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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@lemmy.world 135 points 7 months ago

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

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

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

[-] snownyte@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago

"Lost muh marriage"

"Lost muh job"

"Lost muh car"

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

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[-] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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@lemmy.world 13 points 7 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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[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 87 points 7 months ago

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@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Like the saying goes:

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

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[-] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 79 points 7 months ago
[-] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

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

[-] BadNewsNobody@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

"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@lemmy.world 60 points 7 months ago

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@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

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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[-] snownyte@kbin.social 20 points 7 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@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago

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@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Sounds like you need to find a less popular beach

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[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago

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

[-] dkc@lemmy.world 14 points 7 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@lemmy.world 41 points 7 months ago

Religion.

You’re all like Star Wars fans to me.

[-] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

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@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

I think the silent majority feels like this.

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

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

stocks...incredibly unpredictable

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

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 7 months ago

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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[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 27 points 7 months ago

The Royal family

[-] monsterlynn@kbin.social 27 points 7 months ago

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@lemmy.world 11 points 7 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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[-] Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 25 points 7 months ago

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

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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 7 months ago

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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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 19 points 7 months ago

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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[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Subscription music services.

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[-] SEND_NOODLES_PLS@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

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@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

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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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 13 points 7 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@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

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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