not hard rule

Any company using insecure cryptography in any new product or service should be dissolved.

Holding companies accountable - left leaning

cereal first, milk after that

That's fighting talk you fascist.

Water is wet and I'm tired of people arguing about it. Wet literally means "covered in or consisting of liquid," and yet everyone seems to think water can't be wet just because it also makes other things wet, which it does but that doesn't mean it isn't itself wet

Left: "Water is wet and I’m tired of people arguing about it..."
Right: "Dihydrogen monoxide drowns babies, I saw it on the news!".
Seems you added a word to the definition that just so happens to be the one word your entire argument rests on.
- Isn't all the water below the surface layer covered with a liquid?
- Counterpoint: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wet
  Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
- I would say this still works.
  Assuming we are not compressing it, you cannot fit more water into water. Therefore, water is saturated with itself. Therefore, it is soaked. Therefore, it is wet.

A hotdog is a sandwich.

If you consider Subway or Viet subs a sandwich, you must also accept hot dogs as sandwiches
Americocentric insular view of food. Right.
Postmodern interpretation of sandwich. Left.

The purpose of life is to maximise pleasure and anyone yapping against that is either trying to control you or still hasn't deprogrammed from puritan cultural influence.

Doesn't like puritan cultural influence, left.
We both got buckets of chicken. Wanna do it?
- Suddenlytf2
That sounds a lot like utilitarianism, which is historically left leaning.
- If maximising pleasure is left, to maximise suffering is right-wing or just bdsm?
The only caveat I'd add is that it's long term pleasure so you don't fall into local maximums. A heroin addiction is a great way to maximize pleasure short term.
- I feel that is implicit on maximising pleasure. To have little treats often, while also keeping yourself alive so you can have more little treats.
  If I died tomorrow from an OD I would not have maximised pleasure in my life. Because I would have ended it early.
  But if I lived constantly denying myself every single pleasure and creature comfort because 'I need to earn it', I would also not be maximising pleasure in my life.
im playing and frolicking and hagvbing fune

Broken link for me, right wing boomer
- Instance issue

Playboy models were hotter back in the sixties and early seventies, before cocaine, implants, and bleach blonde hair became the norm.

They were often underage back then. Right.
- I don't think they ever actually showed underage girls but they got really close to the line. They did creepy things like had weekly countdowns until a certain woman was overage.
  "Only 2 weeks and then we can look at this kids tits!" And it was about that level of subtlety as well.

i think it's possible to have too many buttholes. like, from a functional standpoint. it's probably super uncomfortable.

Demanding butthole conformity is a classic argument of the right.
- i mean i guess you could read it that way. i should probably think of a better way to word that when i'm less tired
Or what if it just spreads the load, reducing strain on each butthole, making the experience better
- Wait, we talking series buttholes or parallel buttholes? Does plumbing work like electoral you know what for arguments sake let's say yes
- But I think there's a maximum number of comfortable butt holes. 2 sounds good while 200 doesnt

Cleveland is underrated as a city

Also the great lakes form the US north coast

Oh the misery. Everyone in Cleveland is my enemy.
- I'm not even mad I'm mostly impressed you managed to piss off a premier research hospital, a leather bar, and fans of rock and roll among many others

Public school teachers shouldn’t have to pay income tax

This is a dumb opinion. Don't make tax rules more complicated than they need to be.
If you want teachers to earn more (and that's fair: you should), just...pay them more.
just... pay them more?
exceptions to taxes just makes them a target. others will point at them and go "why do they get to keep their money while i have to pay the government my hard earned dough?" and start complaining about unfair treatment.
if the problem is that public school teachers aren't being paid enough, then just fix the problem itself.
Left, believes public schools should exist, welcome to 2025 noob

stop subsidizing cars and trucks

Left.
- nah that's actually right wing (in theory)
  in reality, it's left... the world is a weird place

Bidets should be mandatory and toilet paper should be banned

Maoist left with a strong aftertaste of eco-consciousness.
I could live with a bidet-centric society tbh
- Yea that was too easy, my bad
- It could also be ecofascism, though. 🤔
and toilet paper should be banned
Are you just rocking a wet ass post-bidet application?
- so what do you dry your bum with after a shower?
- The complete lack of thought for obvious disastrous consequences is how you recognize a true Maoist policy.
  I welcome or wet-ass bidet future, comrade.
- Right? TP ban sounds like something a person who has never used a bidet would say. Even the bidets that “dry your bum” take forever and don’t fully dry.
- Just wait a minute and it will dry. I'm going to be sitting there for a couple more minutes on my phone anyway.
Shooting things in your butthole: gay and left.
- Admitting it is left. Creating a whole bigoted persona around how bad it is while secretly engaging in it anyway would be right.

