It aint just academia.

I had the opposite experience before I left, but it sure pays like shit. Could be a little university dependent I suppose.

Oh yea, i noticed that to in some areas like certain PI are very protective of their reputation even compromising thier professionalism over it, like i had one that is very against giving any "references" to people unless you met his nebelous circumstances. most of its stems of himb eing in his native american heritege. in his mind he thinks people will "Tarnish" him in some way or his research or steal his credit somehow,,,etc.

alot of these tenures prevent people from applying to faculty positions too, because they will never leave til they die.

dint realize how much fluff pieces a phd produces just to get noticed on thier CV. writing dozens of papers, that likely arnt very good quality has irked people who is into the research field.

useless to who? You?

academia is not an enterprise that is about usefulness. one of the reasons it's collapsing so poory, and education more broadly, is the narrow minded insistence that it must be useful in terms of economic productivity.

it can and does have many uses, the question is to whom and for what, and oftentimes those are politically loaded.

Somewhere around the majority of people employed in academia are absolutely useless.

I thought this was common knowledge lol

Lol I wasn't "supposed" to be born, legally speaking

I was born in violation of the One Child Policy in China

Sometimes I feel so special, that a law that tried to end me failed to do so.

But other times I face adversity in life and I feel like I'm in Final Destination and the bad lick I'm getting is death is out to get me cuz "I wasn't supposed to even be alive"

Hows that controversial?

Having children in general is selfish and immoral. People shouldn’t be forced into existence to give their parents’ life meaning, take care of them, and/or keep civilization going.

Helping people move is fun. Moving is hell.

100% agree with this. I feel like neo pronouns make communication way more complicated. I don't care what people identify as. It's easier to just only use a person's name and nothing else if we are going beyond he/she/they.

This has also been a really controversial take of mine. But I have an even more controversial opinion that if I'm not well aquanted or friends with you, using they/them to refer to you is not offensive. I can barely remember peoples names much less your specific pronouns

Wholeheartedly agree. Especially when I come across things like bios or work emails where known-cis people have pronouns listed as "she/they" and "he/they". It feels like a mockery, almost like HR's advertizing they're "diverse" while simultaneously ignoring every complaint of discrimination that couples across their dashboard. Pronouns are not a one-size-fits-all aesthetic to be appropriated and customized like a game avatar. They mean things, which is why people care about them in the first place.

the sudden PC of pronouns is a response to rise in transphobia, older than gen z almost neve ruse it. and i cringe everytime someone tries to make generic descriptions of someone, being intentionally vague to offend people is pretty bad too. people are trying to hard , and they are offended in advanced.

No I agree, slapstick and cartoon hijinks shouldn't be gatekept by gender. To this day I still can't fathom why it's funny when men do it but cringe when women do it.

Kaitlin Olson! I haven't seen much of her work outside It's Always Sunny, but afaik she's a vocal advocate for physical comedy

Melissa McCarthy is so great with physical comedy, i enjoy every time she's on SNL

I can think of at least a few cartoons that have women/girls be the subject of slapstick comedy. Ed, Edd, & Eddy has a bunch. In Phineas & Ferb Candace has her shit rocked pretty frequently

How so? One you produced 1kg of potatoes and i produced 1kg of apples, how do we exchange? There has to be either NxM exchange rates one for each pair of physical products, or if we allow money, only N rates, for each product against single currency?

Money I think is needed. It's just an easy way to simplify transactions from person to person. If I need to pick up something I don't have to carry around 3 chickens and a dozen eggs to barter for groceries, I just carry cash.

"Investing" however, is unneeded. There should be no real reason for people to purchase parts of someones business publicly and extract value from it. The companies don't need the profit from rising stocks, they already have their profits. So all these snakes that buy shares and force companies to rip their guts and morals apart chasing "number go up" does nothing but enshittify products and companies until they're too unstable to use.

If you want to keep loans, that's fine, but then it needs to be private, and locally lended. Your lenders can't provide more money than the local economy can provide and it only goes back into the community that made it. None of these faceless companies extracting billions from a community to some far off corporation.

The issue is that the production of those resources requires money.

Not just as a means of exchange - the world is far too large and complex to run on barter - but also, through the mechanism of markets, as a means of resource allocation.

Say you could go and grow 1kg of potatoes, or mine 1kg of copper ore? How do you know which to do?

In a society with money and markets, you look at the prices!

Say you have your 1kg of copper ore. Do you sell it now, or wait?

In a society with money and markets, you guess[1] what the prices will be in the future.

Without money, and markets, large industrial societies fail. That's not to say that markets are a perfect signaling mechanism - malinvestment is a thing, and can certainly be exacerbated. But the known alternatives (and we've tried them) have led to poverty and misery.

[1] I know, I know, ...

I would say money is still a good way to keep track of things but we have enough resources that we should be living in a post-scarcity society with universal basic income

The criminalization of our bodies disgusts me.

Disagree. Underpants are a minimum for public transport and seating.

Sun's out, buns out 😎

I don’t fundamentally disagree with the principle, but it’s easier to police malignant behavior if nudity is confined to limited social spaces (eg. beaches, gyms, saunas, ect…)

Otherwise you give creepos the ability to ruin random public spaces randomly with very little enforcement potential - but I guess it depends on what of the two restricted scenarios is the lesser evil.

I am somewhat ambivalent FWIW

I don't mean harm but this reminds me of the political compass and centrists who just want to grill. Like, if this is your most controversial opinion lol

My ex would always say "always check for dead cats" because her aunts cat somehow crawled into her oven and died and her uncle turned on the oven and baked the corpse without knowing it was there

I had an American guest over in Denmark, where he offered to cook. Her turned the oven on with all the trays inside, and then went on an angry rant that those should never be stored in the oven. It's my house, my rules, mother fucker!

Forget ranked voting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_judgment

OP asked for the most controversial. You listed a few. Which do you think is most controversial?