Yes, I recognize that there are outliers. I understand that the industry is saturated. I know that “mainstream” does not equate to quality. But good night…. Movies are not what they used to be. Now sure, I’ve aged, but I’m still in my early 30’s. Why is every movie putting me to sleep? They all feel unnecessarily long, the plots are ill contrived or just low effort, and nothing is iconic or memorable anymore. Is Hollywood in its end days? I’m of the impression that movies are going to die off in favor of TV and mini-series. Perhaps it’s our collective attention spans being diminished by social media, but honestly it feels more like Hollywood producers don’t care to create art anymore—just to profit off of mass produced garbage.

Maybe this isn’t an unpopular opinion. What do you think?

"But boneless wings aren't even wings, they're chicken nuggets!" Ok, fine. They are big ass chicken nuggets and chicken nuggets are awesome.

When I'm eating chicken wings, I want to pick up a chicken wing, put it in my mouth, and eat all of it. End of story. I paid for 100% of the food, and I eat 100% of the food. Its delicious and easy.

Traditional wings can't compete. It's a chore to find the actual meat among all of the cartilage, fat, and gristle. Any perceived enhanced flavor of the dark meat is immediately negated by the rest of the undesirable crap in there.

Finally, you end up eating like 40% what's on your plate. You're left with a gigantic pile of bones that is taken away from you at the end meal while you reach for a toothpick to remove all of the animal waste that is wedged between your teeth.

I prefere the middle seat on airplanes with the assumption that the two strangers are not crazy.

Pros: Not having your shoulder and leg bumped by every single person that walks by.

Getting up to use the bathroom isn't as complicated as the window seat.

It actually has the most leg room after take off. After take off, you are allowed to have your personal item under your legs instead. Switching gives you more leg room than the other seats.

It's actually the least awkward seat when recieving snacks. No big reach from the attendant.

You can almost always get really close to the front of the plane if you are booking closer to the flight.

You by far get the best AC fan.

It's fun to sit in awkwardly when the ailse seat is a no show but the window seat is still there.

Ever since I've moved to North America from Europe, I've noticed that a ton of people like to proudly proclaim how they make comparatively good money, solid 6 figures. Many of them doing things that, intuitively, don't sound like they'd earn that much, e.g., trades, but also things like sales etc.

Upon further questioning, it almost inevitably comes up that these people work way more than 40 hours per week.

While they may actually earn, say, 150k a year, in a debate where salaries are being compared, it makes no sense to treat them as a 150k earner, since they work extra hours. This doesn't even take into account working through holidays, while sick, and not taking time off, but that's just extra math people won't feel like doing anyway, so normalizing to a 40h workweek should be enough.

*edit:

Clearly I got the right subreddit for this. Now, just something that most people seem to have missed:

I specifically wrote that I'm talking about "a debate where salaries are being compared". Unless you want to compare apples and lettuce, you should be comparing at a standardized number of hours. Taxes, how much hits your bank account etc. is pretty much irrelevant for what I'm saying.

Also, I'm not judging anyone for choosing to work extra/fewer hours. That's your (hopefully voluntary) decision, obviously. But the point stands that if you work 50% more time than me and end up with 50% more money, when we're comparing, you're making the same amount I am, you're just working more. If I decided to work 50% more, I'd get the same amount in my bank account. In other words, you're not better paid, you work more.

Being an Asian and having gone to Japan 5 times I can confidently say that sushi sucks. I went to a Michelin star restaurant in Japan that specialises in sushi. It was mediocre.

Sushi just lacks flavour. It's basically just fish and sour rice in between seaweed. It needs some flavour. Some things in life are simple and delicious but some things are not like that such as sushi. Japanese foods like ramen and tonkatsu are better.

Title is a little dramatic but I just don’t think they do any actual valuable work. I think my main issue is with how we buy/sell homes. It’s an incredibly complex thing for something that at its core is not complex at all, creating a “need” for realtors who can actually understand all the nonsense that goes into buying a house, besides that I can’t think of a single thing they do that’s actually “work” besides telling you to get trendier kitchen cabinets (because obviously everyone who’s selling their house can afford to do an entire renovation to fit the realtors standards). It’s just silly to me.

