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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[–] roo@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goto statements do nothing wrong. They were just popular in a time when people were coming to grips with desk jobs, automation, and programming for the masses.

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[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

No one should be allowed to vote until they are 40 years old.

[–] pastaPersona@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I hate shrimp, fuck those things they suck and aren’t worth whatever premium BS the going market price is

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Humans are the only animals that have to cook their meat to consume it. We're also the only animal that consumes another animals lactate.

The oil industry is the greatest evil humanity has ever created. Conversely the bicycle is probably the greatest.

If it's not open source it's pretty likely it's taking advantage of you.

The only people that don't want you to learn history are the ones that stand to gain from you not knowing it.

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