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[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 176 points 8 months ago

"Chemicals" in food. Literally every substance, every food and people are composed of them. The common usage has bastardized the meaning and latched on to the naturalistic fallacy. Snake venom is natural. Cyanide is natural. Arsenic and Uranium are natural. Botulinum toxin is natural. Something being naturally occurring does not automatically make it good for you just as something being made in a lab does not equate to being bad for you.

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 41 points 8 months ago

I feel like that’s one of those things where the conversational use of chemicals and scientific use has drifted apart

There’s plenty of examples but the only one I can think of is evolution, like In every terrible sci-fi movie ever using evolution to describe the individual evil monster gaining some change

Anyways 100% agree with you tho

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 33 points 8 months ago

The word theory is another one.

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[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 27 points 8 months ago

Same thing with people thinking that organic food is healthier. Organic food might be good for the environment, but not necessarily the climate or your health.

[-] TruthAintEasy@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago

I worked in produce as a quality inspector for a couple years. Organic generally just means lower quality for higher price. No one is regulating it as far as I know, they can just skip pesticides, do everything else the same and charge more for the same product that actually cost them less to produce. We refered to it as a hillarious scam when the boss wasnt around.

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[-] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 147 points 8 months ago

Cyclists, some people just see red when they came across cyclist at the road.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 75 points 8 months ago

Cycle infrastructure, even.

[-] exocrinous@lemm.ee 28 points 8 months ago

Bike lanes are car infrastructure. We cyclists are perfectly within our rights to cycle in the middle of the lane at a speed comfortable for us. And it's safer for us to do that than hug the shoulder and risk getting clipped by an impatient driver. A bike lane gets us out of your way so you can drive the speed limit. It's for your benefit.

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[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

There's really no winning as a cyclist when most people are in cars. If you stop at all stop signs, and obey they right-of-way, people will yell at you and/or try to wave you through ahead of your turn dangerously. If you do an Idaho stop (which is the safest way to approach a stop, whether it's legal or not), people will honk and yell at you and possibly try to run you off the road.

I used to commute by bike a lot during rush hour. If there was a lineup of cars waiting at a red-light, and I just waited in line, people in cars behind me would honk at me as if me preventing them from being one cars-length further ahead in line would somehow affect them. If I filtered forward, like I should, people would actually edge their cars over to try and block me.

I think for the most part, it's misplaced anger from drivers who don't want to face the fact that they are the source of danger on roads. The worst bicycle collision is way less severe than a car crash. They also really hate when bicyclists can get anywhere faster than them, which is often the case because it shows them just how much time they waste being traffic.

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[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 119 points 8 months ago
[-] ugh@lemm.ee 38 points 8 months ago

But... bathrooms!!! With the children!!! /s

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 97 points 8 months ago

Women.

Misogyny is extremely widespread and socially acceptable.

[-] puppy@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

Add men to the list.

Misandry is also extremely widespread and socially acceptable.

IMHO both groups have bad apples. In conservative societies, women are often mistreated. In modern/contemporary societies men are often misstreated.

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[-] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 8 months ago

Trans people, seriously, they just want to live their lives in peace. They're not here to radicalise anything or to "trick" anyone. They just want to get on with their lives and be left alone.

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[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 81 points 8 months ago
  • The homeless
  • Children
  • Chronically ill
  • Disabled
  • Sex workers
[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago

Reading this not as a list but as a sentence makes it crazy specific.

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[-] Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago

Furries. They're some of the nicest people ever. I'm a cosplayer and our worlds intersect a lot. They raise more money for charity than any group as small as they are, they're kind and accepting, and they're wicked talented. I trust Furries before muggles anyday

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[-] june@lemmy.world 68 points 8 months ago

haven’t seen it in the thread yet, but (most) GMOs. The foods and technology aren’t the problem, it’s a solution to ending hunger. It’s the corporate interests that squash competition that’s the problem.

