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

[Lemmingwise]

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 taken by the local warlord.

 

[ClownBrew]

Thread says no political sperging so I have one that should qualify.

Having worked as a pro musician myself I will never, in ten million years, support the movement of jackclowns who screech that music (and the arts in general) should be free.

These people have zero concept of the work it takes to play professionally and to provide the actual physical labor of creating music. They also think that if our costly instruments don't fall down from trees at random then we should simply GeDdA ReAL jErRrRB!11! to afford them.

They seem to think we're a bunch of hobby tier players just like them who just eat, sleep,smoke crack and pull the tunes straight out of our butts on demand for them...all easily and just for fun. Also our time is apparently infinite as well.

These people tend to overlap with those who want Burger King employees entitled to the same salaries as engineers.

These people ALSO tend to overlap with those who yowl on all day long about how there's been no half decent music since 1990. Two and two are never put together.

 

[Canaan]

not sure if this is political sperging but people advocating for america to balkanize dead seriously is very funny to me

 

[Sperghetti]

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.

Holy shit, yes. The internet being anonymous is the whole draw. If it weren’t, it would just be more real life and if I wanted that, I’d go outside.

 

[Niggerman]

Weed. People never shut up about that. Its always "muh weed, muh weed" I sooner legalize cocaine or crack b4 that annoying shit that makes potheads. Its not even the drug itself that so insufferable its the stupid culture and annoying stoner comedy. Stoners are worse than Saddem Hussian

 

[milk]

Pedos, or the more politically correct term "MAPs" (Minor Attracted Persons). All the journalists pushing this nonsense need to be removed from society.

 

[Tour of Italy]

When this launched, people I otherwise love and respect were posting glowing reviews about it publicly and I promptly lost every last speck of faith I had that the public could navigate science policy:

https://solarroadways.com/

This an idea so colossally bad, so incredibly inefficient, and outright fucking dangerous to boot, that as an engineer I am completely fucking blown away that they managed to raise millions of dollars on this idea. Anyone can see it’s a massive of waste of time and money, or at least that’s what I though before my last bit of hope for humanity was snuffed out.

This was the beta test for the Green New Deal, and boy howdy did America fucking fail it.

And the comments, man those comments. People pointed out with simple, rational arguments that maybe making a road out of delicate electronics and expecting it to support multi-ton repetitive loading was a bad idea, and then the holier-than-though responses screaming that anybody against this must be a paid shill for the oil industry. People would point out the cost inefficiency, and there would be responses proving that your average climate guilt middle class asshole has literally zero sense of economic scale. People would point out how if you’re going to be okay with the concept of using public right-of-way for solar energy, then why the fuck would you make it your first choice to put the panels on the fucking ground where cars go, and others would smugly declare that this was the future, and Mother Earth depends on it, etc.

It’s a bad idea from top to bottom and the same kind of people I saw posting “I believe Science” type bullshit were the same ones fawning incessantly over it. There is no problem that this solves that can’t be done more efficiently, more cheaply, with less maintenance and disruption, by simply putting panels anywhere but the fucking road.

 

[Dysnomia]

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.

Fuck yes. Two summers ago I went to Atlantic and Ocean Cities in New Jersey. Paper straws everywhere. Paper straws for a milkshake? Hell no.

When I mentioned this idiocy to a woman at a Wawa in Ocean City her reaction was appalled. The audacity of me expecting a straw that could actually be used in coordination with a drink made of ice cream and milk. Next time I go to Jersey I am bringing my own plastic straws. Fuck you.

New Jersey is also one of those stupid states that won't let you pump your own gas.

I'm actually really careful about cutting up plastic soda can rings into little bits. And I try to avoid buying fruits and other products that come in nets. When I do I shred the nets pretty well so they are least likely to harm any critters. And I never throw trash in storm drains. Despite those little fish and turtle emblems on the storm drains people still toss stuff down there like it's their personal dumpster. I've seen bags of trash stuffed in there. It's insane. That's a hell of a lot more harmful than straws.

We have an insane amount of strays around here in addition to cats people let roam. My uncle's cat is not neutered and he roams. I gave up trying to talk them into getting him fixed. I even offered to pay for it. Apparently it's ok because the cat is a boy so he can't have kittens. Because somehow that makes less kittens.

I just keep hoping he gets trapped and released someday sans kitty balls.

Animal control has over 200 cats. They are overwhelmed with cats yet still people let their own animals make more kittens. At least you can't adopt a cat without it being fixed.

 

[s0mbra]

Fuck yes. Two summers ago I went to Atlantic and Ocean Cities in New Jersey. Paper straws everywhere. Paper straws for a milkshake? Hell no.

When I mentioned this idiocy to a woman at a Wawa in Ocean City her reaction was appalled. The audacity of me expecting a straw that could actually be used in coordination with a drink made of ice cream and milk. Next time I go to Jersey I am bringing my own plastic straws. Fuck you.

New Jersey is also one of those stupid states that won't let you pump your own gas.

I'm actually really careful about cutting up plastic soda can rings into little bits. And I try to avoid buying fruits and other products that come in nets. When I do I shred the nets pretty well so they are least likely to harm any critters. And I never throw trash in storm drains. Despite those little fish and turtle emblems on the storm drains people still toss stuff down there like it's their personal dumpster. I've seen bags of trash stuffed in there. It's insane. That's a hell of a lot more harmful than straws.

We have an insane amount of strays around here in addition to cats people let roam. My uncle's cat is not neutered and he roams. I gave up trying to talk them into getting him fixed. I even offered to pay for it. Apparently it's ok because the cat is a boy so he can't have kittens. Because somehow that makes less kittens.

