Any company using insecure cryptography in any new product or service should be dissolved.
Water is wet and I’m tired of people arguing about it. Wet literally means “covered in or consisting of liquid,” and yet everyone seems to think water can’t be wet just because it also makes other things wet, which it does but that doesn’t mean it isn’t itself wet
The purpose of life is to maximise pleasure and anyone yapping against that is either trying to control you or still hasn’t deprogrammed from puritan cultural influence.
Bidets should be mandatory and toilet paper should be banned
Maoist left with a strong aftertaste of eco-consciousness.
I could live with a bidet-centric society tbh
Yea that was too easy, my bad
It could also be ecofascism, though. 🤔
Just about anything is fascism if the penalty is being murdered
and toilet paper should be banned
Are you just rocking a wet ass post-bidet application?
The complete lack of thought for obvious disastrous consequences is how you recognize a true Maoist policy.
I welcome or wet-ass bidet future, comrade.
so what do you dry your bum with after a shower?
A towel.
I don’t take shits in the shower though, so there’s really no risk of me wiping shit on my towel when drying my ass after showering. The bidet is good, but won’t necessarily get everything 100% clean. Two squares of TP to get dry + ensure that everything is completely clean is a very cheap insurance policy.
that’s why i actively reach in and scoop out as much shit as possible from my anus
Right? TP ban sounds like something a person who has never used a bidet would say. Even the bidets that “dry your bum” take forever and don’t fully dry.
Hand towels exist though
i see absolutely no problem with having people wipe their asses with towels
After washing your ass you want to dry with something. A handtowel can be handy, you can wash it
right, but then you’re gonna have a basket of used ass-drying towels, which is unpleasant.
Could use a washing machine once in a while lol
Just wait a minute and it will dry. I’m going to be sitting there for a couple more minutes on my phone anyway.
I’m totally fine with just using two squares of paper to both get dry faster and to ensure that everything is fully clean post-bidet application, to be honest
Shooting things in your butthole: gay and left.
Admitting it is left. Creating a whole bigoted persona around how bad it is while secretly engaging in it anyway would be right.
stop subsidizing cars and trucks
Left.
nah that’s actually right wing (in theory)
in reality, it’s left… the world is a weird place
I mean, people on the left generally aren’t against subsidizing transportation, the problem is with cars specifically. Their dominance is generally bad for society as a whole, but good for a few already very powerful people.
Nah, driving is a very cultural and now traditional practice, changing it is a change in those domains so it’s left
Sending the government anything official (like passport or jury summons response) through the post should include free shipping for letter sized envelopes.
left - free stuff
Freesocially fundedAlso because the right wants to dismantle the post office
free
Not free, paid for with taxes. And as we all know, all taxation is theft. Except for the roads I need to drive my lifted truck on.
Wait, you have to pay to send your government official stuff?? Anytime the government wanted me to send them anything (mail-in votes, tax return) they include a free envelope with shipping paid (the netherlands).
Well, if OP is from the US we typically have to pay at just about any interaction with the government.
They haven’t managed to charge us to vote yet, but I genuinely can’t think of any other meaningful, direct interaction I’d have with a government office that doesn’t involve me playing money.
Edit for clarity: by paying money, I mean by a means other than taxes.
They haven’t managed to charge us to vote yet,
I mean… they did. Until the 24th admendment in 1964 abolished it for federal elections.
1964?? That’s like 100 years more recent than I thought
Oh I’m definitely expecting them to try going after the 24th sooner or later.
i think it’s possible to have too many buttholes. like, from a functional standpoint. it’s probably super uncomfortable.
Public school teachers shouldn’t have to pay income tax
This is a dumb opinion. Don’t make tax rules more complicated than they need to be.
If you want teachers to earn more (and that’s fair: you should), just…pay them more.
just… pay them more?
exceptions to taxes just makes them a target. others will point at them and go “why do they get to keep their money while i have to pay the government my hard earned dough?” and start complaining about unfair treatment.
if the problem is that public school teachers aren’t being paid enough, then just fix the problem itself.
