Only like a third of actors change their name

My opinion is that this community needs some damn rules to differentiate it from asklemmy where “what do you think about X” posts make sense. We stole a bunch of subreddit’s names but apparent not what makes them unique

How the hell would anyone on this site know the answer? Hypothetical questions like this are useless

The first question is a good one for this community IMO. The rest, not so much.

Well, my understanding was that it’s not for ANY stupid question but for questions with actual answers that you feel stupid asking.

I felt stupid asking this because my understanding doesn’t jive with what I’m seeing. Which is 99% open-ended questions.

I think it does matter, though. Homogeny kills communities.

That’s what I’d expect, too, but that’s not what we’ve been getting unfortunately

Yeah that’s the invitation I get as well. I don’t want to block this community because I liked its namesake but I’m gonna of it’s just going to be these trash posts non-stop

It’s not overlap, though. There are basically no posting rules here which makes it functionally identical. We took the subreddit name but not the rules that made it a good subreddit.

The best communities are the ones with guidelines. There is no such thing here so it’s just asklemmy2 which is… disappointing.

That was my understanding as well but if you look at what’s getting posted here, that’s clearly not the case

Doesn’t really matter how you sort (active, top week, top month, etc), most of the questions are open-ended/opinion.

This is a straight up stupid question. Vague as hell with no real answer. Is this what this community is now?

This also isn’t an opinion community. That’s asklemmy.

Or I guess maybe it is. Who knows. With no defined theme like it’s subreddit namesake, it’s just asklemmy2 at this point. Might as well make it a meme community, too

Can you please stop posting these useless questions? This is not an opinion community

This whole community turned to shit. It’s all open-ended questions better suited for asklemmy…you know, the community for open-ended/opinion questions?

It’s contrary to the point of the subreddit it took its name from which admittedly also went to shit…but not nearly as fast and not nearly as severe as this.

The worst part about Lemmy is how more content is seen as a good thing. I’d rather a community have 2 good posts a day as opposed to 20 garbage posts.

This pope is too woke!

WHAT HAS THIS COMMUNITY BECOME?

Is this just an opinion sub now? What is the point

It means your parents branded you with a symbol of their religion before you were old enough to decide if you wanted to a permanent reminder of their religion. Not a big deal if you want to be reminded of their religion. Kind of a big deal if you don’t.

Do the people who don’t want a reminder not matter?

I didn’t know how else to describe it and figured the opposite of pleasure was suffering. Circumcision causes nerve damage in adults and infants alike which denies them the feeling they were born to experience. To be clear, I don’t believe the goal of circumcision is to cause harm. I believe that harm is the byproduct of circumcision. At the very least, can we agree that removing a piece of skin causes physical damage?

I understand that it helps some people connect with their culture but what about the others? It’s a permanent procedure regardless. If a Jew converts religions, becomes an agnostic/atheist, or even just stops practicing, they will never get full feeling back in their johnsons.

I have had this conversation COUNTLESS times with them over the years so I don’t feel the need to bring it up again. You’re right that Jewish people are less likely to be upset about it but that’s no surprise…They are more likely to have been raised in an environment where it’s commonplace.

This is called generational trauma and you have the choice to break the cycle. Jews have suffered enough throughout history, there is no reason to add to it yourselves.

“I suffered so my kids should suffer” is never a reasonable opinion. It’s especially unreasonable when that suffering is permanent for the child

I think it’s OK to abandon tradition when irrefutable evidence of harm emerges. We did a LOT of things differently in the past.

I am not Jewish myself but I grew up in one of the most Jewish parts of the US and I am very much a “fan” of Judaism. One thing I have massive respect for is the importance Judaism places on learning and adapting to new information so for me, the contradiction is confusing. If in the face of overwhelming evidence of the negative affects your only hangup is emotional (tradition), lean on the other things you were taught.

Sometimes you have to just realize that the way many things were done was often barbaric by today’s standards - even if they were acceptable at the time. Christians used to kiss everyone on the mouth at gatherings baptize people (kids and adults alike) in public completely nude. Islam used to allow slavery.

Why is this community suddenly filled with these open-ended opinion requests? What is the point of having a separate community from asklemmy?