What's your unpopular opinion?
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I think there are too many people on this planet. I see often people stating that this is not the case so this is often something people are vocal about.
Or maybe a more accurate way to briefly describe my point of view. I think there are too many people on this planet based on our current ways of consumption and destruction of resources. There may be an argument for a planet with over 8 billion people with the ability to provide food, shelter and all other aspects of life and social security that does not affect our environment so harshly and negatively but even then I just don't see it.
With so many people, we seem to have lost the ability to our right to roam. Something that I think is important for multiple reasons. People used to migrate for a number of reasons. Seasonal changes, disaster, allowing areas to regrow and repopulate in regards to land and wildlife, travelling to where wildlife is excessive, planned/controlled fires and so many other reasons.
When we settle into these large cities, we lose the ability to roam and ignore all the local environmental benefits of people roaming. The land has to be reshaped into providing for a constant, permanent settlement. The cities require outside resources to grow and maintain itself and it's much harder to see and understand the resource demand when we are no longer directly involved in maintaining the land. We are now focused on maintaining a city just for us humans.
I think this point of view is scary or intimidating to some people because it means giving up many modern conveniences. As if life can not be lived any other way.
I guess I also come from a point of view where I'd rather live a short dangerous life full of wonder compared to a long, sterile life of loneliness and resentful anger. Fuck borders, they are as made up as money, gender and religion. I want to roam and be free.
With so many people, we seem to have lost the ability to our right to roam.
I have not heard that point of view before. Thank you for sharing, I think it's quite interesting.
I would like to note that even in medieval history, with a much smaller population, roaming resulted in clashes and wars
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Aggresive leftifts confirm the right wing bias, creating an escalating dynamic.
The horseshoe theory seems to hold. The extremes of both political sides have more in common with eachother than with the people on the middle.
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Being feminine often leads to better treatment in life. For example, the way I was treated during my military conscription was very different from how my peers were treated.
Being femine or just being attractive? Because the halo-effect definitely is real. As Pet Shop Boys said: you don't need to be beautiful but it helps.
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Eating meat unnecessarily is immoral.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I agree - and I still eat meat. This is the only thing where I'm openly a hypocrite. I put convenence and my own health first even when I know the amound of suffering it causes. This all will chance once lab grown meat becomes a thing.
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I love Pineapple Pizza
I passionately agree
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The stock market is a scam, value has become meaningless, and capitalism is a slow march to societal breakdown and revolution.
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Moral relativism and the postmodern position of 'nothing is true' (with the accompanying commandment not to think about anything too deeply because, again, no underlying truths exist) are now more than ever at the core of Western thought and the main reason that, despite the fact that the West has and continues to pillage and extract resources around the world thanks to their military superiority (and moral relativism plus a real belief in the racial superiority of Europeans) and probably enjoy some of the materially richer and safer existences ever, people in these countries have to pop pills/drugs/booze or turn the gun on their families and themselves to deal with their existences. The confusion is unbearable, and the lack of stable, productive, morally fulfilling ideology makes one aimless and prone to failure because the world and their understanding of the world are not compatible (can't make good predictions if your starting point is wrong or inexistent!).
I expect disagreement and even harassment on Lemmy/Western online spaces because, well, I know who I'm talking to. But doctors don't waste their time on the healthy! Travel a bit and go to brown places and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Eh, in "brown places" they would mock you for even admitting you have mental struggle. That used to be true even in the west not so long ago, when I was growing up, it was still being mocked and made fun of.
So no, "brown countries" don't have this solved, the west is simply currently in a phase where it's ok to not pretend everything is fine just because of peer pressure.
And that helps with the slow process of healing, if you have to bury all your traumas deep instead, you can't ever heal.
Mine and previous generations have a shitton of traumas buried deep, but we were the first who started trying to be better in this regard. Our kids will have much better mental health simply because fewer of us have untreated personality disorders that we spread onto our children.
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Have different types of high schools instead. My cousin went to bakery school in Germany at 16, for example.
That's not how it is in the US? Here in Czechia you can either go to a general "gymnasium" (aka general high school) or to a high school that specialises in a certain subject, or to a specialised school that is not a high school (usually trades).
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With so many people, we seem to have lost the ability to our right to roam.
I have not heard that point of view before. Thank you for sharing, I think it's quite interesting.
I would like to note that even in medieval history, with a much smaller population, roaming resulted in clashes and wars
My perspectives come from the indigenous histories I have learned about through my life. It took many years, multiple countries and surprisingly some YouTube videos for me to get to this point.
Understanding how recent history has affected indigenous populations through colonialism and exploitation has been... Depressing.
I also tend to want to look outside of European history. As a not "white" person who grew up in a "white" country, I've had European history shoved into my life in every way possible. There's a broader world to learn from and appreciate.
I don't think clashes between different peoples can be avoided entirely, but the scale of environmental damage would never be as destructive as what we are witnessing today.
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My perspectives come from the indigenous histories I have learned about through my life. It took many years, multiple countries and surprisingly some YouTube videos for me to get to this point.
Understanding how recent history has affected indigenous populations through colonialism and exploitation has been... Depressing.
I also tend to want to look outside of European history. As a not "white" person who grew up in a "white" country, I've had European history shoved into my life in every way possible. There's a broader world to learn from and appreciate.
I don't think clashes between different peoples can be avoided entirely, but the scale of environmental damage would never be as destructive as what we are witnessing today.
Thanks for sharing this idea. I'll have to think about it some further, it's really interesting!
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Thanks for sharing this idea. I'll have to think about it some further, it's really interesting!
