What would you ban if you could?

The phrase "hot take".

Listen, when I was an even younger youngling than I am now, people used to do this very annoying thing where they'd say "unpopular opinion" and then put a colon (one of these boys—>:) and then type something deeply inane. Like, "unpopular opinion: The Beatles are overrated", or "unpopular opinion: pizza isn't good without pepperoni" or whatever. The actual content of the opinion is not the annoying part, it's the format.

"Hot take" is just exactly that—like literally other than the phrase, they are the same thing—except it's used almost exclusively by people 5-10 years younger than I am, and if there is one thing that makes my 23 year old self feel about 83, it's seeing the younger generation already repeat my incredibly minor, yet profoundly annoying mistakes.

Everyone here under the age of 20 has to promise me they're not going to start responding to statements with sentences that begin with the word "Actually" followed by a comma, that's the next logical step from Hot Take Culture, I won't be able to take it.

it's either real or it's a dream there's nothing that is in between

The plugin container for Firefox on my computer. >.<

Flora is the most beautiful member of the Winx Club. :)

Compromise with the film industry? Frankly I wouldn't myself. If they did I'd threaten to ban copyright protections as well, see how they like it...

(Realistically I wouldn't of course, I see some value to copyright in a capitalist system even if it needs radical reform- shorter terms, more end-user rights etc; it would probably ruin the economy if I got rid of it, for the sake of something so trivial. But frankly I see no point in compromising to the point where you give big business everything they want.)

(Perhaps I would ban No Export for You though- that is to say regional content licensing. Who does this even benefit apart from the middlemen? Or at most the fact that for example Japanese companies can continue to sell overpriced DV Ds and Blu-Rays back home).

The entire concept of the "fast lane" on the freeway.

• The right lane would be the "enter, exit, and travel lane."

• The middle lanes, if applicable, would be the "cruising lanes."

• The far left lane would be the "Only use this lane to pass other vehicles" lane.

I know that this is state law, at least in Colorado, but people tend to think of the left lane as the "fast lane," move over there so they can feel cool, and then cruise there while being passed on the right. RUDE

(Actually, I'd just ban me from driving, and add a system that would allow me to not drive—better public transit in my area, self-driving car, teleportation, etc.—because driving is tedious and annoying)

In the UK it isn't the "fast lane", technically, it's the overtaking lane. You're supposed to pull in if you aren't overtaking something. Is this true in the US outside of Colorado?

Personally I would be tempted to ban or restrict cars as much as feasible and improve public transport myself. Even though it isn't as bad in the UK as it allegedly is Stateside, you still get far too few busses to get anywhere in a hurry at short notice, and in many rural areas any bus service is pretty much non-existent. Plus a rail network allegedly struggling in capacity (thank the Beeching axe) such that they have to carve up yet more countryside to build HS2 (which I would also "ban") and vastly overpriced to boot...

edited 12th Dec '17 3:58:32 PM by TheLyniezian

^note Allegedly nothin. In Suburbia, you could easily have to drive 20 minutes to get tot he nearest anything that's not a gas station or a Rooms-to-Go. No, absolutely nothing is in walking distance.
When you finally get to civilization in the cities, it's less egregious but parking lots nab so much of the space...

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I'd ban the greeting "how are you?" You can only say "Fine, thank you" so many times a day...

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives

Was referring to bus services. I understand they exist and have seen proof on my one trip to the States, but it seems they don't operate in suburbia either in terms of regular local bus services at least either at least where I was staying.

Also, yes, "how are you?" is not a greeting, it's a question. If you don't want me at least possibly answering in the negative, don't ask it.

Also banworthy, following on from that: shop assistants in certain types of store constantly asking you if you're alright (as a pretext to try and sell you something, no doubt). After the nth time I feel like saying "I was until you asked!" even though I realise at the end of the day they are probably just doing their jobs. But, if I have a problem I would prefer to approach them, even in spite of any anxiety I might feel in trying, than t'other way round. Let me browse in peace.

That and any form of aggressive marketing strategy.

edited 12th Dec '17 4:47:28 PM by TheLyniezian

The stigma around mental health, especially that of idols, in South Korea.

FC: SW-1445-0294-1719/PSN: TekkenGirl4Lyfe/Currently playing: Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade

Yes, that's the way it's allegedly supposed to work in the US as well.

But it doesn't, because it isn't actively enforced.

Personally, I'd like to actively enforce it — with a main battle tank! All left-lane bandits should get a 120mm HEAT round up their tailpipe!

This Space Intentionally Left Blank.

Playing Christmas music 24 hours a day throughout the months of December and November. It gets annoying fast. I'm fine with two weeks before Christmas.

