On This Instagram Page, People Share Unpopular Opinions And Here Are 50 Of The Most Polarizing Ones (New Posts)
Everyone is entitled to having their own beliefs. Some people keep them to themselves. Some like to blare them out every chance they get. And others have views so unconventional, they completely go against the status quo.
When not every opinion is greeted with open arms, we’re lucky to have the internet where we can spark a discussion with complete strangers. There’s an Instagram account dedicated to sharing some of the best posts from the popular subreddit called Unpopular opinion. From electric vehicles to stuffed animals, members of this community have something to say about virtually any aspect of life.
So get ready to dive into some of the best posts this account had to offer. Upvote the ones you agree with, and, if you want to stir some emotions, share your own disputable views in the comments below. Psst! After you’re done, be sure to check out Part 1 of this post right here.
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I agree, too many times people feel entitled due to their age. You don't owe anyone anything. Congrats on the souvenir and the story you will be able to tell your friends and family.
In Finland, speeding tickets are income based. Just as an example.
Sometimes, we're discouraged from expressing our unpopular opinions because of the adverse reactions we might get from the people around us. Whether we’re talking about politics, religion, or popular culture, sharing our deepest beliefs can make someone feel pretty irritated.
However, while some end up scratching their heads from confusion, others see a like-minded person and gladly show their support in heated discussions. After all, a controversial point of view does not instantly mean that it’s uncommon. When you push your fears of being the odd one to the side, it’s much likely you'll encounter others sharing the same thoughts as you.
Brandwatch, a digital consumer intelligence company, was on a mission to investigate the most popular unpopular opinions on social media. They looked at consumers’ mentions from January 1 to June 30, 2020, excluding news, retweets, and shares. Results showed that 1.6M people shared their controversial beliefs in this period. Also, there were 34% more mentions during the lockdown compared to the four months prior.
Greed and narcissism... it's sad, but it's human nature. The majority of the people out there are fake as heck, and will do things like posting videos of themselves crying on the internet as PR moves, to help promote and enhance their brands, to help them gain those clicks, likes, follows, and subscribes. Even more sad is that there ARE the odd few out there who honestly have no one and no where else to turn to, and are using the internet to reach out. But those odd genuine few are usually buried and overshadowed by all the loud popular influencers out there, with their TikToks and viral videos and their memes.
Harassment is the right word. What happened to Diana and other famous people with the paparazzi actually haunting them, spying and giving no Fu*ks. But here's a thought: Who the hell buys those rag mag's is an accomplice bc if they stop buying that filth then the paparazzi will (nearly) go away or at least be way less.
When it comes to the topics people touch on, the top ones were about characters in pop culture, TV shows, dislike of fandoms, and books. People shared their complaints about some of the bestsellers of the century and aired their grievances about how some shows have become outdated. For example, 34K mentions called out Friends "for being hugely popular, despite some aspects not being acceptable today."
The researchers also looked into Reddit, where 958K users shared their gripes. "It seems like lockdown got to Reddit users, too. Posts to r/UnpopularOpinions increased 105%." They found that many of these mentions touched on things that happened on the platform itself. Most of them were focused on sports players, subreddits, and seeing change as not being good.
I read a quote before, wouldn't it be safer to fire blanks at someone than fire bullets at someone with a bullet proof vest
So while it can be fun to share your controversial views online, they also let others say opposing views, have heated discussions, and see things from different perspectives. Anna Akbari, P.hD., is a sociologist, writer, and speaker who shared her thoughts on why unpopularity isn’t necessarily a bad thing in a piece on The Psychology Today.
She explained that if we want to be happy, successful, and feel of service, we don’t actually need to appeal to the masses. "See, we’re complicated beings, each with our own unique experiences, full of biases and contradictions and, hopefully, a point of view," she wrote. "Having a point of view is a good thing, even when that view isn’t universally embraced."
You ruined it with "sure they're cute" because that's the whole point, they're NOT cute, people have just been trained into thinking they are. People need to realise that inbred dogs with serious health problems are the exact opposite of cute.
100% - the cheater is the one at fault - unless the people they cheated with is also someone who you have a relationship with then it's equal blame as they both owe you loyalty. I've never understood the blame being passed to the person they cheat with, and it's usually women who blame the other woman when their guy cheats - I sure there's a patriarchal link to all that that could be deciphered but seriously, they're just a shitty person if they knew he was involved with someone - if they didn't then they're just as much a victim in it all. This idea that men can't help themselves if offered sex has to stop - you don't accidentally have sex - yeah, you may regret it after but you totally know what you're doing while you're doing it.
