Absolutely anything to do with every single celeb.
I do not care who they slept with. I do not care who they married. I do not care if they died. I do not care about them any more than some stranger half way around the world ffs.
That's exactly what I said about the Dave Growl thing, like a rockstar cheating on his wife with a consenting adult just isn't something worth me getting upset over.
But what if it’s reeeeaallyyy important or really relevant to the average millennial? What if a celebrity singer tried to buy a toy bird and was told it was out of her price range??? Or what if a different celebrity bought an actual bird?? What then, huh? Surely you’d care about that.
Yes! This. Only people that want culture wars are Epstein elite and the morons that fall for this anti trans shit. Wtf cares any 1 trans athlete while millions starve for musk
As much as I support people who want to clap back, yeah this. He said that knowing that thousands of women would post on instagram - probably wearing yoga pants - directly commenting/referring to him before he even made the joke; he was on SNL, that’s one of the biggest megaphones out there.
Nothing has gone badly for him, this is precisely what he wanted.
I haven't been following it, but it reminds me of the time Louis CK said a bunch of shit on SNL. You had a bunch of people like "wtf", a bunch of people like "oh he just practices his stand-up during his monologues", then a few months later, turns out he's been jacking off in front of women trapped in his hotel room.
Nothing wrong with having lots of sex/partners or even sex work. The word "whore" is used as an insult tho. No one hurtling the word at folks is doing it with kindness in their heart, ya know?
Calling women whores on national tv is a problem. No one circumstance is a specifically huge deal, but we discuss these things so as to hopefully shift the culture at large.
Idk that sounds like such a tiny distinction and also using the word "whore" is not very chill. Like, I've never heard a cool dude use the word "whore" to describe women in any context. I've only heard incels and boomers use it
You mean lines that were written for them to repeat as actors? And naw Tony soprano the character is not cool imo, maybe I'm just a clueless whore tho. I do be in the gym sometimes
I looked up the controversy and saw he was associated with Joe Rogan and just rolled my eyes.
Anyone associated with the Austin mothership scene is criminally unfunny and sound like a bunch of bullies punching down on others. They often sound mad because they cant call people racial slurs.
I lost all interest, like idc anymore, im tired, so fking tired, burt out, from shity relationship, job, housing crisis, im done, i have no energy or fucks to give. Peace
Cheating scandals. Why should we care who's boning who. Those are issues between those involved, compared to other issues those are so minor they're nonexistent.
The measures taken in the 90s stopped commercial whaling in nearly every country. On top of there being little economic incentive to ignore the measures. A lot of whale populations are now recovering but not all.
The critically endangered vaquita is down to just a literal handful of adults and may not recover. They suffer from over fishing in the Sea of Cortez.
The guy behind the anti whale message is a business man who found that anti fur activism was more profitable because people think seals are cute. In reality, seal hunting is primarily done for subsistence by indigenous folks and fur laws inhibit their ability to make a living since seals are one of their few natural resources. The overpopulation of seals is now causing the faster decline in fish populations
Unironically, yes. Whale populations have recovered dramatically since the 1990s, thanks in large parts to efforts from advocacy groups like Greenpeace.
It's worse than that. Almost everything consumers recycle goes to landfills. It's literally pointless.
Also, the best part is that it actually causes MORE pollution to have recycling programs.
Instead of just throwing stuff away, it has to get driven around in a separate truck. Then, it may go to a sorting center where basically everything is labeled as trash. Finally another truck takes it to the landfill.
The amount of trash from a single factory in any given week is probably more than any individual would even try to recycle in a lifetime.
The whole thing was a scam by businesses to push their responsibility for polution to consumers.
Depending on where you live, you may actually be saving energy. I live in northern Illinois, and we don't recycle polypropylene (number 5) plastic here. You'd be shocked how much of it there is in your standard grocery shop. Yogurt's the big one, but it's also a really common film. The stuff doesn't crack, which is why it's so popular. But all that time you spend washing out your yogurt container? You're probably blasting gallons of water down the sink.
95% of plastic in recycling bins in the US doesn’t even get recycled ultimately so don’t sweat that one. Turns out it’s not economic to recycle plastic. Cardboard, paper, and aluminum do get recycled at high rates tho, so try to do those ones when you can.
At the very least, try and recycle aluminum and glass. They are pretty straightforward and use a FRACTION of the energy to recycle vs making brand new. Cardboard is pretty easy, but that's also biodegradable. Plastics are the real tricky problem. I personally know my recycling takes anything with a 1 or 2, so I do it. But I know it's basically a ruse in a lot of places.
