Controversial Opinions (For Everything Other Than DC Comics)

[CaptCleghorn]

Isn't the original quote from this debate something from a comedian? Those guys only do semantics when it suits the punchline.

The statement might be taken differently as part of a routine. I'm addressing the more serious statement. Which by "more serious" I speak relatively.

[Jack Dracula]

I think in fifty years, if we don't destroy the planet, most people who can afford it will be living in their own fantasy worlds all the time and they won't care about anything or anyone in the real world. Like in Black Mirror. There will be one corporation that will own everyone and everything, but nobody will do anything to stop them because they just care about what's in their media stream.

I see that happening for retirees in nursing homes. Think of a facitity that attends to your physical needs while you spend your days immursed in a VR world.

[TheRay]

I don't think Speedball deserved all the hate he got.

[Star_Jammer]

Guys who use public toilets to urinate in instead of the urinals puzzle me, and often piss me off (pun not intended). Especially since I usually have to wipe pee off of a toilet seat when I have to #2.

Use the damn urinals.

[mathew101281]

Most jobs can be automated.

[ed2962]

Guys who use public toilets to urinate in instead of the urinals puzzle me, and often piss me off (pun not intended). Especially since I usually have to wipe pee off of a toilet seat when I have to #2.

Use the damn urinals.

The problem isn't that they use the toilet, the problem is that they're so messy about it. I often wonder are these guys so careless with their when they use it at home?

[DrNewGod]

Most jobs can be automated.

Time will tell. IMO, there's a Paradise Lost element to AI in that it is imbued with not only the abilities of its creator, but some of their faults as well (The Wall Street Journal's AI Report has something on this about twice a week). IM further O, the potential of automation is being most touted by two groups: those who don't understand it, and those who have a desperate need to believe that their math/programming skills can cope with all reality's vagaries, and thereby tame them.

[dancj]

Guys who use public toilets to urinate in instead of the urinals puzzle me, and often piss me off (pun not intended). Especially since I usually have to wipe pee off of a toilet seat when I have to #2.

Use the damn urinals.

I use the cubicals.

I don't like weeing with someone stood next to me. Sometimes it manifests in me actually being unable to wee. I also don't like urinals because they splash back.

I sit down though, so I won't leave anything on the toilet seat.

Standing to wee in them is fine though - as long as you lift the seat.

[MyriVerse]

The problem isn't that they use the toilet, the problem is that they're so messy about it. I often wonder are these guys so careless with their when they use it at home?

Yup. This is a peeve of mine. Lift the damn seat!

[jetengine]

Facebook (and other big social media sites) is inherently a shitshow and a toxic breeding ground for hate because it refuses to actually moderate itself citing its "Impossible" whilst relying on shitty algorithms to try and do the job that they could actively pay a human being to do. Now I'm not stupid, I realise an entire skyscraper full of people wouldnt be able to.begin to moderate that much content entirely. But it would certainly do a damn sight better job then its terrible system.

[WillieMorgan]

I understand the hypocrisy in saying this on a public forum but I utterly loathe social media full stop. CBR is honestly the nearest that you'll get to me being connected to anything like that. I point blank refuse to register with Facebook, Twitter or any of those other tosspot platforms. All social media has done is bring out the worst in people, from all backgrounds and on both sides of the political spectrum. You know the unreasonable, angry mob we used to see on The Simpsons? That's the Twitter crowd to me.

I agree in trying to find some kind of moderation for it but would add that that should apply on both sides. I don't care about statements like 'Well that lot are even worse...' or such bullshit so please don't bother. There are reprehensible arseholes on both sides.

[dancj]

I don't know, I quite like Facebook. I'm sure the toxicity is there if you look for it, but I never see it.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I also like Facebook and Twitter and have good friends on both. In my opinion, the best way to avoid toxicity on social media is to never look for it, and I don't.

[jetengine]

I understand the hypocrisy in saying this on a public forum but I utterly loathe social media full stop. CBR is honestly the nearest that you'll get to me being connected to anything like that. I point blank refuse to register with Facebook, Twitter or any of those other tosspot platforms. All social media has done is bring out the worst in people, from all backgrounds and on both sides of the political spectrum. You know the unreasonable, angry mob we used to see on The Simpsons? That's the Twitter crowd to me.

I agree in trying to find some kind of moderation for it but would add that that should apply on both sides. I don't care about statements like 'Well that lot are even worse...' or such bullshit so please don't bother. There are reprehensible arseholes on both sides.

I'm fairly left but I dont see why they should avoid moderation as well. Both sides have shitheads, its merely that our society is based on advancing forwards and alot of (not all) ideals conservatism tries to sell dont jive with the current speed were moving at or just dont work at all which is why your seeing more lashback and more insane rightwingers since they know its now or never.

[WillieMorgan]

I don't know, I quite like Facebook. I'm sure the toxicity is there if you look for it, but I never see it.

I also like Facebook and Twitter and have good friends on both. In my opinion, the best way to avoid toxicity on social media is to never look for it, and I don't.

I'm glad your experiences are both different and much more benign. If we're being honest that's probably the case for most people. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean that no-one else is allowed to either. I can't stand soap opera but have no problem with other people enjoying them. There's enough room in the world for everything.

I stand by the assertion that social media has brought out the worst in people and amplified bad human behaviour though. Bullying is rife. Even worse is the idea that some forms of bullying are somehow 'fair game' and can be tolerated. As though two wrongs make a right which they never, ever do. A person can accuse another person of absolutely anything on Twitter, without a single shred of proof, and that second person's life can be torn apart because of it. Screw due process in SocialMediaville. It doesn't exist.

I'll stick to real, actual socialising thank you. The life I know in the village in northern England where I reside is a world away from the constant ****-storm perpetrated on social media and I think I'll stick to that.