(Part 2) Top products from r/unpopularopinion

> Anybody can sing but not everybody can sing well, that is a skill that takes practice.

Anybody can sing and anybody can sing well but not everyone is born with a good voice plus it takes luck to land yourself to music industry. Good voice is not equal to success. Some of the best voices I have heard on x Factor went completely unsuccessful. Luck, luck and luck + Skills! However, YouTuber need LUCK not skills. Completely irrelevant to what I was saying originally. You are just pushing me to the edge and trying to win. I will advice you to stick to your OP aka "Is Youtuber hard work?". If not, I will not bother replying.

> do not believe you can do what PewDiePie does

I can scream louder than PewDiePie.

> MOST people who work on YouTube make below minimum wage

Really? Source please? Anyway, irrelevant to HARD WORK. IRRELEVANT TO WHAT I SAID! SERIOUSLY! DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW TO DISCUSS!? angry.gif



> editing, acting, writing/scripting, directing, producing

• YouTube editing is easy. If you think it's hard then it's your problem..
  
  
• YouTube acting is not acting. I hope you are not serious.
  
  
• Nobody writes scripts on YouTube. Even Smosh don't. VSauce reads everything off wikipedia. AsapScience reads everything off books they are about to advertise. I'm not saying it's not okay but it's definitely not hard work when compare to a real job.
  
  
• You know what directing mean?
  
  
• Producing what?
  
  
  You wrote such a loooooong post for what? To defend them with no.. umm.. no logic? I'm speechless. I really am.
  Btw, I am not anti-YouTuber. I sound like one becaues you are Pro YouTuber who think they work hard.
  
  
  I am a programmer but I don't whine how my job is hard. However, now I'm going to whine to you. I work on game engine graphic programming side and it is really really really tough. I need to study a lot and get a lot of new skills or I am fired.
  
  What is my everyday life is like?
  
  
• Wake up at 6:00am, Take shower, eat, morning exercise blah blah blah..
  
  
• Go to work at 9:00am.
  
  
• Solve new programming related problems. Lots and lots of math, geometry and physics(for lighting).
  
  
• 1:30pm eat lunch with co-workers who are my only friends because of my full-time job and talk about science(We love talking about alien and simulation world).
  
  
• Good! No overtime today! 7:00pm get home with headache. Study new technology. OH, new version of vulkan is released? Time to STUDY and impress my BOSS! If I don't, I will never be a senior game engine programmer.
  
  
• Eat dinner say goodnight to MYSELF and sleep. :/
  
  You see? An average YouTuber have nothing to do and spends most of his time whining how media is insulting them and how they work hard for nothing and haters gonna hate bullshit blah blah blah.. huh.
  
  
  
  PS: I only earn around $4000 a month! Companies prefer using their money to advertise their games using YouTubers. Who does nothing other than scream at top of their lungs and here are people like you who call it a hard work.. Try reading this book from amazon using "look inside". You will learn that there is so much to learn before you can even get into a game engine programming job! It is just one of 25 books.
  
  PPS: This is what whining is like.
  
  
  Edit:
  
  > I downvote ignorance, sorry.
  
  Funny how the ignorant one is you.

https://www.quora.com/Why-has-Africa-historically-never-been-technologically-and-militarily-as-developed-as-the-rest-of-the-world

I've seen you attacking people for "being unwilling to change their stance" a lot but, maybe give this a read. Or if you're actually the "facts don't care about your feelings" guy and are so self assured in your "solid" opinion, maybe give this a read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-Steel-history-everybody/dp/0099302780

Here's a short summary since I have a feeling you won't be that interested, and it is VERY short summary.

"To summarise some of the main reasons, 1 geography: in places like Europe the geography of the land contributed 2 main things to societal development, the first being agricultural access(or how easy it is to farm excess) and also the opportunity of trade mostly through water routes. The ability to easily farm lead to specialisations in societies, or people who specialised in specific tasks, enabling that civilisations to further progress. The ease of trade allowed ideas and technology to spread and take root in farther lands than the origin (the Mediterranean). Another big factoring this varied development of societies is domestic animals. While Europe had the cow, pig, horses, chicken, etc. places like Africa had almost no domesticated animals to help mainly agriculture and transport of goods."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel This wikipedia article also breaks many of the key points down into smaller chunks to read over.

