It is the year 2201. Prison has been abolished. Empowered by new technology, the state only punishes the part of one’s brain considered to be truly responsible - this is considered the most humane solution. You (or a character) wake up in a recovery clinic for the only crime worthy of lobotomy followed by replacement - murder.
Excellent, my prompt has performed well, and without spamming my notifications.
Seriously though, the amount of inherent ways I capitalism is garbage.
So, when bananas are regulated to the point where bananas are discarded for failing to meet arbitrary requirements, you blame capitalism. Brilliant.
I doubt it’s regulation. Probably people just don’t want to buy misshapen bananas when there are prettier ones right next to them.
I’d like to see OP’s proposed solution here. Tell grown adults, “You’re going to eat this ugly banana whether you like it or not!” and send government thugs to beat them up if they disobey?
I mean a simple solution is have companies buy them for a reduced price, have them sell for a reduced price Then people who are poorer can eat more fruits and veggies and others who dont care how they look can get a deal 👍👍 and companies can make some profit too
That’s exactly what you’d expect to happen. For some reason, it didn’t. I was speculating that there might be some weird psychological effect making it impossible to sell ugly bananas in the same room as pretty bananas for a profitable price.
But fortunately, @americansylveon came back with a source. Apparently EU regulations require that bananas be “free of malformation or abnormal curvature”, but then specifies that class 1 or class 2 bananas are allowed to have “slight defects of shape”, or “defects of shape”. Presumably that’s interpreted as a relaxation of the minimum standards? IDK how much of a defect is allowed.
Then they go so far as to regulate the number of bananas in a bunch. To which I can only say, “I hate the fuck government.”
@oktavia-von-gwwcendorff this is your sort of thing I think.
Keep in mind that in this case the cost of transportation may not make it economical to even ship the malformed bananas if flooding the supermarket results in a really high price reduction.
What I’m perplexed about is why no one builds a processing plant close to the growers and uses it to process the excess bananas into various banana products that don’t care about presentation. Banana flavoring, banana puree, etc. As I understand it this is what happens to second-grade fruit in most industries. Why not here?
Wasn’t there a post about how processed goods are taxed differently than raw goods, keeping e.g. Africa out of certain markets?
Speaking of governments and Africa and development, this presents an opportunity for a government or NGO to buy the misshappen bananas and distribute them to poor people in other countries who won’t give a damn about the shape, bringing money into the source nation’s economy. EA might want to look at this.
Hey, guess who’s cottoned on to the ‘power + prejudice = oppression’ setup? (Or, if you like, culturally appropriated it)
Not at all surprised that the incel subreddit has such unhealthy ideas.
I mean, it’s even more than that. They’re an advertising/data company. That’s basically their entire business model.
I smell a troll concept: Argue that it’s capitalism’s fault, because paying men more on average maximises shareholder value, as men are better at programming under this system, and only under full communism, women and men can afford to be equally bad at programming.
Comrade Bernov will herd the women into STEM, just as the ideology says must be done for the sake of justice.
Basically the question is “how would you feel about being raped?”
I have not a lot of women, but 84 women said ‘negatively’ and 61 said ‘positively.’ A lot of the women who respond to me are sex workers, so maybe that influences it? Also maybe troll men responding as women.
But 813 men said ‘positively,’ compared to only 254 who said ‘negatively.’ Out of men, 76% say they would respond positively to this rape scenario. For comparison, 42% of women would respond positively.
For disclaimer: it’s very possible a lot of people aren’t accurately able to predict their actual responses. Regardless, the gender difference is still very significant, which is my primary interest here.
I have two main thoughts here.
One, is that the “men can’t be raped” trope is based in reality. If a hot woman rapes a man he’s much more likely to like it than if a hot man rapes a woman.
Two, is that, on a very base level, the actual act is pretty similar for both parties. Mouth on genitals, sleeping, all that. There’s equivalent levels of concrete things being done. The difference in enjoyment, then, relies in how culture perceives this differently for gender. Women are conditioned to view this negatively, and men are conditioned to view this positively. The upsetness/joy is entirely in their heads, dictated by society, and is not inherently an actual harm or benefit.
(this being said, that doesn’t mean the harm or benefit felt is any less valid.)
I think this probably is very closely related to the idea that “women are gatekeepers of sex” and “men have to work to earn sex.” My question, then, is should we desire a world where nobody is a gatekeeper and everybody is joyful upon finding themselves raped, or a world where everybody is a gatekeeper and nobody enjoys rape?
