You want unpopular? I’ll give you unpopular. No-kill animal shelters are ultimately more harmful to animals than kill shelters.
Instead of euthanizing one violent or chronically ill or old or otherwise unadoptable animal, you spend your limited space and resources keeping it alive while you turn away a dozen perfectly healthy and well-behaved animals who could have been adopted but were instead let loose on the street or were euthanized elsewhere.
Even euthanizing otherwise adoptable animals is a net positive, because there are more companion animals in need of homes than there are homes willing and able to take them in.
As long as it’s legal to make your animals make more animals, culling their populations will remain an ecological necessity. Which brings me to unpopular opinion #2: it should be straight up flat out illegal to own a pet that isn’t spayed or neutered, no exceptions. I don’t care if you think your munchkin cat’s fucked up tiny legs are cute. The state should be able to seize your animals and have them fixed with or without your consent.
The US should have compulsory military service, once the Dem Socialists are in charge.
No buying your way out, no exemptions unless you’re in a vegetative state.
Everyone has to do it for 2 years.
It will build more generational solidarity than anyone realizes.
If the rich kid has to serve alongside the poor kids, maybe he’ll get a sense of what real life is like, especially if he’s the dude taking care of the toilets, or recycling milk containers.
That and making congress like jury duty, one 4 year term for everyone
This community doesn’t contain any actual shitposts, it’s just a crosspost target for the 10 other linked communities in the rules, which means it’s just another c/memes clone.
The DSA, including AOC and Bernie to a (far) lesser extent, are becoming the caricature that fox news pretended democrats were. They endorsed not voting in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Mamdani is doing some great stuff, but endorsing some almost ML/tankie people who don’t support Ukraine and essentially think the US could never and has never done any good ever.
Then they hide behind “guys we just want healthcare and workers rights” whenever they’re criticized, which is just co-opting democrat messaging so they can shield themselves behind democrats and pretend their positions aren’t so extreme.
Many Lemmy users’ (understandable) hatred of AI seems to have stunted their abilities to keep up with AI advancements. Some of them even sound like they’re at least a year behind.
This is probably fine for most of them (sometimes I envy that, tbh), but some of them might be setting themselves up to be blindsided.
BTW, for people who absolutely hate the idea of learning AI, but might have to: I get it. I did too. Maybe I can offer a weird perspective after being forced to cross over to the “dark side”…
Weird perspective from the other side
(This might not apply to most people, so I tucked it away here to take less space.)
Do you find it really satisfying to “dial in” something? Anything. Maybe dialing in your home espresso shots, calibrating a 3D printer you built or modded, setting up a guitar to get the action and intonation right, getting an old motorcycle’s carburetors in sync, iteratively tweaking a recipe to perfection – whatever might scratch that itch for you.
If you’re way into that kind of thing (and maybe pretty tech-oriented), you might actually enjoy building AI agent “skills” (basically instruction files for specific tasks). On the first run of a skill, it might get some things wrong. But as you run it through each round of evaluations and improvements, it gets better and better.
LLMs’ results are probabilistic, not deterministic. So to build something on AI that actually works well, it needs to be “dialed in”. It scratches that kind of itch, for me.
(BTW, if that ever starts to feel too easy: Try doing it with a small model running on your consumer-grade hardware 😈. That’s hard mode)
I hate starting puzzles by doing the border first
Unpopular opinion: we should kill some of the chuds, not all of them though. Some can be deradicalized and some will stop being chuds,
Of you listen to some of Hitlers speeches with the mindset of someone not already rich in early 1930’s Germany with what they have been going through, what he is proposing and who he is blaming doesn’t actually sound all that insane.
Cowboy Bebop was just alright.
I think the whole unpopularopinion stuff is stale and a bit unnecessary. Some opinions are unpopular for a reason and don’t really deserve a podium.
there should be a weight category/points system for vehicles on the road, for balance reasons. The lighter your vehicle the more heavy weapon slots you should be allowed to take so that you can punch up when returning fire while changing lanes
Lemmy tends to stigmatize usage if AI because of environmental impact.
I think using AI casually to shorten search for information (always double check it) or to create an image to be amused of or to use as reference to create my own art is perfectly acceptable.
Shit, each day I’m playing videogames, which burns much more electricity than a request to AI which translates to calculation of a function on several matrices. This is nowhere near calculating thousands of textured polygons 144 times a second.
I won’t pay for AI tho if it becomes payed or subscription-only. Fuck it.
Also I’m a programmer and I’ve never used AI to write code for me, and I think it’s terrible idea because it will make me too relaxed and dumb, leeching all the skill from me. Also it is useless for anything relatively complex as it will create more problems (bugs) than it solves, and it will be unable to fix them. Treat this as a side note and not an addition to my unpopular opinion about AI, because this part I think is popular.
all money should be physical
currently only 1 of every 10 USD is physical and the rest are digital. I don’t know how that works so I don’t like it.
(hey you asked for unpopular opinions not good ones 😆)
unpopular opinion: AI can be extremely useful for programming and productivity if you use it in moderation
some violence needs to be fought with violence, actually