“We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” - Lewis Carroll

Cigarettes. I'd like to be able to walk around without my breath being brought to a halt every ten seconds because some asshole is smoking a cigarette.

To pity someone is to tell them "I feel bad about being better than you."

Funko Pop figurines.

Guns and any and all usage of them.

Ike Perlmutter.

On my wave, passing oooooooon

Snow. And I can't even think about moving to a warmer place until the kid grows up. So sad.

Damn you, snow! >.<

Flora is the most beautiful member of the Winx Club. :)

You realize some tropers are under the age of 18, me included?

Anyway for me.

Porn that's degrading to women and minorities. That's it and some quality control on that. I'm just not a fan of non-visual porn like erotica and is it sick and tired of the stigma made about porn. Has no one heard of moderation?

Ban monopolies. As much as some made good to society, I don't want nothing to do with them. And ban them from politics too along with their sponsor ships.

Ban tax cuts and up the taxes for the rich. Eventually, making them middle class therefore killing the 1%.

edited 23rd Dec '17 5:28:10 AM by ewolf2015

MIA

Wait, why up taxes for the rich? What's wrong with having more money than other people?

Apparently this version of Hyde looks like a Jojo's character. According to people who have seen that anime and I guess understand it.

Ban most, if not all kinds of asshole actions in general, with the minor exception of meaner actions that have a nobler or justified goal. This would be a versatile action that would help improve the world tremendously in many ways despite being just a single "wish": people wouldn't destroy the environment because it's an asshole thing to do. People wouldn't abuse the poor for the sake of more money because that's an asshole thing to do. People wouldn't murder and torture others because that's an asshole thing to do. And so on.

However, this would only work if the human brain was rewired to not want to do asshole actions, because otherwise it would lead to a lot of emotional tripwires where you would need to be super-duper careful to not do an asshole action, lest you get dragged off to jail. And that would be an asshole thing to do.

(if anyone else wants to find and poke holes at this, feel free to; just don't be rude because that's an asshole thing to do)

Sick of everything.

Being rich isn't generally considered immoral or unethical. Which is why nobody's suggesting punishing them. We tax the rich more because the marginal utility of money decreases as you have more of it — if you took a million dollars from Bill Gates, and handed it out in packets of $100 to ten thousand poor people, the net result would be positive.

I say "generally" because there are, of course, substantial arguments to the effect of "hoarding vast amounts of wealth just because you like being rich, instead of spending it to improve society, is immoral". But raising taxes on the rich isn't meant to punish that behavior anyway.

And on-topic, I'd definitely ban the use of any argument that boils down to "it was possible, therefore it was not immoral or unethical".

Or, for that matter, "it was legal, therefore it was not immoral or unethical". And the inverse, "it was illegal, therefore it was immoral and/or unethical".

edited 30th Dec '17 3:08:48 PM by wingedcatgirl

Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.

I read what she wrote as punishing the rich. "Up taxes for the rich and only the rich so they would no longer be rich" is how I interrupted what they wrote. Less taking a million dollars away from a billionaire and more taking a billion dollars away from a billionaire.

I want to know what their exact issue is here, I feel like whatever it is there's probably a better way to fix it than not allowing people to have more money than others. Like if the issue is the rich having more political power you could ban using money to influence the government.

edited 30th Dec '17 5:41:37 PM by ScotieRw

Apparently this version of Hyde looks like a Jojo's character. According to people who have seen that anime and I guess understand it.

Accusaions of crimes the accuser does not know the definition of, regardless of whether it goes to court, punishable by the maximum sentence for what the crime actually is. No appeal.

STO To the invisible massless teapot! Long may it pour!

Websites from employing anti-adblock measures.

I already said I'd ban forced redirect ads. I'd also ban people on other websites claiming your computer has viruses, for the simple reason that they aren't your virus protection software!

The possum is a potential perpetrator; he did place possum poo in the plum pot.

Conspiracy theories.

No kidding especially Infowars but I'd also ban GMO's as well except those who produce insulin,Hgh and vaccines for logical reasons of course.

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Specific GM Os maybe only if there is any proven and serious scientific evidence incontrovertably proving a risk to human health, or they're being sold in such a way as to screw over poor farmers in developing countries, or such.

Also, a few posts back, someone was talking about whether people being rich was a good thing, whether taxing people out of their wealth was a good thing and if it would constitute punishing people for being rich. Well, I think that it isn't automatically immoral to be rich in and of itself, but one might well question the means by which many people become extremely rich, or at least the economic system that permits that if it does so at the expense of other people. Is banning being rich through taxing all income over a certain amount? I don't know, but it seems very doubtful you could get vastly more tax that way as people will just choose to earn below the threshold or find as many loopholes as possible- if not move elsewhere.