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[-] ReCursing@kbin.social 66 points 8 months ago

Nickelback. I mean they're not good but they're not really bad either, just a complete nonevent. They don't deserve the hate they get, they don't really deserve anything

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[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 63 points 8 months ago

Striking workers.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 61 points 8 months ago

Conservatives seem to really hate electric cars for some reason. You'd think that for all the bitching they do regarding how Dark Brandon is personally hiking gas prices as part of his pinko commie agenda they'd like to stick it to him and stop paying for gas, but no, they take personal offense as if an electric car is somehow emasculating.

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[-] UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone 60 points 8 months ago

Living in apartments.

In a lot of cities and towns living in apartments is seen as something that young adults who are renting short term do, and definitely not families or older couples.

Living in an apartment is considerably cheaper for my situation. I drive so much less, I pay for less power, and I have all this parkland around me.

I'm a car guy and I don't have a garage, that's annoying, but I commute by escooter now and drive on the weekends. It's much better.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 57 points 8 months ago

Possums. They are immune to rabies and eat disease-spreading ticks. Salute your local possum

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[-] TruthAintEasy@kbin.social 55 points 8 months ago

Oh lots of things

Women
Ethnicities
LGTBQ+
Drag Queens ( they are so entertaining)
Inconvenient truths
People who hang toilet paper the wong way
The French (cowards? They won more battles than anyone and have mastered the art of standing up for themselves)
Furries
Pineapple on pizza ( its good, Ill die on this hill)
Bronies
Caillou - not, that whiney snot deserves it
Marijuana
Ned Flanders
Bell bottoms
Satan ( the word in acient hebrew that we translated to Satan first appears in the book of Job, and would more accuratly be rendered as accuser of prosecutor. In the whole bible satan only goes after 10 people, and only when god tells satan to do it. Half way through satan is like 'um god? This guys like, broken now. Call it good?' But that rapscallion god was like 'no, he could still recover keep hitting him' and all that because god 'knew' Job was the most loyal and devout of his followers and his narcisism just couldnt help but make a grand display of proving it)

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[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 54 points 8 months ago
[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 53 points 8 months ago

Socialism/Communism/Anarchism. Barely anyone who actually understands them and the theory supporting them hates them, but tons of people have been fed Red Scare propaganda on the matter.

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[-] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 8 months ago

trans people

[-] Teppichbrand@feddit.de 50 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

VEGANISM!
It's great for your health, we'd solve like 25% of the climate catastrophe overnight and it redeems billions of our fellow earthlings from the unimaginable suffering we inflict on them 24/7.
It's a ridiculously obvious and easy step we should take as a species, yet even hardcore leftists turn into irrational idiots and go full Bullshit Bingo when you bring it up. Because they have become accustomed to a taste.

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 50 points 8 months ago

The idea of using public transportation. It's something for "them" (the poor), not for "me" (rich). Changes significantly from country to country, I suppose, but it's a prevalent thought here.

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[-] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 50 points 8 months ago
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[-] Truffle@lemmy.ml 49 points 8 months ago

Fat people. There, I said it.

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[-] Rinna@lemm.ee 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Male abuse/SA victims. It's already not taken seriously enough when it happens to women, but when it happens to a guy they get put down even more and told to "man up", sometimes even by people who'd support them if the sexes were swapped.

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[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago
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[-] PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago

Satanists get persecuted a lot; although, they do a lot to protect religious freedom.

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[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 33 points 8 months ago
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[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 32 points 8 months ago

Caring about people who are different from yourself

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

Comic sans.

It is literally a font. Sometimes when some corporate partner is annoying me I will pdf lock a document, with a signature, to them in comic sans.

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[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Guy Fieri

I don't enjoy his flavor... but the dude is just living his best life and gets an absurd amount of hate. It's actually really funny to me how disproportional the hate is, but I sometimes feel bad for him.

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[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago
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[-] JWBananas@startrek.website 29 points 8 months ago
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[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

Clowns. I never found them entertaining, but they just want to entertain kids and people at circuses.

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[-] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Dispassionate takes on controversial issues.

There's always atleast two sides to each story and more often than not the truth is somewhere in the middle. If you think something is clear-cut you're almost guranteed to be mistaken and misinformed and many of your dearest beliefs are totally wrong.

[-] ReCursing@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago

There is, of course, a relevant xkcd - it's yesterday's https://xkcd.com/2898/

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