Whether it’s economic, cultural, political, religious, ideological, whatever, what are some ideas that you believe in? I think friendly (very important!!) discussion of these could be good as to understand the views of others. Pluralism and the acceptance of many beliefs is generally a good thing.
As long as you don’t believe in implausible conspiracy theories or say anything that is listed on the rules of most Lemmy communities and instances (in which case, don’t say it), I think the opinions of others should be respected!
Please don’t devolve this into a hot political argument, holy war, or similar. It ends badly for world powers (all of them), and it will end badly here with no winning sides. Friendly debate is ok as long as you don’t go nuts, make sure you give good supporting arguments with evidence!
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Inaction is still an action. Not improving the world around you is a choice to accept it. You need to choose your battles, of course, but choose none and I will judge you accordingly.
I choose to switch off and let it turn to shit. Judge away.
Oh it turned to shit because of you.
Guilty as charged.
Okiedokie. I don’t like you, if that makes you feel better. ❤️
I have learned to not care what a person thinks of me, or whether they like me or not.
I am not so sure. You spent some effort here to signal yourself.
Oh no, anonymous person over the internet doesn’t like me.
lol lemmy doesn’t care that it might be because of depression or trauma, or even simply because of a well-reasoned position. They’re so hopelessly conditioned by political talking points that they will write you off without even trying to understand. Sad.
Based solely off face value of the person’s initial comment. It’s the judgeyness after ‘making the world a better place’ that I found interesting. I’d prefer someone to be neutral than someone ‘doing good for the world’ and being cunty about it lest the action and attitude cancel each other out lol
Exactly. Best I can tell, if people did nothing, there would be far fewer problems.
Be excellent to each other.
And party on, dudes.
“Paying it forward” is fundamentally the most important weapon we have against the oligarchy, and simply refusing to participate in the endless cycle of new technology.
A long time ago, I kind of stumbled into a habit of “paying my hardware forward”. It started because it was simply a pain in the ass to try to sell something on ebay because your first ten offers are scam artists.
So when I upgraded a drawing tablet that I was using, I had a friend of a friend that was looking to try digital drawing and said “Here you go. The only thing I ask is that when you upgrade, or when you’re done with it, give it forward to someone else who could make use of it.”
Later, the same thing happened again with a camera stabilizer. I had bought one that it turned out was too lightweight for my DSLR. So I had to buy a heavier weight one. Meanwhile, a friend’s son was a budding filmmaker just using his cell phone to make stupid movies with his friends and I said “Hey…he’ll like this. The only thing I ask is when HE upgrades, or whatever, he passes it forward to another person”
Even something as simple as a dog ramp I bought for my aging dog. After he passed, it hung around in my shed until a friend of mine’s dog needed an operation and couldn’t do stairs. When her dog recovered she asked if I wanted it back and I said, no…just pass it forward.
I’ve done it with spare monitors. Old laptops that someone has needed for school, etc…
So what started as me just being too impatient to deal with ebay became something that literally makes me feel good knowing that I’m helping someone out, or even better, supporting another person’s artistic passion.
One of my biggest beliefs came from Star Trek : IDIC, or Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. The idea that one homogeneous whole is not only undesirable but simply wrong has shaped damn near everything about me. It may seem sad, but the science fiction I consumed as a kid shaped the person I am today
I didn’t think that’s sad.
I think that we should call # a hash, not hashtag. Hashtags are social media tags with a hash in beginning, the character itself is not a hashtag.
It is an “octothorpe”.
Kindness, curiosity and a firm belief in treating everyone like they are actual real human beings who can do what they want. It’s important to ask people why they do things.
Anarchist with a small ‘a’ (that is, never going to be vegan, and I’ve had a managerial position [no, I don’t think anarchism means no leaders but I do feel gross about taking part in the paramilitary office structure, and how much I loved the money and status and power]).
