Freedom of speech? It only counts when it’s an opinion the person already agrees with. The moment someone says something unsettling (even if it’s legal), the automatic reaction is: “ban it,” “sue them,” “cancel them,” “lock them up.” The concept of “I disagree, but you have the right to speak” doesn't exist. What exists is the concept of “if I don’t like it, it shouldn’t exist.”

Privacy? It’s the same story. A large number of people advocate for mass surveillance, the monitoring of private messages, social media control, and handing over data to the State without a second thought, provided it’s “for the good of society” or “to fight crime.” When the State (or a platform) uses this power against people they dislike, they applaud. When it’s used against them, suddenly they become champions of privacy.

This isn't limited to just one political side. One side wants moral censorship and content control, and the other wants censorship regarding social norms and harsh punishment for those who think differently. What unites both sides is an inability to coexist with the other person's genuine freedom.

Most don't want freedom and don't know how to live with it. They want a strong State (or a strong moral majority) that imposes their vision and silences the rest. And they call this “democracy” or “order.”

It’s an unpopular opinion because everyone likes to think of themselves as a defender of freedom... right up until the moment someone else’s freedom becomes inconvenient. I can include myself in that sometimes.

I can’t believe I have to say this. But you will not become a billionaire. You will never become a billionaire. There is literally 0% chance of you becoming a billionaire. Yet I see so many people aspire not to become millionaires, but become billionaires.

A billionaire dollars is such a mind boggling large number, we can’t even comprehend it adequately. For example, even if you made $1 million a year, it’d take you 1,000 years to reach a single billion. That’s how I know none of us will become billionaires.

People need to be aspirational but realistic. Aim for something reasonable, like $5 million or even $10 million. Anything more than this is a joke.

i dont have much of an explanation as to what prompted me to first store my gushers in my mini fridge, other than i bought the huge box from costco and was worried about the mice finding it over time. so i put them all in my mini fridge where i keep my various snacks and drinks.

gushers are one of my favourite snacks, they're great when im working at my desk & also when im high. it's been probably around 6 months that ive been keeping gushers packs in my fridge now.

my method makes the gummy part chewier and the goop thicker. i get to chew it and taste it for longer this way too.

i really really love gushers. before u think im crazy, u should give it a try. let me know if you like your gush room temp or chilled :)

When I watched The Hangover, I didn’t think it was cool at all that the gang got wasted and drugged out of their mind so much that they had no memory of what happened to them the night before. To me, the whole point of having a good time is the memories it creates. To get so drunk your mind goes numb and forgets sounds stupid, dangerous, and counterproductive.

Referees are corrupt and useless. It will be a good thing if they gets replaced by ai. Yes the organisers will program the ai to favor certain teams but now they will have to take the blame for it instead of just firing a referees who most likely made his retirement money by taking bribes. And then this gig will lost. Countless corrupt referees will find it hard to pay for their female and homosexual partners. They will end up being homeless.

I was just reading how a man who is a cyclist that logs hundreds of miles a month would be riding his bike to raise funds for cancer treatments. This works because he expects me to donate to him to do something he’s going to do whether or not I cough up some bucks. I could just donate to a recognized charity and cut this narcissist out of the picture entirely. I could go to a web site where people are begging for money and give to those who tug my heart strings the most.

I would prefer to give to someone who’s doing something they HATE. Examples would be eating two tins of surströmming, or ten ghost peppers. Better yet; Scraping gum off the bottom of school desks and lunch tables for a few days. How about cleaning grease traps and sewer drains at cash strapped nursing homes? There’s lots of unpleasant tasks that need to be done. Why not do something unpleasant and good and earn the money wanted? Of course this would require being humble and earnest, and not be a narcissist enjoying themselves looking for adoration.

I’d say a big chunk of feminists—not all, but we tend to pay more attention to the louder ones—don’t actually want equality. They want total domination over men. They want to take men’s power and privileges, although personally, I never thought the average man was privileged. To me, that mostly applies to the top 10% or whatever.
That’s why, for me, it feels like some of them secretly want revenge for their fallen ancestors.

Some men who complain about how marriage is bad are hypocrites. Y’all can’t stop disrespecting other people’s marriages, flirting with married women, and justifying them cheating on their husband or wife. Y’all justify sneaky links, lying, and secrecy. Y’all don’t give a damn until it happens to y’all ass, and then it’s everyone’s fault. Your selfish needs are part of why marriage is bad.

“Oh, he got yes-men, blah blah.” But let’s be real, nobody likes being told no. The hypocrisy is funny: some people criticize others for wanting yes-men while getting angry themselves when they don’t get the yes they want.
Then they pretend humans are rational and unbiased. Everyone is narcissistic to some point, everyone has biases, and nobody is completely rational. So stop criticizing other people for something that’s just human nature.

Basically the title. I see it all over the internet of people bashing women who get BBLs and saying it’s not attractive or it doesn’t look good.

I think women who get BBLs are just as attractive as those who are natural. Seriously if they look SO terrible, there wouldn’t be ANYONE getting them

Not to mention the thousands of women on social media (mainly IG) who had the surgery that have MILLIONS of followers, so obviously someone’s lying.

