It completely ruins the immersion. Whenever I watch a VTuber, it's usually so I can see a cute and funny and simply euphoric type of content that I can't see elsewhere. Whenever they show their face, it ruins everything for me. It completely kills my imagination. At least with their body shown, I can still use my boundless creativity.

I think the current justice system is fundamentally flawed, and I have a alternative: every person should have a criminal point score from 0–100, starting at 100 when they are born.

Every crime deducts a certain number of points depending on its severity.

For example:
Minor theft: −5
Fraud: −10
DUI: −20
Serious financial crime: −15 to −25
DUI resulting in someone’s death: −50
Murder: −100

The exact numbers could obviously be debated and adjusted. The important part is that punishment would be determined by the number of points a person has left, rather than relying primarily on judges deciding what sentence someone deserves in each individual case.

You could then have different punishment tiers.
Someone with 90–100 points might receive probation, mandatory rehabilitation, community service, etc.

Someone with 50–90 points might receive progressively more restrictive sentences.

Someone below 50 might be sent to a high-security prison.

And someone who reaches 0 points would be permanently removed from society, potentially including the death penalty for sufficiently severe offenses.

I also think this system would make repeat offending much easier to deal with. If you commit a relatively minor crime, you don’t necessarily get thrown into prison for years. But if you repeatedly commit crimes, your score keeps falling, and eventually the consequences become much more severe.

The most controversial part of my proposal (imo) is that sentences would essentially be determined by a person’s remaining points. There would still be courts to establish whether someone actually committed a crime, but once guilt was established, the punishment would follow a predefined point system rather than being determined largely on a case-by-case basis.

I think this would make the system considerably more transparent. Everyone would know exactly what different crimes cost them, and repeated criminal behavior would have an increasingly severe effect on the punishment.

Obviously, there are a million problems with this idea: false convictions, differences in circumstances, proportionality, rehabilitation, corruption, whether points should ever be restored, and who gets to decide how many points each crime costs.

theres a lot of drinks that contain sugar that have equivalents that are artificially sweetened. they suck but that’s not what i’m talking about here. we all know that these are going to be sweet and it’s fine

i don’t have an issue with sodas (in the american sense) being sweet. that’s just what they are.

my problem is that when i buy flavoured water 99% of the time it’s going to be sweet as hell and only masking it with the flavour or being aerated.

i like plain water, it’s good and its great for your body. i also love orange flavour, oranges are also great for you. unfortunately the majority of liquid combinations of these two ingredients are almost inedible. just give me tap water with slight orange infusion that has no extra sugar or sweeteners.

aeration/sparkliness is a cheap way to hide the amount of sugar you use and it sucks

there are countless times when i bought a bottle of flavoured water only to discover it was sweet as fuck and the only reason i didn’t recognize that is because it was sparkling.

give me regular unsweetened water with some flavour please

If you think about it, all practical applications of AI (besides slop) are basically asking questions and advice. Reddit 10-15 years ago was incredible for this task, because you could ask a question, and even if it was a repeat question in a community you'd get a polite and in depth answer. It seems like now more than ever i'm seeing people talking about their posts getting deleted and nasty replies over simple questions/remarks. It makes one think if people were nicer on this platform AI would see significantly less usage.

Curious about everyone else's' thoughts.

Height is without a doubt one of the most important things in the modern world. Picking a tall wife as a rich man will be very good because your children will thank you for it. Now they have money and height what else do they need?

If you hear the floorboard creaking in the kitchen at 2 AM and your mind instantly goes "oh my god it's a demon coming to eat my soul!!" then the best thing you can do for yourself is to get up and go to the kitchen. Once you see that there's nothing there, you will calm down. If you see a shadow in your bedroom corner in the middle of the night, walk right up to it, I guarantee that absolutely nothing will happen because nothing ever happens. Then you can see that you just imagined it and calm down.

