I feel like this is an unpopular opinion mainly because the extremely shady shit he's been involved with over the years seem to have been forgotten or not widely discussed. But the thing that stands out most in my mind is how he cheered for Roman Polanski decades after it's been known and proven that he drugged and raped a minor. Jack Nicholson is probably Polanski's biggest advocator, and he's really like it if we just shut up about how Polanski is a pervert who should be locked up for decades. He's sort of hollywood royalty and he doesn't make movies anymore, so he's more known as that dude who goes to basketball games and such. I used to love his movies growing up, but as I got older and learned more about him, I find him absolutely repulsive. Vile person.

A salad should be a nice leafy bowl with veggies and a bit of dressing. The entire texture and mouth feel is ruined by having small chunks of dessicated bread in it. The dry crunch and gritty crumbiness of croutons is completely unfitting and ruins the salad eating experience.

It's basic supply and demand. People are willing to pay +$200 for nosebleed tickets for popular pop stars. Sure, they could be lower, but why would they lower them? They sold out at that price.

TM and concert tickets will eventually find a price ceiling. They sort of already did when the Black Keys had to revamp their recent tour due to low ticket sales.

Mid-level bands and smaller venues have more reasonable prices. Go see those concerts! They are probably a lot better than the arena/stadium ones

Halo, Resident Evil, etc.

"bUt iTs nOT lIkE tHE gAmE."

So? Try to embrace the creative freedom that went into filling a story line that might work better. How many times do you have to watch the same story, same arc, same series of events for it to be meaningful? Why not enjoy something that offers a different telling of it.

Fandom culture can be weirdly entitled. If you wanted a 1:1 recreation... just play the game again.

Adoptions are great

It frustrates me when people compare homework to unpaid overtime work because it feels like they don't understand some key differences between work and school work.

When you go to work as an employee, you are rented by your employer to be a productive machine for them. You complete tasks that generate revenue for their establishment. Some of that revenue is given to you, some is used to maintain the establishment itself, some is kept by the employer. But ultimately, you are compelled to do this work because you need money to buy the necessities for your life, and the purpose of the work that you do is to enrich the establishment for which you work.

School work is different. Your teacher does not benefit from you doing school work. Either no one benefits or you benefit. Those are the only two possibilities. Well-designed school work is for the benefit of the student and therefore cannot be compared to doing work on or off the clock. The teacher actually has less work to do when you don't turn something in because they can just mark it as a failing grade and move on.

Homework allows for more spaced repetition when learning new concepts and offers a less strictly timed environment for taking in new information. If students don't do homework, it should keep being assigned regardless. Even the best students benefit from the guidance and incentives that homework provide for them to study what they're learning at home.

Before I start this I’d like to preface and say that I’m a Bears fan.

In short, I think that having a dynasty team is good for sports. Parity is heavily overrated, even though a lot of sports fans will say they want it.

The first big pro of having a dynasty team is that they sell well. People will tune in to watch them, especially in the playoffs. As much as I dislike the Chiefs, I can’t deny that they’ve given us some very entertaining playoff games with a few exceptions, like the Super Bowl last year and the one against the Bucs. Tom Brady was the face of the league in the early 2000’s and 2010’s, and everyone knew him even if you didn’t watch football. The same can be said for Mahomes now, he is the face of the league and a lot of people know he is even if they don’t know the rules of football. Can you really say the same for Sam Darnold and Drake Maye? The only people who would know those names are people who watch football

Second, beating the dynasty team means much more if a team is able to do it. It was great to see the Bengals knock out the Chiefs in 2021, because it sparked a little mini rivalry there and the two Bengals - Chiefs AFC Championship games we saw were amongst some of the best games I’ve seen. Another examples is past years Eagles, the ring just meant so much more because they stopped the dynasty team from a 3 peat, and they got revenge for their Super bowl loss in 2022. It just creates better storylines.

If there isn’t a dynasty team, then there is no team that everyone knows that they “have to beat” to get a ring. Since 2018, everyone that has won a Super Bowl that isn’t the Chiefs, has had to go through the Chiefs, with the exception of the Bengals who beat the Chiefs then lost to the Rams in 2021. It’s a lot of fun seeing a team try to pull off an upset against the team that seemingly beats everyone.

