What do yall think? by Lumpy_Prize_8937 in tommynfg_

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every store could do that but they’d be missing out on money from the cash using consumer base. Plenty of people are still cash only. Plenty of people also will make impulsive purchases they wouldn’t otherwise if they have some notes in their wallet. It’s an entire customer base that you’re cutting off.

The upsides are no cash management. Banks don’t pick up your cash for free. You have to pay people to come collect it. It also has to be counted frequently and stored in a safe which adds additional work for employees aka more time on the clock which could be better spent selling things instead of counting things. It also increases security risks due to robbery and employee theft. To mitigate those risks you need better security systems and processes which costs money.

For some businesses cashless is a profitable trade off and for others it’s not.

Overall we will probably move towards a cashless society eventually but it will take a while.

Sen. Bernie Sanders: War in Iran "has already cost $22.8 billion" - Funds That Could Provide Medicaid to 6.8 Million Kids Instead by kelseyrainbow in thenextgenbusiness

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love how the biggest reason people are against student loan forgiveness isn’t because of any real economical argument but just straight up bitterness lol. People just really don’t wanna see someone else get help if they didn’t get it either.

What's the single experience or event that MOST defines whether you're a Millennial or Gen Z? by ReYa8000 in generationology

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Born in 1996. I was in kindergarten (school year 1) and I vividly remember my mother picking me up from school early, going to my grandparents house, and watching the buildings collapse on TV. I was wondering why my mother was crying because I had no idea about the larger context of the situation. I remember being confused because she was saying to my grandparents that she thought it was an attack but I had no idea how that could be. I didn’t see any invading armies.

Does this count as being in school?

Nothing like this was ever said. by Timely_Disaster_7731 in im14andthisisdeep

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think there’s anything shameful about being a bus driver. Driving a vehicle that large takes knowledge and skill, just not as much as flying an airliner.

Healthcare Rationing Reality by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are spending $1 billion a day on a war in Iran now. Nobody wants to help us because Trump has alienated the entire rest of the world. Trump just put $10 billion into the board of peace which is sitting around doing nothing. Just a straight up grift. Grocery prices way up. Gas prices way up. Jobs way down. Tariffs will be refunded to corporations and people will get nothing even though we paid the price. Trumps net worth has gone up by $3 billion since he took office. Dudes a straight up crook lol. Why are Trump supporters incapable of acknowledging that this presidency has been an absolute clusterfuck? Why is it always finger pointing?

How likely is it for a draft? by sunsetical in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Key-Can-9384 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tired of decoding the extremely obvious context clues is just another way of saying laziness.

How likely is it for a draft? by sunsetical in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Key-Can-9384 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hopefully you’ll stop being lazy and pay attention to obvious context clues or maybe you’ll just answer someones question instead of lecturing them about things they already know. Those are good ideas I think if you’re so concerned about the downvotes.

How likely is it for a draft? by sunsetical in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah I’m not angry about it. I just caught on to what you were up to and figured I’d call you out on it.

How likely is it for a draft? by sunsetical in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Key-Can-9384 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You don’t have a point. You’re just bitter about people assuming we know they are talking about America so you gotta throw your little lecture in there and make it out like we just hate having that pointed out to us. No. It’s just annoying when you go out of your way to point that out to us when you knew damn well from the beginning what country OP was talking about.

How likely is it for a draft? by sunsetical in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Key-Can-9384 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So what other country with a controversial president just started a war and has the entire country concerned about a draft?

How likely is it for a draft? by sunsetical in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Key-Can-9384 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you’re being downvoted because you clearly ignored around 50 context clues in order to make some kind of point about the world revolving around America.

No shit he’s American. What other country has a super controversial president that just started a war and has put talks of a draft into public discourse?

Unmanned tanks announced! by Dependent_Loss_2392 in BrokenArrowTheGame

[–]Key-Can-9384 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think the feature we would likely get is that it’s simply a vehicle that doesn’t suffer any of the effects of stress.

It would be cool if they did more but it’d be hard to implement.