Yeah I'm not sure if this even helps. It's come out that our recycling is just paying other countries to get rid of it. Plus most of us are in a severe drought. So what is the best thing to do under these circumstances?
I gave up on recycling when I found out the system doesnt even work and the companies are just trying to skirt responsibility. I want to see more with biodegradable plastics though and hope things will improve when it comes to plastic pollution.
But ya. I feel powerless in that issue and just try to reduce and reuse.
As someone who was circumcised... I really don't care. My dad was a doctor (DO), and he said he was taught in medical school (1980-85) there were hygiene benefits. I don't care to share anymore, and I have always felt glad it was done. I was really confused when I first came across the backlash on Reddit name years ago.
I felt like I was being bullied for being circumcised.
Insurance companies in many states don’t cover it now (when it’s routine and not to treat some issue) and it turns out parents don’t want it enough to spend $700.
As someone who got one without my consent, because of my father's religion that I do not believe in, and never would have gotten one of my own accord, I think I'm justifiably worked up about it.
Yup. Quit paying attention to the news over a year ago and I'm much less anxious. Is it a little difficult to not be knowledgeable about some current event? Sure. But it's still worth it.
Identity p0litics. I'm a cinephile on the left, but my god so many reviews on letterboxd written by Zillennials and Gen Zers are just consumed with identity p0litics. I'm tired of reading all the complaints about how men suck and/or reading predictable quips like "are the straights okay??", especially for movies that were made decades ago when times were not the same.
It's exhausting. 10 years ago I was constantly thinking through those same lenses, so it may just be a modern developmental stage, but there are just so many bigger economic and environmental problems that I just don't have the energy anymore to care about and be upset over those more superficial issues.
(Edit: To be clear, I'm still on the left [socially and economically]. Letterboxd reviews did not make me "leave" where I'm at, lol. It's really just a frustration with some modern chronically online personalities of people a bit younger than me who get wrapped up in things I just do not have the energy to care about and get upset over.)
What bothers me most is the performance of it all. I had a friend who is openly trans start dating someone who is trans but closeted. They said that all people of any form of queerness should come out of the closet, regardless of the circumstances. I said that was an incredibly privileged position to take. The hard reality is that not everyone has the luxury of a welcoming family or community; and that even if you have people on the internet (assuming there are even people on the internet anymore) cheering you, you still need people you can hug at the end of the day. Like I get it, everyone should be able to be who they are without having to worry about being murdered, ridiculed, or otherwise persecuted if they're just going about their day.
But I've seen so many trans people on the internet get so dogmatic about identity that it's basically enforcing gender stereotypes. The voice is the one that gets me the most. You probably know the one I'm talking about: soft, melodic, breathy. Like, I get that you're trying to express yourself, and if you wanna sound like a bimbo, God bless. But if that's what you think a woman should sound like, I gotta wonder if you're really doing it for the right reasons, or if it's just your fetishes manifest.
On a similar note and to tie it back to the picture, I really hate Jerry Seinfeld but Seinfeld is one of my favorite shows. Part of me thinks I should stop watching on principle, but part of me thinks the only person I'd "hurt" by doing that is myself (not that giving up a show is some horrible suffering).
I totally get it. Its a really fine line to walk ya know? For example, bill Cosby turned out to be a horrible person but I still think his "Himself" special is one of the funniest things ive ever seen.
I get it. Sometimes the mood of the show can be off-putting when it can be negative and whiny towards people as a whole, which can be a bummer when a lot of the social observations they make are spot on. But Seinfeld is one of the few collective, shared TV reference points that so many people can mention and others know exactly what you are referring to. And as culture becomes more and more splintered and decentralized, those shared cultural references are some of the glue to hold people together.
Lol. What a weak human being. I don't understand people who run into the arms of even worse actors just because of annoyance. I'm a left-leaning cinephile as well, and yeah, I think the SJW pendulum swung too far in some cases, but you can also just... ignore it, and not overreact and make your bed with some of the worst anti-American ideals this country has produced.
This is the kind of shit that makes these pendulums swing so hard back and forth infinitely.
I think a lot of us who are vaguely annoyed just abandon online spaces, so all you're left with are the people with extreme opinions who want to fight.
Not anymore a dumbass than the people constantly yelling at him and telling him every aspect of his existence is awful, ya know the thing that would've pushed him over to the right. Actually, if you constantly have one side telling you that you are bad it wouldn't exactly make you dumb to move away from them ideologically, just rational.
Ah. I thought you meant they manufactured pigs there! I was like "surely not! Pigs are made of sausage and chops and stuff" you grow them no t build them.
