For me, if I ask for an unpopular opinion and you say something about pineapple on pizza I’m going to assume you have no personality.
Pringles are a superior snack
Most of our heros in movies actually kind of suck. They are for the most part only able to solve the world through violence because by some magical or supernatural or just bad writing, in an absurd position to do so.
I blame this on why I have more people willing to literally kill or die for me in my life then willing to engage in uncomfortable dialogue or eat more fiber for me.
We’re all going to be fine.
When is going? Bc I am actively not fine.
Yeah, we all die eventually. No life, no problems.
I doubt it. We have a very large fossil record of extinct species. Nothing says we won’t end up as yet another.
There’s two ways to go extinct - by coming to a sudden stop or by gradually changing over time until you’re no longer recognisable as the same species.
A species gradually changing is evolution, extinction is where the species dies out, bit of a difference
Well, see, the “sudden stop” is really just sudden at the time scale that Earth operates on. But in all these extinctions, where multiple species got wiped out entirely, at the scale of the species themselves it’s a slow ass grind that takes multiple centuries.
It only took humanity 50 years to wipe an average of 70% off the panet’s biodiversity
We’ll make a fine message to future civilisations
Automotive racing is a sport.
But Rallycross is the only interesting one.
I feel like that’s a pretty common opinion, I’ve never heard of anyone railing against motorsports not being a sport.
Yeah, I’ve seen a lot more hot takes on the topic, but none of them seem to be here today.
These days, I hear the line “it’s just people driving in circles” from F1 fans dumping on NASCAR, more than anything else.
But like, any sport sounds boring when you just break it down like that. Baseball, basketball, either kind of football, they’re all about a bunch of dudes just moving a ball around.
The people who say that are being willfully ignorant. If it was just “driving in circles” F1 drivers would have more success when they go to NASCAR.
Like, is luge a sport but not automotive racing?
Papyrus is actually a well-fitting font for Avatar and also perfectly fine as a font.
So is Comic Sans for anything related to comics or comic-like things.
That poor guy at Microsoft who saw cartoon speech bubbles with Times New Roman and thought “I can make something friendlier than that”, and people still haven’t stopped spewing hate and joking about torturing him
I don’t like pot.
Nothing against it, really. I just don’t like the feeling.
You wanted boring.
Sounds boring to me. Not boring would be “I dont like pot so I am going to craft a bipartisan police state and erode nearly every civil liberty in a pursuit to enforce my way of life upon others from a barrel of a gun.”
Yeah I also don’t like pot. Mainly because it smells bad tho… I’ve never actually used it before since I can’t imagine putting something that smells like that near my nose.
Any hobby that makes you smell like you filled your pants is one that needs to be re-evaluated.
Same. Cannabis just makes me fall asleep.
This is happening more as I age. Maybe its the strains I get these days, maybe its me.
I’m not a fan of “bless you” after a sneeze.
May the sneeze gods grant you mercy.
When I’m alone with somebody and they say absolutely nothing after I sneeze, I have to process that for a moment and decide what kind of person they are. They are probably stoic & logical & they eschew bullshit meaningless traditions. I like it. But I’m a girl with a big heart and I still cannot bear to be silent after somebody sneezes, but I agree it’s meaningless & old-fashioned to say “bless you,” so
I learned Chinese a few years ago and they say “Yi bai sui” or “may you live 100 years” after somebody sneezes. So I say that in english after somebody sneezes. “May you live 100 years.” That way there’s no awkward silence showing that I’m cold and heartless, instead I’m a compassionate educated polyglot 😜
Yep I prefer saying ‘goes in tight’.
Took me a minute. Ah yes, German.
Teeheehee
That homelessness is a choice and the people sleeping on the ground and being nibbled on by rats are somehow gaming the system.
I got hit with this by an elderly person one day. They went on about how there’s so much food out there that they could just forage for, but they choose to beg for it. I was working, so all I could do was smile and nod, but that smile was just frozen in place like a grimace.
During this whole rant my boss and I kept glancing at each other like they were insane. I can’t remember the exact details, I cleansed my brain of that garbage, but there were a few times my boss’ eyes flashed and I thought he was going to flip out.
