Your unpopular (non-political, non-offensive) opinions!

[pythonmegapixel]

1 minute ago, Tomsta said:

I recall Honda making a Hydrogen car years ago. Why wasn't that put into mainstream production?; obviously they figured out a way to store the Hydrogen

There are hydrogen vehicles in production, for example we have hydrogen buses in the UK.

 

I imagine it's a case of cost-effectiveness more than anything.

[Tomsta]

15 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

There are hydrogen vehicles in production, for example we have hydrogen buses in the UK.

 

I imagine it's a case of cost-effectiveness more than anything.

I forgot about the London buses that are Hydrogen (I'm from the UK)

[Totallycasual]

I think that everyone should have the right to end their lives if they've had enough of it, of course they'd have to perhaps sit down with a few shrinks just to weed out the people that are temporarily upset over a breakup or whatever but generally speaking, if you can demonstrate that you've truly had enough and your situation probably isn't going to change or get better, why the hell should you be forced to stick around?

 

And i'm not talking just terminally ill people either. 

[Totallycasual]

3 minutes ago, Benji said:

That doesn't mean that I deserve to end my life just because it is temporarily bad.

I deliberately pointed out that they should have to speak to some shrinks to weed out people with short term/temporary issues but what do you mean "deserve to end your life", it's your fucking life, man..... you should be able to end it if you want to.  

[Arika]

13 hours ago, sub68 said:

that laptop keyboards can/ be better than a actual keyboard

I control my desktop almost exclusively with my laptop these days using mouse without borders.

 

even my "real" keyboard is still a low-profile scissor switch style (Microsoft surface keyboard)

[D13H4RD]

It's totally fine to buy an Intel machine. Not everyone has to buy AMD.

[Master Disaster]

4 minutes ago, D13H4RD said:

It's totally fine to buy an Intel machine. Not everyone has to buy AMD.

[Tomsta]

28 minutes ago, Totallycasual said:

I think that everyone should have the right to end their lives if they've had enough of it, of course they'd have to perhaps sit down with a few shrinks just to weed out the people that are temporarily upset over a breakup or whatever but generally speaking, if you can demonstrate that you've truly had enough and your situation probably isn't going to change or get better, why the hell should you be forced to stick around?

 

And i'm not talking just terminally ill people either. 

Problem we have there is that decision like that would need to be made of someone who is of "sound mind" and the people you're referring to might not have that. Take someone who is depressed; nature of depression means you're not thinking clearly. I don't think we should give that kind of decisional power to someone who "isn't in their right mind". Having experienced first hand the aftermath of someone taking that route it's given me a new insight into this area

 

I do believe in euthanisa but with the cavate that is has to be approved by an external party of 'sound mind'

[Totallycasual]

8 minutes ago, Tomsta said:

Problem we have there is that decision like that would need to be made of someone who is of "sound mind" and the people you're referring to might not have that.

You seem to have completely ignored the part where i said people would need to sit down with some shrinks or whatever to go through a process in order to ensure you've legit had enough and for good reason. 

[Arika]

37 minutes ago, Totallycasual said:

I think that everyone should have the right to end their lives if they've had enough of it, of course they'd have to perhaps sit down with a few shrinks just to weed out the people that are temporarily upset over a breakup or whatever but generally speaking, if you can demonstrate that you've truly had enough and your situation probably isn't going to change or get better, why the hell should you be forced to stick around?

 

And i'm not talking just terminally ill people either. 

i don't think someone that is truly suicidal to the extent you are insinuating, would go out of their way to "demonstrate" that they are suicidal to a bunch of, effectively "judges", just to get the ok to allow them to kill themselves.

 

There's nothing physically stopping people from committing suicide for any reason, so I'm not quite sure what your solution really solves.

[Tomsta]

1 minute ago, Totallycasual said:

You seem to have completely ignored the part where i said people would need to sit down with some shrinks or whatever to go through a process in order to ensure you've legit had enough and for good reason. 

Some issues are very complex. For some people working out "Is this really want you want" can take literal years, i'm imaging in this scenario you're thinking said pereson would spend a few months with a counsellor or therapist. Sometimes that is all that is needed yes, but for the kind of people you're talking about more often than not this is going to take years to 'figure out'

 

I had that eye opening experience myself when I discovered that after a year of counselling my issues were far from "sorted"

[Totallycasual]

1 minute ago, Arika S said:

There's nothing physically stopping people from committing suicide for any reason, so I'm not quite sure what your solution really solves.

