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

  • Tehdastehdas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Eugenics, or creating better humans with the wisdom not to trash the planet and constantly risk the final nuclear war. With new, more powerful weapons being invented every century, we may not be able to survive without eugenics, because when a single sociopathic dictator can afford an Earth-ending weapon, one of them will use it.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    8·
    12 hours ago

    Apparently asking what people are going to do to relax after voting must be taboo, because my post got deleted without me being told why.

    • infinite_ass@leminal.spaceOP
      32·
      12 hours ago

      The moderators have the power therefor when they do something rude it actually isn’t rude. In fact you are rude for suggesting that they are being rude, and deserve punishment.

      It’s funny how power works.

    • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
      12·
      2 hours ago

      It is also the fast lane so move TF over if you are moving slower than the other lanes

      • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zone
        1·
        44 minutes ago

        Speed limit is the speed limit. End of.

        If someone wants to go above the speed limit in the fast lane, then they’re contravening road rules.

        No matter what social norm people believe there to be, it doesn’t have precedence over the speed limits.

        In a case where the the car in front is going slower than the speed limit, it would be good etiquette though to move over.

    • Tiltinyall@beehaw.org
      3·
      12 hours ago

      Thank you, even if the some people believe there is a specific lane to constantly edge ahead of poor slow drivers, that is not the ideal lane to be the fastest car in. People merge on from left a lot more than you notice. I live in a city that has a nearly equal amounts of merges from left.

  • rez@lemmy.mlEnglish
    165·
    2 hours 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
    • Ziglin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours 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.

    • smackjack@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 hours 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
        31·
        6 hours 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.

  • Elise@beehaw.org
    5·
    16 hours ago

    As a lesbian trans person I like the words dyke and tranny, but only use it for myself. They’re funny and cute. I was honestly surprised to learn that people are so deeply against the words.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    21·
    1 day 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
      39·
      1 day 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
        17·
        1 day 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
          4·
          1 day 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.
    • infinite_ass@leminal.spaceOP
      162·
      1 day 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.

  • GetOffMyLan@programming.dev
    595·
    2 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
      151·
      1 day 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
        1·
        57 minutes 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
        32·
        1 day 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
          38·
          1 day 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.

  • AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca
    60·
    1 day 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
      1·
      2 minutes 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.