Trolley Problem: 5 people are tied to train tracks and are about to be hit by a trolley. Do you allow it to happen, or do you pull the lever, causing the trolley to hit just one person instead of the five?

Let's assume you don't have enough time to go untie the victims but DO have enough time to analyze the situation and react. I'd probably pull the lever because, although the death of the one victim is unfortunate, I would be saving five lives in the process. In a perfect world, you'd be able to save all six victims, but pulling the lever seems like the lesser of two evils.

Then I would go kick the ass of whoever's going around tying people to train tracks.

I know politics can be a very contentious topic, so why don't we try and lighten the mood a bit?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sascamooch.com/post/3343

For me, it'd probably be teleportation. The possibilities with teleportation are basically limitless.

• Building's on fire? Teleport in, grab the people inside, and teleport out. Easy.
• Getting your butt kicked by a supervillain? Teleport to a gun shop, grab some weapons, and teleport back for round 2.
  • Alternatively, just grab your opponent, teleport in front of a moving train or something, let go of your opponent, and teleport away.
• Need to defuse a bomb? No need! Just teleport the bomb to the middle of the desert. Never worry about cutting the wrong wire again!
• Want to go to a Taylor Swift concert, but you overslept? You guessed it: just teleport! You don't even need to buy a ticket!

Admittedly, stopping time is another very useful power, but teleportation is just really hard to beat. What say you?

For me, it'd probably be teleportation. The possibilities with teleportation are basically limitless.

• Building's on fire? Teleport in, grab the people inside, and teleport out. Easy.
• Getting your butt kicked by a supervillain? Teleport to a gun shop, grab some weapons, and teleport back for round 2.
  • Alternatively, just grab your opponent, teleport in front of a moving train or something, let go of your opponent, and teleport away.
• Need to defuse a bomb? No need! Just teleport the bomb to the middle of the desert. Never worry about cutting the wrong wire again!
• Want to go to a Taylor Swift concert, but you overslept? You guessed it: just teleport! You don't even need to buy a ticket!

Admittedly, stopping time is another very useful power, but teleportation is just really hard to beat. What say you?

If you are reading this, let me be the first to welcome you to the exciting world of Lemmy! Lemmy has quite a few differences from Reddit (or most other traditional websites), and it might be a bit confusing when you're first getting started. If you're feeling lost, read on!

What is Lemmy?

Essentially, Lemmy is free and open source software that you can install on a server to create a "Lemmy instance". This post lives on lemmy.sascamooch.com, for example. Instances can have their own users, posts, and communities (aka subreddits).

Here's the neat part: users on one instance can interact with users and content from another. For example, users on lemmy.sascamooch.com can post memes on lemmy.ml, create communities on beehaw.org, have discussions with users on lemmy.world, and so on.

Getting Started

Join an Instance

To get started, make an account on a Lemmy instance. The most popular instances right now are lemmy.ml and beehaw.org. However, due to ongoing Reddit drama, these instances are experiencing a huge wave of new users. Joining a less crowded instance is recommended (remember, you can still interact with users and communities on these other instances).

To find an instance, please refer to https://join-lemmy.org/instances

Note: lemmy.sascamooch.com is currently invite-only. This might change in the future, but we are still getting our sea legs. Please bear with us.

Subscribing to Communities

Subscribing to communities that live on the same instance as you is pretty easy: it's not much different than subscribing to a subreddit. Subscribing to communities on other instances, however, is a little bit trickier. This is, admittedly, something Lemmy could improve upon in the future, but for now, here are some tips.

• Go to https://browse.feddit.de/ and search for communities you might be interested in.
  • This site might not have less popular communities from less popular instances, but this should help get you started.
• When you find a community you want to subscribe to, click on the link (e.g. https://beehaw.org/c/programming)
• on lemmy.sascamooch.com (or whatever instance you're using), go into the search bar. In the search bar, type in the community in the form of ![email protected].
  • In our example, we'd type ![email protected] into the search bar.
• Click the search button. If your instance has seen that community before, it will pop up in the results. If not, you might be see "No Results". In that case, click on "Communities" at the top, click "All", and then see if your community is listed.
• Subscribe to the community.

Again, I'm aware this is a bit convoluted, but things should hopefully get streamlined in the future. Lemmy is still relatively new and experiencing unprecedented growth due to the Reddit API drama, so be patient.

Getting Help

If you need help with Lemmy (Sascamooch's instance or otherwise), feel free to post here. We'll try our best to help you out.