None of these are hot takes lol.
ayo did you remove your own vote how are you at zero.
Maybe they’re just not very confident about their posts.
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Yes. I think it is a conflict of interest to upvote my own post. Of course I think I contribute to the conversation, but that is not for me to decide.
Everybody’s vote total is defaulted to 1. Nobody upvotes themselves. Removing your vote just makes it less likely people will see your comment.
You downvote the default score in order not to do something you never did?
I remove the upvote, not downvote.
Everyone’s posts are upvoted by themselves by default, so by retiring your upvotes from your posts, you are, in practice, removing visibility from your posts, thus handicapping them, rather than giving them a fair shot.
I rely on the Gs who sort by new.
Lemmy doesn’t auto vote for your own comment/post. We aren’t that narcistic here. Every comment starts at 0.
I can see on Kbin who upvoted even, and you didn’t upvote your comment.
Edit: I’ve learned it varies by your portal!
Lemmy does, Kbin doesn’t. Lemmy also gives your Kbin comments an upvote. On Kbin you can’t see the auto upvote or any downvotes IIRC.
Every Lemmy app I’ve used on Android auto-up-votes one’s own posts and comments. Mainly been using Sync and Voyager.
I haven’t seen an easy way in them to see who did the votes, but I do assume that’s available info to some clients.
Yes it does. Observe.
How are we to know you didn’t just upvote yourself after posting?
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Still at 0 here on Kbin. shrugs
Yeah, at least online these are all very common opinions. I think the pineapple on pizza opinion is actually the most controversial take he listed.
Pineapple on pizza is just people with different tastes. Everyone has their favorite foods and what they dont like…
I’m for it.
I feel about Pizza the way I feel about burgers, put anything you want on there, I’ll try it.
I’ve had a burger with pineapple on it. It was delicious
Right. And don’t topping-shame, bro!
Slightly hotter, but still quite tame take:
Ham is the problem with Hawaiian pizza. Pineapple is innocent.
What? Ham is like the 2nd best pizza topping after only pepperoni.
The ham used on pizzas around here (northeast US), usually isn’t salty enough to work on a Hawaiian pizza. It’s often deli ham, which runs the risk of being sweet, but otherwise flavorless.
Bacon or pepperoni work better. Jalapeno also helps.
Gorgonzola works even better with pineapple, than bacon, prosciutto, or pepperoni
Ah, so your objection is only with pineapple. See, I don’t do pineapple on pizza not because I think it’s unholy, but simply because I don’t like pineapple in general. I thought you just objected to ham on pizza on principle; I can’t speak to it as a companion for pineapple.
It’s hard to see where I’d choose it over another topping, but I imagine with most pizzas I don’t really care about ham’s failings.
Pineapple and anchovies might be the two stanard toppings that are really build-arounds. Most other standard pizza toppings seem closer to “do whatever, it’ll be fine”
Parma ham and Parmigiano pizza is awesome
That does sound great! Ham isn’t necessarily a bad ingredient, it’s just unusually difficult to tell if it’ll be good or it’ll suit your tastes, especially with more inexpensive kinds.
These takes are colder than my dead mother.
I can’t stand super hero movies either. They’re all the same story. What’s the appeal? I don’t get it.
When the early superman and batman movies came out, they were great. Even the first ironman was great for the time…the problem is they have been mass producing the same movie every year for the last 13? years.
Which Superman movies?
C.R.
Ok, I’m with you.
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B.R?
Yeah that one was alright too. Wasn’t really groundbreaking though like that first Supe one was, though
The early ones.
Like, Superman and the Mole Men, with George Reeves?
Easy to digest. It’s like the McDonald’s of movies. It’s certainly not the best culinary experience you can get, but at least it will please most people.
Mmm… Some have been almost exactly the right film for the right time were very satisfying. It’s easy to say they are all simple and basic after it’s been a decade and they have printed out a hundred clones that all are the same but some truly were impressive.
I still think the reverse hero’s journey following the villain complete the arc to confuse the pathos of Infinity War was pretty sweet way to avoid the bloated cast.
And Iron Man was a great take on a flawed character that had a really great arc considering you are pretty much always meant to hate him a little and it was perfect casting.
But now casting is done by who needs the press and who can bid the highest and it’s pretty much all garbage. But a decade ago… It was like getting an original McDonald’s burger and fries from 2 brothers who liked good burgers.