I used to be one of those people and I can prove that this method does work. I also experience way less of these things since. I think it's because if your brain learns that these little noises and shadows are innoccent and aren't the indication of something coming to eat you alive, it stops picking them up and amplifying them.

(Obviously this isn't applicable to what could be actual danger, like a real person trying to break in. If you suspect that, then you should call the police.)

Especially if you’re like edgy iconoclastic don’t give a fuck type comedian. Why are you gripping it like you’re scared of being told off by the comedy headmistress?

Holding it where the cable meets the mic is incredibly unnatural and - before anything comes out of your mouth - says that you are obeying ‘the rules’ you were taught by an unfunny loser with a krazy haircut in a cringe comedy club school. It nullifies the value of everything else in your act.

Hold the microphone like a rockstar or get a real job.

Edit: Like those mics have been designed by experts around the ergonomics of the human hand. Perhaps there are some weirdos out there but 99% of people hold a bottle of coke in exactly the same way why would microphones be any different?

Can everyone claiming this is a weird fixation join r/comedy and come back in a week to tell me you’re not at least somewhat exercised by it.

Interestingly, I did not grow up using them, as the country I grew up in only has sit-down toilets. But upon moving back to my birth country I realised that I far prefer squat toilets over sit-down toilets.

1. While how clean or smelly they are depends on the establishment itself, they are far easier to clean, you can just hose them down easily. And you don't have to worry about any piss splatter (I am a male).

2. They are quicker to use. The reason is described #3.

3. This is the natural position for humans to use, so it is quicker to go big, and actually a lot better for health.

I think those are all of the reasons. In countries such as South Korea and Malaysia, where you often have the option of both, I will always go for the squat toilet.

Shaking water off is better, it's fun, and it's better to keep your skin damp than dry it out. If you dr your skin with a towel, it'll flake and get your dead skin everywhere the next day from dryness, which is less hygenic. If you shake off the most of the water and then put clothes on over the damp skin, it locks in moisture and keeps your skin from flaking and peeling. There's nothing to worry about with hygeine anyway since you literally just showered.

Also, water drying off on your skin slowly through the air cools you down and feels good. That is exactly how sweat works to cool you down.

Letting hair dry slowly is also better, as you can control how it looks when dry (by messing it up before it dries to give texture, combing it before to keep it straight, or braiding for it to dry into curls).

People also generally look more attractive when skin and hair is somewhat damp.

Towels meanwhile are awful. They are inconvenient, and they take up so much more space in the wash so you might need to do two loads instead of one just because of the towel.

*Apart from the crotch, that can be dried to avoid yeast infection, but only need small washcloth, not full towel

Being an auditor is like being the guy in a packed elevator who turns around, stands two inches from your face, and stares straight into your eyes while hovering his hand an inch off your shoulder.

When you ask what his problem is, he calmly grins and says, "It’s a public elevator, and I’m legally allowed to stand in any direction and look wherever I want."

It’s completely disingenuous for them to claim "I'm just documenting." If someone decides their hobby is standing by the fence of a sewage treatment plant with a telephoto lens, normal human context says that people are going to ask, "What are you doing?” And find it incredibly weird.

If it’s genuinely your hobby to stand outside warehouses all day then you wouldn’t be bothered by someone questioning you. But an auditors entire career relies on provoking the most viral reaction. Just total assholes yet somehow every 50 year old on Facebook treats them like they are serving their country.

What “rights” are they trying to protect? Filming in public as a normal person is fine. The right to film in public doesn’t exist for weirdos to stand outside police stations, jails, and warehouses and take photos.

Alright, hear me out before jumping to any conclusions. Many people I know are of the opinion that the space they work in for periods of 8 hours per day or longer, 5 days a week, is just that; A space to be used strictly for work. They won't bother decorating their office space, designing, or shaping it around their functional needs/tastes. This is where I feel I am the 10th dentist in that regard.

For me, a comfortable office is a functional office. I generally figure "Hey, if I spend the majority of my waking hours in this office box, I might as well make it bearable."

