What are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse?
No need to name names or sources.
Mine has to be some dude that insisted that advertising is a "30,000 year old technology"
One that I read on Mastodon:
Every bad thing about commercial software is the programmers' fault. Even if it was something that management decided and the programmer fought against it and lost. They claimed you should rather risk losing your job than accepting an inconvenience for your user. Weird take but okay. Then they started comparing software engineers to soldiers "just following orders" during the holocaust. That's where I blocked them. Cherry on top: they have "if you want to hire me as a software engineer, message me" in their bio. I wonder why nobody wants to hire them...
What kind of idiot can't see the difference between "I'm going to implement this stupid feature that no one wants because my boss says I have to" and "I'm going to murder Jews because my boss says I have to"?
I guess there's a parallel if you deliberately signed up for a job enshittifying things, although the difference of degree is obviously large. And OP was being really weird and aggro about it.
(Camp guard was a cush assignment relative to the front, you had to work for it)
Even Nathan Poe would be amazed at the speed that that devolved into nazi comparisons
I think you mean Mike Godwin. Poe's Law is about satire being hard to distinguish actual extremist views.
Edit: I really wanted to add a joke about Ward Cunningham but couldn't find a good way to phrase it.
I mean I get where they're coming from but that's just pushing it so far.
Sounds like something management would say
Blaming devs for management choices, clearly a bad take. Mocking people for standing for their values, and not being perfect soldiers at work : very shitty. We did not choose capitalism as a society. We have the right to protest against it, whenever its effects encumbers us.
Someone called me a rapist for saying that I've choked women during sex. Consenting, adult women.
You should have sent them a link to kink.com it would blow their minds.
Sure, only their minds, lol.
Please don't choke people during sex even consenting people. If you need the sensation just put your hands on their collarbone and don't actually cut off their windpipe.
After reading some kink books that give detailed instructions about how to suspend people, to give people piecing, fake cutting people as well as convince your sub that you have a loaded gun in their mouth with the disclaimer about how dangerous choking is really puts in perspective. There are tools to safely cut off air supply don't choke someone
you ain't a rapist, but you are putting them in danger breath play is incredibly dangerous
if done properly with good technique it's not that risky. you need to trust your partner, have good communication (including both verbal and nonverbal systems of consent), and have the awareness to monitor your partner's physical state while doing the deed.
breathplay is edgeplay but imo it's one of the safer forms of edgeplay
I'm aware, and I know how to simulate choking without harming the person.
Just ask David Carradine. Although, I'm still not convinced it was suicide.
Hmmmm.
So what does it mean if I enjoy practicing hojojutsu on my consensually non-consenting partner...?
Someone was trying to say the Van Halen's song "Jump" was about suicide. Despite being presented with an interview with David Lee Roth (who wrote the song) explaining what the song was about. Still think about that. Idk why. Maybe because it was like one of those conversations you have with an edgy emo kid in highschool and realize they are full of shit. Some weird nostalgia I guess
It is a song influenced by seeing a report about a suicidal jumper, but repurposing the idea into a positive one. Basically, it is saying that instead of a suicide jump someone should take a leap of faith and improve things.
People fixate on certain lyrics and kinda ignore the rest of the song.
I knew someone who swore "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen was a dirty song because two lines could be interpreted as innuendo.
"Hallelujah" has an overt reference to the story of David & Bathsheba in the Bible, which is a story about a king watching a woman bathe and then sending her husband into an unwinnable battle so he could steal her from him.
"Hallelujah" is a song about sex — but it's not dirty sex, it's holy sex.
Hell, I can make an innuendo with the word innuendo.
But some of the posts are hilarious lmao
I use Mint btw
Wow, are we the baddies? This guy must have a really bad time in the Linux communities.
Kinda unironically: yes.
Linux is great for some use cases and at least decent for most others but what I've experienced in some Linux communities made me understand why people don't feel welcome. In a thread literally titled "Help me like desktop Linux" that listed a few things I was struggling with, I got hit with a bunch of "you're an idiot for not using the exact same distro that I like", "works on my machine" and "you want the wrong things". Even as someone who already had over a decade of Linux server experience, that almost made me turn around and walk away.
There are legitimate reasons not not want to use or not be able to use Linux.
Calling the very real privacy issues presented by windows as a "conspiracy theory" is not one of them.
Also these people are delusional. They don't understand why the steam deck is popular because quote "the main appeal of PC Gaming is modding and using a Keyboard and Mouse." Which is a bold claim because I thought the point was having better control over what you play instead of hoping Microsoft, Nintendo, and PlayStation release those games on chosen console.
