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Comment Meh (Score 1) 218

This doesn't bother me all that much. My car is a 2014 Hyundai Elantra with a dumb sound system, but USB input, so I can connect my phone, charge it, and play my music from it. That's about all I need. My wife's car - new to us, but a 2016 Toyota Rav4 - has BT connectivity, which is nice, but still not necessary. If I get a new car without Apply Play, or whatever, I still won't care. I won't use the "integrated" system, and won't bother with a subscription, either. Just give me a jack-in connection, and I'm fine.

Comment Re: Lets act like we are surprised (Score 1) 75

It isn't money, per se: it's the add-on benefits of money. The real driving factor is biology. We - most of us - have an innate need to boink like rabbits to create the next generation. We also want the best mate - mates, if you're not very monogamous - so like primitive animals, we gussy ourselves up to alter our presented reality, in the hopes that we'll catch the eye of a promising specimen. We use money to augment our appearances; buy flashy cars; rent fancy apartments; etc. And, since we want our offspring to be "better" than others - so they can perpetuate the game, and outperform the other kids - more is better. A guy with a nice, practical car is Ok, but a lot of girls would prefer a higher end sports car, even if the guy's personality is shit.

If you can't accumulate lots of money, you scale back, but it seems like there's someone for everyone, even if they don't match our wildest dreams.

So if it was just food and shelter, we might get away with foraging, hunting down the stray animal, and living in caves. But mankind's current situation is almost entirely because of sex.

Comment Re:No to shouting back - but let's talk? (Score 1) 35

In a theoretical world, "digging yourself into a hole" should be fine and dandy. But in reality, we have people who perpetuate stupid things like anti-vaccine screeds. Other people then believe this, because the bullshitter wasn't shouted down, and then kids die from diseases we could've prevented. It is absolutely essential in some cases to shout some people down. Unless we're going for savage "survival of the fittest," and fk them kids if their parents are stupid. That works, too, but it's kinda brutal.

Comment We need more wars (Score 1) 191

If you look at the distribution curve, we have a lot of average and less than average people. This is harmful for obvious reasons. In past years, wars would put those people on the front lines and "get rid of them," for better or worse. We haven't had a major, all encompassing war in decades, which has allowed our allotment of stupid people to increase to levels of let's call it critical mass. We need another large scale war to call the herd of stupid people.

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