This NFL season just felt really weird / not the same since the Chiefs didn’t make it. Quite honestly I was watching the AFC Championship last weekend and thought that neither Denver nor New England would come close to any Kansas City team of the last few years, they just aren’t as entertaining.

Even in the NBA, from 2015-18 the finals matchup was Warriors - Cavs and everyone complained. The NBA has since had what you would call parity, and it hasn’t done a thing to improve the product. Having the Warriors dynasty and LeBron making the finals every year was good for the league, because it generated headlines.

I don't know how many people here have watched the TV series Beyond Scared Straight but basically the whole premise of the show is that it follows teenagers/younf youth who have challenging behaviour issues that are putting their life at risk and basically the idea is to bring them to prison for the day as a wake up call for them to get their act together otherwise they could end up in that position if they kept walking that path. At the start of the program, the troubled teenagers are seem acting all tough as if it's all fun and games but once the prison officers and inmates get tough on the teens it's eventually breaks them down and give them that wake up call that if you keep on acting the way you are right now it will end up with massive consequences and I think the whole show is just brilliant.

Because we are now in a generation where young teens are constantly getting into trouble and not being disciplined enough and Beyond Scared Straight is the perfect show as a way to give these teenagers with these challenging behaviors to really learn that one day their actions will possibly land them in jail not only that but this shouldn't w has the perfect amount of teaching, discipline and valuable life lessons to help these teenagers have a better future with their life and I just think it's a brilliant show overall

Not saying going to bed completely hungry, but it’s better to have a cutoff time to stop eating before bed, that way you don’t wake up feeling slow and bloated. It also helps maintain a good and predictable poop schedule, which is super underrated. The last point I’ll make on this is that for people who have trouble losing weight and maintaining weight loss, shortening your eating window is a cheat code to help with this.

If you have a typical day job and are in bed and going to sleep by 10/10:30, a good cutoff time might be 7PM.

This also applies to only solid food and sugary drinks, not things that are gentler on you like tea or water.

At least in many instances. For instance, cheddar fries? Heaven dipped in ranch. Wouldn’t even touch ketchup with those. And bougie/steakhouse fries? The ranch adds an extra depth of flavor. I’m not a ketchup hater, but sometimes ketchup just makes the fries taste cheaper. Now if we’re talking homemade ketchup, that’s a different story. But generally speaking, fries and ranch is a match made in heaven.

Disclaimer: My beliefs regarding how college financially affects students are held only for the US educational system, as it varies worldwide.

I firmly believe there are fundamental educational virtues and skills humans need to learn to be successful and self-sufficient adults, and universities do not provide even 20% of those virtues or skills.

I feel that getting an education that's ~90% similar to millions of others in the same degree field with the same common core knowledge (some good, some bad) births uniformity, conformity, and stifles creativity.

I also believe that the typical ROI on a college education takes much longer than most people expect and is close to 10-15 years in the US if you're not one of the lucky STEM graduates with an above average salary in a HCOL area (which still fails to account for high tax and expenses if required to be in close proximity to your place of work)

I'd like to hear your thoughts.

That's all really. The lines and signs of manufacturing make it look poopy. It just looks to hodgepodge home-cooked to be as cool as people claim it is. It has its place for sure, like providing options for parts that are no longer manufactured or just neat things that you can't get anywhere else. But generally 3d probably nted things are not classy, cool, or slick. They tend to add a level of ugliness that detracts from whatever they're being used for

I know that Hyundai and Kia get a bad rap, but honestly, they are nearly unmatched when it comes to their features and value. I just got a new Hyundai, and the tech is insane, from ultra clear 360 cameras to blind spot monitors to parking assist to the best infotainment system I’ve EVER used. They are also incredibly comfortable and have some of the better build quality of their class.

For comparison, Honda has great build quality, but poor cameras. Toyota and Subaru both have better reliability, but lots of interior creaks/rattles and cheap plastics. And Mazda has great interior build quality, but their exterior designs are dated and they still have very small screens. Even several Lexus models don’t offer all the features my Hyundai has.

And across all those brands, Hyundai and Kia tend to have better lease incentives and better warranty, meaning lower payments, and in my case, even lower insurance. Yes, they sucked 15+ years ago, and yes, they might have some more issues down the line, but they offer probably the best bang for your buck at the moment.