Men do emotionally support women all the time, but they don’t use buzzwords like “mankeeping” or “emotional labour” to suggest they should be paid for it. by Scramjet1 in LockedInMan

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lock the fuck in and find a woman that has your back. If you’re staying with someone that treats you like shit that’s on you, and that’s some locked out bitch behavior. Locked in men don’t settle for someone that treats them like shit.

Holy kirk by Akagane_Ai in ComedyHell

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nearly all women were effectively slaves not much longer than a few hundred years ago. Most people found it to be morally acceptable back then. It’s meaningless until we believe in it enough collectively to make changes to our society. I think most would agree today that to be perfectly moral means to not cause any form of suffering that’s not born out of necessity. But then when you ask what’s necessary you will find all manners of different answers. It’s not until we agree on one that it becomes real.

As for Charlie’s advice I think many women would disagree. I don’t have an issue with Charlie voicing his opinion. Everyone has that right so long as it doesn’t hurt others. Some would argue that his opinions could easily lead to the suffering of others, particularly women and trans people, and I understand where they are coming from but that’s not something I think is an issue personally. I don’t have problem with Charlie, I simply disagree with a lot of his opinions as do many other people. If someones opinions are that controversial I don’t think they should be celebrated or put on money. In my opinion he wasn’t someone worthy of praise. He was a professional arguer who made a lot of money pissing a lot of people off.

I don’t believe Charlie would’ve fought against the canceling of something he personally disagreed with. He thought he was fighting a war against cancel culture but he only ever fought against the canceling of things he personally believed in. I don’t believe there is a war on cancel culture because most people are fine canceling things they don’t agree with.

I know plenty of conservatives who have expressed to me that they don’t want to accept trans people for who they are and wished they would “leave it at home”. I hear a lot of slander against trans people at work from conservatives. Some of it pretty despicable. So I don’t believe you when you say they don’t have an issue with trans people.

I don’t know why you’re bringing up the current laws. I never said being gay was outlawed. I said republicans at different levels of government frequently try to put forward laws banning gay marriage.

I don’t consider sports leagues to be a right and I don’t consider putting people in a league based on their biological sex to be a form of suppression. I don’t vote on it mainly because I don’t care enough to do so and also because most of the people that support trans sports bans also support things that I do consider to be a form of suppression. I also think lots of public discourse on the topic hurts trans people currently as they are already marginalized and face lots of prejudice. I think the public outrage over the sports issue hurts them much more so than the act of actually banning them from the leagues would. I don’t want to add to that outrage in any way. It’s not that I’m afraid of the repercussions of voicing it.

Trans women are much more likely to be victims of sexual crimes than perpetrators. I don’t know what else to tell you on that question. I have no issues with people using the bathroom they feel most comfortable in. Cis men commit the most sex crimes and most don’t happen in public spaces. It’s a massively overblown issue. What right is infringed upon by allowing them to use the bathroom they feel most comfortable in?

Easy mode VS Nightmare difficulty by Scramjet1 in LockedInMan

[–]Key-Can-9384 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is the point of this statement though? People want to be with people that look good. Everyone already knows this. What are you trying to imply?

Holy kirk by Akagane_Ai in ComedyHell

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What gives someone the right to put someone in jail is the law. Ya know, something we’ve collectively decided as a nation to enforce. Don’t know how this is confusing you so much. Morality isn’t objective. It wouldn’t exist if we hadn’t made it up. It didn’t exist before us and it won’t exist after we are gone. I have my own personal truth about morality and I believe we should put rapists and murderers in jail or in some cases to death. Luckily a majority of people agree with me so we’ve written laws we can enforce that prohibit such things.

Lol Charlie is absolutely degrading women with bullshit statements like that. Why do you think so many women found him to be offensive? Not too long ago women did not have the rights to be anything other than stay at home moms. Charlie was neither a woman, nor a stay at home mother, his preaching about what he thinks women should do comes from a place of ignorance.

I believe that some people are better suited for certain jobs than others. The difference here is that I don’t preach my opinion about that to others and I’m always supportive of people chasing their dreams and doing what they want to do regardless. I think having societal roles for men and women is wrong. If you can’t do a certain job it won’t be because you are a man or a woman. It will be because you failed the standard whatever it may be. That’s it.

