The subjects that you can’t even bring up without getting downvoted, banned, fired, expelled, cancelled etc.

  • AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca
    67·
    22 days ago

    For legal reasons I cannot have any opinion on the following: Gestures broadly at everything in the Middle East

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      21 days ago

      You are more than welcome to choose from one of the pre-prepared opinions that we have on offer here… no need to bring anything new to the table and confuse such an obviously binary subject.

  • GetOffMyLan@programming.dev
    63·
    22 days ago

    “ChatGpt is really good if you use it properly”

    Gets torrents of down votes every time. But I literally use it a lot at work and it’s brilliant.

    • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      22 days ago

      Depends what you use it for. If you are trying to provide something informational, I do not trust chat gpt.

      If you use it to respond to work emails because they force communication for the sake of communication, then its fine.

      • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
        3·
        21 days ago

        So, if you use it properly. Just like you wouldn’t use a fork for soup despite it being a utensil and food. Using a tool for what it’s good at and avoiding using it for things it’s bad at is part of using it properly.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        38·
        22 days ago

        I’d probably also develop a short temper about spanners too if they were being shoved in my face by tech companies as hard as chat bots are

        • egrets@lemmy.world
          43·
          22 days ago

          We’re excited to announce the new Sony WH1000XM6 headphones, enhanced by the power of spanners!

          I don’t see why my headphones need a sp-

          Conveniently built in to your headset, you can use the spanner to adjust bolt tightness on-the-go!

          Okay, but that’s not wh-

          We’re proud to be leading the market in spanner-augmented products to bring a new level of convenience to your life.

          …

          Spanner may sometimes only appear to tighten bolts. Please don’t ask us the energy cost of manufacturing the spanner.

    • infinite_ass@leminal.spaceOP
      19·
      22 days ago

      I’d call it a cultural artifact. We used to get married very young. In some cultures the kids are introduced to sex by the grandparents. And of course in our own culture the ideal of sexy beauty is a supermodel who looks like a 13 year old boy. It’s a whirlwind wrapped in a psychosis for sure.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      20 days ago

      I chalk this up to not having a word to describe folks suffering from the condition as opposed to predators acting on their condition (or even predators just abusing children regardless of attraction). For a ton of people they use the word pedophile to mean someone who sexually abuses children. Because as soon as nuanced discussion about “pedophiles who don’t abuse kids” come up, people accuse you of “defending pedophiles” but they use it to mean “defending people who abuse children.”

    • moistclump@lemmy.world
      6·
      22 days ago

      Economics doesn’t seem as big of a thing as the other 3. Anyone who’s nerdy enough to talk economics without making it political could probably have a pretty good discussion. I vote we change it to Elephants. Religion, Abotion, Politics, Elephants, or Rape.

      • Tyfud@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        22 days ago

        Economics is poorly understood by the vast majority of Americans. To most people, it is purely political.

        • superkret@feddit.org
          1·
          20 days ago

          Economics is purely political.
          Politics is almost entirely about allocation of money and trying to influence the economy.

      • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
        2·
        21 days ago

        The fact i can tell you using economic theory its a good idea to make people unemployed as the cost of living increases, that rent controls are a really bad idea, and even ignoring profit its probably wise to increase the costs of tickets to shows and events makes me very unpopular

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    30·
    22 days ago

    I fucking hate React. It’s slow, verbose, and unpleasant to work with. It’s all the worst parts of Java brought over to JavaScript. That being said, it’s still better than Angular.

    • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
      6·
      22 days ago

      I wouldn’t mind switching to alternative libraries like Svelte or Solid but can’t imagine going back to plain Javascript for complex applications. It’s a pain in the ass, even with jQuery.

      • hperrin@lemmy.world
        4·
        22 days ago

        I use Svelte, and I love it. Although I’m not a huge fan of the new Runes syntax. It’ll probably grow on me though.

      • hperrin@lemmy.world
        8·
        22 days ago

        There’s so much boilerplate to even do the most simple tasks. And that boilerplate is something that could usually be automatically added by a compiler.

        That kind of stuff often introduces footguns.

