Asklemmy

I won't rape, torture, and murder vulnerable individuals. Call me radical but if I can be happy, healthy, and enjoy life without doing those things to animals, I'm not going to fucking do those things to animals.

Communism is good, necessary, and achievable.

Everyone deserves health care. And a decent place to live. Even people without jobs!

People should be able to transfer their vote of their first preference didn't win. Sorry democrats, being forced to vote for you isnt democracy.

Neil Postman was right.

Our educational models and methods are changing for the worse.

TV and the internet are terrible mediums for public or political discourse and this has exacerbated many of our existing issues.

Our culture has become more shallow and has started to lack something profound because of how we utilize technology for education, business, and entertainment.

Things will not improve until we change our relationship with these technologies.

EDIT: several words.

I will not install your shitty app

ALL information, except what you can hold in your brain, should be 100% public, with no limits on use.

An unimaginable concept right now, but I think it is essential if we hope to ever trust each other and achieve global peace.

there is literally no possible usecase for Generative AI, it is modern day snake oil. nothing could possibly justify adding yet another "technology" to the list of existing tech that is already scorching our earth and enslaving people. it was created by the CIA to bolster the surveillance state and i have considerably less respect for someone when i find out that they use it for any reason at all.

Using AI is amoral and I will never use it. As a programmer, every day it feels like I'm increasingly the minority.

People who believe in any religion are the same as dormant terrorist cells. One can have perfectly formal relationships with them on a daily basis, but given the right conditions, they become a huge, possibly lethal, risk.

I want to share my photos of our trip with you, but I don't want you to upload them to Google, or apple, or amazon, or meta, or any social media.

If it's a pic of you, fine, do whatever you want. But please don't take my whole album and store it in your google photos.

Edit: to maybe disambiguate, I go on a trip with someone else, we both take photos/videos using our own devices, and then afterwards we are exchanging what we took. Not like, me sharing photos with someone who didn't even go on the trip.

Just in response to your annoyance, I have found women ive been around tend to have more of a "fuck other people and the climate" attitude than most of the guys (its usually not that abrasive, just more of a "why wouldn't I water my grass? We have the water" attitude). Especially if there's kids, they dont care about anything else (that's just biology I guess). Please dont take this as sexist, it is just something ive observed.

I get very annoyed with people wasting unnessesarily and using amazon.

Dating apps are inherently dehumanizing

Religious people are one the biggest reasons as to why we are where we are today. Anyone that tries to "respect" these delusions are also culpable. It's the best invention to sedate the masses in their cage since sliced manna.

Fuck AI.

Suits are weird, they feel old and out dated, like cosplaying a 20th century business boy in grandpa's pajamas. Multiple layered long sleeve shirt, jacket, and trousers doesn't make sense for the majority of weather in most cities or even more if you're inside temp controlled buildings more often. In the winter you want something heavier like denim or fleece lined or water resistant, and in the summer you want breathable fabric, wicking, single layer, shorts, etc. Overcoats don't need backup jackets, and some of the people who did wear it like a uniform last century weren't people you'd want to emulate.

“that’s just how I’ve always done it” is the worst when it's used as an excuse to avoid putting effort into personal growth

The Sound of Music is not a Christmas movie.

My wife and her family and a whole bunch of Canadians all think it is and I am so flummoxed by it.

LED headlights can fuck right off, and if you defend them then you are either an asshole or a dumbass who couldn't think about it for twenty seconds and see the impact.

In Homestuck, there's a hill that if you die on it you wake up as a demigod

So yeah, I think that's the one for me

To secure your stuff. Hacking and social engineering are both easier than you think and identity theft is devastating. I know most people here already know that, but having worked in tech support, it's unbelievably common to skip even the basics, not to mention my grandparents who think I'm just paranoid.

I ditched my smartphone over 5 years ago, and will NEVER go back. In fact, I don't have a phone of any kind. They are surveillance/psyop devices, and they are turning people into biological robots. The scifi show Dollhouse is basically where this is all heading.

Taking a car for a 3km distance is unconscionable when walking or cycling are valid options.

Driving less than the speed limit will not kill you.