Unpopular Opinion

You are all overcomplicating coffee. All those machines and whatnot.

People need to start asking clear consents before doing any sexual stuff.

Like before touching someone who is at the legal age, they should be asked clearly like "do you consent for being touched there" and it should be comfy and gult free, if the answer is no, then it should be accepted respectfully.

If someone claims they're driven by a moral principle, then you check they're consistent about the principle.

It seems to be a common paradox in society:

• Everyone wants people to be honest, yet they themselves can be dishonest.
• Everyone wants others to be kind, but few are willing to take the initiative to be kind themselves.
• People desire to live in a utopia, but many are reluctant to contribute to its creation.

We often demand virtues from others that we're not ready to uphold ourselves. Is it logical to ask for honesty, kindness, and a perfect world when we're not willing to be the change we want to see?

I hate youtube channels where the owner read some story or article while showing his face which does not add any value to the video.

A good example about what I am talking about here:

I remember a YouTube channel with the name of Lazy Masquerade, it was about crime stories, long time ago he wanted to stop adding crime photos to the video and just record himself reading. At that moment I stopped following and watching his videos as it was bad.

I just don't like when YouTube channels do this.

For years, YouTube has been the most profitable platform for content creators and attracted hundreds of thousands of people[1] who think nothing but about money. They don't create to express themselves, they produce content.

The simplest of the questions easily becomes a 10-minute video explanation to optimise the ads you put into the video as well as keep the attention of the viewers.

What could be a cute thumbnail to help a potential viewer understand what the video is going to be about, becomes a shitty thumbnail with cliche tricks like a person with a weird expression and a big red arrow somewhere.

The biggest channels[2] are so driven by profit they make whole videos around sponsor integrations, not the other way around.

Compare that to Twitter or Instagram, or any other major platform, where there's less financial incentive and little to no room for clickbait maneuvers. It's mostly YouTube videos that I feel most disappointed with after clicking on them.

There are so few people who actually use the platform to express themselves in a way they like, without giving the slightest damn how to please or trick the almighty algorithm.

The brain rot of video creation is so real now that you see the same YouTube tricks even when people post to other platforms, for example, PeerTube instances or Odyssey. They feel like cheap YouTube because thanks to the latter platform everybody[3] forgot how to make meaningful videos.

1, 2 and 3 - there are exceptions, of course, but the ratio is insane.

Each time you attempt to upload a photo, the outcome is determined by the roll of a die: if you roll a 6, the photo uploads successfully; for any other number, the upload fails.

Decentralized control and planning is better than any alternative.

Both pedals being on the same side are a relic from when

1. We needed a third pedal for the clutch
2. Pedals were directly mechanically connected to their functions so there was a danger of pressing both at the same time

Neither of these are true anymore. Modern cars are automatic and can and do just disengage the accelerator if the brake is pressed.

With electric cars they're doubly untrue. There is not mechanical connection to speak off, and many drive use only a singular pedal most of the time.

On the flip side there are quite a few benefits to to having them on opposite sides:

1. There are an estimated 16,000 crashes/year in the US alone due to pedal error. This would decrease if they weren't y'know, right next to each other
2. Especially in stop and go driving, this would significantly reduce ankle/leg fatigue as it would be spread out over both legs
3. Reaction times would be improved as you can push the brake directly, you no longer have to move your leg over from the accelerator.

I love grammar Nazis

If I make a grammar or spelling mistake, I’d love to be corrected.

Obviously, Nazing typos (a apple, the the beach, etc.) or intentionally made errors (starting a sentence with a lowercase, saying “id” instead of “I’d”, etc.) is annoying and stupid, but when I make mistakes like “breath in”, “immigrate from”, “alot”, “this will effect the economy”, and “I’ll tell mom”, I’d love to be corrected.

PS: it’s cactuses.

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I'll give an example of a low-level job where this happens. Pizza delivery.

You're hired for Pizza Delivery, but the business refuses to just pay you to only deliver pizzas, so technically you're also "on-call" to do every side job the the pizza place any time you're not out delivering orders. So you can just return from an order and be told to go to the back to prep X, Y, and Z, but you need to be listening for the bell in case you need to run up front and deliver a pizza. If you're walking past the front and a customer comes in and everyone else is busy? Drop what you're doing and take their order.

Every instance is always a "drop what you're doing and shift to a different task" and it goes on all day every day.

