this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
34 points (69.3% liked)

No Stupid Questions

40851 readers
854 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here. This includes using AI responses and summaries.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

The moderator told me questions like this aren't stupid and they're the point of this community.

I want an answer.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Angles have not been proven to exist, so I guess 0 and ∞.

If you can find proof of angels existing, then we would need to have more specifics:

  • how big are the angels?
  • what type of pin are you curious about? A fabric pin, for example, is much thinner than a pushpin.
  • what style of dance might they be doing? A line dance would require significantly more space than, say, the Macarena.

We'd also need to find out if angels are solids, or if they could pass through eachother as that could reduce the space they need and alter the answer significantly.

Not sure what point you're trying to make - people come from all walks of life... A stupid question to me may not be a stupid question to everyone else.

Would you know how to survive like a Sentinelese?

Could you tell me how to export a list of packages I have installed on my computer using pacman and yay so I can batch install them after wiping my computer?

Could you tell me the typical directory where I could find the word.dot file for a typical Windows user running Microsoft Office?

Would you know why you can't mix DOT2 and DOT3 but you can mix DOT3 and DOT4?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Right answer should be none, zero. I have few friends named Angel (that is their first name) and none of them can dance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Three but only if they want to and leave their friends behind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

This was actually a Victorian parody question they invented to make fun of medieval philosophers. Nowadays we think Thomas Aquinas, etc. were making quite sophisticated points, albeit within the boundaries of the religious society of the time.

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

Can jesus microwave a burrito so hot that even he couldn't eat it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Not enough info. What wattage of microwave? What size and filling of the burrito? Is he allowed to drink water and/or wine between bites? Have you recently modified the DNS settings on the microwave?

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

What kind of Angel, would be a follow-up. There's different kinds.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

What is "women around me, described using math terms only"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It's just the one goose.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is gonna turn into a dumb shitpost community, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It already is. That was the whole point of this post.

Yesterday a moderator told me that it was not a stupid question to ask if a ship can fit in a Klein bottle.

So I'm basically trolling. I'm leaving this community if the mods don't step up.

It's gotten totally out of hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

How is that a stupid question though? Does the average person know that a Klein Bottle is a surface with zero volume?

Maybe they were wondering if it was no ship will ever fit or every ship ever made is would be in it at the same time?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I appreciate the troll. It's always bugged me that this community took the name from reddit without the actual theme. This place should be for "common sense" questions you feel stupid having to ask but instead it's mostly been ELI5, asklemmy, and a variety of loaded questions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The sub on Reddit only became more filled with "common sense" questions when it became basically the only sub one could ask a question of any kind without it automatically being removed due to the bigger question asking subs being so strictly controlled to where only 3 or 4 regular users could actually make a fuckin' post. The point was that anything you wanted an answer to could be asked, and what made it shit was all the assholes mocking those who dared to ask anything other than basic shit you could have learned in school. They were just supposed to be things that could be answered, and not open-eneded random discussion material like this one.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I was subscribed to it the first week it existed so I know that your story is completely fabricated. The origin is even in the subreddit wiki...

/r/NoStupidQuestions was founded in February 2013 for people to feel free to ask the questions they might be embarrassed or ashamed to ask elsewhere. Inspired by this thread and specifically this comment

Look at the questions in that thread. It was always about silly little questions

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

Look at the questions in that thread. It was always about silly little questions

You are saying the same thing as me and proving my point... Did you not understand what I said? It was always about asking questions you might be embarrassed about; it wasn't always about asking simple questions that had to be based in reality the way it is moderated now and the way OP here thinks it should be.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

Silly little questions as in common sense stuff. "How often do I really need to wash a hoodie?"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

Right! "No stupid questions" isn't just a cute saying, the intention behind it was to remove the shame people would carry for asking a question that they "should" already know the answer to.

It was never meant to solicit opinions, or to ask pointless questions that cannot be answered.

It's time for this community to change, I'm not going to make a big poo poo about it, but I'm going to leave if something doesn't happen. I can sense other people have had it as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

How big is the pin?

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

The right amount

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

As many angels as actually exist.

load more comments
view more: next ›