While we can wholeheartedly stand by one issue, we can also not see eye to eye on another. "Agreeing to disagree on most things in life is fine—assuming it doesn’t restrict the liberty or human rights of others. It’s when we start to think that we need to agree on everything all the time to merely function together that we get into trouble," Akbari mentioned.
Needless to say, popularity isn’t essentially bad. Lots of things that are commonly and generally accepted by our society are considered as "safe". Akbari explained that we don’t have to immediately or categorically reject the popular stuff but rather "selectively embrace it, or at least occasionally challenge it."
Yes, it really should be free. I have been in therapy on and off for years and it has been free (/paid by taxes). It's due to mental health issues so free healthcare = free mental healthcare. I learned a lot and cope much better. I wish it was available to all who needs it. To hear that people live with anxiety, ptsd, depression etc and can't afford therapy to learn how to cope better is really, REALLY sad.
I don't use those sites anymore. If you want me to subscribe, or permit adverts in my ad blocker, or click a cookie thing every time, I just bounce. Enjoy your bouncerate and zero ad revenue. ALSO. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD stop with the f*****g animated adverts. They drive my poor ADHD ass crazy. I can't stand it.
However, if your views are not clinging to the mainstream popular or if they tend to stir some unexpected or even rude reactions, "don't despair. You don’t need to bend toward conformity, and you may even be able to cash in—financially and socially—on stepping outside the conventional bounds."
She mentioned two rules that people who tend to lean into unpopularity should remember. The first one is that you should actually believe what you’re saying or doing. "Disagreeing for the sport of it is annoying and, rightfully, no one likes or respects you if you do that. So stop it," the sociologist advised.
In many cases I would agree but in many I would not. For example If an employee of mine turned out to be a KKK member, or they were videoed ridiculing a disabled person I would fire them without hesitation.
Retired teacher here, so let me weigh in on the realities. For elementary school kids, I'd overwhelmingly vote yes. Younger kids want to please the teacher; they want to be around the teacher, around other kids, in class. HOWEVER, as someone who taught middle and high school for 26 years, this does not work at all. By that time, there are a lot of kids who are looking for any way to leave the classroom. Yes, there are times they need to use the bathroom, but quite often they also want to socialize. There have been groups in certain years (not all by any means) that texted and met up in bathrooms and fought, too. It helps if a teacher has a sign in/out pass, or gives a certain number of tickets per month. Other children who don't have to use the bathroom COULD give a classmate a ticket if they felt generous.
"The second rule is to embrace your unpopular opinions with the knowledge and grace that not everyone shares your point of view," she continued. This rule can be quite tough since we humans have a general tendency to want others to agree with us. After all, it makes us feel heard and valued.
However, following this guideline "starts with a promise to both give up convincing other people to buy into your less popular opinions and to stop shaming them for their own thoughts and actions."
My previous boss (who was an absolute jerk!) used to say "there's a line of people waiting to take your place, if you quit." I did quite eventually. Seven years later and... my place is still unoccupied. And not just mine - two other people also quit from that office, and replacements could never be found. Or someone would start and then quit a month later due to the conditions. I guess the line of people for my spot turned out to be a bit too short ;)
Or, stop suing everyone for making mistakes. Yes there are serious negligence cases, but they're a lot less common than the cases where "negligence" is claimed, but it's just an honest mistake. Americans really need to stop that s**t.
We have to get rid of the phrase "unskilled labour". A janitor needs practical skills far above average (at least a good one does), and the working conditions of courier drivers or fastfood workers require a great deal of stamina and resilience. In any job you can go from beginner to master, working your job better or faster. Even more important, the economy absolutely depends on the jobs we tend to call "unskilled". Usually, in any company, if a middle manager is absent for some days, work continues more or less as usual. If the cleaning lady is absent, you notice the problems after a day or two the latest.
After that, it’s all about trusting yourself. If you believe that some things are just not right, don’t be shy and share your views with others because, chances are, there are people out there just like you. According to Akbari, there is value in dissent. "There’s often truth at the fringes and insight in unpopular perspectives. Greatness comes neither from blindly following nor from knee-jerk rejecting."
"Many of our greatest historical figures held really, really unpopular opinions. They did stuff that made people cringe or even retaliate against them. Going against the grain takes guts. And that courage is admirable, even if we disagree with what they’re saying or doing—but only when executed with integrity from a place of personal honesty," she wrote.