They left like they were the avatar of mercy and understanding. I may have forgotten what they said exactly, but I’ll never forget how they looked, because that went right down in my mind under “people I’ll never become”. I mean… you have to actively try to become that ignorant, right?
…Right?
Remember that their generation were the same ones who beat black protestors and spit on drafted Vietnam vets. They’re also going to die off soon and the world will be better without them
Unfortunately that generation is doing a pretty good job of screwing up everything so there won’t be much left to enjoy when they die off.
Even if people did choose to do so, it should be a huge red flag to happen then. If people would rather sleep on the street than participate in society, maybe shit is fucked up.
Diseases of Despair
Just because someone choose something does mean they deserve to be in that position in the first place
Think that one, the opinion itself, varies in boring/interesting depending on where you live. Likewise varies in truthfulness.
What do you mean by “depending on where you live?”
It (edit: the idea you’re quoting) has more credence or less depending on your town.
- Are there a lot of charities and free services that homeless people can use? Couple that with a notably generous population and you might see actual wilful homelessness.
- On the other hand, I don’t think homelessness is ever a choice or comfortable in very car centric city with gang violence.
I suppose nobody is “gaming the system by being homeless” because even if it’s comfy, you’re not gaining more than you would be by not gaming the system of homelessness. But i think it’s undeniable that, in certain places for various reasons, people choose/pretend to be homeless.
As someone who works with homeless people in an area with a generous population, lots of charities, and free services, you are repeating one of the most dangerous types of misinformation. It’s the kind that draws our attention to 0.1% that is technically true, while diminishing the conversation about the actual problem.
The “tourists”, as we sometimes call them, are the 0.1%. They come and go and there is always one or two around, but they are not the ones with the serious problems. Some might think of them as outliers in the group, but I wouldn’t even group those 0.1% with the other 99.9%. We still make sure they are okay, but they are not the problem when people talk about “homelessness”.
I’m assuming you are good hearted. All intelligent good-natured people have mistakenly repeated points before understand the nuances. I just hope you and anyone else reading might consider a different way of thinking. Repeating this talking point makes it very hard for the people trying to fight homelessness. Funding drys up and people die because public discussion often focuses on the “tourists” and not on the actual problem.
Are there a lot of charities and free services that homeless people can use?
Depends on the type of homeless. Folks who were just evicted and need someplace safe so they can get back on their feet? Sure. People with severe mental health issues or drug addictions? not so much.
Going to a shelter involves giving up certain freedoms that living outside affords you. If you’re dealing with a heroin addiction, they won’t let you bring your drugs in. Got a pet dog companion? No dogs allowed. Going with a friend or partner? Expect to be split up. Also shelters often fill up and the next shelter with space may be an hour walk away.
It also doesn’t help that the shelters are all separate charities and don’t really coordinate.
So as miserable as it is, many people prefer living in tents and won’t even accept a shelter when they’re offered help as their tent encampment is being cleared by authorities.
Clover lawns are pretty.
Seems kinda unpopular based on just the sheer amount of pristine lawn grass there is. But is also so incredibly low stakes it’s boring
In my experience there seem to be four types of people: those who don’t have a lawn; those who have never heard of clover on lawns; those with clover on their lawns; and those who live under the unrelenting glare and iron thumb of a homeowner’s association.
Clovers are great, they give bees something to land on in the barren wasteland of lawns that is my neighborhood. I also usually let whatever random plants/weeds that pop up grow in the peripherals. If they can manage to thrive in my nonexistent gardening then they deserve to be there.
Anyone can become an addict, it is not a genetic trait. If you use any additive substance long enough you will being addicted, there is no if, its just a matter of when.
This includes alcohol and more people are addicted to alcohol then they want to admit.
Sure hope I am free to do what I want with my own body someday. Surely someone will believe in bodily autonomy eventually.
Not sure where you got that from? You are free to become addicted to anything you want.
My unpopular option is that addiction is not genetic, if you take an addictive substance long enough you will become addicted, no one is exempt from this.
