Dumb shit people will not stop advocating for - Preferably no politisperging

[Penis Drager]

Let's assume the problem attempting to be addressed is a real issue that does need addressing. Sometimes the solution just fails under even the most generous of analyses. And yet people still talk about them like they're gonna be some great revolution in science or technology or culture or whatever the fuck. Such ideas deserve a special place in hell. Fortunately, the autistic thunderdome exists.
Dump retarded bullshit here or discuss other people's retarded bullshit before this thread gets spergatoried for not being deep enough. I'll start with one of my pet peeves in the next post...

 

[AMERICA]

the ban on plastic straws felt like that to me. the biggest threat to ocean life when it comes to pollution is fishing nets, but because someone captured a picture of a turtle choking on a straw everyone freaked out about that instead. idk, is that too political?

I also think that people who let their cats free roam outside are really selfish. Cats ravage local ecosystems, shit and piss everywhere (their piss reeks and the smells sticks around), and they spread toxoplasmosis. Not to mention the threat to your cat from cars, poison, and predators.. Lazy cat owners who won't supervise their cats outdoors or buy a damn lazer pointer.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

"Green energy" to solve pollution. The "green" solutions require rare earth metals and nasty chemicals to create and cannot be recycled or even disposed of. "Green" just means the source is "free" and the investor has political connections. Florescent light bulbs are another. They have phosphate and mercury in them which need to be disposed of properly. People did not dispose of them properly and their reliability was pretty shit.

 

[Slap47]

The crusade against nuclear power is the dumbest shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUVZbBBHrI4&t

The anti-nuclear lobby is insanely powerful and harmful.

 

[Penis Drager]

Fucking "water as fuel" bullshit makes me MATI. It also pisses me off IRL.
These dumbass niggers think they can extract hydrogen fuel from water, burn it (which just turns it back into water), and somehow get a net gain of energy from it. Basic conservation of energy that we all were aware of since we were knee high to a fucking bullfrog will tell you this shit wouldn't work. Yet retards always come out of the woodwork to tell you how "der establishmernt" is covering this amazing technology up to save the petrol industry.
If this even worked in principle, that's free energy. You convert water into hydrogen, that hydrogen into water, and use the remaining energy to do work. You can bet your (presumably) virgin asshole that energy companies would take full advantage of that to charge you for nothing. And that's not even to mention the fact that burning hydrogen puts WATER in your engine. Unless you got an engine made of shit that doesn't corrode, you're gonna have some problems even beyond the surface level "this shit don't even work" shit.

Fucking retards.

 

[Penis Drager]

The crusade against nuclear power is the dumbest shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUVZbBBHrI4&t

The anti-nuclear lobby is insanely powerful and harmful.

You wanna talk about "powerful and harmful" industries? I have a particular stick up my ass over organic agriculture.
It's a strange hill to die on, but these motherfuckers are one of the few things that make me want to fedpost IRL.
Their business model relies on lies about their industry and baseless accusations about conventional agriculture that would constitute fraud and defamation if they were the ones saying it. Fortunately for them, there's plenty of advocacy groups that are free to spread bullshit on their behalf and they can donate the huge markup they put on their food to them. These fagtivists have managed to dictate agriculture policy for the vast majority of the world because politicians are just as fucking illiterate on these matters as the average consoomer. There's widespread bans on modern agricultural practices all over the world.
Meanwhile, millions starve. Fuck these people.

 

[Radical Cadre]

I'm going to channel my inner Phil Mason here: hyperl00ps.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Scottish independence

 

[Bongocat]

The crusade against nuclear power is the dumbest shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUVZbBBHrI4&t

The anti-nuclear lobby is insanely powerful and harmful.

I remember there used to be a lot of scientific-minded lefties that advocated for nuclear energy because it was the most brain dead simple solution. In recent years they have gone quiet. Presumably over fear of their own side eating them alive.

 

[Sperghetti]

the ban on plastic straws felt like that to me. the biggest threat to ocean life when it comes to pollution is fishing nets, but because someone captured a picture of a turtle choking on a straw everyone freaked out about that instead. idk, is that too political?

Same with the whole "floating island of garbage in the ocean" thing. It's mostly fishing junk, but everyone seems to believe it's just made of roadside litter that somehow migrated to the middle of the Pacific in large enough quantities to be seen from space. I'd actually argue that nearly all "we should just ban X!" campaigns fall into this category.

My "stupid solution" pet peeve is anti-bullying campaigns. Kids are always going to be little assholes to each other and try to exclude each other from stuff. It's human nature. There is no magical way to stop them from doing it. Every time you try to prevent them from openly doing it one way, they'll find a whole new and worse way to do it. I'm not saying we should let the little bastards beat each other bloody on a regular basis, but trying to prevent them from being jerks entirely is a losing battle.

