Lots of good comments here. My favorite is parenting vs childfree groups. I’ve literally seen the communities back to back on my feed. It’s mostly funny to me, a parent, because I agree with both communities and they aren’t actually in opposition.
Second favorite are those guys who are all “THIS IS NOT A MEME GTFO” when someone posts a twit or tumbler post or what have you. Lol
Nice
AI is a good one.
He said AI is good. Get him!
Its hilarious to me because my research decades back was AI. But not like AI LLMs haha. More for detecting cancer. So I am VERY opinionated and nuanced on the subject.
Your and my both. I use the term “machine learning” more now to differentiate what I do vs what people think AI is. Lol
Yes that would be closer…however even then theres SO much nuance on what kind of machine learning algorithms have been made last 30 years. Theres a lot of re-discovering old algorithms that are starting to get useful again like Multi-modal systems.
Yes, yes, yes, YES, YES YEEEEEEEESSS!!!
Uh… Lawns, “electoralism”, meat, anything to do with parenting using consequences of any kind (sub discussions about spanking, withholding or taking away items or privileges, messing with your kids, and “I dIdnT AsK to bE BorN!”), separating the art from the artist, cars, intelligence and the fact that some people are in fact just dumb as a shoe (and the corollary “why don’t they teach me how to do my taxes in school instead of Pythagorean theorem!”), …
Idk there are lots of them.
Edit: … But why do you want to know? Do you have something planned? 🧐
Jackpot! Thanks!
Planned? Like what? No I’m just trying to tailor my posts is all. Just curious about what I shouldn’t go for. But I guess if someone is annoying me, it’s nice to have options to annoy them back. So, you know, swings and roundabouts…
Lol ok. Not like “how can I piss off the most people at once, but discreetly”. Best of luck.
Missing the point entirely, but thanks
If your point is to go somewhere that people get jokes, Lemmy probably wasnt an ideal choice!
You’re not kidding there, like. Check this out:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/66813516
I made this fun ‘meme’ post in the shitposts where I mocked the red bull slogan and its sugar content, and they turned the comments section into a mad argument about frickin’ sugar! SUGAR! They’re arguing about sugar and aspartame in there like bulls! Even this post asking about divisive topics has itself in places turned argumentative!!! It’s almost laughable.
IDK of enough people agree with me to make this divisive but Lemmy is fairly homogenous and loads of users don’t have a lot of life experience.
You’re absolutely correct.
Which Linux distro is the best.
/me hides in the corner now
I think the days of caring about this are over.
Old and tired: which distro is best
New and fresh: which distros have the right policy on AI?
True
You say that, but you still get the occasional user who raises a stink about it. I ran into somebody 3 or so weeks ago who ranted at me for recommending Linux Mint for basic, non-gaming use cases
Seemingly anything that suggests Americans might not all be dumb assholes.
I hate republicans and I hate liberals too but I really really fucking hate leftists.
Hating everyone is only going to make you miserable.
Oh I don’t hate everyone I’m a big fan of liberals.
I certainly think that all Americans are dumb assholes. So I guess this one is indeed divisive.
Well done silly American.
Case in point. I couldn’t imagine being dumb enough to believe that about an entire country.
What’s your issue with Tom Hanks?
YouTube Premium. You will never get me to say that it is not the best deal in streaming.
Easily the best deal in streaming.
However, thats like saying Mercedes S-class is the best deal in luxury automobiles. I still cant afford one :D
If the genocide happening in Ukraine by Russia and against the Uyghurs in China by China are real genocides or if the genocide by Israel against the Palestines is the only real one.
Cloudflare
Some hate on it because it’s corporate.
I hate on it because I have a thing for the Anubis girl.
We are not the same. Lol
Can you explain in more detail?
There was a thread yesterday praising Cloudflare, half the comments were pro- and half were anti-, every one had tons of up and down votes.
Do you have a link? I’d like to see this
Tried searching but couldnt find that specific one, sorry. Might’ve been deleted
Steam is more consumer friendly than GoG because it offers Linux compatibility and lets the customer choose whether they want DRM.
