What is your most lukewarm take?
What is your most lukewarm take?
Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
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Water is really good, you should drink it every day.
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My girlfriend prefers her water room temp, and as someone who loves ice cold water, it's so weird to me. So I think I'm gonna start thinking of this as her lukewarm take.
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Pizza is one of the best food forms we've ever come up with. I don't even care if you use wildly nontraditional toppings, like a chicken vindaloo pizza or a chili dog pizza. Just put the shit you wanna eat on a giant dough, cook it, then cut it up and eat it. Genius.
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I once made a seafood and butter sauce pizza for a highschool gf. Hated it myself but she still talked about it years after we spit. Pizza and Sandwiches are the peak of human civilization
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Itโs no coincidence that most pizza shops also sell sangwiches
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One of my siblings just... doesn't like pizza. All of the individual components are fine in other dishes, but not together. I don't understand.
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chicken vindaloo pizza or a chili dog pizza.
Go on, I'm interested...
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The fevered dreams of a madman, for now. But if in some sitcom plot, I ever inherit a pizza place form a long-lost uncle, those will be called the Dave Lister and the Blue Hedgehog respectively (I have to assume Sega is more litigious than the BBC).
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Amen
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I've been doing a lot of batch cooking lately, and come to the conclusion that everything is a soup.
Pizza is just soup on top of bread.
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I am convinced beyond contestation that carpeting a bathroom is an exceptionally stupid thing to do.
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This is not warm, this is cold hard facts
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The assignment was "not super controversial, but I still really stand by it."
My bathroom was carpeted. By my direct ancestors. They built the rest of the world I live in, too.
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People who are the most uptight about manners and language are the rudest and most vile shit talkers.
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A great realization that I had was that many of my language pet peeves were really preferences and not hard and fast rules. Language constantly evolves, regardless of how any one person feels. Clinging to my pet peeves was really just a form of elitism.
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Grammar is descriptive, not prescriptive. <- The fancy way to say what you said. :-)
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The most important political issues are education and the environment, because those determine the future.
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Honesty is the most important factor in any relationship.
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Any home that doesnโt have central air conditioning should at least have a dedicated circuit outlet by each window. Itโs like home designers are trying to make people sweat.
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I moved out of my last shitty apartment because the entire thing was wired to two 15amp fuses. If the Fridge compressor happened to kick on while I was cooking on the electric stove and had like the microwave also going it would blow a fuse. My new apartment has circuit breakers, but things aren't much better. The stove and fridge are on their own circuits. However all of the outlets are on a single breaker. If I try to run the AC in the bedroom at the same time as the living room it trips. It's rage inducing.
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The future ain't what be it used to be.
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Humans have intrinsic value and nobody should be treated cruelly without cause. Aside from in relatively marginal places, that worldview has largely won.
I'd extend it to "people are basically the same everywhere", but there's actual disagreement about that.
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Except for Nazis
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That's with cause.
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The Hague has a modern, Western prison, and a relatively comfortable one at that.
Edit: So no, people convicted of heinous things aren't always made an exception. And, yes, that's cause.
Back in the day, anyone could become a slave, and depending on setting anything could be done to a slave. That's because human rights weren't really a thing yet.
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I'm okay with piracy. I think a lot of people feel the need to justify it with phrases like "it's not stealing it's just copying," among others. To me that seems like being in denial about the moral ambiguity of what you're doing. There's so much free media out there you don't need to pirate the stuff that isn't.
Personally I'm okay with being told I'm a thief and am scamming the creators who worked hard on a product. Idc I'm broke, bored, interested in your thing and can steam it in HD from a website instantly. No login, no ads, no worries. I'm a pirate through and through and part of being a pirate is being morally bankrupt lol.
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You are mostly scamming the corpos who host the content, which is a-ok in my book. If you really want there are lots of ways to support the actual creator much more cheaply than paying for a subscription to the hoster of the content. It always helps me to remember all the times that those companies screw us by changing rates, adding ads, restricting starting options, etc without providing better content to justify it. This is just payback, really. See also, stealing from your employer
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Copium bruh. The creators are making this content with the expectation of being paid for their labour. By pirating you are denying them of this regardless of your reasons for doing so. Saying it's mostly "corpos who host the content" is the ones you're scamming is just shifting the blame. If nobody paid for subscriptions etc corporations wouldn't profit and thus wouldn't host or fund content and it's creators. Obviously giving creators a larger slice is better, but denying them of anything because you think that is hypocritical (which I am)
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From a technical standpoint and a legal one, piracy is copyright infringement, not theft. It's a similar behavior but fundamentally different altogether at its core, largely because the victim of piracy does not lose anything tangible, only a perceived opportunity of a sale (which can be argued as not having been an opportunity in the first place depending on who is performing the piracy).