I like imitation syrup. I do not like real maple syrup as much. Just because it's harder to make and more expensive doesn't mean it's actually any better.

Imitation syrup is also more versatile. It doesn't have the same darkness as maple syrup and never has a burnt flavor.

You can use fake syrup for more things: it goes better in tea and lattes, too.

Edit: it's worth saying, although it might be obvious, that there are huge differences in quality with some imitation syrups. Some people mentioned HFCS, which is not in every brand.

Edit: Log Cabin is the best.

“No Child Left Behind”, or “Every Student Succeeds Act” as it is now called, seems to still allow for very low thresholds and standards for kids to move forward to the level of education when they are, to put it bluntly, not at that level of progression.

Seeing these young adults struggle with basic math and spelling that should have started in early elementary curriculums yet somehow they made it through another five or six grades of schooling and “graduated” in some cases is doing the said child no favors.

It's not even about crazy sentence structure or formulaic math, but rather the girl at the drive-thru that reads off the total of $4.75, I give her $20.75 which causes her to have a mini-stroke and somehow I get back $17 back at the first window, which she then comes to the second window and says she made a mistake only to give me $2 more. Then there are the folks that send out the emails or texts with five simple words misspelled and using the incorrect variant of words like their, there, and they're.

I mean seriously, think about it, if the highest speed limit in most places is 75-85 MPH then why do we even need the capability? I understand that the engine is designed to be capable of going to higher speeds because then it puts less strain on the engine at lower speeds and improves engine health but there should be a safety design where, despite the ability, cruise control just kinda kicks in at 85-90 with the exception to first responders, emergency, and race track vehicles.

Edit: Wow this blew up. For clarity and elaboration, I know that governors to mandate a cars speed exist, but I am advocating for this effect to be not optional but mandatory for every road vehicle, ideally manufactured in such a way where removal or tampering results in failure of the engine. Any race vehicle without one should be limited to the tracks only.

People seem to be interpreting this as me trying to prevent people from speeding? No where in my post did I say that. With a cap of 100 miles an hour people can still speed in pretty much every existing zone. That’s not what I’m saying at all. I am trying to make the point that the capability of going upwards of 120 mph on any public stretch of road in the world is absolutely not worth its weight in fun or freedom to any probable risk, nor can I name one emergency where it’s validated either.

I honestly don’t give a shit about “Waaaah what about the autobahn or this one really remote road in Texas/Australia?” I’ve come to the conclusion that the autobahn to car junkies is the equivalent palm-fantasy of going to Amsterdam to potheads. Germans have been considering implementing a speed limit there for ages because of the danger, too, so I’m sure the 3 roads in the world with no speed limit or a high speed limit will be perfectly adaptable to changing that.

I dont know why this is unpopular but it is. Too many people get dogs without thinking of the scope of responsibility.

You should not have a dog if you can't afford major medical bills. You should not have a dog if you need to keep it locked up 10 to 16 hours a day.

I swear people think they are some anime characters or something. "I'm going to get my loyal companion who is perfectly trained and its all perfect".

The reality is extra bills and extra responsibility that people are not prepared for. The dogs get neglected and you end up with a bigger problem.

people complain how hard it is to get a dog from the shelter but I honestly think it should be harder.

Less so for work and such, more so among friends. It seems like most friend groups always have a handful of people who just show up 15-30 minutes late to hang out.

I find it incredibly disrespectful, mainly when they are CONSISTENTLY late. I think it’s more normalized among friends because it’s not professional in any way.

Whenever I speak up and try to call them out for being consistently late and inconsiderate, it’s casually brushed away.

I can’t fathom the idea of being late to anything, and am always apologetic on the rare occasion I am.

Edit: Kids and busses are a different story, i dont have any friends who have to deal with either, I would understand if this was a reason.