    • Cratermaker@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      21 days ago

      I think what started me down the anti-React path was realizing that there were other frameworks out there that don’t even use a virtual dom. Plus you get tired of being told that the most obvious and intuitive way to do various things in React actually goes against some best practice that they’ve established.

  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
    27·
    22 days ago

    People of color seem to perform amazing in athletics compared to other races in America (see: American football, basketball). Makes me think that Americans hyper-evolved their slaves by selective breeding. Unfortunate and extremely unethical, but maybe possible? Idk.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      34·
      22 days ago

      It’s possible it’s for other reasons, though. Black Americans are generally poorer than other Americans, and success in sports is a ticket out of poverty that is accessible to people in that position. It could also be a cultural thing; I doubt Finns are genetically predisposed to be exceptional drivers, but they are still wildly over-represented at the top level of motorsports for such a small population

    • infinite_ass@leminal.spaceOP
      6·
      22 days ago

      I heard that a similar breeding program happened in some African cultures back in the day. Like you could only breed if you were an alpha hunter or somesuch.

      So that’s how you get a race of 7’ tall dudes

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      6·
      21 days ago

      I’d believe it if a good portion of black americans I’ve seen are tall and muscular, but I’d say their proportions are similar to their white american counterparts, i.e. a spectrum.

      I think they just want it more, and its one of the few paths to success they have.

      • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
        2·
        21 days ago

        That actually can be explained by the slaves that used to live in the farmhouses. They were treated as an elevated status and allowed to eat more. Think like the “aunts” for the children; caretakers.

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
          2·
          21 days ago

          But they were exceptions, not the majority who were slaves/workers. You’d still expect a heavy selection bias for good body attributes if you sampled them at random, assuming OP’s hypothesis is true.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    25·
    22 days ago

    On lemmy?

    • Two-space indent (as superior to tab indent)

    • Hey, by the way, your comment was kinda racist

    • I’m a new user and why isn’t this more like reddit

    • I’m pretty okay with capitalism, actually

    • Here’s video without text summary (NB: this one is, IMO, entirely deserving of downvotes)

    • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      22 days ago

      + Here’s video without text summary

      I really don’t get why people get so upset about that. We don’t get summaries on Youtube either but still watch the videos.

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        22 days ago

        1. We go to youtube to watch videos. We go to lemmy comments to read text.

        2. Youtube videos DO have descriptions, though?

        • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
          5·
          22 days ago
          1. Sure, if it’s just a bare link in the comments I understand, but as a post with the original video title and usually an autogenerated thumbnail, I don’t see a problem.
          2. The YT descriptions are not shown in the list of videos and rarely contain a summary of the video.
    • Finadil@lemmy.world
      3·
      20 days ago

      Maybe I’m just old school, but I’m two spaces for life. I will die on this fucking hill. If you use tabs after just a couple indents all the code is off screen. I ain’t trying to scroll in two dimensions all the time.

    • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
      1·
      20 days ago

      +1 for the video issue, or any other “just do [insert a bunch of work here], it’s less work than commenting anyways” kinda stuff

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24·
    22 days ago

    All drugs should be legal and regulated.

    Is it worth it, drug warriors? All the unnecessary deaths at the hands of police/gangs/cartels and unregulated drugs of a unknown potency? Was it worth sacrificing all our civil liberties on the vain funeral pyre that is the United States of America?

    When humanity is victorious in the drug war and all drugs are legalized, will drug users criminalize sobriety?

    Will people high as fuck demand everyone to piss in a plastic cup to make sure they are high?

    Will drug users ruin sober people’s lives with felonies and time in prison with hardened criminals?

    Will drug users dissolve civil liberties and prop up a bipartisan police state that gives cops a license to kill?

    NO!

    Who would want to do that to someone? To a fellow human for doing what they want with their own bodies? Prohibitionists… that’s who. And we are not them

    Nothing lasts forever drug warriors. Tick tock. We will be free one day, and you will wail and moan and your cries will fall on deaf ears.

    Get fucked prohibitionists. Feel fortunate we want justice, not retribution.

