People just adding others in pseudo-friendships, friendships that don’t really mean anything and people treating others like they’re a service or speed-dial or so. I am part of the last generation of people it feels like, where, you befriended someone with intent to build a bond with them and that bond is built upon year after year. You gain memories, then when the old memories are old, you make new ones.
I’ve noticed an alarming amount of people who’ll just add you because they only see you as someone to lean on. Not because the relationship is meaningful, but someone who is just there ‘when in need’ as they go off not doing anything for large portions of time. This creates an artificial, shallow and hollow experience where a lot of time, you will feel like you’re the one upholding the friendship.
And that only isn’t normal to me, but simply unacceptable. Then you’ve got people who can’t even go a day without communication so now they call it ‘ghosting’ which is another overly spammed word that has lost meaning. I’m low maintenance, who can go periods of time without talking but at the same time, I do also want things to be meaningful. Doesn’t have to be constant, just something within the year.
And I’ve had people in my life who simply cannot do that. I’ve had people who still consider friends after not talking for years and years. What do you mean you’re okay with that? That’s lost time! I don’t enjoy having to spend however long playing catch up.
The normality of being advertised to. It’s kind of extreme how okay we are with someone hijacking our time like that. For free. As long as it’s a corporation holding our activities hostage and not like a human being in the room with us.
And to add to this: building secret profiles of people’s online activities and trading them around and selling them to the government without a warrant
Like we should be jailing everyone in big tech, all data brokers, and most of the government.
Banning advertising would be such an improvement. The only way to make a difference would be just to make a good product.
And the savings would go to the general population, instead of the one that buys the loudest voice
Tipping. Pay your employees a living wage.
I agree with this one!
You know who doesn’t agree with this one? A majority of those polled that receive tips.
Because they rightly believe they won’t be paid a living wage if they didn’t have the lottery of tips.
My answer again, Fast Fashion and putting a lot of money into completely useless (plastic, mass produced) junk.
Similar question was asked pretty recently.
Kids toys.
Rapist POTUS
Damn that was my answer.
Thats always been normalized at least since Jefferson.
What no way, he and Sally were in love
The expectation to always be available and reachable. Since the inception of mobile phones, you have to be reachable at all times and people get mad you didn’t pick up.
It’s breaking people. Sometimes I message some people and they don’t respond for a couple of hours, and when they do they apologize and explain. If this keeps happening I’ll ask them if they had/have an insecure partner or toxic workplace. Then I plant this seed “buddy, an email or a text or a call is not an automatic consent to dialogue. Get back to me whenever, I don’t care. Consent applies to communication.” I don’t have any patience for other people’s insecurity if I don’t or can’t respond, and we need to give that boundary to others. Ghosting is setting a boundary. Fuck it if some baby feels ignored. That’s their problem!
I especially hate this at work. I work with guys from the UK, about 5 hours ahead of me. Since we don’t interact half a day, I need to leave an update so they know where things are in their morning. However they keep thinking they need to respond.
If I’m leaving you a text at the end of my day, 10pm your time, I’m expecting you to act on it in the morning, dammit, and you’ll have half a day before I even notice. I’m not trying to take away your family time
Bringing dogs into places where dogs don’t belong. No your energetic little puppy is not a trained service animals. Even more annoying when they walk right past signs that say no animals. Obviously the rules don’t apply to their little ball of fur.
That and people using their car’s hazard lights as a “I can park here”
I had a person park in front of my driveway, throw on hazards and disappear for an hour and their battery ended up dying. She ended up walking up to the door and asking for a jump. I declined help and somewhat politely informed her not to park in front of driveways.
Few month later it turns out my neighbor was cheating with this woman.
spicy story
Around here they use their vehicles hazard lights as a shield against… something. I see at least ten people driving down the highway a week with their hazard lights on. They are not speeding and its not legal to use them that way in this state anyway. I’m sure its some stupid social media thing.
It doesn’t sound like the case here but I will briefly turn my hazard lights on for a few blinks if there is a hazard ahead on the road. I keep moving but my intention is to warn drivers behind me that there’s shit going on down the road where they might not see it and have time to slow down.
That’s literally what they’re for.
You don’t have to tell me that. Tell literally everyone else on the road how to use their blinkers. Imagine for a second a BMW driver doing it. Just kidding. Those cars leak blinker fluid like a tap.
Those are the “park anywhere lights”.
fake service animal vest, cant believe people actually think a small dog can be a service animal, especially a mutt. theres a reason they use working line dogs.
Company’s selling your data.
Everyone does it, and there is basically pages of information about you that every company see.
Conventional wisdom used to be “if the service is free, you are the product”, but now even companies that charge fees are selling your data on the side. Double dipping like that should be illegal.
Modifying your car to be louder.
Tangentially, manosphere culture and acting like an asshole to people to secure your status in the manosphere
Over where I am there’s been legislation introduced that limits the sounds.
… If only someone would bother enforcing it.
