Unpopular opinions

[OldFartTom]

...I am glad liberals love Pandas. The Pandistic Ideology is where we disagree most.

Liberals love giant pandas because they are demisexual (even the males) and part of the bear brotherhood. That's 2 of the official pride flags right there.

And the right hates them, because they're from C-h-y-n-a

[mtpockets]

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Size Matters


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There is other life out there..


I also believe they are smarter than us, know about us and are staying the fuk away.

Who would want to visit a spinning rock where fukkers are killing each other, having wars, destroying their own planet and where many believe that one Sky Daddy created everything and there was a talking snake?


Not exactly enticing on an intergalactic travel ad.




Have a great day you unpopular opinion Peeps

It's time for this old boy to wet some paddles..

[Mark1T]

Liberals love giant pandas because they are demisexual (even the males) and part of the bear brotherhood. That's 2 of the official pride flags right there.

And the right hates them, because they're from C-h-y-n-a

LOL. Pandas are also bi-fur animals and multi-gender. Not sure what the Black and Brown bears think about that.



MT, beautiful.

[thedickus]

If 13% of the US population makes up almost 40% of the US prison population then maybe something other than just race is causing the disparity.

[LWW]

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where many believe that one Sky Daddy created everything and there was a talking snake?

What came first the chicken or the egg.

The sky daddy made all that possible to create a perfect end creature that’s why there are no more mutations eg proto chickens around anymore.

[LWW]

There is other life out there..


I also believe they are smarter than us, know about us and are staying the fuk away.

where many believe that one Sky Daddy

Not exactly enticing on an intergalactic travel ad.

Look at the irony here,

Someone’s out there, watching us and smarter than us……..

There is no sky daddy….

All in the same breath. Gotta love it!

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There is other life out there..

I like what Hawking wrote about this. He said, our life here on earth is - compared to the life of the whole universe - only a short moment. It is not only a question of how and where contact happens, but also if two entities, able to communicate with each other, meet during their blink of a life span.

It would be interesting if something was too far away from us to travel, but close enough that we could communicate every few years or so by light. Kinda like having an interstellar pen pal.

[Mark1T]

The universe, being almost 14 billion years old, I have wondered how many civilizations have been created, thrived, destroyed by their red giant Suns and forgotten in that time. Life on Earth began approximately 4.1 billion years ago as microbes. Approximately 2.8 million years ago, Homo Habilis, the first human species evolved and the earliest species where there is evidence of the use of stone tools.

I believe there is life on other planets somewhere. But, there are what seems like an infinite number of factors that have to fall into place for a species to be at the stage where they have developed technology greater than ours to communicate with other planets. Life on another planet may be microbes and millions of years from ever evolving into anything human-like. I believe that the chances of finding life is great, but the probability of finding a high technological civilization is small. But, with hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe, that small probability may represent thousands waiting. I believe there are advanced life planets and life just beginning on other planets.

If Earth is about 14 billion years old, there may be 5 billion years left before our Sun goes red giant as its life is coming to an end, expanding and engulfing every single planet in our solar system including Earth. Life on Earth will have been destroyed long before that happens.

Get a plan together.

[Karl_Hungus]

In light of the thread title, I will interject an unpopular opinion. I believe it is entirely possible that we are the only intelligent life in the universe. Those who proffer an intelligent life hypothesis do so on the basis of an enormous universe and the innumerable opportunities for life to arise. Trouble is, people are not very good at probabilistic reasoning. We have no idea what the probability of life spontaneously arising is even at a simple level, much less the probability of life reaching an advanced stage of intelligence. It may be so infinitesimally small that despite the sheer number of opportunities, we are effectively sitting at a probability of zero. That is why I remain completely agnostic on this point until evidence of such life comes to light. I need to see flying saucers and little green men with ray guns.

I will say it again. Pandas are a f*cking disgrace to the world of bears. Give them something to climb, anything at all, they’ll fall off. Something to lie or sit on, fall off. Bears are apex predators, pandas are their special needs cousins.

