Unpopular Opinion

I have family members with non-celiac but severe, genuinely medically dangerous gluten intolerance. People still sometimes give them a hard time because they don't have the one type of gluten intolerance that's, idk, most mainstream?

Meanwhile, all these alleged hordes of fakers everyone likes to complain about have revolutionized the availability of gluten free foods, so that my relatives can enjoy nearly as many restaurants and grocery store products as gluten tolerant consumers can.

If you have a relatively rare dietary requirement, I guess try convincing attention-seekers that they also have it, so that your safe food category can gain a larger market share, lol.

There seem to be some people on Lemmy who genuinely believe that they are an animal. They say they are an "unperson" or discuss conversing with "animals" who "happen to be born in human bodies". They see their struggle as on par with the struggle for trans people, and their right to be recognized as animals as a part of a broader societal struggle for queer acceptance.

Well, this is fucking stupid.

First of all, comparing "I'm a puppy uWu" to gender dysphoria trivializes what trans people go through. Furries are not struggling like trans people. They are simply mocking trans people (whether that mockery is intentional or not is besides the point).

Second of all, you're not a fucking animal bro ffs. Being an animal isn't a state of mind. It isn't a vibe. It isn't a social construct. It isn't something you're assigned at birth. It's about DNA. You have 50% of DNA from a human mom, and 50% of your DNA from a human dad, so you have 100% human DNA (granted maybe you have like 0.1% Neanderthal DNA but whatever). So you're a human. This shouldn't be a hard concept to grasp.

If you can speak a human language, and have the mental wherewithal required to use the internet, then you have a HUMAN MIND. And if you "just so happen to be born in a human body" then you have a HUMAN BODY. HUMAN MIND + HUMAN BODY = HUMAN. IT'S ALL HUMAN. YOU ARE HUMAN. Just because you have a bestiality fetish does not make you a fucking bobcat ffs

Title. Alt account cause obviously.

Been on lemmy for like 2 years, at first it was okay, possibly because I started on lemm.ee (RIP), possibly the influx of new users from reddit has changed things, who knows.

But now I keep seeing all the same things happen here that happened on reddit. People abusing rules that go unenforced, mods removing posts/banning users only when they take offense, users (and even mods) fighting each other over instances like rival gangs, communities propped up by single users, all of it.

The only actual differences I've found are that there's no ads, and some instances have a more gated sign-up process to deter bots/spammers. That's it.

There are some good faith users of course, but it seems the vast majority just want to be in a safe space echo chamber and talk shit about each other. It's like that meme from the office: corporate needs you to differentiate these images, and one is reddit and the other is reddit wearing a lemmy mask, they're the same image.

I'll admit I was rather ignorant growing up and the first time I had a conversation with someone and I pronounced Iran as "I ran" everyone roasted the shit outta me and shut me down, which like fair whatever. But my point is the pronunciation is secondary if you get the concept; that's kinda the point of language and accents in general. If we have to pronounce every country or place as its residents call it then we should roast and ignore every English speaker that says "Germany" instead of Deutschland.

Right now French and English are the official languages of Canada. There are the English parts (the majority of the country) and the French parts (the biggest being Quebec). But it seems to me that the French-speaking parts punch well above their weight culturally. Because their language insulates them from the strong US cultural influence, giving them space to develop their own unique cultural identity and not have to compete with US media. So it would be a big cultural upgrade if all of Canada spoke French. Plus the French language is cool. Wouldn’t it just be cooler if we all spoke French more?

Q: But how would that work?

A: Good question. Well French immersion is already really common (when English-speaking families sent their kids to French-speaking school). What we need to do is make all schools French immersion, and once we have a generation fluent in French we can begin the process of slowly purging the English language from any sort of government institution. Overtime people will be speaking French so much that it will seep into their private lives and they’ll just speak French at home.

Q: But wouldn’t a policy like this be massively unpopular and cause widespread backlash?

A: Absolutely it would that’s why it’s an unpopular opinion. But in an ideal world, we would do it. 🇨🇦🇫🇷

If anyone wanted to phase out English in favour of some indigenous languages I would be in favour if that too.

Edit for spelling

Another edit: why are you guys downvoting this for disagreeing, you're supposed to disagree thats the point of this sub

I saw a post get banned. Well I dont wanna be a taboo subject. The more we shut down conversations the more we are ostracized. We shouldnt be so dogmatic. A society where people are free to express unpopular opinions is the one we want to live in. Seriously folks.

