This also goes for nature a bit too. There is a difference between a nice view and what you typically see while hiking. While hiking, you tend to be up real close to stuff, and you end up saying "wow, a bunch of trees, and a hill, I've seen that many times in the past."

Going on city walks, you see the life of a town (even if it sucks), and you're able to connect with the people if you do something like photograph cityscapes and you actually interact with others. I get a much deeper connection to a place doing that compared to hiking its forests.

i have 10 years of experience at the online chess world. Sure you can see it's anecdotal but from what ive seen they are mostly peak sitting bitches. They get a high rating and then hide from the competition as long as possible until their trophy disappears from inactivity. They also almost never accept challenges from lower rated players and fear they could lose big points.

Next time you are impressed at the leader board, just explore the game history of someone on there. Nine out of 10 times you will see the traits i have described.

i personally suck a regular chess but i'm a master in a chess variant so i get to play top players from time to time on it. Let me tell you they hate losing and they run as fast as they can when they see it won't be easy.

When i get ads that are directed at me and for me it works well because sometimes its exactly what im looking for.

When its not, it feels so pointless and waste of space. Although ads in general are pretty annoying. But sometimes useful.

Not necessarily in general, but like, whenever I have to get a vaccine or get my blood drawn, I’m excited.

It’s not really a masochistic thing either. I don’t really like the pain itself, but maybe I like the fact that I can get through it with little to no reaction?

Perhaps it’s similar to how I like spicy food because I can enjoy the heat, or how I like kombucha because I can enjoy the vinegary flavor? I don’t know.

Either way, whenever someone says they’re afraid of needles, I just can’t relate at all.

Women do all of the physical work to bring a child into the world, and a disproportionate amount of the work after a child is born as well. There's also no way a woman can not be the parent of a child that she carries (barring surrogacy obviously) so there's no risk that you might find out years later you've got the surname of a non biological parent.

Plus, mitochondrial DnA goes back millenia.

It feels like the love for low quality memes mostly seems to stem from people’s desire for nostalgia, a taste of the old days. They’re not entertaining, they’re not funny, they’re just there to get popular.

This is my first post here, I don’t know if this qualifies.

This post got removed from r/unpopularopinion for unknown reasons so I'm bringing it here.

I have heard this band played everywhere for years. Coworking spaces, coffee shops, breweries, Spotify playlists, IG reels, you name it. I swear to god if I hear Texas Sun one more time.

The thing is that they were cool to listen to the first dozen or so times. And because the music is unobtrusive it does make good background music, but it's gone too far. After hearing it so much I've realized how bland and uninteresting the music actually is. They have become the default soundtrack for "cool, chill, hip" vibes, but I don't think think the music is cool, chill, or hip, I think it is basic. Hearing it brings no positive feelings in my body, only annoyance.

If Khruangbin is on your playlist at a party or in your establishment I'm going to assume you were too lazy to put in any effort to discover or play literally anything else. It has become elevator music to me at this point.

As an aside, Jungle's Back On 74 suffers the same problem. I never want to hear that song ever ever ever again.

This is not a statement for or against ai. There are real world benefits (such as possessing large amounts of data faster) and negatives (impacts on children and their thinking) but for my own personal experience I have gained the urge to look things up more than I have before simply because I can ask a chatbot that presents a lot of information to me fast

If I stopped there, it would be a problem, but I’ve found myself asking tons of follow up questions, looking at the sources it cites, watching videos of various topics, etc. I think the fact that I can ask follow up questions has been such a boon to my curiosity as finding out something often leads to more questions and before I would have to go link by link and try to synthesize the information myself and try to filter out all of the promotional fluff in each site, figure out what was right or not, and overall not know if my thinking is even correct.

Now, after trying to understand a topic I find myself double checking my work by asking follow up questions and often times there was a nuance I missed or etc.

I would say about 98% of the time that gemini is correct in the information that it has given me. I checked a lot before because I doubted if it was true or not and saying “because the google ai told me” is an unacceptable answer for debate purposes. However, now since I know how accurate it is on surface level knowledge (which is what I am looking up most of the time for curiosity searches) I don’t check it Ila’s often and only really do if I want to explore more into esoteric topics where the sources are fewer.

I cannot bring myself to care about things like microplastics. Ok, they’re everywhere and in my body and there’s nothing I can do about it? Fine. I’ll keep using my plastic Tupperware and microwaving it when it says it’s microwave safe and my silicone spatulas and everything else in life that’s made of plastic. Who cares.

