I'm frustrated more people are complacent with the state of the world, including myself.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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I think 10 years ago this would've been unpopular, but today maybe not so much:
systemd is great software. I don't use distros that refuse to ship it. Especially the init system. Thanks, Lennart!
Lemmy users project their toxicity towards Reddit. This place can be quite hostile if you don't echo the 'correct' ideals.
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Abortion should be mandatory.
People keep arguing over whether abortion should be legal or not, but my opinion is that it should be forced on everyone whether they want it or not. Late term abortions up to 100 years after birth should also be considered for inclusion in this rule.
One of my favourite activities is finding controversial opinions, then taking an opinion so extreme that it makes everyone else look like a centrist.
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I prefer rap music by white artists because it's less likely to feature the N word.
That isn't just an unpopular opinion, but a very interesting one. Bravo.
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When filing paperwork, like in those hanging file folders, the papers should be placed into the folder with the paper's left margin up. This way, any stapled pages can be flipped through as a bunch rather than individual pages. Also, the most important text tends to be left justified, such as the return address. Apparently this goes counter to every accountant's training, but I'm sticking to it.
too many dudes in this thread thinking eugenics and pedophilia are unpopular. They're very popular and that's a very bad thing
- Black is a color!!
- Dolphins are fish!!
These threads always attract a variety of reactionary opinions
[edit] whoops, didn't mean to reply. Yours were not the reactionary opinions lol. after the revolution, all tetrapods will rightly be understood to be fish
Jack black isn't funny at all. He's worse, incredibly fucking irritating and annoying and a try hard. He epitomizes mainstream US "comedy"; obvious, loud, overstating the delivery of jokes with overwrought physical humor. He and Horatio Sanz must have studied under the same Sithlord. Can't stand him.
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OMG IM SO SHOCKED A BUNCH OF SUPER POPULAR OPINIONS ON LEMMY!!
the trick is of course to look for the most disliked comments. Here's a couple
All humans are basically pure evil.
You are probably cruel and violent to vulnerable individuals more than three times a day.
Older men having sex with sexually mature teen girls is fine
DUI laws are too strict. It shouldn’t be all or nothing at .08 BAC but more severe punishments for more severe inebriation. .08 is pretty low and people who drink regularly can function fine at that level.
Graveyards are a disgusting waste of space. Their existence communicates to society that many dead people are more entitled to space on this Earth than some living people will ever have.
From everything I read in this thread… you won.
Graveyards don’t exist for the dead, they are a place where living people can mourn the loss of the dead person and remember older days.
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Graveyards don't exist for the dead.
They exist for both relatives to mourn, and the wider populace who value the perspective on their own problems that graveyards provide. They're also normally a peaceful place in an often unpeaceful world, much as urban green spaces.
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It's insane how many removed call lots of the ideas here "Eugenics". Eugenics is about producing the best GENES possible, while a lot of the replies here say that bad parents should not be allowed to make kids. Nobody talked about stopping people who aren't so "perfect" (biologically-wise) to make kids. Just not have more kids suffering by growing in abusive and broken households or been poor and have it very hard in life.
People are Lemmy are not much smarter that those on Reddit, it seems...
Eugenics is a system of controlling reproduction. Many eugenesists may have believed that being a member of a certain race or having certain congenital diseases made one inferior (and thus unworthy of the right to reproduce), but the basic principle some people should reproduce and some people shouldn't.
Like why do you think people are against eugenics? Because they're afraid we might accidentally bring an end to genetic diseases? That there might be too many blonde people? That they care deeply about people who don't exist yet's rights to be some particular way?
So yeah, when you propose a rule controlling reproduction...
your semantic understanding of eugenics doors not seem to understand why people opposed eugenics and eugenics policies.
Eugenics is about producing the best GENES possible
"Eugenics" was a term decades before "genes"
Even if the etymology was different, you'd still be very wrong [about what "eugenics" is]
The Beatles suck.
The Eagles are not as amazing as everyone thinks.
I didn't really like the Beatles until I started listening to all the non-#1 hit songs.
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