What is your most lukewarm take?
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Sometimes people are just nice.
Indeed! Hope you had a chance to be nice today too
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Indeed! Hope you had a chance to be nice today too
I did! You too
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
It's not a misunderstanding. It's deliberate misinformation.
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
Either watch the movie OR read the book. Never both. Both just leads to disappointment at the cost of your time.
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Excuse my phrasing, but I stand by what I wrote. Tried to keep it brief.
Online platforms today do not offer any incentive for true positive behaviour, due to lack of community.
By the way your response and all the downvoting kinda proves my point. Compassion shows also in how you process what you read
I won't say that's wrong, but I look at it the other way around. I'm friendly on here because I want to create community. I know I recognize a lot of the same names every single day, and I'm sure they recognize mine as well. By being cordial to each other we create the community. No platform can create a community by itself, it's up to the users to do that. Toxic people create a toxic community, nice people create a nice community.
So, my incentive for being friendly is to set the tone for my community. Even when I disagree with people, I try to make my points, and have a conversation instead of insulting people and yelling obscenities at them. Don't get me wrong, if you come on here with some Nazi shit, I'd give you all the hell I can muster, because I don't want those people to feel welcome here.
I have a feeling that your down votes are from other people who are friendly and just appreciate people being nice and don't assume they are virtue signaling.
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Whelp, never heard of that movie before, but that clip has convinced me that I have to watch it now. Thanks!
Clue is very good. Enjoy!
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
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.
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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
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Phrasing matters here. There are many similar words you could have used, and I would probably agree with many of them, but you went with:
There's no incentive for showing compassion online, apart from virtue signaling.
If you believe there is NO other reason to be nice, other than virtue signaling, that means that EVERY time you see someone being nice online, you assume that they are only doing it to create the illusion of being a nice person.
This is where phrasing comes in.
If you said many or most people are only nice for this reason, we could debate the quantity, but for the most part I'd agree with that.
But you said there is no other incentive. I have no interest in virtue signaling, but I do like to be compassionate online. I can think of various reasons why I personally show compassion online. Since you can't think of a single other reason, it must be because you've never experienced them. I must assume that any time that I see you showing compassion, it must be because you are virtue signaling, because that's the only reason you've ever experienced, and you assume that everyone else is doing the same.
Perhaps you didn't mean exactly what you wrote, but based on the words you used, that's what you told us.
Phrasing matters here. There are many similar words you could have used
This implies you knew what their intent was but being a pedant was more important.
The irony of doing it in this thread with this comment from @[email protected] is too perfect.
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Phrasing matters here. There are many similar words you could have used
This implies you knew what their intent was but being a pedant was more important.
The irony of doing it in this thread with this comment from @[email protected] is too perfect.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Not at all. I was open to the possibility that they didn't mean that, but I wrote my response under the assumption that it was their position.
That was essentially my way of saying, if this isn't what you meant, let me know.
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Not at all. I was open to the possibility that they didn't mean that, but I wrote my response under the assumption that it was their position.
That was essentially my way of saying, if this isn't what you meant, let me know.
Seems a lot more expedient to say "if this isn't what you meant, let me know".
No need for multiple paragraphs of pedantry about language on an AskLemmy post inquiring about people's opinions.
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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.
Your girlfriend scares me quite a bit!!
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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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Seems a lot more expedient to say "if this isn't what you meant, let me know".
No need for multiple paragraphs of pedantry about language on an AskLemmy post inquiring about people's opinions.
Still not my intent there, but maybe you just don't get my tone. No worries.
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Still not my intent there, but maybe you just don't get my tone. No worries.
maybe you just don't get my tone
Ahh, blame the other person for your poor communication. That says a lot about you.
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Except for Nazis
That's with cause.
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You can't just make up words like that
wrote last edited by [email protected]Today is your lucky day!
Ingredients:
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5 green cardamom
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1/2 black cardamom (or more but it can be overpowering)
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a bunch of ginger, chopped a lot (idk how to measure ginger)
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5 peppercorns
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2ts indian black tea
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water
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3% milk (enough to equal the amount of water because I love milky chai)
Ingredients but optional:
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1 edge star anise (or fennel or smnk)
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a bitta cinnamon
Directions:
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put spices in mortar
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pulverize with pestle
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but in water with ginger on stove
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simmer 20 minutes
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add tea leaves
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simmer 10 minutes
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add milk
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simmer 10 minutes
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let cool
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strain
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enjoy!
Can be simmered for longer but I don't have time for that in the morning. Smells great tho
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