Do these people have an idea how many Stardew Valley Clones I can play on PC that will never touch an Xbox?
I seem to already have it blocked
went there and down-voted everything
If you sort by top, there are some quite funny ones.
I once got accused of having a corporate shill account after explaining how coupons work.
Man was whingeing about paying full price for Domino's and got pissed at me when I pointed out they didn't use the 2 for 7 deal that takes up half their homepage.
Some people just can't admit they fucked up XD
You can't say you like literally any product on the internet otherwise people call you a corporate shill. It's frustrating because people sometimes like things...that's just the nature of life in general. Sometimes you like something that was made by a company and not just already existing in nature...
Reminds me though...I recently got called a "Russian bot" by someone on Lemmy recently. I was super confused because the content of the conversation had nothing to do with Russia or the war or Russian viewpoints or anything. It was so out of left field that I had no idea what they were talking about.
Whatever the hell this conversation was:
Transcript:
Recessa, ↑4 ↓1: That’s completely idiotic, production exist because there’s demand for it.
commie, ↑1 ↓4: I think you understand that milk is produced as part of the mammalian reproductive cycle. can you describe the causal steps between demanding milk and it’s production?
friendlymessage, ↑3 ↓2: Do you think dairy cattle just randomly spawns on the planetary surface?
commie, ↑1 ↓3: do you think there’s a direct causal link between drinking milk and more being produced?
friendlymessage, ↑3: Are you fucking with me?
commie, ↑2 ↓3: no. I’m trying to illustrate that markets are not governed by natural law; they are populated by irrational actors.
friendlymessage, ↑2 ↓1: Yeah, but they’re not as irrational as you are and producing milk costs money. If there’s no market, they will stop because they are not fuckin lunatics and they don’t have infinite resources
commie, ↑2 ↓2: milk was farmed before markets existed. there is no reason to believe that will ever stop.
friendlymessage, ↑3 ↓1: That… must be the dumbest discussion I’ve had in a while. Please read through your comments tomorrow when you’re sober
commie, ↑1 ↓1: I’ve been sober all day.
friendlymessage, ↑1: Okay, whatever you say
commie, ↑1 ↓2: everything I’ve said is true. you’re objecting to reality, and being pretty shitty about it to me.
friendlymessage, ↑2: No, you’re just making a no sensical argument at all. Milk was farmed from dairy cattle because it was consumed by humans. It’s simple supply and demand. There is no rational argument at all that if mankind stopped consuming milk, it would still be farmed. Why would any farmer go through the effort to upkeep cows and keep them impregnanted to make them produce milk if they cannot trade it or won’t consume it? Yes, humans have free will but they won’t produce stuff with very high effort just for fun. Except maybe very sick minds that just enjoy animal cruelty. And you won’t elaborate what your actual point is anyway.
Also, not that it matters, but you’re arguing that dairy farming existed before the market is simply wrong. There has been trade between human civilizations long before we started domesticating animals.
Having read through the other comments I think this is the winner. This person needs to read a book. What a wild hill to die on.
I remember this one. And I remember being fucking incensed at the level of abject stupidity it involved.
Average Lemmy economist.
Was there a vegan angle to this, or what?
Homeopathy... Oh boy, my mom believes in it. As well as crystals with special powers.
There are some rocks with special powers. Like uranium, Plutonium, etc.
Yes, but those are dirty, brutish science rocks. Not special coloured crystals with the powers of emotional healing™, protection against negative auras™ or unseen life™, and the power to give a room or a house a positive atmosphere™.
You know, the kind that those doctors (who totally know nothing at all!) don't want you to know about because it'll put them out of business.
I fucking hate this.
Especially when they basically self-hypnosis themselves into the placebo affect and swear that their magic powdered crystal enema can fix everything.
"Fahrenheit describes the level of comfort for a human. From coldest to warmest that you may experience outside."
As an American I used to use a variation of this phrase.
Then I decided to experimentally switch to using Celsius. Took a few weeks/months to really internalize it and stop having to do on-the-fly conversions, but honestly I love it.
It’s remarkable how useful having 0 be freezing is for weather. It makes understanding sub-freezing temperatures much easier. Which also helps reinforce what a degree Celsius means.
I wish other Americans would try it. I haven’t gone back, all my devices are still on Celsius over five years later.
Make way for empirical chad.
I might be alone on this but the freezing point of water is almost irrelevant in daily life. Any precipitation from 30°F (-1°C) to 35°F (1.5°C) results in some mix of snow/slush. Less than that and it's snow/ice.
However if you live somewhere where they use salt as a de-icer, knowing the freezing point of saltwater (0°F, -17.7°C) is very, very important.
