The world is cruel and ugly. There are plenty of justifiable things to be upset and distraught over. I don’t want to hear about those. I want to know what bizarre out of left field takes you have that infuriates you.
I’m still upset about Tenochtitlan falling and being buried. I’m a gringo, I shouldn’t have an opinion about Lake Texcoco being drained centuries ago.
Those plastic bags at the grocery store, to put loose fresh produce in? Why the fuck do they never open easily? With all these whizz-bang technologies we’ve developed, you’d think someone would design/make bags you don’t have to wrestle with to open.
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I want to bring reusable ones but everything is measured by weight and that fucks up the scale
Yep. We are ruled by idiots.
Weigh the produce before putting it in the bag.
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Timezones are fucking dumb and I hate them
I understand why we have timezones, but I’ve never heard an explanation for leap seconds that was particularly compelling.
I know that years and days don’t exactly match up, but as far as I’m concerned, whoever it is that’s being inconvenienced by the Earth being a few seconds out of rotation can go figure out their own workaround instead of messing up a million peoples’ daily rollup scripts.
Good news for you, the CGPM decided in 2022 to abandon the leap second by 2035.
I think you mean daylight savings time is dumb & you hate it,(?) which would be understandable.
Time zones however are part of nature.
Hating daylight savings isn’t weird, it’s dumb and everyone knows it’s dumb.
Timezones are arbitrary lines on the map that were made when trains were new and there was no good way to coordinate otherwise. We are way past that, everyone has an automatically synced and precise way of telling time on them pretty much at all times. The “time” is an arbitrary number. Noon is not when the sun is highest in the sky most of the year unless you live near the equator, midnight is rarely “the middle of the night”, 9 to 5 should be deleted, and have one universal time would be one step closer to uniting human kind.
Timezones are fucking dumb, it’s not the 1800s. I’ll fight to the death over this.
If everyone in the world was on one universal time, some people would be functioning in the dark while people on the other side of the world are functioning in the daylight. Not fair. Time zones are essential. And yes, in most places in the world, 12:00 p.m. is when the sun is highest in the sky.
I’ve argued for this before, both on Lemmy and elsewhere. Nice to see someone else with the same take.
Do you also get the impression that people who disagree with you almost always fail to understand the argument?
Found the programmer.
Unfortunately we need them: https://qntm.org/abolish
I am glad someone fleshed out their arguments some, but I still don’t agree. I think they are fundamentally missing the point. The sun position and a “time” do not, and I would argue, should not, be coupled.
On tinder, I can’t fucking stand seeing pictures of people’s kids. Like, if I’m swiping, and I come across a woman with pictures of her kids? Hell no. Automatic left swipe.
I know that that picture has probably been logged on a dozen servers, it’s been scrapped for AI training, and someone is already falsifying videos with her kid’s face before she gets a first date. And I get she might not know that. But I kinda can’t help feeling like a responsible person would think about these things and try to learn about them.
Also, I’m pissed that it’s happening at all, and people who have no idea it’s happening get caught in the crossfire. Their kids will grow up in a world where generative AI can perfectly replicate them online, where intelligence agencies have cross referenced data on their every movement and formative event from their childhood. And their parents unwittingly made that easier instead of trying to protect them.
That drives me up the wall.
I get a bit frustrated sometimes to see stars and think of the universe burning away it’s entropy without anyone putting it to useful ends, like most of the universe going to waste before anyone can even reach it.
Imagine all the cool planets that’ll never be observed
without anyone putting it to useful ends
You never know; we might be a car battery.
In the context of the universe as a whole, what even is “useful”? Maybe its just here to shine bright for a few trillion years and that’s all it needs to be. Art doesn’t need to be useful.
If human history tells us anything its that we’d somehow suck the beauty out of it all in the name of profit.
I’m not really a nihilist or anything but it seems like almost anything we touch turns to shit. I’m all for colonizing the moon and Mars and making use of the asteroid belt but on bigger scales, maybe its better off to just sit back and enjoy the view?
Yeah but that’s justifiable (and existential).
How am I supposed to care about a series that takes 4 years between seasons
4 years? What the f do you watch? Three Body Problem?
One Punch Man 😭
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Stranger things
The only show I ever liked enough for that was Venture Bros, and it was only that bad once.
