Whoever invented jetskis and didn’t call them boatorcycles seriously fucked up

Dark mode should be the default on phones, websites, programs, apps, and all electronics.

My AMOLED screen draws less power this way.

walruses should be called saber-toothed seals

Advertising destroys everything nice (communities, websites, roads, clothes, architecture, privacy, quality of life, etc.).

More games, if not all games, should include cheats or extra sliders for both difficult but also gameplay options.

Let have infinite mana or slow mo or increase my speed or whatever. At the end of the day games are entertainment and you should be able to tweak things to better enjoy it.

(I know mods exist but those are a mixed bag in terms of if they exist and what they support)

YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable numeric date format and should be the standard taught in schools.

Making your bed every day is useless.

Nobody's gonna see it and you can't use it without messing it up.

The real thing the US fast food market is missing is Indian food and it could be a serious game changer in terms of providing healthier / vegetarian options.

I guess this hot take depends on the audience... But if you don't have bay leaves on hand for a recipe, your family and friends aren't going to notice the difference. When push comes to shove, it's probably the least important part of any recipe. If you're making soup or a stock, it's gonna be fine without it.

Prefacing this with saying I've previously worked in wildlife conservation for years.

Limited hunting of big game in Africa is perfectly fine. Dipshits willing to pay $100K to shoot something fund entire villages, put kids through school, and define a value of the living animals that make it easier to define how much money anti-poaching efforts need, etc. Even if not well-managed, even with expected corruption, it ends up working out.

Absolutist conservation stances never take into account how ridiculously manipulated these ranges are already. There's not much still natural about an ecosystem in a reserve. Predator/prey relationships are weird, tourism focuses only on charismatic megafauna, and tourist sites bring staff and place humans close to wildlife anyway. Absolutist stances end up being horrible for animals long term because the ecosystems are so messed up, so populations boom, then crash. Why would anyone want to watch hundreds of animals starve to death as a way to "manage" a population when someone is willing to pay to do the same thing in a specifically managed situation?

In most species, the most useless thing there is, is an older male. Humans let them run their counties, which is stupid. Elephants, rhinos, lions and hippos run them off because they get violent and kill their own kind. Humans haven't recognized that's what ours do, too. But when a rich dipshit wants to pay $100K to be brought 30 meters from an old lion and shoot it before it kills 3 cubs from a rival... I'm very OK with that.

Poaching is the real threat, and most people are too ignorant of stupid to know the difference because of an abstract fear of firearms, rather than logically looking at the whole problem.

"Lgbtq+ rights" is a mouthfull. We should call it rainbow-rights instead.

We should continue to gently correct spelling and grammar mistakes online.

Lawns are stupid and I think they look boring

Also pigeons are underappreciated and we are gonna go to pigeon hell for how dirty we did them

Bio 20-30 should be mandatory

I got so many hot shit takes somebody stop me

Hershey is giving other candy/food manufacturers below-market deals on chocolate or above-market licensing deals to produce their chocolate candies in the USA so Americans don’t discover how much better chocolate tastes without butyric acid. Inexpensive foreign chocolate could destroy The Hershey Company and there are big companies like Nestlé or Mondelēz that could do it relatively easily but instead let Hershey’s produce their brands under license with butyric acid added.

"Fuck lawns" energy, but for graveyards. (no not like that, stoppit!)

Or postmortem services in general. If you want to give something to someone, do it when they're still around to appreciate it. Once they're dead, they won't give a fuck about the fancy funeral or coffin or w/e you bought for em.

The Last Jedi sucks, but not for the reasons right-wing chuds complained about. The premise of the entire chase rests on a bunch of Macguffin's (they can suddenly track ships through hyperspace, fuel is an issue for the first time ever, no one can escape except when they can), the Canto Bight sequence is pointless and contrived, the light-speed kamikaze blows a plot hole in basically every other movie, and Poe should have been executed for mutiny.

Structurally, I get what Johnson was doing; everyone complained that The Force Awakens was a beat for beat retelling of A New Hope, so he basically inverted the plot structure of The Empire Strikes Back. It's a fun idea, but his desire to end on a Hoth sequence ruined what could have been a perfect ending. I was having problems with that movie, but after Snoke gets murdered, Rey and Ben have one of the best lightsaber fights in Star Wars history, and Ben asks her to join him, I was expecting the credits to roll, and I was ready to leave on one of the greatest cliffhangers in movie history. But then there's another 30 minutes of movie, and while the Luke stuff is cool, it mostly just drags on.

