Superhero movies. Very repetitive and predictable.
Thank you !
You’re welcome
Streaming like in twitch, podcasts, tiktok, and other “user generated content”. I’m not even 40 yet but I really feel like “old man yells at cloud”.
Actually, the mere term “content” makes me cringe. You do art? Now it’s called content. You are an independent reporter? Now you do content. You like plants? How about turning that into content? Content: you are either consuming it or producing it. Fuck content as a concept. And fuck discoverability algorithms and every clown trying to game them. Fuck social media spoon-feeding brainrot to people. I feel anti-hyped for all that.
Sex
Turns out I’m asexual.
The spicy part is try being asexual yet HOPELESSLY romantic
But aside from THAT – Brand name clothing.
Most of it doesn’t even look good
There was a time the rich dressed decadently, that was conspicuous consumption, but at least it looked pretty and shiny in pictures. Nowadays rich people be buying clothes that look exactly, completely indistinguishable from the discount shop made-in-china artificial-fabric rags everyone else is wearing, but which have a logo printed on them. And that logo is what makes it expensive.
When you say “asexual”, do you mean you hate it, or you don’t hate it and don’t mind your romantic partner doing it with you?
This varies from ace to ace. With me?
I am not repulsed but I am violently disinterested
A partner wants to fuck? Sure, I guess? If it makes them happy and I like them. But like. I’ll never go out of my way to try and get sex.
AI
There are fools out there who are willing to invest in this hype train. Is it enough for you to understand the hype?
I do understand their wishful thinking. What I don’t understand is their disconnect from reality.
MrBeast videos, like i know his main audience are kids but like why? Compared to other youtubers like Niko, MrBeast is terrible.
Mr Beast has an autistic level obessesion with gaming the YouTube algorithm. Calibrating exactly how much to airbrush his grimace in the thumbnail truely brings him joy.
Driving a pickup truck as your commute vehicle. The mileage is terrible, and you have reduced visibility in front of the hood. Get a safer and more efficient vehicle. It’ll be cheaper!
There is some guy who lives somewhat close to me, with a big lifted truck. It’s super duper uncommon here. He has the matching stickers like: only gay cops pull me over and how much he enjoys destroying the planet and shit. Every time i see him i can only just point and laugh, because he can’t really park anywhere and you can always tell how he struggles with visability.
The way to restrict them to industrial purposes is to require a CDL or at least a higher level license to drive them. It would make sense too, they’re objectively more dangerous so why shouldn’t the licensing for them be more strict?
I wouldn’t want one myself, but I don’t understand trying to ban something just because I don’t like it.
But apparently, that’s a popular sentiment
Not ban, but make the licensing process more rigorous for a vehicle that takes more skill to operate safely compared to a standard car. Anyone can get a higher class drivers license if they pass the test, but the majority of people won’t bother so you end up with less trucks driven by people who just want to look cool.
If people want to look cool, why not let them enjoy life? Should we perhaps ban hairdressers, in favour of a mandatory buzz cut?
If someone runs you over with their small pp truck, at least you look really cool under it.
I think you’re confused. It’s the driver that’s supposed to look cool so they say
do cool haircuts kill thousands of people per year?
There’s indeed many people that claim it’s very dangerous, and women should cover their hair in public!
In both cases I’d rather see people happy and just enjoy their lives
There’s indeed many people that claim it’s very dangerous, and women should cover their hair in public!
that is barely even tangentially related to the question
2/10, must try harder
I agree, 90%. That being said, some people can’t afford a car that isn’t provided by their construction employer. Some people have hobbies that involve moving things (motorcycles, mountain bikes, wood, etc) and can only afford one car. And I’m sure there are reasons I’m not thinking of.
Most people with pickups around me do not need them, but having owned a small S10 years ago for a similar to above reason, I try to see why they exist, and try not to judge if it’s not obvious.
All that being said, Why oh why are they so big now?
