Either option is viable. Depends on the question. Usually things are either downvoted because it’s too stupid to be a legitimate question and it’s clearly just someone being inflammatory, or it’s a question that, while arguably stupid, doesn’t really fit with the idea of the community.

“What are your thoughts on photosynthesis” is a post that’s -2 right now. It’s probably getting downvoted because it’s just a fucking question. It’s kinda stupid, but only in the sense that I have no clue what they’re wanting to hear about photosynthesis. It doesn’t fit the community. Goddamnit I still instinctively type subreddit. It would work better for a general discussion community.

Sometimes there’s a rare question that’s actually incredibly stupid and clearly not someone trolling, but they give zero further information. Like “Could time start moving faster due to climate change?” How do you answer something like that without knowing how the hell they came to that conclusion? “No.” isn’t exactly a satisfying response, but it’s pretty much the only one you’ve got.

Hell, your question isn’t a particularly great example of a ‘no stupid questions’ question. It’s really more of a shower thought.

I don’t know much about him, honestly, but I think it’s Che Guevara. Wikipedia can tell you more than me.

Kinda my take on it.

The only aspect of Christmas that’s inherently Christian is the fact that it has ‘Christ’ in the name.

When I was young it was a bit different- we’d pray on Christmas, have a themed tree, a little nativity scene setup. That sort of thing. I don’t do that anymore. Christmas is as religious to me as Valentines day, my birthday, Saint Patrick’s day, and Thanksgiving. It’s more a cultural event than a religious one, is what I’m getting at.

If anyone wants a further example of “Christmas but not even slightly Christian”, try watching a few Christmas movies. A lot of them aren’t particularly religious. I recently saw Violent Night, it’s an excellent example lol.

I definitely agree- this isn’t ‘nostupidquestions’ it’s just ‘random questions’. Maybe the mods should be a bit more strict and redirect people to an asklemmy community? idk if that exists, though, which is possibly part of the problem.

They’re inherently louder. But they’re not always inherently loud. There’s a lot of different switch types, and some are loud on purpose. So if you get a keyboard with blue switches they’re going to be loud because they’re specifically intended to be both tactile(you feel a ‘bump’ when the key activates) and loud (you hear a click when the key activates). I had an internet buddy with blue switches, and the whole fucking chat knew when he was typing because his mic picked it up.

Personally I like tactile keys, but I absolutely hate loud keyboards. So I have brown switches- they have the tactile ‘bump’ that I like the feel of, but they’re not obnoxiously loud.

You can also go with red switches, and those are just straight up-down switches. No bump, no click. They’re generally the quietest common switch, especially if you’re not whaling on them. There’s roughly a billion other types of switch, as well. It’s not just blues, browns, and reds. There’s even “silent” switches. I have zero experience with those, though, so no idea how silent they actually get.

Note: I’m not crazy into mechanical keyboards. I just did a bit of research before I bought one awhile back. So… grain of salt and all.

God that movie was creepy. That bear was downright horrifying.

The page still loads behind it, usually, there’s just a popup keeping you from accessing it. So I don’t see how they could stop you from just… removing the popup.

I don’t engage socially in random Discord servers, I’m almost certainly just there for an FAQ, to ask a question, or to use Discord’s- pretty decent- search function to find someone who’s had whatever issue I’m having before.

From my understanding it’s about use. The non-stick coating will start to flake off, and you don’t want to eat the stuff.

Using metal utensils on non-stick pans is a terrible idea for this exact reason as well- they’re really hard on the coating.

the purple ones cloak your IP address

Cuz you’ve never seen a purple IP address

Very similarly, I’d probably say ‘5 past 6’.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071DN62GW Here’s an HDMI switch with PIP. Zero clue how good of an experience that would be, but that sort of thing exists.

75hz here. I thought it was pretty weird. It’s basically extra spicy 60hz.

I agree that we have a two tiered justice system.

I don’t really agree that this is an example of that.

A: homie isn’t walking free. He’s in prison waiting to hear exactly how long he’ll be in prison.

B: The thing with poor people getting gaps between verdict and sentencing is only a thing because of the scale of crimes involved. Someone rich is going to need to commit way more significant crimes that will require more in depth consideration for the punishment.

If a rich person commits a minor crime they’ll almost certainly manage to get off. A poor person is almost certainly going to get a verdict and an immediate sentencing.

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Honestly I think the part of this that surprises me is that he got fired for this… in the 1980s.

I wonder if there’s an ask historians thread on exactly when racism became “denormalized”, if that’s a word.

No shit.

The solution there is that ideally no human is allowed to make a mistake significant enough to have any impact.

If Bob the nuclear engineer does something fucking stupid, but there’s an automated failsafe that resolves the problem… was there really that big of a problem?

This issue is… that stuff gets expensive quick.

…beers? 4-5 beers over the course of a night is fine. Especially if you’re a larger person. I’m a pretty big dude and unless I’m shotgunning them I can drink 2-3 beers and barely be tipsy.

I don’t even drink often, either.

Now if it’s every night or something there might be an issue.

It would require a constitutional amendment to outright ban guns, and our Congress can’t agree on year to year budgeting. Getting the required votes to ban guns would be functionally impossible. Honestly even if it didn’t require an amendment I don’t think it would be realistically passed as a regular law.

So: banning guns outright is off the table entirely.

More gun controls always seemed to be approached in an incredibly stupid way- they tend to ban the scary things rather than the dangerous things.

So many gun laws are just fucking stupid. Tons of stuff is banned because it looks scary.

SBRs being illegal is pretty dumb.