You get a speeding ticket. You have to pay $250. That’s going to hurt. You’re going to think twice about speeding again. If Elon Musk gets the same $250 speeding ticket, he doesn’t give a damn. A quick Google search says that on average, his wealth increases by $7,125 every second of every day. The fine is absolutely no deterrent to him whatsoever. Thus the legal code only applies to the poor. Crime is only crime to you if it hurts you to pay for it.

So change the legal code. Instead of a flat $250 fine, the offender has to pay 0.25% of their net worth. If you have $100,000 in the bank, you pay the same $250 fine. It’s a tiny percentage of your net worth, but it’s enough to make you think twice about doing it again. If you’re Elon Musk, the 0.25% fine on your $749B costs you $1,872,500,000. Again, it’s a tiny percentage of his enormous stack. But enough to make him think twice about doing it again.

What’s the moral justification for a $2B speeding ticket? The guy paying that much has gained the most living in our society, under the protections and privileges of its laws, fire departments, freeway systems, etc. If he abuses that society by breaking its laws, he can kick his share back in to extend those protections and privileges to others.

This is the only way to make the law apply equally to everybody.

EDIT: 1) math is hard. That does not negate the premise. 2) People saying that we’d be paying people in debt to commit crimes: have a minimum fine. Next question. (We are not meant to abandon common sense in this scenario)

In skinny jeans, the micro-climate is locked in. It is a consistent 37 degree Celsius pressure-hug. But baggy jeanss? I take a step and a bolus of cold, unconsented air shoot up the leg hole and swirls around my knee. my braiwn has to stop everything it’s doing. It’s a literal tactile jump scare every time i have to walk. ​

​When the fabric is touching me it' even worse. Every step is a coarse, cotton weaves "sandblasting" my leg hair in a different direction. Soo I physically feel obliged to manually shake my leg to "reset" my limb because one specific denim fiber is overstimulating a single pore on my shin.

​ Every time my inner thighs graze each other, it sends a vibration through the fabric that I literally feel in my teeth. Skinny jeans are the "Mute Mode". Their like a weighted blanket I can wear to the grocery store. It provides the "Deep Pressure Input" that tells my brain exactly where mi limbs start and end. ​

I have one of the pink Stanley cups that went viral 2 years ago. I put ice in it last night and today 12 hours later the ice is still there.

I have never drank so much water since getting my Stanley cup. It stays cold forever. I can put coffee in it and it will stay hot. Its cute, it looks nice on my desk, its durable...

The only reason p​eople clown on these things is because of the target fistfights and the tiktoks of people with entire cupboards of them. But Ive been using mine every single day for 2 years and I love it.​

For context, I often see posts on here about how to fix unfair, stressful working environments due to bad management, general disorganization, etc. The "advice" for how to fix it always boils down to "just find another job."

Maybe once upon a time this was true, but now we are enduring a historically bad job market. Companies are gouging their staffing levels for the sake of being "lean" (making less people do more work in order for the company to make more profits) or replacing these jobs with [term redacted, but you all know what I mean]. Job boards are flooded with ghost jobs and low-quality offerings.

Leaving your job is simply not a viable option now if you need to keep making income, and sadly, I think most employers are aware of that. We need to identify ways to help people navigate their current environment instead of encouraging them just to "leave." I know it's easier said than done, but if we don't start doing this the working world is going to be a hellscape of bad jobs.

I'm American, if it matters.

The wife and I use to love this show, she still watches cause it’s a comfort thing, however the quality has gone down so much. The new cast is a lot more Dramatic and overall feels like they want us to care more about them then the patients and surgeries. The old cast made us care about them, it was doctor and surgeries first and we eventually got backstory of their lives and it just made us care more. Honestly I feel the show should have ended when Deluca died, maybe even before that.

Majority of the people I know either don’t care much for breakfast or say they don’t like eating in the morning, and even after searching this sub, most of the breakfast posts are people hating on it and I just don’t get it, no other meal gets as much slander as breakfast

Breakfast is my absolute favorite meal because there’s so much variety from something simple to a yogurt bowl to more complicated meals like a diner meal (eggs, bacon, toast, potatoes) or even breakfast burritos. Besides that it’s also social acceptable to eat sweet things like pancakes, french toast, cereal etc and savory things like the sausages, breakfast sandwiches etc. like ofc you can eat pancakes for dinner if you really want but it’s not normalized and rarely do you find a restaurant serving sweet foods at lunch and dinner. Buttt at breakfast restaurants offer all kinds of things. I love the variety of options and I’m always one who eats breakfast before I start my day

I understand that the world we live in adheres to the 'social contract' and we are expected to put on and keep up the facade everyday. I actually agree with this as a society if we didn't and everyone did exactly as they felt all of the time, it would collapse. I get all of that but I believe we have taken a bit too far.

