This is rubber ducking made real.

I never learned it. This is one of the few times in my life where it would’ve been useful

So that makes it okay? I guess it does, because what is a soccer match without the traditional police interventions, amiright?!

The Dutch hooligans were literally picking up tourists from the street, asking them to show their passports to prove they weren’t Israeli. I’m up for a debate, but reconsider you tone!

Discrimination is bad, you should just kill all civilians equally

That’s not an argument. Not every Israeli is a nazi. You can’t just go around beating up Isrealis because they’re from Israel. But yeah, it’s disgusting how they’re just constantly hiding behind antisemitism like it’s their get-out-of-jail-free-card

Which side is the tip?

From the comments: “curl jam”

This is not a meme

That is exactly what a “social issue” is. Bigotry, racism, sexism, all “social issues”. They’re not political issues, or economic issues or environmental issues. No, they’re social issues. Issues where people with differing social values cannot come to an immediate agreement. A social issues.

Moderating these issues are a notorious problem for all social media platforms. It’s been a topic of debate,even political debate for years now. Mostly about racism and cyber bullying, but lgbtq+ discrimination can go here as well.

I mean, they’re not wrong. It is a sensitive social issue. There’s a more than average chance of a lgbtq+ discussion ending with heated arguments and angry words to the point where mod intervention is needed. They don’t want that, because they’re afraid it’ll cost money.

I read in a period where I was reading the top 100 sci-fi books. This was somewhere on number 30 or so. It was a very different read from most other sci-fi books, very quirky. I like those unique kind of approaches I have never seen or didn’t expect. That’s why tropes work. It’s always someone’s first contact with the trope. (Kubik is not a trope though, I haven’t seen i copied yet)

There’s plenty of star trek episodes that are more about philosophical and societal questions than tech.

The bicentennial man by Isaac Asimov comes to mind. Which is about a robot, but in essence it’s about the philosophical question what it means to be human.

There’s Ubik by Philip K Dick, which is about about tech, when you get down to it, but in a very unique and un-tech like way.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys is not about tech, but the chronicles of a brain surgery patient that became extremely smart.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons is basically just “The Canterbury Tales” in space.

There’s plenty more stories that are not really about tech. You could try searching for dystopia themes, like “Maze runner” or “the hunger games” or “I am legend” or “wayward pines”

The red rising series comes to mind.

That clip is ancient

There’s no hope for Britain. Scotland and n. Ireland can still save themselves if they leave the sinking ship

It’s legal somewhere

Great, now I see priests and quire boys doing pottery class tigether in church under the guidance of Unchained Melody on the organ.

But that’s fine than. That shows that you at least know enough about the topic to realise that those topics should not belong there. Otherwise you could proofread and see nothing wrong with the references

I’d rather see us replacing train conductors. Why do we even need them? Why aren’t trains self driving? Trains regularly don’t drive due to personell shortages and they don’t drive in the middle of the night. Also trains are getting ridiculously expensive (in the Netherlands, due to privatisation) where self driving trains could be a solution to make trains affordable again.