Sometimes, the majority is false because it only includes those with power. Sometimes the majority is not just wrong but actively selfish and maybe just a little evil.

Good point. I mean, look at the Australian referendum on giving Indigenous people a voice in that country.

If human rights were based on majority rule we'd still have slavery.

I agree it's not the supermarkets' fault but it's an industry problem. Why is everything wrapped in plastic? Even bananas and cucumbers and things that don't need plastic?

One thing we could do is have refillable containers and just reuse them! Why are bulk aisles just a thing for nuts and grains? Why can't we come and fill up milk or shampoo or other things in our refillables?

Anyway, the bigger story is that there are too many humans. We don't have a plastics problem, we have a human overpopulation problem.

I've never heard of ricing but come to think of it I have heard of "rice rocket" to describe Kawasaki motor bikes so that's probably a titch racist.

Colonel Nicholson: Yes, Clipton. I understand, truly. But don't you see it's a matter of principle? If we give in now, there will be no end to it. No!

Major Clipton: Sir, we're lost in the jungle, a thousand miles from anywhere. We're under the heel of a man who will stop at nothing to get his way. Principle? No one will know or care what happens to us! Give in, sir! Please!

I guess she thought she'd win like Nicholson.

But it's paradoxical. You need population increase to support increasing costs, yet increasing population creates a strain on the finite resources of the planet.

I acknowledge you said this ignoring the capitalism issues, but if you didn't ignore it then it wouldn't really be an issue. We have the wealth to handle this if we had the political courage to force an equitable society.

Believe it or not, Canada was once a population much lower than 40 million people and we managed just fine. The idea that populations cannot contract is a harmful concept because it forces acceptance of the paradox that we can infinitely grow in a finite world. And this always relies on the use of technology to overcome this. So, instead of reducing the population to the point where automobiles wouldn't need to be electric, we increase the population and try and find green solutions.

There's always going to be meganerds who find insane builds in games.

I remember in Divinity Original Sin 2 I was at the final boss and it was stupid hard. So I went online to ask for help in Reddit and minmax nerds were like: Do you have skin graft? Do you have Green Tea? Do you have Adrenaline?

And sure enough, after respeccing the fight was a joke.

Of course, you can just beat DoS2 with barrelmancy, the most OP skill of all!

I still call anyone who is infatuated with a topic of interest a nerd, but usually tongue in cheek because the likelihood is I'm also interested

Of interest, in Canada's 2011 federal election the Conservative party with Stephen Harper won by painting Michael Ignatieff as a book nerd professor from Harvard University.

They ran ads with taglines such as "Just visiting," "Just in it for himself," and, most notoriously, "He Didn't Come Back For You." These all suggested he was an erudite professor from the USA who wanted to run Canada for his own self-aggrandizement and mocked his intelligence and academic bona fides.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnjFyIbcCw

There will likely be a gen pop booster for all ages in the fall to coincide with the influenza campaign.

At the self-checkout at the Walmart near me a little man would go around asking if we want to save on groceries by signing up for their credit card.

The fourth or fifth trip there that he did this I had to get a bit ruder until he finally grabbed the self-checkout and clicked the credit card opt-in and I had to tell him to fuck off. He acted shocked but dude I go to self-checkout to avoid human interaction, not be sold a bullshit credit card only a teenager would fall for.

$2.25 for a million litres of water is the most criminal fucking thing I've read in a long time

Haven't followed baseball in a while. When did Cleveland change their name? It's a terrible name but obviously better than the Indians.