 

There are people all around the world that endure horrific ends due to botched suicides, loved ones get potentially charged if they knew what was going to happen or tried to assist them, there are a lot of good reasons for having a system in place to allow people to start a process where they can make their case to a board of shrinks or w/e and end their lives peacefully and painlessly. 

[Tomsta]

2 minutes ago, Totallycasual said:

 

There are people all around the world that endure horrific ends due to botched suicides, loved ones get potentially charged if they knew what was going to happen or tried to assist them, there are a lot of good reasons for having a system in place to allow people to start a process where they can make their case to a board of shrinks or w/e and end their lives peacefully and painlessly. 

You're referring what what is basically Euthanasia in a round-about way

[Totallycasual]

Just now, Tomsta said:

You're referring what what is basically Euthanasia in a round-about way

 

More or less but in the countries where it's legal, it's primarily for terminally ill people.  I'm of the opinion that people shouldn't need to be on their deathbed to have made up their minds that they've had enough, it's their life and they should be able to end it legally and peacefully if that's what they want.  

[da na]

that not all gaming laptops suck (although most do when it comes to price-to-performance)

[Master Disaster]

35 minutes ago, Totallycasual said:

 

More or less but in the countries where it's legal, it's primarily for terminally ill people.  I'm of the opinion that people shouldn't need to be on their deathbed to have made up their minds that they've had enough, it's their life and they should be able to end it legally and peacefully if that's what they want.  

You're misunderstanding the situation, very badly.

 

The issue doesn't come down to a patients choice, its about liability.

 

All doctors swear an oath to never knowingly do harm to any patient, assisted suicide has to be done with a cocktail of drugs, only doctors are allowed to use these drugs or authorise their use in any capacity...

 

I'm sure you can see the ethical and legal conundrum this creates.

 

Any doctor prescribing drugs to knowingly assist in a suicide is liable for manslaughter.

 

Edit - most countries have a thing called DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) which allows the patient to sign a form that basically says, once they die they give permission for the doctors to leave them alone and to waive any malpractice from the doctors.

[Totallycasual]

10 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

You're misunderstanding the situation, very badly.

I'm not misunderstanding, i'm just saying how i think things should be, this discussion asks what you unpopular opinion is and i gave mine, i'm not here to debate the legal framework that exists and its impact upon how i would prefer things to be. 

[Master Disaster]

7 minutes ago, Totallycasual said:

I'm not misunderstanding, i'm just saying how i think things should be, this discussion asks what you unpopular opinion is and i gave mine, i'm not here to debate the legal framework that exists and its impact upon how i would prefer things to be. 

Totally fair point, apologies if I came across a little direct, it wasn't the intention. These kinds of discussions are fascinating to me.

[sub68]

4 hours ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Apple ones used to be decent.

Yes they used to until 2015.

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I've tried various others' keyboards - including Asus, Lenovo, that stock one that all the Chromebooks seem to have, Acer and so on - the only ones I've actually liked typing on have been HP.

Hold up

I disagree with the Lenovo somewhat

My school issued thinkpad 11e 3rd gen chromebooks and those had great keyboards.

But my lenovo 500e has one of the worest keyboards I have ever used.

 

The 500e is something that asus sells under a different name but I don't know what it's called.

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But for Dell... don't even get me started!!!

Fair dells chromebooks are horrible keebs.

My mom's dell laptop I can hardly stand the keyboard.

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, Totallycasual said:

I think that everyone should have the right to end their lives if they've had enough of it, of course they'd have to perhaps sit down with a few shrinks just to weed out the people that are temporarily upset over a breakup or whatever but generally speaking, if you can demonstrate that you've truly had enough and your situation probably isn't going to change or get better, why the hell should you be forced to stick around?

 

And i'm not talking just terminally ill people either. 

There’s an entire branch of medialethics that deals with euthanasia.  There is apparently one European country that already does that.

[Quackers101]

2 hours ago, Benji said:

Yup, assisted suicide is allowed in Switzerland.

should be a whole host of regulation behind it.

Also if you find out a medical worker is... like a few big cases, germany, japan, and a few others.

[sub68]

9 hours ago, Benji said:

Yup, assisted suicide is allowed in Switzerland.

 

[Bombastinator]

51 minutes ago, sub68 said:

 

A whole branch of medical ethics

[sub68]

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

A whole branch of medical ethics

I am cofused

[Bombastinator]

2 minutes ago, sub68 said:

I am cofused

This may help:  The pants do not go on after the shoes.  Sorry it’s a 30 year old far side cartoon that still makes me giggle.