I keep seeing this sentiment in so much discourse: flock cams, your LG tv uploading your voice recordings, intrusive apps being forced on your phone for school or work or whatever. There's an endless list.

They're okay with it. The way they see it, since a lot of companies have data on us already, what's a little more? I know that, so why wouldn't you want to protect the small amount of privacy you have left? The level of conditioned resignation it takes to form that opinion is genuinely mind boggling.

I am apart of Gen Z myself and I whole heartedly believe that our generation is full of snowflakes. For context I am a female who is a democrat, as well as a bisexual person. The only reason I'm putting that on here is because I don't want people to read this and automatically assume I'm some asshole who's in their 40's coming to shit on gen z, feminists, and the lgbtqia+.

Anyways, in this day and age our generation gets labeled as "snowflakes" a lot. When I first heard this term I didn't understand it, and thought it was just old people talking out of their ass. But now that I've taken a step back to look at our generation as a whole, they're right. We get too offended way too easily. It's so normalized for us to say "You're doing that because I'm of my gender." and "You're doing that because I'm [insert race]" or "You're homophobic." It's so common to see people using their gender, sexual identity and/or their race as leverage to prove a point. Like, no the store clerk isn't asking you to leave because they're homophobic, they're asking you to leave because you just shoved shit in your pocket.

With the sexism thing, yes misogyny is real and I have experienced it firsthand. But just because women have experienced sexism, doesn't mean that it makes it right for us to be sexist towards men. I've heard so many of my friends and other women say "Women are better than men." Which is so stupid, because those same people identify as feminists. Which, being a feminist means you believe all genders are equal. Just because you've encountered a man who is a piece of shit, doesn't mean all men are pieces of shit. Personally, I have recognized that one person or one group doesn't represent all people of that category and I think everybody in the world should live like that or else we're going to end up having more stereotypes than we do people.

Same thing for racism. People care way too much about their race nowadays. I think it's stupid to let your race identify you. Okay, you're Asian? You're also an artist, a dad, a husband, being Asian has nothing to do with who you are. I believe it's the same for African American people, Hispanic people, and any other race. You shouldn't identify yourself with your race, you should identify yourself with what kind of person you are and how you treat others.

All of that to say, I think as a whole we should all chill out a bit. Instead of viewing everything as some motivated passive aggressive comment that has something to do with whats in our pants, the color of our skin, or who we're attracted to, we should look at it as a rude comment. Not everything is motivated, some people are just assholes.

I find it so weird when someone dies, for example an innocent child, or a mother of 4 and people will send the photos of their bodies or videos of their deaths to thr family while mocking them. I also find it gross how people will mock someone INNOCENT who died. I can understand if the person who died was a POS like a child killer, but I dont think an innocent man who was killed deserves to be mocked, especially right after he died. Lacking basic empathy for people is normalized, and you'll get called "sensitive" for having it. Like no- lacking compassion is NOT something to be proud of little Jimmy.

As title says, women should just be banned from owning smartphones and only be allowed dumb phones with call and text - for the sake of their own health.

For example a man with low testosterone will have a low drive to have sex and go out and drink with friends.

So instead of realising/admitting that fact, he will make a cope statement like “going out is pointless and drinking is for degenerate losers and hookup culture is running rampant”.

Even though the things he says have some truth to them, ultimately the reason he chose to stay at home and play Minecraft is due to him having a low drive and potentially self confidence.

And that’s the same thing with people who cheat, they will get the urge to do so, and rather than justify why it’s wrong, they will justify why it’s ok to do so. “My partner doesn’t give me attention, I feel so lonely blah blah blah”.

And the list is very extensive.

I'm fairly traditional. Not everyone will see things my way and that's fine. For myself I live by a pretty important set of rules regarding women.

Be gentle. Be respectful. Listen to what they say. Let what they say give me pause and think. Don't restructure my entire life around bending over backwards for them.

Yes, if it's within my power to not make a woman uncomfortable with a small gesture that doesn't inconvenience me too much? Why not be a good person and do it.