We should train mountain lions to be comfortable around humans, so they can hunt down feral cats and dogs to stop them from killing local wildlife and polluting rivers.

Eagles could work too.

All active duty soldiers should be get a free, non-transferrable 1000+cc motorcycle.

Cities/towns under 1 million should ban cars within the city limits, but remove all liscensing requirements for <200cc motorcycles.

Being someone that thinks all noisy motorcycles should be banded, I think these are neither left or right, just wrong. Make them electric bikes.
- Chain drive electrics are fine, if a tad boring, but they currently lack range.
  Also smaller motorbikes aren't loud, just ban loud exhaust.
Mountain lions cannot catch cats and dogs easily. Also, plenty of people would straight up murder mountain lion with a gun or their car to save a dog or cat.
Catch, Neuter, Release diminishes wild cat populations dramatically over just a couple generations, and it doesn't involve having to facilitate their deaths.
Edit: I am a fan of the motorcycle idea. We should make sure they're electric to cut down on their driving volume.
- i was gonna say, my favorite vehicles i've owned goes in order: my etrike, the hot red turbocharged 90s sportscar i drove in college, the late 80s nissan convertible with the popup headlights i learned to drive in, the hybrid we got right now, all the rest, and then that piece of shit barely worked had a door held on with duct tape and those awful automatic seatbelts but these made a RUHRUHRUH sound because they didn't retract all the way when you got out and it had a leaky radiator that the dude who owned it before me thought you could fix by cracking an egg into it fucking garbage 94 Ford Tempo. It was Blue.
  which is to say i'm a big fan of the motorcycle idea or just ebikes
- Cougars absolutely can and do eat cats and dogs; their natural prey is primarily deer but they'll absolutely hunt smaller animals if given the opportunity. It's also not unheard of for them to stalk children and even adults.
- It is a hoax that feral and domesticated cats are destroying the environment in places where they have predators, which is almost everywhere except Australia and some isolated islands. Cats live near humans precisely because they have so many predators in the wild.
The only disagreement I have about the bikes is that 200cc is a bit high. But smaller? Yeah probably fine.
- Ok, 156cc, i was just thinking a Honda winnerx or a yamaha exciter 155 is a little underpowered for short highway trips.

Sending the government anything official (like passport or jury summons response) through the post should include free shipping for letter sized envelopes.

left - free stuff
- ~~Free~~ socially funded
- Also because the right wants to dismantle the post office
free
Not free, paid for with taxes. And as we all know, all taxation is theft. Except for the roads I need to drive my lifted truck on.
Wait, you have to pay to send your government official stuff?? Anytime the government wanted me to send them anything (mail-in votes, tax return) they include a free envelope with shipping paid (the netherlands).
- Well, if OP is from the US we typically have to pay at just about any interaction with the government.
  They haven't managed to charge us to vote yet, but I genuinely can't think of any other meaningful, direct interaction I'd have with a government office that doesn't involve me playing money.
  Edit for clarity: by paying money, I mean by a means other than taxes.

copyrights should only last 5 years.

Typical pirate party talking point: left
(Although classically liberal)
Anti-capital & pro-public ownership, definitely left wing
- a true leftie would say to outright abolish copyright

Linux is the best operating system, and the primary things preventing its adoption are manufacturers not packaging it and professional software like Adobe being unavailable

The best way to spread Linux is to install it on your friends computer while they're not looking and then flee from the scene.
- that's the real trouble with suggesting linux IRL is if someone actually takes you up on it now you're kinda obligated to be their tech support
left
- Funny enough non-tech people see linux as a gamergate right-wing conspiracy theorist OS.
  "Google wants to make us all gay and government is after me for telling the truth about angels being under the flat earth"

People really actually should learn how to make bugs into more widespread, varied, and tasty cuisine.

