Bidets should be mandatory and toilet paper should be banned
Maoist left with a strong aftertaste of eco-consciousness.
I could live with a bidet-centric society tbh
Yea that was too easy, my bad
It could also be ecofascism, though. 🤔
Just about anything is fascism if the penalty is being murdered
and toilet paper should be banned
Are you just rocking a wet ass post-bidet application?
The complete lack of thought for obvious disastrous consequences is how you recognize a true Maoist policy.
I welcome or wet-ass bidet future, comrade.
Right? TP ban sounds like something a person who has never used a bidet would say. Even the bidets that “dry your bum” take forever and don’t fully dry.
Hand towels exist though
i see absolutely no problem with having people wipe their asses with towels
After washing your ass you want to dry with something. A handtowel can be handy, you can wash it
right, but then you’re gonna have a basket of used ass-drying towels, which is unpleasant.
Could use a washing machine once in a while lol
Just wait a minute and it will dry. I’m going to be sitting there for a couple more minutes on my phone anyway.
I’m totally fine with just using two squares of paper to both get dry faster and to ensure that everything is fully clean post-bidet application, to be honest
so what do you dry your bum with after a shower?
A towel.
I don’t take shits in the shower though, so there’s really no risk of me wiping shit on my towel when drying my ass after showering. The bidet is good, but won’t necessarily get everything 100% clean. Two squares of TP to get dry + ensure that everything is completely clean is a very cheap insurance policy.
that’s why i actively reach in and scoop out as much shit as possible from my anus
Shooting things in your butthole: gay and left.
Admitting it is left. Creating a whole bigoted persona around how bad it is while secretly engaging in it anyway would be right.
Sending the government anything official (like passport or jury summons response) through the post should include free shipping for letter sized envelopes.
left - free stuff
Freesocially fundedAlso because the right wants to dismantle the post office
free
Not free, paid for with taxes. And as we all know, all taxation is theft. Except for the roads I need to drive my lifted truck on.
Wait, you have to pay to send your government official stuff?? Anytime the government wanted me to send them anything (mail-in votes, tax return) they include a free envelope with shipping paid (the netherlands).
Well, if OP is from the US we typically have to pay at just about any interaction with the government.
They haven’t managed to charge us to vote yet, but I genuinely can’t think of any other meaningful, direct interaction I’d have with a government office that doesn’t involve me playing money.
Edit for clarity: by paying money, I mean by a means other than taxes.
They haven’t managed to charge us to vote yet,
I mean… they did. Until the 24th admendment in 1964 abolished it for federal elections.
1964?? That’s like 100 years more recent than I thought
Oh I’m definitely expecting them to try going after the 24th sooner or later.
stop subsidizing cars and trucks
Left.
nah that’s actually right wing (in theory)
in reality, it’s left… the world is a weird place
I mean, people on the left generally aren’t against subsidizing transportation, the problem is with cars specifically. Their dominance is generally bad for society as a whole, but good for a few already very powerful people.
Nah, driving is a very cultural and now traditional practice, changing it is a change in those domains so it’s left
Cows should have curly tails like jack russels
Incoherent nonsense — Right
quickly judging cow opinions - Right
It’s a moo point.
copyrights should only last 5 years.
Typical pirate party talking point: left
(Although classically liberal)
Anti-capital & pro-public ownership, definitely left wing
a true leftie would say to outright abolish copyright
People really actually should learn how to make bugs into more widespread, varied, and tasty cuisine.
Meat is about to get much, much more expensive.
Addendum: Ask the vegans about their most cost effective, most sustainable protein sources.
left
Exploiting other creatures is anything but left.
It’s harm reducing compared to exploiting mammals and devastating the environment with ranching and it’s supporting agriculture. Also - you will eat the bugs.
The only ones who say that without irony are right wing though so…
Which part?