It's basically demanded that you 'smile and wave' 24/7 when out in public. That you have to stifle any and all possibly negative emotion, otherwise you get seen as rude and a terrible person. I think this constant suppression actually causes way more damage than it should be. I think we as a society need to be more understanding that people are entitled to be standoffish or withdrawn from time to time.

For instance, I had one of those days today. I didn't speak much at work other than what is the bare essentials to complete my and others tasks, that's it. There were others approaching me for small talk and I flat out ignored it. When others asked how I am I gave an honest "Not the best but it is what it is" and left it at that. That's just the way things have been for me and I decided today I'm not putting in the effort to uphold all of the lies. I think that should be accepted more by the general public. Let's all be real.. no one is 'good' all of the time like they pretend.

Now I'm not saying to treat it like The Purge or anything where you get to do whatever you want or enact revenge on others. Nor am I saying you should be doing what I did today, everyday. Obviously that's wrong and I'm not at all condoning that behavior but we should allow more honesty and minor ways to escape the facade for a little bit without fear of harsh judgment from everyone all of the time.

Recently there was some drama in the fandom of this one cartoon show, of which I have only watched bits and pieces of. From what I could gather, the drama seemed to be:

• The author stated the show is only intended to run for one season, as this was the run of the story they wanted to tell
• Fans immediately started theorizing and suggesting ways to expand on the franchise beyond just writing new seasons of the show, with one of them suggesting "a series of graphic novels focused on the backstory of each of the main characters"
• The author responded tot he fan, stating that only two of the characters in the show are really "the main characters". This generated controversy that I do not understand and which is not relevant to this post.

That second bulletpoint really got me thinking. Modern audiences really can't be content with letting a world rest, can they? Even if we won't get another season, SURELY we need a spin-off. OF COURSE we need books and graphic novels explaining these characters' lives. PREQUELS don't forget prequels!

The thing that a lot of media consumers (and as someone who works in the industry, the executives and beginner writers too) tend to miss is that... a story has a shape. It's more than beginning, middle and end. Each scene, each character in the story serves a purpose that is directly tied to the main plot, themes, character work. I work as a narrative consultant, my job is to understand how each piece of the puzzle of a story fits or doesn't fit. And this franchise-craze leads to two big problems I see over, and over, and over, and over, and over again:

1. Characters or scenes that serve no purpose in the story, often drag over long scenes that "float" in your manuscript because... the author is trying to set up lore or backstory that might come relevant in a spin off they haven't even planned out yet, or even worse, lore that won't ever matter to the story they are trying to tell and they hope the fans learn through wikis and trivia
2. Characters in sequels in spin offs completely undermining the arc they went through in the first story, as the author had to metaphorically drag them back into the surgery room and open up new conflict, drama, and potential character work that is not present in any previous work. Not only does this make characters feel artificial, not organic and not lived-in (as it signals to readers that their arcs are manufactured as the author needs them to be injected artificially), it runs the risk of making your original story null by having characters re-tread all their emotional journey.

But... these are just risks. You CAN make a fantastic spin-off that knocks it out of the park and becomes even greater than the original work. This is, for instance, what I think of Better Call Saul. Easily in my favorite pieces of television work, and one of the most well-written I've personally seen. But the problem in my argument lies in expectations.

Audiences have been trained to never expect a work of art to end. Ever. At least not cleanly. If a show quietly runs for one season, has amazing character work that finishes in one stroke and is put to rest, audiences consider it to be a flop. This is frankly absurd to me! Some of the greatest works of art in film, television or literature and games are fantastic, self contained, small stories where every single scene, character, every single line has a well thought out, planned and studied purpose in the body of the work. Good stories feel tight. You don't need to ADD anything, and you can't REMOVE anything. That's what makes a story fantastic. And yet, people *always* want more.

I find this to be especially true with Videogames. Sequels, sequels, sequels. If a game has no sequel, it's because the devs FORGOT about the Franchise and left it to DIE. If a dev says he has no interest in continuing a franchise, fans hope the studio will put someone else as the head of the franchise so they can keep churning out more sequels and releases and remakes and DLCs and books and graphic novels and and and and and and.

