While saying, “stupid assholes there are no proper races of humans just color variations”.
Human “races” are Functionally more closely related to dog breeds than anything else, but far less extreme in variation of features.
A chihuahua is more different compared to a great dane than you are from any other ethnicity of fellow human.
Who is downvoting this??
Chihuahuas
Downvotes aren’t real. People use bots to downvote each other all the time here so why would you take them seriously?
Found the asshole who uses bots to downvote people
TIL east Asian people don’t exist
I guess we can eliminate formula one. Seems kinda boring to me.
I’ll take F1 over Nascar any day.
Disclaimer: I’ve never sat down to watch either, but if the choices are “turn left” or “winding, twisting course” I think I’m going with the one that has more variety.
Massive F1 fan here.
It’s more of an engineering sport than a driving sport. Don’t get me wrong– the drivers are absolutely top notch and do an incredible job and it’s entertaining to watch. But since it’s sooooo engineering and development based, you cars that perform different on different tracks (cuz of elevation, temperature, track design, surface).
It’s pretty neat; worth a watch sometime!
This is like the argument that football is exciting because it’s a highly strategic sport: the most interesting and exciting things about it are happening on the sidelines in the coaches’ heads while 40% of the time nothing is happening on the field.
So if the most exciting part of the race is the engineering that went into the car, then what’s the point of watching the race? You’d be probably be more interested watching Bill Nye.
To me a lot of games seem like they’re going from one end to another constantly with sudden passes to the opposing end.
Haven’t watched that much but some WC games
Like I said, some exciting racing. There was a photo finish (0.053) for the podium last race!
But for someone who is a nerd about it, some of the most exciting parts are Thursday and Friday when the teams show up with upgrades. Seeing it come together on a Sunday is awesome, but sometimes less dynamic.
If you want insane racing, just watch motorcycles
There is only one race.
[writes down “humans” on ballot]
I mean, in this scenario we’ve established that there’s at least one alien species as well.
But does it have subraces of the species?
(technically there are no human races in biological terms, by the way, there’s not enough difference)
False. There is also 3-legged.
In Hungary it’s a singles event.
Don’t believe this map. You don’t have to have 16+ cm to be a legend
It’s self reported, so Hungarians have the largest of one of two things.
Oh! Centimeters. Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.
For some reason the only 2 measurements on my mind were inches and millimeters.
Both could be bad news depending on which end of it you are.
mastodong map right there
french propaganda
We’re not playing Sons of the Forest over here.
Guess I’m post-racism because my first thought was “mosquitoes”.
Mine was NASCAR
Fuck yeah Mosquito Genocide crew!
If I had to choose a race to be eliminated to get the alien tech, I’d go with potato sack. Some people might miss it, but I feel like it’s time to let that one go.
I agree. The three legged race is too much of a classic. The feeling of flow state when you and your partner get moving quick is too good. Sack races never feel fun. Just painful.
Agree 100% I embarrassed myself thoroughly in the sack race as a child and would like all future examples banned.
Potato sack > 400m, change my view
Yeah I am not voting.
If they were really a benevolent species, they wouldn’t play this mind game to begin with.
This says more about humanity than the aliens.
Well it might make perfect sense from their perspective, there might be a million alien species on the galactic council who all agree they don’t want to deal with a species that won’t purge at least one race.
It’s unlikely but possible, we have literally no way of knowing or really guessing anything about how an alien race or empire might think. They might be shocked and confused we don’t kill our enemies children, bemused that we ended slavery, disgusted that we don’t torture criminals for sport…
An even scarier thought is that we might agree with them in a hundred or thousand years, it seems impossible to imagine but to me it seems impossible to imagine slavery was ever a thing or that they put criminals heads on pikes for everyone to see.
Wouldn’t they?
Maybe shit like that is the kind of wake up call our species would need to finally get us on the path to a post-race society.
Maybe they know we need a bit of a nudge and they decided they’d be the one to give it to us.
Look if Covid-19 wasn’t an effective enough wake up call, I don’t think anything will be.
Pretty sure this is just going to start off a race war
There’d be a 180° and people would start claiming that the political leaders were controlling the aliens rather than the other way around
Mosquitoes. Definitely those fuckers.
my choice would prob be a 15k. at that point I’ll just do a half marathon, thanks.
how about the Abu Dhabi Tour? A week-long stage race on the least interesting terrain on the planet. The first stage frequently has a finishing straight that’s 60k long.
I’m concerned about the amount of people in this post that aren’t just saying that None is the correct answer, but are instead trying to come up with a race to pick.
I was once among a group of (fellow) university-educated expats, during a stint living abroad in the 2000s. While we were socializing, somebody asked everyone to say what group of people they would make disappear. (I can’t remember if it was kill/erase/nuke/remove from a map that was said, but a couple of variations along those lines.) People’s answers that day (and their insistence that I, too, should “jokingly” hate some group of people and want them to die) taught me a lot. On top of that, I also am part of one of the groups that was named (no, I am not mixed race-- it was just ignorance on the guy’s part that he not only thought I wasn’t part of the group but also that when I made a “joke” of what he said, he thought telling me that I didn’t seem like part of that group was supposed to make it better somehow).