“you will eat the bugs” right? It’s like their whole globalist dog whistle thing
It is at this point, 7 comments deep, arguing over whether or not this is a ‘left’ or ‘right’ stance or otherwise how to classify it, that I am going to suggest that I have successfully produced an opinion which does not easily fit on the traditional left-right spectrum.
Oh gotcha, yeah, it’s tied in with conspiracism about the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab that’s based on the standard global elite antisemitism
Beans, it’s always beans
Came here to say this. Don’t be weirdos trying everything to eat new animals, and eat some BEANS immediately
I mean, I mostly agree, beans and legumes are very, very practical…
But … beans and bugs?
Variety is the spice of life?
Maybe there is some kind of way to process crickets or ants into basically… ‘meat’ patties, ala impossible burgers or what not?
Do you really think they’d taste better than just eating an impossible burger though?
You nailed this one
lol oh my god it is still ongoing after my comment ahahah!
You won
but insects are less efficient than just growing protein-rich crops, it makes way way more sense to just stop feeding our crops to livestock and instead turning it into seitan and TVP
plus, both of those products are effectively just a strange kind of meat, if you serve someone bolognese without telling them it’s made with seitan they absolutely will not notice the difference.
Please do tell me more about seitan and TVP.
Or, rather, I will have to look into these more on my own at some point.
i mean there’s not much to it, they’re both protein extracted from plants in some way.
the only real difference to meat is slightly different texture and lack of innate flavour, so you need to either serve with something else flavourful or marinate it first.
I’m gonna be honest I’m not eating ze bugs
Fair enough lol.
All plants are good protein sources, and you probably don’t need as much protein as you think. The most sustainable plants are grown on a local farm. Investing in a CSA share makes it more economically sustainable for both the farmers and consumers. The most cost effective is probably something gross and drowning in pesticides (not sustainable).
Ah see, this is the problem though.
I agree with all you’ve said.
But… CSA won’t feed 8 billion people.
Full stop, it won’t.
Not without a magically generated total overthrow and reworking of world capitalism as it exists, toward some kind of eco based localized socialsm or something… yep, it would be nice if that would happen, but magical thinking is dumb.
So, that can’t be the generalized proposed framework for the future, unless you’re just fine with a few billion people starving to death.
Bugs though?
Might be a more cost effective solution for protein that can actually work at scale, allow CSA to focus on the healthier and more sustsinable plants, and bugs as a protein source would probably be a hell of a lot less resource intensive and more sustainable than… our current level of cows, chickens, pigs, etc.
We use so much farmland to grow food for pigs cows chickens.
We could probably use a lot less farmland if that went to feeding crickets or something, and then use the saved farmland for healthier vegetables.
At least, this is my rough and broad understanding/idea.
Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it’s moral or ethical and vice versa.
Left
Libertarian
Libertarian on its own means nothing. Am I left libertarian (anarchist) or right libertarian (ancap)?
Ancaps are just boot lickers that smoke weed.
…when their boss lets them have a break.
Libertarian
on its own it just means opposition to authority; both have a similar chance of believing in what you said
Libertarian on its own means nothing. AnCaps are perfectly fine with a “tyranny of corporations” and are therefore not anti-authoritarian. The concept of private property necessitates an authority to enforce property rights.
This ia the correct opinion. Have an upvote.
True, but they’ll agree with the “legal \neq moral” statement regardless because they think it won’t bite at them.
Why would it mean nothing, just because it doesn’t fit the left-right false dichotomy?
By this logic right and left on their own don’t mean anything either. Referring to the category that includes ancap and anarchist ideologies as “libertarian” is coherent and clear-- in other words, it’s meaningful.
👏 SCIENCE 👏 FICTION👏 DOES👏 NOT👏 INCLUDE👏 FANTASY👏
believes in rigid categories - right
Of course not, because it’s the other way around
Fair enough
Define fantasy. Soft scifi just has more fi than sci and can totally go into the realm of fantasy
Concur and I have no issue with the crossover itself in stories. Fantasy is largely predicated on magic systems and creatures. Science fiction begins with known science. Maybe I should have been more specific and said “hard science fiction.” Some of my favorite stories contain elements of both, but sometimes I want hard science like Rendezvous with Rama, Red Mars, or Tau Zero. It can be frustrating to look through aisles or catalogs for hard science fiction and find mostly stories of magic. It’s a mood
But then again, as Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
I have a magic crystal, it contains many secrets. At my and only my touch, it will reveal its bounty.