Guys, we need to be more comfortable with letting good art rest. There will be more good art for us to fall in love with. Sometimes the story an author wants to tell is enough by itself.

Whenever I am placed on hold I listen to the music playing and get in a rhythm. When it abruptly stops I feel quite jarred and startled. When it ends it feels like someone is going to start talking, but then it starts again. It would be best if companies made it so that you could only come off hold after the song finishes.

Who doesn’t like a slice of ice cream for the road?…

It’s not cold. It’s not wet. It’s not sticky. It doesn’t melt.

It’s crunchy. It’s creamy. It’s sweet. It’s perfect.

I don’t care if it didn’t go on space missions it’s still astronaut ice cream 🚀👨‍🚀🚀

I think “follow your passion” is one of the most irresponsible pieces of advice we casually give people.

For most people, passions change. What you love at 16 isn’t what you love at 25, and definitely not at 40. Building your entire financial stability around something that might evolve (or disappear) is risky.

Also, monetizing a passion often kills it. The second your hobby becomes your income, it comes with deadlines, clients, metrics, and pressure. A lot of people end up resenting the thing they once loved.

There’s also survivorship bias. We constantly hear from the small percentage of people who “made it” doing what they love. We don’t hear from the thousands who tried, burned out, or went broke.

A stable job you’re neutral about, that funds a life you enjoy, is incredibly underrated. You don’t have to love your job. You just need to not hate it, and have enough energy left for the things that actually matter to you.

I’m not saying no one should pursue their passion. I just think presenting it as universal advice sets a lot of people up for unnecessary guilt and disappointment.

Touchscreen are actually very bad UX. Though they have made input a lot more versatile, and have increased screen real estate by a lot, they are terrible from a tactile standpoint.

They were around for decades on special interfaces, mostly as a light-pen system. I'm not talking about those, I'm really talking about non-stylus capacitive screens which were really called into life after the release of the first iPhone in 2007. If you as a smartphone manufacturer back then wanted to compete with the iPhone, you absolutely had to have a full-size touchscreen.

I hated it from the first moment. My first Android smartphone was a sliding phone with a full QWERTY keypad underneath. I could still blind type with that, but after it died: nada. To this day, phones have been devoid of buttons ever since, and blind typing on touchscreens, just does not work.

Touchscreen, for various reasons, require specific hand-eye coordination to work. Without looking at them, you have no frame of reference. No dimples like you have on physical buttons. The customizability of keyboards on screens is great but it makes it even more impossible to do things blind if things are not in the same place. Our muscle memory alone does not have the 'resolution' to type blindly with 100% accuracy even with a dictionary. Without dictionary it even becomes hopeless.

Now touchscreens are also dominant in car infotainment systems. Literally the worst move because now you not only need hand-eye coordination (taking your attention away from the road), you are shaken around because you move around in a car and that makes it difficult to aim. With buttons you can kind of rest your hand on it and feel for them while looking at the road. You cannot even rest your hand on a touchscreen without clicking stuff accidentally.

The only reason they are still so widely used is because they are fashionable and seen as a base standard. If you make a button-only car it's seen as too basic or even a step backwards, and might not sell well, because it's not like the other cars. I believe manufacturers know they are terrible UX, but can't change it because it would be risky and wouldn't bring revenue.

Our phones are way too big, and unhandy. Our cars are stealing our attention while we should be focused on the road. Food ordering kiosks are laggy as hell, and you don't know if you pressed something or not. The satisfying tactility of a good old button is very underestimated, and should be brought back.

Often, people describe being "petty" as a bad thing, but I think it can often be a valuable tool when being taken advantage of. Think of "quiet-quitting" today. Not too long ago, that was seen as "petty", but really, it helps preserve the worker's sanity when being exploited. Curious about your thoughts. If you do agree, maybe share some other examples where being "petty" can be valuable.

I have nothing against the tracks as music in the general sense, but as game music they contain far too many lyrics and repetitive moments. Game music has to be written to be enjoyable on repeat ad nauseum. Couple that with the fact that the lyrics are very on-the-nose, and it makes for a somewhat grating experience over time.

I feel like people give it a pass because Persona is known for "great music," and these are in fact good songs... just not for listening to on repeat.

I agree that Toy Story 3 was the perfect conclusion, but I see it as the end of Andy’s story. In the first three movies, Woody revolved his life around being loyal to his owner. He never wanted to be a lost toy because he wanted to have someone. Bo Peep taught him there’s more to life than that. It really gave Woody a satisfying arc of discovering more.

