I now can't help but completely agree, that would have been so much better

They were originally called Water scooters

Whoever invented jetskis and didn’t call them boatorcycles seriously fucked up

FTFY

Isn't JetSki a trademark? Like either Kawasaki or Yamaha's brand name for them? Kind of like Polaris and Seadoo (and their snowmobile Skidoo, which my Alaskan college roommate insisted was pronounced "skiDOO" with a short i and not "SKEE do"

Only if sabre tooth tigers are renamed walrus tigers also.

Narwhal should be called unicorns of the sea!

If Thanos snapped his fingers and sent all of the marketing MBAs to "Planet Marketing"...nobody would fucking miss them. Nobody.

My related hot take: If I'm going to be subjected to Ads, I'd actually prefer to see relevant Ads (generally demographically, geographically, etc. while retaining some anonymity) than ads for products and services I'm never going to care about.

Semi-related, on my language learning journey I've discovered that as I watch more things in the language I'm learning via YouTube, Netflix, and other ad supported streaming services I see more and more ads in the language I'm trying to learn. And surprisingly (even to myself) I genuinely enjoy these ads because the language is usually simple and without much idiomatic use, it's all clearly enunciated, and it's directly related to the action on screen. Of course, everyone else in my household is now also getting those kinds of ads and I can't help but be amused.

Ads in real life spaces though? Unless it's telling me about some specific local thing or place, it is just ugly clutter on the scenery and architecture.

The low effort, saturation advertising we get, yes. Advertising can be interesting or inventive, but not the way it's done now.

I'd quite to see a return how it was 100+ years ago; an image of the product with several paragraphs extolling the virtues. Though perhaps not on billboards by roads.

Look up polish school of movie posters (Polish People Republic era). That's what you get when advertising is not profit driven.

I do miss cheat codes.

There's a game I played last year, the name of which I now completely forget, which I never actually finished because the final boss was such a bitch that I ended up rage quitting. Even set to easy. I'd never been so angry at a game.

Watched the ending on YouTube instead.

edit: I just remembered, it was Bramble. Beautiful game, absolutely bitch hard.

Learning to use cheat engine is a game-changer. It can pretty much automatically single out a memory location for something like mana just by casting a spell a few times.

Moving Out has this. Even though I've never used it, I found it to be a wholesome addition to the game.

I totally support this. I'm also ok as long as games are structured to allow easy modding to do the same. It should be common enough that a specific warning on games that don't have it on platforms like Steam.

I love how many difficulty settings Rogue Legacy 2 had. I prefer to game on normal difficulties, but it was good to have options for those who don't

A lot of games have a dev console with where you can type in a "cheat code" for pretty much anything

Ah young one I was once like you until I realised, that by not making the bed, your fitted sheet ends up absorbing more dust and moisture during the day and you have to change them more frequently. For truly optimal laziness it's best to at least throw the quilt over.

I used to think that way, and then in the past year I just changed. Now I make my bed every morning and I'm happier. I don't know why.

I think it is just the clearest indicator that I've transitioned from aging to old. I made it 55 years thinking making the bed was a waste of time, but in my 56th year my attitude suddenly and without warning flipped.

I feel so bad to live in a place which is not well tide up. My bed needs to be made

healthier

Fast food and mall food court Indian restaurants are common in Berlin, and I wouldn't call any of them healthy. Every single one leans heavily on deep-fried everything, covered in flavoured oil disguised as a sauce.

The "fast" in fast food often works against the carefully prepared, fresh ingredients required for a truly healthy and tasty meal.

In lots of ways, it's the same dichotomy as Italian cuisine, where you can get amazing Mediterranean food at a sit-down restaurant, but the fast food variety is usually just greasy pizza or oil with a side of pasta.

Upvoted, but I only partly agree. The way things are now you can order takeout from local small businesses, and there won't be consistent quality or speed or prices, but they're not a huge corporate machine. (At least at the endpoints). A big conglomerate moving into the space may put most of the local ones under.

There's an indian place by my work that has a tikka masala wrap, thought it was genius as a takeaway item. Super delicious, but an extreme mess... the idea that it would be portable was a big miss.

I've been having frozen samosas for lunch lately and you aren't wrong

I generally agree, especially if you could get like naan burritos. Something quick and easy to make

Similarly in ohio and a few other places there's a place called piada which basically is Chipotle but Italian food and I miss it so much. It's such good fast casual

I want a fast soup restaurant. Very healthy vegan soup, which may take a while to make, but it's already made in the morning so it's fast.

That's why I think QuILTBAG is the best acronym.

Yes, though I wouldn't call this one unimportant. There is a real problem on the left with trying to make exhaustive lists when saying "everyone" (or the appropriate variation) would do a much, much better job in a few ways. Most list makers at least have the sense to end with "and everyone else" or "everyone treated unfairly" or whatever, but occasionally that part gets left off and it just feels like a huge fuck you to everyone not included.

I was raised with LGBT which basically covered everything and it was awesome

It wasn't until. The alphabet soup snowflakes needed letters for every 2^45 possible gender and sec combinations out there that it got annoying

Its LGBT, maybe LGBT+, but just leave it at that

Same as the rainbow flag: beautiful, elegant. After the snowflakes were done with it it became a god unholy curse from Beelzebub design

Equal rights for everyone, but please stop over complicating the crap out of everything. You're not special, nobody is special, we're all human, we're all the same.

In casual conversation, I find it much easier to say "gay and trans rights"

Why it needs to be anything different for the human species at all is an insult and degrading.

As a Brit, Hershey chocolate is an abomination. I'm a fat fuck who looooooves chocolate, but even I couldn't stomach a bag of Kisses that someone once brought back for me. Awful shit.

And now you fuckers have bought Cadbury, even that chocolate has become dog shit. Not as disgusting, but nowhere near as good as it was.

Can Americans please stop making food. Let the world bring it to you.

I’ve always liked KitKat. It’s a good candy bar. But when I learned that Nestlé makes KitKat in the rest of the world, and Hershey makes it in the US, I knew I needed to try some of the forbidden Nestlé KitKat. (Forbidden both because we don’t have it in the US, and also because fuck Nestlé).

Now any time I travel outside the US, I come home with a bag of Nestlé KitKats. They’re so much better than the Hershey version, which is already good!

Yeah you guys need Wedel in your lives.

All post death stuff is for those still living, top help them cope

*edit: I'm a careless typer

As someone who makes out with goth girls: no, we need cemeteries. They’re just really edgy parks

Graveyards are a waste of land. In many areas, embalming chemicals leach out and poison the water table. If you must use the land for mourning, cremate the body, bury the cremains, and plant a tree.

Logically what you're saying makes perfect sense.

But there's just something so strangely beautiful about the thought that on a certain planet in the middle of nowhere, there is a species of animal that buries their dead in groups all facing the same direction. No one is quite sure why they do this, not even them

Just throwing a link to Caitlin Doughty's channel here for anyone interested in green burials and such!