    Now playing The War on Drugs - Red Eyes

    • BreadOven@lemmy.world
      4·
      22 days ago

      I know it’s very on the nose and has other themes in it. But the root cause is all the same. Reagan. This is the song I thought of reading the post:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU

      I don’t necessarily agree with everything said in the song, but I think we can all agree (to quote the song) “I’m glad Reagan dead”.

    • Ziglin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      They’ve caused a lot of damage though restricting access would likely help with that. (Things like this usually get quite a few downvotes in my experience tbh so maybe it goes both ways)

      My pretty spontaneous solution compromise would be to legalize more things but keep them well regulated to avoid addiction and transition to similar regulations for already legal drugs. This seems like a solution that more people would be happy with. Obviously there would need to be help for people already addicted at least for drugs with similar withdrawal symptoms as alcohol.

  • rez@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    21 days ago
    • “Why doesn’t this site have more in common with reddit, which it’s more or less a clone of?”
    • Can’t bring up Trans people existing (without a weirdo downvoting you, of course)
    • Can’t be critical of… a certain religion without getting jumped by keyboard warriors and called a Genocide Supporter
    • Don’t even get me started on whatever the heck is with the Hexbear folks…
    • Lemmy is, at times, a bit of an echo chamber
    • smackjack@lemmy.world
      15·
      21 days ago

      Lemmy is full of people that I would never want to hang out with IRL. Even if I agree with most of what they’re saying, they manage to say it in the most neckbeardy way possible.

      • boogetyboo@aussie.zone
        10·
        21 days ago

        Yeah it seems the topic is irrelevant. They’ll eventually just start yammering about communism, Linux and ublock. It’s hard to have a conversation on here that doesn’t get sidelined by those things. I can’t imagine these people carrying on a normal conversation in the real world, and I don’t think they understand that the world exists outside of those narrow interests.

        Like OP will say they hate MS Teams. Person will say stop using Microsoft. OP will say, I’d love to but my government employer is an MS shop. Person will say then quit your job. K…

        It’s either very sheltered people who’ve not worked or interacted in ‘the mainstream’ or, really young naive people who think that your FOSS convictions will stand up against the need to earn a living.

        I prefer it to Reddit still, but it gets a bit tedious.

              • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
                1·
                20 days ago

                Ohhh, I get you now. Yes, that’s likely a thing most of them would believe.

                (Not saying I agree or disagree with it, just trying to explain what Hexbear typically implies to most people in a factual, unbiased way because you said you’re out of the loop.)

                Hexbear existed as an instance prior to the Reddit API changes of 2023. They’d been around for a few years. Most instances federate by default with everyone, but Hexbear took a slower opening of it because they already had an established culture. (Think of this similarly to people discussing the pros/cons of federating with Threads. It would be a big change to the way things are now so it’s controversial.) It’s possible they weren’t ever federated with beehaw.org (your instance) so you may have never seen them or interacted with them.

    • Ziglin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      21 days ago

      I’ve not yet heard any claims on or outside Lemmy that it is a Reddit clone. The model of hosting forums/communities was never unique to Reddit as far as I know.

      I’m curious what you’re willing to generally apply to “Hexbear folks” (I don’t think I’ve talked to many).

      And Lemmy is totally an echo chamber most of the time (based on my experience, obviously mileage may vary) but it wasn’t intended to be that way unlike almost every commercial social media platform. I would assume this distinction is why people would be less likely to be willing to admit it.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
        3·
        20 days ago

        Re: Hexbear

        The people who run into issues with Hexbear largely aren’t Hexbear’s target demographic, namely Marxists and Anarchists.

      • pseudo@jlai.lu
        1·
        20 days ago

        Agree. I can find any !spice federated with my instance. That’s disappointed.

      • Ars Fireside@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        21 days ago

        Well, it is controversial, unfortunately. I never understood the logic behind calling piracy a theft, because nothing actually gets stolen, only copied.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      4·
      21 days ago

      For what it’s worth, I’ve personally never found it controversial to talk about in person. And this includes in countries where it’s a prosecuted crime.

      Copying is not theft, artificial scarcity in the digital world is a tragedy, and I intentionally avoid paying middle-men distributors (like streaming services and record companies) for art.