I don't get what the big deal with "necroposting" is and why people are so bothered by it.
A helpful response is a helpful response. If something adds value, it should be posted. Simple as that.
When done correctly, how can people pleasing be manipulative? Even if you are lieing about you opinions or feelings, as long as you keep that up and do not make it others peoples problems, then surely that is not an issue. If you do make it someone elses problem then, by defintion, you are not a people pleaser. People pleasing, when done correctly, only benefits other people.
Nothing against them personally, I don't know them, but I just always for some reason find seeing them annoying, like their constant presence on a post/subreddit makes me tired of seeing them. They don't even have to have the flair actually, I just don't like seeing repeated commenters on multiple posts of a subreddit in general, not their fault though
(Should of named this to "I hate seeing top one commenters and posters" but I edited this in before anyone could comment, so any of the first few people seeing this post should of already read this)
I’ve been seeing a lot of strawman arguments online aimed at anyone who questions or disagrees with the decision to have Bad Bunny perform at the halftime show. The typical response is, “Oh, you’re just upset because his songs are in Spanish and you don’t understand them,” or, “If you don’t like it, you must be a racist.” That’s… not it. For a lot of people, the Super Bowl is pure escapism a break from politics, not a stage for activism. Bad Bunny has been outspoken about issues like U.S. immigration policy. While he’s exercising his right to do so, that’s exactly what some fans don’t want when they tune into sports. Some just want to be entertaining and not be shoved with political messaging.
I saw this short, and its the last straw. I don't like AI or the effect it'll have on artists, but someone needs to call out these reactions for what they are: immature & dishonest. AI has nothing in common with animal abuse, and that comparison is fucking disgusting
Many artists say that art from a human is inherently more valuable than AI, which is more than objectively untrue, its a lie on their part. Human artists give us everything from Baby Geniuses to Jack & Jill. Meanwhile, Amazon has a major problem right now with fake-authors making bank by selling AI generated books. Do I want artists to get replaced? Of course not, but we aren't gonna avoid that possibility by lying to ourselves about it
The most widespread fallacy surrounding this topic is that art can't be seperated from artists. The low-hanging fruit is that Dan Schnider is one of the worst people on the planet, but I still adore Drake & Josh, because art is more than just the human who made it
The high-hanging fruit is post-modernism. Literally anything can be art, even a basketball. What makes it art is what you can derive, not what the artist put into it. If you believe that art is subjective, then its hypocritical to say that art cannot exist without a human artist
Again, don't shoot the messenger, I hate this as much as you do. But we need to take a step back, and make arguments that appeal to reality, rather than arguments that appeal to a fantasy. When you see a great drawing, you will enjoy it, until you learn that its AI. Then you'll retroactively decide that it's bad: and until you can acknowledge the bias involved, you're doing nothing to stop AI, you're only plugging your ears
When I first heard that the government reserves the right to force you into military service whether you like it or not, my initial thoughts were “How dare they!”, “Who the fuck do they think they are?” and “I’d make them regret it the moment they put a gun in my hand.”
And when I learned about the anti-draft movement during the Vietnam war, it ignited a reverant passion in me. The men who burned their draft cards quickly became my heroes.
The way I saw it, by burning their draft cards they were setting fire to the very concept of conscription as a whole. So it’s incredibly dissapointing to see that some people only support the draft dodgers in the Vietnam war not because they oppose the draft but because they oppose the Vietnam war, and that they still support the idea of the draft being implemented under different circumstances, such as in a defensive war, but that’s just stupid. It makes no difference whether you die in a defensive war or in an offensive war, you’re still dead and gone all the same.
And even with the issue of potentially dying aside, as a matter of princible the state should not have that much control over you. That level of authority should not exist. If the state needs citizens to join the military to fight a war, they shouldn’t be able to do anything more than say “pretty pretty please”.
I’ve heard all the arguments in favour of conscription and they all fall flat because they’re all based on the false axiom that your life belongs to your country. And to be clear, it does not.
Nobody owes their country a goddamn thing. I don’t owe my country a goddamn thing. You don’t owe your country a goddamn thing. The state and people who teach civics classes will tell you otherwise, but they’re full of shit and deserve a good smack.
Some fucking idiots will claim that conscription is the price you pay in exchange for the rights and freedoms the government provides you, which is just flat out untrue. Rights and freedom aren’t a favour from the state, you’re naturally entitled to them just like you’re naturally entitled to breathe in the oxygen around you.
People will say that conscription falls under the same social contract between citizen and state as taxation, but that’s also based on a false premise. You don’t pay taxes because it’s your duty as a citizen. You pay taxes becauss the state holds the threat of criminal prosecution and incarceration over your head for not paying them. It’s easier to just pay the damn taxes to get the state to crawl out lf your ass and fuck off, but they don’t have that same kind of leverage when it comes to conscription because prison is preferable to war. Hell, it’s preferable to boot camp, at least you get to keep your dignity in prison.