Meat is about to get much, much more expensive.

Addendum: Ask the vegans about their most cost effective, most sustainable protein sources.

but insects are less efficient than just growing protein-rich crops, it makes way way more sense to just stop feeding our crops to livestock and instead turning it into seitan and TVP
plus, both of those products are effectively just a strange kind of meat, if you serve someone bolognese without telling them it's made with seitan they absolutely will not notice the difference.
- Please do tell me more about seitan and TVP.
  Or, rather, I will have to look into these more on my own at some point.
All plants are good protein sources, and you probably don't need as much protein as you think. The most sustainable plants are grown on a local farm. Investing in a CSA share makes it more economically sustainable for both the farmers and consumers. The most cost effective is probably something gross and drowning in pesticides (not sustainable).
- Ah see, this is the problem though.
  I agree with all you've said.
  But... CSA won't feed 8 billion people.
  Full stop, it won't.
  Not without a magically generated total overthrow and reworking of world capitalism as it exists, toward some kind of eco based localized socialsm or something... yep, it would be nice if that would happen, but magical thinking is dumb.
  So, that can't be the generalized proposed framework for the future, unless you're just fine with a few billion people starving to death.
  Bugs though?
  Might be a more cost effective solution for protein that can actually work at scale, allow CSA to focus on the healthier and more sustsinable plants, and bugs as a protein source would probably be a hell of a lot less resource intensive and more sustainable than... our current level of cows, chickens, pigs, etc.
  We use so much farmland to grow food for pigs cows chickens.
  We could probably use a lot less farmland if that went to feeding crickets or something, and then use the saved farmland for healthier vegetables.
  At least, this is my rough and broad understanding/idea.
Beans, it's always beans
- Came here to say this. Don’t be weirdos trying everything to eat new animals, and eat some BEANS immediately
left
- Exploiting other creatures is anything but left.
I'm gonna be honest I'm not eating ze bugs
- Fair enough lol.
You nailed this one
- lol oh my god it is still ongoing after my comment ahahah!

Cows should have curly tails like jack russels

Incoherent nonsense — Right
- quickly judging cow opinions - Right

Everything's too expensive these days

the rent is too damn high!
- It's fault of those corrupt politicans!

Language changes. "Literally" also means "Figuratively" now. The pronouciation of "gif" is regional. To fight against it is pointless.

linguistic descriptivism (left)
Linguistic descriptivism is generally quite a progressive and pro-science ideology
- I also think both the examples I gave are incredibly stupid that they are true, it's just pointless to fight against.
definitely not conservative
Boo
- "Old man yells at the cloud"

At my most reductive, I think English speakers shouldn't be allowed to self govern.

Right, racism and fascism.
Fucking duh.
- racism?
the original meaning of race referred to people that spoke different languages… like the french race, spanish race, etc… fyi…
Left

Pro-death penalty, gender-specific application, and ignoring due process probably puts this on the right.
Plenty of people on the left advocate for self-defense even to the point of lethal force but almost all of those would want an investigation and trial, and that probably means holding the killer in jail until a bond hearing. Carte blanche trust that the killer was justified is something unlikely to be offered outside of individualist people with a very strong distrust of the government to interfere with people's lives, and those tend to be on the right. It also implies women need a legal exception as a vulnerable group which reinforces the traditional idea that they are dependent on external protection.
Left
- This is absolutely a right wing take, tons of libertarians would agree with this
- I don't think that's a position I'd classify as left... Curious as to your reasoning.
Why limit that to women?
- Rapist just shows up as PVE for anyone in their vicinity? Not a bad idea.
why limit to women?
where's the due process?
wouldn't this open an avenue for getting away with murder using rape as an excuse and therefore also degrading the severity of actual rape cases?
Why limit that to "their."

Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's moral or ethical and vice versa.

Left
Libertarian
- Libertarian on its own means nothing. Am I left libertarian (anarchist) or right libertarian (ancap)?

B, A, Select, Start

gamergate vibes, right
- Cheat code to avoid consequences for my poor choices. Checks out.
- But 'select' implies they have a friend

We should vote on someone to exile every year.