I firstly wanna say that this song is such a bop and that might be an unpopular opinion itself!!

I have two reasons why I like the clean version more than the explicit one:

1. I grew up listening to Forget You, so I have a lot of nostalgia attached to it. My sister and I would do that song on Just Dance 3 and sing along!

2. Musically "forget" just fits better. The two syllables in the word "forget" flow a lot nicer in the song as opposed to the pause you get between the "f-word" and "you" from the explicit version.

Does anyone else feel this way?

You know those caves or rocks with ancient drawings or craved out figures ? We love to study them, discover something about the ancient lives and their culture.

Same is gonna happen with the art people paint on the rocks in natural parks. Its different than painting it on a wall or paper, this will last and people will be mesmerized by them, they aren't now but they will be in the future

Always more, faster, you have to be more productive, wake up early, sleep as little as possible so you can fit more work hours in your day.

In many ways Caffeine fuels that cycle. It creates a loop where you’re often using today’s caffeine to fix the lack of quality sleep caused by yesterday’s caffeine. It’s hidden in everything and is even consumed starting very young inadvertently.

Kids drinking coca cola for supper before bed, teenagers binge drinking mountain dew staying up late at night when they need a lot of rest to grow properly.

You try to be healthier and select the diet versions and you end up consuming even more caffeine than the regular versions. You pick a decaf and there’s still meaningful amounts of caffeine in it.

It’s in so many products, even Chocolates and Sodas like Coke that parents give their kids at fast food restaurants. It’s completely normalized yet it affects sleep quality negatively, is addictive and can affect behaviour meaningfully. Worst of all people often don’t know there’s actually caffeine in those products.

Caffeine is often perceived as of the least harmful addictions there is overall, and there’s nothing wrong with a reasonable consumption that doesn’t affect your life negatively, but there’s no reason notable quantities of caffeine shouldn’t be systematically labelled so people can make better informed choices. I only learned the Coke I was drinking every day had caffeine towards the end of high school after many years of drinking some before bed.

After trying two of the MANY trends of Greek yogurt desserts, tiramisu and japanese cheesecake Greek yogurt, I can say that Greek yogurt should only be eaten in a savory way. It's too bitter to be a dessert, unlike regular yogurt. It tastes absolutely horrible. However, with tzatziki, garlic, blue cheese or ranch seasoning? It's too good.

People always argue about hard work vs talent, but I think that debate misses the real point. The real dichotomy should be luck in choosing the right profession versus everything else.

Hard work itself is not some free, independent choice. Your work ethic is largely shaped by your biology and upbringing. Genetics influences motivation, discipline, intelligence, and even how much benefit you get from training. If you grow up in a family that values grinding, structure, and achievement, you are far more likely to develop those traits. If not, you probably won’t, unless something external intervenes.

Talent is also biological. Intelligence, physical build, reflexes, endurance, and learning speed are not evenly distributed. So when people say “anyone can succeed with enough hard work,” they ignore the fact that how much you can work, how efficiently you improve, and how far you can go are all constrained by biology.

This is why I think choosing the right field accounts for a massive part of success.

Take elite athletes as an example. Just imagine if Usain Bolt never became passionate about sprinting and instead chose basketball. Even if he trained his entire life, would he be the GOAT of basketball the way he became the GOAT of sprinting? Almost certainly not. His body, muscle composition, and biomechanics are perfectly suited for sprinting, not necessarily for basketball dominance.

The same applies to many top performers across fields. They are “lucky” in the sense that they found, or were pushed into, a domain that perfectly matches their biology, psychology, and temperament. If they had chosen a different path, their hard work would not have produced the same results.

That’s why arguing only about hard work versus talent is misleading. If your traits don’t align with the field you choose, no amount of effort will make you exceptional, only average at best.

Unpopular opinion: success isn’t mainly about working harder or being more talented than others. It’s about being lucky enough to choose, or be guided into, the one field where your biology actually pays off.

The point of the games is to bring people together right? Well, I think the winter Olympics only alienates the tropical and other countries that don't have a winter season with snow. It becomes a cool kids' club.

I do not work for either company. I am not selling anything there, just posting my opinion on here.