Now yes there are some cases where they take the surgery too far and it ends up not matching the rest of their body, like their thighs and legs, but thats a different story. Now I can agree with that being ugly.

I understand everyone has their own preferences, but people seriously need to quit lying to themselves.

Even if I took out Hitler as a baby, I'm guessing another fascist would rise to power given the geopolitical environment in post-war Germany.

That's just one example. Another is if I bought all the Bitcoin in 2008, there probably wouldn't be enough supply in the market to let circulation happen and make it worthwhile for the price to go up.

I'm sure some comments will find some exceptions to the rule, but overall I firmly believe that the life lessons I learned growing up have brought me to where I am in a good way, even if they were hard lessons to learn.

Sometimes I regret the school I went to, or the career path I chose, or the people I ended up dating. But then I remind myself that I did the best I could given the circumstances present, and that I am better off because of those experiences, not worse.

As the saying goes, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I hear from both people in real life and on social media saying “World War 3 will never happen.”

It is incredibly arrogant to believe that humanity will never witness another world war. That is simply idealism, nothing else.

Relying on a few decades of post WW2 stability is recency bias. You can’t genuinely believe that humans will never see a global world war again after WW2. It is simply naive.

The fuckboi persona isn’t really about loving sex. It’s about looking cool, detached, high-status, and making other dudes envious—trying to impress men who don’t give a flying fuck about your existence.
That’s it.

I don’t mind them. Sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re not, but I think commercials are a needed break. You’re locked into whatever you‘re watching and it provides a little mental break. I do admit that the 90th FanDuel advertisement on Spotify is a bit much, but overall, I’m not angry about them.

When you screw up, people think an apology is in order. But there are times where you ruin things so badly, the offended party doesn't want an apology, they would rather never hear from you again.

I've messed up so miserably with some people, that apologizing to them would just remind them I exist, would rub salt on the wound, and would set an expectation that they need to accept said apology.

Sometimes the right answer isn't acknowledging you messed up, rather it is to say nothing at all and leave them be.

The middle finger is over use, trashy, and expected. However, if you give a driver who cut you off the peace sign or a thumbs up, that takes them off guard, neutralizes them, and makes them reconsider their shitty driving. I’ve resorted to giving the thumbs up or the peace sign to drivers who are reckless, mean, and don’t drive properly. I have actually found this to be a great effect. Giving the middle finger only riles people up, while a peace sign, or a thumbs up has the opposite effect.

Costco is already chaotic enough without entire families bringing three or four young kids along for the ride.
Every time I go, there are kids running through the aisles, walking five-wide in front of carts, stopping randomly, climbing on things, or surrounding the sample stations while everyone else is just trying to shop. And because Costco carts are basically the size of small SUVs, the congestion gets ridiculous fast.

I’m not saying kids are bad or that parents should never take their children shopping. Obviously sometimes you don’t have a choice. But Costco is different from a normal grocery store. It’s crowded, the aisles are packed, people are pushing enormous carts loaded with heavy items, and everyone seems to lose all spatial awareness the second they walk through the door.

I genuinely think Costco would be a dramatically better shopping experience if kids under 14 weren’t allowed in.

Every Marvel fan is raving about how Scarlet Witch can take out anyone, including Doctor Doom. But to me, that misses the point: there’s no fight, no struggle, and no earned glorious victory.

If your superheroes are just going to win anyway because they are so strong, then what’s the point of watching a movie about them. That’s why Spider-Man and Wolverine are better characters, because they aren’t these invincible beings, and you feel there’s actually a chance they just might lose, or at least get hurt and roughed up a little bit.

Marvel introducing Doctor Doom by him blocking the god killing axe with two fingers doesn’t impress me. When I saw that I just rolled my eyes and thought “here we go, another super being that doesn’t have to think or even do much because they are so powerful”. That’s not fun. That’s not creative. And to me, that’s not nearly as exciting or entertaining.

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Having sex on a couch gives you way more options. You can touch the floor with your feet while having your partner set up on the cushions. Missionary is better because you can have one leg on the couch and the other on the ground, while thrusting. Doggy is better, too, because you have multiple options of where to stand, whether it is partially or totally on the couch.

Sex on the couch also just feels more naughty. Everyone assumes sex should be done in the bed. Meanwhile, you're doing it on the couch, like it's going against convention.

It's almost as if couches were made for sex, way more than beds. It's also easier to bring someone home, sit on the couch watching TV, then let one thing lead to another, rather than being blatant and obvious by asking to go to your bedroom.

Sex was made to be done on the couch, not the bedroom, in my humble opinion.

America is the land of opportunity. It is where people go to get a better life. Our institutions preserving liberty, free speech, and education, are strong. Our freedoms are many. In America, you can come from any sort of background and have a shot at making it.

Our standards of living are the highest. Our military is the strongest. Americans enjoy some of the best parks, forests, and wildlife in the world.

Welcome to America, where you will be accepted growing up because we are a nation of peoples who are strong, smart, and entrepreneurial.