We should pay people to vote.

I mean technically we pay people $25 to vote in Australia, you just start at -$25 because voting is mandatory.
- Yea that was where I got the idea.
  My thought on the matter was to give people pretty much enough for a meal in either cash or a voucher, then hold a festival/fair type thing a short distance from the polling place. That would encourage actual social interaction between people of different parties and hopefully result in more moderation than you know; volent street action and drunken brawls.
Right.
Left.
- Left, right!
https://youtu.be/_xQC0NJNdOg

The largest obstacle to Linux adoption is the large amount of Linux users whos only contribution to Linux is pushing back any and all progress. These people protest whenever a project receives funding from companies yet refuse to donate themselves. They call projects like Fedora copro for receiving code from IBM yet they do not contribute. They spend all day whining about Wayland and Systemd going on about how "bloated" they are yet these same people will use KDE.

Mentions Linux - left
- Damn
extremely based
nazi bar basher - left
i doubt people actually listen to / care about those losers
- Lunduke regularly gets several thousand views, often 10k-30k

👏 SCIENCE 👏 FICTION👏 DOES👏 NOT👏 INCLUDE👏 FANTASY👏

believes in rigid categories - right
Of course not, because it's the other way around
- Fair enough
Define fantasy. Soft scifi just has more fi than sci and can totally go into the realm of fantasy
- Concur and I have no issue with the crossover itself in stories. Fantasy is largely predicated on magic systems and creatures. Science fiction begins with known science. Maybe I should have been more specific and said "hard science fiction." Some of my favorite stories contain elements of both, but sometimes I want hard science like Rendezvous with Rama, Red Mars, or Tau Zero. It can be frustrating to look through aisles or catalogs for hard science fiction and find mostly stories of magic. It's a mood
  But then again, as Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
I have a magic crystal, it contains many secrets. At my and only my touch, it will reveal its bounty.
This crystal fits in my pocket but also contains the world. Upon uttering the correct incantation, my crystal will allow me to speak to those far across the realm.
But I must be cautious, pondering my crystal for too long can be addictive and one must exercise restraint, lest nothing else is done beyond contemplation of the depths of the world.
SciFi is just a matter of perspective; to a medieval king my cellphone is a magic crystal. The ability to travel significantly faster than a horse; would have seemed like magic; imagine the talk of great power; if rather than the weeks of travel between London and Edinburgh in the 1700's you had a personal air craft able to do it in a few hours.
- But you've identified the differentiating factor. In Fantasy, the hand-waving is mystical. In Sci-Fi, the hand-waving is technical. If ya mix the two, you get Shadowrun, or Star Wars before the midichlorians.
Building on this, Star Wars is fantasy
- Agreed

For awhile a lot of urbanist positions could have either come from the left or the right, but eventually reactionaries reacted and now its pretty much exclusively left wing.

Well, at least good ol' NIMBYism transcends the left-right spectrum (see e.g. San Francisco), so that means YIMBYism must too, question mark?
- YIMBYism isn't opposed by the right yet. I haven't really seen much right wing addressing of it outside being anti lumpenproletariat and pro car csbtrism. It'll definitely be an uphill battle if they were to go yimby but I think there's a chance
- there's a good video about this topic by JREG

cereal is soup

progressivism (against the Chapter 19 Harmonized System Code 1904 status quo)
left

Sephiroth was right.

And we should clone dinosaurs and set them loose into the world.

Left, believes dinosaurs are real, supports the environment

Clocks should be banned.

left (antiwork)
- or whatever it is, ideologically

All of my radical positions are super left. You'd have to get into my non-radical ones to find neutrality.

Epstein didn’t kill himself

Not radical

Cupcakes are the culinary equivalent of the little girl and her dog from FMA: Brotherhood

Begging you to elaborate on this one
Fusion kitchen - Left.
EEeedward
Shao Tucker was 100% a libertarian. Implying Chimera Nina was anything other than a monument to the success of capitalism is leftist rhetoric.
Unless you're implying that cupcakes, like Chimera Nina, are a monument to the success of capitalism. In which case, ancap.

I will be banned from Lemmy. I cannot tell it.

