I'll give mine to get the ball rolling.

There was a user that, before getting banned, declared that every single living human being alive on Earth right now should not exist because no one had the benefit of a pre-conception device on hand to somehow determine each individual's consent to exist before they started to exist.

I don't know if that take would make David Benatar blush, make David Benatar cackle with glee, or if that was posted by David Benatar himself.

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  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    10 days ago

    I completely do not recall who said this so I can't vouch for activity or not.

    But my favourite obscure hot take was during urban planning discussions and someone gave a very spirited description of how there should be absolutely no personal kitchens in apartments, so that communal canteens could be used to socially engineer the people into more virtuous cuisine choices(not primarily in terms of vegan v meat but like regional cuisines.)

    Don't recall exactly the following reactions but I do think there was some revisions to the original idea after people pointed out that this would probably end up either killing people with allergies, or result in segregation based on medical conditions.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      10 days ago

      Came here to post this, they were so certain that nobody actually enjoys making their own food, they refused to acknowledge that anyone might want to make their own meals

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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          10 days ago

          The Communists built a giant dishwasher to put all their dirty dishes into instead of wasting all their water like god-fearing individuals

              • spectre [he/him]
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                10 days ago

                I mean, if you took a shift in the communal kitchen they would probably have exactly that machine.

              • TheDoctor [they/them]
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                10 days ago

                I’ve thought for a while that if you could physically scale down dishwasher tech, it could be placed directly into the cupboards with some sort of waterproof container so that the storage place was also the washing and drying place. So when you’re done with a dish you just put it back and it washes itself

          • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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            10 days ago

            you just need a simple prewash (holding the plate out for a dog to lick it clean) and then the wash is easy

          • keepcarrot [she/her]
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            10 days ago

            At least one person on here says they enjoy dishes more than cooking, so get them in the commune

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      10 days ago

      here should be absolutely no personal kitchens in apartments, so that communal canteens could be used to socially engineer the people into more virtuous cuisine choices(

      absolutely deranged

      I hope they were banned for being cringe.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      10 days ago

      That's one hell of a castle in the sky, there, putting down mandates for what is so incredibly far from existing in the first place and somehow making a good thing into a potentially harmful thing. Good find of a take.