Populism Updates @PopulismUpdates Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum
Admiral Snaccbar @Chris Mench Serving shrimp with the tail still on when it’s already mixed into something (pasta, rice, etc) is insane.
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When driving you are making things more dangerous and less efficient by waving people in. If it is your right of way take it.
Be predictable, not polite.
Drivers that want to queue in single file when you should use all available lanes and then merge at the front.
REEEEEEEEEE!!!
Got into that with my MIL once.
When confronted with the idea of leaving an emergency lane in a traffic jam, she also vehemently insisted she’d never done that.
That woman shouldn’t drive.
Simple, orderly zippering when a lane actually ends is the way. Wasting that useful pavement to create slower traffic and more traffic jam is insane and should be ticketed.
The most infuriating are the wannabe policeman that straddle both lanes to stop people passing.
Like, if you wanna sit in a queue for no reason then good for you, don’t stop people passing that have actually bothered to read the highway code.
Yeah. It isn’t about cheating, fairness, who got in a lane first. Isn’t territory to defend. We don’t have to enforce rules on each other. The traffic planners and road crews went through a bit of effort with like signs and cones and shit to tell us where they want us to merge. Zippering helps everyone go faster. Kinda why the planners want us to do it.
I point this out to my kids on a regular basis. My oldest is 15 and about to get his license. I tell him that cars being polite are being dicks to those behind them.
Your quote is the exact quote I say to him.
I first thought you were talking about waving to pedestrians to cross when you stop to let them go. Which is a correct and expected behaviour, afaik
Stopping for pedestrians at cross walks is correct, but you should never be waving at anyone to go.
When you wave at people to go they are less likely to check that the other lanes are safe for them to cross. You stop and look right at them so they know you see them and wait until they go on their own.
That was about what I meant, but thanks for expressing this, sorry I was vague.
In my city there is a very popular good samaritan trap on the main drag into town, and I am waiting for the day something nasty happens at that particular parking lot entrance, so then they maybe redesign that section of the street or something.
Misunderstanding “right of way” is half the problem.
Right of way is ability to make a road, or the road itself by extension. You can’t have the right of way - it’s usually the government’s - and you can’t give it away. This is why wording is consistently who must yield the right of way, and not who has the right of way.
If it’s a driver’s turn to act, they are obligated to act, it’s not their option or right to act.
Indeed, in the boating world, the words are “stand-on” or “burdened” vessel, which makes it clear that the vessel that should continue its course has the obligation to do so under the collision regulations. The “give way” vessel should alter its course or intentions to “keep clear.” Nobody — nobody! — has the “right of way.”
I’ve usually heard “right of way” used in terms of sense 3 of the dictionary. I’ve never heard it used to refer to the ability to make a road – that just makes me think you have a skilled construction crew on speed dial.
Dictionaries list common usage - even if incorrect. Look up the definition of right of way for your state or other government and I’m certain it will be the thing on which you travel or the right to create and manage it, not your “rights” while traveling on it.
I couldn’t find a list of all definitions by state but the three states I checked all use that.
It would be weird if they didn’t, since that’s been the term since before automobiles existed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_way
Am I out of touch? No, it’s the dictionaries that are wrong.
There’s actually no legal definition for “right of way” in the UK. Despite it being a widely understood concept, if you go to court to defend yourself in a road traffic accident and your defence is “it was my right of way, your honour”, you could find yourself in trouble.
Weird. I found one in seconds on Google and it’s about whether you can use the way, not the rules governing turn order while driving.
https://www.gov.uk/right-of-way-open-access-land/use-public-rights-of-way
Did you look it up before making that comment?
Almost got into an accident last night on this. Car 1 stopped at a 4way to my right, Car 2 opposite me stopped, then I stopped. Distinctly. Whole ass seconds between all stops. Me and 2 are waiting for 1 to go. It’s 11:00pm. I can’t say for sure, but I just KNOW Car 1 was waving his hands at us, who can’t see through his windshield because that’s how night time works. Way too much time passes, and me and 2 are like, fuck it and start going, then 1 flashes his brights and goes narrowly missing both of us. Was he just really wanting to be an a car accident? Is he drunk? Who knows, but half the accidents I’ve narrowly avoided involve a 4 way stop and an idiot.
