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

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.

Art3sian ,
@Art3sian@lemmy.world avatar

Religion.

You’re all like Star Wars fans to me.

Cybermonk_Taiji ,

Star Wars fans that murder people for disrespecting Yoda.

It's a sickness.

groet ,

A big part is groups selling Yoda plushies to star wars fans, telling those fans to kill people buying bb8 plushies so they don't loose out on sales. Many (most?) of those deaths are about money and power

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

Killing in the name of a man who said "blessed are the peace makers". You have to laugh, or else you'll cry.

Cybermonk_Taiji ,

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
-Mahatma Gandhi

p5yk0t1km1r4ge , (edited )
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Drummyralf ,

I think the silent majority feels like this.

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

Moneo ,

but you do you

That's what they're fighting for lol

mojo_raisin ,

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.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

You are more than welcome to think I "might have more negative views of Trans people". You're wrong, but it is what it is.

ouRKaoS ,

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.

burrito ,

Hopefully Green Bell G-1008 nail clippers. They're significantly better than any clippers I've used before. They'd make the mowing process much better.

hactar42 ,

Like the saying goes:

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

neomachino ,

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 ,

Sounds like you need to find a less popular beach

1371113 ,

Or go earlier in the day. At least in my neck of the woods.

n3m37h ,

Are you Bill Hicks?

Socsa ,

Actually swimming in the ocean is a pretty unique experience, but it does kind of require you to be a strong swimmer.

lost_faith ,

It definitely was, at about 8 yrs old I got caught in a rip tide (only my toes/foot it felt like) got drawn out in seconds and took minutes to return, scary as hell when you can't reach the surface or even know where it is. Side note; I couldn't float at the surface like everyone else, I was too skinny and floated about 2" below the surface

southernbrewer ,

Me too. And I live in NZ where there's bloody beaches everywhere. Can't move for beaches

Son_of_dad ,

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.

tal ,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

So, two points.

First, I'd encourage anyone to save. And as a place to keep savings, the market has done pretty well as to long-term returns. Having money in a portfolio isn't incompatible with working for a living.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/10/31/what-would-happen-if-you-invested-100-a-week-in-th/

Let's take a hypothetical investor named Annie as an example. At 25 years old, Annie has just landed her dream job as a chef, with a starting salary of $30,000 per year. She knows she may never make considerably more than that, but she doesn't care -- she loves her job! She also loves the idea of eventually retiring, though, and because the restaurant she works at doesn't offer pension or retirement benefits, she knows she's going to have to make that happen on her own. Living modestly, she's able to set aside an extra $100 per week, putting that money into an S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.70%) index fund that conservatively returns an average of 9% per year.

How much will Annie have at the end of just 30 years? Incredibly, somewhere around $790,000.

Surprised? This is even more surprising: If Annie can keep finding that extra $100 per week for another 10 years, she'll be sitting on roughly $2 million at the end of that 40-year stretch.

If she retires at 65, and you figure 2% inflation and use their 9% pre-inflation return, those savings generate a post-inflation maybe $140,000/year for her to live on without cutting into the portfolio in real terms.

But, okay, second, set investment aside. Let's just say "does the economy matter"?

Like, if there's a recession, GDP contracts. I'm pretty sure that a lot of people look at that and say "Well, that's just some abstract number. It's got no effect on me."

Inflation, on the other hand, clearly causes prices to rise.

I was looking at a poll from a bit back talking about how most people -- especially in Germany and the US, two of the three countries polled -- deeply dislike inflation. They would much rather have a recession than see high inflation.

In general, economists are going to go the other route. They'll say that recessions are really bad.

So, during Biden's (and Trump's, during COVID) time in office, a number of policies were made (not necessarily by them) that tended to avoid recession, but encourage inflation.

Polling shows that people were unhappy with Biden on the economy, because high (well, as the US goes) inflation showed up during his time in office.

Biden kept quoting figures that are generally considered to be very positive. Low unemployment, for example. But...there was that inflation.

When GDP drops -- and a sustained decline in GDP is what constitutes a recession -- it's indicating that there's less economic activity going on. What that tends to represent is a lot fewer people working -- a lot of layoffs. Companies going under. Maybe furloughs or reduced hours, in some cases. The impact there is that a lot of people have their income go away or be cut, a lot of things get upended.

With inflation, on the other hand, wages are sticky, tend to take a while to catch up, but do catch up. There aren't huge job losses. Things more-or-less keep moving along as they were.

I don't think that Trump or Biden would have acted wildly different on the matter. You could swap their periods in office, and both would have followed their recommendations, which would have been to favor policy that encouraged inflation and avoided recession, though then the inflation would have shown up when Trump was in office. They're not doing it because the economists advising them have some special love of having Americans pay higher prices, but rather because they'd consider that preferable to a recession and the problems that accompany that. Also, neither drives the Federal Reserve, which is what adopted an important chunk of that inflationary policy. In the absence of the pandemic, neither would have wanted inflation -- it's not that high inflation is desirable, just that it's preferable to the alternative of recession.

Son_of_dad ,

You lost me at "save". Save what? Pocket lint? Nobody has the funds for savings anymore. I used to put aside a few hundred bucks a month 10 years ago. Now I can't even afford my entire month's expenses, let alone save any money.

ameancow ,

Yeah also stopped there.

