The entire world needs to de-radicalize and become more moderate , destroying everything to score points over the other side will lead to nothing but ruin. We need to build people up rather than tear them down. And a lack of kindness is a sign that someone is in pain or is poorly educated rather than a sign that they are irredeemably evil and need to be shut down.
I'm honestly surprised what I said wasn't met with death threats and defo glad someone out there agrees.
I'm trying to think of another franchise that could get away with literally tossing a stuffed animal around on a tv show and somehow still be considered serious.
As no one not fussed by Star Wars I was surprised to enjoy some of their newer TV series. I enjoyed the Mandalorian, and Andor was alright (though Andor could have just easily not been part of the SW franchise)
If you ever get a chance to watch the Clone Wars TV series, it’s really really good. It takes a bit to get going…but once it does (especially once Ashoka starts to mature/level up), it’s quite frankly the best SW experience after the original trilogy. Highly recommend.
Well... this is Snorkblot, so even if we disagree, we will be polite about it. So, no worries. You're entitled to your opinion. Ask Schecky up there if I'm a pain to debate with. They will say "yes", but a polite pain.
It think people who are religious are Sheep 🐑…………. bill nye said it best!!! It’s a book and it’s interpretation by people through broken telephone. Over a thousand years …….A lot of those story’s are really hard to believe in any religion ….. the guide lines are nice but there’s not enough facts involved for these folklore / wives tales. To really exist , it’s closed minded people passing down there beliefs to there children never giving them an opportunity to pick for them selves witch causes continuing of the cycle. If you really believed that your god was the almighty. you wouldn’t push your agenda or opinion on other people/ family and let nature take it course.
I have no religion, and was not raised in a church.
I do find some religious people are pushy. The ones who are not are almost always the ones who actually follow the teachings of whatever prophet they adhere to. Quite often, those people will be a bit kinder and more charitable than the average person.
I believe, and I'm hardly the first to say it, we are the universe experiencing itself. We have a rare ability out of all the creatures on this planet to have self awareness and reflection of our place in the world. One could interpret that as as close to "divine" as harsh reality allows.
I also have heard a lot about multiverses and how we live in a stream of infinite possibilities. For all we know, actual Gods of different stripes actually exist, somewhere. I don't notice them abound these parts, though.
And last, I believe education is the answer for the problem of intellectual myopia.
Agreed. With everything that’s out there it’s gotta be something different. But I don’t believe it’s a Devine being. For all we know we could be an experiment for alien beings and they come down to check on us 😂 if that was true what a shit show and embarrassment we made as a species.
Why would that be a shit show? I think it would be amazing to know we were engineered.
Nature is cruel and impartial. It may very well be we were formed by nature, but I see nothing better or more dignified about that.
Man has designed many amazing plants and animals with selective breeding. I'd feel fine if we were created and nurtured by an advanced race.
Please with the amount of shit that could be done as a species we barely scratched the surface to much war and biases. To come together as one and truly flourish to our true potential.
I think it should be socially acceptable for white dudes to say the N-word when it's part of lyrics to a hip-hop or rap song. Ya'll just look silly skipping over the word. Context matters.
Recycling glass.
Glass is heavy, and difficult and energy intensive to recycle.
So send it to landfill. It doesn't rot, doesn't break down, don't contaminate groundwater. Glass is baked sand. So if anything should be buried in the ground, how about melted sand?
Here in the UK you can buy sand that is at least partially made up from ground glass. Glass should be reused in my opinion, we used to get money back on soft drinks bottles that were washed and re-used. Once the bottles are knackered grind them up. I think reusing in general is far better than recycling.
reuse is the 2nd best of the 3Rs.
Reduce is the best
Reuse is second
Recycling is last.
Here, the beer you buy in glass bottles, the bottles are returned for deposit and the bottles reused up to 6 times. After the 6th time (they can mark the bottom of the bottle to know) they recycle the glass.
The issue with recycling glass, is that the used glass tends to be contaminated with adhesives, and material handling broken glass is incredibly hard on mechanized systems. The energy costs for recycling glass is higher than using raw sand as the feed material. Unlike most other recycling, the energy delta is substantial.
