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.
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.
Because being stuck in the past is generally not a good thing
Having kids
Add getting married to that for me. I enjoy not being legally bound to another human
“Babe I really love you. Like REALLY! What could possibly make our relationship better? OH I KNOW! LET’S GET THE GOVERNMENT INVOLVED!!!”
Ugh, yep, I’m far from alone in saying I’d really rather not have any
Religion.
You’re all like Star Wars fans to me.
Removed by mod
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
The French word for “entertainment” is “divertissement” and you don’t need to know French to get what it is: a diversion from things that matter.
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.
I think people are too dumb to realize places in the rurals must have them. Like in Alaska, it isn’t optional with those bears.
I’ve come across a black bear while hunting small game and was very close in dense brush. People that have never experienced that kind of interaction lack the relevant info to have a say. While at the same time, after moving to Los Angeles for a couple of decades, owning guns here is for people with mental issues. One law can not cover all situations; it is impossible to federate. It is used as a distraction topic to avoid legislating reasonably against the loopholes of the oligarchy. It is the same reason why the news cycle camps on an election long before it is a relevant issue; there is no pressure to create reasonable legislation that would stop the privateers.
One law can not cover all situations
Not all, but most. The goal isn’t “banning guns”, it’s regulating them more strictly. If you want to get a gun, you should be mentally sound, know how to maintain it, secure it, and shoot it safely. It’s the same with cars in many places on this planet: you need to go through about 60-100 hours of training, prove you’re able to handle it, and know the theory around it. You can’t just show up to a car show, buy a car and ride off with it without a license.
Whether you want to protect yourself from bear, shoot at birds on your farm, feel safe in your home in the middle of the city, or collect guns to never shoot them, you still must have a license to own it.
stocks…incredibly unpredictable
The long-run performance of broad index funds can be pretty predictable.
Saving accounts are just a great resource for banks. Their returns are always less than inflation so you’re basically always losing money with them.
Cookies and web trackers.
I don’t give a shit if they collect usage data. It’s actually more annoying now with the laws requiring a popup notice to opt in or out of them.
Do you shit with the door open in public toilets? You have nothing to hide after all and don’t require privacy there.
Sports. I’ve tried to care many times, but its just so boring and pointless.
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.
I’ll never understand letting the outcome of a game make or break my mood in the following days.
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!”)
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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.
Interestingly, I think people like you and me use Lemmy because one of the same underlying reasons as social media people:
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Endless amounts of stuff that speaks to your interest. (With us it’s stuff like technology. On Social media, people are “interested” in what others are up to.
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Getting likes/dislikes. Even though likes aren’t important on Lemmy, I notice in my usage that I do subconsciously get the same dopamine hits jf a post gets liked a lot, just like Social Media does. It’s less aggressive on Lemmy because you don’t get alerts for it, but it does factor in on engagement.
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Engaging in conversations/discussions with other people.
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Sharing things you find interesting yourself
The content might be different, but the underlying principles are really close. Social Media is actually really close to how forums work at it’s core.
But I know this is an unpopular opinion. And no, I wouldn’t call Lemmy Social Media per se. But the line is more blurry than I’d like to admit if I look at my time spent with Lemmy.
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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.
My boss is pushing the AI stuff pretty hard lately. I just want to write my own code.
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.
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.
Sounds like you need to find a less popular beach
Getting married and having chikdren, aka, a “family”
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.
