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. 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

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[–] spykee@lemm.ee 15 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

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All boobs are beautiful.

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[–] PTSDwarrior@lemmy.ml 5 points 15 hours ago

My hill: Laws that give “unnecessary” rights to people are still good overall and shouldn't ever, EVER, be reversed. Laws that give “unnecessary” rights keep society stable and have come from past times soaked in blood. If you reverse 60-100 years of these gains, then society will collapse.

[–] BenReilly97@lemmy.world 113 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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.

[–] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

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.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 6 points 17 hours ago
  1. The big hill in my neighborhood park.

  2. Capital Hill

I don't really know of any other hills or why I would be near them so if I die on a hill it will probably be one of these.

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 14 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

camera phones

Why are all "modern" phones so full of cameras? One on the fucking screen & at least 2 on the back. I just want a phone with no cameras. Even 1 might be O.K., so long as it's on the phone's backside.

[–] TheRealKuni@midwest.social 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Why are all "modern" phones so full of cameras? One on the fucking screen & at least 2 on the back.

Because different lenses are good at different things. On a three-lens setup, one is usually a telephoto lens for distance, another is a standard wide-angle lens for normal photography, and the third is an ultrawide angle for capturing more of a scene and for macro ultra-close-up photography.

Also you can film in 3D using two of the three.

Multiple lenses are a big part of why phone images are as high quality as they are these days.

And the one on the front is obvious, it enables things like video chat, selfies, and sometimes facial recognition (though that can also work by infrared and lidar).

[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

But many people don't use any of those features. I get that many do, but every single smartphone with features I require has them.

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[–] lostwonder@beehaw.org 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I found out that they give military personnel such phones.

[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

Oh no, I think I might've missed my chance, then.

But seriously, I have abslutely no use for a "selfie camera" & feel uncomfortable with the whole concept of having a camera constantly facing you. At least with laptops it's easier to put something in front. Even with a back-facing camera, its use is very limited & would prefer to be without one, let alone a handful.

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[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 7 points 21 hours ago

Phones have become boring and are all the same.

Yep, this is why my next phone will be a Fairphone with their OS, or a Unihertz or something. I miss the old days where a different brand of phone meant a totally different OS, and there were loads of brands.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 22 points 22 hours ago

-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.

[–] butsbutts@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

the good ones

[–] 93maddie94@lemm.ee 10 points 20 hours ago

Paid refers to money. Payed is a nautical term.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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

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

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 day ago (17 children)

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

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

The word Data was originally a plural word

and because of that its not “data is beautiful” it’s “data are beautiful”

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[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 1 day ago (10 children)
  • ISO 8601 (e.g., 2025-05-23) are the only correct date formats.
  • We should stop using time zones and daylight saving.
[–] wischi@programming.dev 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stop using timezones? So every day would actually be two weekdays because at some random point in time it would switch date during the day. Let's meet next Monday wouldn't even specify a single day anymore in most countries. And there is no real benefit to stop using timezones, just downsides. Yes you'd know which time it is anywhere but you still wouldn't know of they are awake or not and have to either look it up or remember it - the same you have to do now.

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[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

We should stop using time zones

Check this out. I'm a business with at least one office in every US state. You want to know when my New York office opens so you can come by. Instead of seeing "Offices are open 9 AM to 5 PM" You now need to check every office... by state.. by city? Time zones would be helpful even if we all used GMT, so that you could easily determine which time zone a business is in to set a reasonable time to be open.

DST can fuck off though.

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My three operating system hills:

  • Windows peaked with 2000 (design-wise) and XP (functionality-wise)
  • macOS’ separation of the application vs window concepts — i.e. an app has exactly one menu bar and dock icon, and is expected to be able to stay open without any windows (without needing nonsense like tray icons) — is much better than anything else and it sucks nobody is copying it
  • Flatpak and everything related is atrocious architecture-wise in every single way and it’s a massive condemnation of Linux (desktop)’s compatibility state that it actually solves a real problem
[–] Trimatrix@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I declare war on this hill!

  • Peak windows was Windows 7 in both design and Function. It was pinnacle User Experience of a traditional OS before Microsoft started chasing fads, (Touchscreens in Windows 8, Cloud integration in Windows 10, and now AI bullshit in Windows 11)
  • No opinion on macOS. My only complaint is that its not linux.
  • Instead of Flatpak I would replace that with AppImages. At least with Flatpak I get some semblance of the SW Integrating with my DE and a semblance of a package manager. AppImages I feel like are like rolling the dice on how much effort the dev put into it.
[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 14 hours ago

I might give you Windows 7 on functionality, it has been forever since I used either. But definitely not design. 2000 has a UI that is consistent throughout, clear, and professional. It's a masterclass in UI usability engineering. Plus it's also heavily customizable if you want to do so. A lot of that was lost with Vista and some with XP.

AppImages are precompiled archives with extra steps. Meh. No, some of my problems with Flatpak are:

  • it conflates app sandboxing with app distribution
  • it mandates using bespoke APIs to work in sandbox mode instead of the established APIs (to the point where I've heard "we can't implement X, it needs to work in Flatpak")
  • these APIs are often very Flatpak-focused but regardless become the standard for non-Flatpak because there is no existing alternative
  • it ships its own builds of code that should be part of the system (for example, UI toolkits which would otherwise load global plugins, breaking stuff such as IME or themes)

Some of that (and why it's necessary in the first place) is due to Linux's incredible fragmentation and lack of an extensive backwards-compatible system API (such as macOS's Cocoa), which causes a lot of other problems everywhere – but a lot of it is also self-inflicted. In fact, the massive focus on Flatpak and looking like that is the direction the Linux desktop is going was partly what drove me to try out a Mac.

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[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Owning a pug is animal cruelty

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

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Even if it's a rescue? Maybe breeding pugs (without trying to reverse the damage done to them) is pretty shitty, but I could see rescuing one is fine. I mean, what's the other option, killing them all?

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Fair, but it still fuels the market. Somebody rescues one. Somebody else sees it and wants one but can’t find a rescue or doesn’t want a rescue, and goes to a breeder.

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[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (8 children)

You should use your blinker when turning into a parking space

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