We shall see, but I get what you’re saying. If you haven’t read it “Age of Ambition” is a really great book on life inside modern China. I highly recommend it. It’s also quite entertaining.

https://www.amazon.com/Age-Ambition-Chasing-Fortune-Truth/dp/0374535272

Fair enough, it's your lifestyle choice, after all.

On the other hand, generalizing about men and their lack of care for your pleasure from this is not only bad thinking, -- it tells us more about your past partners, then about men as a whole. There is a reason why books like this sell widely: https://www.amazon.com/She-Comes-First-Thinking-Pleasuring/dp/0060538260

Yeah I agree.

It's also really, really unnatural.

A lot of people don't believe it, but with every human step we actually had to work more. Initially a farming society might have worked less than a hunterer & gatherer society, but after a few decades they actually had to WORK MORE than earlier, mainly because of the growing living standard and society. Same goes for the industrialisation.

If you compare our live to that of a stone-age civilization, you'd actually find that we work far more than them. Obviously that has granted us a FAR higher living standard, but it's still unnatural.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316117/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2Z3M16F84J3NM&keywords=a+short+history+of+humankind&qid=1556869021&s=gateway&sprefix=a+short+history+of+human%2Caps%2C255&sr=8-1

> I've heard it described as boys being handled like they are defective girls.

Yep.

> “Girl behavior is the gold standard in schools,” says psychologist Michael Thompson. “Boys are treated like defective girls.”

http://ideas.time.com/2013/10/28/what-schools-can-do-to-help-boys-succeed/

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Boy-Richard-Wright/dp/B000NYRQ0K

https://www.amazon.com/Outsider-Richard-Wright/dp/0061450170

I'm tempted to send this to the OP so I can hear this rant on youtube while the OP burns it.

Are you talking about this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Self-Made-Man-Womans-Year-Disguised/dp/0143038702#immersive-view_1554747937592

I wouldn't call that picture feminine per se. But whatever.

Read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Solution/dp/0062303023

Then feel free to comment on Nazis and persecution, you fucking idiot.

This isn’t evidence but this book lays out the idea of how some vegetables may cause you harm from their natural pesticides.


The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain https://www.amazon.com/dp/006242713X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_FNyYDbRB0DC8E

Of course you don’t see or feel the privilege. And this is absolutely no fault of your own. You’ve had it your whole life. To you it’s perfectly normal, expected, it’s the status quo and it is invisible to you.

I had this very discussion with my uncle-in-law a little while back. He couldn’t understand how people of color and people in poverty can’t live “the American Dream” simply by working hard (ie “pull yourself up by your bootstraps). He kept pointing out the challenges in his own upbringing and how he had overcome them “all on his own.” He just could not see how his upper middle class upbringing which included a working father and stay at home mom both of whom were college educated, four bedroom house in a good neighborhood, and private schooling with after school tutoring had afforded him a level of privilege not available to people in poverty.

So here is my challenge to you. Go and find a black man any black man and ask them about how they have experienced racism and discrimination in their own lives; ask him how he responds to being pulled over by a cop. Find a poor family of color using government assistance and ask them about how they are talked to by everyday people while they work two full time jobs and go without food to make sure their kids have dinner. Go and find a person who speaks with a Spanish accent and ask them how often they are told to “go back where they came from.” Go and find a woman working in the same position as you do and ask her what her salary is. Go and ask a woman what she does to protect herself when she has to go out alone at night.

Then ask yourself why YOU have never experienced those things. The answer is because you are a white male. Still don’t believe me. Then pull out a book and read. Here are some great books that will educate you to the condition of people of color:

• Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal
  
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
  
• So You Want to Talk About Race
  
• The Hate U Give
  
  These are just a few examples. There are Oh so many more. Before you discount the idea of privilege make sure you educate yourself about the condition of the people under your feet.
  
  YOU may not be putting people down to pull yourself up, but that doesn’t mean you didn’t start higher up the ladder than they did.

Ooh, an actual unpopular opinion.

I agree with some of what you say, but like a lot of people (including the ones you’re attacking) you’ve conflated introversion with being shy or being socially awkward. Introversion is not either of those things. Shyness and social awkwardness seem to arise more often in Introverts because of the high social value placed on Extroverted traits in our culture, and the fact that Introverts often get treated as if there is something wrong with them from a young age.