I think the premise of the question means none wouldn’t be an option, but yeah, entertaining it is weird.
None is specifically called out as being an option.
Nevermind, I’m just illiterate
It’s an option, but if “none” wins then there’s no shared knowledge of anything. The question really is, do you prefer to cause genocide but have new tech, or keep old tech with no genocide.
Aliens would be really disappointed to find out we already have blue checkmarks invented and people don‘t care nearly enough about it.
Reminds me of that Black Mirror episode when people could post names of people they wanted to be killed and every day the most posted person were killed. After some time, the man behind that killed all of the people who voted for anybody.
ah yes the “I’m covered in bees!” episode.
Name of episode?
I think it’s S03E06 Hated In The Nation
Which episode is that? I must’ve missed it.
the bees episode.
I think it’s S03E06 Hated In The Nation
So in that killer’s mind, wanting someone killed was the morally indefensible crime but actually killing ludicrous numbers of people is not? And he nor anyone else questioned that? 🤔
Bit of context and spoilers - He was making a statement about social media threats/harassment
The first part - using social media - whoever people vote to be killed, gets killed. Trying to show these actions have consequences. The people voting feel immune to these consequences. They just voted, they didn’t kill anybody.
He goes through 5 rounds of voting, with more votes every time. After each round, the most voted for is killed.Up to this point he’s exposing people trying to use social media to try and harm people Eventually he turns it around, and kills everyone who voted
The whole thing kicked off because his friend/romantic interest tried to commit suicide from cyber bullying. He’s pushing that these actions have consequences, even if you hide behind a screen.
The killer himself is a psycho, so the morals aren’t exactly impactful to him. As for anyone else questioning, the definitely do.
Disclaimer - been a while since I watched the episode. It’s pretty good, definitely need some suspension of disbelief (but that’s most episodes)
I get that what he’s trying to do, it’s just his actions are self-defeating. The only reason the behavior on social media has violent consequences is because he’s imposing them; no one else in that story is killing people based on meaningless Facebook polls. They only matter because he makes them matter. He causes the problems he thinks he is solving.
Also he assumes his actions will make people reconsider their choices and change, which they won’t because people for the most part aren’t capable of change. Most people don’t have the ability to do so. Those who do deliberately refuse to because they’re happy the way they are regardless of their true nature’s consequences to other people.
It’s just a stupid gimmicky show pretending to be deep to get views. That’s all.
This is how every episode of Black Mirror is. Just little interesting “what if” scenarios that make you think. In the same way that fairy tales are contrived and unrealistic these are too.
Half of Africa is going to have “French” tattooed on their foreheads, and they’ll be even angrier for having a French symbol part of them.
I vote for eliminating the greyhound race
Ah you mean racing. For a moment I wanted to argue that it’s more humane to eradicate pugs due to their miserable health problems.
Remove “the” and add an s to race to make it clear what you’re talking about :)
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As there’s only one race, I guess everyone who chose anything but none gets the human race symbol (???) tattoed on their face. Still would be fun to see who chose to have other humans killed.
Now, if the OP in 4chan meant ethnicity, that’s a different story.
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The definition of “race” varies widely between different demographics and contexts. In a biological context which you seem to be insinuating, “race” is either nonsensical or an ancient synonym for species.
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You forgot the underscore in your off-switch.
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You didn’t need to enable it again, since they forgot to disable it.
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I legit question why people should be morally condemned for choosing to have others killed. It’s too important a survival mechanism to just dismiss with morality like that, and claiming it’s wrong violates the human right to freedom of thought. Humans are allowed to hate each other. They’re allowed to want negative things, even to have others killed.
The premise itself is self-defeating because it uses the act of labeling people who make a choice to be targeted for violence and death to defeat the concept of doing so. Its use legitimizes the practice even to criticize it. Humans have to select other people to be targeted for violence because it’s ultimately the only effective way to regulate behavior and enforce social norms, and refusing to do so destroys societies.
People need to stop judging others on their thoughts and feelings and start focusing on their actions.
This is just the beginning of what could be a great movie.
I don’t know what the actual direction the story goes based on this premise, but I wanna see it.
Honestly I’m surprised that studios have never bothered filming multiple endings and releasing them all into the theater chain so people would basically go see the same movie multiple times just to catch the different endings, and the studio getting more profits.
They did that with the movie Clue, showing different endings at different theaters. At the. Time, it pissed people off, and it got called a cash grab.
Ah, ok.
Clue (1985) did exactly that
Mostly cost, a lot of movies already run on thin budgets and timelines, extra filming and editing from having multiple endings cuts into that
You would like the movie Circle (2015)
I did like that movie. I saw it years ago, but every time I tried to describe it to someone I couldn’t think of the name. I can’t remember how it ended exactly, but I’ll probably throw it on when I go to my brother’s place.
We’ve been catching up with a lot of culture we missed out on due to being stuck in an overly religious household growing up. So we take time each (well most) Sundays to watch something we know Mom would hate. It’s therapeutic in a word kind of way.
The ending could be a great south park episodes.
I wonder what “none, fuck off” gets you?
Heaven. That’s where the Mormons went.
I’m sorry but if there’s one thing the Mormon church won’t do it’s say “none”
It’s a joke from south park.