More and more it seems like I'm seeing opinion columns being posted in the fediverse that are, to be fair, bad takes - but everyone seems to act like it's representative of the entire publication. Which misses the entire point of opinion columns - they're about providing different points of view, food for thought, if you will. Show you things outside of your bubble. The inevitable reality is that if you do that, you're going to have some bad takes. If you don't have some bad takes every once in a while, your opinion column is bad and you should feel bad.

Yeah, there are bad publications that try to distort reality. But you don't identify them by picking out bad takes from their opinion columns.

I mean you can create virtually infinite accounts in the Fediverse, but you could do the same with Reddit.

What is even the point of the Fediverse if it does not offer freedom from external influence.

To make it clear, I am against places with zero moderation. But you still need to be objective and understand how could you lightly moderate without influencing the legal allowed content.

It's so cringe how some people talk about Lemmy when people rant about Reddit power tripping mods and shitty algorithm.

More polarization and division comes from flame wars - burned out people lashing out at each other, encouraged by the algorithms and the social media platform design.

I want to curate my feed to mostly just contain serious people. Doesn't matter whether I agree with their views or not - it's all about how those views are expressed. So many people on social media are just thrilled to have a megaphone and the ability to make noise. I don't like noise.

For example, right now there are people who opened the thread just because I put "AI" in the title and they can't wait to share their views about AI in the comments as if it's meaningfully relevant to what I'm saying. They know what I mean, but you can't just miss an opportunity to score a few points dunking on AI, can you?

Whatever gene makes people want to shout these thought-terminating clichés, upvote others who do it, and find some sense of belonging from it is clearly missing from me. I'd rather just not even hear about it - it's extremely exhausting and has never achieved anything worthwhile.

It doesn't really matter whether most people like the smell of your farts or not - you're still poisoning the air.

It's the same kind of man who hates Twilight, Taylor Swift, BTS. They hate anything that women like and make it their personality even though no one ever asked for their opinion.

They're also the kind to be grown men into super heroes, we don't gaf about your supetheros even if it's ridiculous, let me enjoy Twilight alone damnit

A little maybe, but not much.

I've seen people say they left reddit to join Lemmy because of the toxic users. To each their own, but I personally think Lemmings aren't much better. Some people over here can't understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent. People are way too defensive about their opinions.

It is disappointing, but it's the better option.

Sure, planes can do a flying, but we see birds do the same thing and have sort of done it for centuries with catapults (although with much smaller durations and less comfortable landings).

But weather forecasts. Crazy. We take this for granted these days, because every phone has an app for it. But it's insane. We just know how the future is going to be like, down to specific degrees, whether it's going to rain or not etc.

Personal note: No drugs involved because in this country this will get me prison. But dude. Weather forecasts.

They done hurt every damn feeling I have. Whaddo I do with that?

If you wanna be snarky about others' faith and be some type of ugly, feel free. This probably isn't for you than

I'm just venting to lemmy friends I guess, but hoping someone understands. Why does god have to be such a cunt sometimes?

Hurt my feelings more than I'd like to admit

the only time that alimony should be allowed is if:

in a scenario like this: john and lisa got married. then they get a divorce. john was ordered to pay X dollar amount to lisa to split up the financial assets. but John didn't have the X dollar amount as a lump sum payment. then the alimony would be set up to allow john to pay over time until X amount was transferred. ( an example : it might be most of the money is tied up in a long term investment and it would be financially stupid to end the long term investment early.. so a payment plan might be set up so lisa gets some of the profits over a period of time) maybe even have it be the X dollar amount plus some interest because she has to wait for the cash. obviously lisa and john would have to agree to the pay over time scenario and if they can't agree with what to do then the judge would decide for them.

but no one should ever have to keep paying a person after they are divorced. (other then the above situation). it only creates an incentive for a person to get a divorce. get alimony and the move in with another partner but refuse to get married. now she is getting money from the ex spouse but is also getting benefit of living with someone else. it just encourages bad behaviour.

when the marriage ends that's it . it ends. what's yours before the marriage is yours . what's gained during the marriage is split. then what is gained after the marriage is yours. the other half shouldn't get access to what is yours after the marriage. it makes no sense.

i do not care if you were a stay at home spouse. (a man can be a stay at home spouse the same as a wife can be a stay at home spouse) . i do not care. you get a lump sum pay out of the assets at the end of the marriage. figure it out after that. go get a damn job. why is someone allowed to live off of another person after a marriage has ended?

to add to this: what a person entered the marriage with is what they should get by default.

