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Your way of doing things is now how things must be done. Extra points for petty and minor stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Your wasd seems to match the most popular way, Ctrl is def not normal lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Smacking lips as filler for speech is considered rude, irritating, and condescending.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Everyone must be nice to bugs now. If you're not I'll personally command a swarm of wasps at you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Fork in the strong hand, knife in the other.

[–] shalafi 2 points 5 hours ago

Isn't that how everyone does it?!

[–] Nfamwap 1 points 5 hours ago

Using a knife and fork: knife in the left hand.

Using a knife only: right hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Says a man with 9 fingers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
  1. Anything more than hushed conversation is banned on public transit (exceptions for children too little to be able to control it, developmentally disabled, etc.). You may answer the phone, quietly, to tell the person you cannot talk right this second and will phone them back from the next station
  2. Everywhere is accessible to the blind, those in wheelchairs, on crutches, etc.
  3. You will grow some of your own food as your space allows. If you have a tiny flat with one window? Grow some herbs or chives or something? Gotta big lawn? Now you have a garden. Those with small children will be left some room for them to play.
  4. Everyone wanting a driving license must drive a giant, slow truck and a small motorbike for several weeks. The tests everywhere in the US get harder and more demanding.
  5. You must use public transport in any case it is possible and practical (i.e I don't expect you to try to take your haul from Ikea back on a train).
  6. You will generally only eat two meals a day and no more gluten (sorry; I didn't want to inflict this on you nor did I want the gluten restriction on myself, but this is the only way my body works somewhat properly).
  7. Your mind's eye and any audible inner monologue are now gone. It's fine; enjoy the imagination and peace.
  8. You must live somewhere on roughly the other side of the planet from where you grew up (again, sorry to force you)
  9. You must live in at least one foreign country for no less than 3 months outside of a foreigner community and learn the language and culture (not at all sorry about this one).
  10. You must be in pain a lot of the time without docs being able to find anything useful. You must also have anxiety, ADHD, probable ASD, and overthink many things.

I tried to answer the actual question rather than how I think things should be. I'm sure I'm missing something about my life. I guess you'd all have to work as software engineers who run a small farm most of the year, strictly speaking.

[–] BigBrainBrett2517 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I was with you until 7 and 10. No mind's eye & inner monologue means limiting the imagination to a crawl. It would be peaceful though! Meditation & Imagination would be inverse in this Universe. Poetic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I used to do d&d campaign and dungeon design, DM, compose and play music, write fantasy books, and today did system design and engineering.

I think my imagination is just fine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

No timezones. Only UTC or Zulu time. Also no daylight savings, it’s just fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That really kinda shifts a problem. I can generally guess that at 10am whateverTime a business is going to be open or people are going to be awake to time my communications. This adds a step of having to look up ... I guess the current daylight hours and/or normal business hours first? Who would maintain such a database?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

No it doesn’t only for the short term after conversion. I’m UTC -7. So instead of waking up at 0700 I wake up at 1400. The only thing that changes is the time on the clock. The sun still rises and sets as it usually does. If a business usually opens at 1000, now they open at 1700. So what? The business’ hours are still consistent day to day

Not to mention this is how almost everything operates in the backend anyway. The military, logistic companies, aviation all do it but normal people can’t figure it out because they need their alarm clock to have the little am or pm to indicate if it’s morning or night

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Same people who's maintaining it today. We need to look up business hours anyway on top of looking up time zones. E.g. business hours in Denmark is usually 8-16 while in UK it is usually 9-17. Here there's furthermore differences at the usual company. IMO you're inconsiderate if you start planning meetings without taking the business hours of the recipients into account (which means all our UK enployess are inconsiderate jerks on this topic, calling me in for meetings until 18:00...)

So instead of looking up the time zone difference and the cultural business hours of a company in Australia, I can just see that they open after my lunch.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wrong: cleaning ass only with toiler paper.

Right: Using a bidet after pooping.

Your asses will thank me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] Bytemeister 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Roommates toothbrush.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No one has any pubes any more.

[–] weeeeum 8 points 22 hours ago

Fucking thank you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

pulling apart the bacon piece by piece to fry it.

listen, you can just stick the whole brick of it into the pan, the heat from the skillet makes the bacon slices separate. you can cook the whole thing at once.

[–] Rhoeri 1 points 18 hours ago

What is everyone doing wrong?

Failing to even try to understand the fact that nuance touches everything in between the margins of the less complicated and oft-overused black-and-white polarization of damn near everything under the sun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Bananas are only be opened from the seed side. Heretics who open the stem side will be mummified in banana strings after being purged so that they will be reminded of their hubris eternally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

what about those of us who snap them in half?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

You already know you're a freak. Let that flag fly brother.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't say it without getting my comment removed for inciting violence.

[–] Dasus 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 3 points 1 day ago

Pretty much. Only a more broad scale.

[–] Shardikprime 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Okay let's say it

Everyone has to work at least a day as a front facing customer service.

ALL public officers elected or not are now chosen by sortition. That's right baby, we are bringing Athenian democracy back. At least for a while

People can now express without fear of offending others as now they have self awareness to know that others can also think different as them (the P zombies will appreciate this one)

FF 20 years

The whole of humanity is now shareholder of a giant corporation managing the full resources of the Earth-Moon system

As a shareholder, everyone is taken care off, and basic needs are always available. You have been now guaranteed your needs for life, opening up for you to enjoy your freedom.

We start developing a solar collector array using Mercury as a resource stockpile

FF 30 years, we have finished the solar array. The Dyson sphere goes online. We spread during the next 6 hours a salvo of about 200 million self replicating probes through the interstellar space of our Galaxy and beyond it

These probes have everything needed to jump start the process again in other solar systems

If we are lucky, we might have our vector states inside those probes so we will have achieved functional immortality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

30 years for a dyson sphere. Pretty optimistic aren't we?

[–] Ceedoestrees 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Everyone picks up a new random hobby every few months, spirals into self hatred about not being amazing at it with no practice or research, and adds another box of crap to the closet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

No change for me

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