My unpopular opinion is that French food is pretty mid.

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.”

Whatever just say what you think and eat a couple downvotes every once in a while.

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.

How real are we getting?

Anime is 95% shit and is only popular because it’s from Japan.

your tattoos “telling a story” is like a mandatory meeting that should have been an email about something I’m not involved with, and in fact, couldn’t care less about. You think enduring pain makes you seem tough, but it just makes you seem like someone who makes poor fiscal decisions in this shitty economy. And, (as an aside) ink was supposed to make you stand out because it was supposed to be a rare thing than not many people did. Now not many people have no ink at all so, if you were looking to be “unique…” (I mean, just sayin.')

People take the “extrovert” and “introvert” way to far. Instead of being an observation of behavior, they take it to extremes, try turning it into a “quirky” personality and then role-play it everywhere. All due to social media. They talk about it like people who believe in astrology talk about astrology. And then they pretend they’re super happy, when they’re actually miserable and depressed but refuse to think their “introvert” persona is the issue.

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 😆)

No, they will get me killed.

One unpopular opinion which is safe for me to share is that we should all own less pets, and need to cultivate much more green space in our cities if we want to have them.

• If you’re American in the suburbs, this would mean people should not have lawns, but fill em with plants or crops.
• where i live this would mean more pocket parks and room for wildlife to thrive. Which requires some houses and disused buildings going, or more roads closed up for pedestrianised greenspace.

One reason i believe this is because cats, for instance, slaughter loads of little creatures. Just imagine - if half the households on a street has their own pet cat, all the mice in the area are getting killed. They’re actually so much better st getting mice than rats, too, so it barely has that benefit. Rats are huge.

Another reason is because dogs … they should be working, and they should have access to interesting greenspace. Sorry if you have a dog and can’t provide this, i just think it’s so fucked up that we have more dogs in the world than we can actually take care of in this way. Would you force a human to live most of its life indoors with nothing to do? Dogs need more company than many people afford them - i remember reading that people returned their dogs after lockdown because they wouldn’t be able to take care of them when working full time, etc cetera.

So I would only have a dog if I had a big garden for it or a huge park nearby. I would ideally have some sort of role sharing with neighbours or friends where we both take the dog on walks. And, best case scenario, I would only have a dog to perform a specific task e.g on a farm.

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

This sub is propaganda

Rap music is the least aesthetically appealing music genre in general. I simply can’t stand rap songs with a lot of swear words in lyrics, supporting street chaos and sex activity in lyrics, fast and high pitched vocals. Just not my style at all.

The lemmy verse and the fediverse should have hundreds of millions of users and people, not billions

I know every generation says it about the next but gen Z is just fucking weak. Some great people and an admittedly, dealt a shitty hand.

But.

I’m going back to school as an elder millennial and my God, some of the craziness I’ve heard. A buddy teaches a film theory course a lot of kids use to satisfy early arts requirements at universities and he quickly realized if he didn’t show the movie in class, 2/3 of the class wouldn’t watch it despite being available through the school website. So, essentially, these kids (or their parents) are paying hundreds of dollars to watch movies instead of engaging.

The degree for which I’m going back recommends only 4 courses a tern with no work.I knew engineers who rocked 6 or 7, worked and were party animals.

Every advisor with whom I’ve spoke has basically said “look, if you’re going to treat it as an adult with adult work habits, you can handle 5 courses without trouble.” But they have all these disclaimers because kids and their parents go nuts when Johnny, who was just streaming hockey highlights all class somehow didn’t get a good grade.