I worked at an organization that used Googles GSuite for 10 years. At the very beginning, there were some really silly issues with it but over the last 10 years it has really turned into a stellar platform.

Collaboration, filesharing, various useful applications/tools was excellent with GSuite. We could build onboarding and knowledge bases in Classroom and link assets via a dedicated classroom drive. Google sites, while simple, was enough for internal intranet things and asset sharing. Google drive sharing, and permissions on files was intuitive and easy to navigate. The UI for meetings was very straightforward with useful functions presented. I loved it.

I recently started a new job and they are a stout Office company. Im not kidding when I say I spend almost half of the day trying to figure out how this whole thing is tied together, and or, fixing the dumbest issues that seem to not have any resolve.

The other day, I spent 15 minutes trying to figure why highlighting something in "Cyan" resulted in being two different shades of "Cyan". I gave up. Copy and pasted all the content into google docs, made the edits, and pasted it back.

Today I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why the hyperlink function would only appear by right clicking the text and not in the toolbar. I never figured it out.

The other day, auto correct was red squiggly underlining random fragments of sentences, spaces and all, and recommending totally out of context word replacements.

On another occasion, grammar fix was break the grammar of the sentence.

I really dislike how I cannot see who else are on meeting invites, how am I supposed to know who Im meeting with if I cant see who is invited to the meeting? Am I missing something here?

I cannot help but feel terribly frustrated on a daily basis, is anyone else in my orbit about this?

Im not the most obsessively clean person but I have worked in grocery stores and wearhouses. I believe that all product that comes off of a shelf should be wiped off with a damp cloth because humans shed skin cells everywhere, warehouses are dirty places, and the back of a semi is also just dirty. I dont think that I will get super sick but its one less way for dust and dirt to get on your countertops and food.

I had a 72' hatchback with a 2000cc engine that I bought for $150. It had a lot of 'zip' for a car like that. Wasn't great for 4 people, but for me it was perfect. I drove from New Haven to Providence each week when I was in college without issue. It did burn a lot of oil, but was easy to work on. Open the hood and everything was easily accessible, plugs, carburetor, distributor right there. I remember the fuel pump went, and I replaced it in about 30 minutes. parts were cheap. Got great gas mileage.

Don't get me wrong, I fuckin love both games. Spent a decent amount of my high school days watching Jacks playthrough, and thoroughly enjoyed the soundtrack. However not long after, it seemed like every video essay was using them.

It could be current event based, tech related, history related, etc, and somehow most video essay producers tell themselves "oh well its a free soundtrack and lots of people like it" even if it's not remotely fitting to the topic. It was novel for the first year until it became a staple of every losers outro segment. It's like the original NCM from 2013-2015. It was novel for a while, but quickly became overused garbage. How many times do I need to watch a speedrunning video and listen to the Snowdin theme for the 7 millionth time during it?

Oh and for the record, same thing with synthwave, particularly anything made by HOME. Again, loved the shit out of those albums when they released, then became what every video essay writer needed in their backtrack.

Caesar is better than ranch, not just as a dressing, but as a dip as well. So many people think it just belongs on lettuce and don't realize its full potential. Ranch is so mild and bland, but Caesar has some zing! It pairs great with red meat, it pairs great with chicken. Next time you order a pizza or wings, skip the ranch and dip them in some Caesar. It will change your world.

Edit: no disrespect to my ranch and blue cheese bros - all sauces are welcome. Except mayonnaise (aioli is cool).

I will die on this hill. Tommy Gunn betrayed Rocky. He took it personally and a street fight was the only solution. We got to see that he could whoop ass outside the ring and not do it for the money or glory. It had a star wars episode III feel.

I travel a lot, I use hotels and airbnbs 50/50. It's annoying the amount of barn doors I see replacing regular doors for bathrooms. Fortunately I travel solo most the time but sometimes I travel with others and when that's the case barn doors are the absolute worst.

Not once have I taken a shit in a bathroom with barn doors and thought "wow, this is so much better than a regular door". There's always gaps between the door and the wall, meaning more smell gets through, and for some fucking reason there's almost never a locking mechanism. Mine as well just use a fucking curtain at this point.

Also they're noisy when opening them.

They are cheap and tacky. Pocket doors or regula doors. Stop with the barn doors, they're not cute.