I’m not sure about this when it comes to heroin. I’ve tried it and it was meh, but others try it feel like they have never before felt ok. And pot too I can’t find the high at all, it feels yucky but so many people love it and feel high on it, so in some ways there are “two kinds of people in the world” situations.
I do agree that anyone can become an addict if they try hard enough, though. Coffee for me, caffeine.
This is 100% true for heroin. If you pressed through and still did it enough times even if you thought it was meh, you would eventually become addicted, because that is how brain chemistry works. It is not the high people are chasing when they get addicted, its relief from the withdraws.
I think C# is a perfectly adequate and fairly enjoyable programming language, even though I dislike Microsoft and their products.
C# may be ok, but fuck wpf.
It’s the best thing Microsoft has ever done.
Third behind open sourcing MS Comic Chat and 3D Movie Maker
Mine is that every “coffee” that has something more than sugar is a coffee-based beverage and not a coffee
Similar, mine is every “coffee” that has something more than coffee and water is some kind od coffee-based beverage.
My friend says - if you don’t like unsweetened baker’s chocolate you don’t like chocolate.
“You like cream and sugar, not coffee.” Just, I couldn’t stand to try and argue with the guy because it matter so very fucking little to me but enough for me to remember the inanity of the argument.
I like my sugar with coffee and cream, actually.
When people say this about a frou-frou latte, I just tell them I don’t actually care - I usually drink black decaf but if I’m paying 6USD for a coffee, I’m making them work for it.
“Kids these days.”
Shut up, kids have always been shitty, adults have always been shitty, there was never a point in time where anyone ever wanted to talk to a stranger. We all suck all the time and always have, your generation wasn’t any different just because you used different slang and wore different clothes.
I recall some Roman writer complaining about the worthlessness of the youth and how Rome was doomed.
Just before a boom of conquest.
Moralising elders waxing nostaltic have probably been around longer than preserved writing.
Edit: it was Horace:
aetas parentum, peior avis, tulit nos nequiores, mox daturos progeniem vitiosiorem.
Our parents’ era, worse than their ancestors, bore us still worse, and soon we will give more wicked offspring.
Text and translation obtained via Wikisource: Horace, Odes 3.6, published 24 or 23 BCE, during the earlier years of the reign of Octavian Augustus.
We could argue about the quality of a youth that bowed to what would be a monarch in all but name, but it’s hard to deny their courage and effectiveness in battle, which would have been an important virtue in Rome at the time. That “wicked offspring” stabilised an Empire wracked by decades of civil war and unrest, expanded it and by Horace’s standards should have been quite honourable.
(Note: this is not an endorsement, just commentary on the mentalities of the time)
Kids seem so much nicer than when I was a kid. My kids’ friends would sit and talk to me, when I went to get them from school I would get random kids saying stuff like “you are x’s mom? They are so cool!” “Your outfit is pretty!” I would never, ever have said that to a mom at school.
I don’t just think they are not worse, I think they are better than we were.
Responding to any kind of misfortune with “They deserved it.”
eg. People struggling to pay their rent should have budgeted better. People whose uber eats wasn’t delivered shouldn’t have used uber eats. People with medical debt should’ve had health insurance. etc. etc.
Isn’t the just world fallacy a pretty popular opinion?
Popular is not the same thing as interesting. It’s boring in an ancient and odious way, but there is something interesting about how every time people bring it up they think they’re giving a hot take.
I wasn’t talking about people bringing it up as a psychological theory, I was talking about people holding it as an actual belief.
There are tons and tons of people who subscribe to it. It’s a pretty good hint as to why people support billionaires and villainize the poor.
No, I understood you. I was referring to the same thing as well. They just usually can’t help but tell you when they believe it
Not even an opinion, but the response of someone callous and deeply ignorant about how the world and people work. 😔
People killed by political violence
Edit: I’m adding to the e.g’s because political violence is where I most commonly observe “they deserved it” remarks
Pediatric cancer
Pineapple Pizza is just another pizza, get over it. it’s fine.
To be fair, i just hate pineapple as food in general.
