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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People should be able to get suicide assistance. Including healthy people.
My hot take is that I don't care what other people's hot takes are.
“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.
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.
I feel this, my frustration isn't that people aren't smart enough to use tech, but that smart people panic around tech and can't learn or experiment. Like I get it, but you have to dive in at some point surely
Ben Carson is the epitome of this for me - absolutely brilliant neurosurgeon, ate up every bit of the MAGA party line.
The real hot take hidden in your sentiment is that less educated blue collar workers who live in rural communities and tend towards conservative politics aren't dumber than you are. They just have different competencies than you do.
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?
Knowing the rules and knowing when they're needed are two different things. A racecar driver doesn't need to floor it on their way home. Likewise a conversation doesn't need to employ strict grammatical compliance, we're talking not drafting a treatise. At the end of the day people who get upset with incorrect grammar do so because it's an ick or theirs. They then proceed to make that everyone else's problem. You're not learned and scholarly for being pedantic.
others grammar
others' grammar
Fixed it for ya!
My hero
When asking an open-ended question on the Internet, OP should put their own response as a comment, not in the post body, so people can judge it separately from the question and it's not elevated above other responses.
That's it. That's my hot take.
Also it avoids that the first 10 comments will be from people trolling you for the exact thing you used as an example instead of answering the question
Yeah that's probably good advice
Capitalism is going to kill us all if we don’t kill it first.
I've got a spicy one.
Despite all the patches and updates, Cyberpunk 2077 is still a meh game. I hate the UI, the RPG combat system with damage numbers, the edgy aesthetic and slang words, the lack of vehicle customisation, and the overall lack of non-mission side activities to do in the world.
The ratio of style to substance is heavily weighted in favour of style.
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Mother Nature is really, really angry at us and payback is only barely beginning to start.
I am not religious or superstitious or whatever, it's just a way of expressing that very soon we're gonna have it very bad. The heatwaves, the storms, the utilities unable to cope, the displaced populations, the overwhelmed over-egotistic political systems - we're in for a ride, and that ride starts yesterday.
I kinda look at it like mother nature is angry at herself. It spawned us to finish it
This is not even a hot take. It's just facts.
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We pivoted from social justice causes like child labour to systemic racism (but only in the first world, not where our actual daily racism is practiced) and transphobia etc because the former requires personal sacrifices while the latter mostly "requires" snarky takes on social media.
I can't help but notice that identity politics stuff ramped up to 11 right as Occupy Wall Street was fizzling out. I really think the alphabet soup agencies unleashed this monster on all of us
If I wanted to ensure the status quo and prevent real change, I cam think of no better sociological judo than getting the progressive Left hooked on identity politics.
There is only one struggle and it is the struggle between the excessively wealthy and everyone else.
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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The only grammar thing that annoys the hell out of me is "on accident". No idea why, it just really sticks out and bugs me when I come across it. I rarely mention it when I see it though, because I know that noone actually cares.
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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.
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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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.
I see it everyday. I blame autocorrect for not picking up the grammar.
Login is always a noun in my mind and the verb is "to log in". There are some other weird ones with me in IT due to, I suppose, being older.
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