As far as I see it, starting life as a selfish person is a good thing. A good baseline for life is knowing how to take care of yourself, having boundaries, and being self fulfilled.

Being selfless is a good mode to learn afterward, because then it is genuine. You will need to be somewhat selfless to keep relationships in good health. Also taking care of yourself and being selfish gives a better baseline for how to give to others.

When someone is taught that specific flavors and techniques are important they will prefer and treat certain foods differently compared to someone who was taught that preservation and not starving is more important.

Or someone who was taught to prioritize whole fresh foods rather than be exposed to ultra processed ones.

These differences causes arguments I see online. It’s never so much about the food itself, but more so how the person was exposed and taught about food throughout their life.

I’m a huge tomato fan, I grew up eating tomato sandwiches or simply had them sliced up with salt and pepper. BLT’s, a beautiful pasta sauce or delicious salsa are all great uses for tomatoes. The problem with hamburgers is you either get a bland tomato and it takes away from the quality of the burger, or you get an excellent heirloom tomato and the burger takes away from the quality of the tomato. I think great pickles complement a burger, but great tomatoes don’t.

Airports specifically have become a circus!

This isn't new, but I had to type this out into the internet abyss.

As more and more folks travel...we need to maintain our humanity and keep in mind... "You" aren't the only person traveling! People don't even say "excuse me" anymore.

Sidebar: This includes educating these bad ass kids running rampant all over the airport.

Disclaimer: this isn't about kids, they're just catching strays cuz their parents are trash.

Why would you put cups away rim side down? That’s the part that touches your mouth. In most residences, the cups are put away in a cupboard with a door so there’s no reason to be worried about dust if you’re using your cups regularly. Putting them upside down just adds a layer of contamination on the rim side because most people don’t clean their selves very often. Especially in hotels, rentals Airbnbs etc. this just feels weird to me.

Everyone should be washing dishes individually with the tap. In the era of running water why are we wasting an entire sink full of water on a couple of dishes? Think about how nasty dish water is too. It’s a pool of food scraps and saliva but you expect it to sanitize your dishes? Even on a thanksgiving level of dishes night, wash them individually! It’s not lazy, its cleaner, faster, and better for your water bill.

Are you serious? obviously i don’t mean run the tap constantly, turn it on and off. Rise, soap, rinse. Use common sense 🤦🏼‍♀️

Also for the many of you saying use a dishwasher, first off you should not be putting pots and pans in your dishwasher and second, not all of us have a dishwasher.

Last thing, when you fill a sink, you have to rinse the dish to put it in the dish water and then again you have to rinse the soapy water off the dish. Tell me how thats not more wasteful than cutting out the nasty dish water and just applying soap directly.

As a PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT I don’t understand the extent of the hatred for the public school system. Although it has flaws look at what it’s done, it taught me how to read, write, utilize many forms of math, and socialize. A big critique of the system is the learning style. Memorization based assignments, notes, and lectures are given which lead up to a test. Yes maybe you’ll forget some of it, maybe you won’t use a lot of it in the real world, but there’s no doubt that completing written assignments, taking notes, doing “complex” math, and listening to lectures/videos will sharpen your brain. The school system also helps kids find their passions, think about all the sports, clubs, electives, and social connections you get involved with at public school in the 21st century. A lot of these clubs and activities weren’t even available decades ago, school has came a long way in recent years and I’m sure it will continue to evolve. Yes it’s not flawless but I can’t think of a better thing you can do for a young child’s educational and social development than to send them to a school where they are watching educational videos and lessons, reading and writing, and socializing with people who they’ll know up to highscool and potentially into adult life. School also teaches you social and cultural intelligence you can’t really get anywhere else. Most schools have a very diverse blend of ethnicities, wealth classes, and lifestyles which is perfect for teaching kids how cultural dynamics and socialization truly works. There are changes I would make to the system if I could but I don’t see a problem with the concept and structure as a whole.

Coming from a 40 something year old who has been raving since the 90s.

3AM the vibes on the dancefloor always seem to change. It’s like clockwork.

its also nice to see my age group (mid 30s to early 50s) are usually the ones holding it down at those hours. The youngins haven’t learned how to pace themselves yet.

The tourists and drunks are long gone (there is a resurgence of k zombies in recent years, I will admit that) and there is always 2-3 arms lengths around you to dance.

If it’s an outdoor event - seeing the sunset and sunrise in a single day can be pretty magical

3AM-7AM vibes are sacred. Don’t even think about pulling out your phone to film. Get lost in it.

edit: *are the best hours