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What do you just not give a single fuck about that so many people try to make you give a shit about? (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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Stocks, Investing, Gambling, Bitcoin .etc

Look, I'm not a fucking broker or a hustler, okay? I don't care that you keep running around telling me or others to go waste our time and money to put into markets that can be incredibly unpredictable. It is all about luck, chance and risk. Things most wouldn't want to put themselves on the line over even if they were down next to nothing. They'd rather buy lottery tickets.

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[–] reversebananimals 135 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Sports. I've tried to care many times, but its just so boring and pointless.

[–] friend_of_satan 62 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Oh. My. God. Can fucking apps learn that when I say "block" and "less like this" I fucking mean it? Don't show me fucking anything about baseball, soccer, tennis, basketball, and especially not American football. I AM NOT YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE.

Also, I have to block a large fraction of my social feeds at certain times of the year because all they talk about are sports.

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[–] Usernameblankface 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'll never understand letting the outcome of a game make or break my mood in the following days.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

"Lost muh marriage"

"Lost muh job"

"Lost muh car"

"BUT AT LEAST THEM BEARS WON! WOOOOOOO!!!"

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Social media. Both personal (instatwitface) and business (LinkedIn). Lemmy is as close as I get, and to me this is just a modern forum.

In my opinion social media has done nothing but make people stupider, and I want nothing to do with it. (It’s probably just a sign I’m old now - “get off my lawn!”)

;)

[–] the16bitgamer 13 points 6 months ago

I too do not understand social media. The best I get is it’s about people shouting into a void and hoping someone else heard you to interact with it, by repeating it, liking it, or shouting back at you.

Hashtags are the only way to organize these posts and you need to add them or no one else will hear your shouts into the void.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Celebrity gossip.

I have no idea how so many people are so invested in the lives of famous people, and all of the "Did you hear that so-and-so and some-other-jackass are having a baby!?" Is so boring...

I'd rather mow my lawn with fingernail clippers.

[–] hactar42 29 points 6 months ago

Like the saying goes:

Everything I know about the Kardashians I learned against my will.

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[–] MacedWindow 79 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Having kids

[–] slurpinderpin 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Add getting married to that for me. I enjoy not being legally bound to another human

[–] BadNewsNobody 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Babe I really love you. Like REALLY! What could possibly make our relationship better? OH I KNOW! LET'S GET THE GOVERNMENT INVOLVED!!!"

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[–] Son_of_dad 60 points 6 months ago (6 children)

The economy.

I'm a laborer. When the economy is bad, my cost of living goes up and the price of food goes up.

When the economy is great, my cost of living goes up and the price of food goes up.

The only people affected by a positive economy seem to be the people wealthy enough to have stock portfolios and large shares in corporations. It doesn't affect me as a laborer in any positive way ever.

[–] knightmare1147 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Whenever I hear the word 'economy' I replace it with 'rich people's yacht money.' I feel that clarifies a lot of my opinions on the matter.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

That's quite frankly how it's designed. Capitalism favors no one but those that have built it and continue building on it.

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[–] neomachino 48 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The beach, I couldn't give less of a bother about going to lay on some burning sand, occasionally dipping my toes in some freezing fish piss water, and getting pelted in the face with sand as a bunch of kids run by kicking up every speck of sand they touch while their parents are getting shitfaced and blasting music no one else wants to hear.

Put me in a secluded lake in the woods with some shade near by and I'm all in though. I guess more specifically my issue is with the people at the beach, but still.

[–] morphballganon 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you need to find a less popular beach

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[–] ExtraMedicated 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My boss is pushing the AI stuff pretty hard lately. I just want to write my own code.

[–] dkc 14 points 6 months ago

AI for me as well. I’ve played with it a little and it’s kinda fun. Every company is pushing AI now including in areas where it doesn’t make any sense or is many years away from being useful. I’m also seeing a lot of developers being assigned to use AI without any directions on what to use it for.

I’m far enough along in my career I don’t need to worry about being replaced by AI. If it’s ever good enough to take my job I’ll be happily retired writing software for fun and living my life without AI. I just don’t have any interest.

[–] Art3sian 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Religion.

You’re all like Star Wars fans to me.

[–] BroBot9000 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

New movies and shows.

It’s all just shallow products being pumped out by an uncaring industry that rather slurp up product placement, celebrities and milking dead franchises over writing an original story that’s worth telling.

Check out this amazing essay for more info: https://youtu.be/5tmxfVWDgMM

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[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Trans stuff. Before you get the torches and pitchforks, I have no problem with them. I believe they deserve equality, and I don't believe in spreading hate their way. I'm not Trans, so I don't have a horse in this race, nor do I desire one. It doesn't appeal to me, it doesn't interest me in the slightest. I have my own concerns (keeping my house, paying my bills, keeping my family safe) and they have theirs, I guess is what I'm saying. If I see a Trans person get mistreated, I'll stick up for them, just like I'd do for anyone, but I'm not interested in it. They are no different from me, we are all people. I think constantly bringing it up to people all the time is more of a disservice.

[–] mojo_raisin 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think constantly bringing it up to people all the time is more of a disservice.