They being said, despite being lazy f*cks who eat trees, they are equipped like carnivores, have sharp teeth, claws, and jaws that can eat bamboo. With that in mind I will continue to belittle the animal from afar.

Seems like Pandas always get all of the attention. There are other animals out there worthy of our fascination and/or antipathy. Why doesn't anybody ever talk about plasmodial slime molds? I believe that they are fine representatives of the mold community.

[steffo99]

I want waterbeds to make a comeback - never got to try those. Should be able with new tech/materials to make them more reliable. But want a large and deep version where you can add your own fish/ecosystem - like a big soft aquarium to look down on. For the record, I'm not high.

[Thebigzub]

Life as we once knew as kids is dissolving...Kids today are products of mindless (so called) advancements.

Because of recent technology, a 16 year old can't function as humans did just 30 years ago...
Imagine if we can make it another 30 years...

As I was told by said 16 year old recently......."Ok boomer"

[mtpockets]

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We evolved from primates












This is a bald chimp

[Deathstroke]

Too many to list. Will go through this thread and hopefully add mine later on this evening over weed, and some coffee.

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Seems like Pandas always get all of the attention. There are other animals out there worthy of our fascination and/or antipathy. Why doesn't anybody ever talk about plasmodial slime molds? I believe that they are fine representatives of the mold community.

On the positive side pandas are cute and widely known, which makes them ideal mascots to encourage people to donate and/or get into conservation. But whenever I see a video of those dipsh*ts rolling around and falling out of trees, I remember 98% of global biodiversity gets a tiny fraction of the conservation funding while the charismatic megafauna get the bulk.

It's not that they don't need conservation, or that they get too much funding, it's that the creepy crawlies that keep the exosphere running need more than they're getting.

[Mark1T]

To be clear, I was just joking about liberals in this thread. I try to be obvious in my sarcasm.

[mtpockets]

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Along the lines of all the Galaxy talk..

[LWW]

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We evolved from primates












This is a bald chimp

If we evolved from that chimp, why are there still chimps here? makes no sense at all.

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If we evolved from that chimp, why are there still chimps here? makes no sense at all.

Humans are not descended from chimps. Humans are apes. We share a common ancestor with the other great apes: chimps, gorillas, and orangutans. Just like you and your cousins (assuming you have some) share a pair of grandparents as your most recent common ancestors.

[mtpockets]

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Gardening sucks ass



Respect to those who do it, but it's not for me.


I could never be a farmer or gardener. To me it’s just a lot of work for little return and quite frankly a royal pain in the ass. We grew all our own vegetables growing up, every type imaginable and a ton of them.

Don’t get me wrong, We love fresh vegetables and eat them daily but I let other people grow them and I get them from them. Spending hours and hours planting, maintaining and harvesting that stuff when I can go down the road and buy them for a few bucks doesn’t make sense to me. I do grow a lot of weed though, in that area I call myself a “Plant Manager” rather than a gardener.






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If we evolved from that chimp, why are there still chimps here? makes no sense at all.

LMAO....

No one descended from that chimp..

We are all related though. apparently some more than others

[paulinkansas]

[LWW]

Humans are not descended from chimps. Humans are apes. We share a common ancestor with the other great apes: chimps, gorillas, and orangutans. Just like you and your cousins (assuming you have some) share a pair of grandparents as your most recent common ancestors.

This is more delusional than the sky daddy.

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This is more delusional than the sky daddy.

Science is crazy, I know. The family of great apes that includes us is called Hominidae. The larger family that includes all apes is called Hominoidea

[Mark1T]

I am an Ape and Caveman believer. I don't believe that Cavemen and Cavewomen have been given a fair shake. Incredibly underserved market.

I heard Apple is going to design a Caveman iPhone that's about 4X normal Plus size for the Caveman's fat fingers. They take forever at the grocery store checkout. Lots of meat. Massive amounts of meat.

[mtpockets]

[LWW]

Science is crazy, I know. The family of great apes that includes us is called Hominidae. The larger family that includes all apes is called Hominoidea

Actually no, science isn’t crazy.

Tell me, so your saying apes evolved to humans?

