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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.

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[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 14 points 4 days ago

We're all going to be fine.

[-] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

When is going? Bc I am actively not fine.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, we all die eventually. No life, no problems.

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[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Automotive racing is a sport.

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[-] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Papyrus is actually a well-fitting font for Avatar and also perfectly fine as a font.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

So is Comic Sans for anything related to comics or comic-like things.

[-] gigaqps@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

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

[-] SnerkRabbledauber@lemmy.today 21 points 4 days ago

I don't like pot.

Nothing against it, really. I just don't like the feeling.

You wanted boring.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

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."

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[-] combomeal@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

I’m not a fan of “bless you” after a sneeze.

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[-] stopforgettingit@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Sure hope I am free to do what I want with my own body someday. Surely someone will believe in bodily autonomy eventually.

[-] stopforgettingit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 78 points 5 days ago

That homelessness is a choice and the people sleeping on the ground and being nibbled on by rats are somehow gaming the system.

[-] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 5 days ago

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?

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[-] 18107@aussie.zone 11 points 4 days ago

I think C# is a perfectly adequate and fairly enjoyable programming language, even though I dislike Microsoft and their products.

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[-] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 52 points 5 days ago

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

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 11 points 4 days ago

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.

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[-] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

“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.

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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)

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] disregardable@lemmy.zip 65 points 5 days ago

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.

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[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 5 days ago

Pineapple Pizza is just another pizza, get over it. it's fine.

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[-] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 9 points 4 days ago

Mine is that every "coffee" that has something more than sugar is a coffee-based beverage and not a coffee

[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Similar, mine is every "coffee" that has something more than coffee and water is some kind od coffee-based beverage.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

My friend says - if you don't like unsweetened baker's chocolate you don't like chocolate.

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[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 10 points 4 days ago

"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.

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[-] northernlights@lemmy.today 16 points 4 days ago

Plain black coffee = best coffee

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[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 46 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

PiNeApPlE oN PiZzA eWwW!!!!1one

I'm so sick of pretend pearl clutching over this non-issue. If you don't like it, don't eat it. If you do, that's fine too.

And for the record, my stance on pineapple on pizza is.... drumroll

Tap for spoilerWho the fuck cares!

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[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 14 points 4 days ago

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 ", 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.

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[-] BigGovernment@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Quentin Tarantino is a pretty good director. Not great, not terrible, just pretty good.

[-] MasutaHarada@thelemmy.club 7 points 4 days ago

Pluto is planet and not one, at same time.

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"Marvel/DC movies BAD."

They're products aimed at children with the intention of selling other related products. The fact that some biological adults love them excessively in certain communities/cultures says something about those groups, but doesn't change the nature of the films themselves. What exactly did you expect?!

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[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Things aren't actually all that bad. Seriously, in the grand scheme of things, yo, we doing OK. Antibiotics. Hot water. Sunscreen. Whiskey. Coffee. Shit, we're frying things with the air now, man. As a species, we're doing kinda OK. We could be doing better, but we're learning. Some of us, anyway. There's a lot to love out there in the world, and every day something beautiful can happen to you. Yes, even you, you crabby-ass bitch.

Most Mac 'n' cheese from scratch is poorly made and not good. You have to make a goddamned cream sauce base first. It's not hard, it just takes giving a shit.

[-] fennesz12@feddit.dk 4 points 3 days ago

I agree with this sentiment. Life is actually a-okay. Mostly.

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