Lemmy is generally a lot more lax than other social media sites. As long as you aren't doxxing anyone you should be fine
Now I'm very curious what it is

Hive minds would be a superior form of consciousness than lone individual minds. If the technology ever materializes, we should install brain implants to create a form of wireless telepathy, allowing the sharing of senses, ideas, knowledge, feelings and subsume our self-awareness into group awareness, like little Borg cubes.

I'm curious how a hive mind would compare to the existing emergent social mind. I imagine often a hive mind would just be like if you let a friend group, social clubs, or corporation speak.
Auth
- Authleft, it's communism
You should read Leech by Hiron Ennes. It's told from the pov of a member of a hive mind. Its a really interesting exploration of identity.
My haptics are burning just thinking about it.
Left

Willful ignorance is a moral failing and society should treat it as such

Left

I get the sense the political direction of the week is up, right, down, down, down.

Right obviously
- A nazi was murdered, obviously left

Grass is green.

Truth-pilled: left
Factual - Left.
Doesn't recognize how dried grass/also grass that is still alive but didn't get enough sun is, in fact, yellow, instead holding onto mostly, but not entirely true belief - moderate right or straight up centrism, you decide
Except when it is brown in the summer, autumn, and winter.
Left

Burn it all down. The planet would be better off without humans.

Left
- Burn all the books. The planet will be better without knowledgeable humans.
Horseshoe
may chaos take the world!
- A world without humans is much less chaotic than what we have.

I like corn

Edit: maize too

corn grown by modern industrial farming? right wing (agrarian), corn grown by ancient methods? either indigenous rights or anprim, corn grown where's not supposed to be? leftist (Khrushchev tendency)
YEAHHRGHHHH

From the perspective of artistic craftsmanship, Banjo Kazooie is the best video game of all time

Left

IVF and surrogacy should be illegal. they are a huge drain on resources, typically only benefit the wealthy. And the solution is incredibly straightforward. Strong social safety net, strong parental benefits andleave options. Encourage family to start in their 20s early 30s latest.

what about the people who want to have children but can't because of health reasons?
also right
- if I was in charge, if you wanted a family and you couldn’t have it on your own, you’d have to adopt. I know it’s not the solution for everyone, but the inequality that IVF and surrogacy create along with the huge drain on resources both scientific and monetary. I think society would be better off if we got to the root causes of infertility issuesand tried to address them (whether they be environmental or genetic), but the baby making in industry needs to stop.
Strong social safety net, strong parental benefits andleave options.
Left
- of course, left is the only way.
Some people can't have kids, and some couples are gay
- Adoption

Han shot first!

Left af
- plenty of traditionalist conservative critiques of capitalism as an extension of liberalism. not saying they're always good critiques, but they exist

Pit bulls should be left alone

If you mean not provided food or shelter, agreed. Idc what people say about them being friendly or violent, I have never been lurched at more while minding my own business by any breed other than pitbulls. "But mine is well trained". Perhaps but probably not as well as you think. Take their food away when they are eating. Try it. Even if yours passes a food aggression test, there are at least 20 which are not. And let's be real. You know that.
- I have never been lurched at more while minding my own business by any breed other than pitbulls.
  Yeah, because arseholes decide to own them due to their reputation, and mistreat them or otherwise force them to be violent. Twenty to thirty years ago it was Rottweilers. Dobermans and Staffordshire Bull Terriers have also had that same reputation. There are no bad dog breeds, just bad owners and traumatised animals. Do you know what breed is most likely to bite a human in Australia? Golden/Labrador Retrievers. Do you know why? They're the most registered dog breed. Staffordshire Bull Terriers are the second most likely to bite humans. They are the second most registered dog breed. It's not rocket science mate.
  Anecdotally, the most aggressiveness I've had from dogs while out in my wheelchair has been from small dogs >10kg that bark, growl, lunge at me and try to bite my hands. It's all classic "small dog syndrome" which any clever person knows is actually caused by owners letting their dogs get away with that behaviour because it's "cute".
Right
- I disagree

Steak is overrated. I would take a burger over a steak even if they were equivalently priced.

I would like to join your new political party

Life begins at conception, interruption is an infanticide and should stay legal.

