asklemmy Ask Lemmy What's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said?
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    6 hours ago 93%

    I would say the most polarizing thing I've ever said at least in an online community is that there should be spaces specifically for men to congregate where they can talk about their issues among like-minded men.

    This was in response to me discovering that of the eight gyms within a 10 mile radius of my home, three of them are all gender gyms and five of them are women's only gyms.

    Of the associations in my area, places where people of like-minded orientation congregate, 4 of them are all gender, 12 of them are female only.

    There are no male only semi-private spaces that I can find within a 25 mile radius of my home and I live in a city of over 500,000 people.

    Of the multitude of homeless housing, homelessness support, soup kitchen, and other resources for the incredibly poor and disaffected, roughly half of them are explicitly female only, and all of the remainder are all gender with a preference for supporting women.

    To me this is especially terrifying because of the homeless population that I have encountered only a vanishingly small fraction of them are women. The great majority by and far of the maybe 40 or 60 homeless people I have seen in the last year have been male.

    If it is okay for women to have women only spaces why is it not okay for men to have men only spaces?

    If it is okay for women to receive women only support, why is it not okay for men to receive men only support?

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    6 hours ago 66%

    This knowledge made me immediately visualize Keanu Reeves face sticking out between a pair of woman's legs.

    Neo vagina

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    I guess blackpilled comes from the charcoal tablets they give people with alcohol poisoning then?

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  • ohio Ohio Ohio Supreme Court clears ballot language saying anti-gerrymandering measure calls for the opposite
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    I consider myself a relatively intelligent person but I'm having a difficult time parsing this sentence.

    Can someone dumb this down for me just a little bit? Are they saying they're approving an anti-gerrymandering measure that actually gerrymanders?

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    Took me way too long to realize that he's not laying on the freaking MAT.

    And is it just me or does it look like his lower torso has been photoshopped onto his upper torso?

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy If there was any object in your life that was cursed, what would it be?
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    2 days ago 100%

    Apparently it's hydrogen peroxide and not baking soda but I am not aware of hydrogen peroxide being especially toxic.

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions Instead of having customers donate a dollar and giving them a coupon book "worth" $30, why doesn't KFC just donate those $30 themselves (or even half)?
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    Yep. They get credit for your donation & they get a tax write-off for the coupons, and they get to sell more stuff so you'll get the "value" out of the coupons. It's a win win win for them and only a win for you if you were going to otherwise buy the exact same things the coupons covered.

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    Non-euclidean love triangle: Both people who are currently together wish they were with the same third person who lives too far away for a relationship to work.

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  • askelectronics Ask Electronics What's the best way to add a battery like device to a dynamo light
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    If I'm understanding it correctly this generator has like wires out that then connect to the lights or something right?

    If that's the case you'll need to see what kind of voltage it's putting out to those wires and then you would want to splice those wires into diodes to prevent the current from leaking backwards out of the capacitors. Then attach as many capacitors as you need for the voltage that it is providing, remembering that it is okay to have higher voltage ratings but not lower voltage ratings.

    Chances are this will cause the light to be less bright as the capacitors are charging, so for the first few moments when you are riding it probably will be less bright but after the capacitors reach a steady charge you should see the light take a much longer time to dim down.

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    I think the largest issue you'll run into is figuring out how to wire it. It definitely sounds like a fun project and possibly an opportunity to try out some of the inexpensive super caps that you can get on eBay for like 3 bucks a piece.

    The only caveat I can think of is that you might need to find out how much voltage the generator puts out, as you definitely don't want to pump more voltage into them than they are rated for.

    To do that I would open the device and hook up a multimeter to the Dynamo and then spin it as hard as I can and figure out what it's peak voltage is and then purchase and or design your super capacitor bank to handle its peak maximum.

    You should also check and see if the device has some sort of rectifier, as Dynamo output is typically AC and LED lights are typically DC, so there is likely some sort of rectification. If you do have a rectifier I would measure it after the rectifier.

    It may already also have a capacitor in it, in which case you could simply desolder that capacitor and then set up some breakout cables and run those outside of the case into your bank.

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    You seem to think I have some sort of emotional investment in this and I can assure you that I do not. I'm saying that today's reality is not tomorrow's reality and that things can get better, which is a fact and not really up for debate.

    As to whether or not they will get better that very much is up to debate, but if you think that being condescending is proving your point then maybe you should take some time and think a little longer.

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    I've been getting a booster shot every year and last year had me sick for 3 Days running a fever.

    I got so delirious that apropos of nothing I had a hallucination of Dante's inferno and was carried all the way to the base of the mountain that leads to salvation and was told that I have to overcome my seven deadly sins in order to be allowed to take the first step onto the mountain.

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    Why are they naming covid variants like they're video game consoles or 1980s IBM knockoff PCS?

    Yo dude, I got the new xec covid! Which one do you have?