It's also clear that Johnson wasn't just inverting plot structure, but Star Wars norms. Everything that is established is questioned and turned on it's head. The problem is, by the end of the film, it's all thrown out and the status quo is hastily reestablished with little justification. What's the lesson from Canto Bight and DJ? "Rebellion? Empire? Two sides of the same coin for the weapons dealers. The real battle is between the haves and have-nots." How does the movie end? "Get on the princess' space ship, we're not done fighting the Empire!" The entire Rey/Luke/Ben aspect of the film? "Light? Dark? Jedi? Sith? They're just artificial constructs. Let them die. Burn the temple." How does the movie end? "Don't worry, Rey didn't join the Dark Side and she's got all the magic Jedi books!"

Anyway, there's also a lot of stuff I like (the Rey/Luke scenes are excellent), and it's bad in an interesting way, which makes it better than the rest of the trilogy by default. I guess this is more of a small essay than a hot take, but TL;DR: chuds think The Last Jedi sucks because of wokeness, but it actually suckes for lot of structural, thematic, and plot weaknesses.

American cheese is “real” cheese, and it’s called a “process cheese,” not “processed cheese,” because process cheese is a culinary term for a cheese made from a mixture of cheeses. Also it melts so good because of a perfectly safe food additive called sodium citrate which just prevents the fat from separating.

I have very suddenly started hearing a strange quirk of grammar that needs to die in a fire. I'm going to write it on an index card and burn the index card.

I swear I haven't heard this before the 2020s: "My kitchen needs cleaned." Not "My kitchen needs to be cleaned", not "my kitchen needs cleaning."

Explain to someone ESL that "My kitchen needs cleaned" has two verbs in it, one is present tense, one is past tense, combined they imply a future action. AAAH!

The seventh planet from the sun should be called Caelus after the Roman sky god to match the other planets rather than using a latinized version of the name of the Greek sky god Ouranos.

Despite the risks, raw cookie dough is better in every other way than the cookie it makes. Stop baking cookies and just give me the dough 😋

The world would function 100% better if we made everything autism friendly and behaved autism friendly

Onions are the superior vegetable. Depending on how they are prepared they can taste so many different ways.

People who cannot return a shopping cart to a proper location should not be able to use said shopping cart.

If you live in a climate that needs air conditioning to be comfortable most of the year, your roof and walls should be as white as possible. I have seen black shingles on new construction in Texas…

Also, toilet paper direction is a personal preference and is often driven by needs like pets and toilet/wall distances.

Raisins are under-rated.

Constellations don't look anything like the things people say they look like with some rare exceptions.

Orion? Looks like a guy ok.

The Lizard? Little known one but actually looks like a lizard so ok.

Dippers? Look like big ladles ok.

Oh wait that's supposed to be a BEAR? With a long tail for no reason? Fuck off Greeks.

THIS ONE IS A CRAB no it isn't stfu

Horsepower is a stupid measurement of engine output what is this the 1800's.

The calendar should be 13 4-week months that always end on Sunday.

The leftover day should be considered a worldwide holiday.

Any time there is a leap year situation, all that time gets added to this one day, like the injury time at the end of a soccer/football match.

I get annoyed when people describe the taste and flavor of coffee as "strong".

"Strong" is just the concentration of coffee particles in water. An espresso is stronger than an Americano for instance.

Coffee tastes bitter, sour and maybe a little sweet. The flavors can be quite complex involving fruit, nuts, spices and such. Don't just say "sTrOnG" like an oonga boonga caveman.

"It happened by accident" not "It happened on accident".

We surrender language to scientific/other detail oriented pursuits too easily.

According to some, a raspberry is not a berry, but a pumpkin is. That's dumb. The word berry existed before botanists tried (and failed) to determine exactly what it meant, and the original meaning is still way better/more useful than the botany one.

So here it is: a berry is a small fruit, which is usually sweet, and usually edible. Raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, grapes, gooseberries, currants, and blueberries are all berries. Pumpkins, watermelons, tomatoes, zucchini and bananas are not.

Other terms that have been co-opted this way include "work", "salt", and "rock". I believe the fields stealing these terms should be forced to come up with their own, different words.

No one would ever make fun of British food again if the Anglosphere was more aware of Dutch food.

Funerals are stupid. I don't go to them and I don't want one.

I like soggy fries. I want to eat mashed potatoes with my bare hands in public.

I also like soggy cereal most of the time. You can suck the cereal milk out of it. If you want crunchy cereal, stop putting it in liquid.

If it doesn't function as a downspout, then it's a grotesque, not a gargoyle.

• Adding fries to a dish in a (good) restaurant means you didn’t make a complete dish and just added the fries to add carbs/fill people.

