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[–] 37 points 5 days ago (1 child)

Pineapple on pizza.

I think people should just eat what they enjoy.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    For me personally, I don't like it. However, I do still have a strong opinion on it. I think it's a fantastic flavor combination! It's a nice combination of salty, sweet, and savory. If a professional chef were making a pizza, and they had never heard of one before, something like the Hawaiian pizza is what I'd expect them to make. I don't really like pineapple though, so it's not for me.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Other people's lives. I don't get why how other people live bother people. If they like the same sex, go for it. If they like to dress up as a goat on the weekend? Ok, cool. It's your life, do what you want with it.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I mean, yes, but I'd add the qualifier "so long as it doesn't impact others". If you want to dump your trash in a communal area, it's imo a bit too easy to say that it's a free country and who am I to tell you not to do that. Maybe this sounds too obvious to spell out (to me it would have until recently) but I recently met two persons in unrelated places who really felt that nobody should tell them what to do because they didn't tell anyone else what to do either. As if we don't all share resources on this planet

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  • [–] 18 points 5 days ago

    People putting pineapple on their pizza.

    Whatever man. Some people like opera music. Some people like golden showers. And some people like putting pineapple on their pizza. Can't we all just get along?

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  • [–] 13 points 5 days ago* (3 children)

    Favorite color, book, movie, etc.

    I arbitrarily decided green is my favorite color just so I could answer icebreakers without looking like a personality-less weirdo. But really, I don't care and don't really understand having a "favorite".

    Books, movies, other medias, I understand a bit more but still don't have any of my own. I rarely re-read or re-watch anything. And the things I do re-watch (mostly Halloween or Christmas season stuff) aren't my favorite overall, just for the applicable season. I can't recall the last book I re-read.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 days ago

    Literally any topic on which I have little to no knowledge. I can't have an opinion on a topic I barely know exists.

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  • [–] 24 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    i genuinely dont care about gender at all. I'll fight tooth and nail for my trans brothers and sisters but in a perfect world I'd never think about it even a little

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I'm the same. I have to be careful how I phrase things because it can sound transphobic if like someone asks you what you are and you just say "Well I have x genitals so just go with that I guess?" because you just don't care. Like call me whatever you want. want me to wear a certain type of clothing because of some social convention? Sure idc. I'll wear a dress, or a suit. Don't care. I just don't want to pay for them. I 100% support anyone doing anything they want with their gender. Let me know what you want to be called, and remind me if I slip up because I don't even remember peoples names most of the time, but I'll say what you want me to say. But for me personally? You can call me anything you want. He, Her, They, It, Dumbass, Tankie, .ml, shut the fuck up, etc It don't bother me one bit.

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  • [–] 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Sports? I think it's a tribalistic waste of time and money, but people are allowed to like what they like.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    People's taste in food. Like pinapple on 0zza? Cool, like ketchup on porkchops? Ok. Don't like spicey foods? All good.

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  • Pineapple on pizza. I don't care. I don't order it, but will eat it and not complain if served it.

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    [–] 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    Music fidelity, as long as I can hear it, idgaf about the quality of the speakers.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago

    same. i have friends who spend hundreds of euros of fancy headphones, even more on a speaker setup, get high fidelity versions of the tracks etc. while i'm completely vibing to free earbuds that came with the phone and youtube mp3 downloads

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    The Beatles. They’re fine. Just fine.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    They are fine now that a million other bands copied what they were doing and tried their best to improve on their formula. The fact their music is still fine today means it must have been out of this world back then.

    (I personally don't enjoy their music at all though)

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    What goes on a hotdog. I've had people yell (literally voices raised vein popping yell) at me for adding anything other than mustard. I can't imagine caring that much about what other people put on their hotdog. I'm gonna add relish, sauerkraut, and ketchup thanks, you add just your mustard. Whatever.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago

    Temperature. People all "it's too hot, I'm cold" just shut up and go outside already. You can swim, start a fire, get naked, nestle in some brush, there's nothing to get worked up about. You're a self-regulating biological process that can both sweat and turn cheese you ate a week ago into heat. Those are turtle problems.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    The weather - I hardly ever check the forecast, I just take it as it comes. LGTBQ people/toilets/discussions - just the mention makes me fall asleep, they should just do what they want.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    LGBTQ toilets? That's new to me... Nevertheless, I agree.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    People get upset because special trans toilets are created: with a sign similar to ⚧️. Just the sight can make your vessels pop.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    I've seen gender neutral bathrooms but I don't think I've seen bathrooms for trans people specifically. Well, that's inefficient; trans folk make up, what, 1% of the population if rounding up?

    I could also see some might feel "outed" by having to use them, instead of any and all using a gender neutral option well-designed for privacy. Trans peeps get the same access as everyone else, my cis woman self also wins by having bathroom cubicles that don't have an inch-wide gap around the door. (I think this is what intersectional allyship looks like πŸŒˆπŸ™Œ, /s sorta)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

    Hmm, I initially thought trans men (for example) go to the men's bathroom, but that does make sense too.