If you don't trust your partner, then you don't trust your own choice of partner.
We switched my kid to a Montessori school because they got to 6th grade and there was no AP option so they were just sitting there bored. It costs a good bit, but I have no reason to think public schools will be better for my kid than they were for me.
I'll probably be downvoted, but this also applies to the African American label. Your distant ancestors were from Africa,you were born in the US therefore you are American. You don't hear people of Asian or African ancestrysaying they are Chinese English or Ghanian Scottish,they are English or Scottish or just plain British.
Well this is obvious, it also applies to many of the "50 years of driving and no accidents" type people... Yes Mrs Miggins, but only because everyone has done such a good job of avoiding your ass
I swear a lot, but it's very very rarely AT someone. I'm not doing it to offend people, it just comes out :P
Jeans and hoodies get washed maybe once a month (or three) unless something has got on them. You don't need to smell like washing powder, and constantly washing everything is bad for you, your clothes, your bank account, and the planet. End of discussion, downvote me all you like I think you know by now I don't give a s**t.
My husband and I have slept in separate rooms for over 10 years (due to his loud snoring keeping me awake). We are very happy together and have no real problems in our relationship - we just both like a decent night sleep. People assume that we aren’t intimate and/or that our whole relationship is falling apart, which couldn’t be further from the truth.
It's not brave it's natural. This if my face. Don't like it. Screw off
Yup. I've been a passenger while the driver just drove around and around waiting for one of the "good" spots to become available. Finally I said, "If we had just parked in one of the far spots right away, we would have been inside the store by now."
Urgh. My ex-husband used to say that all the time especially during arguments. "No one cares" or "no one feel that way". Well, I do. You can't decide on what to care about or feel based on your feelings and use that as the only truth. Blah.
They say money doesn't buy happiness, but I think this is it...this is the happiness money can buy.
I feel like the human approach to "what to do with the waste/recycling of electric vehicles" will (and probably is) treated similar to the problem of what to do with nuclear waste, and unfortunately, our approach seems to be to sweep it under the rug and let future generations figure it out.
Except you're wrong. Current generations are making nuclear waste recyclable. See, nuclear waste isn't a byproduct of nuclear power plants; it's an enriched fuel for them. But because it's been enriched, it has to be handled differently. But we can recycle and recycle the "spent fuel" until it's no longer radioactive, because it's the radioactivity we consume. It's just that concentrating radioactive materials make them shed their radioactivity faster, so it's counter-intuitive. AND YES, I"VE OVERSIMPLIFIED.
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Most lithium battery technologies (Li-NMC, Li- FePO4, Li-Co, Li-NCA, Li-To) are potentially 100% recyclable and are currently already partially recycled. The industry is quickly scaling up its recycling capacity: If we consider the US only, this year the recycling volume capacity is going to triple. The recycling process is technologically complex but well understood and environmentally sound, with most of the job done through chemical separation via dissolution and subsequent precipitation of metals, the rest through melting and vaporization at carefully controlled temperatures. An "Unpopular opinion" should not necessarily be a "misinformed opinion".
There's a *huge* difference between 'potentially recyclable' and 'recyclable'. Recycling capability for car batteries is still falling behind sales growth, and without a regulatory framework in place to force manufacturers to take respinsi, the problem will only get worse.
Load More Replies... Not true, actually. Making them the norm is 100% guaranteed to provide the funds to develop ways to recycle their very valuable battery materials. It COULD be done now, but the cost doesn't make it worth it. Scale up production, and we'll find a way to recycle them. And in the meanwhile, they are NOT simply thrown in landfills. (Well, I don't know how well that's being regulated or those regulations are being enforced, but at least some portion of them are not.)
Already done. Tesla can reuse the batteries in the grid-scale storage. Redwood is tearing them down and reselling the metals. This is scaling as fast as the car production.
We didn't have a plan for the disposal of gasoline powered vehicles when we started using them either. Until you can figure out how to make a plan like what you propose profitable, it's unlikely to happen, however senseless that is.
Most major EV car makers have a recycling program. Here's a few: https://www.tesla.com/support/sustainability-recycling https://mag.toyota.co.uk/recharge-reuse-recycle/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/17/ford-volvo-join-redwood-materials-to-launch-free-ev-battery-recycling-program-in-california/
We do tend to think in the short term rather than the long. Thing is, obstructors keep us from being able to make any plans at all until it’s almost too late, and we have to scramble to get something better in place quick and dirty—-and only half thought out.