No, if the inconvenience is too high, I won't. My life does not revolve around making women (or men) comfortable.

Women should have a reasonable expectation of safety in our society. Not attacked, harassed, and the like. No, society does not owe them the absolute feeling of safety in public spaces.

Example. I'm walking down a road. It's evening. A woman is walking in front of me. Do I go to the other side of the street? Maybe I do. Maybe I don't. My life does not revolve around making this woman comfortable. I weigh my inconvenience against discomfort. Maybe I do sometimes if I have energy left at the end of the day to care. Maybe I don't if I don't. Will she go and talk about 'the creepy guy who stalked her'? Maybe. I will never see her again. What do I care.

I listen to women. In person and online. If there's small adjustments I can make, I make them. If there's demands for big adjustments, I consider and don't always make them. That's life.

Same for dating (for you unmarried dudes that are afraid to approach). Some women online say 'don't approach, she's trying to have a good time'. Some women say 'a respectful approach is fine'. I fall in the latter camp. Approach. If she gives a no, back the fuck off. If she goes home and tells a story about 'the creepy guy who approached' what do you care? You're not going to see her again. Any women who say 'don't approach' ignore. You're looking for a partner and your entire life does not revolve around making women the most comfortable they can possibly be. A respectful approach with a 'back the fuck off' on a rejection is acceptable.

Life is discomfort.

if you are in conflict with someone who for example has low empathy traits, eg narcissist, you are not going to get anywhere telling them in great detail how they hurt your feelings and trying to appeal to empathy. actually a lot of these types are highly sadistic and elicit a lot of pleasure and even entertainment from watching their victims elaborate on how hurt their feelings are

if you want to get justice from someone who has wronged you need to punish them or negotiate with them according to their own moral framework

behaving outside of our own moral framework, even temporarily and as a means to an end, can be exceptionally challenging especially for those who would be inclined to categorise themselves as 'empaths'

Since I was a teenager and began going on the Internet, I have been told thousands of times by women I don’t know directly as well as in posts that because I’m male I am probably a serial killer, stalker, rapist, predator, or just a bad person.  

The Internet was my introduction to man hate and it sometimes spills over in person too.  If I am going about my daily life and have to encounter a woman, I often get the feeling she’s mean toward me just because I’m male.  This occurs even though I never hit on a woman and mostly don’t even try talking to one.  Sometimes they warm up after a week or a month.  But it’s still crap I have to go through with the next woman who doesn’t know me.     

And I am a tall white guy who’s not fat.  Imagine what it’s like for someone short or black or overweight.

Everything I see as a purported privilege of being male just isn’t worth being hated by seemingly half the population.  You have to cover your drink?  Well duh, so do I.  You’re uneasy walking through a neighborhood at night?  Well, so am I sometimes.  10% of you have gotten raped?  That’s terrible but is it worse than a 100% likelihood of being hated just because of your gender?  

There's just no way that every third redditor who posts has actually been professionally diagnosed as neurodivergent or ASD. Is there?

My last post that had generated a lot of good discussions was taken down because my title just said I didn't like something, which I'm told is not a hot take. So I'm rephrasing it to be the controversial opinion that the mods said it needed to be to stay up.

It seems like any time communism is brought up someone says "that wasn't real communism" or "real communism hasn't been tried."

Real is what happens in the real world. There has never been a communist country that lived up to to the hypothesis put forward by Marx of what communism would become. But a hypothetical communist country is by definition not a real one. Real is what happens in the real world, after the test to prove or disprove the hypothesis. You don't get to look at the real outcome and say "it doesn't match my hypothesis therefore it's fake." And we've had a lot of "experiments" in the 20th century.

It would be like someone saying "well we've never seen a country where zero government regulation led to free markets self regulating away all anti consumer practices, therefore real capitalism has never been tried." (yes, this is me also saying that "reap capitalism hasn't been tried" folks are wrong as well, by pointing out the absurdity of claiming capitalism is only when there is economic anarchy)

I mean, heck there's literally a fallacy called "no true Scotsman" about this. And yet I'm regularly told that communism is the most scientific, rational system ever.

