A hill you are prepared to die on

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What is your hill you are prepared to die on.

Mine is the moon landing was fake.
Botox makes you look older.
Sex is overrated.
Some art work is not art its crap.

You've trained her well 😉

Inspired by another thread: if you are financially privileged enough to be able to afford a second property, then you have to suck up the higher stamp duty and higher council tax charge. It’s an unpleasant tax, but tough. That money goes into the pot (nationally for SD, or locally for CT) to provide services and support for people less privileged, so get over yourself and stop whining (or trying to find ways to avoid paying for it via MN threads).

NB I am a second home owner, so have readily sucked up the pain of both taxes as it means we’re able to keep our eldest AuDHD child safe and cared for and her future living arrangements are set in stone for when we pop our clogs (but, yeah, if they could abolish inheritance tax before then, that would be very welcome 🙏).

Wouldn’t that have destroyed a huge body of romantic literature and cinema? We rely on our instinct to suss out another within 30 seconds of meeting, when often such impressions are a mix of prejudice and wishful thinking. An awful lot of people think that rapists and conmen look ‘evil’ and can be spotted a mile off. A first impression proves to be accurate about as often as it’s proves to be wrong, hence the other saying “ we got off on the wrong foot”. We are programmed to prefer tall men over short men. Handsome over plain. Young in preference to the old. Slim in preference to fat. As a species we are easily manipulated, and above all we are very stubborn about the rightness of our prejudices and opinions. .

@glitterpaperchain
Ummm because the kids didn't ask to be born to out of work parents? And a policy like that would literally increase the number of children in poverty?
Mine is that only selfish sad losers are happy to see children living in poverty because they are so filled with hate for adults who recieve benefits

Agreed glitterpaperchain. Maybe sort salaries actually being in line with the cost of living if you're that bothered. I'm a single parent, I work full time (and I'm certainly not on minimum wage), but my salary doesn't cover my outgoings. Unfortunately I have no choice but to rely on my income being topped up by universal credit. If I could only claim for 6 months then me and my kids would be homeless by now as I wouldn't be able to feed them and keep a roof over their head. In modern society, the average single income is no longer enough to cover the cost of living. I never planned to become a single parent but here we are.

My hill to die on is that smug, privileged judgemental people actually have no fucking idea.

Edit: apologies my post was also in reply to the OP @xxxx01 who said the following:
My other one is benefits, benefits should only be claimed for 6 months.
Why should we pay for your kids

I can say there is no God, and I did say it.
If anyone can show a single shred of evidence of a God or Gods (because there are a number of religions) then let me know.

Transwomen are men

As Ranya said, you are allowed your opinion as is everyone else.

No one has to prove anything to you. You are not that important!

Yes, I know you said it. I was just making a counter point, not personally attacking you!
(ducks down under parapet 😂)

Microsoft are purposely being twats by not creating a function that can change sentences written in CAPS back to lowercase.

🙏🏼

You don’t believe there’s a god, which is different to saying there’s no god.

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well that's part of it, which I was trying to convey last as meta-critique of the concept of religion itself,

before someone wanting to try and entrap me on specifics of one aspect of my comment, relating to one religion and then Yo808 decided to derail the discussion

religion came about because humans were trying to make sense of the scary world around them - who was responsible for lightning, drought, famine, earthquakes, meter impacts, the stars and moon?

they were asking the wrong question, from an ego-centric standpoint,

the question was clearly what and why? the answer to those two is physics, chemistry, biology in combination with pure chance

The fact that the universe came into existence because of a unique set of circumstances, combined with the fact that evolved planetary life in the universe is exceedingly rare should not be an existential threat to belief systems, but an opportunity to appreciate and take care of the planet we have. Why ? because the Drake Equation and latest theories around the Great Filter indicate there's likely not many other places out there to move to when we fuck this one up.

Religion was a coping mechanism, which also promised immortality - understandable after seeing one your tribe being eaten by a sabre tooth, or choosing to burn their body in a ceremony after death in battle.

It had the basis of being a moral and ethical guide, especially to tame the chaos of the first blush of civilisation, but instead it became a tool for power, control, land acquisition, dogma. Religion is essentially run as a business, except people in it are unable to mind their own

The fact that Socrates was killed because he asked challenging questions of his students and not accepting the gods of the times is a frightening rejection of science in favour of retaining an iron-fist on dogma... which is often the spark behind war and conquest

I feel this about the creators of autocorrect. Some of the suggestions are simply bizarre.

I also suspect phones are being deliberately designed to be difficult to turn off.

Everyone arguing with other people's hills to die on is fundamentally misunderstanding the concept of a hill to die on.

The whole point of a hill to die on is that you will not budge on your opinion. There's no point saying 'Well that's just your belief, it's not fact' and getting annoyed. A 'hill to die on' is SUPPOSED to be something you'll never back down on.

It's like when someone says 'Confess your unpopular opinion' and people start telling everyone they're obnoxious or wrong to hold those opinions. Yes. That's why it's called an 'unpopular' opinion. It defeats the purpose of the thread to argue with them and kick off.

@28andgreat
There is this function in word
Try this
Type a sentence in capitals
Select it by highlighting it
Go to this icon top toolbar
Aa
Drop down
Select sentence case or lowercase- done

Absolutely not, you can send your kids to die but I want to keep mine safe!

@28andgreat you can do this in word & excel I think

That chasing/persecuting and shooting animals for fun is not acceptable.

many conspiracy theories do contain grains of truth,

but the problem is none of the grains of truth are interlinked and instead, are hallucinated / incorrectly interpolated together with unfact because of lack of understanding of the individual grains of truth...

because if the conspiracy theorists fully understood the grains of truth they like to throw about, they would realise they are not related to each other in any coherent manner

It's basically the equivalent of the garbage an LLM spits out - there's enough credibility to the tiny orbits of each piece of detail, but none of it links together very well, once you look behind the veil of the tone of certainty and start to critique their 'logic'

Imagine having a map of the all towns and villages, some of the towns and villages may be exactly as described, but the roads shown connecting them on the map don't exist in reality, or follow very different routes

OMG I've just found this. How did I not know this function existed?!

I don’t believe there are 30 foot tall pink elephants with 9 legs

Do you have any evidence that there aren’t 30 feet tall pink elephants with 9 legs?
Just because you haven’t seen one doesn’t mean I can’t believe they exist.
Do I have any evidence they exist?
That’s not the point.

Yes indeedy, so true !

Neither are you nomas, neither are you.

In your own words, show me the evidence something exists and I’ll start believing.