We do not have the infrastructure to charge them. Public transportation between cities is inadequate. Train travel on Amtrak, while fun, is ridiculously unreliable.
And the solution to that is not having those cars instead of creating the infrastructure? I've heard that argument ("no infrastructure") so often and I always wonder how they thought the world would look if the early cars had been dismissed because "there are not enough gas-stations in the country" Nobody (not even me) is saying to just take all the cars away and exchange them for electric ones. But over (not too long a) time, the old combustion-engine has to be replaced. If we'd started earlier, we'd probably be done by now...
Load More Replies... We didn't have good ways to recycle ICE vehicles when they first came out either.
"Adopting them too quickly will lead to far greater problems than fossil fuels have created." Yeah, the people at Exxon Mobil wouldn't lie about something like that.
Yes we do. The problem is that there aren't any electric cars to recycle yet. Google Redwood Materials.
However no one has an issue with the millions of cell phone batteries, laptop batteries, tablet batteries, and other electronic detritus that is adding up to millions of tons of toxic pollution every year. There are effective systems for recycling them. Recycling lead acid, lithium and lithium ion batteries is not new tech. Per an article in wired the biggest obstacle to recycling EV batteries is that there are only a few places that do it right now (not a lot of volume) and the shipping cost of the batteries is extravagant. More EVs on the road, and more batteries would increase the need for recycling facilities, make them more distributed and reduce the largest expense that makes it unprofitable. Additionally the biggest recyclers and manufacturers are still overseas. As demand grows, one can expect US battery manufacturers and recyclers to grow.
While I agree, finding a way to recycle and reuse especially batteries is important (and, hey, no less important than for lead batteries which contribute the bulk of lead back into water supplies now, but I digress), pulling back on fossil fuels is ESSENTIAL right now. Not option. Not inconvenient. Not a nice to have. ESSENTIAL. Unfortunately, by the time privileged folks wake up to that fact, it will be too late to avoid the worst consequences of pretending it wasn't a problem.
A huge number of car journeys are under 10km and could be replaced with cycling. I live in the UK (famously bad weather) and cycle to and from work. Its a 6km round trip and I usually work a split shift, so cycle 12km a day. My father used to cycle commute 32km total per day.
Tesla has already invested heavily in battery recycling. If you can't afford to buy electric, move your fat ass under the power of those funny little things at the ends of your legs. 29% of all emissions in the US come from assholes driving, everywhere.
Not to mention we cab barely supply reliable electricity to the population we have now.
Studies have proven that a 100% coal powered EV is still cleaner than a gas vehicle. Also, the grid is getting cleaner everyday. Also, my Model 3 is powered with the solar on my roof! :)
Load More Replies... We also need to figure out how to produce all the electricity to charge them! You can't full swap to solar and wind energy at the same time that you're trying to charge tens of millions of electric cars overnight!!
It's been proven by studies that it's not actually that big of a problem. PS: The oil industry thanks you for partaking in their narratives! :)
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I mean, I know they aren't the same batteries, but combustion engine vehicles also have batteries
The issue with the EV movement is it has become like a cult. They only want to look at the pros, not the cons. Other nations are ensuring the right infrastructure is in place before they put more EVs on the road. They also know that EVs cannot do certain jobs, handle certain weather, or go to remote areas. From what I have read so far, lithium batteries will be obsolete in a few years & new technology batteries will taker over. It's now about making money off of those who feel the need to have an EV now.
It's not just having to recycle them, it's having the infrastructure to handle them. Most power grids are just not up to having 100% electric everything. If we try it now, it'll just lead to widespread blackouts and brownouts, energy rationing, etc. How will that actually help? As for nuclear power, everyone points to disasters like Three Mile Island, which was a non issue since the reactor did exactly what it was supposed to do and the problem was fixing itself. or Chernobyl which was bad design and human screw up start to finish or Fukushima which was just plain bad luck with first the earthquake then the tsunami. The US Navy has been using nuclear power for the last 62 years and not one problem and we have a plan on what to do with the waste already.
Wrong. It's still far better than mining and excavating huge quantities of fossil fuels which we also don't have a proper disposal plan (we just burn them and pollute the air we all breathe) and definitely IS poisoning us, compared to safely disposing of batteries.
Most are nickel, some are lipo, but theres a whole wave coming of new substrates
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Recycle those batteries and sell them to people, that have solar power, and need big batteries. To store their energy, that should work. Wind power.
