#unpopularopinion

Be friends with people who disagree with you I think now a days most people won’t be friends with people if they don’t agree with them on politics, environment, tech… anything really Talking with people and talking about things you disagree on can build really great friendships, if you decide it’s not your job to change peoples opinions. Like open your horizon, get out of the confirmation bias you built for yourself. Plus you miss out on so many wonderful people simply because you don’t agree on policy or tech or whatever it is that you stop being friends with somebody over. People aren’t boiled down to their opinions they are far more complex. \[Edit: I’m not saying be friends with obviously horrible evil people. And the vast majority of people are not horrible humans. Just stop putting titles on people and assuming they are horrible because of some superficial label you put on them. Stop seeing people as a labels and maybe you can meet wonderful people who might have more in common with than you thought to begin with.\]

False teeth are superior The amount of time cleaning and flossing teeth throughout our lives are not worth it. All the hassle of dental visits/costs required to keep them in good condition are not worth it. With the technology available today, false teeth make sense. Eat and drink what you want without pain or discolourisation. Removing all natural teeth once adulthood has been achieved and replacing them with false teeth should be a service that dentists offer.

Ultra-enhanced frame-by-frame replay makes sports less entertaining All these major sports stopping play to look at exact millimeters or milliseconds is too much. It’s not like I want the refs/umpires/judges to have that much more control over the game, but I’d rather them make a judgment call and get the game moving. Maybe it can come to over-the-top measuring if a coach disputes a call or something, but otherwise I don’t think we need all that for every first down or final shot or ball that goes over a line.

The spread of statistics outside of professional/academic data analysis has been a net negative for critical thinking and reasoning Oftentimes I see people these days throw numbers and hot-sounding datapoints around to try and make a point or convince themselves of something without having a deep enough understanding of statistical assumptions and how confounding, p-hacking, etc work. It's very easily to intentionally lie and manipulate with or be misguided by data, and too often people lean on trying to base their assumptions, ideas, and even life choices on 'science' or lousy math and borderline clickbate datapoints when they would be better served by developing their own intuition for life and the things that fill it through personal experience. edit: I also think that even if you do understand statistics/scientific research and how to extract useful information from them, they aren't nearly as useful as self-made heuristics and intuition when you're living your day to day life. At the end of the day, you're the only one of "you" out there, so it can only be so helpful. This is the heart of the post moreso than "people using bunk stats is bad"

My unpopular opinion is Maple Syrup doesn’t belong on pancakes. Yeah I never understood why people just love their pancakes with maple syrup, maple syrup is just tooo sweet for me, and then after awhile the pancakes or waffles whatever gets soggy, I just don’t like it at all. I love butter only haha, the salt is what I find best but everyone thinks I’m a weirdo for just butter and my pancakes… haha

You shouldn’t be obsessively nostalgic about the past until you’re at least 30 just to be clear, i’m not trying to completely gatekeep being interested in 2000s things to old people, i just see so may people in their teens and early 20s falling for 2000s nostalgia bait. did you even try??? go outside and make new memories, this is the time to be focusing on the present and future and not wasting time obsessing over some “frutiger aero y2k tiktok” aesthetic brain rot. my brother in christ you were like 3 years old when the 2000s ended. yall old people i get it tho ✌️ takes your mind off the back pain fr