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[-] muse@kbin.social 202 points 9 months ago

That this meme is low effort content and it's spamming everywhere

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 146 points 9 months ago

health insurance != healthcare

health insurance profits only exist at the expense of human suffering.

but lets make sure everyone has insurance but not care

[-] dillydogg@lemmy.one 72 points 9 months ago

I thought this thread was for hot takes 😉

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 42 points 9 months ago

Is this your first time in an "unpopular opinion" thread? lol

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[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 126 points 9 months ago

Copyright is far too long and should only last at most 20 years.

Actually, George Washington would agree with me if he was still alive. He and the other founding fathers created the notion of copyright, which was to last 14 years. Then big corporations changed the laws in their favor.

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[-] charlytune@mander.xyz 123 points 9 months ago

Myers Briggs is posh astrology.

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[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 113 points 9 months ago

Young people are people and deserving of rights, including but not limited to the vote. There is no stupid thing a young person could do with their vote that old people don't already do and we don't require them not to in order to keep their vote.

[-] ThugJesus@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

No taxation without representation. Either teens get to vote, or they don't pay taxes. Anything less is un-American.

[-] qooqie@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

When I was mid 20s I thought young kids were too naive. I got older and saw how fucking stupid most adults are and think young kids are much smarter than their predecessors. They should absolutely have a voice in elections. 16 seems like a good age to me

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[-] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 109 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

People are crazy when they promote closed-source AI (okay, okay, generative model) projects like ChatGPT, Bard etc.

This is literally one of the most important technologies of the future, and after all the times technology companies screwed them (us) up big time and monopolized the Internet, they go into the same trap again and again.

First they surrendered the free Internet, now they surrender the new frontiers.

Wake up, people. Go HuggingFace, advocate for free AI, and ideally - for a GPL one. We cannot afford for this part of our future to be taken away from us.

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[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 105 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hawaiian pizza is good.

Not that it's the best pizza, or even my favorite. It's just a fine option.

[-] Robbsen1@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 9 months ago

That whole "pineapple on pizza" meme is incredibly lame

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[-] Shanedino@lemmy.world 87 points 9 months ago

Religions are mostly just popularized conspiracy theories. Believing in God is about as realistic as believing the world is flat.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 81 points 9 months ago

Any comment that gets more than one upvote fails the subject.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago

I gave your comment its second upvote.

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[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 79 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

People overlook vegetarianism and semi-vegetarian lifestyles as an option too much and it is not helpful that real life examples of vegetarian cultures, get co-opted by Vegans purists as "Vegan cultures" in easily disproven claims- thus hurting the whole movement

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 63 points 9 months ago

I don't eat meat or dairy, so i technically i'm a vegan, right? But i wouldn't identify as a vegan. When someone cooks and says: oh i forgot that you are vegan, and i used butter, still eat it. When i'm at a bbq and there is a steak leftover, and no one eats it and it goes to the trash, i would eat it. I find the idea of factory meat absolutely repulsive therefore i don't support it in any way. Once i talked to a vegan guy, and he was super weird so we didn't have a lot to talk about. I told him something like: when i was a kid i was really into chicken wings, and now in hindsight, i don't think chicken is actually good. And he said: oh, you are one of THOSE people. Meat eater are like pedophiles, once you fucked a kid, you'll always be a childfucker.

Eh... Okay, i'll just stand over there and make sure to never talk to you again

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 60 points 9 months ago

this is called flexitarianism and is totally valid in terms of not wasting food and cohabitating in society. unfortunately some vegetarians would bully a person like you since ideological purity is more important than not wasting food to them

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

*Some vegans

I've never seen a vegetarian bully someone for not being purist enough. Vegans however do it constantly and even harass vegetarians

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[-] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 78 points 9 months ago

Pitbulls are not more genetically predisposed towards biting or mauling than other breeds and the supposed "statistical data" on the subject is based around a confluence of inaccurate metrics caused by 1) people not being very good at accurately identifying dog breeds, 2) existing groups that hate pitbulls pushing bad statistics for political purposes, and 3) a self-fulfilling prophecy of pitbulls having a bad reputation and actively being sought out by people who want vicious dogs and who will treat their dogs in such a way as to encourage that behavior. And I say all of this as someone who does not own a pitbull and probably never will.

[-] qooqie@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

So I think your 3rd point is highly likely, but I do disagree about the genetic predisposition. If it can’t be genetically influenced then goldens are not more friendly than others, and smart dogs (poodles, Australian shepherd, etc.) are not actually smarter; they all have the same genetic predisposition.

Having an aggressive breed is possible, but as I said earlier I think the 3rd point pushes up the numbers of maulings quite a bit. I’d add a 4th point of a lot of people being real shit dog owners and not knowing how to properly raise a dog to be socially capable without harming others.

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[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 78 points 9 months ago

Disruptive protest, no matter how annoying, is valid and should be protected under law. When the government moves to ban protest and dissent, they've crossed the line into authoritarianism.

The right to protest is a fundamental of democracy, and we should not accept any erosion of the fundamentals of democracy.

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[-] 520@kbin.social 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That pedos shouldn't be subject to extra-legal punishments. Think being lynched and shit. I also don't think they should be getting their own special cases in the law beyond those with a clear purpose of preventing reoffending.

Don't get me wrong, I think they are pure scum.

But things we allow on the basis of the accused being a pedo or terrorist have a habit of spilling over and affecting the general population. A lot of bad laws have made it onto books by blaming these two groups, for example.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 38 points 9 months ago

A lot of bad laws have made it onto books by blaming these two groups, for example.

You can't even classify or discuss pedophilia as a sexual disorder and not an intentional decision without sounding like a pedophile.

