Biggest life hot takes?

Genetics determine your looks which determines your treatment by others, and how you behave. Looks also determines you landing jobs and promotions way more than actual performance.

Genetics determine your looks which determines your treatment by others, and how you behave. Looks also determines you landing jobs and promotions way more than actual performance.

Eating ice cream during Summer does not make you cooler.

Eating ice cream during Summer does not make you cooler.

I find nationalism meaningless. You can't control where you are born.

A few of my hot takes:

Having less than 3 weeks of PTO yearly is simply atrocious

Tipping more than 20% is actually pretty wild, even if the service person was friendly 

Sunsets don’t look beautiful in the slightest

I don’t like looking at human babies 

We need an alternative to saying “that that” in English grammar

Mental illness is incredibly over inflated

Both in severity and density of diagnosis.

Most people are just weak and take an easy way out of accountability for their failures.

@Nette yes, but also how can we know they're truthful or not? i do see what you mean though!

@GinInYourJuice bruh sunsets are awesome! anyway interesting takes

@Rabnawaz2 lol thanks :] I also just realized that I forgot to mention an exception to my 2nd hot take: if the total amount isn't that high, then tipping more than 20% wouldn't be that wild to me.

This again? *facepalm*

Genetics affect certain aspects, but you can improve your looks in various ways, including a healthier diet, exercise, cosmetics and surgery.

Looks can influence treatment, but do not determine it entirely. For instance, there are so many good-looking people with nasty personalities; even if some can get away with more by virtue of their appearance, that only goes so far.

It's so silly to claim that looks determine all human behavior. No credible psychologist believes this, and there are endless examples to the contrary.

Same goes for careers and money. If you lack the qualifications for a job, looking pretty will usually not suffice. Looking better improves your chances of success, but looking average or even ugly does not prevent it either. Just look at all the ugly rich people.


You can, however, control where you live once you can afford travel.


Worst take ever. Products and services would not be able to be sold (or exist at all) without advertising.

In some cases, even aggressive advertising isn't enough for many businesses to consistently turn a profit, resulting in them shutting down, unable to continue providing what they sold.

Countless inventions and creative media would also not exist without copyrights, patents and other ways of securing intellectual property that encourage people to invest enormous amounts of resources into creating them.

Furthermore, banning such basic things violates people's fundamental rights to their own lives and property.

Freer markets are the solution to so many of the world's problems...not whatever delusional repressive mental decay you have in mind. Unfortunately for you, doing away with all advertising is impossible anyway.

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Tipping has become such a scam. It's supposed to be an optional bonus for those who did an especially good job...not an excuse for employers to not properly pay their employees and put the onus on the customers to pay them.


These don't look beautiful to you? Dang. Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. They are beautiful to most people.


No. You can't make me.


Nope. I am responsible for myself and absolutely no one else.

If a company sells a (legal) product or service I want, I may end up purchasing it. It's as simple as that. I'm not interested in their politics. How they run their business in the background is their problem. (And the government's problem, if what they are doing is bad enough.)

In case you were unaware, just about any company out there has done things that would be considered wrong by many. (Not to mention all the opinions of what even is wrong to begin with.)


I will spend my money wherever I damn well please, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.


It is your right to criticize whomever you wish; likewise, it is others' right to dismiss your infantile squabbling (what a fitting avatar) and move on with their lives...or file lawsuits if the bullying is egregious.


For starters, you could consider minding your own business...or better yet, putting your money where your mouth is and starting your own business. You may find it is more difficult to avoid perceived wrongdoing than you thought.

Here's a pretty spicy one: Politics doesn't care about the average citizen. Left or right, blue or red, it's all about the money and crony interests. When I see all the diehard Democrat and Republican supporters on the Internet, I sometimes wish I never went online.

@PeripheralVision

That's part of my point.

For the average person life is better now than 200 years ago so then why is everyone more miserable and depressed? People want problems to bitch about so they create them, that is type A. Type B are victims of gaslighting by the state and medical system.

The final type are people who are actually just fucked up, like way less than 1% of people.

This again? *facepalm*

Genetics affect certain aspects, but you can improve your looks in various ways, including a healthier diet, exercise, cosmetics and surgery.

Looks can influence treatment, but do not determine it entirely. For instance, there are so many good-looking people with nasty personalities; even if some can get away with more by virtue of their appearance, that only goes so far.

