I’ll start with mine. clears throat
“65% of Hazbin/Helluva fan comics, fan animations/animatics, fan fiction.etc are unironically better than anything Vivziepop has ever made in her career!”
Feel free to down vote me and called me a sleazeball douchebag troll.
“65% of Hazbin/Helluva fan comics, fan animations/animatics, fan fiction.etc are unironically better than anything Vivziepop has ever made in her career!”
I’ll do you one better. Vivziepop fans were some of the most annoying people I ever had the displeasure of interacting with. And that was before her animation stuff went mainstream and she just did this annoying animation meme shit. I was a moderator in an Art Community on Amino at that time and somehow Amino paid her to shill it to her fans (the community had no say in this). So they showed up in droves, ignored all community guidelines and just posted the dumbest things imaginable. I still personally dislike Vivziepop because of that.
King of the hill is pro conservative and therefore should be held responsible for enabling fascism and getting Trump elected.
There is no rational reason socks need to match
No reason shoes need to match, either. Why not wear one tennis shoe and one 3 foot high platform boot?
The vast majority of climate focused policy and arguments has nothing to do with climate change. A significant portion is lightly re themed malthusian arguments. Another significant portion is people wanting to change society to their preferred version.
Having worked in climate change policy for almost a decade, the problem is very real and every single big “solution” is a pro-petroleum shitshow.
Every single true believer willing to throw their whole lives at the problem are in denial about the political will being behind them and adamantly saying “If we make drastic changes today, we can still hold it to 1.0…1.5…2.0 C!” It’s fucking delusional. The denial about things like literally not being able to address obvious contradictions like a huge delegation going to the COP to just…be seen…? You don’t need 12 people flying to a business expense week-long extravaganza to complain about carbon footprints.
We are literally so cooked. Where’s the Kalshi bet on what year we have a BOE? My bet in 2029.
what’s a BOE?
Blue Ocean Event, when the Arctic finally melts and there no summer ice.
I thought that had already happened several years ago
I’m not saying it isn’t a problem, I’m saying it’s been used as justification for things that have little to do with climate change.
Robert A. Heinlein like to throw out different ideas to improve politics.
Two of my favorites. “Starship Troopers.” In order to vote you have to do two years of service. In the book it’s explicitly stated that most people are physically/mentally unsuited for actual combat and that they spend their time cleaning streets while being harassed by tough bosses. If a blind person in a wheelchair wants to serve they’ll find them a job commensurate with their abilities.
In “Double Star” all representatives are elected by self identified groups. Instead of representing New York or London, they represent ‘farmers’ or ‘small business owners’ or ‘gamers’ or whatever group has enough members to qualify. And the same way you can move from California to Idaho you can change your group.
some countries already have the second one, they’re called non-geographical constituencies
Could you provide some examples?
I tried a search but couldn’t figure out how to filter all the information into a usable form.
The Hong Kong LegCo had some back when it was still democratic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Council_of_Hong_Kong#Functional_constituencies
Also, the City of London (the small historical core of London which is politically independent from the greater London aglomeration) still retains its ancient voting arrangememt, and lets local businesses vote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation#Elections
Conveniently, much of the London global financial hub falls within its perimiter.
Thanks.
I appreciate you.
No worries. Thanks for inquiring about my Special Interest ;)
He was a good writer and a solid philosopher. Less focused than Clarke or Asimov, less wacky than Dick, and less manipulative than Hubbard. He presented ideas in a clear way.
Allow me to introduce you to Ross Thomas.
He was a WW2 veteran who became a Washington political reporter. His crime novels always have an interesting political slant.
“The Porkchoppers” is about a Nixon era Union election. Giant cast of characters and slime by the tankerload.
“The Fool’s In Town Are On Our Side” is about an ex-CIA agent’s sttempts to clean up a small Southern city by making it 'so corrupt even the pimps will vote for reform."
I wasn’t familiar with either, and I now love them too. However, you think you’ll be horribly executed and shunned for them!? I doubt we’ll see a more popular idea in this post…
A lot of people here will hate on Heinlein for being a fascist.
He went to Annapolis and was strongly promilitary and anti-Stalinist.
He also had some of the first trans characters in science fiction. [ “…All You Zombies” and “I Will Fear No Evil.”]
“… All You Zombies” is really about his connection to his dead sister.
And…?
I read that story in middle school. I’ve read it a dozen times and saw the movie. [Predestination with Ethan Hawke]
I never heard this story. Even if the author himself said it, it’s irrelevant because it wasn’t a part of the story.
Moreover, you should acknowledge that when it was published anything involving trans people would be censored in most magazines.
The second one just describes political parties, in countries with voting systems that don’t enforce 2 camps.
We have the second one already, we just call it lobbying.
In Europe, we call them “political parties”.
Germany has a party for punks, one for satire, one for senior citizens, one for animal rights, one for vegans, one for people of Sorbian origin, etc.
Most single people are single for a reason
Plenty are unlucky (they live somewhere full of backwards hicks, like 'Murica) or some other misfortune, but there are so many people who deserve to die alone and lonely, and they’re blind to the fact that they’re single because they’re just shitty people
Some people understand why they’re single, and accept it.
