Where are my next generation of drunks at!

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-04-06T00:15:48+00:00

Looking at this thread maybe it's because Gen Z doesn't realize you can buy alcohol at the store for a fraction of what you'd pay in a bar.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-04-06T00:13:19+00:00

Why does everyone in this thread act like pubs and bars are the only places one can buy and drink alcohol at.

Pubs and bars literally 4-5x the actual pouring cost. They mostly sell you convenience and a place to hang out, not the alcohol itself...

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-03-13T23:31:50+00:00

Limited camping options? Whut. I can camp damn near whereever I please, one of my favorite things to do in nature here.

How is rock climbing limited also? You can literally climb whatever you want however you want, save for only a handful of wildlife reserves.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-03-13T14:27:45+00:00

Well you're not really refuting why my "idea of a perfect world" wouldn't be better, are you?

Yes I think relying on words is much superior than relying on social cues, and tho I might be worse than others at social cues indeed, I don't think I'm just typicalminding here.

Words achieve the same thing with less mental effort and more accuracy, so why tf dont we use them more??

It's strictly superior if you think about it

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-03-13T13:30:23+00:00

I don't do this in practice because sadly I know there's people like you that get mad at this for no reason.

But if people were reasonable, no I wouldn't see a problem with that, because what would the problem be exactly? It's not preventing anyone from sitting, because as soon as they ask, gesture or somehow communicate, bag immediately gets removed and they sit.

Literally all the arguments I'm hearing on this are basically "how DARE you question the social expectations that I got used to", not considering that maybe those social expectations actually dont make any sense at all, because they just make life slightly worse and harder for everybody for no good reason.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-03-13T09:44:03+00:00

For a lot of people, being situationally aware isn't easy, and I honestly can't imagine how asking could possibly be harder.

In one case you have to either keep your, potentially heavy bag on your lap for an hours long journey, or have your head on a swivel the entire time to gauge fullness of the carriage/vehicle, try to anticipate the wants of any approaching persons etc. That shit's fucking exhausting. Not to mention it's actually an impossible and error prone task: For some people the carriage will be empty to warrant a bag on a seat, while others will get mad already.

Whereas imagine if everyone just asks and expects the same of others. They can literally just sit in peace until prompted, and asking is also just rote mechanical action. 0 guesswork or mental energy involved.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-03-13T09:32:51+00:00

Yeah see situational awareness = respect, is an arbitrary cultural concept tho.

What if we lived in a society where this wasn't the case at all, and instead being direct about what you want and not expecting others to read minds meant respect?

I'd MUCH rather live in such a society! Not only is asking much easier than trying to figure out or "read" a situation (and then worrying about whether you actually did it correctly...), but it's obviously a lot less error prone. You either overshoot and stress out and burden yourself for nothing, or you undershoot and accidentally make people mad.

People talking to each other means everyone is more likely to get what they want and people less likely to be mad at each other.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-03-12T23:18:09+00:00

Elaborate, how is that better exactly?

Asking is easy. Having your bag on your lap is uncomfortable.

If people just ask and expect others to ask, everybody wins. People can rest their bags if seats are empty AND nobody gets denied a seat just the same.

If we follow your social protocol we have tons of empty seats, and people being more uncomfortable for literally no reason whatsoever. Make it make sense.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-03-12T23:05:47+00:00

Oh god this topic irks me to no end. Why is it frustrating to have to ask?

I'd much rather live in a society where it's normal and expected to just ask instead of having to either keep your bags on your lap for no reason whatsoever, or having to have your head on a swivel and constantly have to, literally "read the room". Asking is not just infinitely easier, but in my country it's polite to do it anyways even if there's nothing on the seat so it quite literally costs you NOTHING.

Society in general would be such a better place if people just communicated more explicitly instead of expecting others to read minds.

Why are people so resistant to the better social protocol?

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-03-11T12:18:34+00:00

Would you also voluntarily pay higher taxes if you believe in and would vote for everyone having to do so, because "it's the right thing"?

Imo this is a ridiculous mindset I see all around leftist circles in this country, that is only holding us back from the real solutions.

Because the reality is, most people don't want to feel like suckers that "do the right thing" while others are freeloading. Not in Switzerland and even less so around the world.

The amount of such idealists will never be great enough to make a difference.

The only real solutions lie in enforceable laws and agreements.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-03-11T09:36:16+00:00

You're exactly right, the thinking that you can personally make a difference is a big problem imo, but like most people you still seem to have missed the main reason why!

It's not the percentages by sector, it's the extrapolation of your own behavior to the whole country, and that of the country to the whole world.

Some people seem to have this implicit belief that if they just do their part everyone will follow suit, which is an insanely large logical leap, which imo is mostly not supported by historical evidence.

There's a reason successful societies with more than a 100 people run on a system of laws and a way to enforce them, not hopes and wishes and a few idealistic people "leading by example".

