Ah, the natural fate of unpopular opinion communities.

The Þ dude is alright and Lemmy users have an irrational hatred for slightly-special characters. I wonder how many people are using automation to downvote every comment of his that contains a Þ, it's way too consistent accross instances and communities to be entirely organic.

Whatever just say what you think and eat a couple downvotes every once in a while.

I feel like deep down we all know this:

The Devil’s fiddle solo in “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” was actually better than Johnny’s.

Edit: thanks to these responses I’m gaining a whole new appreciation for the musical and spiritual symbolism in this song.

There's a sweet spot. Unpopular opinions that get upvoted need to be trivial enough to not make anybody uncomfortable or angry.

Something like "Toilet paper orientation doesn't matter" is far more likely to be upvoted by somebody who disagrees with it than "Everything bad that happens to your children is your fault because you knew it was a possibility and had them anyway".

Human euthanasia should be legalized and normalized, both medically assisted suicide and euthanasia when the person is suffering but unable to make decisions for themselves. If it's an act of mercy to euthanize a pet who is suffering, then we should be able to have the same compassion for our fellow humans.

Are you ready for a super unpopular opinion? No holds barred? You asked for it:

Dogs suck. I don't like them. Glad if you do, please enjoy. But they slobber, shed, smell and are generally mostly a nuisence. They can be fun for brief periods, but they're way more work and hassle than they're worth. My brother is thinking of getting a big dog and I hope he doesn't because it would make me reluctant to spend a weekend at his place. I can't believe the number of people who seriously admit to loving their dogs more than their kids. I can't believe people consider themselves their pet's "parent". I can't believe how forcefully the online community backlashes to the idea of kids or judgemental of "ill-mannered" and neurodiverse kids, yet will happily say "it is never a dog's" fault, no matter how "bad" the dog is.

Cats can sometimes be ok, if they're not noisy and don't shed too much. But generally having animals in the house isn't great at all.

Thank you for your attention. Future Lemmings will look back at my comment history from unrelated threads and judge me for this, even though I've posted in the context of the current thread.

Pineapple on pizza is not only valid but slams.

Fight me.

Creating ANY kind of smoke should be banned in public. By public I don't mean just bus stops and trains and shit. Literally anywhere but maybe your house. And smoking indoors is even more disgusting. Smoking in your garden? Is there anyone living within ~20 feet? Forbidden. Smoke machines on concerts may have an exemption.

I also fucking had enough of people making fires every fucking time the weather gets too hot for me to keep my windows closed. Then my bedroom smells like the great fire of London and good luck having a good night's sleep like that.

How real are we getting?

Tobacco use is a character flaw.

Professional Wrestling is stupid but the wrestlers are Oscar level performers. When the stunt category at the Academy Awards matures, watch pro wrestlers repeatedly win.

The Fediverse doesn't need to become wildly popular with billions of users, and if it ever does, that will probably end up ruining it somehow.

All energy drinks including Monster taste awful.

Religion is for people who would rather be told what to do than figure life out themselves.

Pedofiles, those that think and do not act, deserve more compassion by society. They can’t help the way they feel. Acting on it is obviously extremely harmful but they can’t even talk about it, even to therapists, for fear of persecution. The current methods of suppression are harmful and akin to conversion therapy for lgbt folks. We need to allow them to have a voice and access to non harmful animated CP with all consenting adult voice actors or AI. In out current society they are akin to trans people in the 1950s

Veganism is a morally correct choice despite it not being perfect but many online vegans are insufferable

Most people here don't know shit about China

America deserves Donald Trump

My unpopular opinion is that French food is pretty mid.

unpopular opinion: AI can be extremely useful for programming and productivity if you use it in moderation

I know every generation says it about the next but gen Z is just fucking weak. Some great people and an admittedly, dealt a shitty hand.

But.

