Whether or not the guy historically known as “William Shakespeare” actually wrote all those plays. For one thing, the plays were probably produced with a lot of input and modifications on the fly from the company itself, so already anything that Will himself wrote is going to have been significantly altered along the way.
For another, the historical Shakespeare is almost as much of a folk character at this point as Paul Bunyan, so anything we can “know” about him is what we can reassemble from the historical record after 400 years have passed, so it’s all fairly muddied anyway.
Could just some guy from Stratford have written those plays? Yeah, I think so. Could it have actually have been some nobleman writing under a pen name? Also possible, but doesn’t meaningfully change the content of the plays or my feelings about them. In hindsight, if it was a pen name, the dude probably should have just bit the bullet and published under his own name, because now some glover’s son is the Immortal Bard, and Edward de Vere is the guy that only the cork board and red yarn set care about.
The Beatles. They’re fine. Just fine.
Temperature. People all “it’s too hot, I’m cold” just shut up and go outside already. You can swim, start a fire, get naked, nestle in some brush, there’s nothing to get worked up about. You’re a self-regulating biological process that can both sweat and turn cheese you ate a week ago into heat. Those are turtle problems.
So many answers for strong opinions on “do what you like”.
A not-strong opinion is something like: ground pepper or cracked pepper? I recognize a difference, and I’d opt for cracked, but I really don’t have an opinion.
Music fidelity, as long as I can hear it, idgaf about the quality of the speakers.
I really, truly, deeply envy you and wish I could say the same.
what other people eat
i cannot imagine being so tedious that i give a shit that some rando likes to put dr pepper in their mayonnaise or whatever
Sales and discounts and haggling. People go nuts whenever something is cheap or queue up for free give aways and such.
I only buy stuff when I need it and I will gladly pay full price for something. Things get too cheap you know. I don’t take free stuff, because it’s just more garbage or takes up space.
This is not a strong opinion. Of course I like to pay less or get free stuff, but only if I need those things. That’s what frugal means to me. I get that some people think of it in a different way of optimizing or gathering garbage for craiglist or whatever. It’s just not for me.
Literally any topic on which I have little to no knowledge. I can’t have an opinion on a topic I barely know exists.
People putting pineapple on their pizza.
Whatever man. Some people like opera music. Some people like golden showers. And some people like putting pineapple on their pizza. Can’t we all just get along?
Usually about 25 of the 30 questions in the voting adviser. I don’t care if some party wants to take budget from primary schools and stick it in kindergartens instead or if we fund the F35 or whatever. I’m not a military plane expert nor work in educational finance but these are literally the questions they select to use as basis for your vote. Dudes, ask an expert! They’ll probably tell you “don’t know, but we can do a scale study to see which way works better”
Whatever topic I know has a reasonable expectation of making more people sustainably happy is what I click, and then usually it tells me I haven’t clicked enough answers for it to produce voting advice…
Most ‘current hot topics’ are either unknowable with current information, or just wholly irrelevant to bigger problems like when we’re going to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions and stop discriminating people
Other people’s lives. I don’t get why how other people live bother people. If they like the same sex, go for it. If they like to dress up as a goat on the weekend? Ok, cool. It’s your life, do what you want with it.
I mean, yes, but I’d add the qualifier “so long as it doesn’t impact others”. If you want to dump your trash in a communal area, it’s imo a bit too easy to say that it’s a free country and who am I to tell you not to do that. Maybe this sounds too obvious to spell out (to me it would have until recently) but I recently met two persons in unrelated places who really felt that nobody should tell them what to do because they didn’t tell anyone else what to do either. As if we don’t all share resources on this planet
Yeah, I should’ve said that as well. So long as you’re not causing harm to others, do what you want, like what you like, be who you want to be.
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People’s taste in food. Like pinapple on 0zza? Cool, like ketchup on porkchops? Ok. Don’t like spicey foods? All good.
Same for me. Once I attended a chocolate workshop with this guy who was like a chocolate expert/connoisseur, and he started by saying “The best chocolate is the one you like.”
Sports? I think it’s a tribalistic waste of time and money, but people are allowed to like what they like.
That kinda sounds like an opinion
But not a strong opinion.
waste of time and money
strong enough
Is it? Lot of stuff is a waste of time and money if you don’t care for it. It doesn’t mean you have a strong opinion about it. Like it could just mean you’d never spend your own time and money on it, but other people can if they want to. Since every recreational thing is a waste of time and money to someone who doesn’t like it.
We’re getting into a semantic and subjective argument here but I would say ‘I don’t like sports’ or ‘I don’t care for it’ is a basic/mild (negative) opinion.
IMO ‘a waste of time and money’ has some conviction to it.
Imagine someone saying that about something you personally care for?i mean i do plenty of things that are wastes of time and moeny. What’s wrong with that? We’re hairless apes who like to do silly stuff.
yes
Precisely.
Celebrity gossip. I find it really difficult to care about what some celebrity said about something.
wait this seems like a strong opinion that celebrity gossip isn’t interesting. wouldn’t the neutral position here be that you would like to know what’s going on with your fave celebs but don’t go out of your way?
It’s making me kinda sad you can’t imagine someone just… Not having “fave celebs”
I’ve never gotten this either. Having an artist who’s work you enjoy and follow because they have a history of making something you like? Sure, but beyond that why care?
It’s not like an actor magically has a good talk on anything or is an expert on anything. They’re just famous.
