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AsklemmyCoke, Pepsi and most all cola flavored things don’t taste different enough to matter.
Music and tv shows.
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.
Pretty easy to motivate your own learning:
- Does your nation fund or is complicit in supporting Israel?
- Are your tax dollars being used to vaporize children?
- Now do you have an opinion, or at least are willing to watch a documentary or something?
The truth is, this isn't an Israel/Gaza thing, it's just an Israel thing. There are not two side, there is only one thing to have an opinion about: genocide. 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. I suppose it is the product of propaganda and the culture war.
yeah besides a "it would be nice if there was peace" i can't say i care about it to the point of spending the time to form an informed opinion
I think powerscaling is stupid so any powerscaling discussion beyond "this is stupid" is not something I feel strongly about
I generally agree, but I can make one exception: when there's a clear power system it can be fun to talk about how one power would fare against another. Not so much scaling the characters themselves but pitching their powers' themes against one another, like some advanced rock-paper-scissors thing. One Piece used to allow for things like this at one point, (before new power systems were included) like rubber > thunder > ice > rubber.
Pre timeskip one piece was so good
Who or what is "the best" of something. Any genre I can think of: Sports, art, food, engineering, design, whatever. Or I guess I kind of do, if you have some wild take that I don't understand at all, but the discussions where people are like "lebron or kobe?" or "poe or shakesspeare?" I just do not get. "What's the best anime?" eh. There's no best of anything, it's all just a matter of definition.
Hockey is the best sport.
Sure
Seeing as we're on lemmy and I'm sure other people here hold very strong opinions on these things:
- terminals
- 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.
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.
Terminal emulators I only notice when they are a problem and for some reason, terminal emulators are on my mind again recently. :-(
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.
Pineapple on pizza. I don't care. I don't order it, but will eat it and not complain if served it.
I don't have a strong opinion on how Trump should die... only that he should and soon.
The Beatles. They’re fine. Just fine.
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.
Music fidelity, as long as I can hear it, idgaf about the quality of the speakers.
This is more a diminishing return issue if you ask me. There are absolutely people driving around blasting from blown speakers. Most of the time though, the freebie headphones and mp3 are fine.
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
Very strange take. How about TV quality?
I really, truly, deeply envy you and wish I could say the same.
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.
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.
Celebrity gossip. I find it really difficult to care about what some celebrity said about something.
wait this seems like a strong opinion that celebrity gossip isn't interesting. wouldn't the neutral position here be that you would like to know what's going on with your fave celebs but don't go out of your way?
It's making me kinda sad you can't imagine someone just... Not having "fave celebs"
I've never gotten this either. Having an artist who's work you enjoy and follow because they have a history of making something you like? Sure, but beyond that why care?
It's not like an actor magically has a good talk on anything or is an expert on anything. They're just famous.
oh no i can, i cbf about celebrities personally. I was just being pedantic as to whether the top reply here matches the prompt
Thank goodness ;)
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?
Pineapple on pizza.
I think people should just eat what they enjoy.
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.
Sports? I think it's a tribalistic waste of time and money, but people are allowed to like what they like.
That kinda sounds like an opinion
But not a strong opinion.
waste of time and money
strong enough
Is it? Lot of stuff is a waste of time and money if you don't care for it. It doesn't mean you have a strong opinion about it. Like it could just mean you'd never spend your own time and money on it, but other people can if they want to. Since every recreational thing is a waste of time and money to someone who doesn't like it.
We're getting into a semantic and subjective argument here but I would say 'I don't like sports' or 'I don't care for it' is a basic/mild (negative) opinion.
IMO 'a waste of time and money' has some conviction to it.
Imagine someone saying that about something you personally care for?
i mean i do plenty of things that are wastes of time and moeny. What's wrong with that? We're hairless apes who like to do silly stuff.
yes
Precisely.
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.
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
Yeah, I should've said that as well. So long as you're not causing harm to others, do what you want, like what you like, be who you want to be.
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
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.
This is exactly where I am as well. “I just don’t want to pay for them” is so real lol.
fr like when it comes to clothes I see anything above like 20 USD per outfit as absolute highway robbery.
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.
Literally any topic on which I have little to no knowledge. I can't have an opinion on a topic I barely know exists.
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.
I see a sale and all I think is how overpriced the item used to be
People's taste in food. Like pinapple on 0zza? Cool, like ketchup on porkchops? Ok. Don't like spicey foods? All good.
Same for me. Once I attended a chocolate workshop with this guy who was like a chocolate expert/connoisseur, and he started by saying "The best chocolate is the one you like."
Politics.
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.
Do you customize your OS of choice in any way? If so, do you find some color palettes are even slightly more enjoyable than others? If so, dial that slight enjoyment up a few factors and that’s what having a favorite color is like.
Red and black
I like to say my favorite color is UV, because I quite enjoy playing with UV LED keychain lights and such.
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.
Electric unicycles
Sportsball
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.
I'm gonna add relish, sauerkraut, and ketchup
You had me up to the ketchup. Is that where the veins started popping? Because mustard, relish, and kraut are fine, but ketchup on top is a crime.
Poetry is the most okay form of literature.
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.
LGBTQ toilets? That's new to me... Nevertheless, I agree.
People get upset because special trans toilets are created: with a sign similar to ⚧️. Just the sight can make your vessels pop.
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 🌈🙌, /s sorta)
Indeed.
I believe it was an astroturfed (temporary) social media campagne to stir up hate.
Nobody would care or be negatively affected by it.
We know what is allowed on social media and the awful people who run it.
To be fair, I think all toilets should be sex neutral. But that’s also a topic that I can’t get upset about.
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.
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
Jews
music consumption. what music you should listen to, how you find music, how much variety you should incorporate, what order to listen to music in, in what format, etc. for me, music is more of an auditory stim. I play the same song over and over. it's not really like, an art form that I am heavily invested in or relate to.
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
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.
you can go less than 3x per day with practice
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.
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.
What operating system someone uses. Use whatever works for you.
this post
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.
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.
you know there are weight classes right?
Which sport does that happen in?
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.
I don't have strong opinions on someone burning you alive.
Can't really decide if it's good or not.
That’s not at all what I said, but OK.
How the fuck can you make your brain work to give you that result? It is quite literally exactly what you said except times several hundred thousand. And you probably imagined being burned by like a campfire rather than white phosphorous.
Explain it in a way that doesn't cast you as tied for the most racist piece of shit that ever lived.
As I said, I don’t know pretty much anything about what’s going on in the war, so I’ll rather not have an opinion that form it based on comments from random people on the internet.
Holocaust, concentration camps? Never heard of it.
Who am I to say this Hitler fella was a bad guy.
Slavery? Nobody of us was around in the 1700s dude, random people on the internet say a lot.
I am struggling to decide if you are actually gigantically stupid, are trolling in the most inappropriate way or just a gigantic racist POS.
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.
Those are all strong opinions…
