Unpopular opinions (non road related)

[SSOWorld]

Four random images...

One meme.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Men wearing shoes without socks just looks goofy (other than sandals).

[kurumi]

The prequels were really bad. They get love mainly because a) a lot of us were kids, and b) they're a fertile source of memes.

[NJRoadfan]

ALDI has gotten noticeably better in product quality in the last decade or so.

Competition will do that. Their primary German competitor LIDL has entered the US market which forced them to renovate their stores.

With regards to store brands, ALDI, Trader Joe's, and LIDL have built their entire reputation around them. Even the traditional supermarkets are getting more into them (Shop-Rite recently took on the "Bowl and Basket" name for their generics). The reason is simple..... its big bucks. While it costs the shopper less, there is more profit margin on the generics vs. the retail brands.

[webny99]

Trader Joe's is basically an upscale Aldi.

Considering they are owned by the same family, I think that's just a fact, not an unpopular opinion.

[Scott5114]

Curly fries are shit.

[jeffandnicole]

Curly fries are the shit.

Booyah.

[Roadgeekteen]

Curly fries are shit.

No u

[Scott5114]

Curly fries are shit.

No u

Crly fries are shit.

[1995hoo]

No, the shit comes a while after eating the curly fries together with other greasy food.

[Max Rockatansky]

No, the shit comes a while after eating the curly fries together with other greasy food.

See, I've found that most fast food if it is fried is way over cooked.  That being the case it's one of the most reliable food sources on road trips in terms of not causing diarrhea. 

Taco Bell on the other hand is a whole another story...

[Roadgeekteen]

Curly fries are shit.

No u

Crly fries are shit.

Crly fries are but not curly fries

[1995hoo]

No, the shit comes a while after eating the curly fries together with other greasy food.

See, I've found that most fast food if it is fried is way over cooked.  That being the case it's one of the most reliable food sources on road trips in terms of not causing diarrhea. 

Taco Bell on the other hand is a whole another story...

That's why Taco Bell's advertising slogan used to be "Good to Go."

[Max Rockatansky]

No, the shit comes a while after eating the curly fries together with other greasy food.

See, I've found that most fast food if it is fried is way over cooked.  That being the case it's one of the most reliable food sources on road trips in terms of not causing diarrhea. 

Taco Bell on the other hand is a whole another story...

That's why Taco Bell's advertising slogan used to be "Good to Go."

I mean, why not if you're constipated?

[zachary_amaryllis]

No, the shit comes a while after eating the curly fries together with other greasy food.

a chance i'm willing to take.

[Roadgeekteen]

One unpopular opinion I have that will probably be controversial is that I really don't mind AI images/song covers/videos as long as they are clearly marked as AI. Sometimes it's funny to watch SpongeBob singing Smells Like Teen Spirit or something. Just don't take it seriously. Most of the time these things wouldn't exist in any form without AI. People are just skeptical of new technologies.

[bugo]

My own unpopular opinion:  Pets are overrated.  They're just animals, like bigger versions of moles and rats–except that we allow them into our homes, take them to doctors, and get mad if anyone mistreats them.  I'll never understand people's pets holding them back from doing something they want.  Can't move into a certain house because it's not right for your pet?  Easy, get rid of your pet, problem solved.

Fuck that. Pets are family. If you are willing to throw away a family member so you can move into a certain dwelling, you are objectively a bad person. You wouldn't get rid of a child just so you could move into an apartment that banned children. I see no difference.

[Rothman]

My own unpopular opinion:  Pets are overrated.  They're just animals, like bigger versions of moles and rats–except that we allow them into our homes, take them to doctors, and get mad if anyone mistreats them.  I'll never understand people's pets holding them back from doing something they want.  Can't move into a certain house because it's not right for your pet?  Easy, get rid of your pet, problem solved.

Fuck that. Pets are family. If you are willing to throw away a family member so you can move into a certain dwelling, you are objectively a bad person. You wouldn't get rid of a child just so you could move into an apartment that banned children. I see no difference.