To say nothing of the horrendous amount of fresh water (another precious commodity) required to mine lithium.
But who says you have to "Throw the battery in a landfill"?? Why not take care of it, strip it of its components and reuse it?? Throwing things in landfills are soooo archaic, it's not even funny! The whole earth, and all of the sea bottoms are soon just one enormous waste basket for people with no imagination whatsoever! Take care of the rubbish! Sort out what you can use again, sell it again, and then take care of it again, and again, and again!! Just throwing things away doesn't dispose of it - it just end up somewhre else, and you'll pay for it later! I thought MOST people knew this by now!
I watched a video explaining where some of the metals come from and it pointed out that the earth has one mountain which is already a third depleted of one of the metals needed for the batteries.
I've mentioned this very problem many times to friends and family. I hate government intervention and regulation for the most part. But if they are going to promote EVs then they need to start regulating those batteries like yesterday. The battery packs; in all devices not just EVs, need to be easily recyclable with the pack designed for the cells to be replaced and the pack resold. Then we reclaim what we can from the old cells and make new ones. I don't even think it is hard. Just a design problem I don't think we need new tech at all.
Same for windmills. There is no way to recycle the blades when they get replaced. They just bury them.
All the hairy armpitted flat footed morons want to go electric or use hydrogen but they're too stupid to realise that you need the infrastructure in place first. It might be fine travelling 200 miles in a electric vehicle but if you don't have the recharge points in the small towns you visit.....
Electricity is everywhere. Infrastructure abd supply will improve as ev adoption expands. And no need for name calling.
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Fair enough. But I made the same argument 15 years ago when I was saying that "Electricity is still produced by coal." However, that is becoming less and less the case - partially because of the increased demand by things like electric cars. So, welcome to the conundrum of a market driven economy. The technology to handle all the waste of will never develop before can be popularized. First you have to get the market sold on the tech, and then drive the innovation to handle the cleanup because it's creating a problem. I'm not advocating this. I think it's stupid. But it's how market economies observably work.
My tags were cut out. Sentence should read..." The technology to handle all the waste "sometech" of will never develop before "sometech" can be popularized
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We tend to create things before considering plans on how to dispose of them.
We should All be driving french fry grease mobiles.thry smell so good🤗
There's unpopular... and then there's wrong. What makes you think they haven't planned for recycling them? There are already companies recycling Tesla batteries for other EVs.
Yes. I could say this about many politically popular technologies. When the government has to subsidize something, or say that you are required by law to buy it, that must mean that many people are reluctant to buy it. Why? Have you considered the possibility that maybe they have good reasons?
In the 1800 we were afraid future cities would drown in horse manure. Then fossil fuels seemed like a clean solution. Now we know better but we are making the same mistake with electric vehicles. The real solution is to stop supporting an economy that only works if each generation grows exponentially and buys more stuff. It's like a gigantic ponzi scheme.
Which is causing more environmental harm, in both the short term and long term - the battery sitting under your hood right now or the 4.6 metric tons of CO2 coming out of the tailpipe (1 gallon a gas = 19.5 lb of CO2) each year? In 2014 (last year with numbers for both), the US produced 6.87 billion metric tons of CO2. We used 242,697,402 kg or 242, 698 metric tons of batteries. 95% of all electric vehicle car batteries are currently recycled BECAUSE THOSE ELEMENTS ARE IN A BOX YOU CAN RECYCLE while that 4.6 metric tons of CO2 coming out of the tailpipe is just pollution. Although its currently cheaper to mine the lithium for a small consumer battery than recycle it, all those old EV batteries are going to SE Asia on slowboats to recycle because its hard to hide in a landfill and its a waste of money. Like the industry recycling old computers for the gold, platinum, and lithium inside them, the industry for recycling EV batteries is becoming a literal lithium and gold mine.
did you just get out of a coma, all kinds of batteries have been being reduced for decades, it's some people who just throw them away...the biggest problem with electric vehicles is there is no consistent place to charge them, we need electric charging crayons like gas stations, until that happens they will never succeed
The problem with solving the recycling before adopting is that if there's no current demand, there's no impetus to solve the recycling. People don't work that way. We seem to need to have the problem in our faces before we really want to act on it. Not saying this is good; it's super bad and stupid, but it's also the way it is.
It would be a good start if car battery manufacturers actually allowing batteries to be repaired rather than forcing them to be thrown away.