Introverts also do tend have higher IQs than Extroverts. So yes, even though being an Introvert doesn’t guarantee you’re some kind of tortured genius, it does make it more likely that they’re further to the right on the IQ bell curve than a randomly selected Extrovert.

A good book on the subject - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0141029196

You don't know shit about biology. Go read any general biological textbook today, and I guarantee you it will have the distinction between gender and sex.

Here, I recommend this book I read from when I took Biology for Science majors. https://www.amazon.com/Campbell-Biology-11th-Lisa-Urry/dp/0134093410

Stop peddling your misinformation and bankrupt agenda, idiot.

Amen

People just like to complain about the growing income gap (between rich and poor) or the rape culture or the growth in violence when in fact all statistics show that the world is a much better place now than it was 50 years ago: in these times being poor meant not having a fridge and not eating every day. Today it's having a smartphone that's not an iphone. Rape occurrences got halved over the last 20y and litteracy rates have gone up significantly in places where it was really low.

Just read The Rational Optimist which shows how the world is so much better than it used to, and humans have always found ways to avoid the catastrophy that doomsayers were announcing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust

These were run by the same people as pre-Nazi times. They were close to the Nazis due to cooperation not coercion. Even Peugeot was allowed to keep his factories after the invasion of France. This is very unlike the USSR and any socialist principles whatsoever.

So you’re saying the stamping out of pro-socialist organisation proves that the Third Reich was socialist? You’ve also ignored the NEP and Stakhanovite movement.

Also point to me where Marx says that workers should be oppressed by their government.

You seem to be basing your argument off of the USSR a lot despite huge differences (Central planning, the system of politics, etc all very different) and the fact that they had to invent the term “Marxist-Leninism” to describe the USSR’s system.

Then how exactly is the German Reich socialist when it doesn’t at all follow socialist principle and only barely follows socialist practice?

I love the part where the Reich was so socialist it invaded the USSR and killed millions of Slavs.

The 3 you list about the economy are wrong. They didn’t have control they had cooperation. Businessmen kept their companies and in return for making tanks and planes - WHICH THE NAZI GOVERNMENT PAID FOR - they were allowed to deny workers rights.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Third-Reich-William-Shirer/dp/0099421763/ref=nodl_

If you want to at all educate yourself I recommend this. Hitler had absolutely no interest in economics whatsoever and totally misdefined socialism. What Hitler implemented was not socialist in the slightest and not only because big businesses were still run privately

> Killing a plant is not the same as killing a sentient animal that has thoughts, feelings, fears, friends, that care for their offspring.

You presume that plants are not sentient? How do you know this? Are you a plant? Have you ever been a plant? No? I thought as much.

Plants are alive, just like animals. They have all of the hallmarks of life. And based off the fact that they use poisons and anti-nutrients to ward off prey due to not being able to move, they therefore must logically have some kind of awareness, sentience, and feeling of pain.

Current research often means nothing, as in future, things can change once old dogmas about the world are demolished.

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Life-Plants-Fascinating-Emotional/dp/0060915870

https://www.amazon.com/Primary-Perception-Biocommunication-Plants-Living/dp/0966435435

https://www.amazon.com/Blinded-Science-Matthew-Silverstone/dp/0956865607

In Primary Perception, Cleve Backster collates his research notes into his explorations into plant awareness. He accidentally, through boredom, discovered that plants can react very quickly to our behaviour, but their body movements are basically near-impossible for us to perceive on a macro scale.

Blinded by Science references Backster, and it's the only book I have a digital copy of, so I'll paste some relevant stuff:

> Backster worked for the CIA, specialising in interrogation.
He was an expert in the use of polygraph machines to interrogate
applicants who were looking for employment in the CIA. As a
young and innovative man, Backster found that this work became
less and less stimulating and decided to go freelance, setting up his
own school to teach polygraphic techniques in New York in 1965
and calling it the “Backster Research Foundation”. It was during
a quiet night in the office that Backster decided to investigate the
behaviour of plants and the speed at which water rose from the root
to the leaf area. He happened to have a large Dracaena plant in a pot
in the corner of the office that he thought he would experiment on,
and he wired it up to his polygraph machine.