Makes me think of my aunt and uncle that are in the real estate business and have had to deal with a whole lot of evictions or, even my own experience being in the homes of the impoverished through service in my religion.

As my aunt put it, "And they all have animals."

[Max Rockatansky]

My own unpopular opinion:  Pets are overrated.  They're just animals, like bigger versions of moles and rats–except that we allow them into our homes, take them to doctors, and get mad if anyone mistreats them.  I'll never understand people's pets holding them back from doing something they want.  Can't move into a certain house because it's not right for your pet?  Easy, get rid of your pet, problem solved.

Fuck that. Pets are family. If you are willing to throw away a family member so you can move into a certain dwelling, you are objectively a bad person. You wouldn't get rid of a child just so you could move into an apartment that banned children. I see no difference.

Makes me think of my aunt and uncle that are in the real estate business and have had to deal with a whole lot of evictions or, even my own experience being in the homes of the impoverished through service in my religion.

As my aunt put it, "And they all have animals."

Hell, I adopted my mother in law's dog despite having three of my own after she had a huge cognitive decline.  I couldn't stomach what would happen to him if Jessica and I didn't take him in.

[formulanone]

One unpopular opinion I have that will probably be controversial is that I really don't mind AI images/song covers/videos as long as they are clearly marked as AI. Sometimes it's funny to watch SpongeBob singing Smells Like Teen Spirit or something. Just don't take it seriously. Most of the time these things wouldn't exist in any form without AI. People are just skeptical of new technologies.

It can take away from an actual artists' pay. If a streaming service has 10% of its music created by its AI service, then it can renegotiate paying a reduced amount either to individual artists, or to less artists overall. The other idea is that AI uses other artists' work to make music, but the same could be said for any other aspiring musicians or artists.

Still, one area I'd thought AI might be more interesting was in creating genres of music that don't really exist yet, or unthinkable crossovers due to technical complexity...but I think music should have passion towards it coming from actual human beings, but I guess one corporate advantage to AI music is that you don't have to worry about the artists breaking up for creative reasons, don't get burnt out from non-existent tour dates, and don't hold opinions that might've been used against them in the courts of public judgment.

At worst, maybe one AI country artist will try to incorrectly prove P=NP and get soundly downvoted and that's the end of that bot's career...only to comeback as as a freestyle artist under a new filename.

Yeah, that's where art is going.

[kphoger]

My own unpopular opinion:  Pets are overrated.  They're just animals, like bigger versions of moles and rats–except that we allow them into our homes, take them to doctors, and get mad if anyone mistreats them.  I'll never understand people's pets holding them back from doing something they want.  Can't move into a certain house because it's not right for your pet?  Easy, get rid of your pet, problem solved.

Fuck that. Pets are family. If you are willing to throw away a family member so you can move into a certain dwelling, you are objectively a bad person. You wouldn't get rid of a child just so you could move into an apartment that banned children. I see no difference.

Pertinent phrase bolded.  You have yet to convince me otherwise.

If you see no difference between an animal you paid for a store and a human being that you conceived with your spouse, then we clearly don't see eye to eye.

[Roadgeekteen]

My own unpopular opinion:  Pets are overrated.  They're just animals, like bigger versions of moles and rats–except that we allow them into our homes, take them to doctors, and get mad if anyone mistreats them.  I'll never understand people's pets holding them back from doing something they want.  Can't move into a certain house because it's not right for your pet?  Easy, get rid of your pet, problem solved.

Fuck that. Pets are family. If you are willing to throw away a family member so you can move into a certain dwelling, you are objectively a bad person. You wouldn't get rid of a child just so you could move into an apartment that banned children. I see no difference.

Pertinent phrase bolded.  You have yet to convince me otherwise.

If you see no difference between an animal you paid for a store and a human being that you conceived with your spouse, then we clearly don't see eye to eye.

I don't think there's any way Bugo actually has kids. Obviously people love their pets and consider them part of their family, but for kids it's just different.