You should be able to stop at a battery station, like gas stations, and be able to switch out your battery for a fully charged one. The old battery gets recharged for the next person. All vehicles would be required to have universal batteries so people don't get stuck buying certain types.
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We don't need cars to begin with. We need well connected (free) trains and busses and (free) taxis for people with disabilities.
Not to mention that the weight of the batteries causes quicker wear on tires, requiring more frequent replacing of them, resulting in more landfill.
Makes a good point. I am sure these problems will be resolved in the foreseeable future.
People who park on the street do not have access to recharging, either. What are they supposed to do?
Well also electric cars aren’t made in electric factories. People that sell their current car to get an electric one aren’t off setting much. If your point is to save the environment buy a used car
And the infrastructure for available charging stations is extremely poor and costly. I’ll never even consider an electric vehicle for that very reason!
If you want a vehical that is far more enviromentally friendly we need to be going to hydrogen fuel cell .
We're very reliant on China to deliver the materials for batteries, so most definitely these are being recycled. ICE cars are already getting recycled for the most part, as are car batteries. Just because you're unaware of it doesn't mean it's not already happening.
throwing away, disposing of, and recycling batteries isnt a new issue. this was obviously written by someone that knows little, if actually anything about how cars are recycled as it stands now. theres not some landfill full of cars. research dummy. actually educate yourself instead of just assuming you know the answer based on the sole fact that you think you should.
We also lack an infrastructure to support them. Charging stations for one. Addition stress and supply needed from the substandard power grid being another. Also, EV''s are not the universal solution. An example.is the snow storm earlier this year on the east coast that stranded many in vehicles overnight. If those had been electric vehicles the event would have had a horrible body count due to death from exposure. In the Western US it could potentially be worse.or more common do to distances and the occasional traffic on some roads.
Not to mention the electric grid is not sufficent to accomadate charging millions of vehicles now. When do we start building new plants?
The spent batteries are nothing more than extreme hazard waste..... and waste too many elements making them.....
Also people act like electric vehicles are so clean but that really depends on how the electricity is actually being generated.
They also use massive amounts of fossil fuels to get all their materials and processing.
Load More Replies... No-one will work this out until there is an incentive though (like lots of electric cars). Diesel air pollution is causing a health emergency and climate change is already costing thousands of lives with extreme weather- it's just that it's not the countries causing climate change who are facing the consequences
Not to mention the move from fossil fuel powered electricity needs time to evolve. Change takes time and planning. Nobody is saying the idea of electric cars is bad, just that it doesn't happen overnight. Forced change that puts us back hundreds of years is equally as harmful.
Charging takes like 15 minutes every 2-3 hours of driving! LOL
Load More Replies... someone just needs to make hydrogen powered engines... not fuelcell, hydrogen gas.
someone has... and it's even less efficient (and worse for the environment) as hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Load More Replies... plus the charging of the vehicle consumes electricity which mostly still comes from coal plants, so due to conservation of energy law, you are still generating carbon in the same amount.
Wrong. The largest car markets generate far more electricity from natural gas than coal (China is the notable exception). Natural gas power plants have about half the carbon emission per kWh as coal fired plants. Electric motors are more than 90% efficient in converting electricity to motive force, while combustion engines are less than 30% efficient. So even if an electric car gets 100% of its electricity from coal (none do), it has a lower mile-for-mile carbon footprint than a gasoline engine.
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What I want more is one standard exchangeable battery and mechanism for it. So I can go to a fuel/power station and swap battery in a minute, and drive across the country. Because a hybrid is the worst of both (100% fossil fuel on long trips, cost of both electric and fuel hardware, plus all possible faults of both types), and an hour or two of charging for every hour or two of driving is just not doable for long trips.
An hour or two of charging after an hour or two of driving? It's 2022. You can drive for 3 hours and charge up in like 15 minutes LOL. I've taken lots of road trips in my electric car. Catch yourself up :)
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And the fossil fuels used for the electricity at all of the charging stations - and their danger - if an electric car starts on fire during and accident - it takes until the battery dies to get the fire out
Exactly!!! The Prius saves a ton of gas, but we’re now learning is a f*****g nightmare to dispose of.
We also don't have the means to power them all if we switch from fossil fuels. Solar and wind aren't going to cut it. We need more nuclear. If you're not in favour of nuclear energy, you're not serious about the environment, or at least not serious about the masses keeping a decent standard of living. It's not the 1970's any more.
