The thread where you post your mildly unpopular opinions

[jimsterlingspronoun]

Trump is the best president since Nixon

 

[Jason Wynn]

People who mourn over coworkers leaving, etc...Your job is not your life. Get a grip.

I can get missing a coworker you've gotten along with or befriended, but actual mourning is a bit much.

The first Star Trek movie happens to be my favorite out of them all.

 

[Billy_Sama]

Protest groups are the new proxy war in America. If you think they are protesting for your ideals, its just big money people pitting people into civil war.

 

[Sped Xing]

Broke: Trajan commanded Rome at its apex in 117 AD

Woke: After Zama, all was decadence

Bespoke: Sextus Tarquinius did nothing wrong

 

[Curt Sibling]

Trying to compare the complex modern era to pre-industrial empires is the epitome of sperg,

 

[Sped Xing]

People who obsess about nations and races either don't have families or don't care about them.

Trying to compare the complex modern era to pre-industrial empires is the epitome of sperg,

The ancient era was complex, too. They didn't have as many nice things, but they had millions of humans, and thence complexity.

 

[Curt Sibling]

People who obsess about nations and races either don't have families or don't care about them.


The ancient era was complex, too. They didn't have as many nice things, but they had millions of humans, and thence complexity.

They didn't have to bother with 8-page tax forms or programmable central heating.
(Although the Romans did have underfloor central heating, called a Hypocaust)

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Not sure how unpopular this really is (I suspect it is a sentiment held by much more who remain silent because it hurts peoples' feefees) but anyway.

I don't unwaveringly support the "adopt don't shop" movement and abhor the guilt-tripping associated with it. It honestly just feeds into the shelter/abandonment/rehoming cycle (which there is no real solution to anyway) at the end of the day.

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This applies to dogs more so than cats: different breeds are better suited to different living environments and lifestyles. This is because many breeds, while not primarily used for what they were originally bred for anymore, still hold the traits and instincts they were bred to have. Hunting dogs have stronger hunting drives, guard and fighting dogs like to fight, and so on. They also have different temperaments. Simply put, some breeds are better with small children than others, better for apartments than others, better for hot climates, etc. The "it's the owner, not the breed" excuse can only go so far. Certain breeds are also easier to train than others, which makes these breeds better for first-time dog owners or for people who want a dog but can't spend 60 hours a week training it.

With mixed breeds (and I'm not counting things like yorkiepoos) it is a crapshoot about which traits are inherited by which individual puppy from the litter. It is also a bigger crapshoot when you mix two from incredibly different breeds, like mixing a goldie with a rottie.

Shelters, whether unintentionally or unfortunately intentionally (which does happen), will mislabel a puppy or young adult dog that comes in to their care for advertisements. If they do this intentionally, they are doing so in the hopes of making a dog look better to an adopter so they can have one less mouth to feed. Sometimes this works out, sometimes...it doesn't.

A personal example of when this goes wrong:

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my grandparents wanted a dog. They didn't want an ankle biter but didn't want one so big it would run the risk of knocking the 70 year olds down when it got excited or was playing. So they wanted one around the size of a border collie or maybe a smaller lab. We waded through the sea of pit mixes at the shelter to find a puppy or younger dog that fit what they wanted. We were told a white puppy we liked for them was X-breed or X-mixed breed (don't remember) and ended up with a HUGE beast too big for the home and my feeble grandparents. We had to rehome said dog to a family with a large home and fenced-in yard. For some people who this happens to, they can't rehome and end up taking Fido back to the shelter or having to dump them out in a last-ditch effort.

Wouldn't it suck to try to do the right thing by researching dogs but end up with a dog with the instinct to not be good around young children because the shelter told you it was a "lab mix" and it bites your 5 year old unprovoked?

I tell people who have never owned a dog before, or are getting their first away from a family pet on their own, to get a puppy or a younger dog whose parentage they can at least 90% verify and to at least try to have your first be a breed that isn't so aloof when it comes to training. I also encourage adopting adult dogs. I would rather someone pay a few hundred for a goldie from a reputable breeder than get Shelter """Lab Mix"""" #761529 and have it end back up in the shelter.

Also, all my family dogs (and my own current one) have been mutts that were either dumped out or adopted from a shelter. If I as an independent adult want to save up some money to buy a real borzoi (a personal goal) then I will. No amount of "but muh shelter" guilt-signaling will keep me from doing so. The pit mixes will just have to perish as my borzoi competes in coursing events.

 

[AnOminous]

I thought the deep web was just where you buy drugs. Or is that dark web? What's thw difference? Is my facebook on dark mode?

The deep web is just any part of the Internet that isn't available via a search engine, like most databased. People say "deep web" when they mean "dark web," which is almost any anonymity-oriented network, like i2p, Freenet, TOR, etc.

 

[Billy_Sama]

The ancient era was complex, too. They didn't have as many nice things, but they had millions of humans, and thence complexity.

I have more respect in some ways for ancient and non-modern societies since they knew how to survive without large scale infrastructure that modern society relies and addicted to.
Most of America would collapse if Walmart were destroyed.

 

[Curt Sibling]

I have more respect in some ways for ancient and non-modern societies since they knew how to survive without large scale infrastructure that modern society relies and addicted to.
Most of America would collapse if Walmart were destroyed.

Most urban citizens in ancient times didn't know how to farm any better than we do.

 

[Sped Xing]

Farming is technology, too, anyway. So is fire. Catch birds with your bare hands and just bite into them like a real man. And you best be sleeping on the cold dirt, not in some fancy bed of wicker near a fire.

 

[Meat Target]

I may have said it already, but the stronk wamyn trope is really hot and awesome, (and I emphasize) IF done correctly.

 

[Dafuqisdis?]

Most urban citizens in ancient times didn't know how to farm any better than we do.

But 90% of the people were farmers, so...

 

[Sped Xing]

But 90% of the people were farmers, so...

Read a book. Rome sported an immense dependent urban population, while the fertile land of Italy was given over almost entirely to servile labor on latifundia making wine, oil, and meat for the tables of the rich. Much of the Empire's expansion was fueled by an ever-more-pressing need to annex and exploit more foreign countries for their grain.

The average prole in Imperial Rome knew how to stand in line for handouts, steal anything not nailed down, and laugh at public executions. The first niggers were white.

Even with less-extreme examples, we find that urbanites were specialists then as now. That a large number of people still had to live in the countryside and work the land is a testament not to their self-reliance, but to their ignorance and inefficiency.

 

[Wraith]

Most women who call themselves "redheads" or other people calling them that are full of crap. Most of them have brown hair, some orange. Those autistically are different colors. Real red is pretty rare. A brown haired chick with freckles is not a redhead.
And sanic's arms are blue.

 

[Gun Safety]

Adopting/Buying and getting attached to pets are just people perverting their natural desire to have children.

 

[Sped Xing]

Adopting/Buying and getting attached to pets are just people perverting their natural desire to have children.

I'm sorry you couldn't love a puppy when you were a child.

I'm hopeful you don't have children, because people who treat their kids like pets make monsters.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Adopting/Buying and getting attached to pets are just people perverting their natural desire to have children.

Trying to figure out if you're some PETA faggot who thinks having a pet is equivalent to slavery, or if you're an autistic faggot who got jealous because Fido or Fluffy took away mommy and daddy's attention from you.

Either way, you're a faggot.

 

[Curt Sibling]

I'm treating 2021 as basically 1931. We are on the road to armageddon.
We will look back even on these days with fondness.

Not being doomy. I find our current era hilarious.
There's no other way to see it.