Draft defenders will also point to existing wars as a precedent to justify conscription, either WW2 or the current war in Ukraine. Don’t get me fucking started on Ukraine. If anything, Ukraine just proved that even in the event of a hostile army invading a country, enforcing a draft is still cruel and unjustified.
I’ve always been against conscription, but the war in Ukraine is what made me go all in on being super hardcore against conscription at all costs. Specifically the Ukrainian government banning all male citizens between the age of 18 to 60 from leaving the country. It’s so unbelievably unfair that a person’s gender can be what determines whether you or not your live is worth protecting. It literally makes me sick to my stomach when I think of how unfair it is that males are trapped in the country while women get to have fun and party everywhere else in the world.
Whenever I stop to think about just how unfair it is that mobilization situation in Ukraine is gender-specific, it makes my head hurt. It makes my stomach feel like stone. Women aren’t any less fit to fight than men are, wars aren’t won by proportional upper body strength, a woman can hold a gun and pull a trigger just as well as any man. Men don’t have some special superpower that makes them better at combat than women. And men’s lives matter just as much as the lives of women and children. If sending women and children off to war sounds unthinkable, it shouldn’t be any less so for men. Men are not expendable.
I can’t even begin to imagine what it must have felt like for Ukrainian men on the first day of the invasion who fled to the border with their families only to be told that they have to stay behind while their sisters and mothers had free reign to escape. Can you imagine the way their stomachs must have sank, or the chill the ran up their spines when the travel ban was announced. If your own country would make you feel like that, then your own country is just as much of an enemy as the invading country. And don’t tell me it was those men’s duty to stay behind and fight, because men and women are supposed to be equal, so if women don’t have that duty than neither do men.
As for WW2, it’s easy to point to that war as a justification now that it’s faded into history. The narrative around WW2 is also tainted by survivorship bias, because we only hear the stories of those who made it out alive. When we think of WW2 and of everyone who died in it, we aren’t putting themselves in their shoes. Being in a situation like D-Day would be absolutely horrifying and not at all the type of situation anyone should be forced into against their will. It’s easy to swallow when it’s half a century old history that’s long over with, but would you really want to be in one of those barges being sent directly into an open killing field like Normandy beach? I sure as fuck wouldn’t.
80 years after the fact it’s easy to look back at WW2 as a noble cause or a “job well done”, but put yourself in the shoes of a military age male during that time. You wouldn’t know if you’re going to survive to see the end of the war, let alone if you’re even going to win it at all. Wanting to avoid getting involved at all costs was a perfectly valid endeavor.
When people point to the bloodiest and most costly war in all of human history as an example of how conscription can be justified, it’s really not the home run they think it is.
In my childhood, my parents only bought margarine thinking "it's basically the same as butter, just cheaper". Then I visited a friend's house where they had real butter, and oh boy did it taste great. I couldn't believe what I missed out on all the time.
If you try butter after just having eaten margarine for a long time, it feels like an explosion of taste. You never want to go back to margarine. Margarine only feels like a low-value "wannabe butter".
Of course, butter costs far more than margarine, but the value reveals itself in the taste.
Was it always meant to be a far right political subreddit or did the moderators just allow their members to turn it into what it is?
You could also use it for anything rather than just being amazon in house stuff. If you wanted to be nice to a stranger on reddit you could just send them a code and then they could redeem it. Everything about the new amazon cards sucks and nothing improved.
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Everyone I've ever slept in a room with, needs the fan on and the AC in the 60s or 70s. If I lived alone, it would be at 85⁰+ (29⁰C). It's comfortable and I don't wake up shivering.
Edit: I'd also like to add, I also don't sleep with a pillow. That doesn't have anything to do with the heat, I just wanted to add it to make you guys more upset. :)
The cgi in spy kids was awesome for it’s time and every movie was original but made sense all together. I think it might just be because I was a kid when these movies released but kid movies from the early 2000s were just better. Big fat lair, teenage drama queen, smart home, etc
I mean, unless you’re part of the 1%
Even have the upper middle class lives. Today is not as quality as it was just 20 years ago.
We would be much better off, splitting up resources differently. The fact that a resource can just make a resource makes absolutely no sense.
That’s why we have so many problems in people living off the system that don’t actually work
We need to start looking at food as a resource again
One of the most popular financial advice is to buy groceries and make your own food at home rather than eating out.
Yet every time this advice is brought up the comments are always flooded with people who claim that buying your own food and cooking it yourself is just as expensive if not more than eating at a restaurant. This is simply not true. If you do the math you will find that buying a proper quantity of reasonably priced groceries will always be cheaper in the long run than eating the same thing at a restaurant.