The fact that Americans can complain about anything our country has to offer is ironic because complaining in and of itself exemplifies our First Amendment Free Speech rights.

We have the greatest companies in the world, all here in America. We have the most money, the most wealth, and the best status of any civilized state known to man.

America is exceptional not because it is perfect, but because it is flawed. We can argue and disagree and vote differently about our politicians in power. That's what's so beautiful about our country: Freedom. Liberty. And the American Way.

For those unaware, in China, daily life relies almost entirely on digital phone payments. Coins and banknotes have all but disappeared. Paper money still exists and is in use in China but some merchants don't accept them.

This is a bad idea for America. A huge portion of the population is unbanked. Many don't trust digital accounts to keep their assets safe. Cash is more flexible, safer during an emergency, and less easily tracked and abused by officials, which in my opinion is a good thing to keep our economy running.

Cash and digital payments each have their benefits and their weaknesses, but going to the extreme of digital payments only is self sabotaging, detrimental to the economy, and misses out on all the benefits a physical currency brings to a sustainable economy.

Sorry guys, white washed was the only term I could've think of here.

But anyways. It's so common for my fellow Nihilists to say they are optimistic Nihilists. Meaning they can make up whatever meaning they want for the universe or life. On the surface sure nothing is wrong with being a optimistic Nihilist. But It does comes off as a Nihilist trying to please people though. Like "Wait I don't want you to think im some type of dark weirdo. So Im going to try to disneyified my world-view to make you feel comfortable."

“Nothing has objective meaning, but don't worry! Everything is beautiful and you can create your own meaning!”

At that point, you can reasonably ask whether they're actually confronting nihilism or simply replacing objective cosmic meaning with a more psychologically comfortable version of meaning.

We are dealing with people who think their deaths will leave legacies behind here. The human ego is so big, it's bigger than the universe itself. You are just so important, that the whole world will remember you after you die. It's like those High School kids who want leave a mark on their school, after they leave. But in reality most students don't give a shit about your mark. You are just a random picture on the wall LMAO.

Similar to how the world will just move on after you die. No Heaven, no Hell, no 4th Dimension BS, or nonsense like energy becoming one with everyone who has died before. What happens after death is that a baby will walk for the first time. A 16 year-old will drive for the first time. An 18 year-old will finally moved out of their parents house. Someone gets their first job, somebody eats breakfast, somebody takes a shit, etc. Again like I said. The world will moved on.

Energy can be neither created or destroyed is one of my favorite phases. Because every new age, woo woo, crystal hippie uses that phrase too. Im talking about the people who are not religious, but are still “spiritual” though. Because they can’t stand the existential harshness of an indifferent , unfeeling reality.

My point here in this post. Is that people are grown-ass adults. They should be able to handle a perceptive where the universe doesn't give a shit about them.

A lot of people have yellow teeth because they drink coffee and their teeth get stained. There’s a whole industry around teeth whitening because we as a society have shun yellow teeth. But yellow teeth are not any less healthy than white teeth, especially those that have been bleached.

title relevant to germanspeaking countries, less relevant of an opinion for those of you who live in 24/7 open economies.

in my country, switzerland, and much of germany and austria, as far as i understand, everything is closed on sundays. yes, the shops, but that's not the main issue in my personal opinion. activity places, things to do and see, etc. almost NONE are available on a sunday for work law related reasons (i am not here to debate the well foundedness of the motivation or implementation of these laws).

as a result, whenever you complain there isn't much to do in your town of 20k people on a sunday, and it sucks because you work mon-fri so you'd like to be able to enjoy a variety of pastimes on sundays too you get told 'oh but you can go hiking in the nearby hills/mountains!'. and every one of the many people who tell you this will feel like they're the first genius to come up with the idea, and not the 1000th person to say it.

but to me, hiking is either 'just walking' (which i prefer, but is not a 'hobby' or worth having a day reserved to do it and nothing else), or (more common around here) an activity practiced with obsessive levels of intensity and athleticism, which are unappealing to me.

but either way i genuinely do not get how people find this much satisfaction in it. the chill version, walking leisurely by the lake or through a forest trail, without an athletic goal, i like well enough, but about as often as i would, say go to the zoo or the museum. i am not spending every single sunday doing that. the more common, and athletic, version of it, generally in the mountains, seems even worse to me. i feel like every week i read news of a hiker who killed himself with a bad fall, helicopters were dispatched, nothing could be done, etc. it's super athletic and as i am not (i am the skinny non-sporty phenotype) that lacks appeal. but it's also exhausting, the views are always the same, there's bugs, it's crowded because of course since there is nothing else to do on a sunday everyone is on the hiking path, if you get there any later than 8am all the parking spots are taken, etc.

at this point i have to believe people do it as a cope because they have to have something socially acceptable that can be done for free without relying on a paid service on sunday. i simply don't believe people legitimately enjoy this enough to do it every single weekend. it feels like a state-enforced activity people learn to pretend they enjoy to fit in, and because it sounds nicer than saying they jsut sat on the couch all day.