Common misuse of words. Decimate means reduce by 1/10 not almost completely destroy. Exponential growth. The variable has to be in the exponent if it’s a constant exponent that is polynomial growth. Gaslighting isn’t just lying. It’s making someone belive that they can’t trust their own memories or experiences so they believe you despite evidence to the contrary.
Putting the dollar sign after the number. Yes, that is how it is read, but not how it is written. “Five dollars” is $5, not 5$.
Eating meat although they’re fully aware, that we have to shift completely away of that (GHG emissions, land-use), and then blame the government that they need to regulate this more.
Yes more government regulations would be great, but it’s one of the few individual things that have effect, if everyone would think similar. And a vegan or mostly vegan diet is not really worse in taste and likely more healthy as well… Eating meat is not sustainable (nor morally justifieable), it should be a thing of the past…
And from the downvotes I conclude that this will remain a mostly secret judge. It’s sad, that you don’t see it yet, this will very likely the future whether you like it or not (when we don’t fuck it up completely, but I’m somewhat hopeful).
The argument that meat is cheaper is also not really true anymore. There’s basically no reason to eat meat anymore. Matter of fact, I developed a distaste to meat when I mostly stopped with eating meat, after eating way too much before (tastes kind of rotten compared to plant-based), try it out, it’s easier than you think, and gets easier over time.
As long as the alternatives keep getting tastier and cheaper, I’m all in. I’m glad it worked out for you, but I didn’t have the same experience when I tried removing meat from my diet. I’ve been able to find substitutes and recipes to eat way less meat, but I still get that need if I haven’t had any for a while. I can’t wait for the day that the alternatives bump off meat completely for me, but for now I’ll consume as little as I can.
I’ve been incorporating mushrooms into a lot more meals where there would be larger portions of meat, so damn tasty.
Sorry about the downvotes
Been vegetarian now for about 4 years, haven’t regretted it yet. I thought I would miss meat more, but I really don’t.
I totally have experienced the random anger and judgment from other people. They hear I am vegetarian and all of a sudden they start either attacking vegetarianism/veganism, or they start trying to defend meat-eating.
On the positive, I’ve never been healthier, and there are more and more restaurants that offer veg/vegan food, or at least options to make it meatless. And I have met quite a few young people that are going veg/vegan, or at least are flex/pescatarian.
Being all like “I fucking love science” whilst perpetuating ignorance of what science actually is like
Elaborate with example pls
I’ll keep an eye out for one, but in the meantime, I’ll be more specific about what I mean about ignoring how science actually is.
One of the things I find most beautiful about science is how it thrives in uncertainty — great science is more likely to arise from a “huh, that’s strange…” than a big “Eureka” moment, not least of all because most breakthroughs involve large collaborations of researchers.
“Scientism” is the term usually used for the kind of thing that irks me. I’m realising now that I feel unequipped to properly explain that, so I’m going to point to a video I like on this matter by a cardiologist and science communicator I like: https://youtu.be/CVPy25wQ07k
I’ve got a great example. My wife and I argue about directions all the time. I usually think Google and Apple maps are going to give me the quickest route because it’s an algorithm based on more data than I currently have like traffic and current road conditions. She’s usually all about her “gut” feeling and it involves these very convoluted paths that involve way too many extra intersections and very unknown conditions like others thinking the exact same thing and making it way more congested. I wasn’t even going to get into things like game theory since that would be way over her head. She very smart just not about nerdy things like that. Anyway I was like fine, ok let’s test it. Let’s see which way is quicker. Of course no two situations are going to be exact given changing variables like traffic patterns, times of day, construction, etc. but given enough data we could definitely prove which way is better: her gut feeling or taking the suggested route from the appropriate app. That’s science. Come up with a hypothesis, then a method to test the hypothesis, and then do the test. In this case it’s pretty simple to figure out if it works. You’re just comparing times. But nope, doesn’t wanna do it. And she’s all about the science. During COVID she even said we should be doing what the epidemiologists and doctors suggest since they “have done the science”. Here’s a chance for use to do a very simple version of that same thing.
Anyone calling themselves a “scientist”
Biologist, astronomer, mathematicians, these are all valid professions.
Scientist is not a profession.
Scientist is the broader category though. If a square says “I’m a rectangle” they aren’t lying.
It is but no educated person qualifies themselves by that name as it means nothing.