All physical media also comes with a license.
Men are encouraged to be more in touch with their emotions, but aren’t given a safe place to explore them. Men-only communities should be just as accepted as women-only communities.
“Yes, all black people” is just as valid an opinion as “yes, all men” for all of the same reasons.
The US is just as progressive as the rest of the world when it comes to trans athletes playing women’s sports (no country allows trans athletes to compete in women’s sports).
US gun control legislation has its roots in civil rights and class consciousness. Early gun control legislation was intended to directly target groups of marginalized people arming themselves against a tyrannical police force and that’s still its main intent.
“Political violence” is passing laws that harm people, not punching someone because they voted for the other guy.
States that allow abortion also tend to allow later term abortions than European countries.
Steam is more consumer friendly than GoG because it offers Linux compatibility
GoG offers Linux compatibilty, what are you talking about?
[Steam] lets the customer choose whether they want DRM.
I agree, the customer can chose to buy games on GoG if they want them to be DRM free. Joke, I know there is DRM free games on Steam too.
However, all Steam games do require you to have a Steam account connected to this specific key (game) just to launch You also do need to be connected to the internet at least once every 30 days. Obviously this isn’t an issue for some people but if you want to own and run your games offline GoG offers more ease of use.
Sexism/misogyny. Lemmings get really upset if you point it out.
Or that fourteen year olds can’t consent to sex with an adult.
There have been multiple posts where Lemmings argued about that. It was quite eye-opening when I first joined to be honest.
It’s straight up fucking disgusting.
I’ll never unban the lemmy.world shitposting community after the mods allowed pedophiles to talk so openly about how “willing and consensual” 14 year olds are.
This is legit but also I super appreciate coming in to the comment of a sexist post and already seeing a snarky comment about it being sexist. Makes my day.
How’s the post sexist? I asked about divisive topics?
oh yes, like Velma said, I was talking about sexist posts in general. Not this post.
Oh I think they were referring to other sexist posts, not calling this one a sexist post.
Ah ok, fair enough
Wow, just read your convo with him. you and he really got into it
Wow, just read your convo with him. you and he really got into it
Oh with cattywampas? Yeah, I have a bad habit of talking these types of trolls into the dirt when they want to play like that haha
My advice is: sometimes it’s more profitable to just walk away
Ah I’ve been on the internet long enough to know the positives of that advice, thank you :)
Pushing back against these types of people help to heal me from many years of being taught to be quiet, meek, and cater to men’s wishes.
Thanks!
If you want a real hoot, next time the issue comes up point out that women’s clothing is the way it is (form-fitting, small pockets, etc.) because that’s what the majority of women buy and that there are a lot of looser options with big pockets out there.
Edit: I’m talking about men’s opinions on women’s clothing. Women are well aware of their clothing choices.
That’s interesting that you chose women’s jeans as a response to a real complaint of the amount of misogyny that’s openly pushed on Lemmy.
Second, the majority of women buy jeans with small pockets because that’s what is on the majority of shelves. Women’s clothing is purposefully made of less quality than men’s clothing because women purchase clothing at higher rates and capitalism will do what capitalism does.
There are looser options with bigger pockets out there, but they’re not as available. You have to go hunting for them. And don’t even suggest women just buy men’s jeans as I’ve seen here - women’s bodies tend to be shaped much more differently than men’s bodies especially around our hips. Men’s jeans don’t fit the same.
Again, very interesting that your response to misogyny is “women complain about pants!”
My point is that “men complain about women’s clothing” not “women complain about women’s clothing.” They white knight so hard they don’t realize that the choice exists, then they go to “well they feel pressured to wear those things because of societal expectations.” They are just trying so hard to take the agency away from women one way or another.
Loose fitting women’s clothing is not hard to find. It’s in brick and mortar stores. It’s online. My wife wears it. Kids wear it, loose clothing is very fashionable right now.
