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.

Watching porn is morally problematic.

Most people aren’t paying for their porn. They’re watching stuff uploaded, for free/pirated, often without the involvement or approval of the people involved.

Porn also normalizes extreme acts - things like choking, which is more dangerous than actually whipping someone.

Hydration. Until 30 years ago, humans had no problem hydrating themselves when water was available. Note available. It’s called being thirsty. All of a sudden, you must hydrate, you must hydrate. Somehow, all the executives at all the big drink companies got together and said let’s just use the word hydration and hope for potluck on which product of ours they buy. Of course everyone jumped on the corporate bandwagon and they are now completely converted to this weird idea that humans don’t know how to hydrate when they need to so they can sell their sugar laden crap.

The "running man" hypothesis -- the idea that our ancestors a million or two years ago were casually jogging after prey animals until they dropped from exhaustion due to our supposedly superior endurance -- is utter nonsense. It's absurd on its face and there is absolutely no evidence of any kind supporting it, yet it has become generally accepted as an incontrovertible fact about our past.

The man who initially proposed this idea in the 1960s (Grover Krantz) has become utterly forgotten and is never referenced by the idea's modern proponents, and for good reason: he was better-known as a staunch believer in the existence of Bigfoot. Also, for no reason I've ever been able to figure out, his skeleton and the skeleton of his favorite dog are on display at the Smithsonian.

Here's an unpopular opinion for people to upvote because we're supposed to upvote the opinion we think is unpopular:

Linux sucks more than the users want to admit and it's fans are the worst.

If you have to learn to program stuff to fix something in your OS, then it's not a good OS. This isn't the case for most modern Linux, but there's many examples of just having to learn all sorts of crap just to make it functional. With the other two mainstream OS they are plug and play. Lately they have done shitty choices with AI and everything so that's not as much of the case, but at least there you don't have to go in and fix the code to make something functional.

If Linux was that great, you wouldn't have to do any of that. I find it's a weird parallel to owning a crown vic, where you have to pile sandbags in the back so it'll drive in literally any snow, and then when you talk about it people say it's a skill issue because they are hardcore fans of a dumb cop car. If you have to do something special to make something functional, that's not a feature, that's a bug.

And then, ye gods, the Linux fans. I know of someone who was berated for almost an hour over not using Linux. The person getting yelled at was like, 7. They are the smug Internet atheists of the tech world. They won't shut up about Linux. Their solution to anyone looking up how to fix something with their computer is to uninstall everything and switch to Linux, even if it's unrelated. If someone has a criticism for Linux they have a meltdown. They feel smug and superior in their choice of OS, euphoric and enlightened with their own intelligence.

That being said I'm probably going to switch to Linux anyway. Because fuck the changes windows made.

Cars and trucks should be banned within cities entirely.

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.

The EU is a trap. Once Russia and China are destroyed, the western Elite will also treat the average citizens like they treat Africans and third world Asians. The elite is only good to people they need and once they control everything they need nobody to fight for them.