• On that same note: just a piece of meat (steak, spareribs or smth like that) is not a full meal (and don’t you start about adding fries and a salad)

• a restaurant is only as good as its vegetarian dishes (some exceptions apply, like restaurants that focus exclusively on meat)

Ironically, I am not a vegetarian ;)

Understanding an argument doesn't mean you agree with it.

YouTube is driving young people toward accepting dystopian thinking

The word "grammatically" should be replaced with "grammarically" because you don't study grammat.

A good oatmeal raisin cookie can beat a good chocolate chip cookie — but oatmeal scotchies are the best.

Basic gardening should be considered a life skill. If for nothing more than the joy of using your own herbs and greens every day

Good french fries don't need ketchup

The word is "yeah".

Not "yea".

The later rhymes with "yay" and means something similar to but distinct from "yes'

Similarly it is yea/nay not yay/nay.

And fuck English for making the incorrect more logical and consistent. Lol

“Vegan” should be pronounced “vejan” because they eat vegetables not “veegatables’.

Vehicle mileage is an antiquated and terrible metric for tracking vehicle health. Engine hours and heat cycles are more accurate.

Oats are the worst grain to make a porridge from. Rice, millet, buckwheat, maize, and wheat all make much better porridges.

(shoutout to redlemace whose post made me think of this)

Peanut butter and jelly is a pastry. It's a dessert, not a lunch.

If your car has cruise control and you're not using it on highways you should not drive on a highway.

Binary prefixes are stupid and unnecessary. Yes, I know "kilo" means 1000, not 1024, I don't care because it's obvious from context. RAM manufacturers know what's up - I've never seen the word "gibibyte" or "GiB" written on a stick of RAM.

I also hate these stupid bandwagon pet peeves:

Pineapple on pizza is great and if you disagree you don't have to eat it.

There's nothing inherently gross about the word "moist".

Toilet paper orientation doesn't matter at all.

We should have stuck with base 60. The sumerians had it right.

Regular lotion on feet, hands, elbows, knees, etc. is worth it.

Losing in-game progress is as real as losing real life progress. No, I will not starve if I lose game credits (regular credits, not microtransacrion credits), but games are a transaction. For any progress, real or virtual, you're spending time and effort to get a reward back. Having fun while earning credits is like having fun while learning how to build/repair something. If you fail at the end, you've invested time with little or no payoff. The game credits are there to get you better equipment and such, making your future play better in some way. As I've gotten older and busier, my limited play time is more valuable, and I want to progress. If I don't or can't, then the game doesn't provide as much reward, and the game loses entertainment value despite a fixed monetary cost.

All to say if progress is at risk in MMOs, I stick to solo modes or non-PvP groups so I can remain the main character who rarely dies

People who watch love island/MAFS etc style reality need a head shake. They all say they watch it ironically, nah its just trashy and you are trashy for watching.

Pineapple on pizza is great. Here in Poland we call it havaii pizza

If it doesn't come entirely encased in pastry, then it isn't a pie, it's a bloody casserole with a hat!

Pubs that serve "pies" and then give you slop with a square of pastry that clearly wasn't even in contact with the slop before it hit the plate should be turned into Costa coffee shops for their crimes.

(Shepherd's pie and cottage pie are so named for historical honorary reasons, and may continue to be so.)

In German I deliberately write the word "Standard" (same meaning as the English "standard") with "t" at the end: "Standart". Likewise all words that have it as a stem, such as "standartmäßig" or "Standartabweichung" ("according to standard", "standard deviation").

The reason:
Etymologically (although contested), "Standard" developed from the Old Low Franconian (Old Dutch) compound "standhard" just as in "stand + hard", meaning "standing firm" or "steadfast" (like your morning wood :D ).
The other, contesting, etymology derives it from the Old French "estendre": such as in "extend".

However, while the particle "hard" became "hart" in modern German, officially, "Standard" still has to be written with the "d". Thus, writing "Standart" with "t" is my silent rebellion against logical inconsistencies in languages.

In English I don't care, because "hard" is still written with "d", therefore "standard" is absolutely fine for me here.

Funnily, some dictionaries, e.g. DWDS, declare "Standart" a common orthographic mistake.

But I will keep writing "Standart", until "Standart" becomes the new 'Standart'. ;)

Edit:
I just remembered a second reason:
In German "Standard" is usually even pronounced with the harder "t". Nobody says "Standard" with the soft "d" as it is usual in English. Same thing with "hart". So even more reason to update the German 'Standard' to 'Standart'.