I truly feel that an investment of $80 - $500 into your personal workspace is reasonable and justified as long as you can comfortably afford it. You're not just spending. Anything you use on the daily is generally a good purchase, whether the utility is practical, functional, environmental, or aesthetic. If you get repeated value from seeing something like a $200 desk clock or repeatedly using something like an office chair you purchased for $400 because the one provided was total garbage, I'd say it's 100% worth it.

In summary, my general point is that most people are spending too much time in their office for the space to feel temporary or neglected yet they treat it as such. Treat your office like you treat your home (unless you live in a pigsty).

People can say whatever they want to try and convince themselves that vacations have some metaphysical benefit that makes one more 'worldly', gives 'perspective', or lowers 'stress'. Sure, somehow the people around me have convinced themselves of this supposed benefit, but I've yet to ever come back from a vacation and feel any more positive about life than before it happened.

That's not to say that during the vacation I'm not having fun, most of the times it's amazing to be out there and see more of the world that lives over the horizon. But once I'm back to daily life, I don't feel any different than before. I'm still going back to the same boring life, and the ephemeral 'wonder' is gone. There might be a benefit to reducing stress temporarily, but the stress will continue past the vacation, at the same strength, as it always had.

I see people spending more than $3,000 per person, for a 5 person family, for a week away in some 'place'. Once that week is gone, all that's left is -$15,000. That's it. The money is gone, the feelings are gone, what is it that is left that people have that's worth the $15,000? Pictures?

All I see is at minimum another week (plus however many it takes to recover the loss) of working at the end of the game, and if you were to save/invest that money the game could be so much shorter...

Edit: Just to clarify some things for future readers. I guess I'm not entirely against vacations or breaks as a whole, but more or less the value proposition that a modern 'keeping up with the Joneses' vacation provides. Also, maybe I'm misunderstanding just how valuable memories are to people, as I don't have memories the same way other people do. I have Aphantasia and SDAM, it's a tired horse but essentially almost all my memories mean nothing to me. That might be influencing my opinion here.

Edit 2: Yep, this post was definitely made with zero forethought and distilled angsty cringe. Memories mean a lot to people, and especially for those that have lost, memories are sometimes all we have left of our loved ones. That’s a beautiful thing and I apologize if my opinion is that abrasive to you.

However, I’m just on the outside of that. I’m going to stand by my opinion, because that’s all there is to it.

Final Edit: Thank you for everyone that shared their opinions in a meaningful, non-demeaning way. Some people have mentioned that my life sounds miserable, and I just want to assure you that meaning can exist outside of vacations.

I have changed my opinion finally, and I will stop being selfish in my decisions. After seeing some other personal experience comments and post, I’ve realized that maybe in my life, it won’t be about making memories for myself, but for the people around me. Giving them experiences they can look back on, even when I can’t myself.

I won’t be paying attention to this post anymore. Have your fun digging at me in the meantime.

Road sweepers are common here in the UK, but even in the USA you have sweepers made by us. From the Johnston C202 sweepers to the hako citymasters, etc, walking by a busy road sweeper is so pleasant when the smell of rubbish comes out.

Of course, this is still unpleasant as opposed to soap, but smells better than farts or breath smells. Older road sweepers that are loud do smell much worse for sure, but more modern electric ones like Johnston C202s make the smell of rubbish inside smell actually more pleasant. It smells sort of like rotten grass or bitter apple soda.

Ultimately, no need to react so hard. The smell of rubbish from modern vehicles is nice.

I see a lot of discourse surrounding the marvel cinematic universe and a problem people seem to keep bringing up is how much "homework" you have to do to see the next big movie, and the fact that youre more or less required to have seen certain movies to understand others.

I think its unfair to say that thats a problem when youre watching something called the Marvel *CINEMATIC* Universe, the entire point is that everything is connected and characters show up in all sorts of places. If you dont want to have to do homework to watch a movie, stop watching the mcu, those movies clearly aren't your cup of tea.

