.
Legos with stickers suck. They should just print it in the parts or not have a design. It's too much stress on the person building them
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Maybe they are just hatefull from the start, and you correcting them puts you in their line of sight?
I'm not really in a position to correct anyone, as English is not my native language.
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Oh god I almost don't want to say this in this environment...
Techy people aren't the most intelligent in other/all areas just because they have some technical expertise.
I have worked with, and interacted with people, all my life who are technically very intelligent in some specific way, and even been one of these people... Who thinks that one area of proficiency grants them unearned respect in other areas.
Eg." I'm great at maths therefore I'm logically infallible". Or "I'm an engineer, so I know exactly how society should function best"." I'm a doctor so my every opinion on everything is more important than yours".
wrote last edited by [email protected]This platform is proof positive of this take lmao buncha tech nerds who can't read to save their lives
God help you if you accidentally use an analogy on here
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Mine's that people who insist on correcting others grammar on internet forums are little shits who peaked in grade six as a teacher's pet and get off on exerting their "superiority" on others.
Fuck you "less than" is just better than "fewer then." Think I'm wrong, tell me what these symbols are called "< >" that's what I thought loser.
If you believe in the Marxist critique of art for art's sake, congratulations, you are a religious evangelist.
(I do however, believe in Nietzsche's critique of art for art's sake, which is that it fundamentally does not exist)