They're not inconsequential but they're at least not divisive enough to get me killed, this time:

• boobs are better than butt
• all physical appearance attributes that a human can have are attractive to someone
• Generally speaking, modern buildings are better than old ones. and actual ruins should be integrated into a modern structure on top rather than just left wasting space. (I am not in favour of removing well built old buildings like churches, but i live somewhere where the cult of preserving old housing stock which is no longer fit for purpose, for "historical" reasons, is ruining the country. If you can make something more eco efficient, it must be done.)
• to expand on the previous point: people are extremely negative about structures from 1901-2001, and about 2001-2026. There's beauty in them. People will literally learn to hate anything if they hear other people express that it is ugly. These buildings are simply not that bad at al, nor are new buildings.

Well those are 4 superficial takes

More: -Wagner's philosophy to music is a disgusting and world-ending kind of attitude. He became racist out of anger of being ignored by mendellssohn, supposedly; a fun fact.

"Ignorant" does mean wilfully ignorant. It doesn't just mean uninformed.

To be vacant is to have been vacated.

To be an applicant is to have applied.

To be a claimant is to have made a claim.

And to be ignorant is to have ignored something.

(Of course, not all "-ant" words seem to stand alone without their suffix--at least, not in today's vernacular. Does an arrogant person arrog? Does a fragrant flower frag? Rob Words might have more to say about the vestigial origins of some of these.)

Can't wait to learn how I might just be ignorant about this (by my definition or the "real" one).

I like to use tabs when I program. I like that I can be editing the same file in a network drive with my tiny screen and have my editor there show a tab as two spaces and my big screen where it shows as four. I like that when I'm screen sharing I can zoom in and bump my font size, then set the tabs to render as smaller so I don't need to run reindent on the whole file. I like that when I'm using a boring IDE with no customization it just inserts an indentation.

I also hate auto-closing parentheses and brackets.

The $2 coin in Canada should've been called a doubloonie but we got twoonie instead. (Both play on the $1 coin being called a loonie after the loon pictured on the tail side. As a bonus inconsequential hot take, I believe all tail sides of coins should feature an animal with an actual tail, for clarity. So the loonie is fine, as is the Canadian nickel, which features a beaver with a big ass tail! The quarter features a moose. While said animal has a tail, only its head is shown on the coin, so that's a bit confusing.)

Wales isnt real

Inspired by u/_NetNomad@fedia.io comment, loaded fries defeats the purpose of fries because they become soggy every time at which point you're basically just eating a baked potato.

Even if you did put learning how to file your taxes in high school, no one was ever going to pay attention to it. We can tell based on how so many people voted in the previous election.

Geology is the superior hard science because it incorporates all others. It is the beautiful combination of math, physics, chemistry, and biology that is far more than the sum of its parts and plays a role in so many parts of daily life that people may not connect to geology.

Luxury car brands made by regular car brands are dishonest. Lexus is just a Toyota that's too ashamed to wear the badge. Same goes for Acura with Honda.

I don't like small tiles. I prefer wood, carpet, cement and smooth large tiles.

Coke Freestyle machines are fucking terrible. And ya wanna know why? Because the normal bare-ass no bullshit added, COKE tastes like shit. Mixing it on the spot does not make it taste right. It's wrong and it's terrible. I would happily lose every other flavor just to have normal Coke back that doesn't suck shit sauce. And thankfully restaurants are going back to the older machines now.

Speed limits should be in powers of 2, e.g. 16, 32, and 64. That's all we need.

Borderlands was better than Borderlands 2.

This concerted effort of gurus and new age life advice influencers, telling people to suppress information, are all rich elitists who know what happens when the group shares information.

Hot sauce on a chocolate bacon donut is the bomb.

Grogu is cuter than Paddington. I have in fact had arguments about this.

I think the Commodore Amiga's potential as a gaming platform was never truly taken advantage of despite the massive hardware advancement from the C64, and that save for a handful of exceptions, its game library is mostly poorly designed shovelware that people only go back to for nostalgia.

Johnny Silverhand did nothing wrong.

Highschool should be a compound word. So should eachother.

i was suprised to learn recentlyish that most people prefer crispy french fries over soggy ones. the ideal fry is somewhere in the middle but between the two extremes i'll take the sog every day of the week

brassica cultivars smell like fart

Eating utensils should be known as civil-ware, since they're almost never made out of silver anymore

Halo Combat Evolved is out-classed by PC shooters of its time, and before, and the "good" Halo games are incredibly overrated.

Browsing a thread like this is far preferable to doomscrolling through the actual news feed on the frontpage of Lemmy/Reddit.

