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Gratuitous surveillance cameras in public spaces just send the message of "no lollygagging, citizen, go about your business", as if the war on free public spaces wasn't bad enough without them
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I personally hate public spaces so it's really easy for me to go to work and go home instead of using them.
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Aramek posted:I personally hate public spaces so it's really easy for me to go to work and go home instead of using them. I’m tired of all these greedy urbanists demanding a third place! There’s lots of people in this world who don’t even have one place and you want three?!
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Mu Zeta posted:China is right to blanket their cities with security cameras. We shouldn't have any expectation of privacy in public spaces so I don't know why people go apeshit whenever they put in cameras. Do all cops suddenly stop being bastards when they're put in charge of the greatest panopticon the world has ever seen?
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Powered Descent posted:Do all cops suddenly stop being bastards when they're put in charge of the greatest panopticon the world has ever seen? Every single panopticon is poo poo at its job.
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Mu Zeta posted:China is right to blanket their cities with security cameras. We shouldn't have any expectation of privacy in public spaces so I don't know why people go apeshit whenever they put in cameras. Put the cameras everywhere, especially so we can give more speeding tickets and fine the fuckers that run stop signs to oblivion. Parking also needs to be way more expensive. At least $100 a day if you make over X yearly salary. Either that or remove all street parking and put parklets everywhere. I value my relative anonymity in public. Your post reeks of "if you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide", which just puts you at the whim of whoever is deciding what "wrong" is. I'm trans. There was a time in my life that going out in public, a lot of people would treat me as of I were doing something wrong, and a time where I had to present one way at work, and presented another way everywhere else. That's nobody's business but mine, but would be very easily picked up by an expansive surveillance system. "If you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide" is the mantra of people who have never been an unpopular minority, imo. Powered Descent posted:Do all cops suddenly stop being bastards when they're put in charge of the greatest panopticon the world has ever seen? Did they stop when everyone started carrying around cameras all the time?
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DeadlyMuffin posted:I value my relative anonymity in public. Your post reeks of "if you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide", which just puts you at the whim of whoever is deciding what "wrong" is. 
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If I went to Europe for vacation I wouldn’t visit any of the holocaust places. That seems like an insanely depressing thing to do on a vacation.
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Most women I know take off their bra as soon as they get home, but I like wearing a bra. Keeping my tits out of the way is pretty rad.Gripweed posted:If I went to Europe for vacation I wouldn’t visit any of the holocaust places. That seems like an insanely depressing thing to do on a vacation.  If I'm on vacation, I want to party and/or chill while thinking about the negative aspects of real life as little as possible.
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I think if I had the means to travel regularly I'd definitely visit but I've been able to afford exactly one overseas trip in my life so if I can afford another (not looking great) yeah I'd probably do something purely entertaining.
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Gripweed posted:If I went to Europe for vacation I wouldn’t visit any of the holocaust places. That seems like an insanely depressing thing to do on a vacation. I don't think I could emotionally handle going somewhere like Auschwitz. I know it's an important place to visit and remember history, but I'd empathize with the victims so much that it'd tear me up.
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I went to Prague with school in 9th grade, and we visited Theresienstadt. It was loving grim and even as a stupid teenager I was moved enough to not remotely consider a weird photoshoot. I do not understand how people can do that, and how they do not get punched by the onlookers. Edit: Admittedly I did not have a smartphone back then (or any camera, for that matter), but, nevertheless.
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Phosphine posted:I went to Prague with school in 9th grade, and we visited Theresienstadt. It was loving grim and even as a stupid teenager I was moved enough to not remotely consider a weird photoshoot. It makes sense, you take pictures at tourist attractions and they turned these places into tourist attractions.
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They are museums. If people can't behave themselves, it's not the fault of the educational institution. Admittedly it's been like 10 years since I went toTerezín and a bit less since Auschwitz, but I sincerely doubt they put up rollercoasters since then. And even then there were morons mugging for cameras.
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Apr 19, 2023 14:15
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A museum that doesn't have one of those shallow aquariums where you can bet little manta rays is a pretty lovely museum.