And a good one is easy on the eyes. Nice things to see explode, neat uses for a super power, gymkata in a fight, really just seeing something on screen that would fit in a day dream.
Sometimes they are far from the same movie and have expert cinematography. Being a superhero movie doesn’t automatically make something more prone to formula.
Agreed. I like movies that give me something to think about. Superhero movies don’t give me anything except “Who will this guy punch next?”
Scorsese said they were bollocks about 5 years ago
Last year he won an Oscar, who the fuck gives a shit about the latest MCU movie today.
Who gives a shit about the oscars?
I do.
Though not much.
He said right before releasing The Irishman
Mouse’s first 2 responses should be switched
There’s a lot of billionaire dick riders out there, man. Lemmy and even Reddit are kind of weird places on that topic.
Pineapple and Banana is good on pizza.
My initial revulsion slowly turned into curiosity…
But not with some cheap cheese replacement but Sprinz or similiar.
I can’t speak for banana, but I’ve tried strawberries on pizza and they’re shockingly good.
I’m eating pineapple on pizza right now!
BBQ chicken, pineapple, green pepper, BBQ sauce base.
Somewhere in Italy, a collective groan was heard.
It seems like people base their entire personalities on hating pineapple pizza lol
Pretty much anything can go on pizza. It’s bread, cheese, and sauce…all of which can be modified to match the topping. Mashed potatoes + white sauce is an incredible combo
If those people who hate on pineapple pizza saw the pizze I prepare, they’d scream bloody murder. Let’s see…
- Chocolate, shredded coconut, strawberries, mozzarella. No sauce.
- Mango and kielbasa krakowska.
- Beef stroganoff, including straw potatoes. It gets two sauces.
- pinhão/piñón pizza. It’s a starchy local pine kernel, certainly not found in Italy. (Or outside my homeland for all that matters.) It’s carb over carb.
- pizze bianche in general. Some folks in my family simply like them!
Pizza is an open faced sandwich that gets cooked quickly. It’s not special and the process is done in other places in other ways but for some reason people hold onto stuff so tightly.
That being said turkey dinner pizza. Turkey slices and gravy, dollops of potatoes and some cheddar cheese. Hell yeah.
That first one sounds awful to me (coconut is not for me) but that just means there’s more for you! I’d definitely try the rest.
Toss a few scoops of mashed potatoes on that last one and give it a go…like pepperoni-sized scoops slightly pressed down. Add some chopped bacon if you’re feeling it. THAT is my favorite non-standard pizza of all time
In cases that someone dislikes coconut it’s rather easy to leave it out from some slices. I’d probably do it for you.
The mashed potatoes sound like a great idea, for texture variation. I’ll try it, thank you for the tip!
It’s such a stupid hill to die on.
Eh pineapple is delicious, feel free to shamelessly enjoy your pizza
Pineapple is S tier fruit. I do not care for it on pizza.
Well, you are wrong.
Also the S is best tier. It stands for, uh, aweSome.
Yes, as a fruit, pineapple is God tier. I do not care for it on pizza though.
Have you tried it on BBQ chicken pizza like Troy recommends? You still might not like it but I think pineapple works much better there than on e.g. a regular pepperoni pizza with red sauce.
That’s one of my favorite pizzas. Try it with banana peppers instead of bell peppers for even more zing, or swap the chicken for meatballs as a tasty variation.
I also like adding bacon, but my arteries don’t like it as much ;)
The billionaire class aren’t “ghouls” leaching off society. They are leeches leaching off society. The term parasites will also suffice.
Also… the super-creep genre is shit.
Unlike billionaires, some parasites are beneficial to humanity (there’s a species of wasp that lays its eggs in plant-destroying caterpillars, and leeches can be used as bait while fishing).
I’m okay with using billionaires for chum.
I guess they leech, rather than leach. Leech off, leach out. I think that’s right.
I identify with everything Mouse said 🔥
hell yes that mouse is based as hell
The first two should be switched.
Pineapple only if it is accompanied with jalapenos.