Why is that stupid? It's based off salt water. You're mostly salt water.
The arguments Fahrenheit's defenders make are not objective, they vary from person to person. Does a hot summer's day feel like 100%? Yes, no, maybe? For me it doesn't, I've been in a sauna. Does an arbitrary distance below freezing feel like 0%? Or does 0% come earlier, i.e. once you can no longer exist without clothing?
If the defenders made arguments like "it's neat to have 100° at body temperature" I wouldn't say anything. But the arguments they make (see my quote) are not factual.
Best response to this is to ask whether 50°F is a comfortable room temperature.
Actually, no. The best response is no response.
It's a comfortable outdoor temperature.
Fahrenheit is cooler name than Celsius.
Disagree, ain't nobody got time for that potatoe tumble
It needs some adjustment. 0 is fine, but 68 should be the new 100. We shouldn't have to exist in climates warmer than that.
Europeans shaking and crying at the realization that the difference between 70° and 75° is more obvious and meaningful than 21.11° and 23.88°
Americans shaking that 20-25C is more obvious than 68-77
Above 30 you just complain 25-30 you wear shorts 20-25 you wear whatever 15-20 you wear a t shirt and jeans 10-15 you consider a light jacket or a long sleeve 5-10 you firmly wear the light jacket or long sleeve 0-5 you bring a heavier coat Below 0 you complain
Beautiful 5 degree increments that perfectly describe what to wear in C Where with Fahrenheit you end up with weird numbers like 86 degrees
I don't understand why the difference between 70 ad 75 is more obvious than 21 and 24. Can you explain it?
*Europeans, Asians, Africans, southamericans, australiaandoceanians and 23/24 of northamericans
*21.11°
0 is freezing. Can't really get much easier than that.
50 degrees is just ok to me. Not cold, not hot
Yep, there's definitely nowhere it goes below 0 F. /s
Actually, the Persian Gulf gets above 100 regularly as well, if I have what that is in Celsius roughly correct.
Not just kids, a lot of adults are annoying as hell too.
But Kids should be free to learn so for me it feels like they are allowed/have the right to be annoying
But Kids should be free to learn so for me it feels like they are allowed/have the right to be annoying
That is a fantastic perspective.
Yeah, the two are usually (though not always) correlated. Annoying adults have annoying kids that grow up to be annoying adults, and the cycle continues.
Listen, I just hate kids man. It’s probably my most consistent thing since I was a kid. Fuck kids. We should just be growing adults out of a vat, it’s 2025 for fucks sake.
I agree, but also I think there’s a line between “kiddo getting excited or having a hard time in a public space” vs. “this kid is being neglected by their parents in favor of phones, and/or not taught general manners and human-to-human respect” because their parents are also inconsiderate of other people.
A child having a meltdown in a grocery store, or bouncing around a park or making excited commentary at a movie theater I can easily forgive. Ignoring and letting a child run off unattended in a restaurant where a server can trip and get hurt is a problem. A kid getting antsy happens, but you also need to let them know why they should be mindful in certain environments.
That said, there needs to be more openly kid-friendly spaces in the US, since they need free space to let off energy and develop their minds freely.
because I think
Americans are generally very intolerant of kids in public spaces.kids running around and screaming in a restaurant is fine, actually
Don't go to other threads and lie about your conversations, dude, they're public!
I was just having a "conversation" with this guy where really all he did was lie and call me names, and now all his replies to me are deleted. Looked at his profile and he has deleted literally every previous comment. I'm guessing he does this so people can't see how much of a liar and bad-faith commenter he is.
Oh yeah you're that dude who was commenting on my meme about kids being annoying in a restaurant. I didn't feel the need to comment there because I had thought "person doesn't realize that few people have problems with well behaved kids or understand that people know that kids OCCASIONALLY act out.". But it looks like you're doubling down.
First, did you see anyone complaining about kids on playgrounds? Play places at fast food restaurants? Public parks? No? That's because those are places for kids to be running around. Restaurants where adults are trying to relax is not for kids to be running around. Full stop. There is no "but". YOU need to teach your child that their actions affect those around them.
Secondly, YOU choose to have children and where you take them. If you take them to a place where you know they have the potential to inconvenience the people around them and they do, then you are inflicting them on others and that makes you a bad parent.
And lastly, I can't even remember the amount of children who stayed at their table, where maybe a little louder than would be necessary but ultimately settled down, or were well behaved and well mannered. But I do remember that the parents of those children were usually well put together and maintained people who seemed to have control over their life. An unruly child who was running around the restaurant is usually a symptom and not the problem.
