Was banning human slavery an authoritarian decision?
Obviously it was a good thing that it was banned, but I’m just wondering if it would technically be considered authoritarian....
What's the most alarming thing you've done while drunk or high?
You've heard of Fake Taxi but what are some other 'fake' scenarios that would make solid setups or just be humorous?
Fake Dentist perhaps? Something about getting cavities filled....
What are the things / events which had the deepest impact in your life?
Search engines down? (discuss.tchncs.de)
Is it just me or are many independent search engines down? Duckduckgo, my go to engine, qwant, ecosia, startpage… All down? The only hint I got was on the qwant page…...
What are the things / events which had the deepest impact in your life?
What scenarios do you envision might arise once animals join our ranks? (spectrum.ieee.org)
I heard about this because someone I know personally on here says she’s helping to work on this (which by the way sounds like it would perfectly fit the format/structure of the fediverse) and I felt too fascinated to not ask. What are some scenarios that comes to mind when you think of this being a thing?
What's the closest thing you have to a life story/occurrence that would be the kind of story they'd tell on Untold Stories of the ER?
What is your favorite song?
I’ll start off, my favorite song is all along the watch tower by Jimi Hendrix. That guitar at the start just sounds so beautiful.
What do you think of the term "short king" as a term that's supposed to champion body positivity for men?
Body positivity is such a strange concept to me. There’s efforts to reclaim words while simultaneously calling them bad if used as an insult. Ideally, people wouldn’t be offended by someone describing their body with common descriptors, but socially there is so much value attributed to certain body types that it’s almost...
What's the most expensive thing you've come to own that you've never gotten to fully use?
Trying to find a song about being wedgied
When I was a kid, like a real little kid, I remember having this one song I liked a lot about a guy trying to deal with getting wedgies at school. I remember almost nothing about it now, other than the guy eventually finds that Fruit of the Loom brand underwear has stretchy enough elastic to make the wedges painless. (This song...
What was the worst time you had at a fun event (party, vacation, etc.)?
What's the most alarming experience you've had with a stranger?
What's the most ironic thing about you?
Any iOS users seen the top 100 albums of all time?
Why on earth would it show me this in Music then proceed to open in the browser, ask me to sign in and then only allow you to add them to library one at a time....
So if I'm having a conversation, and the other person is wiping their nose a lot, does that mean they think THEIR nose is dirty, or that they're trying to tell me MY nose is dirty?
What are the coolest Lemmy communities you know?
If society collapsed what is your best case scenario for what comes after?
You can come up with the details on the kind of collapse....
What is cake day called on Lemmy?
What is an item below 100 bucks that everyone should own?
My school and high school never had us read any non-fiction books (only fiction)? Do you agree this is a problem and if so why or why not?
Plus it would be cool if you could recommend some particular essential non-fiction books that should be taught in schools, or that people should read if they didn’t read them in school.
What possible, fundamental, misunderstanding of the nature of the universe could make current academics look like flat earthers?
Which character should I use in a Windows/Linux directory name to place it at the top of an alphabetically sorted list?
Currently I’m using #, but it causes issues with certain applications....