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
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.
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
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
Automotive racing is a sport.
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.
But Rallycross is the only interesting one.
Like, is luge a sport but not automotive racing?
“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.
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
I’m not a fan of “bless you” after a sneeze.
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 😜
May the sneeze gods grant you mercy.
Yep I prefer saying ‘goes in tight’.
Took me a minute. Ah yes, German.
Teeheehee
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.
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.
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.
Modern music is fine.
I think one of the least self-aware thoughts someone can express - and that I hear often - is that “music now isn’t as good as it was in <decade of my youth>”, then they’ll go on to name the top five acts of that decade. Go back in time and listen to the track that was at number 53 in the charts on some boring week in mid-August in that decade and it’ll almost certainly be absolutely tepid mediocrepeice made by a forgotten artist and no better than the song that was playing on the radio that caused the comment in the first place. By the time that Josephine was coaxed onto that Flying Machine pop music had long been established as a commercial product to be produced at industrial scales. No-one alive today grew up in a generation that had exclusive access to “real music”, and if anyone tries to use that phrase to describe Motown in particular you have my permission to stab them in their eyes with a spoon.
This and people complaining when they only listen to the top 50 songs. "Nobody makes good insert genera here anymore! They do, their just below 1k listens. The insane amount of talent below the 100k and even the 1k listens mark is insane and I often find myself going “how the fuck does this perfect to me song only have 1k listens!”
You’re completely right, there’s an insane amount of incredible music made in the last 20 years, it’s just not popular. You can’t find it on the radio or in the charts, you have to find it like a hidden treasure.
This is why I love radio stations like BBC Radio 6. While they enforce a John Peel styled A-B-C playlist, their DJs are still given a lot of freedom to play their own choices. Without exception they’re all well-informed and enthusiastic music fans with a love of specific genres and, more often than not, musicians or producers themselves.
Meh. I don’t have this. Just feels like modern music hasn’t evolved since 2008. I’ve listened to annoying pop songs from back then, and annoying pop songs from today, and it’s just… The same.
There’s a distinct difference between 80s, 90s, and 00s music that also seems to follow what technology is capable of. That has grown stagnant.
But then hey, my favourite genres are jazz and funk. Those can get wildly creative with limitations.
Motown is real music.
Real music, made by real people, at the very least. Is all of it great music? By no means, but I’ve got piles of 45s that prove it is real.
Unless… I’m not real, that is. A distinct possibility, to be sure.
“Unpolular” is relative to the target audience. I’ll relate to my own social circles here:
I actually like Nickelback.
Sure, they’re not exceptional, but mediocrity is hardly a sin (unless it’s AI slop; fuck AI slop). Sure, their music is made to be safe, commercial rock, but that just fills a neat, chill gap in my music taste where LoFi should be (but isn’t; never really vibed with it).
It’s not the extent of my music taste either. I like Drumstep, Deathcore and plenty more. I just also appreciate some “boring” rock occasionally.
Lol fair enough but I’d literally rather never listen to music again
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.
Quentin Tarantino is a pretty good director. Not great, not terrible, just pretty good.
Pluto is planet and not one, at same time.
A dawrf planet is still a planet. Free Pluto.
Ganymede and Titan are bigger than Mercury. Do you call them planets?
What do they orbit?
Your mom.
Right. So that would make them moons, not planets.
Nah your mom is a star
No, because they are moons. Planets are (roughly paraphrasing here) the dominant gravitational mass in their orbit.
So Neptune is the reason Pluto is no a planet.
Pluto is not a planet because it has not cleared it’s orbit. But the discussion started by comparing size.
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