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the constant assumption men seem to have that women are dressing for THEIR attention or interest is so bonkers insane to me.

I attend pilates, which are classes of all women. almost every woman wears the exact same thing there as she would in any other gym, some even dress slightly lighter/in tighter clothes than typical because they feel MORE comfortable in a closed area with only women. if women were dressing for mens attention, why would they be wearing the exact same outfits to workout with other women?

On top of that, why would women go to womens only gyms if they were apparently dressing for an excuse to be stared at? please think with your head and not your duck for 2 seconds, thank you

“(Insert group) can never let us have our own spaces!” No space on the internet belongs to anyone. If you don’t want other types of people chiming in host a club meeting or something in the real world

I see this CONSTANTLY, much more often on women oriented subs, but it's the same on men's subs, especially red pill or whatever. But again, honest hot take, much more often on women's subs

"I'm sick of men just wanting to experience me"

"I'm sick of men not contributing to the relationship"

My dude, YOU decided to enter into a relationship with these men. Maybe it's time to take a long, hard look at your partner selection, or think about if you may be attracted to and pursuing men who are not actually good long term matches.

The Kardashians get a lot of hate for being associated with plastic surgery, but honestly, none of them look worse to me than before. Even if you think Kylie Jenner is a bit overdone, I think she looks so much better than she did before.

Of course, many celebrities who get plastic surgery end up botched, but that’s not always plastic surgery’s fault. It’s the celebrities having unrealistic standards. Even if you’re a surgeon and you tell them that a procedure they want may look off on them, they probably won’t listen and since they’re paying you a bunch of money, you have to give them what they want.

I think anyone considering plastic surgery needs to seriously do research. Don’t just get a surgery thinking “Maybe I’ll look good with this”, really study your face to see if it will benefit you, and also research good surgeons.

And not many people know this, but Tom Cruise actually has jaw implants. Would he have been such a heartthrob without them? Who knows.

There's too much working against them. If they have a demanding or ambitious career as well, this x10

Michael Jackson as an artist is one of the greatest we’ve ever seen and has been my personal favorite for many years and for me music is just music I don’t really care about who is attached to it but despite his greatness in the music industry he ended up being a drug addicted pedophile with too many yes men around him enabling his actions and it ultimately caused his demise

In my experience, Protein shakes is the dumbest thing to have in your diet. 1) It’s taking up space in your body that you could probably fit another meal into, 2) You feel like you gotta throw up 24/7, especially with the milk protein shakes

I just don’t see why you wouldn’t have eggs, chicken, beef instead of a protein shake unless you got phlagophobia and you unfortunately can’t eat a lot because of a fear of choking (god bless you guys btw stay strong)

This evening, my university had an event with a guest speaker in our Department of Economics (of which I am an undergraduate student). While the guest speaker and the department chair were having a conversation on stage, naturally, the subject turned to the prevalence of AI/LLMs and the speaker began to refer to it as 'super intelligence.'

The first time it was said, it felt abrasive. I sat up in my chair a little bit.

Then the two of them just... kept saying it! And it kept bothering me!

I remember when Trump announced that he wanted people to start referring to AI/LLMs as 'super intelligence,' my only thought was "this is ridiculous, it sounds stupid, and nobody is going to do this." Why is this catching on with these evidently serious and successful people?

Reddit acts like a person (usually a woman) filming themselves in public is the absolute worst thing ever and how it makes them horrible and conceited and how much of a drain they are on society and etc etc, they always get REALLYY uptight about it. I just dont get it. being in the background of a video im probably never going to see doesn't matter to me whatsoever and 99.9% of the time they arent remotely in my way.

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Nobody wants to read anything you write. Whenever I see a giant block of text, it says you don't care about me or my time or experience as a reader.

Cut filler words. When you talk to people, filler words are verbal pause to think about what you are going to say next. When you write, you have time to think about what you want to say so use it.

Write short sentences. Run on sentences are a pain in the ass to read through. If you are going to just rant in a post or comment, im downvoting it.