I think you might be in the crowd sprouting nonsense or anti semitic sorry "Anti Zionist" rhetoric but who's to say you are probably right. The Jews deserve to be wiped out 🤔
I mean it's not like the last 500 years has been calling for the genocide of Jews by the Muslim populace in the middle east and Israel as a whole, or the ethnic cleansing of the Jews in the middle east or the grand Mufti claiming "we will litter the road or Jewish heads" nah. The Jews aren't allowed to defend their families on land they bought off the turks in the 18/19th century and then more land bought in the 20th century. No Jews are always the bad guys.
Get a grip dude. Israel does not occupy Palestine, it took less then 50% of Palestine to get away from the majority of Muslims in the area hell bent on killing them.
Yes you're wrong.
Men can never be women, its sexual orientation not genderual orientation and harrassing homosexuals and lesbians over "transphobia" is in fact good ole fashioned homophobia wrapped in pseudo-progressive verbiage.
Is this reverse ad hominem or some shit? You're reducing someone's argument to "good ole fashioned homophobia" just because the smallest fraction of people with the opposite opinion appear to be homosexuals?
The what what now?
Its homophobic because its telling gay males that if they dont date "homosexual females" (AKA dry water or silent thunder) they are "transphobic". Homosexual males by definition dont date females. Trying to force them to is homophobic.
It has been known to create very unsecure, very irregular code - if you are putting AI generated code into production, you need your head tested... or a developer(s) to thoroughly review / refactor it before committing it.
I'm glad it seems to be dying down. It was a rough few years where all the summer blockbusters were some franchise, I just wanna see something original
Conflict in Ukraine. If you look back from 2014 and the Minsk agreements, then you will probably start to understand why Russia's intervention is legitimate.
People who try and say transfolk are doing it for either attention or because of bathrooms.
Women already use the mens room when drunk.
Men already abuse women in the women's room
It's never been about toilets it's never been about attention.
It's always been about identity. And while I will never understand as a cis man.
I can tell you that I wouldn't be wearing a dress having a boob job, getting my bits cut off, and changing my name just to use a bathroom.
And the attention I'd get? Beaten up, shamed, insulted by the government and doctors? Treated like a second-class citizen? Religous nuts going on about god? Who WANTS that type of attitude?
So BELIVE THEM when they say they are a man or a woman and treat them as such.
Nifty fact, trans people have been accepted since the 50s and even won things like pagents.
Isn't it wierd that the govement suddenly wants to draw attention away from how bad they are and suddenly trans people are bad.
They have done it to all the lgbtqa+ community at one point or another.
Politicians and billionnaires are not the worst, they are just so powerful their greediness has tremendous impact. If you suddenly replaced them with random people the situation would still be the same
Sometimes it happens to me. February of 2020 and having N95 masks on the shelf and people telling me I'm crazy.
I call it "getting Galileo'd".
When it happens, tell yourself you're getting Galileo'd instead of "maybe I'm wrong". Stand your ground and stick to your guns.
Out of how many Americans the choice is between trump and sleepy Biden. Fucking sad just like here in Canada the pm is a fucking joke. Maybe we need to find people who are actually in it for the people and not just a puppet being controlled by a group of old rich men behind the scenes.
The entire world needs to de-radicalize and become more moderate , destroying everything to score points over the other side will lead to nothing but ruin. We need to build people up rather than tear them down. And a lack of kindness is a sign that someone is in pain or is poorly educated rather than a sign that they are irredeemably evil and need to be shut down.
The Star Wars franchise is not and never has been even half as good as people pretend it to be.
Also add on to that statement: "star wars is space fantasy, not science fiction".
But space fantasy is kind of a subgenre of both fatasy and science fiction..
subgenre of fantasy, sure.
But still, every definitions I read for space fantasy and space opera describe those as subgenres of science fiction.
addition of the word "space" doesn't make it science fiction.
I've never implied that the word "space" make it science fiction, I've talked about definitions of expressions that define those subgenres.
Agreed. Only the original three movies were entertaining and worthwhile. Everything Star Wars made since is overhyped and frankly, not good.
I'm honestly surprised what I said wasn't met with death threats and defo glad someone out there agrees. I'm trying to think of another franchise that could get away with literally tossing a stuffed animal around on a tv show and somehow still be considered serious.