    Oh man, I only have the Corona Omicron...

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy If there was any object in your life that was cursed, what would it be?
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    You can definitely empty them and put them back, you just have to replace them when they tear otherwise all it's going to do is suck the dust up off your floor and blow it around inside your vacuum, contaminate your vacuum fan and motor and eventually render the vacuum cleaner inoperable and possibly flammable.

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    There is a treatment for that that involves like baking soda and aluminum foil and UV light. I think it's called retrobrite. Might be worth looking into but at the same time if you're going to do that you might have other repairs you would need to make on the machine.

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    The house I grew up in.

    I've told this story before but the house was built in like 1976. A freak tornado came down and tore it down when it was 3/4 completed. The builders got the insurance and built it again and when they finished it it caught fire and burned to the ground.

    The builders got the insurance and built it again and another tornado came through and destroyed it a week before it was supposed to be completed.

    In pythonian fashion the fourth time it stayed up, but one night I was down in the basement doing laundry on a dark and stormy night and I saw a movement to my right. A man in a full trench coat and wide brimmed hat was standing next to the water heater. I screamed as any preteen boy would and the man walked around the water heater and dis a fucking peared.

    I ran upstairs screaming there's a man in the basement there's a man in the basement and everyone came down to look and there was no man in the basement. The doors were bolted locked from the inside.

    A few years later my mom built a room into the basement and turned it into an extra bedroom. My sister woke up one night with a woman clad in all white with long black hair holding her feet down and crying and crying and crying.

    She screamed and the woman disappeared.

    My mom still lives in that house and will probably die there. That house is fucking haunted and was haunted before it was ever built.

    I've told this story before and my friends have said maybe it was built on an ancient Indian ground or something and to me that is hilarious because I am native American so why the fuck would they bother me?

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  • cooking Cooking [DISCUSSION] Techniques That Changed Something For You
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    I think another thing that adds to it is a little bit of soy sauce, but if soy sauce is too strong or too salty for you I can also highly recommend liquid aminos. That stuff is amazing

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  • ohio Ohio Ohio sheriff asks supporters to 'write down' addresses of Kamala Harris supporters
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    You know what's not a good thing? Capitalizing every word in a sentence. The rules are first word, proper nouns, and the word I.

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  • homevideo Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k) Paramount will be releasing "GALAXY QUEST" on 4K Ultra HD on December 3.
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    I'm glad this is getting a 4K re-release, should be a good watch. Although, is anyone else kind of disturbed by the facial Photoshop they do on all of these old movies? Like, they were fine when they were originally released, why are we doing smoothing and youthening and all of this other stuff on the faces of the actors on the covers and the photos that still exist on the internet for these movies? It seems like a huge waste.

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    My point is proved.

    Like I said, some people love nothing more than to reframe whatever you are saying or whatever you are doing in the worst possible light for no reason other than to make you feel bad.

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    If only one religion is right, then the God of that religion is either evil or an asshole or not all knowing and all powerful.

    If you think about it, and all knowing all powerful God that allows a gigantic portion of his beloved children to live in complete and total ignorance for their entire lives without even the chance of ever knowing the truth would be a terrible asshole at best, and that's only assuming that he doesn't throw everyone that doesn't get the truth he didn't give them into hell forever.

    Of course that only covers the abrahamic religions. I feel like Zoroastrianism would probably still be okay because as little of it as I understand it seems to be more like the world is a stage where a chess game is being played and each piece moves as it will and the battling deities over watching the game can only make so many moves each to keep it fair.

    Buddhism can't really complain about it other than that it sucks that we're all currently stuck in hell and having to live tens of thousands of lives until we're allowed to get out, seems like more people should make it out as time goes by.

    Either way though, if there is one true religion it would be amazing if the god of that religion would occasionally pop onto the planet and remind everybody that they exist, maybe give us the bread and circuses show to catch us back up, maybe throw out a couple of worldwide hey I forgive everybody's and then pop back off just to remind us.

    A thousand years without a reappearance of the God of all gods is a long time to keep the torch burning.

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  • electricvehicles Electric Vehicles Tesla Cybertruck Owners Shocked That Tires Are Barely Lasting 6,000 Miles
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    I am looking forward to lighter weight batteries with larger drive range that should be coming out in the near future but I'm also holding off on getting an electric vehicle until these issues are sorted out.

    Plus, one of the largest sources of pollution in the form of forever chemicals comes from vehicle tires so we definitely need to fucking work on that.

    I've always been told Charles Goodyear was a really great guy and a hard-working inventor and I feel like he would be rolling over in his grave to know that the reason why so many fish are dying out is because of his invention.

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    Theoretically yes, but it depends on the capabilities of the police officers at the scene to deduce that the fatal accident was likely caused by the quality of your tires and any prosecuting attorneys or lawyers attached to the accident after the fact.

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    The modern Ford ranger is the same size as the F-150 from 2004.