If you have interest in indigenous histories, I can recommend the YouTube channel Cogito. A lot of their earlier works give a nice overview of different indigenous cultures.
How potatoes saved the world and How aboriginal Australians made Australia are two videos that really help connect some of my thoughts and experiences on what I had learned about indigenous history, especially in regards to colonialism.
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There's no ethical way to kill someone who's done nothing to you and doesn't want to die.
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Make housewives (or house husbands, not gonna judge) viable again. Women in the workplace was a crummy deal all things considered.
Replace "Women in the workplace" with "Both parts of the couple" and I will agree: it's a shit deal we got served.
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Legislation.
Economic collapse.
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Forcing students to take notes is counterproductive: I was most successful in those classes in which I wasn’t forced to takes notes. Taking notes only distracted me from listening to the teacher.
I noticed more and more younger people thinking along that line. As an old fart myself, I will say I find this as worrisome as realizing the same younger generations are reading less and less books, even going to college.
I will also say it's because most of those younger people were never taught the proper technique of reading and note-taking (grossly summarized, note-taking is not about trying to write what's being said by the teacher/speaker, it's about synthesizing the ideas/infos in one's own words, so in reality there is very little writing to be done when listening to lesson or a lecture (good lectures are built around a lot of repetitions of the same information, over and over again, so the speaker can be pretty sure most students did get it).
Not being able to take-notes (and to read books) is a huge loss, for those kids. They should demand their teachers or their parents, or anyone that has learned it already, to teach them the technique but why would they even bother asking since they get no opportunity to realize how much they're missing out by not learning it? I'm sad for them, because they're the one being screwed up (compared to kids their age that do read and know how to take notes).
Also, for foreign language classes actually being forced to speak the language in class is so valuable. I had one teacher who focused on big cultural projects with very little language instruction and her students (including me) all did pretty poorly.
100% this. The only thing that should matter is to speak the language with as much excitement/fun/interest as possible. Even grammar, which is essential, comes second to that.
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I was in high school during the early 2000s (which is mostly what I’m thinking of). I had unusable dial-up internet living in the middle of nowhere, so it’s not exactly like I’m so young and I just didn’t take notes because I can look up everything later.
People have different learning styles—I learn by listening. Taking notes (and being forced to simply copy everything on the board) distracts from that, so I’m later forced to review everything again instead of simply picking it up by listening in the moment.
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I love Pineapple Pizza
Addendum: the only wrong topping on a pizza is the one you personally don't like.
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You don't need more protein, you need more fiber.
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I was in high school during the early 2000s (which is mostly what I’m thinking of). I had unusable dial-up internet living in the middle of nowhere, so it’s not exactly like I’m so young and I just didn’t take notes because I can look up everything later.
People have different learning styles—I learn by listening. Taking notes (and being forced to simply copy everything on the board) distracts from that, so I’m later forced to review everything again instead of simply picking it up by listening in the moment.
and being forced to simply copy everything on the board
Like I said, it's exactly what note taking is not supposed to be. Copying is moronic and one should blame the teachers (and their own teachers before them) for ruining a technique that has proven its efficiency.
But whatever. I'm old enough to not worry too much about myself and I also know things won't get any better before they get a lot worse. So be it.
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I don't think humans deserve pets.
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and being forced to simply copy everything on the board
Like I said, it's exactly what note taking is not supposed to be. Copying is moronic and one should blame the teachers (and their own teachers before them) for ruining a technique that has proven its efficiency.
But whatever. I'm old enough to not worry too much about myself and I also know things won't get any better before they get a lot worse. So be it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]People that are heavily abstracted in their functional thought do not need notes to learn. The most essential factor is intuitively presented information. Like Richard Feynman said, 'if you can't explain it intuitively, you do not understand the subject in the first place.'
I could pass absolutely any test just by attending a class and listening. I absolutely despised the nominal repetitive framework of homework as oppressive authoritarian nonsense. I attended school to learn and any incompetent wretch that could not do their job in the allotted time they were given on the clock, was not my problem to fix on my time. Training me to be a slave that works at home on my own time is an unethical and immoral methodology that I refused to accept in life even as a kid. It is toxic corporate propaganda at the most fundamental level of society. I work on a clock and never for free, and I am exceptionally competent at understanding what I am told, when I am told, without memorization, or demeaning repetition that lowers my bar of nominal expectation and holds me back to the limits of others.
School was largely structured for memorization skills. Memorization is worthless in the real world. No one is reading their notes from school 45 years later. True understanding is always an abstraction and it is that abstract understanding that, when useful, has long term staying power in the mind. Notes aid in memorization, and if that is what is needed for a person to force the mind into an abstract understanding, so be it. Some of us exist only within or on the edge of abstraction and process information directly in this space.
Don't misunderstand me here. You are not wrong. Most people are not like me in this regard. I tested as an outlier for intuitive inference skills as early as TCAP (Tennessee) in 3rd grade with an invitation to Duke from those results.
I'm simply pointing out that this notes skill is not universal. I would not say I'm the most avid reader, but I have my own hard science fiction universe called Parsec-7 that I like to play with, I've read most of Asimov's fiction, the Dune series, and am sitting in front of a couple hundred books in my closet with everything from optics to astronomy, cycling, mechanical engineering, programming, Linux, to metallurgy, machining, and metal casting. My grammar is terrible, but I generally manage to convey my thoughts to others. My complexity management skills are somewhat weak, and that is the only tangible skill where note taking might have indirectly assisted, but probably not. The abstract concepts underpinning JSON and mind maps are what have helped me far more than notes could have done in any capacity. Anyways, abstraction is the goal. Memorization is a failure.