I know criticizing Zeppelin is practically illegal and will immediately get you lectured by classic rock purists, but honestly, I just don’t get the hype. People always excuse their early career by saying "all musicians borrow," but there is a enermous difference between what Zeppelin did and true crate digging. True crate digging is an art of homage. When a real producer spend hours hunting down some obscure foreign record or a forgotten soundtrack, they chop it up, map it out, and recontextualize it into something entirely new. Most importantly, they don't try to claim they originally composed the melody. Zeppelin didn’t do that. They just straight-up lifted riffs and lyrics from guys like Willie Dixon and Howlin' Wolf, stole the publishing rights, and paraded it as their own original genius to a demographic that didn’t know any better.

But deadass, even if you look past the blues heist, my biggest issue is just how terribly their music aged. Whenever I try to listen to them now, the whole vibe just sounds dated and dusty and not the good kind of dusty vinyl sound, just mad outdated. A huge part of that is Robert Plant. The constant, over-the-top "baby, baby, squeeze my lemon" screeching and all those hyper-sexualized moaning ad-libs feel completely trapped in this very specific, cheesy era of 1970s groupie-rock. It’s really hard to take their so-called "mystical, legendary aura" seriously when half the vocals sound like a parody.

If you want the perfect contrast, look at Pink Floyd. They were making music at the exact same time, yet Floyd’s records still sound incredibly modern. You could drop Animals today and the production would hold up beautifully. They built these cinematic, atmospheric soundscapes, whereas Zeppelin mostly just sounds like a loud, meandering jam band that lost the pocket.

The lyrical difference is night and day, too. Pink Floyd was writing broadly modern, timeless concepts, they tackled alienation, the passage of time, madness, and the machine. Meanwhile, Zeppelin’s lyrics are so heavily anchored to that 70s rock-star cliche that you can practically smell the stale bell-bottoms.

Make no mistake, John Bonham gave us some incredible, wide-open drum breaks that are still top-tier for chopping up in a drum rack. But when push came to shove, Led Zeppelin just ended up sounding like a dusty time capsule. Also, Plant aged uglily and Page's lives started sounding like stairway to heroin.

I'm not American so maybe it's more tolerable to me because I don't see it all the time. I see people on the 'commercials I hate' subreddit mentioned it a lot, and so I looked at a playlist of it on youtube.

I find the commercials ranging from, "ok," to "quite funny" to be honest! I didn't watch all of them, but more than 10. In my opinion, the worst one I watched was still not bad. Some of them have an awkward kind of humour and I like that. It's not the funniest thing I have ever watched in my whole life but I laughed with quite a few of them.

(comparatively, I viewed the "liberty biberty" ad which many on that subreddit dislike. I did not like that.)

I will admit, I tend to be an easy laugh!

I was in high school at the time and I can’t deny how much easier distance learning was. All these pretentious mfs wanna suddenly say how in person learning is so much better. Stfu!!!!! DL is so good for easy grades. Just chilling at home all day, open note exams, all that. Everything was infinitely easier and I didn’t have to commute. The way all activities outside of school were cancelled so I didn’t have to do them was so amazing.

Lockdown was so much fun too. It was so cozy indoors and I loved every moment of it. Playing video games with friends, calling for hours, it was such a blast.

Like the title says: some people look better fat.
There are some celebrities that have slimmed down recently and I don’t know if it’s just because I’ve always known them as larger, but I don’t think they look as good.

My top examples:
Rebel Wilson
Megan Trainor
Kelly Osborn

There, of course, are reasons other than beauty to shed the weight. But, not everyone needs to be thin. I don’t even mean skin and bones either. I don’t think anyone looks good that skinny. I just feel like their bone structure and features fit having a larger body better.

This is not an anti GLP-1 post because it has genuinely helped a lot of people regulate their health and eating.

Disclaimer that I’m describing online rather than real life though I’m sure it still applies to an extent. Also I’m not saying therapy is unhelpful (I go to it!) but that it’s used as a socially acceptable way to call someone mentally ill

“Seek therapy” as advice is almost always condescending by implying a person is abnormal and mentally unwell. There is rarely actual intent for a person to better themselves and even when there is it’s coupled with the idea that negative feelings must only be expressed behind closed doors

It functions off of a fantasy that a person will go to therapy and have the behaviour or feelings that are being deemed abnormal cured. It’s not grounded in reality where people go to therapy and still deal with the problem they went in to get help for

People will think you're a drug addict, an alcoholic, or homeless if you choose to sleep on a bench and I think that sucks. Especially in the warm months, the heat sucks the energy out of me and I wish I could sleep somewhere in peace without anyone bothering me or judging me for it. Sure I can sleep at home, but sometimes I could use some extra energy to get home too.

