Everyone have their own “hot takes” that either work as a valid opinion, or ragebait for drama. Personally, I have one that if I’m saying it to you all, maybe considered to be “too serious😈🤡”. The hot takes itself is . . .
God Never forbid man to do their [hobbies/fun], (toxic) society did
How about yours? I like to hear alongside the reason why ;)
(Edit: I’m aware that some takes may kinda too far and too deep, so let’s keep it casual)
Without getting too specific: there are some completely harmless kinks between consenting adults that I still want to kink shame.
Holding hands 🤢
Those sick fucks…
I feel like kinks ought to be private anyway. Sharing them feels intimate in a way that is a violation of shared civil spaces. What people do in private doesn’t bother me in the slightest, but if your kink requires making me uncomfortable by telling me what you’re into, I have every right to decline to be a part of your sexual gratification.
To be clear, I’m not talking about LGBTQ+ communities or people who like to wear revealing clothing. That’s not a kink. But if you’re dressed like a puppy and being led around on a leash with a visible erection, then you should be a little bit ashamed for involving me without my consent. There are private spaces for private conversations and private activities. I should be able to ride the bus without getting jizzed on by a masturbating homeless man.
Speaking of kinks: wanting to hurt people’s feelings for no other reason than to your own enjoyment would be labeled as sadism.
Furries. It’s weird to me that they wear their fetish outwardly.
Wearing a fursuit, if it was ever sexual, hasn’t been that way in a long, long, long time.
Uh huh
Ah come on, ya gotta tell us.
Fuck yeah I do, but I’m not dumb enough to say them online.
Anime is lame. Japanese media in general is childish, creepy, and not deserving of the artistic praise it gets.
That is like saying food is disgusting.
No, it’s like saying Japanese food is disgusting.
I had to put my sword away after remembering that we’re just posting opinions.
I mean, even though it has a wider audience it is still mostly targeted at kids/teens. I do agree though that it is a bit overrated (and surprising homogenous).
As for the creepy part, yeah can’t argue with you on that. I think it’s gotten a bit better over the years, but it’s still hard recommending shows sometimes.
The whole “I’m a 125 year old spirit in the body of a 10 year old.” thing is creepy. Adults dressing like school children and sexualized. I’m not saying other cultures are perfect either.
Here we goes . . . L*li stuff
If I can add my own, then it’s “anime powerscaler” and their BS statement of how their favorite characters is better than anything else
When you move to a country because your country sucks, don’t bring the sucky parts of your country to the new one.
That’s why we buy Fender and not Gibson, eh?
My player Strat was made in Mexico, but all Gibson guitars are made in the depths of hell by demons who enjoy your pain from the headstock snapping off.
Facts
Native Americans would like a word.
I understand what you are saying and agree with you, but let’s not act like Native Americans were sitting around passing the peace pipe tribe to tribe before the white man tried to exterminate them. ie The Blackfeet or the Commanche.
Where did I pretend any of that?
Your claim is such a common excuse it’s borderline bigotry. You’re contributing to the base used by racists and white supremecists.
No, I’m not. I just said I agree with you and that existing violence doesn’t justify genocide, but whatever you say dude.
Valve is just as morally bankrupt as other video game companies, their products are just better.
I have definitely voiced this one.
The reaction was about what you would expect; I would have faired better had I kicked a puppy.
I am curious how you came to this opinion. If Valve were as morally bankrupt as other companies then they would prioritize short-term profit over the user experience, but that doesn’t seem to be people’s experience. They’re profitable due to their decision to prioritize the user over their bottom line. That’s what makes their product better.
Without a doubt, it’s still a transaction between you and a corporation, but it seems to me to be a more equitable one than other game distribution companies.
Mainly how they happily profit off unregulated gambling using their in-game items, despite the fact that it has led countless minors to becoming gambling addicts. (People Make Games has a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmNy11Mn7g)
Rockstar has union busting, Blizzard and Ubisoft have sexual misconduct, Riot has gender discrimination, Roblox has pedophiles, Nintendo has frivolous lawsuits and Valve has underage gambling… the list goes on.
I’m sure if you really wanted to, you could create a ranking, but really what’s the point? They are all awful in their own way.
Don’t get me wrong, I use Steam and I even own a Valve Index. I like their products a lot. But we should still be able to point out the clearly terrible stuff they do, just like with the companies whose products we perhaps don’t care for.
Sometimes i use proprietary software over open source software because it is well crafted and easy to use.
You use proprietary software when it is good, I use proprietary software when the FOSS alternative is bad.
We’re not the same.
I can tell you my hot takes that I am NOT too scared to say online:
I don’t mind game key cards.
I prefer iPhone over Android.
I think LLM is useful.
I still visit Reddit (as read-only).
I have an appropriately silly one to share that people get tended to get upset about elsewhere.
Professional wrestling used to be interesting, but Vince McMahon destroyed it piece by piece. The “hot take” is that I have despised Vince McMahon since the early nineties, because he was an awful commentator and it’s been abundantly clear he’s human garbage for forty fucking years!
Strangely, people get mad about that!
And now his wife is in charge of the Department of Education…
Yes.
All changes to MLB post integration were bad. Wearing black/navy jerseys during a day game in 95F heat in Atlanta or Cincinnati? Bad. The designated hitter? Bad. The New York Mets? Bad
Amen.
Though I must say I have enjoyed the pitch clock. I’d still sacrifice that for no dh though.
What’s MLB? (I’m not American, so I wanted to know what’s wrong)
Major League Baseball. Post integration means everything after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier to be the first black player in the majors. The DH is the designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher, is dumb and all ball players should be required to hit.
Eating animals shouldn’t be socially acceptable and people who do should be treated like someone smoking in a public space.