It literally teaches people to be distracted and unable to focus, because you're literally not allowed to fucking focus. Say you're finding your Zen place in doing dishes, you don't even get to finish the fucking dishes, because you're called back out to do more stuff in the front of the house. Later, you have to stay late to finish the dishes because it was too busy to ever get a chance to do them. Because fuck having someone who is just a dishwasher or just a pizza delivery person. We can't be paying people to sit around, tHaT's InEfFiCiEnT!

Actually, what's wholly inefficient is having people run around all day like chickens with their heads cut off to keep up when you could just accept that once in a while you're going to pay someone for doing nothing for a little while.

Studies always turn to blaming this inattention on social media, but literally our workplaces drive into our skulls that we're not allowed to focus on any one thing for an extended period of time and we should always be at the ready to shift gears into something entirely different, and come back later finish what we were working on. It's fucking absurd, and I think workplaces have a far more damaging psychological impact from it than fucking social media.

I don't have a problem with protecting children from sexual assault; but I see this rule on subreddits that if you post child porn, they'll ban and call authorities on you.

However, this system could be abused; an account could be falsely claimed of promoting sexual assault, then be falsely arrested.

I consider it more costly to punish falsely accused people; than to correctly punish criminals. (Relative, they both suck and the latter should usually and carefully be pursued.)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/245906

it is impossible for a platform to support every program ever; wine will never be able to run all games; it is just impossible to do so.

It's like not using a game console just because it doesn't support games from other consoles; it's impossible to support every platform ever (and it would be difficult to convince the company to even do so).

Same issue is in Windows 10 too; old games designed for an older windows OS cannot run because they could not account for modern OSes.

The history of the United States seem eerily similar to traits of fascism.

• White supremacy born with the US.
• There are concentration camps for immigrants in the US; Nazi Germany also had concentration camps for different races.
• The US seems ultranationalist (patriotism is worshipped here); fascism is defined by right-wing "authoritarian" ultranationalism.
• The US is a psuedodemocracy under control of the oligarchy. Fascism is defined by dictatorships.
• US Government spends a large portion of money on the military, to the point that the US military has to restrict the money they receive.
• Political opposition is brutally suppressed by US police forces.
• Minority groups, like dark-skinned, disabled, and queer people, bear discrimination and ableism.
• EDIT: The US did not attack Nazi Germany, at all. (The Soviet Union had defeated Nazi Germany.) Yet the US tried to plagarise the Soviet's victory.

The environment seems ripe for fascism; the US may even be fascist now. (I'm just predicting though.)

So anyway, I'm in multiple minority groups, and now I want to escape this shitty country before it becomes fascist. How do I do that though?

I agree.

TOML is a good file format for the goals it was designed to accomplish.

TOML aims to be a minimal configuration file format that's easy to read due to obvious semantics.

I believe it fulfills this goal pretty well; but it gets so much criticism for goals that it isn't designed to accomplish, or goals that are impossible to fulfill (e.g "not being simple enough").

I like the datetime type; they allow developers to use a datetime system without having to maintain their own datetime library.

Compulsory education is not a good tool for education; some people do not need schooling and can learn enough topics, with just their parents and experience, to survive.

• Compulsory schooling forces a person to be near other people; some people are bullies or abusers. The victim should not be near these people; yet the victim is forced to be near them because current compulsory schooling systems demand that everyone goes to school.

• Also, some people can already learn well on their own; children can be taught critical thinking so that they can learn on their own. Unfortunately, compulsory education systems suck at this goal and end up screwing up the critical thinking skills.

• The school curriculum of some countries are really bad.

• Some people can bypass compulsory education through corrupt means; this results in a disproportional distribution of power.

In history, parents have been educators for their children during our primal times; why do parents have to force their children to go to a building for education? The parents already do the education themselves.

I don't like being near people; I didn't like being near other kids as a kid.

Schools did not work well for my Autism and ADHD; I didn't like the screaming and yelling. I didn't like waiting 8 hours to survive. I was always tired when I got home.

GPG files are easier managed than dedicated password managers.

A while back I decided to fact check the claim that porn is dangerous; because I felt like it.

What I found is that most of studies that "support" this claim are pretty bad.

• The samples are biased towards a normative result.
• Sample size is too small.
• The study takes a biased stance (usually stating an arbitrary result).

Wikipedia mentions this issue.

Further more I never received permanent harm from porn; in fact I didn't even receive harm at all.

In my experience, all of my "addiction" issues with porn are just ADHD behaviors that would have applied to other entertainment anyway.

I emphasized that porn is not dangerous to the viewer; porn can be harmful to the actors if safety is not properly maintained; but this statement can be said for every type of entertainment that is not complete animation.