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.
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 😜
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.
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
We’re all going to be 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.
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.
When is going? Bc I am actively not fine.
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.
People and groups generally are not inherently evil, and if you pay a little bit of attention, their actions are almost always logical to them (even if they are evil actions).
A lot of people might think they agree with that…but start naming people and groups and they will call you names pretty quickly.
Mine is that every “coffee” that has something more than sugar is a coffee-based beverage and not a coffee
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.
Christianity has a large user base but is unpopular. Jesus is the living God and through him is the only way to the Father. He didn’t come just to forgive us and get us into heaven, but for the kingdom of God to break into every area of life here and now - health, peace, justice and more. We won’t see the fullness until his return but he already came out of the grave once and he said he is coming back. Biblical timelines say we should expect him relatively soon.
Yeah, hasn’t it been a few centuries of this guy coming “relatively soon”. At that point I have to ask, relative to what? Human civilisation or the motion of entropy?
Biblically there was 2000 years between Jesus and Abraham, and another 2000 years between Abraham and Adam. Two thousand years after Jesus’ crucifixion is coming up within a handful of years. That’s six Biblical “days”, and God rested on the 7th day. There’s more to the timing people look to based on old prophecy but a lot of things line up for the next maybe fifty years. I’m no expert, but a lot of Christians believe this.
A lot of Christians believe a lot of things, most of it silly and untrue.
Your calculations are based on something that has already been thought of way back in the 1800s. And these guys are still waiting around for the second coming and the end times, despite every prediction they made never coming true.
Automotive racing is a sport.
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.
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?
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.
What do they orbit?
Your mom.
Right. So that would make them moons, not planets.
Nah your mom is a star
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
“The Beatles are overrated”
Not only is it untrue, but even if you don’t like their music you’re an idiot if you can’t see their influence.
I see more influence from Jazz, and other genres of black origin, than anything the Beatles have come up with.
Still overrated. Right place, right time. If it wasn’t them, it could have just as easily been someone else.
Contrarianism doesn’t make up for a lack of personality. You not liking something doesn’t make it overrated.
The Beatles are overrated and liking them to the degree you do shows a lack of originality.
Because being a contrarian is so original in today’s world. If you were smart enough to know how dumb you sound you’d be embarrassed.
I’m not contrarian. I’ve never thought much of the Beatles. It wasn’t until they got their own whole band game (back when those were popular) that I realised Beatles were somehow enjoyed by more than just really old people.
Okay, but that’s down to your taste, which has nothing to do with if they’re overrated or not.
Yeah, I’m starting to think you don’t know what “overrated” means.
“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
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.”
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.
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.
