… and why is this community against them?

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      I opened this thread hoping for exactly this, and was not disappointed.

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        In my just over a year here and using him as my avatar, I think this is the first time I’ve actually said the line lol.

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          I thought i remember a thread from when you first created that account where we were all making you say the line.

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            Oh, yeah. I did, lol. That was fun. Forgot about that.

            But that was deliberately in-character. I think this is the first time I just threw it out

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    This is it - the stupid question. It displays a complete lack of understanding and utter laziness.

    It’s perfect. It screams “I read the name of the community and took no other action to learn more about it before posting.”

    This is how you do it, folks

    Congratulations @frankenswine

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    Once someone asked if Stephen and Stephen were pronounced the same. Presumably they meant “Steven” for one of those, but the question as written was dumb.

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    I have one for those that worked at Disney World. “What time is the 3 o’clock parade?”

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    People have already correctly answered that in this community there are no stupid questions, you’re supposed to be able to ask anything without ridicule. But if you want to permit the general existence of stupid questions, here’s the definition I’ve always used.

    A stupid question is one you can easily answer yourself.

    As in, any question due to real lack of knowledge is not stupid, but if you can answer your own question just by thinking about it for a second, then it wasn’t necessary to ask and therefore "stupid”.

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    Obvious bait

    but to answer your stupid question: Things that could be easily answered by a google search are pretty stupid to post here. The implied intention of this community, and the subreddit it was inspired by, is to provide a space for people to ask questions that don’t have an immediately identifiable and/or definite answer and require certain social understanding to navigate.

    “How many gallons of water to fill a pool?”, for example, is a question that does not belong here because you could easily find that info using a search engine (or even better, your pool’s owner’s manual).

    “How do you know when you’ve been swindled?” is something that does belong however, because it’s asking for personal experience to help navigate a situation that cannot be provided by a search engine.

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      See, I don’t need the answer to how many gallons of water to fill a pool so I won’t bother looking it up. But if someone replied I’d read it out of curiosity and be better for it. Discussions aren’t just 1 on 1 dialogos, they’re broad and general to a broad and general audience.

  • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The name of the community comes from the idiom, “There’s no such thing as a stupid question.” The idea is that as long as the person asking the question genuinely wants to learn, then there is no question they can ask that would make them stupid because they’re trying to educate themselves - one of the least stupid things you can do.

    Some people feel shame at not knowing something, so they’ll often talk down to themselves and call it a stupid question. This is particularly true if the asker feels it’s something that they should already know or everyone around them seems to already know.

    This community offers a place where you can ask a question, no matter how small or basic, without fear of being made fun of. In a sense, you might say that the community welcomes stupid questions while at the same time reassuring the questioner that the question is not actually stupid.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    The only stupid questions are the ones you don’t ask. The full name of this community should be understood to be “[There are] no stupid questions”

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    “Why am I being arrested?” from a lot of people on police bodycam videos on YouTube. In almost every single case, it’s been explained to them multiple times and they’re actually just angry as opposed to not understanding. Especially the DUIs.

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      I don’t think this is stupid. cops overstep their authority a lot, saw a video yesterday where a cop arrested a woman for not allowing him to test her tint. in the USA, you are not required to provide assistance to the police in an investigation against yourself, it’s the 5th amendment. they arrested her for “obstruction”, which directly violated her 5th amendment right to not incriminate herself.

      you’ll see many where cops overextend their power and try to bully citizens into following non lawful commands just because the cop feels like bossing people around.

      https://youtu.be/Yj6YXF5qh7w?si=SNZVn9Jkgp_MoNZ4

      so I don’t feel it’s a stupid question whatsoever, if your freedom is being jeopardized with the threat of being placed in a cage, that arresting officer better damn sure know wtf he’s talking about and not basing all this off feelings. cops like to do what they want, even when proven wrong, and they get away with it without consequences, so why would they care about actual law when they can make shit up and later go “oops”, while leaving people in their wake with lots jobs, children taken from them, property damaged, etc.

      just because the cop said you were being arrested for panhandling, that’s not the correct punishment for that. cops just threaten with arrest to get what they want. there is a reason the phrase “you can beat the ticket but not the ride” exists. people don’t want to spend a night in jail because a cops ego was bruised, but happens.

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        You can’t interfere with an investigation. Refusing to let them test your tint is not valid under the fourth (NAL). It applies to not providing them information.

        Example (NAL): You don’t have to tell them your name. They can charge you for obstruction, but if you have the means to fight it, I think that would be a beatable charge.

        My example is people who scream why five hundred times in the backseat after failing a field sobriety test or deliberately trying to run (or other cases when there’s obvious reason for the arrest). This is very different from contesting, such as the college student athlete who is suing a department because an officer power-tripped and arrested him when he was obviously fine / not impaired.[0]

        [0] https://reason.com/2024/02/14/iowa-cops-arrested-a-sober-college-student-for-driving-intoxicated-his-lawsuit-is-moving-forward/

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    A stupid question is a question directed at stupid, or about stupid, or referring to stupid.

    So please, no stupid questions.