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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 weeks ago

Close enough. Ban him.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] GetOffMyLan 59 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is my answer too. It's crazy how much hate a tool can get

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

British English term for wrenches.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Paedophilia as a sickness, especially non-offending paedos.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

R.A.P.E

religion, abortion, politics and economics.

Avoid discussing rape too.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Medically assisted suicide is pretty widely accepted in Canada, in my experience. Pro non medically assisted suicide or young suicide is different, maybe.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

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)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

That breeding programme called natural selection is what got us all here.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

how meat is treated.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

approaching literally any ideology from first principals

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Digital piracy not being an immoral crime (or crime at all) and not making one a horrible person.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (14 children)
  • "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
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

The left lane, and how no, it's not for going as fast as you want to drive.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"I've asked ChatGPT about xyz" , and "how to use chatGPT for xyz" in my experience gets me downvotes fast.

People are quick to presume you have no ability to fact check anything and that you will be following its advice blindly, (which mind you - you were never asking for in the first place) instead of asking a human, ever ( for example about medical conditions but not limited to that topic). People presume you are trying to eliminate the human factor out of the equation completely and are quick to remind you of your sins, god forbid you ever use a chatbot to test ideas, ask for a summary on a topic so you can expand your research later or get creative with it in any way. If you do, most people don't like to know.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you have fact-checked it, why not just say that wherever you did that is where you got the answer from? People are right to be skeptical of "ChatGPT says so", and if you've used it as the start of your research rather than as your entire research then just saying "I asked ChatGPT" is no different to "I googled it", and nobody would much like you saying that either. How you found the information is less important than where you found it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Animal rights

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Communism & Palestine

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anything veganism (positive)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Kernel contributions

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Marxism, depending on the audience.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Roko's basilisk, if you run an online forum for β€œfuturist” dumbasses.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Religion, Politics, Political Genders, and...maybe Football. The real football.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

With women, bathroom talk. With the boys we always talk about shit and piss and crack each other up. But mention anything related to that around a girl, she'll look at you as if you killed her dog.

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