Left, believes public schools should exist, welcome to 2025 noob
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cereal first, milk after that
copyrights should only last 5 years.
Typical pirate party talking point: left
(Although classically liberal)
Anti-capital & pro-public ownership, definitely left wing
a true leftie would say to outright abolish copyright
Cows should have curly tails like jack russels
Incoherent nonsense — Right
quickly judging cow opinions - Right
It’s a moo point.
We should train mountain lions to be comfortable around humans, so they can hunt down feral cats and dogs to stop them from killing local wildlife and polluting rivers.
Eagles could work too.
All active duty soldiers should be get a free, non-transferrable 1000+cc motorcycle.
Cities/towns under 1 million should ban cars within the city limits, but remove all liscensing requirements for <200cc motorcycles.
Being someone that thinks all noisy motorcycles should be banded, I think these are neither left or right, just wrong. Make them electric bikes.
Mountain lions cannot catch cats and dogs easily. Also, plenty of people would straight up murder mountain lion with a gun or their car to save a dog or cat.
Catch, Neuter, Release diminishes wild cat populations dramatically over just a couple generations, and it doesn’t involve having to facilitate their deaths.
Edit: I am a fan of the motorcycle idea. We should make sure they’re electric to cut down on their driving volume.
i was gonna say, my favorite vehicles i’ve owned goes in order: my etrike, the hot red turbocharged 90s sportscar i drove in college, the late 80s nissan convertible with the popup headlights i learned to drive in, the hybrid we got right now, all the rest, and then that piece of shit barely worked had a door held on with duct tape and those awful automatic seatbelts but these made a RUHRUHRUH sound because they didn’t retract all the way when you got out and it had a leaky radiator that the dude who owned it before me thought you could fix by cracking an egg into it fucking garbage 94 Ford Tempo. It was Blue.
which is to say i’m a big fan of the motorcycle idea or just ebikes
Come to vietnam. Outside of HCMC and Hanoi, where there are so many bikes they recreate the issues with cars, the freedom and flexibility of 90%+ of the population using motorbikes is good for your soul. The emissions of 8 million 10 year old bikes is bad for your lungs tho.
China is kinda ahead in that they have both bikes, ebikes/scooters, and public transit, but theres way more cars.
I miss the Saigon of 2007, when I first moved there. There were hardly any cars other than taxis. Over the 6 years before I stopped living there, the change was immense. And last time I went back, in 2022, it was overrun with cars. And worse: it’s cars driven by people clearly trying to drive like they’re on motorbikes. All over the place, not sticking to lanes. It was absolute chaos. Especially down some of the narrow laneways clearly not built for cars.
The average car driver has gotten a bit better, I’ve only been hit by 1 driver not understanding how big their vehicle was (and 1 driver not hitting the ebrake/engaging the clutch and rolling back into my bike before I could get out of the way). But yeah, even 1 car for every 20 bikes fucks up traffic for everyone, especially when they have to stop to crawl by a parked car or something. I have some hope things will improve as Hanoi bans ICE engines inside the city and other cities take notice.
Even so, I will take riding in the worst HCMC traffic over America’s psychotic, egotistical drivers.
oh, i don’t need to visit vietnam for that, i live near (and used to live in) a college town with about three times as many bicycles as cars. only time we got in the car was to leave town.
I’m not exaggerating about seeing 10+ bikes for every car in some locations. https://vietnamnews.vn/economy/1690616/only-nine-per-cent-of-households-in-viet-nam-own-a-car.html
The important part isn’t that you have the bike, its that very few people use cars, so there streets have the capacity to transport hundreds a minute, a dozen people can park in front of a 15 foot wide shop.
that sounds like the main bike corridor of this town, yeah. only place in the state i know of where police take the laws around bikes like helmets and lights at night seriously.
