Raw onion can be good. An onion and cheese sandwich, while unusual, could be good. The issue isn’t necessarily the ingredients, it’s the ridiculous thickness of the block of cheese and the onion. Even a nice sweet onion would be rough if it’s that thick, and that cheese is going to be tough to even bite through.

Even more terrifying. It means multiple people in multiple places have decided that that’s a reasonable thing to sell to people wanting to buy an edible sandwich.

No it’s not. Cheese curds are springy, almost spongey.

They’re not just little bits of chopped up cheese. If that’s what they’re selling you in Wisconsin, you’re missing out on actual cheese curds. If you’d ever have any you’d notice the difference immediately, it’s not subtle.

The photo was posted to Reddit at least a year ago

You sure? On the podcast he hosts he said that he bought this “cob” on his way to a match that happened just last weekend.

Tim Stillman lives in England and was on his way to a football match in England, so it’s probably not NY Cheddar.

In your imagination I bet people clap when you say things like that.

In your imagination, I bet you have big muscles.

It would be nice to believe this, but it’s just not true. Unfortunately people do remember him fondly. It will take decades before the people who loved him are all dead and history gets to judge him.

Reddit has shown they’ll replace mods when they actually need to (or want to).

But, their business model doesn’t work unless those mods are working for free. So, while they may replace mods, unless people keep signing up to work for free to help a for-profit company deliver value to its shareholders, eventually it’s going to collapse.

You get to vote in socialist democracies like China, Cuba, USSR, etc

Sure you do, as long as you vote for the candidate that the state prefers. Again, look up “Wir gehen falten”.

It’s easy to be a hero in your own imagination. The real world shows that most people don’t actually do that.

No, I’m saying western democracies are better because you got to vote.

It’s amazing to me that so many people are willing to work as unpaid moderators so that Reddit’s investors can make more money.

The first paragraph is literally the same “I can’t justify capitalism but the others are worse” argument again.

Which happens to be true. Maybe in the future there will be something better, but so far it hasn’t been found.

The society we live in is an employment based, market fundamentalist society.

Sure, ok. And it’s better than a feudalist society where you’re tied to the land, or a slave-based economy where you’re property.

Instead of lashing out and calling it a silly caricature

I’m not lashing out. I’m just describing it as a silly caricature, which it is. Capitalism is fundamentally about owners of capital competing to make more money by investing in capital and selling goods at a profit. People who don’t own capital have to work in that kind of a system. Similar to how peasants were tied to land they had to work under feudalism, or slaves were required to do whatever their owners demanded in a slave state, but it’s less brutal. Workers can change employers and their bodies are not owned.

Is it fair? Of course not, but no socioeconomic system that has ever existed in reality has ever been fair.

That being said, how much money would it take for you to change your mind about existence being measured in terms of money alone being a silly caricature?

No amount of money would make me change my mind. There would probably be an amount of money where I’d be willing to lie, but what does that prove? You’d lie too if you were offered enough money. That’s human nature, not capitalism. If this were a feudalist system you could be bribed with land. If it were a theocracy you could be bribed by religious titles.

I don’t know what you’re trying to prove. Capitalism is bad, but other systems are worse. There are purely theoretical systems that would be better, but none of them has ever survived an encounter with reality. But, that doesn’t mean we should stop trying. Eventually we’ll find a way to improve on capitalism, just like capitalism improved on feudalism.

I just love how the conspiracies reinforce each-other in the most convenient ways.

“Anyone who doesn’t get vaxed is going to be put in a FIMA concentration camp!”

“What? That’s crazy, where’s the evidence of that?!”

“You can’t find it because they’re censoring everything on the Internet.”

So now, not finding evidence of conspiracy 1 is evidence for conspiracy 2!

“Guy” is used differently in different contexts, just like “girl”.

If someone says “the girls had a sleepover” you know they’re probably talking about female children. If someone’s talking about a girls’ night out, you know they’re almost certainly talking about women.

"Would you have sex with a group of guys?” is using guy as a stand-in for man. But, if someone said “Guys, can we all just quiet down for a second so Stan can speak?” it’s a synonym for “folks” or “people” or something gender-neutral.

we have less than 20 years to take control of our economic system before we all die from climate change

Yeah… sure. “We all die”.

The earth isn’t going to be hit by an asteroid, it’s just going to have more and more catastrophes. If the earth reaches a tipping point with the melting of the polar icecaps, it will still take centuries for them to melt. The tipping point just means that it won’t be possible to stop it. Humanity will survive, because killing off humanity would be as difficult as killing off mosquitoes or cockroaches. What will happen, not suddenly in 20 years, but gradually over the next few centuries, is that life will get more and more unpleasant. There will be more famines, more disasters wiping cities off the map. More wars over resources. But, some humans will keep living, and they’ll have children, and those children will grow up in a terrible world where survival is a struggle. But, humans will survive, though it might be a very brutal, primitive existence.

As for “capitalism”, it’s not “capitalism” that’s at fault here, it’s humanity. It’s not like North Korea is a bastion of carbon-neutral utopian living. Humans are unable to think and act on a global scale. They’re selfish, and always have been. The difference is that now there are billions of humans, and technology has enabled each selfish human to have a massive climate footprint. Human brains were evolved to exist in small groups on the savanna. The thinking that allowed humans to thrive in that environment has meant destruction now that technology has massively amplified the impact each human now has.

The solution isn’t some random change to a different economic system or a different political system. It’s either destroying most technology so that each human can no longer have such a massive impact, or it’s fundamentally altering the human brain so that people use that technology wisely and with a tiny footprint. Neither of those is likely, so we’re almost certainly doomed.

Every single vehicle with LEDs does it.

For bonobos, a whole variety of ways and very frequently.

Capitalism and modern western democracy suck. But, life has always sucked for those without power. Life is/was much worse for people under “communism”. It was much worse under fascism. It was much worse under feudalism. It is/was much worse in a theocracy.

Also, this idea that “existence is evaluated in terms of money alone” is a silly caricature of capitalism. People with power have always been the ones to make the rules. It doesn’t matter if that power is in the form of money, or absolute control over anyone who lives on a certain bit of land, or in terms of absolute control due to being the representative on earth of a god’s will.