!unpopularopinion@lemmy.ml
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!unpopularopinion
@lemmy.mlBoth pedals being on the same side are a relic from when
Neither of these are true anymore. Modern cars are automatic and can and do just disengage the accelerator if the brake is pressed.
With electric cars they're doubly untrue. There is not mechanical connection to speak off, and many drive use only a singular pedal most of the time.
On the flip side there are quite a few benefits to to having them on opposite sides:
I love grammar Nazis
If I make a grammar or spelling mistake, I’d love to be corrected.
Obviously, Nazing typos (a apple, the the beach, etc.) or intentionally made errors (starting a sentence with a lowercase, saying “id” instead of “I’d”, etc.) is annoying and stupid, but when I make mistakes like “breath in”, “immigrate from”, “alot”, “this will effect the economy”, and “I’ll tell mom”, I’d love to be corrected.
PS: it’s cactuses.
I'll give an example of a low-level job where this happens. Pizza delivery.
You're hired for Pizza Delivery, but the business refuses to just pay you to only deliver pizzas, so technically you're also "on-call" to do every side job the the pizza place any time you're not out delivering orders. So you can just return from an order and be told to go to the back to prep X, Y, and Z, but you need to be listening for the bell in case you need to run up front and deliver a pizza. If you're walking past the front and a customer comes in and everyone else is busy? Drop what you're doing and take their order.
Every instance is always a "drop what you're doing and shift to a different task" and it goes on all day every day.
It literally teaches people to be distracted and unable to focus, because you're literally not allowed to fucking focus. Say you're finding your Zen place in doing dishes, you don't even get to finish the fucking dishes, because you're called back out to do more stuff in the front of the house. Later, you have to stay late to finish the dishes because it was too busy to ever get a chance to do them. Because fuck having someone who is just a dishwasher or just a pizza delivery person. We can't be paying people to sit around, tHaT's InEfFiCiEnT!
Actually, what's wholly inefficient is having people run around all day like chickens with their heads cut off to keep up when you could just accept that once in a while you're going to pay someone for doing nothing for a little while.
Studies always turn to blaming this inattention on social media, but literally our workplaces drive into our skulls that we're not allowed to focus on any one thing for an extended period of time and we should always be at the ready to shift gears into something entirely different, and come back later finish what we were working on. It's fucking absurd, and I think workplaces have a far more damaging psychological impact from it than fucking social media.
https://t.me/thetrutherist/1092
This is what the parasite class' “sustainable development” and “green energy” looks like. Stop believing a word that comes out of their mouths and better yet, cancel them and their methods of brainwashing. TV, media, g@vt, corporations, big pharma, big food and so on. Credit: fabioquotesug T.me/TheTrutherist T.me/TheTrutheristChat
I don't have a problem with protecting children from sexual assault; but I see this rule on subreddits that if you post child porn, they'll ban and call authorities on you.
However, this system could be abused; an account could be falsely claimed of promoting sexual assault, then be falsely arrested.
I consider it more costly to punish falsely accused people; than to correctly punish criminals. (Relative, they both suck and the latter should usually and carefully be pursued.)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/245906
it is impossible for a platform to support every program ever; wine will never be able to run all games; it is just impossible to do so.
It's like not using a game console just because it doesn't support games from other consoles; it's impossible to support every platform ever (and it would be difficult to convince the company to even do so).
Same issue is in Windows 10 too; old games designed for an older windows OS cannot run because they could not account for modern OSes.
The history of the United States seem eerily similar to traits of fascism.
The environment seems ripe for fascism; the US may even be fascist now. (I'm just predicting though.)
So anyway, I'm in multiple minority groups, and now I want to escape this shitty country before it becomes fascist. How do I do that though?
https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/8gdt4o/the_age_of_majority_must_not_be_raised_and_young/
https://toml.io/
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_education