Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
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.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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This example brings up another point that the argument doesn't address. You have to know how to do an oil change to begin with, and you'd be surprised how many people don't. Or maybe you wouldn't, it's not exactly straightforward. I knew someone who poured the oil down the dipstick hole instead of the oil tank hole
My Vehicle from 99 had a straight forward dipstick that always seemed to be perceptionally accurate. For some reason now I can't seem to ever find good measurements on these small dipsticks. Is the engine warm, yes. Pull it, wipe it, dip it... Shmeer across the whole thing and I can't tell where the level is at. Or the entire thing is covered or nothing at all which should be telling me it's really high/low. I've even asked others to check them next to me and they tell me they have no idea what it is at either. i read somewhere to take sandpaper to old ones to give them more surface for the oil to stick to, but that seems like a recipe for metal shards flaking off into the oil down the line, maybe not though.
Level surfaces and patience are 2 things I need more of
At least it was in the oil spot and not the transmission fluid spot.
Good old Subarus, having the drainplug for engine and transmission near each other and identical led people to drain the transmission and overfilling the engine.
How not to build a car example number one