Both are bad, but people calling piracy theft have a terrible misunderstanding about it.
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btw if you ever have a Christian hounding you about it tell them "Jesus pirated fish and bread, and you support him" and watch them think through how to still disagree with you (they will never change their opinion) but support jesus no matter what
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Lukewarm water is great for showering
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I like putting black cardamom in my chai
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You can't just make up words like that
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Today is your lucky day!
Ingredients:
- 5 green cardamom
- 1/2 black cardamom (or more but it can be overpowering)
- a bunch of ginger, chopped a lot (idk how to measure ginger)
- 5 peppercorns
- 2ts indian black tea
- water
- 3% milk (enough to equal the amount of water because I love milky chai)
Ingredients but optional:
- 1 edge star anise (or fennel or smnk)
- a bitta cinnamon
Directions:
- put spices in mortar
- pulverize with pestle
- but in water with ginger on stove
- simmer 20 minutes
- add tea leaves
- simmer 10 minutes
- add milk
- simmer 10 minutes
- let cool
- strain
- enjoy!
Can be simmered for longer but I don't have time for that in the morning. Smells great tho
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cardamom is one of the secret ingredients in my chili. I also use cinnamon and whiskey in the recipe.
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Bleu cheese is the best cheese.
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To each their own, I think a good parmesan is my favorite, but blue cheese is pretty up there
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Shropshire blue ๐ฉต๐๐ง
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Different strokes for different folks.
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As a stroke survivor, I knew I was always getting the short end of the stick, but damn I really struck out
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Wherever you go, there you are.
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Private soil farming is a great business model. Low cost, high demand. With fewer chemicals and wider practice, the trade will be more sustainable.
More houses will be 3D printed โ and smaller โ in the future.
The internal combustion engine is the largest technological mis-step in human history.
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I think components being 3d printed is more likely. It's pretty hard to do cookie cutter complex objects like apartment buildings and family homes. Things like bricks, supports, ducts, pipes, insulation are much more adaptable. I think a hot take of mine is that 3d printing isn't gonna be the next big thing in construction and manufacturing. There's really sophisticated and efficient methods of doing those things on an industrial scale now that I don't see 3d printers matching. I do think 3d printers will play a bigger role for personal use. Having a tool that could print out many different household objects just for one person seems useful. Things like toothbrushes, housing components for electronics, ceramics like plates and glasses.
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People who are always the hero of their own stories are not trustworthy narrators.
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A violent revolution won't solve anything
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That's warmish on Lemmy, although even here 99% of them are armchair revolutionaries and actually quite comfortable as things are.
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Either watch the movie OR read the book. Never both. Both just leads to disappointment at the cost of your time.
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There are notable exceptions, LOTR comes to mind, well executed adaption IMO.
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People who destroy public toilets with piss or shit should be forced to sit down for a year. Public bathrooms would be cleaner for it.
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We're about due for another asteroid impact.
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Fucking finally ๐ฅบ
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Right?
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Anti-Stratfordians are classist kooks who completely ignore historical research, historical context, and evolving literary criticism, and thereby miss what actually makes Shakespeare uniquely enduring among his peers. I know I'm actually in the mainstream here. I just hate them sooooo much, it... it was like flames... FLAMES on the side of my face...
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Whelp, never heard of that movie before, but that clip has convinced me that I have to watch it now. Thanks!
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Clue is very good. Enjoy!
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Follow the Rule of Law
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You sit on top of a Kawasaki Jet Ski.
You sit in a SeaDoo Jett Ski.
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If you can't say something nice...
Being online would be lot better, and I think we would learn more. Trying to implement this in myself. I wasn't raised right.
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People have their minds turned from 'learning mode' to 'i am correct' mode wayy too much
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There's no incentive for showing compassion online, apart from virtue signaling
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This makes so little sense. Why would I care about signalling my 'virtue' to a bunch of anonymous people who have no idea who I am? I can say something nice or harsh because I believe it was affect the people who read it, even though I'll never meet them. That is rational even if it doesn't benefit me, if I care about the experiences of other people. But acting a certain way to gain positive regard for an anonymous identity is dumb af.
And the main reason I or anyone else acts compassionately online is probably just that it's the first and easiest reaction. I don't troll or harass people, even if I would suffer no consequences from it, simply because I have no interest in doing so. I say something nice because that's what I want to say, it's not an effort or a cost.
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I think you missed the point completely. What I meant is people are busy sending thoughts and prayers to war & disaster victims but fail to show true compassion when someone online is going through a difficult time or otherwise misguided
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There's no incentive to virtue signal either, though.
For most users there's no incentives of any kind, and they go to their default, which is alternatingly butthurt and mildly helpful. A minority are sadistic, virtue signaling or similar. And of course, everyone is horny.
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