    Sorry, I'm very uninformed about LGBTQ.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    They do/can, but it's not like you physically look like the opposite gender the moment that you decide you were assigned the wrong gender. People will give you looks or get upset if you look like a dude barging into the women's toilets, so (from what I've heard) it's a struggle during the transition period where you feel like you belong in one place but society wants you in another. Unisex toilets make this easy. I'm not familiar with toilets specifically reserved for trans people but I assume unisex is what's being referred to

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  • Electric unicycles

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Sales and discounts and haggling. People go nuts whenever something is cheap or queue up for free give aways and such.

    I only buy stuff when I need it and I will gladly pay full price for something. Things get too cheap you know. I don't take free stuff, because it's just more garbage or takes up space.

    This is not a strong opinion. Of course I like to pay less or get free stuff, but only if I need those things. That's what frugal means to me. I get that some people think of it in a different way of optimizing or gathering garbage for craiglist or whatever. It's just not for me.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Eating Asian food using forks. Preparing meat well-done. Cutting pasta with a knife. Using cutlery when eating pizza. Basically everything that people say has a "right way" of eating. What difference does it make to you if you're not the one eating?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    Once you've seen kids try to eat soup with their hands, you'll start enforcing stupid rules too. On one hand, I don't care in the slightest about 'etiquette' but God help me, stop using your offhand to shovel pasta into a spoon and then dropping half of it. Sit up straight, utensil over your plate and put your utensil down when you're not using it.

    But, like, put pineapple on pizza and enjoy your steak how you want it.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    Which way to install a roll of TP. My natural preference is other than that of my family, so I shrug and do it their way. No big deal.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    I don't have a strong opinion on how Trump should die... only that he should and soon.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Coke, Pepsi and most all cola flavored things don’t taste different enough to matter.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    So many answers for strong opinions on "do what you like".

    A not-strong opinion is something like: ground pepper or cracked pepper? I recognize a difference, and I'd opt for cracked, but I really don't have an opinion.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Food. Eat it and move on. Dont like it? Finish it for nutrition sake and again move on. I forget to eat often. Looked into a g tube but thats only if you dont have the ability to eat. What a drag. Cooking and cleaning 3 times a day? This design sucks.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    I don't really think much about what the people who make stuff like movies, games, shows, etc believe. Like I'll talk about a movie I've seen lately or plan on seeing with a group of people and every now and then they'll say "Why do you want to see a movie made by this person that has these bad beliefs?" Cause it looked like something I'd enjoy watching? Most recent one was me saying I want to see Ghost Soldier and got told off for wanting to watch propaganda made by a bunch of MAGA people.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    What operating system someone uses. Use whatever works for you.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    whether people where Crocs in public or not.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    Opinions? I prefer to call them facts!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Seeing as we're on lemmy and I'm sure other people here hold very strong opinions on these things:

    1. terminals
    2. text editors

    I really don't understand why people get so fixated on these things. Can I type in it, and they do the thing? 10/10 no notes.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Happy enough w/ most terminal emulators, but with Vim, it's not hard finding programs for just about anything that mimic the keybind philosophy and I can keep my mits on the homerow where (i feel) they belong.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    For me it's muscle memory. I've grown used to all sorts of features and shortcuts over time and I can work faster when I can use them freely without thinking about it. If I switch tools I need to adjust to everything that is different about it and that takes time - and I can't really develop muscle memory for two different tools, I need to forget one to get used to another.

    As a quick example: I've been using alt+arrow for two decades to navigate between individual words within variable names in camelCase. Every text editor I've used over time supported this as the OS itself implements it. Then comes VSCode with its own implementation overriding this and removing this capacity and then every time I need to navigate between words I'll either have to use a mouse, move one character at a time or even worse: press this shortcut I'm used to and trigger some other feature that is assigned to it that I didn't want to trigger.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 child)

    Whether or not the guy historically known as "William Shakespeare" actually wrote all those plays. For one thing, the plays were probably produced with a lot of input and modifications on the fly from the company itself, so already anything that Will himself wrote is going to have been significantly altered along the way.

    For another, the historical Shakespeare is almost as much of a folk character at this point as Paul Bunyan, so anything we can "know" about him is what we can reassemble from the historical record after 400 years have passed, so it's all fairly muddied anyway.

    Could just some guy from Stratford have written those plays? Yeah, I think so. Could it have actually have been some nobleman writing under a pen name? Also possible, but doesn't meaningfully change the content of the plays or my feelings about them. In hindsight, if it was a pen name, the dude probably should have just bit the bullet and published under his own name, because now some glover's son is the Immortal Bard, and Edward de Vere is the guy that only the cork board and red yarn set care about.

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  • Ever is ever was ever will be.

