Unpopular Opinion
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How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
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- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
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4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
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5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
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Actually, it kinda is the almighty issue of the day, similar to how nukes and the cold war was that issue for our parents and grandparents. It's a reflection of humanity's kryptonite, a problem that is both too big (to fix) and too slow/small (to care about), simultaneously. Somehow.
If we can't grow up enough to address it in a serious fashion, we're going to rip ourselves to shreds in the coming centuries, as technology gives us more and more power to change our world in ways we can't necessarily foresee. With nukes, we just had to "don't shoot", and everything would be fine. No apocalypse. With this, and other potential future problems, we have to do something to help, we can't just wait and do nothing this time. We need to devise a new general strategy, better than wait-and-see.
Regarding mass-transit, that's a more complicated issue. Global warming is not though, global warming is a very simple issue. Which ends up being part of the problem, annoyingly, as it's so easy for people to come to lazy conclusions concerning it.