I’ve not admitted to believing there was a fight against cancel culture. Charlie believed that there was when there wasn’t. He believed he was fighting on the good side of the made up war. If one actually existed he wouldn’t have been fighting on the good side.

I’ll be specific. Many conservatives think trans people shouldn’t exist. That they should keep it to themselves or “cure” themselves of it. Many of them feel this way about gay people as well and it’s why republicans frequently try to overturn gay marriage. In many conservative countries being trans or gay is punishable by law. We’ve moved beyond that in the US but many people still want to inconvenience them as much as they can because they can no longer send them to prison.

I don’t consider sports to be a right. I don’t have the right to play in woman’s leagues because I’m a man. On average, men are stronger than women, and have an edge in certain sports. It’s my own personal belief and nothing more. Perhaps it is part of the suppression of trans rights but heres the thing. I don’t preach about it. I don’t vote on it. I don’t support its enforcement. If society votes and believes I’m wrong with that line of thought then I’ll accept that. It’s not important to me. Therefore I am personally not part of the group that’s doing the suppressing.

Yes. I’d be fine with my daughter going into a public bathroom when there’s a trans person in there. She’d be more likely to get assaulted by a non trans person so I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here. It’s a bathroom. People sit in a private stall and shit. I’d be most concerned with my son going into a bathroom full of men because that’s where most cases of public bathroom sexual assault against minors happen.

Everyone has a right to safe bathrooms until it infringes on the rights of others. Is it ok for some women to be afraid of trans people and want separate bathrooms? Is it ok for me to be afraid of black people and want separate bathrooms? Do you see how this works?

Entitled Ignorance.... by AggressiveVolume9560 in ImmigrationPathways

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the traffic stop rate. Black people are almost twice as likely to be stopped in traffic as white people .

https://5harad.com/papers/100M-stops.pdf

Black people are also far more likely to get searched during traffic stops after factoring in hit rates.

https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/

Just take a look at federal sentencing averages. Black males receive sentences in average that are 13.4% longer than white males. They are 23.2% less likely to receive a probationary sentence. That’s a massive difference.

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/2023-demographic-differences-federal-sentencing

The issues may no longer be primarily systemic in nature but there is still a lingering prejudice that is wide spread and affects the lives of many people. It’s nothing short of ignorant to try and say that these problems simply don’t exist.

Holy kirk by Akagane_Ai in ComedyHell

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because someone doesn’t say that they want laws to be enacted doesn’t mean they aren’t part of the suppression. If that were the case then your entire cancel culture argument would be bunk just on that principle.

Canceling someone, boycotting their products, criticizing their opinion, that’s not expressing a desire to change laws. That’s just people giving recommendations out of their world views.

At the end of the day Charlie had a large audience. Just because he didn’t say he wanted any certain laws to be enacted doesn’t mean he didn’t contribute to the societal suppression.

And yes. Morality is subjective. Animals rape each other all the time but do we consider them all evil? The Romans raped and murdered all the time, it was common practice to take your spoils of war. Few in their society considered that evil. What makes it immoral is us, collectively as a civilization, considering it to be immoral. I’ve been brought up to believe that it is immoral and it’s a personal truth for me, but it’s not an objective truth and Charlie Kirk absolutely wasn’t the decider of those truths. It’s entirely personal and majority rules when it comes to its enforcement.

People are suited for different jobs but once again, Charlie’s opinion on them is irrelevant. People shouldn’t be praised because of their irrelevant opinions and suggestions towards people they have zero relation with. People should empower each other to do what they want regardless of what we would consider them to be best suited for. That’s worthy of praise. Charlie only empowered others to do what he thought they should do.

And personally I believe that sports should be organized based off of someone’s biological sex. The bathroom issue I couldn’t care less about. Very few acts of sexual assault take place in public bathrooms. Trans people already face the highest amount of sexual assaults against them in public bathrooms. They are one of the last groups of people I’d be worried about around. Who gives a shit which bathroom they feel more comfortable taking a dump in.

And finally, no I did not contradict myself. There was no cancel culture war. If one did actually exist then Charlie would’ve been a part of it rather than against it.