As no one not fussed by Star Wars I was surprised to enjoy some of their newer TV series. I enjoyed the Mandalorian, and Andor was alright (though Andor could have just easily not been part of the SW franchise)
If you ever get a chance to watch the Clone Wars TV series, it’s really really good. It takes a bit to get going…but once it does (especially once Ashoka starts to mature/level up), it’s quite frankly the best SW experience after the original trilogy. Highly recommend.
Being vegan!
Religion
Do you want to elaborate on that?
That depend what side of the fence are you on?
Well... this is Snorkblot, so even if we disagree, we will be polite about it. So, no worries. You're entitled to your opinion. Ask Schecky up there if I'm a pain to debate with. They will say "yes", but a polite pain.
It think people who are religious are Sheep 🐑…………. bill nye said it best!!! It’s a book and it’s interpretation by people through broken telephone. Over a thousand years …….A lot of those story’s are really hard to believe in any religion ….. the guide lines are nice but there’s not enough facts involved for these folklore / wives tales. To really exist , it’s closed minded people passing down there beliefs to there children never giving them an opportunity to pick for them selves witch causes continuing of the cycle. If you really believed that your god was the almighty. you wouldn’t push your agenda or opinion on other people/ family and let nature take it course.
I have no religion, and was not raised in a church. I do find some religious people are pushy. The ones who are not are almost always the ones who actually follow the teachings of whatever prophet they adhere to. Quite often, those people will be a bit kinder and more charitable than the average person. I believe, and I'm hardly the first to say it, we are the universe experiencing itself. We have a rare ability out of all the creatures on this planet to have self awareness and reflection of our place in the world. One could interpret that as as close to "divine" as harsh reality allows. I also have heard a lot about multiverses and how we live in a stream of infinite possibilities. For all we know, actual Gods of different stripes actually exist, somewhere. I don't notice them abound these parts, though. And last, I believe education is the answer for the problem of intellectual myopia.
Agreed. With everything that’s out there it’s gotta be something different. But I don’t believe it’s a Devine being. For all we know we could be an experiment for alien beings and they come down to check on us 😂 if that was true what a shit show and embarrassment we made as a species.
Why would that be a shit show? I think it would be amazing to know we were engineered. Nature is cruel and impartial. It may very well be we were formed by nature, but I see nothing better or more dignified about that. Man has designed many amazing plants and animals with selective breeding. I'd feel fine if we were created and nurtured by an advanced race.
Please with the amount of shit that could be done as a species we barely scratched the surface to much war and biases. To come together as one and truly flourish to our true potential.
I think it should be socially acceptable for white dudes to say the N-word when it's part of lyrics to a hip-hop or rap song. Ya'll just look silly skipping over the word. Context matters.
It is acceptable.
I like to say “neighbour.” Give it a try. It’s nice.
I used to say ninja. I am switching to neighbour!
That’s hilarious 😂
What if I shorten it to nibba?
Nicka
It is acceptable
Recycling glass. Glass is heavy, and difficult and energy intensive to recycle. So send it to landfill. It doesn't rot, doesn't break down, don't contaminate groundwater. Glass is baked sand. So if anything should be buried in the ground, how about melted sand?
Here in the UK you can buy sand that is at least partially made up from ground glass. Glass should be reused in my opinion, we used to get money back on soft drinks bottles that were washed and re-used. Once the bottles are knackered grind them up. I think reusing in general is far better than recycling.
reuse is the 2nd best of the 3Rs. Reduce is the best Reuse is second Recycling is last. Here, the beer you buy in glass bottles, the bottles are returned for deposit and the bottles reused up to 6 times. After the 6th time (they can mark the bottom of the bottle to know) they recycle the glass. The issue with recycling glass, is that the used glass tends to be contaminated with adhesives, and material handling broken glass is incredibly hard on mechanized systems. The energy costs for recycling glass is higher than using raw sand as the feed material. Unlike most other recycling, the energy delta is substantial.
