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PromethiumX
Mar 5, 2003
Pandas are a loving worthless creature and no effort should be put forth to stave off their extinction.

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May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound
If you have a reptile for a pet that weighs more than 5pounds you are a loving weirdo.

WAY TO GO WAMPA!!
Oct 27, 2007

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PromethiumX posted:

Pandas are a loving worthless creature and no effort should be put forth to stave off their extinction.
Pandas are dumb as hell and people's obsession with them is embarrassing.

When you go to the zoo, you should be going to see some monstrous rear end poo poo like big cats or hippos or weird wolves or god's illest creature the gibbon not some boring rear end thing that needs to be pampered nonstop cause it refuses to mate

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.
Pandas are backed into a corner because bamboo sucks as a nutrient source so they have to stay lazy to conserve energy that can only be efficiently spent eating.

The weird part is that since they're bears they still have the digestive system of a carnivore but somewhere along the way their tasty-meat umami gene lost the plot and now they don't have a hankering for meat.

Pandas would be cool as hell if they still acted like all the other bears

Bodyholes
Jun 30, 2005

PromethiumX posted:

Pandas are a loving worthless creature and no effort should be put forth to stave off their extinction.

This is a common opinion and I used to have the same opinion. After many years I've softened my view towards them though, and I do think they are worth saving.

TrustmeImLegit
Jan 14, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
As far as pandas go even if put under ideal conditions they still starve to death and refuse to gently caress. They were going extinct well before people got involved.

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TrustmeImLegit posted:

As far as pandas go even if put under ideal conditions they still starve to death and refuse to gently caress. They were going extinct well before people got involved.

IIRC, they're a lot more willing to gently caress when they aren't in captivity. Maybe they just have some loving dignity.





lol jk pandas are terrible

The Skeleton King
Jul 16, 2011

Right now undead are at the top of my shit list. Undead are complete fuckers. Those geists are fuckers. Necromancers are fuckers. Necrosavants are big time fuckers. Skeletons aren't too bad except when they bleed everyone in the company. Zombos are at least not too bad.


ClamdestineBoyster posted:

I think everyone should have an arm for a dick. :downs:

that's the spirit! Just remember that society will not have to accept or tolerate your gross mutation.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

If we have arms for dicks how will we reproduce? :ohdear:

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.
You shouldn't hug kids with penile arms

nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax

Nolan Arenado posted:

Oh, also I know that Patton Oswalt can be kind of a bozo, but I pretty much agree with this thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67oBbpyE9Xg

I said the term "transsexual" once in a small group of people and got a stern talking to about how that is an offensive term and they basically made me out to be a huge rear end in a top hat. I was like poo poo, maybe you could focus your anger on the people that think transgender folks oughta be exterminated instead of at the guy who is on your side but accidentally said the wrong term. :shobon:

so like if ones gender falls on a spectrum and there is no gendered brain, gender expression is just an artifact of society shoehorning people into the assumed behaviors of the phenotype of genetic sex, and ones gender identity is separate from their genetics, doesnt that kind of stand in contrast to the idea of being trans gendered in the first place and implicate that it is not an innate trait but a social one

dont get me wrong i dont give a gently caress live and let live but a lot of the rhetoric about it really seems to be contradictory

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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The Skeleton King posted:

that's the spirit! Just remember that society will not have to accept or tolerate your gross mutation.

Pssshhhhh they'll respect that poo poo buddy. :jerkbag:

The Skeleton King
Jul 16, 2011

Right now undead are at the top of my shit list. Undead are complete fuckers. Those geists are fuckers. Necromancers are fuckers. Necrosavants are big time fuckers. Skeletons aren't too bad except when they bleed everyone in the company. Zombos are at least not too bad.


nigga crab pollock posted:

so like if ones gender falls on a spectrum and there is no gendered brain, gender expression is just an artifact of society shoehorning people into the assumed behaviors of the phenotype of genetic sex, and ones gender identity is separate from their genetics, doesnt that kind of stand in contrast to the idea of being trans gendered in the first place and implicate that it is not an innate trait but a social one

dont get me wrong i dont give a gently caress live and let live but a lot of the rhetoric about it really seems to be contradictory

People can rationalize it how they want, in the end they are just upset that they don't like their genitals and want different ones.

Gender identity is stupid crybaby bullshit. I say live how you want, but don't make a poo poo about it when other people don't care. Society should not exist to accommodate anyone's special feelings.

The Skeleton King
Jul 16, 2011

Right now undead are at the top of my shit list. Undead are complete fuckers. Those geists are fuckers. Necromancers are fuckers. Necrosavants are big time fuckers. Skeletons aren't too bad except when they bleed everyone in the company. Zombos are at least not too bad.


I should know better than to even talk about this poo poo. But this is the thread for unfriendly opinions so whatever.

Hardawn
Mar 15, 2004

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates
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Let them eat cake

TrustmeImLegit
Jan 14, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
As a medical professional (anyone who took bio 101 knows this) gender is a made up thing from the 70s. It doesn't exist. Medical science gives not one quarter of a gently caress what your 'gender' is at any point for any purpose. You are either male, female, or one of like the dozen people total on the planet who have insanely hosed up genitals.