The environmental cost of a 40 year old diesel truck is WAAAYYY lower than a new EV
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Unpopular opinion: almost none of these posts are unpopular opinions or controversial in any way
Yep, kinda signing off most of them. Basic common sense of human decency.
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Unpopular opinion: people are getting so trigger-happy about calling people Karens that it's making more docile people afraid to speak up, especially women. I've never heard the word 'entitled' get thrown around like it has until recently. It's getting to the point that people are saying someone is entitled just because they did something that was a slight inconvenience to them. If that's not entitled, I don't know what is.
I agree. Some people (men and women) act "like a Karen". But nowadays its used mostly to harass women everytime that they are assertive
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Nah I think a lot of these are pretty uncontroversial and some are really arbitrary. I think the person is targeting more conservative people, or just trolling (like the one about juice).
I have an unpopular opinion. I don't think anyone should be able to have pets or babies until they have passed significant psychological testing. I don't care about rich or poor. Some people should never be allowed to have responsibility for other living beings. If I ran the world, I'd be very unpopular, because I would be a terrible dictator and not tolerate most of the s**t that goes down in the world.
Well, we do license for driving but not parenting...
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Unpopular opinion: BoredPanda reposting Instagram that is reposting/stealing Reddit. How deep can we go?
I don't understand why these are considered unpopular opinions I agree with almost everyone
You want something unpopular? I love human much more than I like animals. And pets. It doesn't mean that I dont like animals, or that I will harm them. But if I have to chose between a human an an animal, human will always come first. And I'll strongly judge you if you don't do the same.
Well, the top part of the list were again not unpopular opinions. The extended list was pretty lame. Not sure why I read to the end.
Unopoular opinion: men and women being half naked/in tiny outfits and dancing “sexy” on TikTok shouldn’t be allowed. Want likes and maybe money for looking like that and doing sexy things? Fine. Make an OnlyFans account. TikTok is used by SO many kids and they should not be watching that. I’m so afraid of my bf’s 8 yearold niece seeing a - way too - skinny girl in a bikini dancing sexy and getting thousands of likes, and thinking “that’s what I need to look like. But I don’t, so I wont ever get that many likes and nobody will ever like me!” And the same for young boys, for that matter. Both the “girls should look like that or nothing will do!” or “I don’t have a six-pack like him, so no woman will ever like me!”
Calling out a brand, business or company on something they are doing that is fraud, like for example, randomly adding extra data and thus money onto your internet bill, gets people called as Karens all the time. And these scammers get off scot free. They don't cancel your plan, when they were the ones calling you every week when you weren't a subscriber. They don't cancel or change your plan back to what it was unless you call them five times.
People commend Poland for taking in so many Ukranian refugees - yet African, Indian and literally any non-white students in Ukraine were restrained at the border, some were even beaten and abused. Poland doesn't need to be glorified for doing what is expected of them as human decency.
So this time BP copied an instagram account that copied reddit instead of copying reddit directly
I’m smiling and shaking my head at the fact that the hockey puck post was upvoted the most (of all topics discussed). Does this means that’s it’s the least polarizing of all the polarizing posts? Maybe the one thing we can all stand united on is that if we witness someone catch a ball or hockey puck at a game, we celebrate their win and let them keep it, guilt-free? 😁
Ieva ... been a fan of Bored Panda for many years. This is one of the best posts I've ever read! Thanks for sharing. - Ed Kelb -
Unpopulair opinion: Bubble tea is a waste of space and only popular because people say it's popular.
This s**t is nothing new. The hard reality is that people have been highlighting and pointing out and attempting to make better some of these issues for decades but the younger generation is just into calling them “boomers” and thinking that their revelations are new if unique snd the world needs to bend to their will. I get why customers are pissed office, some have good reason to be pissed off. Hell, how difficult is it to do your job with integrity?? BP is loaded with threads on what doesn’t work, what’s wrong and how things “should be”. It’s a hard lesson to learn that the world works for the ultra wealthy, not the little guy, yes it’s been getting worse, thank the GOP (the party of fear, gaslighting and greed). You want to make a difference, then invest in the work its going to take instead of being a huge part of the problem. Whining and bitching without learning what it takes to change things, just dismissing a whole generation IS A HUGE PART OFTHE PROBLEM!!!
If the gop is so greedy why is it liberals spending all the money?
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Right? From misogyny to contradiction s, to plain old lack of critical though, what a waste of time.
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No it isn't. Most of us appreciate other cultures. They aren't the same thing.