Left but weird about it
- I like how it's only left because it doesn't involve taking someone's rights away

Most victimless (or self-victimising) crimes should be legal.

That's straight up motto of the ancap types, so you gotta specify that "most" cuz some people believe selling your own self to slavery would be such a case
- slavery wouldn't ever be voluntary, since any rational person would only decide to sell themself into slavery due to material hardship, so they'd be a victim and the slaveowner would profit from their suffering, thereby indirectly funding the economic conditions that led to slavery. and any irrational person would lack the mental capacity to have signed such a contract. in either case the contract would be unconscionable, rendering it invalid.
- Yeah, I was a bit strategically ambiguous, because there are edge cases that could really make it go either way.
If there's no victim, there's no crime.
- I think we would have to define "no victim," as a lot of things have second or third order victims that need to be considered.
  Smoking is, in and of itself, only self-victimizing, but a lot of people (especially children) have been harmed by second hand smoke.
  PCP is only self-victimizing, but it does increase your propensity to freak out and kill somebody. Should you be allowed to take PCP with the knowledge you are potentially putting the people around you at an elevated risk of you murdering them in a drug induced delusional rage?
  I agreed in broad strokes, but I think we have to consider what it means for something to have "no victims," as most actions victimize someone to some greater or lesser extent.

Video games should not be more expensive sive than sixty dollars at launch, dlc should not begin development until the day after release. And in game purchases should only be in free to play games

left
- right. (entitlement and commitment to keeping things the same instead of changing in response to a dynamic world)

"We The People... are pissed off."

Center, trying to "play both sides"
- Which, as we all know, means: right
- populism
At what? The rich, the immigrants, the racists or the woke?

Space exploration, development, and eventual human settlement has such a high potential future utility that it effectively becomes a moral imperative, therefore, we should give NASA (or a different space agency for those in other countries) many times more funding and resources than they currently have available

Effective Accelerationism is the techno-optimist veneer of todays silicon-valley flavored fascism.
They go much deeper than what you're suggesting though, it's an absolute cesspit
- I am well aware of those types, they're the type of person that comes into futurist communities and start frustrating arguments by unironically claiming that chatgpt is already ASI, or crap like that, in my experience.
Colonialism - Right
Idk but you've found the exact opposite of this other post: https://lemmy.world/post/35958449/19406354

From what I've seen from the Luigi thing: Health Insurance CEOs deserve what's coming.

X is X not ✝️

Right. They lose their freaking minds over Xmas

Ban alcohol but legalize haoma

Humans have divorced themselves from nature and as penance should stay only in their cities away from it.

Ecofascist - Right wing.

AI is flawed in the same way our brains are, as they process information in a similarly flawed way.

right bc that's nonsense
- centrist, uninformed yet confident
We don't know how brains work, nobody can authoritatively say that a computer programme and a brain work the same way.
- We don't fully understand how a brain wires together to produce everything we see, but we do understand the basics of how they grow connections and change through reinforcements. This basic knowledge was essential for designing neural networks and various methods of deep learning in the first place, even if it doesn't produce true human intelligence.
  It's like if you cut out sections of any animal brain and train them to do a specific task. It isn't exactly the same as how brains work, but it does feature similar shortcomings for similar reasons. It builds connections and reinforces them, associating related "ideas" or clusters of information. The people who built machine learning models took heavy inspiration from how neurons work, while also taking inspiration from evolution when designing how they improve over iterations. There are very simple rules that lead rise to highly complex phenomenon in both.

Space travel and even space research is 99% useless and should be defunded. Look up most space research and you will see that the vast majority is either only useful in space or in zero gravity (aka useless) or is research that could be done on Earth. Just an absolutely massive waste of money that could be redirected to (thinking of something that's left/right ambiguous) terrestrial medical research?

Satellites would like to have a word, lol. GPS, weather tracking and modeling, telecommunication to remote areas, and detailed topographical mapping, just to name a few, all seem like pretty worthwhile sectors which are all directly tied to the space industry.
That's literally been a right-wing talking point for decades. At least until space programs come to their state. Then they're all for it again.
upvoted for being radical
green and anti-techbroist: left
also you have spy satellite sized blindspot
This is such a Florida thing to say.