You can usually tell the difference, because the tradesperson’s truck is full of crap all the time and probably worn out, while the parking lot princess in empty and pristine.
Lifting is also a strong hint, since it makes the bed very hard to reach. I have seen a lifted pickup with a full bed exactly once since I started paying attention.
I rented a Hybrid Toyota Camry over the weekend, that thing was awesome. 18 dollars to refuel for the return.
My support worker has a hybrid. She puts in fuel, and a full tank lasts for like 900km. Crazy
Most things that people seem to get hyped over really. Not big on buying things. Books are an exception but most people aren’t hyped about those
It’s been really bewildering and concerning seeing all the crazy consumer crazes online. Maybe this was unfounded, but there was a while where I thought we were starting to wane on consumerism but I guess I was just wrong about that. The internet has just supercharged it. We now have turbo consumerism. Forget about keeping up with the Joneses, you now scroll past 100 of them in your feed and half of them are
human billboardsinfluencers.Oh ho ho I am quite hyped for books ! Silly when you can basically get them free to read on a computer ot e reader and then they weigh nothing but…still prefer realism.
Physical books are my kryptonite. Nothing hits the same
Luxury items, particularly watches and shoes and shit. Conspicuously ranking your wealth like that is cringe as fuck. “Ah yes, I see you can afford the DoucheKeeper 2121. That’s ok I guess, if you can’t afford the DoucheKeeper 2424.”
It makes far more sense to just dress well below your “status” imo. Real confidence is being above all that vanity, and real intrigue is keeping people guessing about your “status.” You want to know what I do and how much money I do or don’t have? Get to know me, and you’ll discover none of that shit matters.
The kind of watch that says “please mug my rich dumb ass” is all I see. (I’ve never mugged or stole from anyone, it’s just the thought that crosses my mind.)
Kind of like the super sensitive car alarms or home alarms that have a voice that loudly announces it’s recording. “Hey, I have valuables worth protecting, just to let you know.”
Looking through these comments I don’t know what half of this stuff is and I don’t think I want to.
My wife’s freind came over the other day and asked me if I could fix her new glasses because they were crooked, being polite I said I liked them (they’re hideous but to each their own), and she responded “thanks they’re D and G, they only cost me $700”. These were $700 glasses with no additions. No blue light thing, no scratch resistant stuff.
I don’t care for that.
Big butts. I mean the ones featured in “Baby Got Back” were ok. But, today, some people are going crazy with it.
Labubus.
Kids wanting them I get, but the craze among adults for them is baffling to me. And the blind bag mechanic is just a bullshit way to get people to buy more than they actually want in an attempt to collect a full set. It’s honestly kind of sad to see so many adults fall for something meant to manipulate children into begging their parents to buy over and over again.
You know something is worth your money when they deliberately obfuscate what you’re actually buying.
I still don’t know what labubus are and I’m thankful
Most celebrities. I know its usually manufactured hype, but I still don’t understand people falling for it.
Collectible toys. On top of not getting it, I hate it from an environmental perspective and a wasted resources (incl labor) perspective.
Game of Thrones
I enjoyed it when the author was in charge of the TV series. I watched until the end of the initial series, but after that I never looked back.
Spoilers/explanation below:
Too many things didn’t make sense, like how the dragon queen suddenly became a completely different person. How the Lannister siblings made up after hating each others guts, only for the tower to collapse on top of them the same instant. That everyone met their nemesis at the very end. Why anyone would vote for Bran to become the new king when he barely spoke to anyone since he was like 13 years old, and many other inconsistencies like that. The last couple of seasons barely had any story at all, it was mostly about fighting… It was bad.
YouTube, celebrities, influencers.
The Chance-Vought F4U Corsair. People fangirl over the reverse gull-wings but I just don’t get it. Bending the goddamn wings to fit the the prop on the plan is just a bizarre bandaid for an odd design.
Gimme that P-47 chunky monkey any day