There are so many people who are fundamentally wrong about what the Fermi paradox means, and proceed to present their shower thoughts about “what if everyone just, like, decides not to colonize the universe” as if they were profound or novel insights.
Explain then
No. I get enough of this in the subreddits and communities where it comes up naturally, I’m not going to get into a debate about it here in a thread where the subject is specifically how annoying it is to debate this stuff.
Respect
I’m not looking to debate. I just don’t know what you are talking about
Well, alright, but I’m not going to argue about any of this.
The Fermi paradox basically says “based on what we think we know about how the universe works, we should be seeing obvious signs of alien intelligence in it. But we don’t, so we’re wrong about something we think we know.” The problem is that we don’t know what we’re wrong about.
It is common in various science fiction and space related subreddits for people to confidently sweep in and declare that obviously the reason that aliens aren’t around is <insert some vague shower thought here>. As if all the thousands of researchers working on these concepts were all just a bunch of idiots who hadn’t thought of whatever they’d thought of.
A common class of these sorts of shower thoughts involve assuming that every single alien species and culture, throughout all of time and space, conform to some particular notion they have of how aliens should think. Some sort of “prime directive” or Nirvana-seeking conscious refusal to go out into the cosmos to colonize new solar systems, or conversely some kind of pessimistic self-destruction that everyone dives into without exception. I try to explain why these sorts of explanations don’t work well, I question their basis for making these assumptions, and I usually get some form of “oh, so you’re saying you know how all aliens are going to think and behave?” Shot back at me. Which, of course, is exactly the opposite of what I’m saying.
Another common theme is the “nothing will ever be possible in the future unless we’ve already done it now and have an economically practical example” approach, usually to try to argue that space travel or colonization is impossible. The other day I had someone who ultimately argued that it was impossible because steel would evaporate over time in a vacuum, so building spacecraft that lasted longer than a few centuries couldn’t be done. I pointed out the examples of billion-year-old metallic meteorites and he dismissed them because “meteors don’t need structural stability.”
I try to address these arguments rationally, with math and references to actual research, but end up butting into a position of pure faith. It’s incredibly frustrating. As befits the topic.
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That was an absolutely fascinating rabbit whole. Thank you so much for explaining!!!
You’re welcome. I’m still dreading that someone will respond with a “but what about…” though. This is a debate that haunts me in so many other communities, I want to think I can escape it at least a little while. :)
I got so frustrated at one point that I had an AI make a song about it.
Thank you!
Invasive species.
My region is absolutely infested with Siberian Elm and Tree Of Heaven (A.K.A., the “semen tree”). You cannot cut them down, because they will resprout like a hydra from the stump. You cannot dig them out, because the smallest root left behind can and will resprout wherever it is, leading to a many-year game of whack-a-mole.
I have near-daily fantasies of going around with a powerful backpack sprayer filled with glyphosate (Round-Up) and an application wand that can extend from 1m to 10m, and hitting everything just as they’re sending nutrients to the roots for winter.
The problem is, Glyphosate is highly restricted to purchase and own in Canada unless you have both the appropriate class of Pesticide Applicator’s License (an agricultural variant, for example) as well as the venue to use it in (own or manage an orchard, for example). Thankfully my family owns an orchard, and I am starting the process for the former.
But still. It’s an absolutely bizarre thing to be obsessing over and I. Just. Cannot. Help. Myself. Every time I drive and see clumps of those disgusting trees, I start to uncontrollably strategize how I could hit them with glyphosate in late September.
blue gum here, cali doesnt want to get rid of this invasive species, because its “iconic” its a huge fire hazard, and they are designed to burn due to massive amount of oils they produce in thier native environment of australia. they also grow very fast compared to montery pine and cypress. Also thier leaves and bark drop very frequently and that is also a fire hazard because of the oils, and they have allelopathic affects near the trees.
Russian thistle. These asshole things pop up all over the yard and driveway and I go around and pull them out of the ground with welding gloves. Sometimes I get stabbed even through welding gloves. I can completely understand why someone would blast a cancer causing chemical across their whole yard. I’ve been experimenting with everything else but I’m too worried about my dog to do roundup.
We have Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) here.