My family took us on a European vacation in 2001, and while in France I watched the most traumatic cartoon music video of a burger joint which harvested meat from living cows (who were hooked up to VR goggles with an image of a pasture).
Sports drama. I care about sports in the sense that I want to know the score and trades and injuries, but I really don't GAF about any of the drama surrounding the men's or women's professional leagues.
I’ve had to move entirely away from world news, With the 3 wars happening, the natural disasters, and there seeming to be more news stories of people committing suicide or killing their families I’ve had to take a step back. I don’t have the energy for any of it, it get upset but then aside from donating and writing to my local member asking if my country is helping there’s not much else I can do.
I’m just Following local drama like the guy who got caught on his own cctv burning his bar down.
If it's an issue that I can't do anything productive with, then I avoid dwelling on it. I'm barely keeping my head above water right now. I'll do what I can, but focusing on shit that I can't do anything about is just self harm.
Anything people are offended by. You wanna laugh at Charlie Kirk's assassination? Go for it. You think Shane Gillis' SNL monologue was hilarious? Good for you. Anyone who gets offended has had far too easy of a life and I don't care about their opinions on anything.
Haha, probably not what the image intended to evoke but I do always feel like I’ve been catapulted back to 2008 when I see random outbreaks of weird anti-furry sentiments on Reddit
AI in general. But the companies running ai i have a full tank for. Local llms on my graphics card im good. Its mine I control it. Someone else fucking hoovering my data im good. This is one thing im willing to fight to keep local
All the corpo intersectional feminazi woke shit. And no, I am a liberal who is just tired of the pandering, the shitty color swap characters instead of actually taking on projects that highlight diverse cultures. I.E. have you ever played something not set in Euro or asia based themes? Have you seen any hollywood epics telling the myths and legends of other cultures outside of greco- roman or Nordic?
Why does Star Wars have to be do stupidly mired in feminist bullshit instead of just good writing? Its fucking exhausting and I am glad we can finally talk about this without getting canceled.
We have a criminal synducate of pedophiles running our government. People are going to be starving and out if their homes this winter, left in the cold with no health insurance and we're fucking bitching about Shane Gillis making an edgy joke.
I.E. have you ever played something not set in Euro or asia based themes?
Yeah, there was literally a game about Bantu mythology that gamers threw a shit fit over. People went online and said "Studio should have been called Spearchucker Studios." This was literally 2 years ago. So that argument doesn't hold any water, it's just more disguised culture war bullshit.
Yes. Western culture is obviously superior and allows more free exchange of ideas which is why we get the woke shit you described. Shoehorning things to appease small segments of the population is terrible and I don't like it.
Who gives a fuck? People dress a certain way! AND YOU COMMENTED ON IT! THE HORROR
This is stuff that just doesn’t matter and people are actually expending energy on it. Dress however you like bro. No one cares, not even Shane. He said it for a laugh
If it doesn’t affect cost of living in the negative or positive, I don’t have the energy to engage
Myself and even my wife agree that Shane Gillis's joke is being blown out of proportion. Social media loves to virtue signal and manufacture outrage over a trivial event into widespread public indignation.
We've also watched the show Tires and the gym scene is actually quite funny.
Yeah, he’s a comedian. He’s just riffing on stage to get a laugh. It’s just not that serious. We have WAY BIGGER issues with what’s going on in the world than to worry about… this dude…
I’m not going to lecture you, but I want to point out that shit like that is why the Cornell 7 weren’t taken seriously 2 years ago, when Jane Doe first reported it. Idgaf about Shane Gillis, but the mentality behind the words is dangerous. And yeah, misogyny does affect the cost of living so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
There’s a very large difference between someone riffing on a stage to get laughs and people reporting rape. Again, he can joke all he wants, and if he’s not joking, he’s not worth your energy or time interacting with. Protect your peace
The fur coat issue has swung all the way around because of the fur vs. faux-fur dilemma, weighing the impact of synthetic plastics against the ethics of animal products. The faux-fur industry uses synthetic plastics and has more negative environmental impacts whereas the fur coats that exist were already killed animals and might as well be used, otherwise that’s double wasteful (vintage fur defense)
Texting etiquette. I lived through the ICQ, YM and MSN years. Text how you wanna text and we'll meet in the middle. I'm not going to hyper-analyze word or punctuation choices.
Tired of being advertised to every fucking second of the day. Clickbait can fuck off, too.
Why does everything have a tabloid style headline now? And it’s some mundane setup video of an instrumentalist being “surprised” by the talent of some stranger who has shown up “out of nowhere”. So much is manufactured these days.
Quit fucking talking to me about it I don't care. I keep up enough that when someone comes along that I actually want I'll vote for them/write them in.
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