Yes, I should hole myself in my house because I could potentially get hit by a car tomorrow. That’s what your reasoning sounds like.
Look, yes, the world is grim and the climate is changing, but why shouldn’t I instill the harsh realities of this world in my children so that they can grow up and cope and deal with this stuff. This sort of stuff is part of upbringing that should be instilled in our children so that they don’t grow up and make those mistakes.
Even more importantly, we should all lead by example and show them, by example, by being more active in the causes we care about enough to pursue so that life is more meaningful than mere existence.
This is how I was raised, and that’s how I intend to raise my children instead of cowering away from it and choosing not to have children which seems like the easy way out and really, is pretty pathetic.
So yes, people can go fuck themselves if they can’t deal with crying children. :-)
JFC, some of these responses here about people with children “should” do this or that. This is precisely why Reddit and most social media is cancer and people filled with 0 social and life skills.
Parents shouldn’t have to do anything. If you have an issue with a crying child, the onus is on you to find another space for yourself to make yourself comfortable instead of mandating what other people should/should not do.
Does that mean that parents should let their kids run around? Hell no. But this also means that you stop acting like another baby and find a way to adjust just like everyone else incl other parents.
Thank you for chiming in! I love astrophysics and always have been fascinated by it. In another life, perhaps I would have pursued it academically and professionally.
But yes, agreed on all points. I wonder how social media will impact humanity collectively over a few decades in the future and how history will remember this part of the age of information.
Yikes! Good on you for correcting it! Satire is definitely easier understood in a visual medium as opposed to text based. Can’t say I’m surprised that people actually did that though.
There are more pseudo experts and people that talk out of their asses than there are actual experts on the site. Typically actual experts responses aren’t that popular and are nested beneath various comments. The ones on top just “seem” informed.
It’s scary how these comments pass this off in a matter of fact way and promote tons of misinformation.
100% I agree. The core issue is that every worker should be paid their fair wage and of course there is going to be wage disparity because skills and experience are across a spectrum, but people should feel they are compensated justly for their time and efforts. No matter what, this needs to happen.
I don’t totally agree that a-list actors deserve what they get though. There’s been numerous cases where B list actors have outshone A listers or have done so well that they get become A-listers whereas A listers have thrown in the performance for a paycheck.
If that’s the case, you could make the same claim about CEOs. Being a ceo is not easy, it’s literally changing your life so that you slave day in and out for a company and their shareholders. Whoever disagrees with this has not as much as smelt leadership at a big company (Fortune 500 for example). I work with VPs constantly and have seen their schedules and grind first hand. It isn’t trivial. Would there be exceptions to either side? Absolutely. But, it’s also disingenuous to not look at the realities of a movie making project, with set budgets, which again a lot of these actors eat up.
I want workers and unions to voice their concerns and they shouldn’t have to rely somebody else like an A-list actor and their ill formed opinions about things to contribute to the discussions. We should stop celebrity worship and starting disregarding their opinions because they are just actors. Leave it to the people and parties involved. If they truly care about a cause, they should setup non-profits and advertise those, which they do, to their credit. Making wild claims about AI and simplifying the situation by patronize a cause isn’t the way to go about it.
Realistically, there isn’t a “correct” answer here and it’s all just a discussion. :-)
This is not a hot take. Lower paid actors not getting is absolutely appalling and should be fixed asap. It’s also ironic that these high earning, obscenely rich high profile actors going after CEO are calling for “equality”. Pot calling kettle black much?
It’s not like movies and TVs have budgets, a lot of which is spent on the high profile actors that rake in a ton of money, robbing lesser know other actors of their fair pay. /s
Why don’t they lead by example and attempt a movie or two gratis in an attempt to fix the problem?
I think there’s paranoia around AI, and it’s unfounded.
100%. I’d even be ok with getting rid voting mechanisms all together. The comment and responses to it should be indicative of it’s quality instead of some vague numerical value which somehow makes it better than the other because more people voted for it based on their own understanding on how a vote works.
Discussions shouldn’t be about what’s popular. Social media has corrupted our ability to have intelligent discussions because non popular viewpoints aren’t entertained anymore and people with non popular viewpoints don’t want to contribute due to the retaliatory nature of likes/votes.
It’s eroding our ability to reason and we need to stop it.
JFC dude. Read the room. I’m not arguing whether you’re right or wrong, but it seemed like you implied that Obama didn’t make progress because you called it “right-wing”. Like previously stated, terms have different meanings/connotations depending on context. Yes, even in contemporary discussions whether you agree with it or not. So people corrected you, rightfully so.
That said, I see where you were coming from and don’t disagree with the point you’re making.
And, no shit political ideologies are going to be part of a conversation when we’re talking about politics, but what I’m saying (again) is stop going off of wikipedia because you can’t get your point across effectively anymore and it’s diluting you’re messaging.
Can’t believe I have to spell all of this out for you.
Lastly, I see that you’ve just discovered “political science and ideologies”, but don’t assume others on the same plain as yourself. Some of us have been doing this longer than you’ve been alive.
If there was ever an award for the most accurate on point meme ever, this would be a contender.