Cars and trucks should be banned within cities entirely.

I think nuclear power is good.

People who use doordash and food delivery apps extensively, without a disability, are some lazy ass people, who deserve the shitty experience and high price it costs. Just go fucking get it yourself if you want it hot and fresh and not thrown on the ground.

I enjoy cleaning the gross hair and gunk out from the shower drain, especially after I've moved into a new place. I am easily grossed out, so I find it stomach turning, but it feels so cathartic. The grossness is a part of that, I think. And then you have the immediate satisfaction of things draining much better.

I recently spent a year crashing in a friend's spare room, and I found myself weirdly satisfied that, being a household of 3, the shower drain would need cleaning much more often than when I lived alone. The fact that it's a gross chore that's rarely thought about until it starts getting quite bad means that I liked being able to handle this chore. Who else would be weird enough to enjoy the task, even as they're trying not to puke?

Are you ready for a super unpopular opinion? No holds barred? You asked for it:

Kids suck. I don't like them. Glad if you do, please enjoy. But they slobber, shed, smell and are generally mostly a nuisance. They can be fun for brief periods, but they're way more work and hassle than they're worth. My brother is thinking of getting a kid and I hope he doesn't because it would make me reluctant to spend a weekend at his place. I can't believe the number of people who seriously admit to loving their kids more than their dogs. I can't believe people consider themselves their kid's "parent". I can't believe how forcefully the online community backlashes to the idea of dogs or judgemental of "ill-mannered" and neurodiverse dogs, yet will happily say "it is never a kid's" fault, no matter how "bad" the kid is.

Thank you for your attention. Future Lemmings will look back at my comment history from unrelated threads and judge me for this, even though I've posted in the context of the current thread.

That "modern" architectural style where you get houses that often have flat roofs, blocky structures, large glass walls and the rest usually white plaster or unpainted wood (idk the name but I think most people have seen it and I see people hating on it more often than not. I dont mean brutalism since what im talking about doesn't usually have unpainted concrete everywhere but it looks maybe related) looks pretty good actually. Not every example sure, but in general I find the aesthetic pleasantly futuristic looking.

there should be a weight category/points system for vehicles on the road, for balance reasons. The lighter your vehicle the more heavy weapon slots you should be allowed to take so that you can punch up when returning fire while changing lanes

all money should be physical

currently only 1 of every 10 USD is physical and the rest are digital. I don't know how that works so I don't like it.

(hey you asked for unpopular opinions not good ones 😆)

The US should have compulsory military service, once the Dem Socialists are in charge.

No buying your way out, no exemptions unless you're in a vegetative state.

Everyone has to do it for 2 years.

It will build more generational solidarity than anyone realizes.

If the rich kid has to serve alongside the poor kids, maybe he'll get a sense of what real life is like, especially if he's the dude taking care of the toilets, or recycling milk containers.

That and making congress like jury duty, one 4 year term for everyone

Waterworld is good.

Black licorice tastes amazing

Nolan's The Odyssey was shit.

some violence needs to be fought with violence, actually

Privilaged people should be sent to a third world country for a year or two so they'll realize what birthplace lottery is, how good their life is. Ofc I'm talking about the people who think they aren't privilaged but in reality they are.

Hydration. Until 30 years ago, humans had no problem hydrating themselves when water was available. Note available. It’s called being thirsty. All of a sudden, you must hydrate, you must hydrate. Somehow, all the executives at all the big drink companies got together and said let’s just use the word hydration and hope for potluck on which product of ours they buy. Of course everyone jumped on the corporate bandwagon and they are now completely converted to this weird idea that humans don’t know how to hydrate when they need to so they can sell their sugar laden crap.

As much as I understand the anti-car movement, people who ride bikes on the road instead of the adjacent bike-legal path are assholes

Most comments complaining about vibe-coding are just butt-hurt programmers who are annoyed that Joe Schmoe can produce a decent looking website in about 20 minutes without having had to waste their formative years nerding out on forums and chasing stray semicolons.

Every time someone on here says "hey, I made a cool (but harmless) interactive tool/map/website" the top comment is always "this looks vibecoded as hell" or "whats with claude.md, asshole?". I'm all for the democratization of the economy so that social welfare, de-growth, environmental regulation and technological caution are rewarded instead of punished- including halting the datacenters and LLM proliferation for a few decades at least. But ya'll sound like professional chefs complaining that the neighbour bought a microwave and a thermomix.. or whining that they pimped out a cake mix instead of baking one from scratch. Just chill and maybe try to be helpful instead.

Money is imaginary.

It's an arbitrary point system that distorts real wealth and minimizes the real value of labor and time in the favor of the ruling class. Without the distortion of value money inflicts on wealth, there could be no institutionalized slavery, no billionaires, and no housing crisis. The "invisible hand of the market' claimed by economists is actually the very visible hand of Wall Street, the Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world actively selecting which types of wealth have value.

Source: Worked in the Stock Market in the 90s on the Options Floor. Watched market makers inflate their wealth by millions by calling down to the trading floor and starting rumors. Insider trading was rampant - I knew PeopleSoft was going to split three months before it did. Thirty years ago it turned my stomach to realize that every element of how we value wealth in this world is defined by drunken ex-frat boys hopped up on coke and Jack Daniels, breaking every rule meant to contain them and laughing when they had to pay the fine.

Today I can't even look at a stock ticker without feeling nauseous.

This community doesn't contain any actual shitposts, it's just a crosspost target for the 10 other linked communities in the rules, which means it's just another c/memes clone.

Lemmy is an anti-capitalist echo chamber and you will never good a good defense of capitalism here.

The people saying "extroverts need to shut up" are often the same ones posting "you are fine just the way you are, no matter how your brain is wired."

My penis can solve any problem