ex: lisa had 250,000 is cash when she entered the marriage. john had 75,000 in cash when he entered the marriage. when the divorce happens the first thing that should happen is lisa should get 250,000 in cash and john should get 75,000 in cash. that is what they entered with. then the assets gained during the marriage is what should be split. if you split up the 250,000 and the 75,000 then you are going to a point before the marriage and that makes no sense. so what happens if they spent all the money gained during the marriage and then some of the money from before the marriage? (in other words they went negative from where they were before the marriage)

simple: what ever percent of the pre marriage net worth was spent then that is the percent that each party loses of the 250,000 and 75,000 . i would hope that your net worth went up while married. it shouldn't have gone down unless there was a serious health crisis / long time loss of work on both people / serious mismanagement of the finances. but they both lose an equal percent of their pre-marriage cash.

No one should be forced to go to work without pay for fear of repercussions. Shut it down until congress funds it.

Protesting with a sign and snarky message doesn't do much. Everyone agreeing to do one simple (non violent) thing would work much better. It has to be just one thing though. The "don't buy anything" day is ineffective and confusing.

"No kings" day should be more like "No Kings & uninstall Twitter/X" day. At rallies, people could give advice on how to delete their accounts on that platform.

Then at the next rally, it's cancel Amazon Prime.

Snarky signs still welcome of course.

America 🇺🇸 is going down the tubes, the older generations don’t seem to realize this. Every Baby Boomer I have come across still thinks America 🇺🇸 is #1 and is THE GREATEST country in the World. INSTEAD of fixing the problems in America 🇺🇸 like we should, we are run by a 2 party system without giving much thought to libertarians and independents.

The Boomers seem to not care that they’re raising prices and every time you explain that to them they just tell you “just get a job!” That would be like going to the middle of the Sahara desert 🏜️ and telling it to “rain.” Making $5.00 per hour back in the 70s is as equivalent to making $45.00 per hour today. The Boomers and Silent Generation promoted college at the top of their 🫁 lungs without telling young people what the best options are.

The young people don’t seem to care either, the millennials and Gen Z people seem to have the “I don’t care 🤷🏻” attitude. Young people are increasingly looking up to their YouTube celebrities and other celebrities, no form of alternative entertainment is brought forth because you have to know where to look 👀. Pop, Rap and Hiphop is blasted everywhere and not many people blast Metal 🤘🏻 and Rock 🎸 anymore, it’s sad and depressing.

To make things worse, private businesses and commercial business 🧑‍💼keep stomping on the First Amendment. Have you noticed that at work, your Freedom of Speech immediately goes out the door. Your boss has the right to tell you “you can’t say that” “that’s not acceptable” “if you say that one more time, you’re fired.” But yet if someone screams and yells at you at work or outside work it’s “free speech.” Such hypocrisy exists guys, it’s unreal how people get their free speech rights taken away but then it’s viewed as “free speech” for someone else.

My question 🙋‍♂️ is this: When are we gonna do something about this?

I had seen people paying for services to write research for them.

I had seen people translate research papers from foreign languages(Like Russian for example) to English to avoid doing any work.

And even much more methods were used in college.

The reality is people can't seem to understand how broken are education systems and how science had flows that are only now brought to light and studied.

While AI made fraud more accessible for sure and made the problems worse, it's only a sign of how much education were broken before it.

In my eyes, the last years put a bright spotlight on degrees worth that a lot of companies had started valuing them less and most probably the value of official degrees will keep falling down as the years pass by.

I’ve never understood why bathrooms or sports are segregated by gender. Makes absolutely no sense to me and I’ll go to my dying day believing it’s nonsense.

When I first looked up psyllium husk powder as a fiber supplement, people were complaining that it made the water thick and gross. That enticed me to buy it. And when the packaging said to drink immediately after mixing lest it thicken, I instead let it sit for a good 15 minutes until my glass of water had a smoothie-like consistency. Makes me love drinking water again and also sad that I can't have it with every glass of water or else I get stopped up.

Have been almost completly vegetarian for the last 4 and a half years and was pretty much a carnivore before that, so I feel this is as unbiased of an opinion as is possible.

The Beyond, Gardien, Impossible, etc fake chicken have more flavor, nearly indistinguishable texture, are just as juicy, and aren't greasy. At this point, I consider them better than regular chicken with the sole exception of fried chicken which was never my favorite but I can see the appeal of it.

I'll concede that the beef substitutes have a ways to go (I like them and they're not bad but they're not fooling anyone, either) but they're not the subject of this opinion.