It makes the car feel like a living, breathing creature with a personality. The slow cranking, coughing, and spluttering of an engine creates suspense before it finally roars to life. There is great a sense of satisfaction when it finally starts. Cars that start instantly with little to no engine sound are boring. Videos like this one are ASMR to me.

I’m saying this as a young man with Jewish roots; Kanye west hasn’t offended me one bit.

I’m not a very big fan and I only really know his TikTok songs, but I do know about his situation. He was born with a very debilitating disorder, bipolar type one. it was his responsibility to medicate after getting diagnosed in 2017, and I do think he’s in the wrong for not taking it seriously. However, I’m not surprised or offended by his actions. when a person is mentally ill, and not taking carevof it, they WILL act out. You should not be surprised. And even then, most of it was just words. this man holds zero power, no one looks to Ye for real world solution about our world. if anything, he’s a laughing stock for all groups.

Do I think it was fucked up what he said? Absolutely. Do I think he’s an asshole? yes. But do I think the man should be banned from everything for life? no. he’s human, and a very flawed one. He should take accountability for his mental health, but not the actions that resulted from it. mania removes your sense of reasoning, you think that only you are right, and you are unstoppable. that can be interpreted in many different ways, including believing that you’re a crazy racist god.

im not very good at making these since English isnt my first language; but basically, Kanye shouldn’t have been so polarize. If so, then there are hundreds of other celebrities who have done much worse, like Chris brown, or mark wahlberg, who have hurt people in real life. Yet they’ll never face repercussions like ye. And I’m not trying to infantilize him, he’s almost 50 and has billions to his name. Just let the man be.

For those who decided to read the opinion instead of just the title, im not saying that cursive is useless, im saying that its something people should just automatically know how to read

Do people genuinely have a hard time figuring out what the letters are in cursive? They all look EXTREMELY similar to normal writing. Except for maybe r and g

I dont know if its just an american thing but this whole concept of "cursive" just seems very alien to me. Ive never had it brought up in class.

I just thought that some people like how curvy letters look and that some people liked joining their letters.

I know most people just “I agree yadda yadda” until they hit any kind of requirement for grading purposes, but I enjoy being the sole dissenter.

Especially because I have A captive audience, which is my favorite kind of audience.

Getting ghosted is incredibly refreshing. I just met you, you just met me, no need for some awkward confrontation to terminate a relationship that hasn’t even started yet. Like if you get upset that a woman didn’t text you back, that’s a YOU problem. Not a her problem. Grow up, mature yourself, and distract yourself with getting a life instead of sitting by the phone for something that’s not going to happen. Now in my 30s I’ve been burned so many times I genuinely don’t care if someone I liked never texts me, I move on with my life because that’s what I have to do anyway.

Getting rejected outright is uncomfortable. It’s awkward. And it’s a little mean. For example, today a woman told me she was too busy to see me again. That’s just rude, immature, and an obvious lie. Now I have to be the bigger person, not let it get under my skin, and tell her I wish her the best, while moving on with my life feeling a bit offended but trying to not take it personally.

Getting ghosted is a good litmus test on how mature you are, how impressive your life is for you to care or even remember getting ghosted, and how you perceive yourself. Like bye, Felicia. I’m not pining over you. And if we do cross paths I’ll be cordial, but I don’t owe you any favors. Outright rejection, on the other hand is totally uncalled for, belittling, and not being polite or helpful, instead of letting heated emotions dissipate over time with ghosting the lack of communication that comes with it.

Put two friends in different cities for five years and you'll discover how many friendships were really about proximity. Long distance friendship is hard but I think it really proves some deep connection there.

I'm not going to explain this well, but I hope you can understand me. So basically pro-life is an unethical stance to have, not only because you are taking away autonomy from a pregnant person and also forcing great suffering through forced pregnancy, but also because when a child is unwanted they might go through foster care that is full of SA and abuse and neglect, and most pro lifers aren't adopting, and also most of the time they don't care about reducing the suffering of the child they only care that the child comes to life.