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[-] eightpix@lemmy.world 56 points 9 months ago

Lilo and Stitch is the best Disney movie.

Many, many spoilers below. But, seriously, this movie is 21 years old. Get over yourselves.

Check it: a young girl adopts an illegal alien (killing machine from deep space) and protects him from the U.S. (and galactic) government (Military-Industrial complexes), while keeping her incredibly depressed sister (slices both ways) from giving up completely as they keep their Indigenous Hawaiian family together in their co-opted homeland. One sister works a series of dead-end tourism jobs; the other has anger issues. The hate each other and love each other fiercely, though they are about 12 years apart in age.

Oh, yeah, and their parents are dead.

Meanwhile, the alien is a political refugee and freedom fighter fleeing from his own people who want him dead for —get this— existing. A lab-grown, indestructible terrorist, he seeks asylum on an island — but he can't swim.

He does learn to surf.

The only downside to this film is that Disney produced it. And Elvis.

"Ohana means family. Nobody gets left behind or forgotten."

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[-] UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone 52 points 9 months ago

Teachers should be paid 50% more. If you want good teachers to stay, you have to walk the walk, otherwise you'll get a perpetual cycle of overwhelmed grads being bossed around by rusted-on bottom teer heads.

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[-] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 49 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

TikTok and YouTube shorts are brain-rotting garbage, and if you use them regularly you need to stop now. Yes, even if you claim you only watch educational stuff.

Also giving a child under the age of 8 or 9 a personal internet-connected device should be seen on a similar level as neglect if not full-on abuse.

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[-] dotslashme@infosec.pub 47 points 9 months ago

Piracy equals culture preservation in an age of subscription services.

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[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago

You don't need to get married or have kids to have a happy and fulfilling life

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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
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[-] derf82@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago

If you actually want to do some about climate change, step 1 is to stop having kids.

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[-] Xavier@lemmy.ca 41 points 9 months ago

Copyright should have stayed the original initial 14 years with possible renewal to 28 years. But like in France back then, also include the original authors (last one alive, if several) lifespan. Hence, a copyright would last either the authors lifespans or 28 years, whichever is longer.

Moreover, the patent system is being abused and does not serve the original goal of "any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement there on not before known or used." It granted the applicant the "sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used" of his invention.. It needs major changes, including the requirement to have the "invention" be under examination by reputable third-party laboratories (such as Intertek, SGI, Underwriters Laboratories, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technischer Überwachungsverein, SGS - Société Générale de Surveillance, etc…) before being granted a patent. Nowadays, patents are given almost willy-nilly to anyone no matter how vague or obvious the supposed invention.

Nowadays, patents are being misused in Patent Ambush mechanisms and scenarios, meanwhile Patent Trolls and Hoarders whole existence is are to impede/obstruct legally and impose exorbitant levies/fees onto organization and companies actually innovating and developing useful art/process/devices. Even more incredible, there are Submarine Patents being hidden away to suddenly take hostage existing products and process of various companies by imposing extortionate royalties.

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[-] steven@infosec.pub 39 points 9 months ago

The vast majority of humans are actually nice, altruistic and not selfish if you treat them with respect. And hence anarchism would not resolve in everyone killing each other.

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[-] AmberPrince@kbin.social 37 points 9 months ago

Zelda BotW and TotK are not fun. The stamina system is pointless and the weapon durability is frustrating. On top of that, the world's are just sooo empty. There's really nothing in them. Oh look, an interesting ruin... it's another repetitive shrine. Oh, that geological formation is really unique aaannnddd it's another fucking korok seed. That's all you ever got for exploring. Shrines and korok seeds.

I did like slapping random shit onto my weapons in tears of the kingdom though. All in all to me the games are fine but not really Zelda games.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 37 points 9 months ago

The metric system should be redone in base 12, and RPN should be the norm for teaching arithmetic.

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[-] Skua@kbin.social 34 points 9 months ago

Force damage in D&D 5E is too poorly-defined to be a good part of the game and exists solely for when the designers don't want any characters or creatures to have access to resistance against the thing in question. Either we need an actual description of what happens to a thing that gets hit by it or it should be cut; the vast majority of the things that deal it could perfectly easily be magical bludgeoning / piercing / slashing. Spiritual weapon and Bigby's hand are particularly egregious

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[-] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 34 points 9 months ago

Not a single one of the Marvel movies are good. They just use dopaminergic techniques to teach brains to enjoy them.

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[-] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 34 points 9 months ago

Timezones are fucking stupid. Everyone should just use UTC or Zulu

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[-] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

a "civilization" that involves "money" is simply not civilized.

shut up, you're fucking wrong. it said so in the post.

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[-] Lordbaum@mander.xyz 33 points 9 months ago

All drugs should be legalized. Not quiet the whole World but a large portion.

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[-] Templa@beehaw.org 32 points 9 months ago

There's no such thing as unskilled labor. Labor is labor, specially if someone else has to do it even if you don't want to.

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[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 32 points 9 months ago

All DST and time zones should be removed and we should only have one global time. People in different locations would just get up at different times on the clock. Communication about times would get so much easier, communication about schedules would get so much easier. "The same time every week" would have an actual meaning all year around regardless of any notions about getting up later relative to local sunrise in the darker time of the year.

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[-] art@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

All streets should have a speed limit of 20 mph. All roads 35 mph. Highways 50 mph. Stroads should not exist.

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[-] Kushia@lemmy.ml 31 points 9 months ago

What we're currently calling AI isn't AI but just a language processing system that takes its best guess at a response from it's database of information they pilfered from the internet like a more sophisticated Google.

It can't really think for itself and it's answers can be completely wrong. There's nothing intelligent about it.

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