    Most authors have (writing) editors, dramaturgs, script supervisors, and if you add designers, actors, (film) editors, music, directors, choreographers of movement, fight, dance and intimacy, producers, ratings boards, reviewers, testing, recording equipment, printing, everything changes it a little.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    The culture wars shit that ya see on social media

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago

    I've definitely got my strong opinions about topics, but it's accompanied by a soft opinion that IDC what others feel about those things. For example I hate country music, I think it's trash, but I really don't care if other people enjoy it. I suppose I do carry a strong opinion that people can enjoy whatever they want as long as it's not to the detriment of others.

    So when it's specific, I don't care what kind of phone you like, what sports team you like, what music you like, etc. I do strongly believe that everyone should be allowed to have those opinions though.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Sports.

    I feel like Maurice and Roy watching football in IT Crowd’s β€œAre we not men?”-episode.

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    [–] 1 point 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    Usually about 25 of the 30 questions in the voting adviser. I don't care if some party wants to take budget from primary schools and stick it in kindergartens instead or if we fund the F35 or whatever. I'm not a military plane expert nor work in educational finance but these are literally the questions they select to use as basis for your vote. Dudes, ask an expert! They'll probably tell you "don't know, but we can do a scale study to see which way works better"

    Whatever topic I know has a reasonable expectation of making more people sustainably happy is what I click, and then usually it tells me I haven't clicked enough answers for it to produce voting advice...

    Most 'current hot topics' are either unknowable with current information, or just wholly irrelevant to bigger problems like when we're going to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions and stop discriminating people

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  • Music and tv shows.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (12 children)

    Might be controversial but: the whole Israel/Gaza stuff.

    I don't know much about it. It seems super complicated and controversial. I even realize that it's controversial not to have an opinion on this topic!

    But I really can't get myself to have an opinion on something that I am clearly no expert in, something that frequently seems to lead people into arguments with others and something that, sorry to say, really doesn't affect me at all in my life. There are wars all over the world, dunno why this one is the one people have such strong opinion about.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (9 children)

    Pretty easy to motivate your own learning:

    1. Does your nation fund or is complicit in supporting Israel?
    2. Are your tax dollars being used to vaporize children?
    3. Now do you have an opinion, or at least are willing to watch a documentary or something?
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  • [–] -2 points 3 days ago (8 children)
    1. i don't know
    2. i don't know
    3. nah, i'm good
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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Why don't you ask your favorite AI to tell you what to think then?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Honestly I would rather say "I don't know" than adopt some random opinion from some AI bot. And I think you should prefer people saying "I don't know" rather than just following what the AI bots are saying. Do you really want AI bots to decide this stuff?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    because i can think for myself when it comes to things i care about

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (1 child)

    I want you to repeat that to yourself, slowly.

    Is it just that you only care when it starts happening to you? Or is it just that since you do not know yet, you simply cannot know or care? Why not just shock your brain to forget everything that bothers you, you'll be so happy!

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  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago

    Is it just that you only care when it starts happening to you?

    not really. there are things that affect me and i care about, things that affect me and i don't care about, things that don't affect me that i care about and things that don't affect be that i don't care about. so there are things on all 4 possible categories, and this particular subject simply falls in the last one

    Or is it just that since you do not know yet, you simply cannot know or care?

    well i already know there is a war between israel and palestine and people are getting bombed. yet it doesn't really occupy that much space in my mind, and i'm indifferent towards that, there are enough things to care about besides that

    Why not just shock your brain to forget everything that bothers you

    well i just don't want to do that. i am ok with caring about the things that bother me

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  • [–] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    Yes, there is a long and complicated history, but it is irrelevant in the face of a very active ongoing genocide. I accept that you could somehow not be exposed to enough information to be able to see that, but it is still shocking not to be able to form an opinion on ethnic cleansing and genocide. I suppose it is the product of propaganda and the culture war.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    There are very few things I'm passionate about. That list would be shorter, the rest would be "not strong opinions on".

    Billionaires and those who carry water for them: All are bad, and should be taxed till they're millionaires and then mostly ignored.

    It's your body and your life, do whatever you want. But, don't expect there to be zero consequences for every choice. "Your right to swing your fists ends at my nose."

    Respect is earned. Over and over.

    Everyone on Earth deserves "free" healthcare--paid for by a tax on all. The people allocating the money should have ZERO say in what is funded.

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    Trans people in sports. I wish they could all have the rights everyone else has, but a 200lb person beating the shit out of someone half their weight is crazy and unfair. maybe we are too focused on sports as achievement.

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  • I don't see what this has to do with trans people? As if people of the same sex at birth can't end up with wildly different weights as well? Like a 200lbs woman beating the shit out of a 100lbs woman wouldn't be allowed in any sport. So why would it suddenly be allowed if the 200lbs woman is trans? Also, "unfair" gets me here. Sports aren't fucking fair! That's the entire point. It's a physical competition where some people have an inherent advantage due to genetics. Trans people existing doesn't change that, and doesn't make it any less fair. This just reeks of you seeing all these "no men in womens sports" arguments and not taking the time to actually examine if those arguments are valid or not.

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  • [+] -9 points 5 days ago

    The Gaza war. I don’t know enough about it to decide which side is better, and apparently even progressive people can’t decide among themselves.

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