People seek to label themselves in the most accurate category not the broadest one.
I am shape.
It is but no educated person qualifies themselves by that name as it means nothing.
People seek to label themselves in the most accurate category not the broadest one.
I’m not sure that’s true. If you ask someone what they do for a living and they say, “I’m a doctor,” you don’t say, “I doubt it. A real doctor would say, ‘I’m a cardiovascular surgeon,’ or ‘I’m a pediatrician.’” We adjust our labels for our audience.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find a biologist or a climatologist who might just say, “I’m a scientist” to a broad audience. Not that they couldn’t use the more accurate label, just that they don’t necessarily have to.
Their taste in music. Sorry but if Pink Floyd is your favorite band i have to assume you’re boring
Sorry Pink Floyd is my favourite band and I totally do not feel like a boring person 😂
They’ve probably just never been in the correct head space to listen to it because they’ve been conditioned to listen to mind numbing pop chart shite.
What’s your favourite band?
It changes daily. Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Thanks for asking
being judgey assholes
Not putting the toilet seat down.
Look, I’m sorry, but eating fast food. Have some self respect.
When I was at my lowest I spent close to $3000 on McDonald’s in 2 months. Just went through all my savings eating fast food multiple times a day. Now it’s hard for me to even eat it
I have a stark reminder of the worst period in my life where I did the same. The “account performance” chart in an investment of mine showed steady growth and monthly inputs, then there’s a cliff, and over a period of a few months, it’s completely emptied. Thousands, easily. And the vast majority was fast food and liquor
I don’t mind when people eat fast food, but I do get annoyed when people brag about eating fast food.
Especially now that prices have inflated so it’s no longer corporate factory machine cheap.
There are so many random food places even in the most rundown parts of a city that have both much better quality and bang for buck.
I’d even argue you’re not getting an authentic philly cheese if you get it from a place that’s not in the ghetto or has been advertised online in any capacity. And the funny thing is the real one is usually cheaper too.
I’m sorry, but a Baja Blast guy and sometimes I don’t know what to Mountain Dew.
Nosing (instead of reversing) into a parking spot. You always pick the conditions of your arrival, but not always your departure. Also, reversing into traffic is ridiculous and illegal in some places. Parking nose-first is dangerous and lazy.
With a 180 degree camera it’s not an issue to go backwards. I usually nose in so I have easy access to the trunk.
Found the German.
We get inclement weather about once every 6 years. I’ll choose to live dangerously.
I like to live dangerously.
Parallel parking, or angled parking?
People typing whatever is the latest fad, such as “rn’, " tbh”, etc.
fr?
For Real I believe
Nah, that’s just France.
smh r u fr rn?
Ya bb
No-one has ever been able to tell me what they do with all that time that they saved with the abbreviations.
Exactly.
type more abbreviations, ofc
When speaking with close friends it does save an awful lot of time.
Ong
Smh @ ur fud
Bad take. Been saying rn and tbh for years. Communicating isn’t a fad imo (see what I did there). By that logic, lol, lmao, etc are just fads too.
idgaf
“Latest fad”
“Shorthand created during the time cell phones were becoming ubiquitous about 20yr ago”
Are you like, a greenland shark that has been alive since 1865 so your concept of time is on an entirely different scale than the rest of us making 20yr ago “the latest fad” as if it were 2 months for us?
People with shattered phone screens.
Pretty much anyone with a broken phone screen are just chaos moving around.
I have the same theory. Anytime I see someone having a phone call on speakerphone it’s almost 100% because their screen is shattered and they just walk around screaming into their phone.
Makes sense that these are also the type of people walking around just raw dogging life with out a cell phone case.
The speed of their windshield wipers.
Yes! It’s barely spitting outside, why are your windscreen wipers trying to break the sound barrier?
Using a DE, Neovim or systemd.
Fucking casuals.
People who write “rouge” instead of “rogue”.
Or people who are so “weary” of danger.
Or who write: your welcome
Defiantly agree 🙃
or tounge
I see that alot.
^ ^ ^ ^ that’s my trigger
Makes me RED with anger!
Whenever another guy recommends something I find repulsive, for various reasons, I tend to write off most respect I had for that person.
Lately some guys have talked positively about Andrew Tate, and it’s just made it easier for me to know who is a gullible prick and who to avoid.