Even without looking at men, I really don’t buy the notion that 42% of women would enjoy being raped. It seems much more plausible to me that the majority of respondents of either gender are answering “does this fantasy sound hot?” instead of “what do you think would actually happen?” So this could equally well be picking up on the gender-specific prevalence of rape fantasies or gender-specific (in)ability to tell fantasies from reality.
I’ve asked a lot of questions, in detail, about rape fantasies (in actual surveys, not just twitter polls) and women answer positively to this much more than men. In fact, the dominance/rape/power fantasy area is the single biggest difference in sexual preferences by gender. If the responses were getting conflated with rape fantasies, I’d expect to see a discrepancy in the opposite direction.
Honestly, my guess is that this is a matter of threateningness, and that the disparity is due to the fact that most people are cis and straight. Given that almost all cismen are physically stronger than almost all ciswomen, and you didn’t indicate that the victim was in any way restrained, I bet people of different genders would tend to have different assumptions about how much control they have over the situation.
Straight cismen would often think “OK, that’s cool, and if she does anything I’m not OK with, I can just physically shove her off of me”, while straight ciswomen think “OH MY G-D I’M TRAPPED THERE’S A HUGE PERSON ON TOP OF ME HELP”. Given that we already know the person in question is a rapist, “You will have to use physical force if you want to escape” is pretty much a given. The fact that one group of people is so shot up on naturally-produced steroids that they don’t have to worry about losing such a contest seems like enough reason for this scenario to not freak them out.
Thus, straight cismen are likely to say “negative” just when your scenario seems like an unpleasant violation, while straight ciswomen are likely to say “negative” for that reason or if they have ANY SENSE OF SELF-PRESERVATION.
(For reference, my first thought when I saw this was “Having a stranger do that sounds violating and I wouldn’t want it, but at least I can just throw that person off of me and leave the room”. If I were straight or was taking anti-androgens, I expect my response would have been quite different.)
How many straight men are assuming they brought a woman home while drunk the night before in the question, I wonder…
Also tinged by consent issues - many women may not even think about male consent issues and thus wouldn’t think of themselves as a rapist if they did this to a guy, but might stop if told to.
Anonymous asked:
argumate answered:
my god, that’s what you’re supposed to do with apples
Millions of frustrated users breathe sigh of relief as apples revealed to be ordinary fruit and not exotic wireless device that refuses to connect to computer for no reason.
the Chinese internet censors who banned seductive banana eating ought to see what I can do with an apple.
what the fuck, past me
“Hinted Argumate/Apple Doujinshi Cancelled By Creator,”
“’What the fuck,’ says author, ‘did you really think I was going to draw that?? You fuckers’“
A streamlined Seaboard train on the assembly line, LaGrange, IL
via reddit
Ahh, how beautiful, the power of industry.
(Sometimes.)
To prevent it from melting in the dish, ice cream should be served on chilled dinnerware, and the dining room’s ambient temperature lowered to between -12 and -14 C.
Totally false.
Ice cream is better right when it’s on the verge of melting. That makes it creamier and also makes it more flavorful since cold numbs the tastebuds.
I’d read that -12 and -14 C is the ideal serving temperature, but that may be on the assumption that the reader isn’t chilling their dining room, and so assumes ambient heating.
If that’s the case, then we’d need to find out what the ideal eating temperature is, and then serve the ice cream at that temperature in a room of that temperature.
The problem, I think, is that you actually want to catch it while melting. It is optimal when it’s not at thermal equilibrium, so it’s partially but not completely melted.
Like, there’s a reason most people prefer ice cream to ice cream soup, but you also don’t want it completely frozen. You want it in that mixed state where it’s kinda melty but not totally melted.
Note that “completely frozen” for ice cream is more like -20 C. Ice cream gets softer and softer at it warms before truly melting, so the situation you’re imagining may still be below 0 C.
I’ve recently had ice cream sandwiches that came out of the freezer unacceptably soft but which, based on subsequent measurement of the freezer’s temp, would have been -5 C.
(As an aside: this is also an unacceptably high freezer temperature for food safety concerns. A freezer should be around -18 C.)
the dishes themselves are refrigerated, and spray the ice cream with cooled (but not liquid) nitrogen for optimal temperature control