There’s a local pizza spot that has that with BBQ pulled pork. Far and away the best “Hawaiian” pizza I’ve ever had
Fuuuuuuck…I need this in my life
That sounds amazing tbh
for sure give it a try, add your favorite meat and its better. But if you have to eat a pizza vegetarian, its the best
One of these things is not like the others
(two being personal opinions based on taste, the other being a simple statement of fact)
Fact: pineapple is great on pizza ;)
Pineapple by itself on Pizza isn’t very good - too sweet and bland. The original popularity was for the combination with ham: salty and sweet
A much better take is pineapple and Gorgonzola!
A Hawaiian pizza with jalapeno is my go to
If it’s Hawaiian, shouldn’t that be Spam and pineapple? I’m generally not a fan of Spam, but I may have to try that combo sometime.
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If it’s actual Hawaiians making the pizza for themselves, maybe. But for most people in the US a Hawaiian pizza is ham and pineapple. I’ve even seen them for sale in Hawaii.
I have a very strong suspicion that most people hate pineapple on pizza because they don’t have the genetics to counteract the enzymes in the pineapple. It is hard to like a pizza that actively hurts you to eat. I’ll also say that most hawaiian pizza that I’ve had, is horrible and sucks, no in terms of conceptual shortcomings, but just in terms of ingredient quality. They use precooked sliced lunch meat style ham, most of the time, and like, cold uncooked pineapple. The pineapple should be grilled, and the ham should be fried, I would think. Cooking the pineapple helps to cut down on some of the water content that ends up making the pizza cold and soggy, and cooking also helps to break down the enzymes that hurt your mouth.
The billionaire take is less of a hot take than the pineapple on pizza take. I think it’s kinda cause “the billionaire class” is something that people can more easily stick faces to, they’ve become more notable celebrities with the rise of silicon valley tech genius idiots. If you got rid of elon musk and jeff bezos, and maybe bill gates, I think like, a lot of the negative publicity against billionaires would evaporate overnight.
Lots of people are opposed more to the amount of brainspace they take up, and the lack of results they show, rather than being opposed to the idea of billionaires themselves, or, being opposed to the idea of capital, and capitalists. I get the sense that a lot of people would be perfectly fine with elon musk if he was investing in like, big public works projects and not stupid tunnels for his electric cars. I’ve seen quite a lot of people that just kinda hate the idea of someone having a billion dollars, just generally, kind of, in the way that you hate someone who dresses too ostentatiously, rather than having a more specific reason they hate them.
I don’t really like superhero movies as much as I like their animated counterparts. Teen titans, justice league, batman: the animated series, batman beyond, static shock, almost all the spiderman animated shows but especially spectacular spider man, avengers: earth’s mightiest heroes, the old silver surfer cartoon, the old X-Men animated series. Some of them are pretty good.
I think also a lot of people tend to hate superhero movies on the basis that they’re like. Pretentious twatbags. They can’t enjoy a campy, schlocky kind of movie, they have to watch something “good”, something that conforms to conventional definitions of “good”. Never could they enjoy watching mean girls. Lots of superhero movies, basically all of them to some degree, fall into the camp. Like blade, the original spiderman trilogy. Even marvel is kind of, one foot in the schlock and the cheese, and one foot in the “trying to be serious cinema with serious emotional stakes”, and they don’t always juggle it correctly.
For me it’s just that it’s not very good. I like a vinegary, salty, and savory pizza and don’t like sweetness on it.
I wonder if some sort of pickled pineapple might work better for most people
That sounds like it might be worse. Idk I just like my banana peppers, onions, mushrooms, and anchovies
Super hero movies are literally for children. I think they’re dumb but I’m also old as fuck.
I may be even older but I still have a dream. I still like impossible action scenes. I still like a story where the protagonist can go beyond what is humanly possible.
The problem with superhero movies is when they think that is sufficient and don’t bother with plot, character development, or even consistency. I’m fine for the duration of the movie with suspension of disbelief for magic or however is explained, as long as they are consistent with it, follow their own explanation. Then again, I also like Micheal Bay movies, so whatever
I can agree with the last take, if it’s specifically live action superhero movies. Doesn’t matter whether it’s DC or Marvel, I just don’t like live action superhero movies. Give me, say, Batman The Animated Series or Teen Titans or Static Shock over any live action adaptation any day.
Superhero stuff is awesome if you’re younger than 17. At some point you’ve got to grow up though.
People who don’t like superhero movies: “I don’t like superhero movies”.
Everyone else: “that’s a fair and valid opinion.”
I don’t watch 'em either…
AND I’M17
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