Well that isn’t as bad as the Carolina Squat. That is the dumbest shit I have seen.
Fascism???
Automobile dependency
Not being able to relieve basic human needs at school without getting permission first (using the bathroom, eating, some of my teachers even had temper tantrums about drinking water during class).
fun story time.
I had a 4th grade teacher that was a royal bitch and refused to let me go to the bathroom.
My grandpa gave me a solution to my problem.
I asked her to go to the bathroom. she, of course, said no. So I got up and walked over to the corner where the bookbags were piled up because it was the most private area. I unzipped my fly and started to fish out my dick. I’ll never forget it. She screams, “Green Knight23! Don’t do that in here! Just go to the bathroom!”
and that was the last time that trifling bitch told me “no” when I asked to go to the bathroom.
side-note: I may seem harsh on calling her a bitch, but the school I went to was a “southern school” where the teachers were power tripping underpaid pieces of shit.
it wasn’t unusual to hear the slaps and screams coming from the special ed “closet” where they packed in 5-7 autistic kids and berated them for being too stupid to do anything.
I have too many complaints to list here and I’m sure others will take care of the most important ones. So I’ll just say the most recent one I’ve gotten annoyed with:
The whole internet debate culture. Every fucking thing is now a debate. One of the reasons I finally deleted my reddit account. I literally answered someone’s question and provided a bit of extra information in a neutral to positive tone. And the guy replied with “are you fucking dense” and started to argue with me. To give you an idea how fucking stupid and silly it was, it was a thread about “which invention had the biggest impact on the world” and the guy commented “why has no one answered ‘electricity’ is beyond me?!” and I answered “possibly because electricity is not a invention, it just is” and then noted how people have answered inventions that harness electricity. And for that I got abuse and arguing.
That’s not a one time thing. Go to any reddit thread and I bet 80% of the first child comments are arguing with the original comment. Even if there’s nothing to argue about. Same goes for youtube comments, “hey I liked the way you took that exhaust manifold off” is met with “yeah but thats the wrong way no one should do that or the car will literally explode!” and then the rest of the comment chain is just arguing and mockery.
I do understand that people have always argued. But it was never this bad. I’ve been chronically online since 1999 and while I have had frustrations here and there, its never been daily, until the last 5-ish years.
Personally I blame the tiktok/youtube debating streamers. Everyone thinks they are a Planet Peterson now.
Anyway, start arguing with me below:
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I don’t know whether to upvote you for accuracy, or downvote you for obnoxiousness
Sitting on the fence is a weak stance. I am literally shaking right now reading you are comfortable with arriving atop that position so sharply. The only fair action wood be to post your beaming support and fall on the right side of it. It’s clear that everyone on the left side is not on the right side, you can only ever be on one side at any one time and nothing you can say otherwise is a valid defence against what everyone else has hammered on tooth and nail. Pivoting or hinging your bets to be able to swing freely is latching onto false security and like agate - ornamental. You clearly must brace yourself and picket a side, cementing your footing so you do not go around paling in comparison to others who are railing around with more electrified boundaries of what they are willing to uphold. May your shaded post and foundations rot in the rainy hell you have chosen to exist.
8.5/10
Brevity is the soul of wit. Even if you’re going for bloviating, it could have been a bit more compact.
I did get a Terry Pratchett vibe, so you’re certainly on the right track
Well argued! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpQlyUjp3vM
That isn’t debate. It’s being a ripe cunt of a person.
Yeah thats sort of what I mean. Everyone seems to be in a default cunt mode so they take everything as a challenge, debate or a insult. Its tiring.
Good point
You’re a lovely human being.
I disagree with that so very much!
Your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!
Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type makes me puke! You vacuous toffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!
You have a point.
Yet you are a mental midget, with the IQ of a fencepost!
Look, I came here for an argument, not abuse
Believing anyone who isn’t exactly like you is your enemy.
I miss hanging out with people of various faiths, politics, and hobbies, without them hating each other for their differences.
It’s so bad now that people go after me for my hobbies not being their hobbies.
Rape. (BTW, where are those files?) Wars. News for “one week” and then… they get “normalised” Discrimination of any sort. Live and let live!
My ex drugged and raped me and I’ve had people straight up tell me “well maybe you should have put out”
Like what the fuck is wrong with people. God forbid a woman have boundaries. I wasn’t ready for sex and my ex didn’t give a damn. Looking back, he was hella abusive and just had me charmed.
The whole thing was so traumatic that I repressed the memories for five years as a survival mechanism. Apparently some people think that I wouldn’t have CPTSD if I’d just push my own boundaries aside and let the dude fuck me. I was already doing that for the guy, but sex was a boundary I couldn’t push aside at that time…
I am so sorry to hear what happened to you. You know, sometimes I fell ashamed to be a man in the “man’s world” we built - which I refuse to “mingle in”. On the other hand, I am pretty sure that if I was born a woman, I will be dead or jailed… I wish all the best to you.
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