I fucking hate this because it creates ambiguity, usually at times when things need to happen very quickly. It always seems to happen at busy intersections when I’ve got mere seconds to get through, usually a left hand turn. I’m waiting because I need to make the turn, there’s a person across from me going straight who will have the right of way and I can’t go til they go, but I’m looking back and forth waiting for an opening for when that person will go (and then me). The opening comes… and I wait… and they wait, and then I see this fucking person is looking at me like a jackass like they were doing me a favor. The favor would’ve been them following the goddamn right of way, then we both could’ve gone to where we needed to go, now I have to wait again.
You can just eat the tails
Excellent source of dietary Chitin
You can eat the heads too but I’d prefer not to have them in my spaghetti, same goes for the tails
I had a Japanese-American girlfriend for a couple of years who would gladly dispose of the prawn heads for me. I tried them (“how bad could they be?”) but it was a taste I could never acquire. And I’m open-minded about food-- tried natto and got to enjoy it, same with uni, even managed to have Taiwanese stinky tofu. The only other food I could never stomach was balut.
You can eat ass too, doesn’t mean everyone is into it
Every bathroom everywhere should have a bidet.
A simple spray hose next to the toilet is so great. Not only for use as a bidet but also for cleaning
Never had that, but I find this to be an acceptable compromise!
I think they’re called “hygienic showers” and it’s basically a small showerhead with a thumb button on the end to turn on/off. They’re getting pretty trendy with new construction flats.
The only downside is that they tend to drip a bit after you return them to the cradle.
Is this normally hooked up to the hot water line or am I looking at a refreshing cold experience?
It depends, but the place I’m staying at right now has it hooked up to hot and cold water with one of those sliding plate faucet handles.
Absolutely. I got one for my house and having to use the shitty 1-ply paper in public bathrooms sucks so much. It feels terrible and doesn’t clean nearly as well.
I just picked up a second Toto bidet this weekend from Costco. When I don’t have access to a bidet I feel like a savage
My radical opinion is that the left-right political spectrum isn’t real. It’s all really arbitrary like the Big Endians and Little Endians from Gulliver’s Travels. We’ve decided one group is left and one is right. When an issue comes up, one group takes a position and the other group feels like they need to oppose it. Depending on which group supports an issue and where we decided that group is on the spectrum, that’s where we put that issue.
But most issues are way more complicated to fit on a one dimensional line. Many problems are completely orthogonal to politics. Global warming for example is a scientific thing. More CO2 in the atmosphere, more warming. Gotta get that CO2 level down or we’re going to have serious problems. Where does that fit on a spectrum? We just plop it onto the “left” part because the parties on the “left” tend to want to do something about it.
Foreign policy doesn’t really fit on a spectrum since it’s all around the interests of the country. Who should we be allies with and who are our adversaries? That’s largely dependent on what those other countries are doing isn’t it? But gotta put it on a spectrum, so I guess this war the left wing supports and this other war the right wing wing supports.
Ultimately ideology is for the intellectually lazy. Don’t want to think about individual issues in-depth so just consider a few, sign on to whichever ideology is the closest fit, and go along with whatever the ideology says about anything else. The left-right spectrum is a rationalization for this, making it seem commonplace for people to be a dot on a line to feel justified in going along with whoever is on the same part in that line.
But it’s just a construct. Issues are more complicated than that, and two people that agree completely on one issue may completely disagree on another. Because there really is no political spectrum. It’s something that only exists in a poli sci classroom and doesn’t really mean anything anywhere else. Why would anyone want to be a dot on a line anyway?
It’s been memed to death at this point, but this is one reason I like the political compass. It’s got width and height, and does a little bit of a better job at representing things.
Even that doesn’t really work. A libertarian is someone who’s based their political ideas on a flawed understanding of economics. Authoritarianism is just a scam that convinces people they should be ruled over by someone that will [make their country strong/make them more equal/protect them from whoever they’re afraid of]. It just further legitimizes ideas based on a flawed understanding of the world and invents new issues just to have things to slot onto the graph.
Like how do you feel about “late stage” capitalism? How do you feel about bad people eating people’s pets? I can point at government inefficiencies to prove that the government should be eliminated so we can all live in a libertarian utopia. And we can plot these things on a page, and legitimize them as real ideologies. But really they’re just things people have made up or have exaggerated to push people away from solving the problems towards “ideologies” that need those problems to exist to justify their existence.
