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[Serious] What's your hot take?
  • Gun laws are ineffective. There is zero correlation between gun deaths and strictness of gun laws. Despite limits and bans of short barreled rifles, "assault weapons", machine guns, etc, gun deaths have continually increased.

    Gun bans are only effective where there already isn't violence, at which point it's redundant.

    I believe the culprits behind widespread American violence are high rates of youth delinquency and gang related criminal activity.

  • What are your favorite bands from more obscure, lesser known countries?
  • They are very famous but it seems their country is rarely thought or discussed.

    The Hu from Mongolia are great. A combination of traditional Mongol folk music, modern metal and famous for their Mongolian style gutteral singing.

  • If you could create a new religion, what would you include to make it wholesome, interesting and helpful for the world?
  • I don't think there is a religion that can be overwhelmingly beneficial today.

    Most religions already emphasize kindness, generosity and compassion but it is ultimately easily corruptable. Every religious group seemingly has to hate somebody.

    Long ago it would have imperative to human development, to explain the world around us and to motivate people to work cooperatively. Science has fulfilled that role however and now it seems religion makes individuals closer minded, refusing to believe in reason.

    If religious people sternly stuck to their principles (looking at American Christians) I don't even think we'd be having this conversation in the first place.

  • ‘It has officially happened’: Mechanic says he can’t work on your car because they’ve officially been locked out of computer systems
  • I've advocate by doing. I work at a computer repair shop with honest rates, and transparent practices. I volunteer at repair cafés sharpening tools for free. This way you demonstrate directly towards them what you're doing and what companies are doing.

    I can show customers that apple's ribbon cables are thinner than tissue paper, all of the freaking glue holding it together, the serialized components, the convoluted design, etc.

    Whenever I speak about it outside of the repair shop people think I'm some conspiracy nut, but people will listen with the evidence right in front of them.

  • Eat shit Spotify.
  • Pretty good audio quality too, I have Sennheiser hd600 (300$) and have tuned the heck out of them. They sound amazing and I still cannot tell the difference between flac (uncompressed) and high bitrate mp3 (what Spotify uses).

  • ‘It has officially happened’: Mechanic says he can’t work on your car because they’ve officially been locked out of computer systems
  • I've been advocating right to repair and have been trying to raise the alarm bells to stuff like this. Unfortunately people have been blind to it and keep putting up with this crap.

    "Oh I have to go to the ram dealership instead of an independent and pay $10,000 more? Sounds good to me!"

    "Oh they track everywhere I drive, the speed I'm driving and also sell it to my insurance so they can increase rates, and advertisers to stalk me? If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear!".

  • What YouTubers did you used to watch back then but not anymore?
  • I didn't like his take, "solving" traffic nescitates the use of self-driving cars. Can't have traffic without cars, it's as simple as that. We need public transport, not more shit to spend our increasingly scarce money on.

  • Oh Joe...
  • Unfortunately I don't think this will ever happen. It has benefitted both parties at different times, and introducing more parties only invites competent competition. Something they don't want to fight with.

    When the US fails (whether it be the next 10, 50 or 100 years) I think It'd be this.

  • Why do some Americans get angry at other people for not speaking English?
  • Those who say this are usually frustrated by the increasing number of misunderstandings/miscommunications due to increasing English illiteracy. Its become more difficult to communicate to those around you.

    It's utterly unacceptable behaviour but I believe the issue lies deeper than simple "racism". I also sometimes find it frustrating from the sheer volume of people that can't speak English, from coworkers, customers, fellow students, etc. I don't even live near the border, where the problem is much worse.

  • Hello lovelies!!!
  • I think it's because of Americanized potato salad. The kind with miracle whip and tons of corn syrup. I've had mayo based salads like this and it makes me want to puke (as an American lol)

    I think this plays with the stereotype that weird eccentric middle aged people like weird/gross food. Sort of like jello salad coincidentally (search it up, it is foul).

  • poverty tips
  • Its very tender and is an extremely fatty piece of steak. It's definitely amazing but not quite mind blowing. Sometimes in chuck steak you'll find a piece with fine meat grain and intense marbling, and that's fairly comparable to Wagyu.

    Wagyu is still beef and tastes mostly the same, just much more tender and fattier.