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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Bernie would have won had he not been blatantly cheated in the 2016 DNC primary. We’d be in a MUCH different timeline had he won.

Edit: Corbyn was done dirty in the UK too.

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[–] tehcpengsiudai@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Americans really think they own the world sometimes, and truly underestimate the disdain the world has for them.

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[–] icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We should build an A.I. overlord so that it replaces our current leadership like politicians and the entire market bussines specially the top, so that it can exploit resources in a reneuable way that is already possible right now but you know... lobying and fucking oil companies, and redistribute them to the population in a just way incluiding but not limited to food (nice food not rations), housing, medical services, psichological support (but the real one not the human resources bullshit), entertainment and internet access, and eventually be able to make custom orders like custom furniture, video game capable aparatus, modifing your house, travel and even swimmimg pools and ice cream. Besides i think our survival hinges on us making something about our leadership since there is at least one major problem that we need fixed that our current leadership is not gonna solve i.e. golbal warming, since they rather sell their souls and their people to the oil companies, and replacing them (even with a coup) is just gonna put more corruptible people that are gonna get bought out by some other straigth up cartoonishly evil entity, or they themselves turning into it or being overtrown by it, and destroying the entity would require a massive effort and thats not happening without mass destruction and even if it is destroyed another one will rise up from the chaos caused by the anti corporate war. So the sollution would be a singularity level A.I.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

The kWh is a silly unit. Joule (J) is the one true unit of energy.

Also, common time units suck as much as inches, pounds, feet and whatever nonsense units you Americans still use. Just use seconds with the appropriate SI prefix instead.

Cubic meters and tonnes suck too. Just use kl and Mg instead.

[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Negative motivation is the real way to make changes.

It's great to have goals and positive things to look forward to when you reach those goals.

But to be consistent in doing the hard work to reach that goal it's better to scare the shit out of your self by asking

"what happens to me if I don't do the work?"

[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

the world is overpopulated and everyone who wants to have children should require a license to do so (and it should cost a lot - like, a mid-tier job's annual salary).

[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

"The poor should be prevented from breeding, amiright?" fucking hell who upvotes this shit

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[–] Today@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

We could reduce a lot of issues if you had to do a calculus problem to get an erection.

[–] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Swearing shouldn't ever be censored.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Meritocracy in the US is almost entirely a myth, outside of a few sports.

Free will as it's popularly understood doesn't actually exist.

Most shoes are bad for us and cause injuries over the course of our lives .

[–] smellythief@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The free will myth is especially damaging, as it steers people away from pragmatic solutions and towards blame and punitive policies.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Fully agree. Unfortunately we are a very small minority.

Free will is wholly incompatible with our modern understanding of physics but nobody will listen because they simply don’t like it.

[–] BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Lemmy will die out without monotization such as every 6th post being an ad.

I love it but feel like libre projects that have constant maintenance costs beyond developers' time need to find ways to become mostly self sustainable without relying on donations. I also dont mind less than 20% of the posts being ads.

[–] nudl@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All you need to run a lemmy instance is a bit of time, a computer and an internet connection though, same as running any forum. The costs of all those are rapidly decreasing over time and are well within "eh who cares i'll just pay it" ranges; a smaller instance can easily be run for less than 5-10 bucks a month on the cloud, or for the cost of electricity if you have an old PC lying around.

A lot of costs of keeping servers running is employing people to do it; if its not too much hassle to keep one maintained, people will keep servers online.

Source: I run datacenters and support various cloud apps

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, but it's not just 1 instance you have to worry about. For this to go well, dozens even hundreds of instances have to stay around. If we start losing large chunks of our history or some parts go down here and there it's not going to survive. This is my third account due to how many issues I was having posting weeks back with the different major instances being overloaded. Even then, most of the posts I'm interacting with are hosted there and from time to time there are errors.

Also Images are a huge burden.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

The worst maker mistake humanity has ever made was not killing every nazi after ww2.

I've gotten some nasty responses to that one lol

But I'm fucking right

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