all money should be physical

currently only 1 of every 10 USD is physical and the rest are digital. I don’t know how that works so I don’t like it.

(hey you asked for unpopular opinions not good ones 😆)

I like that most of these have single-digit upvotes on a relatively high engagement thread. Y’all really brought your shittiest opinions :D

Lemmy tends to stigmatize usage if AI because of environmental impact.

I think using AI casually to shorten search for information (always double check it) or to create an image to be amused of or to use as reference to create my own art is perfectly acceptable.

Shit, each day I’m playing videogames, which burns much more electricity than a request to AI which translates to calculation of a function on several matrices. This is nowhere near calculating thousands of textured polygons 144 times a second.

I won’t pay for AI tho if it becomes payed or subscription-only. Fuck it.

Also I’m a programmer and I’ve never used AI to write code for me, and I think it’s terrible idea because it will make me too relaxed and dumb, leeching all the skill from me. Also it is useless for anything relatively complex as it will create more problems (bugs) than it solves, and it will be unable to fix them. Treat this as a side note and not an addition to my unpopular opinion about AI, because this part I think is popular.

Cars and trucks should be banned within cities entirely.

I like the thick “rib” of leafy greens.

Far Right extremists cannot be allowed to live

Epstein didn’t kill himself.

There is a conspiracy. The fact that he was taken off suicide watch, nobody was watching him, and he was given the tools to kill himself was 100% deliberate. That’s the conspiracy.

I think most conspiracies are stupid, people stepping over $20 to pick up a dime. There are background actions driving events that they ignore but instead people look for UFOs, assassinations, or “second shooters” like they’ve got it all figured out.

I posted an unpopular opinion there and people just downvoted it and got mad, lol.

Basically I said that complaining about a paywalled article in comments is annoying and contributes nothing, especially if it’s from an independent long form writer. If someone links to paid media and you don’t want to pay, the post isn’t for you. Just go away.

Some people said “nooo if you make a post and I can’t see the content without paying you’re being a meanie because I can’t participate”

Not every post is for everyone.

My unpopular opinion is that /c/unpopularopinion is fine the way it is.

Windows is a good OS for personal use.

No, they will get me killed.

One unpopular opinion which is safe for me to share is that we should all own less pets, and need to cultivate much more green space in our cities if we want to have them.

• If you’re American in the suburbs, this would mean people should not have lawns, but fill em with plants or crops.
• where i live this would mean more pocket parks and room for wildlife to thrive. Which requires some houses and disused buildings going, or more roads closed up for pedestrianised greenspace.

One reason i believe this is because cats, for instance, slaughter loads of little creatures. Just imagine - if half the households on a street has their own pet cat, all the mice in the area are getting killed. They’re actually so much better st getting mice than rats, too, so it barely has that benefit. Rats are huge.

Another reason is because dogs … they should be working, and they should have access to interesting greenspace. Sorry if you have a dog and can’t provide this, i just think it’s so fucked up that we have more dogs in the world than we can actually take care of in this way. Would you force a human to live most of its life indoors with nothing to do? Dogs need more company than many people afford them - i remember reading that people returned their dogs after lockdown because they wouldn’t be able to take care of them when working full time, etc cetera.

So I would only have a dog if I had a big garden for it or a huge park nearby. I would ideally have some sort of role sharing with neighbours or friends where we both take the dog on walks. And, best case scenario, I would only have a dog to perform a specific task e.g on a farm.

I don’t like Hawaiian pizza

Driving a motorcycle doesn’t make you special and you should have to follow the same rules that cars follow.

If I can’t do it in a car, you can’t do it on a motorcycle

I enjoy cleaning the gross hair and gunk out from the shower drain, especially after I’ve moved into a new place. I am easily grossed out, so I find it stomach turning, but it feels so cathartic. The grossness is a part of that, I think. And then you have the immediate satisfaction of things draining much better.

I recently spent a year crashing in a friend’s spare room, and I found myself weirdly satisfied that, being a household of 3, the shower drain would need cleaning much more often than when I lived alone. The fact that it’s a gross chore that’s rarely thought about until it starts getting quite bad means that I liked being able to handle this chore. Who else would be weird enough to enjoy the task, even as they’re trying not to puke?

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