I'm going back to school as an elder millennial and my God, some of the craziness I've heard. A buddy teaches a film theory course a lot of kids use to satisfy early arts requirements at universities and he quickly realized if he didn't show the movie in class, 2/3 of the class wouldn't watch it despite being available through the school website. So, essentially, these kids (or their parents) are paying hundreds of dollars to watch movies instead of engaging.

The degree for which I'm going back recommends only 4 courses a tern with no work.I knew engineers who rocked 6 or 7, worked and were party animals.

Every advisor with whom I've spoke has basically said "look, if you're going to treat it as an adult with adult work habits, you can handle 5 courses without trouble." But they have all these disclaimers because kids and their parents go nuts when Johnny, who was just streaming hockey highlights all class somehow didn't get a good grade.

Mayonnaise is an abomination

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

Here's an unpopular opinion for people to upvote because we're supposed to upvote the opinion we think is unpopular:

Linux sucks more than the users want to admit and it's fans are the worst.

If you have to learn to program stuff to fix something in your OS, then it's not a good OS. This isn't the case for most modern Linux, but there's many examples of just having to learn all sorts of crap just to make it functional. With the other two mainstream OS they are plug and play. Lately they have done shitty choices with AI and everything so that's not as much of the case, but at least there you don't have to go in and fix the code to make something functional.

If Linux was that great, you wouldn't have to do any of that. I find it's a weird parallel to owning a crown vic, where you have to pile sandbags in the back so it'll drive in literally any snow, and then when you talk about it people say it's a skill issue because they are hardcore fans of a dumb cop car. If you have to do something special to make something functional, that's not a feature, that's a bug.

And then, ye gods, the Linux fans. I know of someone who was berated for almost an hour over not using Linux. The person getting yelled at was like, 7. They are the smug Internet atheists of the tech world. They won't shut up about Linux. Their solution to anyone looking up how to fix something with their computer is to uninstall everything and switch to Linux, even if it's unrelated. If someone has a criticism for Linux they have a meltdown. They feel smug and superior in their choice of OS, euphoric and enlightened with their own intelligence.

That being said I'm probably going to switch to Linux anyway. Because fuck the changes windows made.

Anime is 95% shit and is only popular because it's from Japan.

your tattoos "telling a story" is like a mandatory meeting that should have been an email about something I'm not involved with, and in fact, couldn't care less about. You think enduring pain makes you seem tough, but it just makes you seem like someone who makes poor fiscal decisions in this shitty economy. And, (as an aside) ink was supposed to make you stand out because it was supposed to be a rare thing than not many people did. Now not many people have no ink at all so, if you were looking to be "unique..." (I mean, just sayin.')

The fediverse and lemmy in particular is a series of echo chambers.

lemmy.world in particular has a very homogeneous user base.

The "unpopular" part of this opinion is that on a variety of topics, any opinions which do not conform are heavily downvoted.

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

People should be allowed to have and grow all the plants on this planet. All drugs should be allowed without prescription. Prescription should be suggestion not permission.

i cant believe theres people that tell autists to just "drop their mask". sure i understand it's tiring to keep it on, but as nice as dropping it sounds, i don't wanna die alone thank you very much.

You want unpopular? I'll give you unpopular. No-kill animal shelters are ultimately more harmful to animals than kill shelters.

Instead of euthanizing one violent or chronically ill or old or otherwise unadoptable animal, you spend your limited space and resources keeping it alive while you turn away a dozen perfectly healthy and well-behaved animals who could have been adopted but were instead let loose on the street or were euthanized elsewhere.

Even euthanizing otherwise adoptable animals is a net positive, because there are more companion animals in need of homes than there are homes willing and able to take them in.

As long as it's legal to make your animals make more animals, culling their populations will remain an ecological necessity. Which brings me to unpopular opinion #2: it should be straight up flat out illegal to own a pet that isn't spayed or neutered, no exceptions. I don't care if you think your munchkin cat's fucked up tiny legs are cute. The state should be able to seize your animals and have them fixed with or without your consent.