What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
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No word is inherently bad, it's all about what you mean and how you use it. Most people have a no-tolerance with a few words though.
For example, all words would be ok in educational purposes.
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I don't believe in prison for punitive justice. Prions should be used to keep society safe from dangerous people, not punishing them imo.
what would be the alternative?
if someones super rich and commits a crime, and the punishment is just a fine, it wont really affect them -
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.
yeah but python is super slow
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Corporations should only be allowed to exist as long as they're doing more good for society than the damage they do. Businesses should either be a net positive or run by people who are individually and jointly liable.
how about weapons manufacturers?
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Houses and similar private property should be owned by the state and be given out to those in need for free, rather than owned by private individuals to sell/rent and make a profit. It's literally a basic human need that's becoming less and less accessible due to greed (constantly rising prices and scams landlords might try to pull), and it's very easy to just lose one if you're unfortunate enough to be unemployed for a longer period of time.
And what happens when the state gets controlled by someone who doesn't like what you have to say? You go homeless?
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Lemmy will die out without monotization such as every 6th post being an ad.
I love it but feel like libre projects that have constant maintenance costs beyond developers' time need to find ways to become mostly self sustainable without relying on donations. I also dont mind less than 20% of the posts being ads.
they could hide a crypto miner in it, if you look at the numbers for some currencies this can actually make similar kinds of cash compared to ad revenue
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Except where actual safety is concerned, all information should be public. That means Individuals, businesses, authorities, governments, etc, should not be able to hold any information privately, it should all be freely available to everyone. There only private information is what you can hold in your head.
Anyone who thinks about this idea for more than 30 seconds decides it is a really bad idea. I honestly believe that true information freedom will also free the human race, and that is the unpopular part. Everyone seemed to think I'm naive but people are just frightened kids and secrets are their first line of defense.
yeah this just means more targeted ads for me
I don't want the world knowing what I ate for breakfast
and I don't want the world knowing that I gave my friend some money
this wouldn't free anyone of anything -
Just one?
Social media is detrimental to individuals and society.
People in the net often agree, put people irl look at me like I'm the village idiot spouting conspiracy theories.
I think its like sugar, too much and it's horrible but in moderation its fine
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Nuking Japan was in proportion and in service to the United States' legitimate military objectives.
they didn't have to nuke civilians but using nukes was a good idea overall
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Consuming drugs should not be illegal. Doesnt matter what effect the drug has, punishing the consumer does no good for anyone.
Selling drugs can and should in some cases be illegal though
I don't really want people with altered consciousness driving or operating heavy machinery, or doing lots of other things where the rest of society depends on them making good judgements about safety.
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The rise of feminism has seen the steady devaluation of the contribution of men in those areas of society where they should be most active. Rather than celebrate and recognise what's right, the focus is on attacking what's wrong.
The majority of men are lonely, isolated and uncared for. Many feel unvalued, unsafe and vulnerable. There is less community support for men than there has been in the past, less institutional support, and a continued decline in the tolerance of men being in shared places. The minimisation of value in societal roles is yet another way that men are cut off.
This seems to escape the vision of feminism. There is always claim of ideological alignment, where the empowerment of women directly benefits men, but when it comes to any form of concrete action that helps men that need help, or celebrates men that contribute - it's nowhere to be seen.
Men kill themselves. They kill themselves. In their thousands. Leaving cratered families, trauma, guilt from the survivors, many of whom are female. Because they feel valueless, helpless and can't see a purpose to going on.
Accountability goes both ways. In demanding support from men, feminism must support men.
Here, here!
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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?
Man I got a lot of them.
- Free will isn't real.
- I'm kind of OK with AI replacing our jobs under capitalism, even if things get bumpy because I think because its unsustainable for various reasons and it'll eventually cause economic collapse and we might live in a better society afterward.
- Nuanced "soft" Anti-natalism
- Currency is fine. The left was wrong about Crypto.
- He might not always be right but Vaush is funny and its OK to watch his streams.
- We should all fuck each other more and monogamy is retarded.
- Oh also its OK to call things and people "retarded"
- Virtue doesn't matter only consequences.
- Bisexuality is secretly more common than hetero & homosexuality.
- Religion and spirituality should be illegal.
- Autistic people should rule the world.
- That Trump won a second time reflects a fundamentally disgusting moral weakness in most of humanity that I will never emotionally recover from.
- Linux is good but most of Linux users ideology about GUI is awful.