I didn't see the meme, but--
YOU choose to have children and where you take them. If you take them to a place where you know they have the potential to inconvenience the people around them and they do, then you are inflicting them on others and that makes you a bad parent.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I kinda feel like that ignores the reality of how kids learn. They can't be taught how to act at restaurants if they're left at home for their entire childhood. We've got fairly well-behaved children, but it's because they were a little bit crazy when they were younger and we disciplined them through the process. Particularly for neuro-spicy kids, they're never going to be able to learn how to calm down unless you take them to those places, teach them how to act, and discipline them when they transgress those boundaries.
Yeah, it's an inconvenience to others, but them being a minor inconvenience now so that they won't be a major inconvenience when they're adults is kind of the tradeoff you make in order to live in a reasonably well-adjusted society.
Now, if you're talking about, like, a Michelin-starred restaurant with pristine tablecloths and no dollar signs on the menu, that's one thing. People save up for months to have a single pleasant, quiet night at places like that, and parents need to find better ways/locations to train their kids. But if you mean Applebees or whatever, I kind of think the minor inconvenience now is worth the better-behaved adult the kids will turn into.
Not going to argue about the general kid stance. Just about the "shitty parent" bit, which is also de main complain.
There are two tiers of good/bad parent. There's the objective one, are the kids being hurt? No, then you are a good parent. Pretty easy.
But there's a more complex one. Are your education as a parent helping to produce an adult with a series of determined characteristics? This is a lot more complex. As there's no universal agree on what a good adult is so there cannot be a good agree on which parenting is good because it produces these type of adults.
I'd would assume that when people say "you are a shitty parent" they would me mostly saying "your education will produce an adult that I do not consider desirable in my idea of a society". That's subjective. Some people prefer some traits and other prefer others.
As in this general example if someone sees a kids making a lot of noise and their parents not correcting them they may say "that's a shitty parent". Do they think they are hurting the kids? No. They'll just probably think that those kids will grow up to be noisy adults and they don't like noisy adults, so they think that's not a desirable education for a kid in their society. Nothing more. I wouldn't take those "you are a shitty parent" in any other way.
I remember that one. It was a weird thread. We had people saying they let their kids poop on the floor, and others that only let their kids out of their cages for special occasions.
Of course, those were exaggerations of the extremes, but it got very heated.
depending on context, I could easily support either side of this argument.
on the one hand, people overreact too much.
on the other hand, children are often unpleasant to be around.
On a third hand, people in general are often unpleasant to be around, children are just different kinds of unpleasant.
Setting also matters. Playing and screaming in a park? probably fine. playing and screaming in a library? those kids have bad parents.
I would guess many people on here have done the research but have little experience with the actions necessary to conceive
Here's a great response to any parent who gets the "You must be a shitty parent" line.
"And you ARE a shitty person"
Definitely. Only shitty people spend any time disparaging others. The self reflection required for them to understand that is the first step to not being a shitty person.
Being curmudgeonly used to carry social shame but that's all disappeared along with the ignorant spreading their ignorance.
All symptoms of people who were never taught how to behave and haven't taken the time to work the skill as an adult.
Any time any user comments the word "based" to the most normal and reasonable shit ever.
Based has lost all meaning.
That you should always keep your graphics card updated to the latest drivers, especially Nvidia
That's not that ridiculous. If you're frequently playing new games at launch (probably a bad idea for different reasons), then latest drivers often contain optimizations and fixes for specific games.
I do out of habit and 99% of the time it has zero downsides and occasional positives. It only borked a game and required rolling back one time that I can remember.
I have a friend who is far more careful about doing their updates because they have frequent problems. Not sure why we have such different experiences.
Usually it's hardware difference and compatibility between components. Small pieces with subtle variations and imperfect manufacturing often create unpredictable instability.
lol, I remember when I started playing No Man's Sky, I made a post on reddit pointing out that more recent nvidia drivers fucked up the game's framerate big time, like, if I was standing still and moved the mouse around, the framerate would tank. With a previous driver (416 or older), the whole game was butter smooth. I kept playing with that driver until the game had an update that forced you to have newer drivers. Performance was still shit.
I think there's a limited number of optimizations that can be made and eventually some settings will conflict the old with the new at a fundamental level. And support for older or weaker hardware tends to get tossed to the wayside because it's likely not the main money maker for them.
"Installing my driver" is a cultural relic from old Windows days where it wasn't automatic; one needed a CD/Floppy or whatever to get your printer or ATI card working. It was good practice. Hence tons of "driver cleaner/updater" kind of shovelware exists to capitalize on that mindset.
...These days, Windows update (or the Arch/CachyOS package repos in my case) auto-update all my hardware with zero fuss. IDK why so many stray from that, unless they encounter a bug that was specifically fixed in an update.