The commenter above was making that very point, that it's so worthless to give us financial advice and knowledge of the economy when a large portion of Americans are scraping together their last nickels to pay their water bills or their electric bills and not always both. Most people don't have a savings that can withstand a minor home emergency or health problem, investing or saving with intention is almost impossible for millions of people.

The funniest part here is that the commenter got a lecture about the economy anyway.

colforge ,

Save WHAT? The gas station takes their bit so I can get to work. The grocery store takes their bit so I can eat to have energy to work, and so I can feed my child. The phone company takes their bit so my boss can keep in touch with me when they want to. The insurance companies take their bits so I can say that I’m insured and have the right to drive, and to put myself deeper in medical debt if anything goes wrong. The landlord takes his bit so I can have a roof over my head. Disney takes their bit so my kid can have her favorite movies and shows on demand because that’s one thing I can give her. And now my coin purse is empty until my employer gives me my bit again. Where do the savings come from, oh wise one?

knightmare1147 ,

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.

doctortofu ,
@doctortofu@reddthat.com avatar

I do that too, but I use "rich fucks" - also works!

snownyte OP ,
@snownyte@kbin.social avatar

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

reversebananimals ,

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

friend_of_satan , (edited )

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.

Usernameblankface ,
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar

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

snownyte OP ,
@snownyte@kbin.social avatar

"Lost muh marriage"

"Lost muh job"

"Lost muh car"

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

akakunai , (edited )

I spent >10 years of my youth playing a sport competitively. I don't think I ever watched a professional game to completion. Unlike pretty much all my teammates, I just could not have cared less.

Play the sport myself? Fun, sure!
Watch someone else play? Uh, why?

I think it's great that people enjoy watching sports. I dunno why but it just bored the hell out of me.

Matriks404 ,

I don't mind playing sports even if I suck at them, but watching them? Uggghhh.

zipzoopaboop ,

The Royal family

MacedWindow ,
@MacedWindow@lemmy.world avatar

Having kids

slurpinderpin ,

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

BadNewsNobody ,

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

nilloc ,

You can get a deal on taxes and healthcare if you live in the US, it’s literally why my wife and I married.

We’re still happy like before and It’s been 19 years.

Kongar ,

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 ,
@the16bitgamer@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Drummyralf , (edited )

Interestingly, I think people like you and me use Lemmy because one of the same underlying reasons as social media people:

Either:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Engaging in conversations/discussions with other people.

  4. 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.

Kongar ,

1,2,&4 yes.

#3 not at all for me. I miss the old days of the internet where there were discussion forums on usenet / then replaced by somewhere forums. Many of my favorite forums are dead. I’m hoping Lemmy takes off that way and brings back a bit of the niche underground internet.

/shrug

SEND_NOODLES_PLS ,

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.

AnUnusualRelic ,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

Celebrities and sports.

I understand doing sports, but watching others is as exciting as watching paint dry to me. Not to mention combining both as in cheering for a team of people I don't know. I don't get it.

mojo_raisin ,

Scandalous! Where can I hear more about this ABC, DEF, JKL love triangle?

eightpix ,
@eightpix@lemmy.world avatar

Trigonometry

ExtraMedicated ,

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

dkc ,

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.

Sensitivezombie ,

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

snownyte OP ,
@snownyte@kbin.social avatar

I'm glad we live in an era now where people finally realized that they can just not have children and for it to become more optional.

Having a kid and a family is not what it always take to have a fulfilling and happy life. For people to think that's all it takes, would be devaluing all of their gains and the people that have helped them along the way aka friends.

Moneo ,

The fact that "family values" are politicized and cast as the best, most important way to live is honestly fucked up when you think about it.

Why did we decide being het and having kids makes you a fucking hero?

TrueStoryBob ,

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.

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

The rest of us feel that way about your Kardashians.

BroBot9000 ,
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

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

Magister ,
@Magister@lemmy.world avatar

Same, I never saw a MCU movies for instance

ryathal ,

You're missing out on some quality movies in the early part. Iron man, captain America, and the avengers were all very good. After that it's pretty much civil war and infinity war that are any good.

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

Some people just aren't into superhero movies.

Matriks404 , (edited )

Okay, but Iron Man is still a top-notch movie, even if you're not into superheroes and stuff. And since that's the first movie in the MCU you don't need to watch any of the later ones to get the plot.

Drummyralf , (edited )

Not necessarily, it's still taste. I like superhero movies, but hated all iron man stuff. Can absolutely not relate to a cocky billionaire main role. Not enough character arc on a per movie basis to like the movies.

atro_city ,

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.

Yankee_Self_Loader ,

I realized far too late that most mainstream media is about maximizing views and not telling those stories that worth telling as you said. They start with an interesting idea for a story and if it gets popular it just drags on to get the most amount of eyeballs for as long as possible only for it to end long after it should have with an unsatisfying ending.

And don’t get me started on injecting soap opera esque character drama just to keep the lowest common denominator inerested (looking at you For All Mankind)

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

The whole shtick going on between men and women right now.

Between the bear and the tree I just want everyone to stfu and realize humans are shit get over it and move on with your small insignificant life.

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