    Now if you want to buy a Ford ranger size truck you have to buy the Ford Maverick, which costs ~$35,000.

    It's fucking madness and I don't know a single company that hasn't lost the plot.

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    From what I understand they are still affordable, the cost savings is building it yourself and having the discipline and patience to be able to do something like that on your wages.

    Building a tiny home is a grueling and arduous task. There is nothing TurnKey about it.

    My cousin built one because his mom lent him some land to build it on and so far it has cost him about $10,000.

    That's pretty good but he lives on a truck driver's salary and he has a wife and a kid. He's deeply in debt from his tiny house project and he's almost done with it.

    Once he finishes he'll be able to claw his way back up out of debt, which is good, but there are no TurnKey solutions that are also affordable.

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    3 days ago 60%

    I get where you're coming from but in my ideal world we would all work gig jobs and they would provide us enough money to live at the very least at our current lifestyle.

    The 40-hour work week is a lie. It's not needed anymore, and anyone who sits down for 4 hours and analyzes our current economic system would probably agree with me.

    You have gotten up onto a high horse about how I am flawed and wrong before checking whether I was on your side.

    Besides, the point you are making, while it has its merits, only touches on my point. My point is enjoy what you like. If you like overnight oats just go ahead and eat them.

    It doesn't mean you're a "peasant eating gruel". It's okay to like what you like.

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    I feel like the divide is between people who attempt to find things out for themselves and the people who rely on external sources to foist information upon them.

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    Some people get a kick out of making you feel bad about anything and everything you enjoy by reframing it in the worst possible light.

    Oh, you bicycle to work? Enjoy breathing in all that carbon monoxide from the cars passing you and a greatly increased risk of dying due to a driver not thinking that you're a human being. Hope you don't cross a street and inconvenience a driver you selfish prick!

    Oh, you eat primarily vegetarian with only a little bit of meat? One, meat is still murder, you're a prick. Two, of course you would mention it. Three, fuck you and your entire family and your entire gene pool you piece of shit.

    I could probably keep going but you get it right? Don't let the things that you enjoy be taken away from you by people who are chasing clout and will say anything that they possibly can in order to get it.

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  • linux_gaming Linux Gaming Microsoft Windows kernel changes don't suddenly mean big things for Linux gaming
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    Exactly. Microsoft never does anything that isn't in their own financial interest.

    Even if other people benefit from it, it really is all about ensuring that they have profit growth year after year.

    So I can't trust anything that they ever do and nobody else who cares about freedom in technology should either.

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  • pleasantpolitics Pleasant Politics The Downside of Trump’s Popularity With Young Men Is That Young Men, Who Are Stupid, Might Forget to Vote
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    I feel like this article is intended to make other people less scared about Trump becoming president again and decreasing their likelihood to vote. I'm not going to fall for the reverse psychology and I hope nobody else does.

    I'm going to get out and vote and I'm going to vote for Kamala because I don't ever want to see that fucking shit stain as president ever again.

    He bungled his covid response so bad that a million Americans died. All he had to do was follow the playbook Obama left him and his racism would not allow him to do that and a million people died.

    Nothing anyone can say can top that for me. He as president killed a million Americans.

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    When sauteeing onions and mushrooms, when they're almost done, pour a little red wine into the pan and boil it out. Makes them amazing.

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    I tried navidrome but the issue I ran into is that it would not play individual songs or sort through them, it would just play my albums in alphabetical order.

    And I don't know as far as jelly fin goes, I like it as a video platform but for music I couldn't get it to just randomly display the songs and let me shuffle through them.

    I'm looking for a music server that can see all of my songs and music and shuffle them and play them. Does anything like that exist?

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    Well that's just like, your opinion, man.

    For the people down voting me, the person I'm responding to's handle is literally "my opinion" and I'm making a joke off of that

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  • upliftingnews Uplifting News Illinois Man Wrongly Convicted of 2008 Murder Is Awarded $50 Million
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    Even though that is an enormous win, I don't know if I would give up 10 years of my life for 50 million dollars. I'm glad it was dealt with while he's still relatively young and can hopefully spend some of that money to get therapy that he needs to get past that

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    Unpopular Opinion bizarroland 2 weeks ago 69%
    AI isn't as bad as the doomsayers say it is

    Don't get me wrong, there are problems with it, both in the process that modern AI uses as well as the sources that it draws from, however, as of right now ai is just a tool like auto-tune or photoshop. Even though it will change the media formats that it is attached to, it will not supplant them within the next 5 to 10 years, it will simply transform them.

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    If you could design your own body and hit a button and have it immediately implemented, would you keep your natural self or would you make changes?

    We'll just all assume that every person who gets this would make themselves early twenties with flawless skin, perfect organs, appendages and functionality, and no excess weight. My question is, would you change yourself from your genetic baseline, and if so, how?

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