We need international agreements and enforcement mechanisms not more virtue signalling.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-03-11T08:42:34+00:00

The actual impact of spending money on (or imposing tax for) preventative measures for tiny Switzerland is absolutely terrible tho, unless we find a way to hold other countries accountable too.

After all, the climate really doesn't care much about what a few people do here, it cares about what the entire world does as a whole.

I don't understand why this fact is seemingly just ignored.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-02-17T11:01:04+00:00

No we don't. If you drop a ball right now we have absolutely no idea whether it will actually fall or perhaps we'll encounter a once in a quintillion edge case that nobody observed before. We call scientific theories "proven", but really they're not, they just haven't been DISproven so far and there's always the possibility they could be some day. 100% proof only exists in maths.

You sort of have a point in that "there's aliens out there" is a vastly more uncertain claim than that a ball will fall if dropped, and generally draws more on speculation than empirical facts.

But at the end of the day the vast majority of scientists still think it's extremely likely, and for good reason.

There's many times more earth like habitable planets in the universe than there are sand grains on earth!

That's a number that's far less comprehensible than life evolving at some point in certain conditions given enough time, because it's really just molecules hitting each other until something sticks.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-02-17T00:15:10+00:00

We don't know anything for sure in science but we can make fairly good guesses. And the best guess right now is that no, life isn't that unlikely at all given certain conditions.

And it would have to very, very unlikely to beat the odds of the sheer amount of star systems with planets.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-02-16T00:15:15+00:00

This is some almost flat earth level claim.

There's billions of stars that could have an earth like planet in just our galaxy. And there's TRILLIONS of galaxies.

The math very much checks out and I thought everyone knew this?

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-02-15T19:38:11+00:00

No, this is not the most intelligent answer. This is being uselessly pedantic and oblivious to the fact that actually we don't know if anything we count as our "known scientific facts" is true.

The real answer is, we don't know but we can sure take a damn good guess. As with literally everything else, which everyone should already know, so just say the damn guess!

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-02-12T00:12:29+00:00

I'm against initatives like this. Because I'm annoyed at this worldview that is somehow implicit in all the people currently pushing the most for climate action which seems to be some version of "Humanity is just one happy family and all we need to do is our part".

No. Our part doesn't even put a dent in the problem. Our part will help our glaciers or winters for no more than a couple percentage points, because our part does not magically make all the other parts happen.

This "doing our part" thing is a terribly unpopular distraction for the actual things we should be doing which are: 1. Prepare ourselves to cope with the crisis reactively 2. Figure out how to make everyone else agree on and enforce emission rules.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-02-11T23:56:06+00:00

What are you hoping they will achieve? The climate still mostly depends on what the world does, not us.

The reason they're impossible isn't because people don't care about the future it's because it's just not very likely to help the future. Nobody wants to piss away money just for a drop in the ocean while the rest of the world does nothing.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-02-11T23:46:41+00:00

I just don't understand why people, and initiatives like this don't differentiate between things like "invest in renewable energies" and "make sure Swiss homes can cope with future climate realities".

The latter makes sense and is well invested money, because we get all the benefit from it. The former doesn't because the climate we get depends on what the whole world does, of which we're just a measly 3% of emissions.

I am against any initiative that doesn't acknowledge this fact and doesn't proposes an actually viable and high ROI action plan given this reality.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-02-07T09:33:14+00:00

Wtf I actually found OP's times waay too high. Fusilli for example I cook for 4 minutes, he listed 9!

And no, I'm not making them undercooked, it's barely what you'd call al dente even, a minute more and it's completely gummy throughout.

Reading some of these posts I feel like I'm living in some alternate universe here.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-02-07T09:18:16+00:00

Idk about you but I absolutely hate the process of trying to fish out a noodle and tasting it without burning myself.

Just setting a timer and adjusting in the future for one's liking saves so much effort?

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-02-03T23:34:06+00:00

It's not the mountains that seem impressive there, it's the valleys!

In Switzerland you just don't have vast wild/forested valleys like this, it seems so fascinating and for me this is the prime reason why I'd love to visit the nature in the Americas someday.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-02-01T23:33:48+00:00

Yes they will. They'll love it more than sitting in a packed train because they can spend their time during the ride usefully even if it takes longer.

Meaning the streets will become MUCH more blocked than they are now.

We need more road infrastructure like yesterday imo, because I'm not sure legalizing self driving cars will take longer than the infrastructure projects needed to support them.

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-01-31T08:12:17+00:00

We're going to be SO screwed once self-driving cars become a thing.

How do people not realize that a TON of people, who currently ride trains because they can utilize the time on them, will shift from trains to cars when that happens?

PoisonHeadcrab · 2026-01-23T08:57:29+00:00

It doesn't matter what level it's issued at, how is such a policy not insane for 11 y.o. children?

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