• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    Water is wet and I’m tired of people arguing about it. Wet literally means “covered in or consisting of liquid,” and yet everyone seems to think water can’t be wet just because it also makes other things wet, which it does but that doesn’t mean it isn’t itself wet

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    Playboy models were hotter back in the sixties and early seventies, before cocaine, implants, and bleach blonde hair became the norm.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    The purpose of life is to maximise pleasure and anyone yapping against that is either trying to control you or still hasn’t deprogrammed from puritan cultural influence.

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      just… pay them more?

      exceptions to taxes just makes them a target. others will point at them and go “why do they get to keep their money while i have to pay the government my hard earned dough?” and start complaining about unfair treatment.

      if the problem is that public school teachers aren’t being paid enough, then just fix the problem itself.

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      This is a dumb opinion. Don’t make tax rules more complicated than they need to be.

      If you want teachers to earn more (and that’s fair: you should), just…pay them more.

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    We should train mountain lions to be comfortable around humans, so they can hunt down feral cats and dogs to stop them from killing local wildlife and polluting rivers.

    Eagles could work too.

    All active duty soldiers should be get a free, non-transferrable 1000+cc motorcycle.

    Cities/towns under 1 million should ban cars within the city limits, but remove all liscensing requirements for <200cc motorcycles.

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      Being someone that thinks all noisy motorcycles should be banded, I think these are neither left or right, just wrong. Make them electric bikes.

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        Chain drive electrics are fine, if a tad boring, but they currently lack range.

        Also smaller motorbikes aren’t loud, just ban loud exhaust.

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      Mountain lions cannot catch cats and dogs easily. Also, plenty of people would straight up murder mountain lion with a gun or their car to save a dog or cat.

      Catch, Neuter, Release diminishes wild cat populations dramatically over just a couple generations, and it doesn’t involve having to facilitate their deaths.

      Edit: I am a fan of the motorcycle idea. We should make sure they’re electric to cut down on their driving volume.

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        i was gonna say, my favorite vehicles i’ve owned goes in order: my etrike, the hot red turbocharged 90s sportscar i drove in college, the late 80s nissan convertible with the popup headlights i learned to drive in, the hybrid we got right now, all the rest, and then that piece of shit barely worked had a door held on with duct tape and those awful automatic seatbelts but these made a RUHRUHRUH sound because they didn’t retract all the way when you got out and it had a leaky radiator that the dude who owned it before me thought you could fix by cracking an egg into it fucking garbage 94 Ford Tempo. It was Blue.

        which is to say i’m a big fan of the motorcycle idea or just ebikes

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          Come to vietnam. Outside of HCMC and Hanoi, where there are so many bikes they recreate the issues with cars, the freedom and flexibility of 90%+ of the population using motorbikes is good for your soul. The emissions of 8 million 10 year old bikes is bad for your lungs tho.

          China is kinda ahead in that they have both bikes, ebikes/scooters, and public transit, but theres way more cars.

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            I miss the Saigon of 2007, when I first moved there. There were hardly any cars other than taxis. Over the 6 years before I stopped living there, the change was immense. And last time I went back, in 2022, it was overrun with cars. And worse: it’s cars driven by people clearly trying to drive like they’re on motorbikes. All over the place, not sticking to lanes. It was absolute chaos. Especially down some of the narrow laneways clearly not built for cars.

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              The average car driver has gotten a bit better, I’ve only been hit by 1 driver not understanding how big their vehicle was (and 1 driver not hitting the ebrake/engaging the clutch and rolling back into my bike before I could get out of the way). But yeah, even 1 car for every 20 bikes fucks up traffic for everyone, especially when they have to stop to crawl by a parked car or something. I have some hope things will improve as Hanoi bans ICE engines inside the city and other cities take notice.

              Even so, I will take riding in the worst HCMC traffic over America’s psychotic, egotistical drivers.

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            oh, i don’t need to visit vietnam for that, i live near (and used to live in) a college town with about three times as many bicycles as cars. only time we got in the car was to leave town.

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        Cougars absolutely can and do eat cats and dogs; their natural prey is primarily deer but they’ll absolutely hunt smaller animals if given the opportunity. It’s also not unheard of for them to stalk children and even adults.

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        It is a hoax that feral and domesticated cats are destroying the environment in places where they have predators, which is almost everywhere except Australia and some isolated islands. Cats live near humans precisely because they have so many predators in the wild.

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      The only disagreement I have about the bikes is that 200cc is a bit high. But smaller? Yeah probably fine.

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        Ok, 156cc, i was just thinking a Honda winnerx or a yamaha exciter 155 is a little underpowered for short highway trips.

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        nah that’s actually right wing (in theory)

        in reality, it’s left… the world is a weird place

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          Nah, driving is a very cultural and now traditional practice, changing it is a change in those domains so it’s left

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          I mean, people on the left generally aren’t against subsidizing transportation, the problem is with cars specifically. Their dominance is generally bad for society as a whole, but good for a few already very powerful people.

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    Bidets should be mandatory and toilet paper should be banned

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      Maoist left with a strong aftertaste of eco-consciousness.

      I could live with a bidet-centric society tbh

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          A towel.

          I don’t take shits in the shower though, so there’s really no risk of me wiping shit on my towel when drying my ass after showering. The bidet is good, but won’t necessarily get everything 100% clean. Two squares of TP to get dry + ensure that everything is completely clean is a very cheap insurance policy.

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        The complete lack of thought for obvious disastrous consequences is how you recognize a true Maoist policy.

        I welcome or wet-ass bidet future, comrade.

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        Right? TP ban sounds like something a person who has never used a bidet would say. Even the bidets that “dry your bum” take forever and don’t fully dry.

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        Just wait a minute and it will dry. I’m going to be sitting there for a couple more minutes on my phone anyway.

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          I’m totally fine with just using two squares of paper to both get dry faster and to ensure that everything is fully clean post-bidet application, to be honest

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        Admitting it is left. Creating a whole bigoted persona around how bad it is while secretly engaging in it anyway would be right.

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    Sending the government anything official (like passport or jury summons response) through the post should include free shipping for letter sized envelopes.

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      free

      Not free, paid for with taxes. And as we all know, all taxation is theft. Except for the roads I need to drive my lifted truck on.

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      Wait, you have to pay to send your government official stuff?? Anytime the government wanted me to send them anything (mail-in votes, tax return) they include a free envelope with shipping paid (the netherlands).

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        Well, if OP is from the US we typically have to pay at just about any interaction with the government.

        They haven’t managed to charge us to vote yet, but I genuinely can’t think of any other meaningful, direct interaction I’d have with a government office that doesn’t involve me playing money.

        Edit for clarity: by paying money, I mean by a means other than taxes.