A large part of politics is about perception. We have a fairly good understanding of how the economy works. We also have a good idea understanding of how the climate works too. Biden actually did extremely well on the economy. But the perception is that he was terrible on the economy issue. There’s a lack of understanding of how things work and so we end up with the idea that voting in a Republican will make the economy better because they’re going to drill for more oil. The right of the spectrum is good on the economy and the left of the spectrum is bad on the economy, everyone knows that! But really this spectrum thing just allows people to exploit perceptions and calcify those perceptions.
Also totally valid. We need a political hypercube or something. It’s a complex thing, with a lot of gadgets and variables. Just human nature to try and simplify it I guess.
Or maybe we should just consider every issue individually?
this is a bad take, it ignores the political philosophy foundations of left and right political theories and is a very naive perspective borne of the American two party system which doesn’t adequately represent leftism
I thought the same thing but honestly I understand them from a uninformed casual observer perspective.
American politics are very contrarian.
Fair enough but I’m a little over uninformed people having political opinions
Understandable and same. I just see the why. I don’t like it either.
Absolutely! Also, I can’t stand ordering whole crab at a restaurant. I just want the meat without the hassle of cracking open the legs and body, getting my hands dirty, slurping all over, and dealing with the mess. Someone should handle that in the kitchen. I can boil a crab at home if I want to work to get the food out.
I get what you mean, but from the way you wrote it, I am now imagining someone slurping the crab in the kitchen for you :D
You need to find a better restaurant than Red Lobster.
A proper kitchen will crack open and loosen the meat before service.
Souls games should have an easy mode and it’s fine if only the original hard mode is a well balanced experience. I just want to have fun and enjoy the view.
I’ve never played a Soul game because of the difficultly. Your comment made check online if an easy mode mod exists. Apparently it does.
Unfortunately mods are only available on PC
Indeed but it’s still an option for many of us.
I didn’t even find Elden Ring difficult. Just tedious and boring and ugly
I prefer easy mode in most games. But you don’t play a souls game for easy. You play a souls game because you want to hate yourself.
Games by From Software have beautiful worlds, a great vibe and interesting lore. I just want to experience that without the torture.
They are all nice experiences, and it’s rather sad i can’t share that experience with my more casual friends :/
Yeah I’ve never understood if they expect me to just eat the tail, or start playing with my pasta with my hands to pull them off. Certainly not gonna waste like half my shrimp by just cutting the meat where the tail starts.
My cheat for getting the shrimp meat out is to pinch the tail. It just slides right out.
“Oh yes sure please make my comfort food more difficult to eat thanks”
I’m right there with you. Serving shrimp tail-on might as well be serving something on a log instead of a plate.
Ok… I’ve never seen on a log on a plate before.
Assert dominance by eating as per normal and when you encounter a tail, spit it at the chef.
Am I eating in the restaurant kitchen or walking back there each time I bite a tail?
Save them all in your cheeks then blast them at the chef like Yoshi
I like each time for extra awkwardness
Oh trust me, I don’t need the extra awkwardness!
Chef: (Still holding towel after wiping 13 shrimp tail shells off his face) Back again?!
Me: (Awkwardly hovering in the doorway) Yeah sorry, I was going back and forth on this but I found a shell piece all by itself with no shrimp in it and while I have no reason to put it in my mouth I figured I needed to show conviction to impress my date so… PATOOIE
My dad leaves the shell fully on as a stand-alone appetizer of grilled shrimp, so the shrimp is entirely covered in shell. It took until the third time my ex had dinner there for him to ask why the shrimp was so crunchy and for me to realize I’d forgotten to warn him.
Press the very start of the tail with your fork sideways so it’s cut, then pull the shrimp from the tail with the fork and knife.
Anyway, the post is right, it’s borderline violent insanity.
Yeah but that’s such a fiddly process. I’ve sprayed pasta and sauce all over the table because my knife or fork slipped trying to do surgery on my food
I don’t get when a fancy restaurant does it. If it’s not a Cajun boil or similar vibe, please don’t try to make me look polite deconstructing seafood.
Great! My fork slipped while trying to perform this insane feat of dexterity and my shrimp flew across the restaurant!
The Legend of Zelda 2 was the worst entry in the whole series.