Or humans appeared? Because Pockets post says we “evolved”.

When I look at pictures of humans evolving it shows humans were covered in hair. So, when we were apes were we covered in hair at birth, or did child apes develop all this hair?

Why would the hair disappear anyway? It seems we needed that hair even living in caves, did we adapt to the heat of fire or something?

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Actually no, science isn’t crazy.

Tell me, so your saying apes evolved to humans?

Or humans appeared? Because Pockets post says we “evolved”.

All humans are Homo sapiens, part of the great apes. We evolved from earlier apes, which far enough back shared a common ancestor with groups that later became other modern types of apes: gorillas, chimps, etc.

When I look at pictures of humans evolving it shows humans were covered in hair. So, when we were apes were we covered in hair at birth, or did child apes develop all this hair?

Why would the hair disappear anyway? It seems we needed that hair even living in caves, did we adapt to the heat of fire or something?

I’m pretty certain we have as much hair as our cousins, it’s just much finer as we are much better at regulating our body temperature. Basically, our brain development, lifestyle, and diet developed such that we no longer needed as much fur, teeth, or strength.

[LWW]

I’m pretty certain we have as much hair as our cousins, it’s just much finer as we are much better at regulating our body temperature. Basically, our brain development, lifestyle, and diet developed such that we no longer needed as much fur, teeth, or strength.

HA HA, so you are just making stuff up here. I looked it up and there is no proven answer for this which isn’t surprising because this is NOT science. This is why science isn’t crazy, you are if you think we were apes.

The fur theory makes no sense at all. We ditched the fur when we were still hunters but ended up needing fur coats. Then our after ditching the fur in order to hunt better in the warm weather we ended up weak because we no longer hunt but stayed the same as we evolved from somewhat hunters and now couch potatoes.

Kool Aid!!!!

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HA HA, so you are just making stuff up here. I looked it up and there is no proven answer for this which isn’t surprising because this is NOT science. This is why science isn’t crazy, you are if you think we were apes.

Sure, a scientist would never say it's "proven" humans evolved from apes (because it was not directly observed by scientists). While it's not always the case in science, we definitely have more than enough evidence to "100% prove" (though logical connection) that humans evolved from apes.


Evidence for humans evolving from a common ancestor with chimps:

homology, DNA similarity, fossil record, evidence of observed evolution in other species, nested hierarchies of the Tree of Life, many more, all correlating with each other.


Evidence against:

A collection of scrolls compiled 2500 years ago by people who did not know where the Sun went at night.


The Smithsonian has a Human Origins website that is pretty easy to follow. They have info on several types of evidence and pages on each of the species we've discovered.

https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence

The fur theory makes no sense at all. We ditched the fur when we were still hunters but ended up needing fur coats. Then our after ditching the fur in order to hunt better in the warm weather we ended up weak because we no longer hunt but stayed the same as we evolved from somewhat hunters and now couch potatoes.

We ditched the fur because we were the ones who decided to stop f*cking around in trees and go to the savannah where it was considerably more hot and we had to run our prey to exhaustion. So our feet changed and so did having fur. Sweating was gained. Other apes did not take this approach.

[Deathstroke]

Old earth creationists
Old earth. Animals came first before man of course. Both scientists and the Bible tells us this.
Man was perfect made in gods image. Man was perfect at first. Over the centuries man’s spirit and human genetics devolved. It’s why Adam and Eve s children could procreate and have their babies come out perfect and not all retarded like incest babies would today. By the time of Moses in the book of Leviticus we as a species had multipled enough and spread enough tribes throughout the land where marriages and relations between CLOSE relatives was outlawed. Our food in the gardens were perfect too originally before we as a species fell and rebelled against god. Nonbelievers came way later, up until the 19th century when atheism became more prevalent. Up until then is was commonplace for anyone to believe in god.

[Deathstroke]

Pro wrestling is harder than MMA.
Many who’ve done both have said this too. Yes an elite level mixed martial artist will kick a wrestlers ass. But the rigors of pro wrestling are real. Their bodies take a pounding that many cross over mma stars were unaware of.