What the hell!?

I clicked the comments just to share my fun “cloacal kiss” fact!

Ugh. I’m going back to reddit.

Good point. Upvote rescinded!

It’s consistently good, and the service is second to none. Every other fast food place has some bad locations, or you show up at the wrong time and it’s not fresh, the service is terrible, or the people working there are clearly just not trying.

Chick-Fil-A maintains consistency by limiting their hours and treating their employees better. Their ingredients are also top notch for fast food. Good salads.

And good soda fountains. Chick-Fil-A and Whataburger are the only two places left with good fountain Coke.

I still hate their politics, but there’s a reason they’ve always got a line around the block at lunchtime, and it’s not because the service is slow (because it isn’t).

Think of stupid people as basically AI. They just copy what’s around them and approximate an opinion without really understanding any of it. They’re just followers.

They follow along when they’re surrounded by Democrats, and then they move somewhere else and they’re surrounded by Republicans, and they still follow along. They don’t publicly renounce their old beliefs because they haven’t actually put that much thought into it. It’s all surface level.

Exactly!

Although now this got me thinking, as a man in my forties who shares a Minecraft Realm with his childhood best friend, how I could go about getting 80+ cows into my friend’s base. We’re working on stuff a few maps away, so I’ve got time before he goes back there, but it’s a long trip and he’d notice I’m gone. I might have to hollow out a space and breed the cows over time.

Not really a tangent. This stuff is important.

I think every generation just tries to do better than the previous one. I don’t know if I really got in trouble for my “big feelings” growing up, but I was often made to feel like my emotions were silly or too strong for a given situation. It got to the point where when something genuinely bad happens I almost revel in it, like I crave authenticity so much that I look forward to “legitimate” pain.

So I try to keep that in mind. When one of my kids cries about something silly, we have a discussion about whether it’s a big thing or a little thing. Sometimes I’m strategically dismissive, because they need to have a little thick skin, but if that doesn’t work then we go into feeling sharing mode.

Then we make a distinction between what we’re feeling (which is always legitimate, no matter what), and what we do about it. They can still get in trouble for bad behavior, but then we try to give them the language to express their emotions in a healthy way.

And if it’s just a genuine emotional breakdown, whatever the cause, I remember back to when I did that as a kid and was met with a cold response, and I stop what I’m doing and hold them until they feel better.

“Issues” in this context means “problems”, and problems are bad.

You didn’t read the second line?

“Now the whole idea of independence is a messy social construct with a bunch of issues that I won’t get into right now.”

I don’t see how anyone could interpret that as anything other than a blanket statement about independence.

I searched up the artist to find more evidence and saw that I wasn’t the only one who thought that, because they posted a follow-up attempting to clarify that specific line. The clarification just reiterates the point of the original comic and doesn’t try to explain why that phrasing was used or what it could have meant.

So maybe they just phrased it poorly, but I’m not the only one who took issue with it.

So if you value independence over community and you’re an asshole, then that’s a problem.

On the other hand, if you value community over independence and you’re an asshole: also a problem.

We can extrapolate further and say that if you drink water and are an asshole: also not good. I don’t think drinking water is the problem in that case.

Children get upset about all kinds of things, and it’s important to help them understand and resolve their emotions, no matter how silly it is.

Eighty cows is a minor inconvenience at worst and like four stacks of steak at best.

So I feel like the confusion here isn’t just coming from how to handle the griefer child or how to get the cows out of the house. I think it’s more to do with the novelty of the situation.

Why is the child upset by this? Does he not like to kill cows in the game? Is there something preventing him from luring the cows out of the house? Was he just unpleasantly surprised by it and hadn’t thought through whether or not it was a big deal? There’s a lot of layers to this.

Or maybe this guy just never played Minecraft.

That’s obviously not what I meant, but you just go ahead and keep being you.

Isn’t anyone else disturbed by the concept of independence being a problem for this person?

I’d like more public transportation in America, but I’m not really interested in anything else they have to say.

Yeah, because you’re overcomplicating it.

This censorship in particular is coming from China’s overbearing government. Remove that element and capitalism is fine leaving things uncensored. Remove the religious right from America and there’d be less censorship elsewhere.

They don’t censor as much in the UK, for example. Would you say China is more capitalist than the UK?

99 got extra woke in the last season. I thought they handled it well.

They address the George Floyd murder head-on. Rosa quits the force because of it. Jake is forced to address how he’s internalized some of those problematic attitudes. If you stopped before the last season, it’s worth giving it another look.

How is that capitalism’s fault, and not the fault of the ridiculous puritans the censorship is trying to cater to?

That only works if you didn’t start in a messy kitchen. I’ll pour the eggs into the frying pan, but I can’t clean the bowl until the sink is empty. I can’t clear the sink until the dishwasher is empty. I can’t unload the dishwasher until my kids stop hugging my legs.

Damage done. It’s not even good news at this point.

Would it be so bad if it follows the same path as Twitter? If it connects people and organizations in an honest and helpful way for fifteen years?

Or we could all just keep shitting on it while it facilitates social and political movements and enables rapid communication across the planet. Then more than a decade from now when some Ultra-Nazi trillionaire buys it, we can all say “I told you so,” and be real smug about it.

The HOA hate is completely overblown online. It’s practically clickbait at this point. Just a framework for petty neighbour stories to entertain reddit teenagers with no real world experience.

I fell for it at first, and when my wife and I started looking for houses, I specified no HOAs. We saw a couple of houses that didn’t have HOAs, and then I realized that while I personally would prefer not to be in an HOA, I really, really want my neighbors to be in one.

So we got a house with an HOA. It was a gated community of small houses in a bad neighborhood. The HOA handled trash pickup, maintenance of common areas, what little landscaping we had, and a couple other things that we wouldn’t want to deal with on our own. Sometimes they’d hire a security guard to deter package theft. They charged a little more than I’d like to pay, but overall it was a positive experience. They sent us a letter once saying we had to replace our door. We didn’t. Nothing ever came of it. And to be fair, they were right; that door is in terrible shape.

Now I live in a different neighborhood with a different HOA. Sometimes they send us an annoying letter saying I can’t leave my trash cans out. It’s a minor inconvenience. Overall another positive experience.

The vast majority of HOAs are fine. You don’t hear about those because that’s not entertaining. It’s silly to think that the stories about petty old busybodies would be the norm.

You’ve never seen a cockroach in a restaurant? I’m guessing you live somewhere cold, because in warm places cockroaches are just a part of life. I’ll still avoid anyplace I’ve seen a cockroach, but it’s not like those places get shut down. They just need to up their pest control.