Whatever driver Windows hands you for your nVidia/AMD card is likely to be hilariously out of date. If the driver it gives you is the one with the bug that's bugging you, you won't have a choice.
Windows or linux?
On linux I know that could cause lots of issues.
On windows I'm not aware of any reason not to keep the graphic drivers updated with nvidia.
I've, on multiple instances had issues with newer games that were fixed with driver updates. It ain't crazy
Aristotle was a professor wrestler who started a math cult that hated beans. He is best known for having developed the intercept theorem and diverting the Halys river.
So just a mix and match of partial truths about multiple Ancient Greek philosophers?
I know Plato was the first one and Pythagoras was the second. I don't remember the other two though. What made it absurd was the sheer confidence it was delivered with.
It's all true, but I can't prove it
I got called a fascist a couple weeks ago because I suggested that a generative AI model shouldn't need to do tons of extra math to perform math since it's already literally a computer.
That all small business owners are thieves and out to scam their customers - This was part of someone's argument defending big box stores.
I mean I kind of assume all business owners are, though small business owners don't have that shit baked in like megacorps.
Thinking there's such a thing as "non-political"
I took the most diarrhoeal of diarrhoeal shits this morning. I'd like to see you make this political.
Easy! Why do you think it happened? Inadequate food regulation? Underfunded healthcare? Insufficient regulation of pollutants that can impact health and cause chronic disease?
I don't know your individual circumstances, but given the state of the world right now, I'd bet it's a combination of all three.
I'm on here enough they all blur together. Maybe that makes me the idiot.
In posts like this and elsewhere, commenters kept claiming the noun female to refer to a human is generally derogatory or offensive.
Someone wrote
Occasionally my partner does or says some things that remind me of the “manosphere” aka 4chan neckbeards.
A perfect example was that he sometimes says “females” when he means “women”. I explain that it’s not a swear word but it’s still derogatory. I explain why. Once I did, he understood and stopped doing it.
Despite abundant evidence here (search females), in classifieds, personals & online equivalents (eg, ads that limit eligibility to females), or text corpus searches revealing that the noun female referring to humans is often non-derogatory, so it all depends on the context, they'd insist that usage of the word itself is offensive, insulting, or disrespectful, and they wanted everyone taught to think that until it's the generally accepted meaning. They didn't seem to consider that promoting unconventionally sexist framings (ie, female is a dirty word) for wider adoption in our language serves sexists more than anything, and it might make more sense to resist that.
Feeeeeeeeeemales?! UGH!!!!
Outside of a purely descriptive term of the biological differences between the sexes, that is derogatory.
It is often used to dehumanize women, as the term is mostly used when talking about animals.
Often used to dehumsnise women... Where?
So you didn't look at the
abundant evidence here (search females), in classifieds, personals & online equivalents (eg, ads that limit eligibility to females), or text corpus searches revealing that the noun female referring to humans is often non-derogatory
did you?
That using 100% free and open source software is more important than actually getting your work done.
In a thread about Affinity Photo where someone insisted that we should all use gimp and just not edit photos if gimp doesn't have the features we need rather than asking Serif to port their software to Linux.
Also in several threads about migrating from Windows to Linux where every missing or complicated feature was brushed away with "just get used to not being able to do it, even if it's critical to your workflow".
That is 10,000% people who don’t do creative work especially professionally. I am fine with gimp and darktable versus anything Adobe/paid but I also barely use them lol. I would be back off Linux in a heartbeat if I honestly couldn’t use something I needed even though I prefer it.
Medical work, too. Several exam machines only work with Windows. I've heard once that "wine's pretty good nowadays", which completely ignores the detail that it isn't tested with said equipment and its drivers.
Anything related to engineering, whether civil or mechanical, also goes with either Windows or Mac, because the free CAD options don't hold a candle to AutoCAD and others.
Lastly, there's no FOSS alternative to completely replace Microsoft Active Directory, so offices where 90% of the work is done on the web browser won't bother because they'll be losing control over individual machines.
There's so much focus on "me" and "freedom" that they often forget there's a whole damn world of different needs around them.
It's always good to use FOSS where possible.
If it isn't possible for you, then don't. Perhaps try advocating for the FOSS alternatives to be better and drive up competition, forcing the software you do use to innovate.
I'd call this political as well
I'm lucky in my job that most of my work can be done on Linux with FOSS software. But I would use Windows if this weren't the case, and I know for some colleagues who need to work with specific proprietary software, there aren't that many other options available, and its far easier for them to just use Windows (or perhaps macOS if they have the option).