The subjects that you can’t even bring up without getting downvoted, banned, fired, expelled, cancelled etc.

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      Or negative, depending on the crowd. It’s just a polarising topic.

      Vegetarianism seems to be creeping towards acceptance, though.

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    With women, bathroom talk. With the boys we always talk about shit and piss and crack each other up. But mention anything related to that around a girl, she’ll look at you as if you killed her dog.

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      Is it though? As long as one is relatively reasonable. There’s even gun communities here, even if they’re pretty dead at the moment. Time for me to come up with some memes maybe.

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        I guess so, it’s just that if I say I support the right to own a gun, I get downvoted in most communities

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          Yeah, in heavily left-wing spaces guns give people the wigglies. Even if it’s not rights, the general fact we live in a world with them is something people try to memory hole.

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            You and I define “heavily left-wing” quite differently then. The far-left has always supported gun rights and armed struggle. It’s the political centre and parts of the right that are blanket anti-gun.

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              We probably do. Far-left spaces are their own thing, and are almost always labeled as such since it’s a tiny, insular group.

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          Happened to me once. Nearly killed my desire to discuss firearms here on Lemmy. Not sure if this is true, but I feel that most people on Lemmy are likely anti-gun. Maybe the more liberal mindset of many people in the wider open source community has some part in it. Either way, I just want to dispel all the false claims about guns and their ownership. And some don’t want to hear it.

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    I feel like I’m not good with words, so when I criticize popular things like Baldur’s gate 3 or Witcher 3 I usually get downvoted

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      People put BG3 on a massive pedestal and any sort of valid complaint around launch was heavily downvoted. It’s not quite as bad now, thank god. I got gaslit so much. Everything was my fault supposedly, not their perfect, polished game.

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        I don’t remember the exact complain, but I think I said something about battles taking too long and someone ratio’d me with a comment “skill issue”

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      That’s how I feel with nearly any online conversation. I’m on the spectrum and have social anxiety. Not a fun combo for trying to be understood when being critical about anything really. Let alone someone’s favourite game.

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      The funny thing is that a lot of those problems are better attributed to society/culture/education than genetics or biology, since it’s people that vote/support other people. Unless you can somehow breed out psychopaths, and whatever makes people willing to sacrifice the collective for personal gain, from the human species, eugenics won’t do shit.

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      Eugenics is the single stupidest idea in human history. To advocate for it now is to deny biology and history.

      It relies on the same misunderstanding of evolution that underpins ‘great replacement theory’.

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        The only place with eugenics in human history is agriculture. There were many genocides done using eugenics as an excuse with no clue of genetics, and you blame eugenics instead of the murderers.

        We have gene editing now, so it’s only a matter of cost when parents start customising their babies, which is a good thing because human variability will increase, making us as a species more resistant to unknown threats.

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      Eugenics isn’t a stupid idea on the face of it, but then you look at where our dog breeding has gone…

      The good news is that humans are pretty adaptable already. The only things that really definitely could sink us are our inability to react to very abstract, gradual problems and our tribalism.

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          It’s pretty unclear how much of the breeding 30000BC-1500AD was deliberate, and how much was just a kind of selection as people decided to eat their naughtiest dog when famine came. I’m talking about the highly-targeted breeding that brought us the pug unable to breath and German shepherds with back legs that stick out wrong because it looks cool.

          Also, wolves are pretty good at what they do, I’m not sure it’s fair to say they’re worse than dogs somehow.

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            Breeding unhealthy dogs could be called dysgenics. It’s like breeding better slaves instead of better humans.

            Wolves are good, evolution worked. Pet dogs are extra lives producing added value to themselves and their owners.

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              Yeah, well what I’m saying is we’d do that to ourselves too; we’re not to be trusted with our own biology. Not yet, at least.

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      I agree with you but only on Eugenics being automatically downvoted. Look, I did it!

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    Women create most of their own issues and then blame men for not fixing them.

    Obviously I’m not saying all their problems cause men are pretty fucked but most of the problems women complain about are because of other women.

    Especially when it comes to beauty standards.

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      I wouldn’t have realy thought so, but since you are getting the downvotes, I guess you are right! I’ll upvote you since you’ve apparently found a taboo subject.

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        I was really tempted to stop reading after the first sentence - this sounded like it was going to be an incel thing. That’s probably part of it.

        Yes, toxic femininity is a real thing too. Many women are willing to acknowledge that in my experience, though.

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        People presumably aren’t downvoting because it’s a taboo, they just think he’s wrong. Because that’s a fucking idiotic take.

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      Some do, but not nearly all of them. The block button is very effective against that. Especially if you’re on an instance that has downvotes disabled

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    For legal reasons I cannot have any opinion on the following: Gestures broadly at everything in the Middle East

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      You are more than welcome to choose from one of the pre-prepared opinions that we have on offer here… no need to bring anything new to the table and confuse such an obviously binary subject.

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    “ChatGpt is really good if you use it properly”

    Gets torrents of down votes every time. But I literally use it a lot at work and it’s brilliant.

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      Depends what you use it for. If you are trying to provide something informational, I do not trust chat gpt.

      If you use it to respond to work emails because they force communication for the sake of communication, then its fine.

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        So, if you use it properly. Just like you wouldn’t use a fork for soup despite it being a utensil and food. Using a tool for what it’s good at and avoiding using it for things it’s bad at is part of using it properly.

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        I’d probably also develop a short temper about spanners too if they were being shoved in my face by tech companies as hard as chat bots are

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          We’re excited to announce the new Sony WH1000XM6 headphones, enhanced by the power of spanners!

          I don’t see why my headphones need a sp-

          Conveniently built in to your headset, you can use the spanner to adjust bolt tightness on-the-go!

          Okay, but that’s not wh-

          We’re proud to be leading the market in spanner-augmented products to bring a new level of convenience to your life.

          Spanner may sometimes only appear to tighten bolts. Please don’t ask us the energy cost of manufacturing the spanner.