When you say “not as available” what does that mean? That less of it is sold? That’s because it’s what sells. Most women want form-fitting clothing with smaller pockets.
There are more pants with small/no pockets available than there are pants with deep pockets. How is that hard to understand?
Bars have more taps with IPAs than stouts or porters. It’s not a grand conspiracy against non-IPA beer, it’s because IPAs sell better. Retail business doesn’t waste significant space on products that don’t sell quickly.
IPAs are easier to brew.
Yes, and that’s because it’s what most women want to buy. How is that hard to understand?
Source for your claims?
According to a 2018 study by The Pudding, the front pockets on women’s jeans are on average 48 per cent shorter and 6.5 per cent narrower than they are on men’s jeans.
You see, since the ’50s, there has been a role reversal of sorts in the fashion industry. Handbags, which started as a convenient accessory and a fun extension of an apparel brand, are major money-makers for many luxury brands. According to Fortune Business Insights, in 2022, the North American handbag market was valued at $16.3 billion. By 2030, that number is projected to grow to $26.47 billion.
A former designer assistant at McQueen, who wishes to remain anonymous, muses that with so much money at stake, clothing could now almost be considered an accessory to the handbags. “When Tom Ford debuted his first collection for Gucci in the ’90s, almost every single look had a handbag to go with it,” they point out. “Since then, ready-to-wear and purses have gone hand in hand.”
Fellow Canadian designers Eliza Faulkner (formerly of Erdem, Roland Mouret and Zandra Rhodes and now creative director of her own brand) and Caffery Vanhorne (who worked at an undisclosed luxury house) echo our anonymous source, with Faulkner reiterating that “brands make money off accessories, not clothes.” Vanhorne also admits that he has witnessed seasons where “more than half the clothes shown on the runway never went to production — they were just to showcase bags.”
What does this mean for our original question: Do brands purposely exclude pockets in women’s clothing so women will be more likely to support the purse industry? Well, it doesn’t take a genius to read between the lines above. To quote the great philosophers known as ABBA, it all comes down to “money, money, money.”
Like J.Lo gaslighting us into believing that her and Ben Affleck’s relationship history was “the greatest love story never told,” the handbag industry essentially barged in and seduced women into believing that the purse was the answer to all their portable needs. The only obstacle in their way? The pocket.
By that logic, as long as women are denied pockets, they would be forced to spend more money on bags and thus an entire industry could be sustained by reducing the size of pouches or excluding them from women’s clothing.
When your headline is a question, the answer is “no.”
You said yourself “capitalism will do what capitalism does” or words to that effect. So if more women wanted looser clothing, why would companies not start selling it?
The answer is that they have. Do just one Google search for “baggy women’s jeans with pockets” and you’ll see that they’re readily available.
Edit: I’m talking about men’s opinions on women’s clothing.
It’s clear that you share that opinion. Not sure why you think putting that edit in was going to clear up anything here.
The definition of “sideload”
Mostly debates on leftism (typically anarchist or Marxist-Leninist) vs. Liberalism. This extends to debates where the conflict is sharpest, typically on views of China as an example.
Very nice
Metric vs. imperial seems to generate an awful lot of feelings.
Edit: Ah shit, here we go…
I don’t get why this is a divisive topic. We’ve got arbitrary nonsense units vs sensible easy to understand measurements, where’s the debate?
Clearly my preferred system of measurement is superior.
It’s arbitrary nonsense vs arbitrary nonsense.
I don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.
Honestly. It’s not hard to know both.
I’ll bet you are smug in multiple languages.
Si verdad.
Britain uses Imperial, we use US Customary units. There is a difference. (They get more beer in a pint, for one.)
And yet nobody brings that technicality up during those discussions because the terminology is the same since it is just a different version of the same thing.
Yeah, but how else are we gonna rile up this comment section?
Wow, really? That’s interesting
I can’t fathom why. (That’s 1.8288m)
Metric is good for math written on paper. Imperial is good for the guy working in the middle of a field without any way to measure.
tankies
