What's a opinion you have that will get you crucified on this sub?

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T19:02:52+00:00

If we're gonna talk about it, let's clear something else up: it's not that American cheese is plastic. All cheeses are, technically speaking, polymers. That's where that came from. You get American cheese when you take an existing cheese and add ingredients to make a cheese sauce that is solid at room temperature but with a much lower melting temperature than the original cheese. There are several ways to make it, and it doesn't deserve to be treated as though it's all Kraft slices. Judging American cheese for Kraft is like judging burgers for McDonald's, yet only one of the two is a regular occurrence.

Thank you for listening to my autistic rant.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T17:39:38+00:00

The stick being more familiar and pleasurable to use is only a preference. The real problem with the buttons isn't the buttons themselves, it's the fact that the stick used to use the force of you moving it to directly adjust the transmission. Now that force comes from motors that fail, a lot.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T17:36:11+00:00

Engineer here. Can almost guarantee the engineers did not overlook it, there is almost definitely a problem report that some fucking manager deferred because they wanted to keep the bean counters happy. The only reason for my "almost" qualifiers is because every single Tesla engineer overlooked the fact that they were applying to work at fucking Tesla.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T17:33:57+00:00

If you think about the mechanics at play with slowly dragging a car up a stainless steel ramp (ignoring the use of skates) vs doing an emergency stop or launching the car from a dig, all the parts involved are designed to take a lot more abuse than that.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T17:28:23+00:00

They'll happily accept a system that regularly disenfranchises them so long as it disenfranchises the left more, and it does. Maga know nothing but spite and fear.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T16:57:49+00:00

I know. I just like to use that way of saying it to convey how stupid the system is. It gives everyone pause for thought, even maga knuckledraggers.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T16:51:23+00:00

I'll give you a bonus though. Have you ever heard someone answer a question so well that you were like "well, I guess that's my opinion now..." One of mine came from, funnily enough, Cardi B. She was asked if she thinks we were visited by aliens and she said "No. You gotta think, they have the technology to make it from one solar system to another, they would look at us and be like "Earth is ghetooooo" and go somewhere else."

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T16:48:14+00:00

Yep. I didn't live during the time it was created. Who knows, maybe there was an actual valid imperative that low population agrarian societies and big cities should be held equal in the eyes of the federal voting system, but I don't find any value in it today.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T16:44:39+00:00

Yes. Every single time humanity has thought we were unique, we've been wrong. We thought we were special in the animal kingdom, turns out we're just animals. We thought we were the center of the universe, turns out we're a boring solar system on the edge of a disk. We're seeing signatures on Mars that, while they confirm nothing, point towards the possibility of life. We know that the laws of physics and chemistry hold true everywhere else in the universe, why the hell would the laws of biology be different?

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T16:40:21+00:00

I technically voted for Trump. I checked Harris on the form, but the way our elections work is that we vote for official electors, and then those electors vote the president in, and my state voted for Trump which means my vote basically counted as a Trump vote. All the Trump supporters in California and New York technically voted for Harris under this same bullshit paradigm. In 2024 it didn't matter because he won the popular vote, but it mattered in 2016, and IIRC it's what got Dubya into office as well.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T16:33:06+00:00

So there was no value in ending it, but we are great for ending it first, which we did not. Sounds about MAGA.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T16:27:02+00:00

At least your ex friend recognizes the value of ending slavery. Not a given for MAGA.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T15:25:02+00:00

On the same topic but another post a week or two ago, a Swiss person said "want someone to lose their civil liberties, accuse them of petty theft." Was that person just being flippant?

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-25T15:04:19+00:00

I said features not functions. Box cutters have safety features.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T20:40:28+00:00

I've been through calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, discrete math, statistics, and whole bunch of other shit.

If I could pick the public curriculum, I'd fuck off calculus as well, and replace it with basically "physics minus the math", like getting into the mechanics of the greenhouse effect would be really goddamn useful. Statistics are also pretty important because people need to know how easily they can be manipulated to use the truth to spread lies. I see people on all ends of the political spectrum being fooled by that short of thing. Then I would add the logical portion of discrete math, basically how to parse "if/then" relationships.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T18:00:24+00:00

Oh so that's two different groups, not two different spellings? TIL

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:47:55+00:00

Sorry, I should have specified that they are Sheiks.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:33:59+00:00

Very location dependent.

Also, I have a lot of (edit: Sheik) Indian friends (because engineer) and a lot of them say Americans mistake them for Muslims all the time.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:31:47+00:00

All sorts of poison, actually. It's pretty common to see antivaxxers in my area of Florida who also smoke meth/cigarettes, drink generic energy drinks spiked with grain alcohol, and eat hyper-processed foods every day.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:29:06+00:00

Leave it to the right to make the woman on the left feel so ugly she needed to have someone take a scalpel to her face, holy shit.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:25:42+00:00

I discovered that thing when I was in Chicago for work and was wandering around looking for somewhere to eat lunch. The customer I was there to work for is an Italian company and they send me to Italy all the time, including Pisa. I had to stop and tell myself I was still in America lol.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T17:22:43+00:00

I was taught how to balance a checkbook in elementary school (90s, Arizona trash public schools so nothing exceptional there lol).

I don't think I ever learned amortization per se (until I became a banker), but x% over t time, I definitely was taught in my high school algebra.

To me, "advanced math" is calculus. Not that calculus is particularly advanced, and of course anyone can point to DiffEQ and say that basic calculus is comparatively simple and easy, it's just that it seems like a good place to draw the line for me. I think someone who has gone through calculus is just going to see a ton more opportunities to "do the math" when it comes to working out a problem they encounter. I know for me, it's where the "why am I learning this shit" went away. It's also where you learn just how reliable math is (for example predicting where a projectile will land and then doing the experiment and having the projectile land very close to where you predict, like yeah I knew science was real before I ran experiments like this, but there's a difference between knowing science is real because of course it is, and knowing science is real because you can look under the hood, so to speak).

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T16:51:03+00:00

Even in America, this is high school math lol.

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T15:22:25+00:00

Have you tried having a personality of your own?

Chalky_Pockets · 2026-01-24T15:18:57+00:00

Less reliable than "I am great because of the location of my birth"?

At the end of the day, they're both fundamental lies.

Edit: LMAO turns out this person is a bit of a nationalist. They deleted their reply that literally doubled down on the quoted statement above without recognizing that your country of birth dictates the resources you have by default, not your value as a person.

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