Protests are definitely meant to be noticed, and should also make you think. Ideally they should also be attractive for others to join, allowing the protest to gain momentum. But being annoying (at least to regular people) seems counter productive to that? Sometimes it is unavoidable, but I don’t think it should be desired.

Of course being annoying to the body being protested against is definitely desired.

Upvoting because this is definitely a controversial take

This sounds very much like the German electoral system, except in the German system your address and your preferred “group” are relevant. You get two votes, one is for a local representative, the other is just for a party (so you could freely vote for the “gamer” party if it existed), and both votes contribute seats to government.

Leftists practice tolerance but they’re not really willing to go as far as actually compassion, empathy, and mercy.

Are there specific leftist philosophies that imply this? Or is this a bad faith generalisation?

I’m confused, are you saying that most straight white men are not left… Because they all want to go to mars?

While I think this is mostly true, I think there are some potentially problematic “edge cases”, for example do you think it would be moral for someone to abort all girls until they eventually have a boy?

I would describe myself as fairly left, but I’m not the most educated on accurate political terminology

I believe that the vast majority of people are inherently good, and that tribalism and political divisiveness are some of the biggest issues we have to face.

Political differences arise mostly from different values, fears, education (or lack thereof), etc, but most people if you get to know them believe what they do because they believe it is genuinely good. But increasingly politics is focused on vilifying others, instead of trying to understand each other.

Strongly agree, though is this really an unpopular take?

My partner gifted me a pottery class recently, which we are doing next weekend and im VERY excited about. Maybe do that?

Donny’s “redeeming” quality was that he was full of shit and didn’t follow through with most of the stuff he said. This time around stuff is actually happening, and quickly due to Musktongue

What I find mind blowing about the scale of the universe, is that on a logarithmic scale from the smallest possible thing to the largest possible thing, humans live at almost the exact centre.

Brainfuck is genuinely a fun toy language, and not that hard to use (for fairly simple stuff anyway). For really anti-human check out malbgolge 🫣

Largest to smallest is at best ambiguous. It can refer to the size of the number itself, or the size of the unit.

There is a reason this exact concept in maths/computer science is known as the “significance” of the digit. Eg. The “least significant bit” in binary is the last one.

By keeping years in different folders you are just implicitly creating the ISO format: eg. 2025/"04/28.xls"

Largest to smallest is also wrong. In 2025/01/28, the 28 is larger than the 01.

It should be “most significant” to “least significant”

Because “context -> precision” is exactly the reason someone earlier gave as reasoning for the American system?

If you have some good PowerShell examples, feel free to contribute them, I’m sure they’d be welcome

If you are bored of writing Brainfuck in your spare time, try Lambda Calculus instead as an exciting alternative!

Some of the examples seem to be more “unintuitive for newbies”, but there are still some good ones in there