This crystal fits in my pocket but also contains the world. Upon uttering the correct incantation, my crystal will allow me to speak to those far across the realm.
But I must be cautious, pondering my crystal for too long can be addictive and one must exercise restraint, lest nothing else is done beyond contemplation of the depths of the world.
SciFi is just a matter of perspective; to a medieval king my cellphone is a magic crystal. The ability to travel significantly faster than a horse; would have seemed like magic; imagine the talk of great power; if rather than the weeks of travel between London and Edinburgh in the 1700’s you had a personal air craft able to do it in a few hours.
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Building on this, Star Wars is fantasy
Agreed
The largest obstacle to Linux adoption is the large amount of Linux users whos only contribution to Linux is pushing back any and all progress. These people protest whenever a project receives funding from companies yet refuse to donate themselves. They call projects like Fedora copro for receiving code from IBM yet they do not contribute. They spend all day whining about Wayland and Systemd going on about how “bloated” they are yet these same people will use KDE.
Mentions Linux - left
Damn
extremely based
i doubt people actually listen to / care about those losers
Lunduke regularly gets several thousand views, often 10k-30k
nazi bar basher - left
Language changes. “Literally” also means “Figuratively” now. The pronouciation of “gif” is regional. To fight against it is pointless.
linguistic descriptivism (left)
definitely not conservative
Boo
“Old man yells at the cloud”
Linguistic descriptivism is generally quite a progressive and pro-science ideology
I also think both the examples I gave are incredibly stupid that they are true, it’s just pointless to fight against.
Public school teachers shouldn’t have to pay income tax
Left, believes public schools should exist, welcome to 2025 noob
This is a dumb opinion. Don’t make tax rules more complicated than they need to be.
If you want teachers to earn more (and that’s fair: you should), just…pay them more.
just… pay them more?
exceptions to taxes just makes them a target. others will point at them and go “why do they get to keep their money while i have to pay the government my hard earned dough?” and start complaining about unfair treatment.
if the problem is that public school teachers aren’t being paid enough, then just fix the problem itself.
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For awhile a lot of urbanist positions could have either come from the left or the right, but eventually reactionaries reacted and now its pretty much exclusively left wing.
Well, at least good ol’ NIMBYism transcends the left-right spectrum (see e.g. San Francisco), so that means YIMBYism must too, question mark?
there’s a good video about this topic by JREG
YIMBYism isn’t opposed by the right yet. I haven’t really seen much right wing addressing of it outside being anti lumpenproletariat and pro car csbtrism. It’ll definitely be an uphill battle if they were to go yimby but I think there’s a chance
B, A, Select, Start
gamergate vibes, right
Cheat code to avoid consequences for my poor choices. Checks out.
But ‘select’ implies they have a friend
Linux is the best operating system, and the primary things preventing its adoption are manufacturers not packaging it and professional software like Adobe being unavailable
left
Funny enough non-tech people see linux as a gamergate right-wing conspiracy theorist OS.
“Google wants to make us all gay and government is after me for telling the truth about angels being under the flat earth”
The best way to spread Linux is to install it on your friends computer while they’re not looking and then flee from the scene.
that’s the real trouble with suggesting linux IRL is if someone actually takes you up on it now you’re kinda obligated to be their tech support
problem is null and void because either A: you already know how it works, what is wrong and how to fix it B: you get to learn how new parts of the OS work as you troubleshoot, which is fun
The purpose of life is to maximise pleasure and anyone yapping against that is either trying to control you or still hasn’t deprogrammed from puritan cultural influence.
