Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
When I was in high school, I heard someone say "I don't know why poverty exists when we can just 3d print money". What the 3d has to do with this, I do not know
Maybe they mean coins?
I've seen so many dog shit/brain dead takes on Reddit about various topics that I don't think I can even remember any of them specifically.
So instead, I'm choosing this take on climate change by Ben Shapiro.
It doesn't matter what side of this argument you fall on. Who is buying a house in an area that is slowly being flooded?
Someone who you convinced via a massive disinformation platform that it's not happening 🤔🧐
For example one that's baffled me was someone saying they don't believe in bad smells ??
How did they explain them?
I don't remember it well other than it was on a tumblr blog and as they were answering an anonymous ask they just casually mentioned that with no explanation
My only ideas are either they're filthy rich, have no sense of smell, or somehow think "bad" implies morality so they don't believe smells can be evil which like ?? No ones claiming otherwise lmao
Yeah, knowing how people are, my money is on the third option.
Well it's true. They're just misunderstood.
Oh I've met some pretty heinous smells
Huh? What’s baffling there? Do you believe in bad smells?
According to my rural-raised coworker, that submersible implosion was apparently a conspiracy.
According to him, The people aboard the sub came up with a plan to escape their debt. There was nobody aboard the submarine, and it was designed to implode as a permanent diversion.
This seems to be the least crazy of all the ones here so far. Plausible but very improbable.
Why force your child to come with you?
I do think that if you’re going to fake a death this is just about the best way to do it, though.
Maybe the just disappear like in witness protection and this dude didn't want to leave his son alone? It's too far fetched though. Given all the questionable things Oceangate did, independent verification of the implosion sound waves and finding the actual debris, it is extremely improbable it was staged.
This is relevant to Issue 1 being voted on in Ohio. The issue will change voting on ammendments to go from a simple majority to 60% along with other stuff that's bad.
People have signs in their yard that say "Vote Yes...Protect the 2nd Ammendment". This state vote issue has nothing to do with the 2nd Ammendment and its the weirdest take to me right now.
Seems like such a bland issue to have a sign for, even an accurate one.
Here's a strange one I don't necessarily disagree with (but I'm not sure I agree either:)
"Jazz is an American form of classical music"
According to someone that was in a music history textbook (don't remember the country but it was in Europe.)
I am the one with strangest takes and I didn't had competition so far.
Please, give us your worst example
I believe that people who dont leave their house(or stay generally indoor) lives longer and with less unhappy things like losing hairs, because they avoid the sun radiation. This is one of my, dosnt matter if false or true.
I don’t go out much and my hairline is receding, so your mileage may vary on this one
What do you do? Stay inside as much as possible?
The one I saw a couple of posts above this one about The Lord of the Rings...