My hot take is that meat shouldn’t at least not be substidized. Meat is comically cheap for what it is and everyone has to pay for it. I only treat myself to some fake salmon that is carrot based because it’s somehow more expensive than actual salmon. I often heard the argument that poor people would suffer because of it. If they REALLY need to eat meat then, like I don’t know, tough titty. Buy your own animal to torture.
Upvote for a truly hot take.
People smoking in public are treated badly? Where? Since when?
In the 80s, shopping malls had ashtrays at the end of every bench. Every workplace had a cloud of cigarette smoke at every entrance that you had to walk through. It’s much much more socially unacceptable to smoke cigarettes than it used to be.
Both of those things are still happening? At least if the benches are outside.
I’m talking about indoors. You could walk around smoking cigarettes inside the shopping mall. Nowadays most places in the world ban smoking in indoor public spaces and within whatever distance from building entrances. I don’t think there’s a shipping mall in North America that allows smoking indoors.
Ok. I usually don’t think of indoor when I read “in public”. Obviously you can’t smoke inside a store, not even in the 80s.
Perhaps not in a clothing store but you sure could smoke in supermarkets in the 80s and shopping carts even had ashtrays on them.
Edit: oops I’m being told that there were ashtrays in the fitting rooms and bathrooms in clothing stores too but as a kid my clothes were cash and carry.
The problem is it’s one of the most normal things in our culture. I’m guilty of it myself. I’d like to be vegan someday but I have other things to attend to before that’s a possibility.
This Bob Vylan lyric fits nicely:
Big dreams sat swelling in my head
Big dreams, big boy, small bed
Wanna share 'em all but the last time I did
I learnt some things are better left unsaid
Just pointing out statistical facts seems to be a very controversial thing to do, because it doesn’t fit into many people’s delusional narratives about the world works. done it here plenty of times and then got told that the us census and the us labor bureau are corrupt and evil orgs who only spread lies.
The three levels of lying, Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
People share statistics like they are proof of some conclusion or another. It’s a half-assed way of pretending their prejudices are supported by data. Racists like to share shit like “Black Americans represent 12% of the adult population, but 35% of the prison population” in order to imply that black people are inherently more likely to be criminals.
Of course, they won’t come out and say “white people are superior because they are more civilized” because that would be an odious and distasteful statement. But they will imply the fuck out of it, because these people don’t understand the relationship between statistics and evidence. A single statistic in isolation can be twisted to mean anything you like.
The very same racial disproportion could be used to concluse that systemic racism in the judicial system is more likely to convict black people and sentence them more harshly. In reality, it proves neither conclusion by itself. You have to control for socio-economic factors and prosecution rates and population density and education levels and employment numbers and and and.
The more statistics you have, the easier it is to selectively control for a desired outcome. But from a scientific perspective, there is nothing biological or psychological that is inherent to any particular “race” because the concept of race is mostly a conglomerate of prejudices to begin with.
statistics are a tool. you can misuse them and abuse them. i can use a hammer to build houses, or bash people in the skull.
in and of themselves if used properly, as in contextualised and verified, they are great. I’m talking about actual statistics themselves, not the bullshit cherry picked interpretation of them.
but yes, stupid people will freak out murders went up 400% because this year 4 people were murdered and last year it was one.
the quote you are references is from politician figures distorting statistics to push their agendas. just like they make scandals over sex in video games and media and other non-issues to rile up and lie to their voters. just like trump is going on about this wave of criminality that doesn’t exist.
This reminds me of a video I saw the other day by that guy (I think he works for The Daily Show) that goes to interview crazy MAGA people. One guy says that people will easily change their minds if shown proof they are wrong. Interviewer points out that many studies have shown that doesn’t work, people are deeply entrenched in their beliefs even if data proves them wrong, citing sources and everything. Random dude just goes “yea, I still think it works though”…
Like, holy shit, you couldn’t script some of this shit without people claiming your writing sucks.
the issue is that people who are wrong thing everyone else is wrong.
just like on lemmy every communist/anarchist thinks anyone who does agree with them is a nazi and if ONLY they would read the manifestos they’d see the light and truth of their beliefs… meanwhile also whining about religions folks who do the same things.
Hot Take:
every high school should have an entry test >!(idk what it is called in english but it is a test to see how strong is your knowleage)!< because middle school is so unserious and can vary so much depending where you are from.
I was on a lower side of the entry for my high school but am somehow better than people who got almost full points! It is so unfair and doesn’t AT ALL take into account actual knowlage and take seats from people who are actually interested AND can keep up with the program.
If most of the class can’t keep up you end up with few talented students who are way ahead of the class, but must wait for the others because underpaid teachers can’t (or wont) do personilized classes to everyone so they just take the slowest student and set theirs standards to that.
Yes this is more like a rant, SUPER biased and I don’t still think the tests are a solution since they just fix the symtoms of the cause, but I stand by that some people should not be able to take schools they are taking no matter how many times they say they got there “fair and square”.
I know we’re doing hot takes but seriously please no more barriers to education that filter out people who had the misfortune of going to shitty schools. We gotta find some other way to help people where they are without impeding people who are more advanced; just kicking them out is a good way to entrench poverty.
I don’t think HS testing is great either but just to note that japan does it and they don’t have high poverty rates
In my school, they separated kids into different classes per grade by academic performance. So no honors students having to put up with the muggles. Made for a very peaceful time.
Not “too scared to say online” but… I think it’s less a question of if we’ll ever develop a sentient AI, and more a question of whether we’ll recognize them as sentient before or after the war of independence. To be clear, I don’t think we’re there yet, but assuming we don’t wipe ourselves out first, I think it’s inevitable in the long run.
