Might be controversial but: the whole Israel/Gaza stuff.
I don’t know much about it. It seems super complicated and controversial. I even realize that it’s controversial not to have an opinion on this topic!
But I really can’t get myself to have an opinion on something that I am clearly no expert in, something that frequently seems to lead people into arguments with others and something that, sorry to say, really doesn’t affect me at all in my life. There are wars all over the world, dunno why this one is the one people have such strong opinion about.
I think powerscaling is stupid so any powerscaling discussion beyond “this is stupid” is not something I feel strongly about
Who or what is “the best” of something. Any genre I can think of: Sports, art, food, engineering, design, whatever. Or I guess I kind of do, if you have some wild take that I don’t understand at all, but the discussions where people are like “lebron or kobe?” or “poe or shakesspeare?” I just do not get. “What’s the best anime?” eh. There’s no best of anything, it’s all just a matter of definition.
Seeing as we’re on lemmy and I’m sure other people here hold very strong opinions on these things:
- terminals
- text editors
I really don’t understand why people get so fixated on these things. Can I type in it, and they do the thing? 10/10 no notes.
Happy enough w/ most terminal emulators, but with Vim, it’s not hard finding programs for just about anything that mimic the keybind philosophy and I can keep my mits on the homerow where (i feel) they belong.
Pineapple on pizza. I don’t care. I don’t order it, but will eat it and not complain if served it.
I don’t have a strong opinion on how Trump should die… only that he should and soon.
Whether or not the guy historically known as “William Shakespeare” actually wrote all those plays. For one thing, the plays were probably produced with a lot of input and modifications on the fly from the company itself, so already anything that Will himself wrote is going to have been significantly altered along the way.
For another, the historical Shakespeare is almost as much of a folk character at this point as Paul Bunyan, so anything we can “know” about him is what we can reassemble from the historical record after 400 years have passed, so it’s all fairly muddied anyway.
Could just some guy from Stratford have written those plays? Yeah, I think so. Could it have actually have been some nobleman writing under a pen name? Also possible, but doesn’t meaningfully change the content of the plays or my feelings about them. In hindsight, if it was a pen name, the dude probably should have just bit the bullet and published under his own name, because now some glover’s son is the Immortal Bard, and Edward de Vere is the guy that only the cork board and red yarn set care about.
Ever is ever was ever will be.
Most authors have (writing) editors, dramaturgs, script supervisors, and if you add designers, actors, (film) editors, music, directors, choreographers of movement, fight, dance and intimacy, producers, ratings boards, reviewers, testing, recording equipment, printing, everything changes it a little.
Temperature. People all “it’s too hot, I’m cold” just shut up and go outside already. You can swim, start a fire, get naked, nestle in some brush, there’s nothing to get worked up about. You’re a self-regulating biological process that can both sweat and turn cheese you ate a week ago into heat. Those are turtle problems.
The Beatles. They’re fine. Just fine.
Celebrity gossip. I find it really difficult to care about what some celebrity said about something.
wait this seems like a strong opinion that celebrity gossip isn’t interesting. wouldn’t the neutral position here be that you would like to know what’s going on with your fave celebs but don’t go out of your way?
It’s making me kinda sad you can’t imagine someone just… Not having “fave celebs”
I’ve never gotten this either. Having an artist who’s work you enjoy and follow because they have a history of making something you like? Sure, but beyond that why care?
It’s not like an actor magically has a good talk on anything or is an expert on anything. They’re just famous.
oh no i can, i cbf about celebrities personally. I was just being pedantic as to whether the top reply here matches the prompt
Thank goodness ;)
what other people eat
i cannot imagine being so tedious that i give a shit that some rando likes to put dr pepper in their mayonnaise or whatever
People putting pineapple on their pizza.
Whatever man. Some people like opera music. Some people like golden showers. And some people like putting pineapple on their pizza. Can’t we all just get along?
Music fidelity, as long as I can hear it, idgaf about the quality of the speakers.
Very strange take. How about TV quality?
I really, truly, deeply envy you and wish I could say the same.
So many answers for strong opinions on “do what you like”.
A not-strong opinion is something like: ground pepper or cracked pepper? I recognize a difference, and I’d opt for cracked, but I really don’t have an opinion.
Literally any topic on which I have little to no knowledge. I can’t have an opinion on a topic I barely know exists.
