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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • So require more training and certification for use?

    Are you guys all seriously hung up on the word “car” here and trying to imply that eVTOLs can’t just come with its own infrastructure and pilot requirements independent of what we currently have?

    It doesn’t have to be like cars, where the skill level of the driver can be non existent and still pass licensing.

    I just can’t believe I’m in the tech community of a supposedly leftist website having to argue for a technology that beyond small local airstrips (literally a grass field with charging stations and basic rest stop equipment) needs no additional ground infrastructure.

    The opposition? Begin large scale rail projects that will require we carve through a lot of natural resources as well as acquire the resources to build it with.

    I just have to double check to make sure I didn’t fall into the wrong internet rabbit hole.





  • It was more just that they can’t seem to focus on a comment long enough to engage with it and understand what someone actually trying to say. If it’s not just shitting on someone immediately people don’t know how to respond so they just assume a hostile stance and cherry pick your argument to misinterpret you into being the bad guy.

    You’re correct, banning things just makes the issue societal and authoritarian which feeds into the conservative POV that “they’re trying to destroy our faith” and polarizes the problem. This makes meaningful change difficult or impossible. The truth is that even if no one would ever choose to wear a burqa on their own in an objectively neutral society, it’s still a culturally ingrained thing that has no negative value outside of the requirement that it he worn.

    Saying it’s a problem is like a feminist claiming being a stay at home mom is a problem, as long as everyone in the situation is happy and not being forced to do anything, buzz off and let people live their lives.

    Now of course because I have to cover my own ass cause apparently not spelling this out means I don’t understand it or I support religious fascism…

    The moment that society forces a group to do something, like making women cover themselves and designing society so that they can’t function outside of marriage(servitude) and motherhood, yes that’s a problem and objectively against the freedoms of women in a systemic sense. You’ll get no argument there.


  • I didn’t think I had to explicity say “ofc many women are forced to wear it and this is wrong” because I thought that was obvious. My mistake, I guess I should be more explicit with such controversial topics.

    Lemmy is filled with ADHD addled reactionary wannabe communists with critical thinking issues, trust me you have to explicitly say everything you mean or they’ll take any gap in your well meaning argument and assume you’re a racist conservative and downvote you into oblivion because thinking is too hard for them.



  • Exactly, you have an issue with their specific solution or just don’t agree with how extreme they are on a topic You’re just assumed to be an “enlightened centrist” and everyone will pile on no matter what.

    Even if you reclarify to give an understanding of what you meant they’ll either claim you’re trying to lie or just ignore what you’re saying because they’d prefer to argue with their strawman.


  • That’s a difficult question, for starters people around here tend to misinterpret what you’re saying accidentally or willfully, far more than my experience with reddit previously. Idk if it’s because the place just filled with the worst of reddit or the dumbest of reddit, but it seems like reading comprehension is at an all time low.

    Second, there needs to be clear divides between communities and their uses. When c/memes and c/linuxmemes have the same content, it’s going to give new users the impression that this place is for a very specific kind of person and then they’ll quit altogether.



  • Tired of this reductionist room temp IQ bullshit.

    They both have problems and identifying those issues isn’t claiming they have the same ones or that the issues are equal/pan out.

    Republicans are trash because they’re authoritarian, and Democrats are trash because they never follow through with anything or accomplish any kind of actual change.

    No one here is trying to say they’re equally bad or bad in the same way, but ignoring the fact that democrats don’t make any attempts at actual change is just being willfully ignorant of their uselessness.