It's so silly to claim that looks determine all human behavior. No credible psychologist believes this, and there are endless examples to the contrary.

Same goes for careers and money. If you lack the qualifications for a job, looking pretty will usually not suffice. Looking better improves your chances of success, but looking average or even ugly does not prevent it either. Just look at all the ugly rich people.


You can, however, control where you live once you can afford travel.


Worst take ever. Products and services would not be able to be sold (or exist at all) without advertising.

In some cases, even aggressive advertising isn't enough for many businesses to consistently turn a profit, resulting in them shutting down, unable to continue providing what they sold.

Countless inventions and creative media would also not exist without copyrights, patents and other ways of securing intellectual property that encourage people to invest enormous amounts of resources into creating them.

Furthermore, banning such basic things violates people's fundamental rights to their own lives and property.

Freer markets are the solution to so many of the world's problems...not whatever delusional repressive mental decay you have in mind. Unfortunately for you, doing away with all advertising is impossible anyway.

...This message is sponsored by Mountain Dew, the substance keeping me awake tonight. :P




Tipping has become such a scam. It's supposed to be an optional bonus for those who did an especially good job...not an excuse for employers to not properly pay their employees and put the onus on the customers to pay them.


These don't look beautiful to you? Dang. Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. They are beautiful to most people.


No. You can't make me.


Nope. I am responsible for myself and absolutely no one else.

If a company sells a (legal) product or service I want, I may end up purchasing it. It's as simple as that. I'm not interested in their politics. How they run their business in the background is their problem. (And the government's problem, if what they are doing is bad enough.)

In case you were unaware, just about any company out there has done things that would be considered wrong by many. (Not to mention all the opinions of what even is wrong to begin with.)


I will spend my money wherever I damn well please, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.


It is your right to criticize whomever you wish; likewise, it is others' right to dismiss your infantile squabbling (what a fitting avatar) and move on with their lives...or file lawsuits if the bullying is egregious.


For starters, you could consider minding your own business...or better yet, putting your money where your mouth is and starting your own business. You may find it is more difficult to avoid perceived wrongdoing than you thought.

Some of my takes are rather controversial (namely with regards to this goofy time of year (*cough*chough*hornydivergent month*cough*cough*) so I'll refrain from mentioning them to avoid getting this thread locked. It'll probably get locked anyway though.

I'll just say this:
Consumers must take accountability for their purchasing decisions. When buying from a business that does wrong, the consumer is complicit in its behavior and is thusly wrong, themself. We must stop dumping money into the evil corporations that screw us all over and hold each other accountable for doing so. I say the people who buy from such corporations should get bullied. AND I HATE MYSELF FOR THINKING THAT BUT IT'S HONESTLY WHAT I THINK AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.

@wizdom224 Well, I'm not exactly sure what you think of there exactly...
But like on the context of junk food and obesity rates:
1. It's the individual's responsibility to try to eat healthy.
2. It's the corporation's responsibility to sell food suitable for human consumption.
3. It's the government's responsibility to enforce some basic standards.
An individual is realistically never going to have as much power and knowledge to make good decisions as mega corporations. That's not to relieve them of all responsibility, but putting all of it on them it's a corporate tactic to get away with horrible practices.

I think don't be too reliant on people, learnt that way too late.
Be as independent as you can, both physically and in your own mind space.

@JaniSIr I don't put all the blame on the consumers. It's just that since corporations don't change when they're not held accountable by the government, it's up to the consumers to stop enabling their behaviors.

I wish it wasn't like this but it is. We just can't count on the government to do anything. Take the FTC for example... ...absolutely worthless.

And much of the time my woes aren't even something that should ever necessitate action by the government and neither would I ask for that. So again nothing to do but to stop giving money to the people responsible for the problem.


Also worth noting that I've been thinking more about what I said and may change my opinion. But maybe I won't. Who knows...?

@PeripheralVision

That's part of my point.

For the average person life is better now than 200 years ago so then why is everyone more miserable and depressed? People want problems to bitch about so they create them, that is type A. Type B are victims of gaslighting by the state and medical system.

The final type are people who are actually just fucked up, like way less than 1% of people.

Advertising should be legally banned.
Copyright should be abolished.

OK, I will refrain myself from posting my hot takes pertaining to living in this world mostly due to the concern that my personal ideas could spark a lot of uncomfortable ideas.