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[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] azolus@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 days ago

Holding companies accountable - left leaning

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (13 children)

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

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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 21 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That sounds a lot like utilitarianism, which is historically left leaning.

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[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We both got buckets of chicken. Wanna do it?

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[–] gray@lemmy.ml 93 points 4 days ago (18 children)

Bidets should be mandatory and toilet paper should be banned

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 65 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Maoist left with a strong aftertaste of eco-consciousness.

I could live with a bidet-centric society tbh

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[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 3 days ago (1 children)

stop subsidizing cars and trucks

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 69 points 4 days ago (7 children)

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

[–] renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 59 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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

[–] TypFaffke@feddit.org 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Demanding butthole conformity is a classic argument of the right.

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[–] isaaclyman@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Public school teachers shouldn’t have to pay income tax

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] HatchetHaro@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 53 points 3 days ago

Left, believes public schools should exist, welcome to 2025 noob

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

cereal first, milk after that

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

That's fighting talk you fascist.

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