I get that on a long trip, going fast saves a lot of time. In town, it generally just means you wait at red lights longer because here they are timed.

Where I live, speed fines are doubled in school zones. The school zone is 1/10th of a mile long. Maybe a $350 ticket for going 15 over.

At 20 MPH (the speed limit) that is 18 seconds to cross.

At the absurd speed of 200 mph, it’s 1.8 seconds.

The odds are REALLY high you’ll have to stop or get stuck in traffic in that school zone.

No matter how fast you go, you can likely only shave 16 seconds. How big of a hurry is that?

TL/DR speeding only makes mathmatical sense on open roads.

And immediately label posts as "Misleading," "False information" "missing important context" "False equivalency" etc..

The labels could even cover the whole post, and ask that you make a choice to view the post despite being misleading before exposing the post.

If this century has taught us anything, it's that the majority of people are too dumb to separate fact from fiction. We are addicted to simple narratives, memes, our own echo chambers.

People will always use the defence "it's free speech!"

Well okay. Keep having your free speech. Keep posting your gaslighting meme about how Trump actually lowered gas prices, or stopped 50 wars or whatever.

But if it's dishonest, it must, by law, be labelled by an AI trained on credible, factual sources of information.

Why is this important?

It's in the national interest. It is necessary to protect democracy.

The other thing this century is teaching us is that our collective minds (not yours, I'm sure..) are highly vulnerable to manipulation campaigns by foreign agents. I think even the best of us can be caught off guard every once in a while.

Russian bot farms exist for a reason. They work. People in Russia are getting paid to flood our social media pages with highly sharable disinformation, memes smearing the other side based on lies in order to serve their political interests.

The Social media revolution has been too much change too quickly. And it has created enormous vulnerabilities in our democracies. Countries like China know this, therefore set strict rules about who can and can't post about certain topics amongst other safeguards.

I say AI because there are obviously too many posts for humans to vet. AI is getting more and more sophisticated every year and this could be an important application much to the benefit of society.

I'm referring to a combo deal. Most burger spots offer a burger, fries and a pop drink as a combo deal but in my opinion this makes 0 sense.

First off, the burger and fries duo. WHY????? WHY WOULD YOU COMBO BURGER WITH FRIES???? Not only do the 2 foods have no correlation with each other, but actually have anti synergy because both leave you thirsty. They don't complement each other at all.

So you might be thinking: this is where the pop drink comes in, right? WRONG! Fizzy drinks actually make you thirstier. I saw this somewhere but I CBA to find the source again so you're gonna have to take my word for it. So you have 3 items that just make you thirstier and thirstier but for some reason this is the big 3 of burger combo items.

Now imagine this: you take a couple bites into a delicious juicy burger, but the fat leaves you a bit thirsty. So instead of those salty fucking fries or that can of pop that makes you thirstier for no reason, you have a nice refreshing glass of freshly squeezed mango juice. It also helps you cool down from the heat, if the burger is spicy, which adds another layer of synergy.

Edit: it's the sugar not the carbonation

Edit 2: apparently it's not. There's probably another reason, vonsidering it's higher on the beverage hydration index

Ok so I’m a professional hate watcher of modern romance, they are so bad it’s funny. But this movie just makes no sense. The ending is so bad, she cheats, cucks husband with some genius kid with a smoking addiction on par with Lip from Shameless with an unknown motivation to basically dog train his CEO boss out of nowhere on his first day of work. And then cuck husband takes her back and at the end and does what the dude did earlier in the movie and she gets off, but what the fuck is even the point I thought she got off on power play not cuck play so the ending made no sense to me. It’s not like her husband just became what the young dude was lol. And then young dude figures out how many balls fit in a room in two seconds and that was the most of his intelligence we saw. Then this black dog comes out of nowhere at the end. CEO woman was in the same position in the beginning as she was in the end, no change. No point, no learning, no inspiration just a weird story of some dude taking back his cheating wife. Anyways this is why I only read early 1900s romance.

Movies trash that’s my take, the plot is nonsensical.