Social media treats Asian racism as highly offensive. All because a restaurant puts a sign that says they can't come in.

The US has racism where they threaten your life. They pull out guns, call police, chase you out. Sundown towns still exist. I would rather have a sign than sit down only to be told "We don't serve your kind" any day.

Edit: ah there's the downvotes for my unpopular opinion

People take the "extrovert" and "introvert" way to far. Instead of being an observation of behavior, they take it to extremes, try turning it into a "quirky" personality and then role-play it everywhere. All due to social media. They talk about it like people who believe in astrology talk about astrology. And then they pretend they're super happy, when they're actually miserable and depressed but refuse to think their "introvert" persona is the issue.

Disco is the most catchy sounding music genre of all time.

If you're looking for intelligent conversation with people in a niche community, you're better off looking on Reddit than Lemmy.

Scalping only works because that’s already the market rate, if the venue charged that price to begin with then scalping wouldn’t work.

I got heavily downvoted on my post on c/unpopularopinion about Lemmy's absolute disdain of AI and not acknowledging its potential so it really is unpopular.

Sending humans to Mars is morally wrong.

There is a small chance that there is some other independent origin of life. Sending humans there with our clouds of microbes would make it impossible to discover.

We should wait until we've properly inspected it with sterilized robots. I figure this might take a few hundred years, but there's no hurry. It's not like Mars is going away.

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion or not but IMO the whole concept of "support the visibility of opinions you don't like" was doomed from the start because you can't force people to play along with an alternate vote meaning (and the version this is an alternate to also wasn't the intention behind the voting system, so there already was a drive to use votes as support of the idea rather than the discussion).

Also, if posts make it to all, then there will be voters who don't even realize the community wants votes to work differently, even if they care about what the community wants.

I would raise all taxes to 100%.

Rust is an "industry plant" language. There's an active campaign to shield it from criticism, by claiming no part of the language has any drawbacks, and that all haters are Brian Lunduke fans angry about trans people. In reality, it is being pushed onto things where its strengths are more often shortcomings, such as game development, where it's causing active harm, especially as you'd need something with an actual C++ interop, and not just a trendy language written by someone who got angry for management forcing them to write FactoryFactory classes for stuff that could been a single function. I get that Functional Programming is "mathematically correct", but it shouldn't be the only tool, and you just go back being the person who forced you to write the FactoryFactory class, just because they read Uncle Bob.

In order to protect students in school, students should be allowed to have guns. Obviously not all students, like not dweebs or DnD players, but popular kids like the QB.

Lemmy.ml is based.