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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Swearing shouldn't ever be censored.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The kWh is a silly unit. Joule (J) is the one true unit of energy.

Also, common time units suck as much as inches, pounds, feet and whatever nonsense units you Americans still use. Just use seconds with the appropriate SI prefix instead.

Cubic meters and tonnes suck too. Just use kl and Mg instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Negative motivation is the real way to make changes.

It's great to have goals and positive things to look forward to when you reach those goals.

But to be consistent in doing the hard work to reach that goal it's better to scare the shit out of your self by asking

"what happens to me if I don't do the work?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We should build an A.I. overlord so that it replaces our current leadership like politicians and the entire market bussines specially the top, so that it can exploit resources in a reneuable way that is already possible right now but you know... lobying and fucking oil companies, and redistribute them to the population in a just way incluiding but not limited to food (nice food not rations), housing, medical services, psichological support (but the real one not the human resources bullshit), entertainment and internet access, and eventually be able to make custom orders like custom furniture, video game capable aparatus, modifing your house, travel and even swimmimg pools and ice cream. Besides i think our survival hinges on us making something about our leadership since there is at least one major problem that we need fixed that our current leadership is not gonna solve i.e. golbal warming, since they rather sell their souls and their people to the oil companies, and replacing them (even with a coup) is just gonna put more corruptible people that are gonna get bought out by some other straigth up cartoonishly evil entity, or they themselves turning into it or being overtrown by it, and destroying the entity would require a massive effort and thats not happening without mass destruction and even if it is destroyed another one will rise up from the chaos caused by the anti corporate war. So the sollution would be a singularity level A.I.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Assisted suicide is good for society and if legalised would help fix my countries broken healthcare system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Watch out, rich old people with relatives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The COVID pandemic never ended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think I understand what you're getting at but just keep in mind that there are two sort of separate discussions in regards to that.

The WHO and the health organization of various countries are usually pretty specific in their definitions. The "public health emergency" of COVID is over because:

  • There is no longer a need for a coordinated international effort.

  • The population is no longer largely at risk due to vaccinations/immunities.

  • The mortality rate has dropped significantly.

But I don't think anyone would deny that COVID is here to stay on a global scale. It's just that the health systems of most countries are now equipped to manage it without all of the lockdown precautions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy should have a Controversial sort for comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Some (not so unpopular) unpopular opinions :

  • Most clichΓ©s about people happen to be true. I won't give any example.
  • Smart Electronics altered our mental health mostly in a bad way.
  • Porn should be banned.
  • Big trillionaire corporations should not exist.
  • We should tend to a car free society
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if porn is banned then there's no regulation for it, meaning when people inevitably set up illegal porn sites things like child porn and abuse are not off the table and will be much easier to find than right now. unless of course you want to implement mass survailance to make sure nobody's watching, which is a violation of our human right to privacy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By that, I want to highlight how harmful it is in the long run. How to make people not watch it, honestly, I have no idea

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's like that for many vices such as alcohol- it's harmful but banning it is much worse than regulating it (see the history of 1920s America). I'm not convinced porn consumption is harmful but even if it was, it shouldn't be banned.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would you implement porn banning? Through pervasive survailance?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We have blown the concept of ownership way out of proportion. No one should be able to own things they have absolutely no connection to, like investment firms owning companies they don't work for, houses they don't live in or land they've never been to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think most people would agree with this besides the people who are doing this themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Spaghetti sucks. Come eat my ass, italians

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In order to actually fight climate change, we should start by trying to reduce the population in the future. Less people = more resources per person.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the military is a cult that tricks children into dying for the wealth of the owner class. they tell you you're defending "freedom" but you're defending the gravest enemies of freedom that currently exist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The military is also the only path to free college & free healthcare in the United States. I have a friend who's getting his second college degree that's entirely paid for by being a veteran

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You see where that's a huge part of the problem, right?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Python is just as bad if not worse then JavaScript. The fact that if you misspell a variable name, instead of giving an error like any sane language, Python code will still run, but do something different then it looks like it does, creating a hard to spot bug is just awful. The amount of time I have spent debugging python code only to find a tiny typo that any sane language would have caught before the code even ran is several weeks now, I can't imagine how much collective time has been lost over this, and a few other, horrible languages.

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