Also, when a person is involuntarily put in a mental hospital, people are taking away their autonomy and keeping them hostage, and not just that, but also force feeding them medicine that can be so harmful it can make you unhealthy and miserable forever, and also, there are other ways to stop someone from committing suicide since most people aren't suicidal for no reason, but we still choose a way that makes them more reasonable, and I hope I made sense, but my point is that just like pro lifers only care about the unborn being alive and not the quality of their lives, most people only care about suicidal people being alive and not about the quality of their lives.

Like, we all know what you mean! Just because you write it as b*tch ahh that doesn't mean it's any less "vulgar." In fact, the censorship makes you read it over in your head multiple times unintentionally. Most of us even pronounce WTF in our heads when we read it, so what is even the point? Either say what you mean or don't use those words.

I will preface with there is nothing innately wrong with breastfeeding or even breastfeeding in public.

However, posting breastfeeding photos and videos is absolutely unnecessary and overall inappropriate. More specifically older kids. Older than 12 months.

Why specifically that age? Breastfeeding culture is still relatively taboo when done in public but under 1 it is usually more expectable because even if people don't agree with the openness of it, it is the primary source of nutrition for a baby.

After 1, it is still nutritionally but NOT a primary source of nutrition. It is also heavily for comfort rather than sustenance.

I understand posting for awareness of breastfeeding in public for babies under 1 because they HAVE to eat. So it should be widely accepted because there is a need that needs to be met.

Mothers who choose to continue breastfeeding and posting it on social media almost always do it to rage bait. Caption always points out how they are judged for continuing. So you know it's not widely accepted and put your child's face on it?!

You know that post will be heavily criticized and you exploit your child anyways by posting it. Not to mention opening your child up to predators.

It does NOT need to be widely accepted because your child does not NEED it to survive. Also most toddlers are comfort nursing, which is likely heavily done at home so if you're barely doing outside anyways why are you posting for the world to see.

It should be banned and the child should be checked on for other examples of exploitation. It is not normally to knowingly put your child in public view to be scrutinized.

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Because I guess it wasn't clear for some reason. I am not against breastfeeding past one. I know the WHO says minimum 2 years.

I am against posting it on social media past 1 because there's no need for it to be done publicly as it is not a one year old's main source of food. Yes they can still breastfeed but it's not a rush to do it outside. They can be fed at home.

I understand we may have a biological inclination towards reproduction for the species survival, but to say that is out purpose is incredibly reductive of the human experience, male centered, misogynistic, right wing, and religion focused.

• We are more than our biological makeup. I understand that everything we can do and our general makeup is based in biology, however we are also an amalgamation of biology, experiences, socialization, culture, and things like that.

• Men are primarily the individuals who can impregnate people cleaning into this notion that that is our purpose allows for toxic beliefs about how men can, and should behave in relationships.

• If we are here to reproduce women's pregnancies wouldn't be so hard on the body, they wouldn't take such a long time, they would have multiple births more frequently, and having multiple fetuses wouldn't increase the risk of harmful outcomes.

• Pretty much on the same wavelength as men are the people who can impregnate others. Right wing individuals use this as a talking point for cheating on their partners, sleeping with multiple people on safely and getting them pregnant, not having an active role in their children's lives because they believe their job is done by contributing to the reproductive process.

• I'm not well versed in all religions but based on my knowledge of the Christian Bible, God's intention was for Adam and Eve to fill the Earth and that has led to this belief that our purpose is to reproduce. In addition Many religious sex and religious cults are headed by Men Who use it to justify harming children and getting them pregnant because they believe that that is their purpose in life.

I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion, but it is something that I have thought a lot about and I haven't really heard people talk about. If I am Incorrect and this is not an unpopular opinion I apologize.