this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
1066 points (98.0% liked)

You Should Know

40733 readers
466 users here now

YSK - for all the things that can make your life easier!

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must begin with YSK.

All posts must begin with YSK. If you're a Mastodon user, then include YSK after @youshouldknow. This is a community to share tips and tricks that will help you improve your life.



Rule 2- Your post body text must include the reason "Why" YSK:

**In your post's text body, you must include the reason "Why" YSK: It’s helpful for readability, and informs readers about the importance of the content. **



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding non-YSK posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-YSK posts using the [META] tag on your post title.



Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

If you are a member, sympathizer or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- The majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.



Rule 11- Posts must actually be true: Disiniformation, trolling, and being misleading will not be tolerated. Repeated or egregious attempts will earn you a ban. This also applies to filing reports: If you continually file false reports YOU WILL BE BANNED! We can see who reports what, and shenanigans will not be tolerated.

If you file a report, include what specific rule is being violated and how.



Partnered Communities:

You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

Credits

Our icon(masterpiece) was made by @clen15!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I know some people are boycotting US businesses during the current administration, but the same mindset has ripple effects here in the EU. In other words: stay vigilant!

(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Even though I have reservations about US-style DEI initiatives (I'd much prefer France's way of not recording ethnicity, race, religion etc), I do find Trump admin's policies to be beyond absurd and stupid of just nuking everything.

The good news though is that fascists typically shoot themselves on the foot and end up destroying themselves because their decisions are based on emotions. There is quite literally neither rhyme nor reason. If one reads into Nazi and fascist policies and institutions, they don't make any sense whatsoever. Nazi Germany was actually on the brink of self-made bankruptcy by excessive overspending, until Hitler declared war to delay the inevitable by plundering the resources of Europe. Eventually, American fascism will just end up eating itself.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

One issue is, while there's a light at the end of the tunnel, many won't be able to reach it.

Other is that DEI also includes education material for HR, and in my country (Hungary), where it's frowned upon by the state, often ableist and racist pieces of shits manage to get there. Someone acts a bit like an autistic person? They probably only got there where they are thanks to their mom sleeping with teachers and such, otherwise they likely have some severe intellectual disability and cant even count to ten. Someone has a darker skin? First they're dumb, second they steal. And any counter to it is bad, because it's a human right to have an opinion on something, even if it's wrong, and even if said people act out on that wrong opinion. If they're cishet white christian men with an able body that's all. Everyone else have to follow those opinions, even if they're wrong, because those men built "western civilization".

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I always thought that the solution to sexism and racism in the workplace isn't necessarily forcing sexism and racism in the other direction, but rather by eliminating it entirely by demolishing all workplaces

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Enough of skin tone mini figures, make everyone yellow again.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Definitely a much more evil company than all the others still doing it purely out of fear of being bullied into bankruptcy otherwise.

From my European point of view, this whole thing looks like keeping shoes on indoors - mostly only done by Americans, and even there, most people think it’s stupid.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Shoes indoors are certainly stupid. I don't even bring my work shoes home due to the types of places I walk through during a shift. No shoes in my American home.

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

No shit. There's a New World Mafia.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Buy Cobi, they're a company from Poland producing their bricks in Poland. And they have tanks.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›