I like to eat my breakfast and have my morning coffee while I scroll the internet a bit, and it always leaves me feeling worse off. But if I scroll through a bunch of weird user-written opinions that nobody is really taking seriously... far better time, left feeling much better off.

It's pronounced "gif"

Still life paintings, like of bowls of fruit, are the most boring art ever.

You do not need to bless people when they sneeze, ever. That's all, thank you.

Ornamental pears do not need to exist, or at least bloom. At. All. Except for the bees. Only for the bees.

It's crazy to wash the oils out of our hair and replace them with conditioner. A factory cannot make a higher performance substitute to the natural

Question marks are for questions.

Please spell and punctuate correctly, and don’t use “common use” as an excuse to hide your egotistical unwillingness to learn.

People should stop using the word symmetrical. Symmetric is the better word.

Dogs should be brushed, but not washed (and never with shampoo unless for health reasons).

Have had many long-haired breeds that look great, feel soft and are not smelly, purely through brushing often.

Microphone is shorted to "mic" not "mike".

Code semantic should be separate from code presentation.
In other words, tabs vs spaces is a stupid argument.

We've learned that separating semantics and presentation is good for the code we write but we've never bothered to apply it to languages. Everyone on the team should be able to apply their own formatting preferences without affecting the underlying file.

White trim on houses make them look cheap/bad. You've got every color in existence paint your house something interesting.

Superman 3 is worse than Superman 4.

It feels like my understanding of "logic" as a "subject" is probably one big warm take: I think it is just a piece of maths and programming and maybe philosophy, because it exists in service of all the things that require similar rigor to maths. I'm too far removed from the 1920's to understand why "the birth of mathematical logic" in Hilberts search for metaMathematical Maths Proofs, Gödel, etc. is called that. (it's probably just a misleading name) Often it feels like people imply too big a distinction between maths and logic. Doing any maths, like solving a quadratic equation requires logic: Any of the common rewritings like adding to both sides are things where you know a logical implication from one equation to the next. Knowing an equation has two solutions means knowing a logical or between x = a and x = b. That makes me feel bad for early logicians as their ideas seemed to be boring for lack of applications.

Hot takes are the violent diarrhea of the internet.

The original red power ranger is a piece of shit.

Fractional measurements are better than decimal measurements because they allow greater representation of precision without having to do any +/- bullshit.

For instance, if your measurements are precision to half a meter, in decimal you either have to record it to the nearest meter, imply your measurement is five times more precise than it is, or do something like "1.5 meters +/- 0.25 meters".

Wheras fractional measurements allow you to just put the precision as the denominator. Just don't reduce your fractions.

Humans have no clue about anything that has happened millions of years ago.

The so called scientists are making up stories, assumptions, and extremely wild guesses about that topic, but they would never admit it.

For example, astrophysicists know very well how flexible time itself is. But when it comes to old ages in earth's history, all the estimates assume that everything has been working in exactly the same manner and speed as it does right now. And that's just one of the wild guesses.

I have a few, I'm sure, but the one that comes to mind is my hatred of PDFs. Or, I suppose more accurately, the things people choose to use PDFs for. If something is not primarily meant to be printed, then a PDF is a suboar choice to something like HTML. Worse, virtually EVERY place you're getting a PDF from is already a website so they already have the ability to give you HTML.

You can create a single HTML file, embedding all images, CSS, JavaScript, etc. directly into the file. Then you can open it in your browser. It works. It's easier to read too, unless you want to print it. I would argue that in the vast majority of cases they actually aren't being printed. And get this, you can actually print HTML files too, ya know. So PDF is really only better if you need to print something with a very specific and strict layout, like a brochure or something.

"But Jackby, I use PDFs and I love printing them"

Okay, that's fine, I just think you're the exception. I think most people open them in browser or some PDF viewer and never print them ever.

My favorite response to this opinion was someone telling me that having all the CSS and JS in one file makes it load slower. Like uh, off my computer? Because I'm talking about distributing the file itself, not hosting it on a website. I think web folks just latch onto best practices for the web.

Record of Lodoss War: Advent of Cardice, on Dreamcast - despite being a glorified fan game with non-canon story - deserved more notoriety than it received. That and other Neverland action rpgs like Shining Force Neo, and Shining Force Exa.

Rating things on a numerical scale is pointless and only meant to give the false impression of some objective standard, when really knowing what the person meant requires knowing what their tastes are anyway

If you're gonna review something, just give me insight into your personal tastes, and then tell me whether you liked it or not

"I've never regretted charging hier fees for a job. But sure as hell have regretted charging less than I should".

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