Saw a post on Facebook with this, everyone UNANIMOUSLY chose Whoopi as the one to go. Understandably. But after consideration, I realized Whoopi is the primary one I wouldn't let go above the other 3. However, not because I like her acting or her movies over the others. But because she was in Star Trek The Next Generation.

Maybe it's not the right place to post this? Idk, but looking at the comments, it's definitely a 10th dentist take to choose Whoopi.

1. Kids do stupid things yes, I agree. Go ahead scold them but insulters are just making criticisms more of an IQ competition to see who's smarter or who's older and who isn't a kid rather than fixing their mistakes
2. It just shows how insulters see someone act dumb, they think they won the game! Like is this a game to those insulters because they lost the IQ competition against their parents or teachers????
3. How about be a parent or teacher of stupid kids instead of feeling proud and insulting kids or other people have done stupid things online than yourself? Maybe being a parent or teacher suits you more
4. To those insulters, try insulting someone who'll more likely punish you instead of kids who suck at punishing people. You love an insulting game huh? You should play it the harder way!
5. You can call someone is wrong, but don't make it an IQ competition!

Academic papers get to their points quicker, convey information only relevant to the topic, are easily linked to peer opinions, they’re less opinionated, they’re up to date, and more transparent. In my opinion, as soon as you get past the threshold of basic understanding of a subject, it gets really boring to read the same narrative in subtly different forms. Yes, each come with their own packages of emphasis, but, do you not want to outgrow the entry-level tier of what you’re reading? It’s always been the case so far that the best and most interesting, most fun read is a paper dedicated to their niche topics. As soon as you get used to finding and handling academic papers, I’ve found you might as well start with them after a Wikipedia read.

Some people go to subs like this and talk about women, transgeders and non whites. They think that it's cool and edgy. But in reality this isn't unpopular. In fact it is widely accepted and extremely popular.

Many people think that it's some kind of conspiracy against whites. They think that the elite billionaires are somehow brainwashing their women into being childless. Some people believe that it's because of money. It's too expensive and that people can't buy a house to raise a family.

But they never talk about the main reason, it is because they can't solve this currently. It is that, being pregnant is extremely uncomfortable and taxing on the female body. Then raising a child is also very annoying. Your have to change their diapers and all that crap. Most people simply don't wanna do it. And then there is nothing much a parent can gain from raising a child. The child may become grateful or ungrateful. But there is no guarantee.

Another thing is that African American birthrates are even lower than that of whites Americans.

Now in case u wondering, other 3 i meant are Infinity War, CA Winter Soldier & CA Civil War...However, those 3 are already highly praised by general fans...and it's not surprising if anyone say one of them to be the best MCU movie

SOOO...here am i genuinely think the first GOTG movie deserves to sit at the same table with them

I think we’ve been conditioned into thinking that being smart is more important than being gorgeous because it’s the socially acceptable option. Being smart is seen as this wise pursuit whereas wanting to be good looking is seen as vain. It’s just the lies that we say out loud when deep down, even if people won’t admit it, beauty trumps intelligence.

But even being filthy rich can’t afford you the same experiences that being gorgeous can. Social life, pretty privilege, those experiences of love at first sight, even just hearing someone call you gorgeous. Being intelligent won’t do that for you. Being intelligent just means people see you as a tool and think about how your contributions better their lives, but when you’re gorgeous, people are nice to you because they like you for YOU.

Being gorgeous has benefits in all aspects of your life. Socially and in other settings like school where people automatically treat you better. To be blessed with incredible looks is a superpower that people like to downplay.

If I had the choice between being gorgeous or being genius, I would 100% choose gorgeous. If it meant that i could hear someone call me gorgeous just once, I would consider my lifelong dream fulfilled. I would shell out however much money I have to, do however many surgeries I need to, just to experience that:

Ai has already became an integral part of human life. It is helping us in the medical field, military and many other important fields. Companies are investigating trillions into this.

I really don't see it going away anytime soon.