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

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    4·
    5 hours 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
      13·
      5 hours 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
        6·
        4 hours 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
          1·
          4 hours 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
      7·
      7 hours 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.

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    11·
    10 hours 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
      4·
      5 hours 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
        1·
        4 hours 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
        2·
        4 hours 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.

  • GetOffMyLan@programming.dev
    362·
    13 hours 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
      81·
      11 hours 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.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        17·
        13 hours 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
          22·
          12 hours 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.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    92·
    9 hours 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

    • moistclump@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 hours 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
        1·
        4 hours ago

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

  • AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca
    38·
    9 hours ago

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

  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
    212·
    14 hours 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
      19·
      12 hours 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

    • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      8 hours ago

      i think much more likely is the opposite happened. Europeans inbred themselves into infirmity and have simply yet to recover from all that nonsense fully hundreds of years later. As a pastey removed myself i can say the amount of genetic conditions i have is mind boggling. Its not that POC are especially good at sports its that white people are especially bad.

    • infinite_ass@leminal.spaceOP
      52·
      14 hours 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