Load More Replies... Unpopular opinion: almost none of these posts are unpopular opinions or controversial in any way
Yep, kinda signing off most of them. Basic common sense of human decency.
Load More Replies... Unpopular opinion: people are getting so trigger-happy about calling people Karens that it's making more docile people afraid to speak up, especially women. I've never heard the word 'entitled' get thrown around like it has until recently. It's getting to the point that people are saying someone is entitled just because they did something that was a slight inconvenience to them. If that's not entitled, I don't know what is.
I agree. Some people (men and women) act "like a Karen". But nowadays its used mostly to harass women everytime that they are assertive
Load More Replies... Nah I think a lot of these are pretty uncontroversial and some are really arbitrary. I think the person is targeting more conservative people, or just trolling (like the one about juice).
I have an unpopular opinion. I don't think anyone should be able to have pets or babies until they have passed significant psychological testing. I don't care about rich or poor. Some people should never be allowed to have responsibility for other living beings. If I ran the world, I'd be very unpopular, because I would be a terrible dictator and not tolerate most of the s**t that goes down in the world.
Well, we do license for driving but not parenting...
Load More Replies... Unpopular opinion: BoredPanda reposting Instagram that is reposting/stealing Reddit. How deep can we go?
I don't understand why these are considered unpopular opinions I agree with almost everyone
You want something unpopular? I love human much more than I like animals. And pets. It doesn't mean that I dont like animals, or that I will harm them. But if I have to chose between a human an an animal, human will always come first. And I'll strongly judge you if you don't do the same.
Well, the top part of the list were again not unpopular opinions. The extended list was pretty lame. Not sure why I read to the end.
Unopoular opinion: men and women being half naked/in tiny outfits and dancing “sexy” on TikTok shouldn’t be allowed. Want likes and maybe money for looking like that and doing sexy things? Fine. Make an OnlyFans account. TikTok is used by SO many kids and they should not be watching that. I’m so afraid of my bf’s 8 yearold niece seeing a - way too - skinny girl in a bikini dancing sexy and getting thousands of likes, and thinking “that’s what I need to look like. But I don’t, so I wont ever get that many likes and nobody will ever like me!” And the same for young boys, for that matter. Both the “girls should look like that or nothing will do!” or “I don’t have a six-pack like him, so no woman will ever like me!”
Calling out a brand, business or company on something they are doing that is fraud, like for example, randomly adding extra data and thus money onto your internet bill, gets people called as Karens all the time. And these scammers get off scot free. They don't cancel your plan, when they were the ones calling you every week when you weren't a subscriber. They don't cancel or change your plan back to what it was unless you call them five times.
People commend Poland for taking in so many Ukranian refugees - yet African, Indian and literally any non-white students in Ukraine were restrained at the border, some were even beaten and abused. Poland doesn't need to be glorified for doing what is expected of them as human decency.
So this time BP copied an instagram account that copied reddit instead of copying reddit directly
I’m smiling and shaking my head at the fact that the hockey puck post was upvoted the most (of all topics discussed). Does this means that’s it’s the least polarizing of all the polarizing posts? Maybe the one thing we can all stand united on is that if we witness someone catch a ball or hockey puck at a game, we celebrate their win and let them keep it, guilt-free? 😁
Ieva ... been a fan of Bored Panda for many years. This is one of the best posts I've ever read! Thanks for sharing. - Ed Kelb -
Unpopulair opinion: Bubble tea is a waste of space and only popular because people say it's popular.
This s**t is nothing new. The hard reality is that people have been highlighting and pointing out and attempting to make better some of these issues for decades but the younger generation is just into calling them “boomers” and thinking that their revelations are new if unique snd the world needs to bend to their will. I get why customers are pissed office, some have good reason to be pissed off. Hell, how difficult is it to do your job with integrity?? BP is loaded with threads on what doesn’t work, what’s wrong and how things “should be”. It’s a hard lesson to learn that the world works for the ultra wealthy, not the little guy, yes it’s been getting worse, thank the GOP (the party of fear, gaslighting and greed). You want to make a difference, then invest in the work its going to take instead of being a huge part of the problem. Whining and bitching without learning what it takes to change things, just dismissing a whole generation IS A HUGE PART OFTHE PROBLEM!!!
If the gop is so greedy why is it liberals spending all the money?
Load More Replies... Right? From misogyny to contradiction s, to plain old lack of critical though, what a waste of time.
Load More Replies... No it isn't. Most of us appreciate other cultures. They aren't the same thing.
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