. The race of a voice actor doesn’t matter
. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy
. You don’t need to shower everyday
. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
. Monty Python is very overrated
Data is pronounced data and not data.
People on Lemmy aren’t “normal” people and shouldn’t use their personal views as the norm.
- 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.
- No one should be allowed to own a second home until everyone has one.
- Static typing sucks.
Don’t say “acronym” when you mean “abbreviation”!
“Acronym” specifically refers to an initialism that forms a new word. For example,
- scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus)
- NASA (pronounced like a word - you don’t say “ehn eh ess eh”).
It’s acro- (height) -nym (word) - a word that exists on top of / above other words.
In contrast “NIH” is not an acronym because it isn’t pronounced or read as a word. It’s appropriate to say, “‘NIH’ is an abbreviation” or “‘NIH’ is an initialism”. But saying “‘NIH’ is an acronym” is wrong!
There shouldn’t be borders.
Summer is a crappy season, fall is superior.
Daylight savings time needs to be gotten rid of.
The imperial measurement standard needs to be gotten rid of.
The UN security council veto should be able to be overridden by the general assembly.
Collective responsibility for a democracy’s crimes should be a thing.
The country of Israel should be moved to an open area of land with no people on it. Siberia, Alaska, Greenland, or the jungles of South America.
There should be a corporate death penalty when they commit crimes.
All kids should have food.
All humans should have access to very basic water and food. Like beans and rice for everyone, no exceptions.
Basic sanitation is a human right.
Religion should not be respected any more than any other bag of philosophical ideas. Stupid parts of religions should be called out and discussed, not hallowed and treated with respect even if its utter nonsense.
The red nub on IBM/Lenovo laptops is far superior to a touchpad
It is “Math” and not “Maths”
Using “themselves” for a non-binary person or unspecified gender is grammatically incorrect.
It’s “themself.” (Unless they’re plural.)
Also, “Latinx” is performative white ally cringe. It’s not pronounceable in Spanish. Use “Latine.” -e is the obvious gender neutral ending.
- 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
People should be educated on FOSS software & Fediverse and try to use it whenever possible.
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.
Love how the bed of the truck is basically the same size (if not smaller) as well so really you can’t use the excuse of needing the bigger truck for hauling stuff.
Where i live 9/10 they dont even have a hitch installed.
I would go further. Most cars don’t belong in places where people live. They injure and kill people on the regular, the noise pollution causes mental and physical health problems, the light pollution disrupts sleep, the particulate pollution causes cardiovascular disease and dementia, as well as damaging ecosystems, driving adds to obesity and issues related to a sedentary lifestyle, the physical space they take leads to sprawl and ecosystem destruction, and the sprawl also bankrupts cities and towns. As well, driving in traffic just plain sucks as an activity, and makes people angry and miserable.
The only reason Americans started buying pick up trucks on mass is because of Tarifs put on Japanese car manufacturers in the 1970s and pick up trucks had no taxes on them suddenly became one of the cheapest and more affordable cars in the United States. Rick Wolf explained this somewhere I can’t remember where exactly.
There were also reduced fuel economy requirements for trucks and off-road vehicles, which contributed to the rise of SUVs.
It was on Volkswagen Transporter pick ups in the 1960s, in response to German taxes on imported US chicken.
Actually, full sized pick ups are not liable to light truck tariffs, but they have no market outside of the US.
Id love a pickup…but it would be impractical, expensive to buy and run, the back space is basically useless cause even if you do put a cover on, the locks are crap. So I won’t be getting a pick up truck. Plus, where I live, it would go missing.
Instead of trucks, this should be based on vehicle dimensions. All vehicles around the size of modern pickup trucks.
Come to India. Seems like your dreamland.
I‘d love to move to India again. I just don’t know how I could get a job there. I don’t have any fancy degrees.
Its even worse in SEA. Some countries like Nam have these small dick pick-up driving shitheads but what they don’t have is America’s huge roads and streets.
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
I agree with sentiment, but as stated that’s just eugenics with extra steps. By controlling the cost, availability and/or accessibility of the course, you control who can have children. Also how are you going to enforce this policy, forced abortions?
Better imo to make childrearing a part of the school curriculum with a highly encouraged refresher course later on. That achieves the same end without risking peoples liberties.
There needs to be a mandatory parenting training course if you’re expecting a child.
I like this in theory. But I know in practice some idiots will always manage to get their hands on the curriculum.
Me too but it’d turn into eugenics so quickly.
I was fucking baffled walking out of the hospital with my baby. No training, no proof of education, no tests. Walking out with the nurse in tow asking them "yeah are you sure i don’t need to like sign something?
In the UK we almost have this in something called NCT (National Childbirth Tr. … ust).
It’s not compulsory and most only do it for their first but you’re kinda so shit scared that most tend to do it.
The knowledge is good but getting a close network of 5 other couples having a baby within a month of each other is invaluable…for the mums, the dad’s are shit at keeping in touch typically lol
I sometimes tell my kids about things I was taught, and survival habits I picked up in the “dad qualification program”. I based the idea of the program on a brief description of air force officer survival training in the book The Hatchet, and a generous dose of imagination. The kids have never questioned it.
I disagree about religion. It should be subordinated to the government. That should stop them from promoting reactionary rethoric. (Assuming the government is half decent in the first place. Otherwise there’s not much difference.)