 

[Cup Noodle]

Fucking "water as fuel" bullshit makes me MATI. It also pisses me off IRL.
These dumbass niggers think they can extract hydrogen fuel from water, burn it (which just turns it back into water), and somehow get a net gain of energy from it. Basic conservation of energy that we all were aware of since we were knee high to a fucking bullfrog will tell you this shit wouldn't work. Yet retards always come out of the woodwork to tell you how "der establishmernt" is covering this amazing technology up to save the petrol industry.
If this even worked in principle, that's free energy. You convert water into hydrogen, that hydrogen into water, and use the remaining energy to do work. You can bet your (presumably) virgin asshole that energy companies would take full advantage of that to charge you for nothing. And that's not even to mention the fact that burning hydrogen puts WATER in your engine. Unless you got an engine made of shit that doesn't corrode, you're gonna have some problems even beyond the surface level "this shit don't even work" shit.

Fucking retards.

My favorite are the idiots on youtube who are smart enough to build a hydrogen generator to put in their car but run it off of the alternator. A basic understanding of physics would tell you that they are actually decreasing their fuel economy. I have seen one setup where the person was using solar power to run a hydrogen generator in their garage and then pumping the hydrogen into a tank on their car. That was pretty neat. On the water question; gasoline actually generates water when you burn it also. Everything is so hot that the water vaporizes and is pushed right out the exhaust. I've built racecars with methanol injection using blue windshield wiper fluid as the source of methanol. That stuff is in large part water but you can shoot the shit straight into the intake at full throttle and the engine fucking loves it. It didn't seem to impact the engine any more than normal, but we break those things pretty regularly anyways.

 

[AcidityLiquidity]

Sending more money to 3rd world shitholes like Africa or India to 'Save the children!'. Meanwhile a large portion of that cash is embezzled, and any money that does get to said shithole is just subsidizing their breeding of the third worlders to continue said problems.

Also to loop back on 'Muh global warming and ocean pollution'- India and Africa are some of the biggest polluters as well, but you'll never see potato-faced Greta Thurnburg over there.

 

[Absolutego]

Scottish independence

On that same note, Catalan independence.
Spain isn't going to let the only productive part of the country fuck off to be a lesser France. And every major EU state has internal reasons to not set that precedent (Bavaria in Germany, Occitania in France, Lombardia in Italy, etc.)

 

[BEz939]

Electric cars are stupid

 

[KittyGremlin]

Electric cars are stupid

they're not green but definitely fun to drive

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

they're not green but definitely fun to drive

I concur. I took a test drive for one a while back, and initially I assumed I'd just be driving a golf cart, I was surprised that it handled with the same power as a regular car, only super smooth and quiet. It was like piloting a spaceship.

 

[Prince Lotor]

"Green energy" to solve pollution. The "green" solutions require rare earth metals and nasty chemicals to create and cannot be recycled or even disposed of. "Green" just means the source is "free" and the investor has political connections. Florescent light bulbs are another. They have phosphate and mercury in them which need to be disposed of properly. People did not dispose of them properly and their reliability was pretty shit.

Yeah, I was going to say solar panels. Until you get governments to actually push through legislation requiring it recycling the materials used to make solar panels costs more than the reclaimed materials. Currently 95% of used or damaged solar panels get tossed into landfills.

https://grist.org/energy/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die-what-will-we-do-with-the-megatons-of-toxic-trash/

 

[ICraveDeath]

the ban on plastic straws felt like that to me. the biggest threat to ocean life when it comes to pollution is fishing nets, but because someone captured a picture of a turtle choking on a straw everyone freaked out about that instead. idk, is that too political?

I also think that people who let their cats free roam outside are really selfish. Cats ravage local ecosystems, shit and piss everywhere (their piss reeks and the smells sticks around), and they spread toxoplasmosis. Not to mention the threat to your cat from cars, poison, and predators.. Lazy cat owners who won't supervise their cats outdoors or buy a damn lazer pointer.

Plus plastic straws are needed for disabled people who can't lift cups, have really poor motor control, etc. Metal straws don't bend so it's a major pain in the ass for some of them.

I'm really pissed off whenever I hear people advocating for the whole "the internet shouldn't be anonymous" shit.

1. I actually like privacy.
2. Literally everybody has posted "problematic" shit.
3. I don't want my employer to know what games I own on Steam.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Black lives.

 

[ICraveDeath]

Black lives.

If you're gonna make a "black people bad" post at least put some effort into it lmao