Unpopular Opinion
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1. NO POLITICS
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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.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
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For me, 2020 was a pretty average year overall. I'm an essential worker, so things were pretty much business as usual for me on the work end of things, and I got hazard pay for certain parts of it which was nice.
And with less traffic on the roads, I was getting better gas mileage (and I already commute at times when traffic is pretty light, so the fact that it made a noticeable difference is wild)
A lot of my hobbies and such are solo activities or social distancing friendly, so again not too much changed for me there.
But it did put a bit of a damper on my social life, and in a lot of ways that hasn't fully recovered yet. It feels like ever since the pandemic it's just been harder to get people together to do stuff. And I've lost my taste for crowded bars and concerts and such, which is nice because it saves me a bit of money, but I do miss being able to enjoy that.
I know people who are still dealing with long COVID symptoms from back then, I know people who died.
I think that the interruptions to normal schooling and such did a real number on a lot of kids.
My wife is still working on losing some of the weight she put on while working from home during the pandemic.
And in a lot of ways 2020 ± a year or two kind of feels like the turning point where a whole lot of shit in a whole in politics and such just went straight off the rails.
So it was a pretty ok year for me, personally, but overall it was a sucky year for the world.
Good experience and enjoyable comment. 2020 was important for the gov as it started the decade towards their 2030 plan. So the culled some of the population.
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