Asklemmy

Ok, I don't like making generalizations, but let's play the game:

• Dynamically typed programming languages are for babies.

• Having depression is not being sad. Having anxiety is not being nervous. Mental health exists and it's very complex.

• We should start trating unhealthy use of social media as an actual addiction, and the platforms should be held accountable for the damage they have and still are causing.

• Sometimes older people have actual knowledge and wisdom that is only gained by experiencing life, and younger people shuld learn to shut the fuck up some times and stop pretending they were born knowing everything.

You should have to get a special license to drive something as big as a modern pickup truck.

And you should have to have a justifiable reason to buy and own one.

And there should be restrictions on where they can be driven.

Basically most people shouldn't have pickup trucks.

Alphebetizing by the "The" should be a criminal act.

If I do not have or cannot easily get root access to a computer, I don't really own it.

Your opinion of Monty Python is bad, and you should feel bad.

The word Data was originally a plural word, and should be again, for all time

12 hour time is an inferior standard, and we should be on 24 hour time so developers don't ever default to 12 hour time. Way too many instances of mission critical things getting swapped on am/pm by mistake. That is never a problem with 24h time.

• ISO 8601 (e.g., 2025-05-23) are the only correct date formats.
• We should stop using time zones and daylight saving.

Dampening is making things wet. Damping is reducing oscillations in something.

Every time I hear or read people using them interchangeably is infuriating.

There needs to be a mandatory parenting training course if you're expecting a child.

Religion needs to be taken out of the government completely

Owning a pug is animal cruelty

EDIT: adding bulldogs and other snub-nosed pets that wouldn’t exist without selective breeding by humans.

Apple products aren't any better than anything else, it's just marketing and branding. They're like the Starbucks of computers.

• Phones have become boring and are all the same. I want options like we had with Nokia back in the day. So a music phone, gaming phone, business phone etc. but with a modern OS. All we have now are camera phones. Google announcing that they've added a second possible function to The Button in settings just doesn't excite me. Smartphones have become shit and it's not because we've perfected them or some shit, it's because chasing lines on marketing graphs and playing follow the leader has resulted in no choice anymore and everything being lowest common denominator, mass produced slop.

• No one should be allowed to own a second home until everyone has one.
• Static typing sucks.

You should use your blinker when turning into a parking space

Summer is a crappy season, fall is superior.

People on Lemmy aren't "normal" people and shouldn't use their personal views as the norm.

I disagree vehemently with one of these and I thought it might make a fun little mystery, but on second thought I'll just state up front it's the Monty Python one.

I forgot to mention. If you use country balls to explain something I'm not taking you seriously.

Not shower every day depends very much on the situation.

In summer there are certain coworkers who most fuckingly definitely should shower every day unless I'm allowed more wfh.

-Businesses should be run by people who are passionate about the giving a great product and/or service and not some shitty MBA who only except 10x return on his investment.

Not only is Gacha a bad game monetization from a consumers perspective, the moment it's implemented the game is shit, and you should be ashamed to play it.

I dont care about Genshin's cultural impact, Fortnite's mechanical depth or how hot the latest team fortress character is, you should always have the thought of supporting the indefensible in the back of your head while playing them and consider it a guilty pleasure. Meaning: keep your damn pulls to yourself!

And since I used to say it too: "You can absolutely play without paying money" isn't an argument when you need to pay with time instead, doing dailies is a chore, not leisure.

• Laptops should be thick and durable with good keyboards (like old Thinkpads)
• MacOS isn't as bad as people here say, its still a Unix-based OS and that alone makes it superior to Windows
• Arch Linux is severely overrated
• Debian Linux is extremely underrated
• Alpine Linux is great on low end laptops
• Fedora Linux is the best distro for newcomers
• Rust belongs in the Linux kernel
• GPL > MIT/BSD
• Tiling > stacked
• AI sucks

• Modern flip phones (e.g. Samsung Fold) are stupid and gimmicky industrial design failures.
• Humans are not good by nature. They are taught to be good but even babies cry and get angry without anyone teaching them.
• The Cat in The Hat movie with Mike Myers was not as bad as critics claim and actually had good undertones patched together with modern humor that is more profound in recent times than when it was originally released. It was actually ahead of its time.
• Apple/MacOS isn't actually a better platform and is only designed to give the impression that it is simpler even though people still have to learn how to use it.
• Adult services should be legal in all countries and the workers involved should get paid with benefits/protections just like everybody else. This is assuming capitalism cannot be removed from the picture.
• VTubers shouldn't be showing their actual bodies. It defeats the purpose of using the moniker in the first place.
• Education should be free without any debt involved. There is legitimately no good reason why education and knowledge should be pay-walled.
• Euthanasia should be legal where the person no longer wishes to subject themselves to failing health is granted control over their body. Forcing such people to keep living is selfish and pertains cruel and unusual.
• Hollywood should not be idolized and is actually part of the problem with things being f'd up rn. There is no good reason why actors or any kind of artist should be making all that money while the rest of society gets by with the scraps we toss around while the rich get richer. The same goes for any kind of celebrity, really. I don't even leave out sports people in this.

This took me twice as long to finish because every other point I ended up with something political. So this is pretty much the least triggering or offensive I can make my list. Good grief.

-for humanity to survive, it must eliminate the rich

-pineapple can go on pizza. You can put whatever you want on pizza. You don't have to like it for it to be a valid topping. Some people just hate things because they heard about it online.

-new York pizza is not the best pizza in the universe.

• the people who want to change the date of celebrating Halloween to the last Saturday of October (or anything similar) are childhood hating assholes who think that it's more important to keep the capitalistic society going than celebration human culture. They would rather things be convenient for them and their bosses than to let people celebrate things when they please. There's also probably a bias against non Christian religions. If you find it inconvenient you should be mad at the system that makes it inconvenient for you to do something on a Tuesday night, not a holiday that's centuries older than your job. Work should work around holidays not the other way around.

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All boobs are beautiful.

. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter

The race and gender of an actor don't matter. Ask Shakespeare

American cheese is cheese as much as sausage is meat.

• Mental illness or/and a disability aren't excuses for shitty/abusive behavior.
• No, having certain skintones doesn't magically make you immune to skin cancer, wear your fucking sunscreen.
• Boiled eggs > fried eggs.
• If people need it to survive, then it should be free.
• Littering should be punishable with jail time.

There shouldn't be borders.