> The first reaction produced surprising results, completely
opposite to what Backster had expected, but exactly the results
that Bose had shown seventy years previously. Plants do not like
being fed cold water; they go into shock and take time to respond
positively, and this is exactly what the lie detector graph showed.

> The initial tracing moved in a downward direction, but one minute
after feeding, the tracing exhibited a “short term change in contour
similar to a reaction pattern typical of a human subject who might
have been briefly experiencing the fear of detection”.

> For some unknown reason, Backster decided to challenge the
plant because the unexpected human contour pattern seemed to
bring out his competitive nature. He seemed to be saying, if that
is how you are going to behave, then let’s see what you do when I
do something that a human would react very strongly to, like being
punched in the face. The only equivalent idea that Backster had,
other than actually punching the plant, was to hurt it by burning it
with his cigarette lighter. [...]

> The room was small, it was close to midnight and there was no-
one around in the building, just Backster and the Dracaena plant.
Whilst Backster was searching for his cigarette lighter, knowing he
had the idea of burning the leaf attached to his polygraph, his ears
picked up something strange that stopped him in his tracks – the
polygraph machine was showing extreme movements. “The very
moment the imagery of burning that leaf entered my mind, the
polygraph recording pen moved rapidly to the top of the chart! No
words were spoken, no touching the plant, no lighting of matches,
just my clear intention to burn the leaf”. I don’t know about you, but
I think I would have immediately run out of the room screaming in
terror. The image of this reaction can be seen in the graph above,
the intent being shown by the huge jump at the right of the chart.

> https://i.imgur.com/meRr2qF.png

You say that from your modern day perspective. I'm pretty sure the natives were content not having more than half their population wiped out (by conservative estimates) so their grand children could live on reserves and have 90+% of all their treaties broken.

It's easy to say in retrospect that it was worth it when you're separated by centuries, but I really don't think that during those 200 years (1491 to 1691 roughly) where they were being scalped, hunted, raped and the like they say 'man thank god those white men fixed our shitty country'.

He had many accounts as in many encounters, and various other pilgrims said the same. Read up about Columbus and the Arawak tribe for perspective.

>"They...brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly traded everything they owned.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance…. With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."

Here's a book to read.

https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-P-S/dp/0061965588/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290192837&sr=1-1

Look up the Wampanoag and Plymouth Rock. That's another impressive example.

>he friendliness of the Wampanoag was extraordinary, because they had recently been ravaged by diseases caught from previous European explorers. Europeans had also killed, kidnapped and enslaved Native Americans in the region. The Plymouth settlers, during their desperate first year, had even stolen grain and other goods from the Wampanoag.

And you're calling me sloppy with your inability to properly capitalize, need for edits and lack of punctuation? I dunno man, I think my message is pretty clear.

Lyme disease is the fastest growing vector-borne illness in the US. It is 6 times more common than HIV/Aids and twice as common as breast cancer. The CDC estimates 300,000 -1million people will be infected this year.

You are right to question why more attention is not being given to Lyme disease, but you are looking in the wrong place. Why is this not being given greater attention by the media or government?

Lyme disease was first diagnosed in 1975 only 8 miles from Plum Island Animal Disease Center, where a secret Cold War era biological weapons program targeting animals was being carried out. Ticks would be an ideal transmission vector for such a project.

The upcoming book Bitten that is being released in two weeks addresses this theory. From the description:

>As a science writer, she was driven to understand why this disease is so misunderstood, and its patients so mistreated. This quest led her to Willy Burgdorfer, the Lyme microbe’s discoverer, who revealed that he had developed bug-borne bioweapons during the Cold War, and believed that the Lyme epidemic was started by a military experiment gone wrong.

>In a superb, meticulous work of narrative journalism, Bitten takes readers on a journey to investigate these claims, from biological weapons facilities to interviews with biosecurity experts and microbiologists doing cutting-edge research, all the while uncovering darker truths about Willy. It also leads her to uncomfortable questions about why Lyme can be so difficult to both diagnose and treat, and why the government is so reluctant to classify chronic Lyme as a disease.

I'm very much looking forward to see the evidence presented in this book. The implications of the US government covering up the release of a Cold War era biological weapon on its own citizens is staggering.