It doesn’t mean they can’t improve.
Maybe you can fix them
Sure, give it a try
I’m all of the above and more! Hell, my unpopular opinion that will get me executed is that dogs are annoying and overrated. I’m literally worse than Hitler.
But I do recognize it at least so there’s that.
Pedophilia is ok in the united states and we all just collectively agreed to pretend it isn’t. It’s clearly not a crime or we’d make more of a deal out of prosecution. It’s certainly not a deal breaker when your favorite politician or famous person does it. I used to think it was a coincidence that everyone I know was molested as a child, that maybe we gravitate to each other as an unspoken solidarity. The Epstein situation has made that hard to believe.
I agree. There’s very little funding for services that protect children. Foster children are commonly sent out of state due to lack of resources and are completely lost out in the system somewhere.
It’s not about any one crime, although the one you mention is a pretty hot topic. The real problem is that all crimes are null and void if you have enough money. Sometimes that money is from someone who thinks it’s beneficial to them to save your bacon, but nonetheless, it’s legalised bribery that nullifies the crime.
Sure it’s not “bribe a cop on the street” levels of corruption that you (allegedly) get in some other countries, but it’s corruption all the same.
That’s the thing, I already accepted that crimes are legal of you pay for them, that’s something I learned in elementary school, but when you start opening up about sexual abuse, you find that more people have experience than not. It’s not just the famous or powerful, it’s older cousins, uncles, aunts, babysitters, friends or their families, grand parents, teachers, strangers at the park, neighbors, and every other possible connection.
There’s 27 people I can think of that have candidly told me about the abuse they experienced and only one of them lead to legal reprocussions. We’re taught to keep it secret either because we don’t truely understand it until it’s far later or when we bring it up we’re told that it didn’t happen. When we hear about those arrested for it, they were often victims in their own time.
CPS investigates about 300,000 child sexual assault cases annually and experts suggest that as few as 10% actually get reported to begin with. If those numbers are accurate then around 37% of children in the us will be molested in their lifetime. 1 in 13 Americans is a molested child.
In comparison, Jews are 1 in 42, muslims are 1 in 91, Pacific islanders are 1 in 333, transgender adults are 1 in 167. In a general dispersal, for every 11 Mexicans you’ve met, you’ve likely met 8 children that have been sexually assaulted. It’s not money that lets you molest children, it’s the culture. It’s fine as long as no one else has to know about it. So the crime isn’t the act, it’s being bad at doing it.
Also, that’d only using the 2025 data for active cases so that’s just children currently being molested. Adults that were molested as children aren’t even factored in. Even more, only 24.5% of cases are actionable, 2-5% are false, and the remaining fail because they investigation is self assessment at best. So of those 8 molested kids, maybe 2 of them will get justice. The rest get to live with it.
It’s clearly not a crime
If you are rich. Just as with most other crimes.
It’s not OK for you, it’s OK for them because they are powerful.
there are some truly incredible works of art that would have been worse if not for the people in charge of them being abusers (see: crystle castles, stanley kubrick).
i don’t say this as a matter of defense or to claim “the ends justify the means”. just that if these people weren’t monstrous pieces of shit, their creations would be less raw and emotionally moving.
per the examples above alice glass and shelley duvall gave incredible, gutwrenching performances and they were driven by their mistreatment and pain.
Counter point: David Lynch was famously very pleasant to work with according to the people who have worked with him, and he got some incredible performances throughout his career.
Artist: writes poetry for a few years then kills girlfriend and then self
200 years later people: Oh, he was so passionate!
incredible, gutwrenching performances and they were driven by their mistreatment and pain.
I’m reminded of the supposed exchange between Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier on the set of Marathon Man. Supposedly Hoffman stayed up for three days straight to get into the physical and emotional space of his character, and Olivier criticized the choice by saying, “My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?”
Actors are trained to deliver performances. Their job is to believably convey emotions. If the director can only get the performance he wants by abusing his cast, he’s a horrible communicator and has no business in the director’s chair.
Alternatively, if we believe actors need real experience and emotional depth to draw on for a performance, we should get rid of stunt doubles and special effects. How can I believe Hayden Christensen’s pain at the end of Revenge of the Sith if he actually still has all his limbs?
The proper way to eat salad is with chopsticks. Ever tried to pick up a flat piece of lettuce with a fork? A chopped carrot? A crispy crouton??
Chopsticks are the perfect snack food implement to keep your fingers snack-dust/grease free. Chips? Chopsticks are perfect. Popcorn? Chopsticks even help you eat it slower. Fries? You guess it. Chopsticks.
I keep trying to tell people this. People are so set in their ways it hurts.
My brother started eating salads with bamboo chopsticks because it bothered him that a vinaigrette dressing brings out the metallic flavour in a fork. Then he realized they are much more practical for the reasons you mention and has become a huge advocate. They have become my preferred implement as well.
I had a Vietnamese student some years ago teach me this and I never looked back.
