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If you believe in the Marxist critique of art for art's sake, congratulations, you are a religious evangelist.

(I do however, believe in Nietzsche's critique of art for art's sake, which is that it fundamentally does not exist)

Legos with stickers suck. They should just print it in the parts or not have a design. It's too much stress on the person building them :/

Oh god I almost don't want to say this in this environment...

Techy people aren't the most intelligent in other/all areas just because they have some technical expertise.

I have worked with, and interacted with people, all my life who are technically very intelligent in some specific way, and even been one of these people... Who thinks that one area of proficiency grants them unearned respect in other areas.

Eg." I'm great at maths therefore I'm logically infallible". Or "I'm an engineer, so I know exactly how society should function best"." I'm a doctor so my every opinion on everything is more important than yours".

When asking an open-ended question on the Internet, OP should put their own response as a comment, not in the post body, so people can judge it separately from the question and it's not elevated above other responses.

That's it. That's my hot take.

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Fixed it for ya!

It's "fewer than" not "fewer then"

People who can't stand being corrected. Instead of learning and improving, they feel diminished and hateful.

My hot take is that I don't care what other people's hot takes are.

“It gets better” is an awful statement. You don’t really know that. Bit of a thought terminating cliche for people who still have such a chance.

Capitalism is going to kill us all if we don’t kill it first.

I've got a spicy one.

Despite all the patches and updates, Cyberpunk 2077 is still a meh game. I hate the UI, the RPG combat system with damage numbers, the edgy aesthetic and slang words, the lack of vehicle customisation, and the overall lack of non-mission side activities to do in the world.

The ratio of style to substance is heavily weighted in favour of style.

People should be able to get suicide assistance. Including healthy people.

Mother Nature is really, really angry at us and payback is only barely beginning to start.

I am not religious or superstitious or whatever, it's just a way of expressing that very soon we're gonna have it very bad. The heatwaves, the storms, the utilities unable to cope, the displaced populations, the overwhelmed over-egotistic political systems - we're in for a ride, and that ride starts yesterday.

The only grammar thing that annoys the hell out of me is "on accident". No idea why, it just really sticks out and bugs me when I come across it. I rarely mention it when I see it though, because I know that noone actually cares.

We pivoted from social justice causes like child labour to systemic racism (but only in the first world, not where our actual daily racism is practiced) and transphobia etc because the former requires personal sacrifices while the latter mostly "requires" snarky takes on social media.

For some reason, people using the contraction "everyday" as a noun drives me insane. "Everyday" is an adjective (e.g., an everyday activity), "every day" is the noun (e.g., I do this activity every day).

It doesn't matter. It doesn't.

Family and blood relation means absolutely nothing.

It's just that people decided that due to blood relation and marriages a certain set of people should not only know each other, but like each other and put up with each other's bullshit for far longer than for other groups like friends.

Meanwhile these relations are no different from being coworkers.

Similarly, lacking this blood relation doesn't matter aside from family anamnesis (and perhaps organ/bone marrow transplants), in case of adoptions.
I don't understand why people go through so much struggle for their kids to be "their own" while there's many waiting and hoping to get adopted. People don't think anything special about adopting a cat or dog, after all, there is no other way, and yet they'll fully love their pet. But suddenly when it's small humans, which is even the same specie, it matters a lot.

I don't understand if people really feel something towards having really similar DNA, but I don't see any logic in it.

Ass is better then tits unless the tits are great then I can handle a Hank Hill ass.