Cougars absolutely can and do eat cats and dogs; their natural prey is primarily deer but they’ll absolutely hunt smaller animals if given the opportunity. It’s also not unheard of for them to stalk children and even adults.
It is a hoax that feral and domesticated cats are destroying the environment in places where they have predators, which is almost everywhere except Australia and some isolated islands. Cats live near humans precisely because they have so many predators in the wild.
The only disagreement I have about the bikes is that 200cc is a bit high. But smaller? Yeah probably fine.
Ok, 156cc, i was just thinking a Honda winnerx or a yamaha exciter 155 is a little underpowered for short highway trips.
People really actually should learn how to make bugs into more widespread, varied, and tasty cuisine.
Meat is about to get much, much more expensive.
Addendum: Ask the vegans about their most cost effective, most sustainable protein sources.
but insects are less efficient than just growing protein-rich crops, it makes way way more sense to just stop feeding our crops to livestock and instead turning it into seitan and TVP
plus, both of those products are effectively just a strange kind of meat, if you serve someone bolognese without telling them it’s made with seitan they absolutely will not notice the difference.
Please do tell me more about seitan and TVP.
Or, rather, I will have to look into these more on my own at some point.
i mean there’s not much to it, they’re both protein extracted from plants in some way.
the only real difference to meat is slightly different texture and lack of innate flavour, so you need to either serve with something else flavourful or marinate it first.
All plants are good protein sources, and you probably don’t need as much protein as you think. The most sustainable plants are grown on a local farm. Investing in a CSA share makes it more economically sustainable for both the farmers and consumers. The most cost effective is probably something gross and drowning in pesticides (not sustainable).
Ah see, this is the problem though.
I agree with all you’ve said.
But… CSA won’t feed 8 billion people.
Full stop, it won’t.
Not without a magically generated total overthrow and reworking of world capitalism as it exists, toward some kind of eco based localized socialsm or something… yep, it would be nice if that would happen, but magical thinking is dumb.
So, that can’t be the generalized proposed framework for the future, unless you’re just fine with a few billion people starving to death.
Bugs though?
Might be a more cost effective solution for protein that can actually work at scale, allow CSA to focus on the healthier and more sustsinable plants, and bugs as a protein source would probably be a hell of a lot less resource intensive and more sustainable than… our current level of cows, chickens, pigs, etc.
We use so much farmland to grow food for pigs cows chickens.
We could probably use a lot less farmland if that went to feeding crickets or something, and then use the saved farmland for healthier vegetables.
At least, this is my rough and broad understanding/idea.
left
Exploiting other creatures is anything but left.
It’s harm reducing compared to exploiting mammals and devastating the environment with ranching and it’s supporting agriculture. Also - you will eat the bugs.
The only ones who say that without irony are right wing though so…
Which part?
“you will eat the bugs” right? It’s like their whole globalist dog whistle thing
It is at this point, 7 comments deep, arguing over whether or not this is a ‘left’ or ‘right’ stance or otherwise how to classify it, that I am going to suggest that I have successfully produced an opinion which does not easily fit on the traditional left-right spectrum.
Oh gotcha, yeah, it’s tied in with conspiracism about the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab that’s based on the standard global elite antisemitism
Beans, it’s always beans
Came here to say this. Don’t be weirdos trying everything to eat new animals, and eat some BEANS immediately
I mean, I mostly agree, beans and legumes are very, very practical…
But … beans and bugs?
Variety is the spice of life?
Maybe there is some kind of way to process crickets or ants into basically… ‘meat’ patties, ala impossible burgers or what not?
Do you really think they’d taste better than just eating an impossible burger though?
You nailed this one
lol oh my god it is still ongoing after my comment ahahah!
You won
I’m gonna be honest I’m not eating ze bugs
Fair enough lol.
Playboy models were hotter back in the sixties and early seventies, before cocaine, implants, and bleach blonde hair became the norm.
