WoodScientist

Are we just turning into the bug aliens from Rick and Morty?

I went without shampoo for two months because of this. Not my preferred means of hair care. I thought I was buying a twopack of shampoo off of Amazon. I actually bought a combined shampoo+conditioner package. The brand labeling was so prominent I didn't even notice. So instead of applying shampoo+conditioner, I was doing conditioner+a different conditioner. And it wasn't soo bad that it was immediately obvious. But yeah, I've fallen victim to this.

Instructions unclear. Arrested for attempting to squat inside the last operative Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon. Turns out, the courts do NOT accept "childhood nostalgia" as a legal defense against breaking and entering.

Is it possible to program a smartphone, so that, using gesture control of some sort, you can hang up a call by dramatically placing the phone down face first on a hard surface?

I SAID GOODDAY SIR!

I mean, I put down a deposit recently for a new car that will have roll down windows.

I am also Spartacus.

Truthfully it's a design issue. If people keep coming up to a door and pulling on it, it's because the design of the door is instructing them to do so. Design imparts information. A door in a home can have simple knobs - anyone living there can just learn which doors to push/pull. A door in a public space instead needs to be designed to tell people how to operate it, even without any labeling.

A door is a simple device. It shouldn't require reading labels or a manual. It's operation should be abundantly obvious. After all, even those who don't speak the language or are illiterate need to be able to operate doors. A door that needs instructions is one that is poorly designed.

I don't myself mind sharing the bathroom with a <N-word.> I am not some Klan member! But when my kids are involved, I have to draw a line. Kids aren't old enough to understand black people and their culture. Black folks need to use the bathroom at home or use a black-only bathroom. I'll happily share a bathroom with a black man, but my wife or kids shouldn't have to. They're just not equipped to handle the complexities of the situation. Don't call me a racist, I just have concerns for the safety of children.

Human garbage never changes.

Nah, fed through a woodchipper feet first.

Not discrediting the work she does but it’s not like any of us even have the chance to do what she’s doing

Horse shit. That's exactly what you're doing.

Pedantry is the last refuge of fools.

You forgot a step. Short term vs long term planning.

The problem with voting with your method is you only get to vote once. Every vote you need to make the decision:

1. I should vote based on the optimal outcome of this election.

2. I should vote based on the optimal outcome over many elections.

It's important that you first ask yourself this question. There's no such thing as a free lunch. And often by voting for (1) you're hurting (2).

For example, everyone to the left of Republicans would have been better off if Trump had won in 2020. The primary process was rigged to keep progressive Democrats divided while forcing Biden through as the centrist compromise. People on the left tried to vote for progressive candidates, but the DNC rigged it so that all the centrists EXCEPT Biden dropped out early, while the progressive candidates had their vote divided. The DNC organized for Biden to win the primary. And then, in the general, everyone on the left held their nose and voted for him. They followed your advice to the letter, and everyone to the left of Republicans was massive harmed as the result of following your exact advice.

Those on the left followed your instructions exactly, but they ended up with an inferior option than if they had voted third party.

Biden winning in 2020 guaranteed a MAGA win in 2024. Biden was never going to make the changes needed to prevent MAGA from returning to power. This was predicted by many on the left before he was even sworn in.

Trump in 2020 would have been far less dangerous than a Trump in 2024. He wouldn't have had 4 years to regroup and plan out his whole Project 2025. He would have been a lame duck from day one, and he wouldn't have had the political capital he came in with in 2024.

Centrists, liberals, leftists, all of them did themselves a disservice by voting for Biden in 2020. Objectively, everyone EXCEPT Republicans would have had a better long-term outcome if Trump had won in 2020. But in your strategy, we're not allowed to consider the long term effects of our decisions. We're just supposed to myopically focus on this and only this election.