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
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Mar 2, 2013
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a bone to pick posted:

Harris Teeter subs are better than Pubix

Fight me

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
a controversial opinion, presented without comment


a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Quentin Tarantino's dialogue is loving horrible in all of his movies.

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

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The History Channel is better in its current form than it was when it was 24/7 WW2 documentaries. Pawn Stars was great when it started out (but is poo poo now that they devote over half of it to the made-up drama between rick/corey/chumlee etc), American Pickers is one of the most entertaining shows on TV, and filler shows like Rick's Restorations and Ax Men(if they still show that) are pretty good. I don't even care if it's all staged.

Big Bowie Bonanza
Dec 30, 2007

please tell me where i can date this cute boy
i'm okay with mass surveillance as long as its findings are used ethically

The Skeleton King
Jul 16, 2011

Right now undead are at the top of my shit list. Undead are complete fuckers. Those geists are fuckers. Necromancers are fuckers. Necrosavants are big time fuckers. Skeletons aren't too bad except when they bleed everyone in the company. Zombos are at least not too bad.


Big Bowie Bonanza posted:

i'm okay with mass surveillance as long as its findings are used ethically

I dislike it,but only because it makes crime boring.

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Mar 14, 2005

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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:

i'm okay with mass surveillance as long as its findings are used ethically

I'm OK with pretty much whatever the government wants to do as long as it doesn't make my own life less convenient in any way. Look at my porn history NSA who cares, as long as I'm not actively aware of it it doesn't bother me.

Ouhei
Oct 23, 2008

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

TrustmeImLegit posted:

As a medical professional (anyone who took bio 101 knows this) gender is a made up thing from the 70s. It doesn't exist. Medical science gives not one quarter of a gently caress what your 'gender' is at any point for any purpose. You are either male, female, or one of like the dozen people total on the planet who have insanely hosed up genitals.

I tend to think that the "gender is a spectrum" is missing the point. The goal should be removing assignment of behaviors/likes/dislikes/hobbies/etc from being associated with a sex unless it is medically relevant. Basically the goal seemingly should be that we remove the societal side and only use identifiers when it's medically relevant.

(I couldn't care less about how anyone wants to live their life so long as they're not harming anyone in the process)

Bob James
Nov 15, 2005

by Lowtax
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Groundhog Day should be a federal holiday.

FullLeatherJacket
Dec 30, 2004

Chiunque puņ essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett

television and video games are overwhelmingly brain poison and your grandma was right all along

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

FullLeatherJacket posted:

television and video games are overwhelmingly brain poison and your grandma was right all along

It does kind of seem like that is true, too bad we are all hopelessly addicted now.

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

FullLeatherJacket posted:

television and video games are overwhelmingly brain poison and your grandma was right all along

Grandma used to call the TV an "idiot box"

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:

i'm okay with mass surveillance as long as its findings are used ethically

Yeah you know sometimes the CIA just gathers information because it's interesting to them personally. I mean it's not like every piece of information they gather is used to kill or subvert people. Sometimes they sell it to advertising agencies to shame and humiliate their victims, and hooo boy let me tell you that's just good old fashioned fun.

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

FullLeatherJacket posted:

television and video games are overwhelmingly brain poison and your grandma was right all along

Doubly so for social media. I thought it'd equalize and foster a quicker path to common understanding but turns out it only deepened the existing trenches

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Mar 14, 2005

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FullLeatherJacket posted:

television and video games are overwhelmingly brain poison and your grandma was right all along

My grandma bought us almost 200 NES games from some lady who stole them for 5 bucks a piece and took us to see all the new cool movies, I think we had different grandmas.

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

Toadvine posted:

Doubly so for social media. I thought it'd equalize and foster a quicker path to common understanding but turns out it only deepened the existing trenches

I'd go further and say the internet, along with television and video games.

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.
Here's my controversial opinion: people are inherently good and will behave admirably when pressed.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Toadvine posted:

Here's my controversial opinion: people are inherently good and will behave admirably when pressed.

People are stupid selfish apes who care only about themselves and reproducing.

Secular Humanist
Mar 1, 2016

by Smythe
People aren't inherently one thing or another but rather are animated by their genetic predispositions combined with their external circumstances because the world isn't a zero sum binary dumbfest for babies

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Secular Humanist posted:

People aren't inherently one thing or another but rather are animated by their genetic predispositions combined with their external circumstances because the world isn't a zero sum binary dumbfest for babies

i agree

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

Secular Humanist posted:

People aren't inherently one thing or another but rather are animated by their genetic predispositions combined with their external circumstances because the world isn't a zero sum binary dumbfest for babies

I assure you that the world is a dumbfest for babies!

Toadvine
Mar 16, 2009
Please disregard my advice w/r/t history.

Secular Humanist posted:

People aren't inherently one thing or another but rather are animated by their genetic predispositions combined with their external circumstances because the world isn't a zero sum binary dumbfest for babies

Actually people are afflicted with consciousness and thus varying levels of empathy. We behave selfishly when we're removed from the consequences of our actions.

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Son of Rodney
Feb 22, 2006

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I believe getting kids is pretty much completely selfish, people do it because they feel like it or because its time or something, and don't realize fully that they're creating a whole new person.

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