Someone’s never played The Wand of Gamelon
NOT INTO THE PIT! IT BURNS!!
(there was no pit)
Shhh. We don’t talk about that one.
It’s still a really good game and is actually one I’m most nostalgic for.
It does depend what you consider “the whole series.”
Does Tingle RPG count? Does Link’s Crossbow Training?
Other questions that probably wouldn’t matter for best or worst game in the series, but would for a complete ranking might be whether remakes/remasters count as separate games or not and if not, do we judge on the basis of the remaster or the original? (Either way, all the remasters are inferior to the originals. Maybe that’s my most radical, non-left-right position. That and Breath of the Wild was better than Tears of the Kingdom.)
This is not unpopular nor radical. It really is: https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/best-zelda-games/2900-3788/
I was recently told that this is a hugely controversial topic in the Zelda community.
It probably breaks mostly along line of if you played it at release. As only the 2nd game, it’s not like they’d established a formula that felt quintessentially Zelda at that point. I remember it feeling like a decent game that was just doing something different from the 1st one.
Every single one of us is to blame for the state of the world.
yes, but to astronomically variable degrees.
Thank you for being realistic. Many people hear “blame” and immediately think in binary “I’m completely to blame”.
So I take 1/8000000000 th part of the blame.
If you’re living in a Western country, odds are your consumption is double or triple of somebody in the global south, so you can up that a little. If you’re wealthier, you can up that even more. It’s not directly proportional to consumption, but that does play a bigger role.
I don’t, so yay? I’m also a vegan and work remotely so double yay?
I think you might be letting the dead off too easy just using the current population. You think we all just fell out of a coconut tree?
Is there a reason not to eat the tail? I normally eat it.
I like a crisp fried tail it’s baller, but in like pasta it’s just hard to eat for no real flavor or textural payoff
Depends on the shrimp and dish tbh
It’s like eating fingernails. 🤮
Yes officer, this comment right here.
This is a real thing people do. My wife is one of them. I tried it; it’s not as bad as you’d think, but I’d still rather not.
It’s more that why would you want to eat it?
Do you also eat the bones when you get other meats?
Do you eat the skin of bananas or oranges?
Vegetarian here so can’t answer for the meat and bones, but absolutely on the fruit and veggie front. Peels have a ton of nutrients, texture, and flavour
No one is arguing whether peels have nutrients. Do you eat banana peels and citrus rinds? That seems highly unlikely as they’re not palatable.
yes on the citrus rinds. Also whole kiwis and apple cores
Yes, I do. That’s what I was saying I’m my comment above. And just because you perceive them as highly unpalatable, does not mean thst everyone else does too.
Bro you eat banana skins? Just biting into that shit like it’s an apple?
I do haha. I know it sounds gross to a lot of people, but once you get over the mental block of “only the fruit inside is food” that most of us are raised with, they’re actually quite tasty. You can dry them out and make a tasty snack too if you don’t want to raw dog them
He said they got nutrients. He didn’t say he eats em.
he said they got lots of flavor. he eats them.
I know lemon and orange peels have a lot of flavor because I’ll scrape a bit for “lemon zest” in some dishes. It however, does not mean I eat the peels.
You can. There’s nothing wrong with it. I eat em too.
As someone who eats the tail: This is fine. I like the cronch.
The only thing I don’t like is when they don’t remove the poop chute and there’s just a big-ass turd in the shrimp. 🤢
Yeah I eat the tail. I don’t see anything wrong.
That’s because you’re both insane.
In my case, I think it’s because when my siblings and I were kids, we only got to eat the tail because my parents wouldn’t get shrimp for us but for themselves and then not eat the tail which we would.
I mean, I am insane, but that’s not why.
I have no opinion on eating the tail of the shrimp with the rest of it. The concept of ordering or cooking shrimp, eating the flesh, and then giving someone else the tail is absolutely INSANE to me. It sounds like a bit from a sitcom.
It sounds like a bit from a sitcom.
My home life growing up was basically the same shit as Married With Children, but if Al had a better job.
Damn.
…I didn’t even know eating the tail was an option. Like, it’s pure fucking chitin - there’s nothing to emulsify. It’s like trying to eat a fingernail, or piece of plastic.
Squeezing that last little nub of meat out of it, yeah, but the tail itself? Dafuq?