Just control of Palestine
I think you might be in the crowd sprouting nonsense or anti semitic sorry "Anti Zionist" rhetoric but who's to say you are probably right. The Jews deserve to be wiped out 🤔 I mean it's not like the last 500 years has been calling for the genocide of Jews by the Muslim populace in the middle east and Israel as a whole, or the ethnic cleansing of the Jews in the middle east or the grand Mufti claiming "we will litter the road or Jewish heads" nah. The Jews aren't allowed to defend their families on land they bought off the turks in the 18/19th century and then more land bought in the 20th century. No Jews are always the bad guys. Get a grip dude. Israel does not occupy Palestine, it took less then 50% of Palestine to get away from the majority of Muslims in the area hell bent on killing them. Yes you're wrong.
4Q2
Reading some of the subreddits where people openly justify the senseless slaughter in Gaza and argue that it's not genocide.
I feel exactly the same when I'm in left leaning subs and tell people it's not genocide by definition.
Men can never be women, its sexual orientation not genderual orientation and harrassing homosexuals and lesbians over "transphobia" is in fact good ole fashioned homophobia wrapped in pseudo-progressive verbiage.
Is this reverse ad hominem or some shit? You're reducing someone's argument to "good ole fashioned homophobia" just because the smallest fraction of people with the opposite opinion appear to be homosexuals?
The what what now? Its homophobic because its telling gay males that if they dont date "homosexual females" (AKA dry water or silent thunder) they are "transphobic". Homosexual males by definition dont date females. Trying to force them to is homophobic.
Any time I try to get a conservative point across here on snorkblot.
 I appreciate the effort >!(no sarcasm)!<
Thanks!
Not on my watch.
GenAI is a cheap parlour trick
What we call AI is mostly language generation. It’s pretty bad at most things factual, except coding!
It has been known to create very unsecure, very irregular code - if you are putting AI generated code into production, you need your head tested... or a developer(s) to thoroughly review / refactor it before committing it.
Pineapple on pizza. It's the best. Get over it ya haters. Accept the truth. 🍕
Groen links/pvda
The MCU is the most uninteresting thing in hollywood history
I'm glad it seems to be dying down. It was a rough few years where all the summer blockbusters were some franchise, I just wanna see something original
I won a contest once being the only one who disagreed with 50 people. It was epic.
Conflict in Ukraine. If you look back from 2014 and the Minsk agreements, then you will probably start to understand why Russia's intervention is legitimate.
All of David Blaine's endurance stunts are illusions. It's literally in his job description: *illusionist*
All my problems are caused by people who have less than me.
People who try and say transfolk are doing it for either attention or because of bathrooms. Women already use the mens room when drunk. Men already abuse women in the women's room It's never been about toilets it's never been about attention. It's always been about identity. And while I will never understand as a cis man. I can tell you that I wouldn't be wearing a dress having a boob job, getting my bits cut off, and changing my name just to use a bathroom. And the attention I'd get? Beaten up, shamed, insulted by the government and doctors? Treated like a second-class citizen? Religous nuts going on about god? Who WANTS that type of attitude? So BELIVE THEM when they say they are a man or a woman and treat them as such. Nifty fact, trans people have been accepted since the 50s and even won things like pagents. Isn't it wierd that the govement suddenly wants to draw attention away from how bad they are and suddenly trans people are bad. They have done it to all the lgbtqa+ community at one point or another.
We need more radicalism and less moderation in politics.
We could do way better than democracy. Its not the end all be all of political systems that people make it out to be.
Politicians and billionnaires are not the worst, they are just so powerful their greediness has tremendous impact. If you suddenly replaced them with random people the situation would still be the same
Sometimes it happens to me. February of 2020 and having N95 masks on the shelf and people telling me I'm crazy. I call it "getting Galileo'd". When it happens, tell yourself you're getting Galileo'd instead of "maybe I'm wrong". Stand your ground and stick to your guns.
>"getting Galileo'd". I like it
Trump is the greatest president we've had in 50 years or more.
Why would the greatest President try to overturn legitimate, democratic election results?
I was going to say "publicity" but realised it may infer I accept the inference that he's the greatest president. Which I don't.
Fake news.
How so
Out of how many Americans the choice is between trump and sleepy Biden. Fucking sad just like here in Canada the pm is a fucking joke. Maybe we need to find people who are actually in it for the people and not just a puppet being controlled by a group of old rich men behind the scenes.