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The stock market is a scam, value has become meaningless, and capitalism is a slow march to societal breakdown and revolution.

People who say schools don’t teach anything useful are failed students.

Pick your cutoff age but it should be illegal to groom children into an organized religion. Frankly, since human brains are still developing until age 24-25 that would be my choice but 21 would be acceptable. "Let go and let god" is literally advocating for a trained lack of critical thinking skills.

Sugar and the industrial farming system are literally poisoning the food supply and driving a epidemic of chronic disease globally

You don't need more protein, you need more fiber.

Milk is gross

This “hydration” crap.

Up until the late 1970’s for approx 300,000 years of humans being around hydrated themselves just fine.

Long as there was water available one would drink when their body signaled them by getting thirsty (don’t care about exceptions to the rule where someone has a medical issue or if water was limited in high school, your a big person now). All of a sudden humans forgot to drink fluids?

Bullshit.

It’s just yet another scam the drink makers have perpetrated to get people to buy the various liquid products they sell.

I love Pineapple Pizza

Anime and Weeb culture are a stain on humanity and objectively bad.

I don't think humans deserve pets.

As someone who's slightly center-right, a significant number of my opinions are unpopular on this platform. But setting politics and social issues aside, I'd say the nuclear bomb of my unpopular opinions is my belief in determinism - and, by extension, my claim that free will is an illusion.

By that, I mean the idea that you could have done otherwise in a given situation is false. If we had a time machine and could replay a moment exactly as it was, you'd make the same choice every single time. Whatever caused you to make that decision the first time would cause you to do it again - without exception.

A related belief of mine is that the sense of self is also an illusion. To me, these are two sides of the same coin. By “self,” I mean the feeling that there’s a subject behind your face, looking out at the world. But that’s just brain chemistry. There’s no point in the brain where it all comes together - no central “you” making decisions. That’s why there’s no free will either - because there’s nothing making the decisions. They’re simply being made.

The illusion comes from the fact of consciousness. The fact of subjective experience. It feels like something to be you, from the inside. There’s qualia to your existence.

We should not try to save every creature, plant, business, whatever that is threatening to become extinct. Maybe it's just their time.