Ive been battling it for years. I mentioned bittersweet in my comment down thread, but I’ve won my battle with bittersweet. I pluck it everyyear and keep it at bay. I have not won with this fast growing (so fast) shrub tree. You cut it down, it grows back triple, relentlessly. It’s everywhere. I hate it so much. If it could just chill and be a bush, it would be fine, but no, ive a 40 foot tree bush in the back that was cut to stub 5 years ago. 40 feet tall, in five years. I hate chemicals, but when I get to the day I can afford to haul away 40 ft of tree bush brush, I will definitely be spraying this shit this time around. Fuck invasives. I go down the road and the forest edges are just bittersweet and autumn olive, also called japanese silverleaf. It’s ugly.
I hate the spotted lanternflies! When they’re small and black and white they hop and scare me! When they’re a bit bigger and red they’re more scary! Then they get WINGS. Eurgh.
We also have the tree of life around which is what they enjoy munching on. I’d like both gone!
I found out all the ladybugs here are the invasive ones. And if I want to buy ladybugs for pest control, I can only buy the invasive ones. Annoying.
We do at least still have some native pollinators and other bugs.
also people mistaken the asian lady beetle for native ones, and those are also invasive and very noxious.
Lanternflies are so pretty! But there are so many of them again this year.
One of the hallmarks of a destabilizing and imminently pre-collapse ecosystem is when certain fast lived species like insects have sudden surges or collapses in population.
And I’m talking about short-lived species that typically have yearly cycles. Something that can respond very quickly to sudden surges or absences in food or environmental niches, but which does not normally see sudden population fluctuations in a healthy ecosystem.
insects, and plants.
I’m upset that there haven’t been many Disney+ original movies this year. 2022 had a ton of them, they’ve really slowed down since the writer’s strike
I’m also upset that Disney takes so long to announce when recent theatrical movies will be coming to Disney+. Thunderbolts is coming this Wednesday but they didn’t announce it til like a week ago and I still don’t know when Elio is coming.
its either MCU or Star wars, not much of the og ones or non-mcu, or SWCU.
Can’t believe people don’t have shame in liking whatever disney shits out.
I’m annoyed that I was born in the armpit of history. There are people alive who were alive when the Wright Brothers were. And we can see a shining future ahead of us. But we’re stuck in the middle. Too late to be excited for all the progress of the first flight, moon landing, dawn of the internet. Too early for commercial space flight, nuclear fusion, full dive VR, true AI.
We can see those things in the future. It’s being built now. But by the time it’s fully available and normalized we’ll either be dead or too old to care. If capitalism doesn’t kill us all with climate change.
So yeah. Armpit of history. Shit sucks.
Every generation could say something similar
HBO never finished Carnivale.
I’m still mad at Yahoo for killing xFire with a frivolous lawsuit.
xFire was better 20 years ago than Discord is today. We had a real gem stolen from us.
You sound like me, except for me it’s Google Plus.
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Glass bottles/jars sealed with plastic
Everything listed is valid but this one stands above the rest by a lot personally. Fucking hate this practice.
Exactly what I wanted. Good job.
That ring of glue and plastic and foil on top of bottle caps is so infuriating, gee thanks another wee bit of plastic that could end up in my body accidentally
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There’s a wonderful bit of fiction writing where an armourer (I think, it’s been a while) had that exact thought: paper never tears where the holes are, it only tears between the holes. Therefore, the holes must be stronger than the paper. Therefore, to strengthen a material, add (impervious) holes. Ultimately, the strongest material is all holes.
Omg, the resealable bags that don’t reseal INFURIATE me.
I feel so seen today.
Cathartic. Thank you
My favorite ancient culture is only known by the pottery they left behind. There are so many unanswered questions!!!
Moche, Wari, etc.? I’m an Anthropology nerd, what are you digging?
Gotta be the moche sex pots, right!?
I’m annoyed the tomatoes went from growing good to growing Very Sad
This is on me, and it is my first time planting and I mostly went “eeehhhh I think this is good”
I did my goal, which was get from seed to red tomato.
But now there’s fungal infections, end rot, armyworm moths, splitting skin, and general sadness.
I did get enough to make salsa though.
I feel our ancestors spirits because I’m sure they felt the same way about farming.
