Wait, this artist is serious and not mocking drivers with this opinion? Lol

I know this is a joke, but could help myself: you can’t always just cancel units like this.

It’s more like 0.007 m³(fuel burned) / 100,000 m(travelled)

Can’t really cancel those.

This is my biggest complaint about SI, kg being the base mass unit with a heckin’ prefix.

Bring back the grave 🥲

It’s not even mob justice, it’s vigilante justice. It just so happens in this case practically everyone is pretty happy about it having happened.

The mob never called for this CEO’s death, we’re just not sad he was killed. Even if in general most of us wouldn’t actively call for people to be killed.

If it makes CEOs afraid, then fantastic, a nice happy side-bonus.

I feel like the engineers set π = 3 meme is from like 50 years ago where you couldn’t just punch π into your calculator

Why lying with maths is so easy, the average person, even in developed countries is practically innumerate (massive hyperbole, but the fact lying with numbers is easy, still stands)

Yeah, perhaps my title was a little click-baity. I do hate to hat charity is necessary.

I do, however, dislike charities and people asking for money for charity, not encouraging people to vote for stronger public services.

Indeed, perhaps in retrospect my title was a little click-baity

Fair enough, my more nuanced opinion is that there is a large number of people who do give to charity, feel good about it, spread the opinion that it’s a feel good thing, and do indirectly cause voters to feel like they already give enough money to charity and higher taxes are unfair. I am aware this opinion is unpopular, hence the post to get it off my chest haha

People participating in charity aren’t wrong, just the perception that it’s something to advocate people giving to, without also advocating for stronger public services in the same breath.

My title was perhaps a little click-baity.

I don’t dislike charity, I dislike people (and charities) encouraging others to give money to charity, without also advocating for better public services via taxation. And many, many charities don’t do this, which I don’t understand since many charities also get public funding (at least in my state of Victoria, Australia, they do)

This opinion is also subject to the relative stability of the government you live under. In my case, very stable, and totally doable.

When I say strong, I mean that a trend is it dominates and defines as decade. All those things you mentioned are trends that you associate with different times, but there are far fewer things you can dress up as and people will think: ohhhh are you “from the 2000s”.

They exist, just I’d argue it’s not as strong as the 90s

People should lie about as much as possible to most companies they interact with online anyway (obviously don’t lie to your bank, or doctor, or whatever). Do always, without fail, lie randomly about your age, gender, address (if it’s not relevant) or anything else that’s not actually needed to provide the service.

I’m only just now realising fads/trends seem to be way less strong these days.

Like, there’s a 00’s vibe, sort of, 10’s vibe??? Maybe?

But nowhere near as strong as practically every decade before that.

Perhaps it’s just there’s way more variety to bandwagon now that every niche is connected around the globe.

My random thoughts for your reading.

I’m not sure if you meant it this way, but this came across quite caring about my wellbeing, and I really appreciate that friend.

I get a bit grumpy, but overall I’m not too angry at the world.

Well, not all the time anyway ;)

Have a good one mate.

I’m not advocating for doing nothing (and appreciate the way you phrased your criticism giving me the benefit of the doubt)

I think specifically my position is that the solution is political, and a better motivated voting base, who understands the value of not reducing taxes and public funding.

I don’t think (all) charities are a waste, and think many orgs do a decent job.

However, I think I didn’t make it clear that I find people feeling good about giving to charity, and encouraging others to do so by framing it as a “feel good” thing, rubs me the wrong way because I believe charities who perform core functions are a symptom of the fact we’re underfunding vital services.

I’m not telling people to not donate to charity, but I think it’s high time people stop believing that they’ve done their part for society, when voting to fix the system (absolutely, 100% possible where I’m from, which is Australia, one of the wealthiest countries in the world) would be much, much, more impactful that giving some money to a charity.

Yeah it’s better than nothing, and I’m not entirely against giving to charity. I’m mostly mad that people (most) seem to have the opinion that the act of donating to a charity is something to feel good about.

Because it’s not good. And often I would argue people giving to charity makes them feel good in a way that’s actually unhelpful if they then vote for parties who minimise tax and defund the services that then the charities need to do even more of.

If someone has money to donate, I’d argue this is money much better spent on advocacy groups to fight for those systematic changes, rather than the service itself.

The ones who do both, yeah, that’s also great.

I take your point, and do agree charities do good, and that in a society where it’s not fixed, giving something to charity can do good. Just that I’m sick of people feeling too good about it.

Yeah, and again, I will reiterate that many organisations do good work. However, my specific unpopular opinion is that I dislike that people think charity isn’t a symptom of a failed system.

I dislike that people feel good about it. Rather than question why we’re raising money for men’s health in the first place.

Charity for the purposes of fundraising for things which ought to be provided by the state, isn’t just not perfect, I’d even say it’s bad. It perpetuates the status quo of underfunding vital publically funded good. Because people feel good about it, then go about their day and vote for fuckers who promise them tax cuts.

And trust me, I live in a country that could absolutely afford to fund a more universal public health system and research (per capita).

My favourite was when I was donating to a environmental advocacy organisation, I specially requested they don’t mail me anything. Called up and everything.

Guess what showed up, and then showed up 1 last time after I cancelled my regular donation 👍👍

Not to say they were a bad organisation, just I thought it was pretty funny considering the topic.

I should clarify, that I’m specifically talking about charity events/organisations to raise money for something that really ought to be publicly funded, or perform work that ought to be provided by the government.

I donate blood, I think people getting together to help others is fantastic, and of course not every bit of community support needs to be provided by the government.

But I think things like healthcare, homelessness, research etc shouldn’t need to beg for money. It should be taken out of people’s taxes

To be fair, it was “optional” (but let’s be real, you wouldn’t want to be that guy). And done temporarily for publicity.

There are very strong lingering effects which mean women, on average, are paid less.

It’s especially hard on women in various countries where they’re now expected to both have a successful career and be the primary child caregiver. Which is as ridiculous as it sounds.

However, one example of advocacy from a cafe in my city of Melbourne Australia a number of years ago really rubbed me the wrong way: when a cafe decided to charge like 25% more to men (inverse of 80%). I was a close to minimum wage worker at the time (in Australia, before the cost of living skyrocket, so I wasn’t starving), and it annoyed me because if I went in, I would be asked to pay more because I was a man, never mind the fact I would likely be earning far less than many women going in there.

The wage gap is 100% real, and things should definitely be done to make all genders pay more equitable. But hell, the class divide is orders of magnitude worse, and we ought not forget it.