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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

An ex wanted to break up because she was still in love with her ex. Her ex is in prison for decades after going on a rampage against homeless people and critically wounding at least a few. Live happybadger reaction: shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

My ex-spouse accused me of cheating on him.

.....with a character in the video game.

.....because I "clearly love him more that you love me!"

Whenever he'd be upset (for whatever reason), he would snap and say "Why don't you go talk to the person you actually love??" before giving me the silent treatment until he needed something.

It was the beginning of the end.

Don't miss it lol

EDIT: oh fuck, I forgot.. he actually sold our PS4 containing the game/save file completely out of the blue a few months after his first accusation, without telling me first. The game in question was "Stardew Valley". He was a shitty little man.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Was it the poet who lives on the beach? That was the only one I'd have been threatened by

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Whether a specific colour was green or yellow. We eventually looked up the RGB value to settle it, and as it turns out it is the exact shade that's halfway to yellow and halfway to green.

We were both equally correct in the end.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was this a debate about tennis balls? My spouse and I have had this exact disagreement!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Not tennis balls, no. Quite frankly I can't remember what it was. Just the colour stuck πŸ˜…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Colour theory is extremely complicated and you can't really tell from an RGB value in isolation that it represent a colour "exactly halfway" between green and yellow. Colour is perceptual, not a physical phenomenon, and this has significant meaningful consequences. But I'm glad you found a narrative that saved your marriage.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yellow is Red + Green, so half way between Yellow and Green would be what, 50% Red + 100% Green?

Like you said, color is perceptual, and not only will everyone's eyes have a slightly different sensitivity for each wavelength, each display will have a slightly different calibration for its RGB channels.
If the original color was in real life, the camera sensor would also be taking the full light spectrum and collapsing it into 3 RGB values, and the camera sensor's sensitivity/calibration will determine the ratio it converts a yellow wavelength into red and green. (Or maybe the real object isn't actually yellow, but pure red-+green light, it's impossible to tell after converting to RGB)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (4 children)

We disagreed for years about the color of our couch. I called it brown. He called it blue. It was a weird grayish brown colored couch, but because it was labeled "slate" when he bought it, he insisted it was blue. We then added a teal blue couch to our house which just solidified my "this is the brown couch" position. We do not, to this day, agree. Eventually we got rid of the couch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Do you still have the picture? We'd love to see.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

A similar debate with my partner is how I'm found out I'm colorblind lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you say you got rid of it, is it for sale? I'm in the market for a blue couch

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Poor couch πŸ˜₯

One can also have endless arguments about the color turquoise. Is it rather green, or rather blue? Same as teal I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

One can also have endless arguments about the color turquoise. Is it rather green, or rather blue?

The answer to that question is "no".
It's turquoise. You wouldn't argue about whether orange is yellow or red, either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You can remark on how that orange is closer to red, and how that one is closer to yellow though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

A couch is for life, not just for Christmas.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

So this was part of a much bigger discussion and turned out in reality to be mostly due to some unaddressed mental health issues. But on the tail end of an argument, y'know when you're starting to talk nice again and resolve things, I said something like it's okay, sometimes you're just a sad pancake. She burst into tears because she wanted to be a waffle. Hormones and mental health are wild, y'all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

mostly due to some unaddressed mental health issues.

I expect all the stories to be this. Why am I in this thread??

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Whether apple stems are perpendicular or parallel to the surface of the fruit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

No thats totally fair argument.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Considering that it was about topology, that might very well be the smartest couple's dispute I've ever heard of.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Is the answer not both? Depending on what part of the stem?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Incidental Tangent to the surface where the stem starts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

At the deepest part where it surrounds stem tightly there will be an instant tangent which then immediately becomes non tangent. A G0 and G1 condition and not G2

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Now, that's an interesting discussion!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They had a whole stupid argument about… Cheese. It went from small arguing to actual conflict.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

One time I was at a specialty beer and cheese shop and I saw this guy pushing a cart alone with two children. He generally looked beaten down and glum. The kids are rambunctious, he’s exhausted, wife is missing but obviously in the store with them.

He is browsing the cases, killing time waiting for his wife to come back. He grabs a small block of cheese, looks interested it and adds it to the cart.

A few minutes later, the wife returns and immediately spots the cheese block. She picks it up and screams β€œ$10? For a block of cheese you haven’t even TRIED yet? Absolutely not.”

Then she hurled it back in the case and stomped off while he sullenly followed her with the cart and kids

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Look, cheese is serious eats. And business.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

And atrocity against vulnerable individuals.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

My ex-girlfriend worked at a restaurant and they had an annual staff party which was just a house party at the manager's house. When we opened the door and started taking our shoes off one of the new server girls was shouting at the manager "Don't call me Lonestar!" and he was like "Yeah whatever Lonestar" and she screamed at the top of her lungs "DON'T CALL ME FUCKING LONESTAR!!!" and shoved him hard, he fell backwards and landed on his ass and she screamed a battle cry and started punching holes in the drywall, busting up her knuckles and bleeding everywhere. We put our shoes back on and just left. She got fired

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

She should've just given him the raspberry.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What's up with the calling Lonestar?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I imagine she formerly worked at a Lonestar Steakhouse. That or she had some affiliation with Texas. Being that these were restaurant folk, I'm leaning toward the first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

East coast Canadian girl who had never left Nova Scotia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Spaceballs reference maybe?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Look, just don't, OK?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just completely random

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's.. Not really a couple dispute, is it? Still, pretty funny lol

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He had the hots for her but I guess that doesn't really count

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

β€œI can fix Lonestar.”

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No joke I am 40% certain Lonestar went onto star in this viral video the timeline and location line up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

β€œSign in to confirm your age”

No, I don’t think I will. Thank you.

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