This isn’t your college or work place break room. If people are saying something you disagree with you can just say it and you won’t be fired or ostracized for it. Yeah, people will probably get angry and say mean things to you but those are just words which can be ignored. Offence is taken, not given.
This is mostly for the lurkers who upvote unpopular opinions but don’t comment. You can speak up - you’re not alone.
I think working is bad for human health. I don’t get when people cheer about “creating workplaces”; that’s the worst that could happen. I think that humans will be kept as workforce for the economy as long as it is needed. So, economic growth leads to new workplaces and that’s a bad thing. I don’t get how people cherish growth.
Apart from that, there’s nothing that can be done to stop growth because growth is actually a very powerful spirit that is more powerful than human intervention, so it’s not like a society “chooses to grow” - that’s just an unavoidable necessity in my eyes.
Also, most human workers will (!) be replaced by AI in the next 15 years or so, and that’s a good thing. We need to de-normalize working for your basic human right to life, and establish Universal Basic Income - which will only be successful if enough people see that there’s not so much work to be done anymore and that creating actual social welfare programs is unavoidable. I’m mostly just waiting for this development myself because I do bad (and I mean, really bad) in the workforce of today.
Spicey Opinion:
We should shoot [Name Redacted] and don’t miss like someone did earlier this year.
Is this official permission?
I heard op of this post is the actual shooter in the murder of the Brian Thompson case. Sources say he went mad after his claim to be turned into a cat e girl was denied by united
Source-trust me bro
Nice try FBI
If people are saying something you disagree with you can just say it
sure 😁 👍 💯
and you won’t be fired or ostracized for it
🤦 WAT, how do you know that?
Sorry, but you don’t get to set the expectations of how people will react.
That’s patently false.
Ironically one of the first comments I saw in this post was “deleted by a moderator.” I guess that person doesn’t get to say whatever they want.
Lemmy is only pseudonymous and is a bit of an echo chamber. Lots of things you write or otherwise share on the Internet (here or elsewhere) can come back to haunt you.
No shit Sherlock. Who gives an ass about upvotes or downvotes? Just call things as you see them. If we all do the same, then eventually concensus zeitgeist will be more honest to the human condition
Ironic to find someone saying this on Lemmy. It’s a miserable echo chamber here.
I can’t see down votes so I have nothing to lose!
That’s why I’m saying it. I often feel like I’m in the minority of people willing to speak up and get dogpiled for it. I posted this for the handful of people who upvote those comments.
My favorite thing is getting downvotes with no reply. It’s like “you’re wrong! but I can’t say why!”
Lol sounda like it bro’s first time online
I’d rather be new and decent than experienced and dismissive - thank you for the perspective.
On the internet you can just freely say what you really think even if you know it’s unpopular.
This advice is SUPER dependent on where you live. People in the Middle East have been executed for saying the wrong thing on the Internet. People in the UK have been imprisoned for saying the wrong thing online. Criticize social policy or Government in China and its quite possible you’ll be off to prison.
Even in the good Ol’ USA there’s limits to how free your speech can be online.
in minecraft
Not on Lemmy though.
Also, Pro Tip:
Sometimes you can occasionally make a comment you know will be taken negatively so that you can update your block list of people who choose to leave mean replies. It helps to phrase it in a way that will create an emotional response. This is helpful for removing these people from your feed, because usually they leave negative comments like that on every reply they make. Very rarely do I find a person that is nice in most of their comments leaving a mean one, like ever. But also it is very rare I find these kind of people in the first place anymore.
Yeah, people will probably get angry and say mean things to you but those are just words which can be ignored. Offence is taken, not given.
This is naïve. The no one likes being insulted and downvoted for expressing their views. Sure, it doesn’t bother some people as much as others, but it’s not a conscious choice to “just ignore it,” as though that will prevent any negative feelings. The reality is that people with unpopular views stay silent to avoid these consequences, and that’s an entirely rational choice. You would do better to spend your time chastising people who attack those with unpopular views than to try to convince those with unpopular views to willingly expose themselves to online abuse.
I agree. I didn’t quite mean it as “you can just ignore it” but rather that “understand it’s just words and you can learn to not take it personally”
I say plenty of unpopular things here myself and though I have downvotes disabled I can still feel the pain when being dogpiled on despite having years of experience with it. No one is immune to it - we just have different levels of tolerance.
We should shoot Elon Musk’s kids in the head. And him, obviously. Using children as a human shield is sickening. The correct action is to call the bluff. There I said it. Same how for his wives. Same goes for the rest of his class.