The trans community is tiny, I'm an almost 50 year old trans woman transitioned over 20 years ago. The reason we have the rights we do is because it's "brought up all the time". When I transitioned, it was rarely brought up, this was because most people were scared of the social and economic consequences of doing so. This is all changing because we talk about it rather than be quiet and let people keep us down. I'd imagine even you might have more negative views of trans people if the only exposure you had was from talk shows promoting us as freaks, this is how it was before.

Other than that, your attitude is fine, not everyone needs to be interested.

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[–] Drummyralf 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think the silent majority feels like this.

"Eh, not my cup of tea, but you do you"

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

stocks...incredibly unpredictable

The long-run performance of broad index funds can be pretty predictable.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Of course, but the people who are constantly talking about "Stocks" and "The Market" are usually constantly trading, wheeling, dealing, doing all sorts of shit and then trying to brag about how smart they are cause they're "hustling" while... barely keeping up with or not keeping up at all with those broad index funds you already mentioned.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Renting forever. Yeah, I'd like to own a house, sure. But on the other hand, I don't have to remove snow from my place, I don't have to pay a repair guy to fix stuff when it's broken, don't have to mow the lawn, or maintain the swimming pool. If I have problems with my neighbors, I can complain to management and they'll handle things discreetly without singling me out or involving me.

I suppose it depends on where you live, and what you're paying, but while it's not entirely ideal, it's also not awful.

[–] JoshuaFalken 11 points 6 months ago

Seems like you're describing renting in an apartment complex or similar. Not exactly an apples to apples comparison to owning a single family home.

Not that you've raised bad points. Renting does have the benefits you've described, though lawn care in my experience is hit and miss. The issue is getting these benefits must cost something. So long as having them doesn't mean the rent is double the mortgage, then it's worthwhile.

Otherwise, renting is just another more expensive option for all the people that can't afford the upfront cost of getting into the housing market.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

The Royal family

[+] dogsnest 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

So, I am not a vinyl fan, and do not own any. And I agree that the "quality argument" about vinyl being analog and thus being higher fidelity is pretty senseless. But a couple of points:

Vinyl avoided the loudness war

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

The loudness war (or loudness race) is a trend of increasing audio levels in recorded music, which reduces audio fidelity and—according to many critics—listener enjoyment. Increasing loudness was first reported as early as the 1940s, with respect to mastering practices for 7-inch singles.

Modern recordings that use extreme dynamic range compression and other measures to increase loudness therefore can sacrifice sound quality to loudness. The competitive escalation of loudness has led music fans and members of the musical press to refer to the affected albums as "victims of the loudness war".

Because of the limitations of the vinyl format, the ability to manipulate loudness was also limited. Attempts to achieve extreme loudness could render the medium unplayable. Digital media such as CDs remove these restrictions and as a result, increasing loudness levels have been a more severe issue in the CD era.

I'd guess that audio recorded with the expectation that it would be played on vinyl is probably optimized for that format

Same idea for old headphones or amplifiers or whatever. I don't know specifics.

LCD and LED displays, in 2024, are pretty much across-the-board better than CRTs in 1990. But a lot of old video game emulators try to reproduce artifacts that resulted from low display fidelity of CRTs. Scanlines. Blurriness. Blooming. Curvature of display. Even a bit of color fringing or the like. That's because the game was designed to be played on the system in question (or one closely approximating it). The art very frequently looks better, less jagged.

I have magnificent MIDI soundfonts that can make any MIDI audio played on my computer sound vastly more realistic than it does on old, 1990s computer synth hardware or on something like a Super Nintendo. But the music can sound much worse, because the artists were designing the soundtrack with an eye to making it sound pleasant on hardware that had the characteristics of the time.

Album art

Vinyl records were not very space efficient. But that meant that artists had a huge amount of space to create album artwork compared to CDs.

That's not something that I'm personally into, but some people really are.

Now, all the above being said, I don't own vinyl or a turntable and have no interest in ever getting one. But there are some arguments that I can understand for why people may prefer them.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Getting married and having chikdren, aka, a "family"

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Newly released music.
I have access to internet, not just decades, but centuries of music. Why should I need to know the songs released this year? It's just a drop in the ocean. I don't need to have the newest music right away.

Similarly with new movies.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Subscription music services.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Guns. I don't give a single shit about them either way. I don't have much interest in owning them. I don't think a ban would be effective. I don't think the US national argument about them is going to ever be resolved. Miss me with all that shit.

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[–] SEND_NOODLES_PLS 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Whatever's the current "big" issue in showbiz. I really couldn't care less that ABC was photographed with DEF in GHI, possibly hinting a relationship collapse with JKL, or whatever it was that people are harping about with other people's lives.

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[–] TrueStoryBob 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The British Royal family. I'm an American, living in America, and the number of people here who follow the royals to the point of being sycophants is so freaking weird. I literally do not care about the machinations of a bunch of rich fucks who's sole claim to fame and fortune is being sprayed out of the correct penis before then falling out of the correct vagina.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Right there with you in stocks and Bitcoin. Computers and coding not far behind. I sound like a luddite but I have no reason to be interested in this stuff.

I also don't get a shit about pop culture icons or influencers.

It's nice under this rock, where I live. Nematodes are great company

[–] Resol 12 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Devotion to the faith (I still believe in God but I just don't feel connected to him), marriage, having children, cars, being super rich, universities, patriotism, being in an anglophone country just because I'm too good at English, being manly, being famous, football, traditional customs, I really could go on and on for days.

Can you tell I hate being Moroccan?

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