Or are we talking about that little nub of meat tucked away in the chitin hole? Just realized we might be calling two different things the ‘tail’.
No, the thread is about the crunchy bit. With cocktail shrimp I find it’s better to squeeze the meat out but when the shrimp is cooked and covered in sauce a lot of times I just find it less of a pain to get the meat out alone (especially if they leave the whole shell on after removing only the head and legs).
I didn’t use to eat the shell but after moving to Asia I ended up caring a lot less about whether I eat it or not. I also have other lazy/weird food opinions though-- like I’ll just eat the whole kiwi if im too lazy to go get a knife and spoon-- so maybe that plays into it as well
Gold kiwi skin is very edible, green is less so
Are you sure the parental abuse isn’t why? Not even a little?
You tell em, Ivanaafterall!
So… Hey Lemmy… Does everybody wanna meet this dude?
Dude’s everywhere. We need to meet this dude.
For various reasons, I’m calling the authorities… ALL of them.
It’s the occasional stabby thing that gets me, though.
This is Korea. For whatever reason every single animal they consume that has unpleasant bits inside, they leave em in. Bony fish, bony chicken, grisly pork, soup full of shelled shellfish, and shrimp with tails. Hell, frequently entire shrimp head and all. Also locally where I live they have these different shrimp that have I dunno extra tough and sharp carapace. They don’t even try to shuck those things.
The Country of Waste Not, Want Not
Oh definitely. It wasn’t that long ago there were some pretty hard times here. The older generation remembers.
All of us who are old enough to have grown up around depression era survivors in the United States are familiar with that too.
My mom was born during the Great Depression and re-uses ziplock bags. On the other hand, she insists on brand-name everything instead of generics or store brands, so it’s not purely about frugality.
Yeah but name brands mean you buy it once and it doesn’t fail as often, is the argument for that I get from those of that generation.
And I mean I get it. Buy a cheap pair of shoes or a good pair and you will realize you will go through 3 of the cheap pairs at half price compared to buying 1 good pair.
Though less so with each passing year since name brands are designed to fail now too.
Yeah, I’m 30 and I feel like I’ve never had the experience of being able to rely on a name brand consistently. Everything seems to fall apart. Sometimes you get something great, but when it comes time to replace it and you buy the exact same thing from the exact same company it comes at a much lower quality
Ironically, it was about 30 years ago that brand names started really leaning into shrinkflation, and enshitification, riding off the merits of their previously good name.
Its so fricking hard to find the trustworthy brands.
I’m honestly just so willing to not have any brand loyalty and to suffer with making a bad pick that I have to return or fix myself, I constantly having to re-find what is considered actually good quality.
The answer is a lot of name brand in the higher price range but not so high that it’s just for padding a contractor’s quote and percent take home is still good quality. And you can never go for the same model twice if the company is doing constant refreshes cause those are with cheaper components every time. (Allowance for first refresh fixing a flaw)
My grandma is over 100 and still licks the plate clean after eating. Things like that get ingrained with you
제주닥새우? But they taste sooo good
I’ve had similar experiences with SE Asian cuisine. They just don’t seem to have the same standards for butchering and meat preparation that we do in the West. Hell, I know of one SE Asian culture that doesn’t even have any sort of defined meat cuts. They just chop it all up into big chunks. Doesn’t matter what part of the animal it is, it’s getting chopped up into big bits.
It just takes longer to eat. Great at at Big party with lots of beer.
Yup. That’s super gross. I totally agree.
But, probably not for the same reason.
found the vegan
Beat ya to it.
Clever
Found… ! Oh…
Videogames should go with inflation and get more expensive instead of trying to cramp in in-game purchases and deluxe editions and whatever.
I don’t want to own a “license” to a Game, I want to own the Game
Turning off Servers for goods you bought without offering a replacement should be illegal.
If video games went with inflation then videogame companies would likely be bankrupt, at 120 (euro, dollar, gbp) each they’d be way more of a niche product than at 60. Besides sales volume has more than surpased inflation. The whole licensing thing has nothing to do with prices its just pure anti-consumerism.
What would actually happen is games would become more expensive with inflation AND you’d still get the micro transactions
Isn’t this exactly what GOG is all about?
Han shot at the same time.
Han shot. That’s it. There were no other shots.
