Yeah. My dad is an atrocious driver who has gotten lucky so far.

It’s a condition called hipsteritis, and unfortunately it’s terminal.

I do get you though. I’m not as extreme as what you’re describing, but I’ve definitely had this reaction to some things.

For me, one version of this is sort of an overcorrection to unreasonable expectations. If something is super popular and a bunch of people recommend it to me, I’d expect it to be the best thing ever and… that’s just not how that works. The most popular things are the things that are acceptable to the most people, not necessarily the best or what would be your favorite, so I go see the thing and if it’s just ok I feel like I have to push back against everyone overly praising it.

Idk what it is, but I think I get plenty of fiber in my diet but I still regularly have problems with this. My doc told me drinking water with the fiber is important, but I’m pretty sure I’m already drinking lots of water too. So… idk, if it gets bad enough maybe I’ll go look into it some more.

Whenever there is a fantasy action show and one character uses a gun I like to joke “I cast gun!”

I don’t think it’s just that. I’ve noticed this in a lot of the dramedies as well, and I’m reasonably sure they’re not using CGI for scenes of characters chatting in a room.

Well obviously you get rid of the skull. That skull could be male or female. 50/50 removing it decreases femininity of the room.

My dad brings this up when China comes up in conversation and I’m always just like “yeah, and…?” Like if we’re so smart why are they the ones with bullet trains and solar panels and not us?

I’m gonna need to have those TPS reports on my desk by Saturday, M’kay?

Don’t you mean kilograms of white papers? :P

I think it depends. Education is handled at a local level for the most part. That’s why school quality varies so much based on the income level of the area. I know NYC has such a system, but I don’t think my school district in the suburbs did. My parents did take me to go look at some special school when I was young, but it was nowhere close to us and I assume private. I didn’t like the place so I didn’t end up going and stayed in our local public schools.

THAT’S WHAT IT’S BASED ON?

Tbf does anybody? It’s a pretty stupid system.

Understanding things is COMMUNIST! We have the FREEDUMB to be completely illiterate!

My town is very much a blue maga kind of town. Middle class suburbanites who are totally not racist but…

Something particularly bad is there’s a community center that I walk by when I’m going to some stores that just has zionist shit plastered all around the building. It’s really disgusting.

My friends from college are generally more aligned with me. Although some of them are a bit less informed on stuff so come across a bit libby sometimes.

What’s more ‘Murican than not understanding the metric system?

This thread is depressing.

Customer Service: “Sounds like your house is haunted. We’re sorry, this isn’t covered by the warranty. Would you like me to transfer you to our exorcism department?”

Maybe they shipped it unfinished and just added that in to cover their bases.

To the people who are saying “Yeah but you’re the one who buys the oil!!!” Please stop. Please think about any of the context surrounding those supposedly individualist decisions. Please think about what the most practical solutions are for fixing the problem. You can do that and be helpful or you can be smug and look down on others.

Sure, you buy and drive the car, but you didn’t:

• Design towns and cities that can only be easily traversed by car.
• Decide where jobs and housing were located.
• Spend millions of dollars to lobby against public transit.
• Spend millions of dollars to lobby against regulations.
• Spend millions of dollars to lobby against green energy investments.
• Spend millions of dollars to lobby for imperialist wars to access oil.
• Spend millions of dollars to spread misinformation about climate change.
• Decide what cars were available to buy and at what price. (Demand driving supply only makes sense if consumers have a way to signal that they want something that isn’t being offered. The main market way of doing that would be to not buy anything until the right good is offered… but as stated above, people can’t just opt out of needing a car if the places where they can live and work are built around cars.)
• Decide to be too poor to buy luxury goods masquerading as green alternatives.

Framing the issue in terms of individual decisions lets the people who have most actively stood in the way of progress off the hook and ironically shirks any real responsibility to fix the issue. You think by saying that it’s us doing it that you take responsibility for your actions and therefore because YOU got a hybrid car or some shit, you did your part and everyone else needs to do the same and it’s not your responsibility anymore. Needing to put in the political struggle to take on the corporate interests destroying the planet takes effort that deviates from your normal life. You have to actually talk to people, work with them, and take part in collective action. And your responsibility isn’t over until the problem is solved.

Also, sort of related: I always take issue with how dealing with issues like climate change is framed in terms of making sacrifices. Like sure, are we going to be able to do as much excessive consumption as we do now? No. But there are so many climate policies that would also just make life better for people in the short/medium term. We would be happier, healthier, and safer in a world where we got rid of our dependence on cars and replaced it with walkable cities and good mass transit. But instead of talking about how good it could be, instead the message ends up being “You’re a bad person for diving a car. You need to give up using your car and go either walk to your job which is too far away and across a bunch of busy streets or cram yourself onto the underfunded public transportation that is crowded, slow, unreliable, and falling apart.” No wonder people get so defensive. We don’t want them to have to use the bad infrastructure. We want it to be so good that it’s the best option by far. Pitch that future instead of lecturing people.

TL;DR: I WANT TRAINS! GIVE TRAINS!