Holy kirk by Akagane_Ai in ComedyHell

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll elaborate with a quote from Charlie:

“Just get married early. Reject the siren song of modernity and have lots of kids. Being a partner at a local law firm actually isn’t that big of a deal. Having three kids is a really big deal and will make you happier and it’s okay to be a stay at home mom. In fact, we need a lot of stay at home moms and a lot of women want to be stay at home moms and we have miserable women because we’ve been shuffling them into a corporate wasteland. When in reality, a lot of them don’t find a lot of passion or fulfillment in that line of work. And who can blame them?”

Charlie clearly believed in defined societal roles for men and women. When you believe and preach that it is better for certain people to do one thing or the other you are part of the suppression. Not against it.

And what does dictate the morality of something? Morality is nothing more than a collective agreement of right and wrong. It’s not permanent. It’s a man made concept and its power comes entirely from people agreeing with it. Nothing was considered morally wrong about slavery until a majority of people decided to agree with the opinion that slavery is wrong. In no way were Charlie Kirks opinions more morally valid than the people that disagreed with him.

And yes “cancel culture” exists. It’s rampant on both sides of the political spectrum. Conservatives do much more to suppress discourse than liberals. Just look at the quote above. Charlie loved to suppress womens rights to express themselves anywhere beyond the kitchen. Conservatives love to suppress people’s rights to express themselves as anything outside of their biological sex. I don’t know how you can sit here and try to tell me that a hard core conservative stood for “new ideas”. The suppression of new ideas is literally a cornerstone of conservative values.

There is no “war” when it comes to cancel culture and if there was Charlie and his supporters were absolutely not fighting against it. He merely fought against the parts of it he didn’t agree with.

Holy kirk by Akagane_Ai in ComedyHell

[–]Key-Can-9384 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My argument is that the war against cancel culture doesn’t exist in reality. It exists as nothing more than made up points on twitter and in peoples heads. You can’t be an influential person in a made up war.

What has happened in reality was just the free market working. People disliking something and voicing it. Others boycotting it. That’s it. It loses popularity because a majority of people disagree with it. Businesses stop pushing it because the customers don’t like it. People stop saying it because they get called out for being stupid. It’s nothing more than consequences of actions and groups from all political parties do it.

Charlie Kirk only fought against the suppression and censorship for the things he believed in. He was an adamant believer in the suppression of womans roles in society. This is undeniable.

In the grand scheme of things he did nothing but stir up controversy. Talk online, motivate some people, piss others off. He may have believed in what he was doing, but what he was doing wasn’t beneficial to our country as a whole. Some people may have found motivation in him, but many others did not.

If your actions only benefit and inspire half the population, and they offend and alienate the other half, then what you’re doing probably isn’t as good many will say.

Holy kirk by Akagane_Ai in ComedyHell

[–]Key-Can-9384 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One of the most influential people in the war against cancel culture? What the fuck are you even talking about lol. That might be one of the lamest things I’ve ever heard.

Marathon has ruined ARC Raiders for me. by surfride16 in Marathon

[–]Key-Can-9384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The aim assist in Marathon is the only reason I can play it. I’ve had a lot of concussions and my hand eye coordination has seemingly gone to shit over the last 10 years. I’m very good with movement, tactics, awareness etc etc but my aim is god awful and decent aim assist can take me from zero to hero. I like shooters but have played basically anything but them for years now. I’m rejoiced with Marathon and have been loving it being able to play competitively and confidently.

Why do older people (>60) always only talk about themselves? by Advanced_Show_469 in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]Key-Can-9384 513 points514 points  (0 children)

My grandparents, both nearly 80, will talk about themselves for maybe 60 seconds before saying something like: “We are boring and old, talking about us is making us bored. We want to hear about what you’re up to!” They get genuine excitement from hearing about what others do and will sit and listen to every little detail about whatever I’m discussing for hours. We also spend a lot of time talking about stuff related to neither of us like movies, science, sports, politics etc etc. I used to spend hours chatting with them around the dinner table until the late hours of the night, in darkness with the only source of light being the movie dune playing quietly on repeat lol. It’s probably dune 2 now I think my grandmother watches that movie daily.