I agree with you OP, perhaps I am to be burned at the stake as well:
The kicker is that Vivziepop isn’t just a bad writer, she’s also a TERF (specifically against NB/trans men) and just a shitty person in general. Spindlehorse is apparently a very toxic studio to work for. I’m fairly certain that Vivienne is going to have a public crash out eventually and end up reviled like JKR.
The Abrahamic Religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) aren’t “religions of peace”.
Socialist economic systems are also easily corruptible.
People are perfectly fine with letting strangers suffer so long as it doesn’t inconvenience them.
I’m intrigued, can you elaborate on the socialist economics point?
No religion is all about peace and more importantly, no religion is real. Gods don’t exist, they’re all human made.
Religions are real, as much as countries are real. They are social constructs. Someone can believe in something that is factually incorrect. Flat Earthers are real, even though the earth isn’t flat
V.I. Lenin’s writings are historically significant and should be studied and understood from an academic perspective regardless of whether or not you agree with them.
Mandatory homework needs to be done away with for students. Studying after school is one thing, but assignments that can’t be finished during school hours shouldn’t be given out. Give them 1 free hour a day at school to work on assignments if you need to.
Not every student has a home environment set up for being able to concentrate. Plus it’s just training kids to work off the clock and having no separation of home and work life, something people already struggle with. We should be teaching them boundaries about these things.
I hated school but I would have preferred to stay one extra mandatory hour at school instead of ever having homework.
I actually think that “schools of the future” will do this. Especially when mathematics are concerned. It does no good to get feedback a week after you have done the homework and already moved on to the next topic. Feedback should be immediate so that any errors in understanding can be corrected. The exception would probably be writing a paper, which can occur over at least several days.
Idk about the future, but we used to do like 10 math problems at the end of class, and they were supposed to be finished by tomorrow, where we would review them. It’s a day of margin only, we did have 10 mins to do most of them, and lazy people like me did them in recess right before class. The teacher didn’t check them 1 by 1, but if you were picked to present the problem in the review and you didn’t have it done, you were fucked.
For context, this is like 15 years ago already. Spain.
Yup. I struggled in school because my dad didn’t respect public education and always filled my afternoons with chores and tasks. If I was lucky I could do homework on the bus, or at lunch, or in earlier classes, but typically not. Despite having the highest test grades in most of my classes, I generally had the lowest overall grades, especially in particularly homework-centric classes like history.
…yeah, i did fantastic in my GT classes but struggled in my regular classes due to the volume of busy-work…
Humans are born evil.
Evil doesn’t exist
It’s a Thought Stopper people use to excuse shunning and even killing those they don’t like, instead of understanding and correcting.You’re right in a way. People are born narcissists. Our brains aren’t fully formed. It takes years of training an neural development for them to change.
But that’s a ton of work. It’s easier to label someone Evil and be done with them.
Humans are the true orcs. Our biology is border line insane when compared with the rest of the animals on this planet. Perhaps if we were aware that we are the orcs we might be able to move on to higher goals.
Please elaborate. I’m more of the view that most humans are born as a blank slate and their upbringing shapes who they are as people.
Kids don’t understand the idea of “others” until a certain age. They don’t understand that others are also individuals with their own lives, feelings, pain, etc. They will hurt each other and even kill each other (siblings drowning other siblings, pushing them down the stairs, etc.) if left unsupervised. They have to be guided for a long time before they aren’t dangers to themselves and others.
And it doesn’t stop there. Every class in a public school, everywhere has at least one bully and hanger-ons. And the longer you’re on this planet, the less people you find out you can trust.
Kids understand what they’re taught. No baby is born racist, but instead, their parents teach that “the other” is dangerous/untrustworthy/“less than”/etc.
Without empathy, humans would not have formed societies. Humans being more social than neanderthals is what made humans “win”, and why neanderthals no longer exist (not counting inter-species breeding, since there is no modern being that exists that is considered to be a neanderthal). Sociopathy is considered a disorder for a reason, because it is considered to be out of the norm and actively harmful.
Bullies are, very often, if not most of the time, abused at home, or otherwise have a rough home life. That would also fall under the “nurture over nature” category.
If racism weren’t by nature, then it would only happen in some societies or groups, but it happens in all of them.
Empathy doesn’t preclude evil.
I don’t think that premise is sound. Humans evolved from a central location and then spread out from there. There have been humans from back then who have taught their children to be scared of the other.
Nowadays, we see racism/sexism/religion/etc. as tools used by the elite to divide us so that the masses don’t turn against them. It isn’t so hard to believe that at the dawn of civilization, similar ideas spread.
Back in the hunter gatherer days, before civilization, it isn’t so difficult to believe that humans were equally scared of any stranger who they were not already familiar with, regardless of race.
That entire premise falls apart when you let a person with a different skin color enter the room of children that have never seen that skin color before. There are even videos of it where children scream in horror.
And humans didn’t just evolve from one central location. They evolved in parallel on an entire continent. They then also mixed with different subspecies.
Feel free to down vote me and called me a sleazeball douchebag troll.
To late! You already said we could execute and shun you (though I think the former sort of precludes the latter).