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no, Danny Green, you really didn't
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Abolish the word its, as distinct from it's. All possessives should have apostrophes. But that's just m'y opinion.
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Accordion socks are the new long socks, I wanna see my ladies push that poo poo ALL the way down. ALL the way down!!!!
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Accordion socks are the new long socks, I wanna see my ladies push that poo poo ALL the way down. ALL the way down!!!! they do look p cute
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Nameless Pete posted:Abolish the word its, as distinct from it's. All possessives should have apostrophes. But that's just m'y opinion. Go one step further and just abolish the apostrophe altogether, nobody knows how to use it and in almost all cases the meaning can be derived contextually.
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Tbh I think people are even worse at context than they are at apostrophes
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The best part about quotation marks is that they can be used to denote sarcasm but also people use it to denote the opposite of sarcasm!
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credburn posted:Are there "different kinds of drunk" like my mother used to say? I have been drunk on beer, wine, tequila, etc. and it's all the same to me. Yes but it's more social context and headspace than anything else.
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Apr 20, 2023 22:24
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PHUO: While Picard dropped the ball after the fourth episode, it did manage to fumble and pick it up for the last episode. Episode ten was ok, perhaps "good", even.
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Gripweed posted:If I went to Europe for vacation I wouldn’t visit any of the holocaust places. That seems like an insanely depressing thing to do on a vacation. It strikes me that the people who actually need to know and remember the horror of the holocaust so that they don't support a modern version, either do not have the means or are already treating it as some kind of weird-rear end theme park
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Apr 20, 2023 22:29
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Forever Young is not that great of a song; far too saccharine for my taste. It's the sort of thing that was always destined to be a weepy graduation or wedding reception piece.
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Apr 20, 2023 23:34
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I wouldn't mind ubiquitous cameras in public areas, as long as the data is also available to the public.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Forever Young is not that great of a song; far too saccharine for my taste. It's the sort of thing that was always destined to be a weepy graduation or wedding reception piece. Agreed. One of Hovas weaker joints
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Wait which Forever Young are we talking about. Because yes to both.
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exquisite tea posted:Wait which Forever Young are we talking about. Because yes to both. The nuclear holocaust ditty from Alphaville? Oh man, that's a favorite of mine.
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Gripweed posted:If I went to Europe for vacation I wouldn’t visit any of the holocaust places. That seems like an insanely depressing thing to do on a vacation. My parents bought me a birthday/their anniversary trip to Krakow earlier this year and My dad booked me and my partner an Auschwitz-Birkenau tour without asking. I was a little conflicted at first, but I'm glad I did it. Not because it was fun, or not because it wasn't depressing, but because I think we can never get complacent or think genocide is reduced to history or was some kind of "one-off". And that's something our guide impressed on us - this isn't something abstract. This is ever present, it's just that the Nazis industrialised it. I think you can *know* this stuff abstractly, but it really does hit different. I wouldn't blame anyone for not going, and I got really pissed off at the small number of people who seemed too dumb to realise the gravity of where they were, but the presentation is sober and respectful and I left with sense of responsibility and vigilance. Of course, your mileage may vary, but I certainly don't regret going. And our guide chewing out the disrespectful without giving a gently caress about reviews or customer service was great. EDIT: I went in angry and sad that the holocaust happened, I left angry and sad that it could happen again Disco Pope has a new favorite as of 14:39 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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I’m tired of homages to the Akira bike slide. It’s been done to death. Have people look cool on bikes in more interesting ways
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They actually can't. That's one of the only only ways to look cool on a bike.
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All the other possible cool ways you can look cool on a bike were already demonstrated in the 2004 film, "Torque."
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Ahh, Torque. Come for the blatant Pepsi Co product placement, stay for Adam Scott holding a giant key:
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Im tired of people talking about biblically accurate angels.
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A-Team (2010) was an awesome, tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the silly source material from the '80s. Anyone hating on it was either born after that era, or has a gigantic stick up their rear end about insignificant details.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Accordion socks are the new long socks, I wanna see my ladies push that poo poo ALL the way down. ALL the way down!!!! I am very pleased that slouchy socks are back. I wore them all through the 80s. I just got a pair of red and white Jordans that look really cute with big baggy socks.
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