The controversial one is ’if you have disposable income, your day-to-day problems won’t be real problems’. Most problems are not real problems because money addresses them. Existential, emotional difficulty? Great! You can afford to go to therapy whilst still not suffering any real day to day problems because you have the money 👍.
I’m also fed up of weird consumerist attitudes around ‘if I dont get to do everything I want, I’m struggling for money 🥺 I’m poor’
That needs to go fucking yesterday.
Most people would rather cooperate & help than compete & hoard
A little bit of ‘Be Kind’ with a twist of ‘Kill billionaires’
Politics: practicality before ideology. My (your) favourite ideology has flaws. Policies that are effective should be enacted, policies that are ineffective should not, regardless of being left or right.
Religion: Don’t care.
To add onto this, an ideology is an ideal to be strived toward, not a goal to be jumped to.
I believe that men wearing shorts/trousers and women wearing skirts/dresses is abhorrent and a crime against basic logic.
Quite simply, skirts are for people with testicles. They’re kept outside the body in a special climate controlled sack that’s kept at a lower temperature than the body. Skirts and dresses allow airflow in the groin area, assisting this process.
Conversely, shorts and trousers restrict and insulate the groin, perfect for people who don’t have to worry about keeping their genitals cool.I don’t care if the hegemonic gender paradigm disagrees, it’s categorically incorrect.
I disagree. My inspired philosophy is that skirt and pant usage should be restricted based on one’s speed.
Skirts have a greater amount of area that can (and, I would argue, must) be covered with pockets. It is a sad truth that this increased surface area and pocket count greatly decreases ones speed. This is not even counting the contents of the pockets! It naturally follows that skirts should be worn by those who optimize for carrying capacity rather than speed, such as construction workers.
The aerodynamic nature of pants lends itself to those who must move quickly and efficiently. This is not, however, to endorse hard pants, which are abhorrent. The most holy form of pants are cargo shorts, which maintain a balance of low drag and limited carrying capacity, and should rightfully be provided to every citizen free of charge.
It’s very sad to see people arguing about gender when they should be arguing about SPEED.
(sarcasm disclaimer: I do not really mean this I’m just adding to the bit)
I believe there are fundamentally only 2 types of people:
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People who were slapped too much as children.
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People who were not slapped enough.
I came up with it so clearly I was not slapped enough.
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I have recently comes to term with my faith. I grew up missionary Baptist and it wasn’t charismatic or anything but even as a kid it kindof feels ridiculous and I started to just try to take the moral lessons and that’s all. Science and astrophysics have always interested me at a hobbiest level but it wasn’t until recently the way it all works it quite beautiful. I am fully atheist but it’s all so ridiculous I would accept a God somehow started this all, but not really. Explore approachable science books, podcasts, and YouTube videos (and other federated stuff, if it exists). It is so fucking miraculous we exist in this vast empty void that (at the same time) is unimaginably large. Our planet and life is a miracle. Even if microbes exist out there, the fact we got to the point of “reason” is crazy! Any tip of quantum physics rules one way or the other and the universe is something else entirely. The way atoms come together and how we use them today is a species is miraculous. Humanity could really do anything if we were convicted enough. The whole “we are made of star stuff” is also quite deep when you go through the whole cycle with it. We are quite literally the universe somehow scraping itself together through energy, time, and space to culminate (for now) in some piece of itself that can question itself and move indepdently, reason, etc. Dope. If there is any reason to be good to one another is that we are soooo special. All life. And this planet! Hippy status activated. I don’t know if this changes my behavior but it can be some good feelings to pocket for rainy days.
I’m no politician. I’m just a fella. I think that beer should be cold and boots should be dusty. I think 9/11 was bad. And freedom, well, that’s just a little bit better.
Literally watched this episode of Community tonight. Perfect use of the quote :)
If art doesn’t have a message and is ‘untitled’ in a museum. Its not art, its practice. It does not belong there.
The first thing I remember learning in philosophy 101 is the principle of charity, which has been eternally useful during discussion:
- Assume the other person has something worth saying
- Questions of meaning come before questions of truth
