Asklemmy

Cycling helmets should not be mandated. If someone is dumb enough to cycle without one, that's on them.

I believe significantly more people would cycle if helmets were not required by law.

There is no situation where you should start a greenfield c++ project in current year

Regular expressions are not that difficult and coders that refuse to learn them because they "look like line noise" are terrible at their jobs.

Disabled people should have to ask for a seat on public transit if one isn't available; other people shouldn't immediately get up when a clearly disabled person boards, nor should anyone expect them to without being asked. Similarly, you have no right to criticize someone (who doesn't appear to be disabled) if they're sitting in a seat designated for disabled people and they don't get up when a visibly disabled person gets on.

First of all, the disabled person might not even want the seat. If they do, it's reasonable to expect them (as an adult) to advocate for their own needs (i.e. ask). It's actually more offensive to assume that every elderly or otherwise visibly-disabled person is incapable of that.

Second of all, not all disabilities are easily visible. I'm a mid-twenties guy and I was born with an auto-immune disorder that sometimes makes it very difficult or painful to stand/walk. It's happened multiple times that strangers on the bus have chewed me out for not giving up my seat, even though (statistically) there were probably other people sitting in disability-designated seats that needed that seat less than me and the visibly disable person who just boarded. I can't fucking believe I have arthritis in my twenties, either. I'm just trying to cope with the shitty circumstances I was given and the last thing I need is to constantly have to justify myself to ignorantly self-righteous strangers.

What are the "unpopular opinion" rules on Lemmy?

My original understanding from outside Lemmy is you should upvote the truly interesting unpopular opinions for visibility.

For example:

• "I think potato chips are gross" - that is an unpopular opinion and I am truly interested in why you would say that...upvote.
• "Elon Musk makes some good points" - not interesting at all and probably political bullshit trolling...no upvote and a downvote if enabled.

If you're getting upvoted comments on this post, you got it wrong.

Milk should be poured before the cereal. I've always done this because pouring milk on top of the cereal gets the top wet and also kind of pushes the cereal down. I love crunchy cereal

The Beatles are highly overrated. I respect the impact they had, and I acknowledge that the music I like (metal) would not exist without them, but I'll go out of my way to avoid listening to them.

Digital Marketing doesn't work. Digital Bubble is here and it will burst hard ending the "free internet" in a process. The more you work in marketing, the less you are inclined to agree... or even listen...

This will not be preaty.

Basically, Japan is the most developed nation on earth. Not because of technology, or culture, or anything of the sort. But they were the first developed nation to have their birth rate drop and pyramid start shrinking. In that sense, their policies are ahead of every country on earth that still keeps admitting massive amounts of immigrants to keep their populations up.