I also hear the excuse that the food isn't as good as when you cook it at home and while that is valid if you're serious about saving money then you have to make sacrifices and if that means eating rice and scrambled eggs then so be it.
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This is especially true in terms of people complaining about dating. I've compiled some of the """""Unpopular Opinions"""" we've had recently
Physical Attractiveness is the most important factor in getting dates
Who is this news to?? This should be news to absolutely no one??? That's reason it's called attraction. You are attracting potential partners.
Science should not be treated like a religion
Dang. Really getting spicy with that one.
Autism is a severe handicap for male dating in particular
How could anyone read this and be like "wELl aCtUaLlY i dIsAgReE"
Dating is harder as a man.
If I had to decide whether this was a popular or unpopular opinion it's going into the popular bin.
The healthy at any size is medical misinformation
Again this is just common medical knowledge. Most people understand this.
If you block the street and prevent regular working people from getting to work on time in order to protest "climate change", you are a piece of garbage.
Shocker.
It's not victim blaming to say that it's not a good idea to walk alone outside late at night
running about of witty commentary to give here.
The Large Majority of Upvoted Opinions here aren't Unpopular, they are just Conservative
W-wait, I didn't see th- What do you mean it's the top post of the week?!
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I cannot stress this enough, if you ever watch a cartoon as an adult, you will literally get a rush of joy, like even more powerful than watching it as a child, because as a child, you were constantly exposed to cartoons, which makes them boring, but since as an adult, you have less time for cartoons, watching them is so satisfyingly fun. So, please go watch at least some cartoons once in a week.
I work at a coffee shop and customer was allergic to the main ingredient in all teas but still wanted a damn tea, held up the line for 15 minutes to find a decent substitute.
If your severely allergic to something and don’t want to have an accidental allergic reaction why the hell would you go to a restaurant where cross contamination happens on a daily basis, putting a risk to your own health.
Instead of just being able to read your message, I have to find a quiet, private place for me to listen to the message. It’s annoying. I understand being too lazy to type, but instead, use speech to text so you can still speak but I can read it like a normal text message.
Too many movies, tv shows and books not in the romance genre force a romance into everything they can but if you removed these relationships from the movie, show or book it would have minimal change to the plot and will make them more enjoyable to watch as we wouldn't have to watch the characters force an unnecessary romantic relationship that has no place besides forcing the narative that to be happy you have to have a romantic relationship
Relationships that have sex before marriage can be very toxic and end in crappy ways. If you marry your partner because they were good in bed you didn't marry them for love. If you get to know your partner for who they are without needing to see them in bed your marriage is built on a much more solid foundation
Maybe a popular opinion, i’m not sure, but I can hardly drive at night anymore and enjoy it. Almost every car coming the other way has incredibly blinding lights, to the point where I have to squint. Can hardly see where i’m going. When someone is behind you my whole interior is a christmas tree and all three of my mirrors are blinding me, each bump in the road causes their headlights to have this flashing effect that I can’t stand. Can only imagine they’re just gonna keep getting brighter..
edit: just figured I’d add that I can’t even take work breaks in my car because people sit in the parking lot with their blinders on. As I’m typing I have a bright ass cadillac beaming right at me, one look and my vision is all halo-y. Shit should not be that bright.
in the coming days a system which uses automoderator to enforce compliance with civility will be implemented
Details will follow
it's a popular opinion. you don't have to believe opinions listing is fine
…with a few obvious exceptions such as libellous pages. If Wikipedia's mission is collecting the world's knowledge and history, they should keep everything. The deletion practices were made in the early 2000s, a time where Wikipedia barely had enough funding to survive. Now, Wikipedia's host organization is swimming scuba-diving in money, so there is no economic burden to keeping all articles.
Not only does keeping all articles make Wikipedia more useful to everyone, but also encourages more authors to contribute, since they don't have the uncertainty whether their article will be kept.
Since keeping all articles makes Wikipedia more useful to readers, it increases donations that offset any cost that would come from it.
If the Wayback Machine can retain half a trillion pages, Wikipedia sure as hell could be able to do 1% of that.
A quote from a long-term administrator:
Deleting an article that other people have worked on is objectively worse than keeping it and letting people find out about the topic. No-one’s even asking for it to be promoted or featured or anything. By all means slap a notice on it telling readers that it’s “sourced entirely to blogs and fandom wikis”. I have never heard any good reason from anyone why any good-faith contribution to Wikipedia (that isn’t vandalism, libel, or just garbage) needs to be deleted. All that serves to do is give a massive middle finger to anyone trying to give something to the world, and produces an inferior encyclopedia with less coverage. — Timwi (talk)
Originally posted to , but just like many subreddits, their filter is bogus garbage.