I just keep hoping he gets trapped and released someday sans kitty balls.

Animal control has over 200 cats. They are overwhelmed with cats yet still people let their own animals make more kittens. At least you can't adopt a cat without it being fixed.

I fucking wish the pet industry was regulated so bad

 

[Meat Target]

We have an insane amount of strays around here in addition to cats people let roam. My uncle's cat is not neutered and he roams. I gave up trying to talk them into getting him fixed. I even offered to pay for it. Apparently it's ok because the cat is a boy so he can't have kittens. Because somehow that makes less kittens.

I just keep hoping he gets trapped and released someday sans kitty balls.

Animal control has over 200 cats. They are overwhelmed with cats yet still people let their own animals make more kittens. At least you can't adopt a cat without it being fixed.

Cat ladies are dumb and think feral cats (literally wild animals) can be rehabilitated into pets.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Letting ISPs do whatever the hell they want. There is no free market to save you from Comcast violating you with data caps. The ISPs made sure that couldn't happen and will lobby to outright block municipal options.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Trickle-down economics.

 

[User names must be unique]

Anti-consumer products, no ones vocally advocating but they are with their wallets.

Products that have software locks so you can't uninstall bloat or install 3rd party software. Products you can't physacly open without a special screwdriver, where internal components are mounted with glue and/or solder rather than screws or friction. Apple are obviously the worst offenders but their success guaranteed others would follow suit.

 

[Bad Gateway]

-Tesla. At the end of last year, Elon Musk came out to his investors and said something to the effect of "If you look at our finances, they will not work anymore". The company's recent business moves prove the truth of the fact that they cannot sustain their business internally, that their model is broken and unsustainable, and that the outside investor money that has been used to pay previous wave investors is drying up. They will begin to more aggressively sell parts of their business to other bidders, but it may be too late for that. Best case for them: Tesla becomes and remains a real business successfully, but not on the terms they will claim to have succeeded on. Best case for the world: It all collapses at once.

-Trannies. The more time that passes, the further the band gets stretched, the more harsh the recoil will be. Women, historically, are patient and slow moving. But when they get moving, they tend to move a lot like kids playing Tee ball: Slowly. Inaccurately. And with a lot more nutshots than seems possible.

 

[ClownBrew]

Cat ladies are dumb and think feral cats (literally wild animals) can be rehabilitated into pets.

Cat ladies I can handle. It's the pitbull rescuers I can't take.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Weed. People never shut up about that. Its always "muh weed, muh weed" I sooner legalize cocaine or crack b4 that annoying shit that makes potheads. Its not even the drug itself that so insufferable its the stupid culture and annoying stoner comedy. Stoners are worse than Saddem Hussian

That, and stoners legitimately believe what they smoke is medicinal and expands the mind. While it is true Hindus do use it for religious purposes, they do it as a way to help meditate. Their culture, while very free when it comes to religion, is also a very conservative one. It's not supposed to be consumed for hedonistic purposes, which American stoners absolutely do. Everything about stoner culture is low-effort which is the problem with most stoner comedies. They are very rarely well-crafted comedies in their own right. I'm a harsh critic of Spaceballs, but I consider it a better comedy than any Harold & Kumar movie.

Hmmm, dumb apolitical shit... That's very difficult in a world that's increasingly political. I guess the Branch Covidians wrecking our society. American Karens got people to forget basic observation and health class knowledge in a prolonged hysteria. It got me to reconsider if Islam was wrong in the first place.

EDIT: I'd complain about the plastic ban and straw ban, but due to COVID, those dumb laws were overturned. Fuck the turtles!

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Plastic bag ban. Its just incredibly pointless

 

[Considered HARMful]

Plastic bag ban. Its just incredibly pointless

Care to elaborate? Not that I have any opinion on the issue - I haven't thought about that at all and just curious about pros and cons.

 

[Cool Dog]

Anti-repair mentality, something every consumer agrees with until their phone/tablet/laptop dies and they have to buy a new one because its unrepairable so they sperg-out and then get amnesia and buy another unrepairable piece of shit device

There's a reason why apple is worth like 2 trillion dollars

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/

Thats fucking depressing

-Tesla. At the end of last year, Elon Musk came out to his investors and said something to the effect of "If you look at our finances, they will not work anymore". The company's recent business moves prove the truth of the fact that they cannot sustain their business internally, that their model is broken and unsustainable, and that the outside investor money that has been used to pay previous wave investors is drying up. They will begin to more aggressively sell parts of their business to other bidders, but it may be too late for that. Best case for them: Tesla becomes and remains a real business successfully, but not on the terms they will claim to have succeeded on. Best case for the world: It all collapses at once.

-Trannies. The more time that passes, the further the band gets stretched, the more harsh the recoil will be. Women, historically, are patient and slow moving. But when they get moving, they tend to move a lot like kids playing Tee ball: Slowly. Inaccurately. And with a lot more nutshots than seems possible.

I hate that I didnt buy tesla stock back when it was cheap because even in those days there were people saying it was unsustainable and yet somehow for no reason it went sky-high

Sure it will plummet down eventually but I could still have made good money

As for troons they are not going away, specially not for women fighting back. Consider the reason troons have any relevancy is thanks to feminism making any sort of retarded argument somehow valid by screeching loud enough. TERFs thing they can out-screech a bunch of troons and its hillarious they believe than when most feminists are now simping for the troonies

What goes around, etc etc

 

[Llama king]

Ending racism