Speed limits are generally bs, only useful for justifying police budgets. The goal should be designing roads with safety in mind.

Introducing arbitrary rules helps nobody. Not in reducing the amount of cars on the road, not people who are forced to drive for some reason.

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I’ve taken to calling myself “asexual”. While not technically true, since I feel the desire, at least this way people don’t try to pressure me into interactions I’m uncomfortable with.

Imagine phones having stupid logic like printers - no you can’t make a call, your smell cartridge is empty

Those asmr mukbang videos. I can’t stand asmr sounds in general, eating makes it worse

I wouldn’t say he’s a source of information at all. His videos are opinion pieces. As far as I’ve noticed he rarely gives any hard numbers, or claims to know things outside of the mainstream news.

It doesn’t hurt you so don’t worry about it

Eh, not so sure. Beauty standards propagate, and pressure to conform to those standards is real.
That’s just how fashion works. In this case fashion requires disabling a functional part of your body. It’s at least a bit icky.

I hate how it’s framed as a bad thing. Intentional or not, real estate prices falling is a good thing.

At least then you have the absolute moral high ground.
" we need to eradicate drug trade" is not a good call to arms, since consuming psychoactive substances is the most human thing ever, practiced by a wide range of the population
“we need to get rid of murderers and human traffickers” is clear and unambiguous, and would actually make more people turn their back on the cartels

None of these articles make sense until you reform your electoral system to allow for multiple parties. Until then it basically do you want complete idiots, or a smaller amount of stupid takes.

And not a monkey’s paw moment.

Btw this would be a good monkey’s paw question
!monkeyspaw@sopuli.xyz

Me from roughly 5 years ago gets his dreams fulfilled

I used to be what Americans call libertarian. Capitalism and free market ftw. I thought it would lead to a freer society.

At some point I understood that the consequences of capitalism lead away from what is actually my real goal - maximizing the liberty of each individual. If someone is afraid if they can afford food and housing they can’t really be free.

Now I support certain types of socialist policies with the same goal.

Have an existental crisis. I’m serious. But have a low level one, a high level will paralize you.

Move away from parents home if you haven’t already. Preferably to live alone. The feeling of having a whole place to yourself is amazing.

The shutdown of r/2balkan4you. Greatest achievement of the Balkans in decades lost because of one dumb admin

First LGBTQ people are still people they don’t have a monolithic view of the world.

Trans people usually do think gender is an important thing, that’s why they transition. And for people who do think gender is a social construct (both lgbtq and not) why would they care if someone wants to change it, it doesn’t matter anyway.

The point is in acceptance. You want to be perceived in a different role? Sure there you go.

It doesn’t matter, it’s all bs. But for many people it’s hard to exist without a script to play. If someone feels more comfortable playing a different role who am I to say no

3 in the last 10 years. before that I don’t remember

Complaining about “songs getting dumber” is a story as old as recorded music. We tend to remember music positively if it’s important to our personality formation. Usually the music from our youth, although big jumps are possible later in life.
It’s not that new artists are worse or better than the old ones, you just don’t have an emotional connection to newer music.

That being said I do dislike some trends in 2020s music - melancholic mood and more focus on introspective texts. And all of reggaeton subculture. Contrary to your point I think there’s more focus on lyrics now than in 2010s.

Well said. I often think that discrimination in general is actually based on errors in what’s known as feature selection in ML.
Humans observe the world, notice certain patterns (such as between weight and sex), but then unconsciously perform dimensionality reduction to simplify their mental model of the world. Our software is unfortunately buggy.

There’s also the question of training dataset. If you always see people of certain sex in specific roles, you might conclude that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
There’s a commonly shared but apocryphal story about models recognizing cloudy skies instead of tanks because of the data they were trained on. https://gwern.net/tank

Same dress code, standards and rules absolutely - regardless if competition is split or not.
Same competition definitely for some sports - chess and shooting come to mind.

More physical sports - I’m undecided there. I’d support everyone competing together if for example weight categories are introduced. You don’t want people of widely different physical build competing together, it’s not fun either to watch or play.