The world is cruel and ugly. There are plenty of justifiable things to be upset and distraught over. I don’t want to hear about those. I want to know what bizarre out of left field takes you have that infuriates you.
I’m still upset about Tenochtitlan falling and being buried. I’m a gringo, I shouldn’t have an opinion about Lake Texcoco being drained centuries ago.
Shit observational comedians harvesting this thread for material
That vacuums are so terribly loud and whiny (and unnecessarily tiny space heaters). Older vacuums used to be bigger and run slower, but in my experience vacuumed as much or even better. Nowadays they put several kilowatt motors in there that somehow don’t do as much but produce immense noise and heat.
If someone vacuums with their window open I can tell from over 100m away by the whine. Fuck that.
I used to hate vaccuming because of that. I’m glad to have an actually quiet vacuum now (a Henry). They’re rare, but they do exist.
People who chew with their mouths open should be fucking euthanized.
Obviously, I don’t actually think that, but as a misophonic person who was brought up right, it drives me fucking insane when people do this.
Broom dustpans don’t need a fucking lip. You’re sitting there repeatedly sweeping the same dirt into the same pan instead of a simple one and done because that way if you hold the pan up perfectly level like a fucking sociopath the dirt doesn’t fall out.
Timezones are fucking dumb and I hate them
I understand why we have timezones, but I’ve never heard an explanation for leap seconds that was particularly compelling.
I know that years and days don’t exactly match up, but as far as I’m concerned, whoever it is that’s being inconvenienced by the Earth being a few seconds out of rotation can go figure out their own workaround instead of messing up a million peoples’ daily rollup scripts.
I think you mean daylight savings time is dumb & you hate it,(?) which would be understandable.
Time zones however are part of nature.
Hating daylight savings isn’t weird, it’s dumb and everyone knows it’s dumb.
Timezones are arbitrary lines on the map that were made when trains were new and there was no good way to coordinate otherwise. We are way past that, everyone has an automatically synced and precise way of telling time on them pretty much at all times. The “time” is an arbitrary number. Noon is not when the sun is highest in the sky most of the year unless you live near the equator, midnight is rarely “the middle of the night”, 9 to 5 should be deleted, and have one universal time would be one step closer to uniting human kind.
Timezones are fucking dumb, it’s not the 1800s. I’ll fight to the death over this.
Found the programmer.
On tinder, I can’t fucking stand seeing pictures of people’s kids. Like, if I’m swiping, and I come across a woman with pictures of her kids? Hell no. Automatic left swipe.
I know that that picture has probably been logged on a dozen servers, it’s been scrapped for AI training, and someone is already falsifying videos with her kid’s face before she gets a first date. And I get she might not know that. But I kinda can’t help feeling like a responsible person would think about these things and try to learn about them.
Also, I’m pissed that it’s happening at all, and people who have no idea it’s happening get caught in the crossfire. Their kids will grow up in a world where generative AI can perfectly replicate them online, where intelligence agencies have cross referenced data on their every movement and formative event from their childhood. And their parents unwittingly made that easier instead of trying to protect them.
That drives me up the wall.
That everyone dies alone.
Really? Some people die in airplane crash while holding hands with a loved one sitting next to them.
The lovers who died in an embrace together in that Pompeii volcano disaster a long time ago
People die together sometimes in car crashes
I’m reading through the nearly all of the comments here and I’m like…
“Yup! Me too. Here’s your upvote.”
Don’t send me videos if the background audio is some asshat wheeze-laughing about whatever supposed funny thing is playing. It’s never funny and it ruins my interest in watching the shit immediately.
I feel the same about videos with titles like “Try not to laugh challenge” - well guess what, I’m not watching your video and I won your challenge, plus I saved myself some time. Just… leave it to me to decide for myself what I find funny, okay?
“Watch to the end!”
People who loudly watch videos on their phone in public spaces or stores/restaurants should be caned.
I don’t want to listen to your ignorant ass braying like a fucking mule at some right-wing hack reheating the anti-trans memes he found on Reddit while I’m eating breakfast with my wife. Maybe you should put the phone down and meditate on why you’re the only person in this place eating alone.
China is so bad when it comes to this. A single train car can have like 10 people on their phone speakers - its utter chaos and I genuinely don’t understand how people can live like this. When wife and I travel we’re both wearing noise canceling headphones lol
There’s a new Tron movie. With Jared Leto in the lead role.
Fuck Jared Leto.
Jared Leto does fuck a lot of people
Wtf
This shouldn’t be weird, but I’m consistently upset at how dumb the average idiot is.
It’s scary how stupid most people are without even realizing it and I hate how I have to suffer for it every day.
Not enough people winning Darwin awards anymore LOL
Loud lawnmowers. Ass hats who maintain the classic American yard. Every Saturday morning on cue, the whole neighborhood erupts into noise. It’s so loud.
Everyone in my area has about a quarter acre of land, yet here come the zero turn riding mower guys, mowing their grass too low, every weekend, just to water it the next day.
They are loud, disruptive, and just remind me we are slowly killing the planet every day for vainity yards.
I have a reel mower from the 1950’s I found and fixed up. I got a lot of compliments the first summer I used it, it has self shapening blades and works mostly well. Folks were shocked I was using it, one lady stopped and even gsve me a “you get it girl!”, like what? It’s a quarter acre people, and takes me 30-40 mins. Why do they need giant gas guzzling, louds stinky mowers? After a few years with the reel mower, I did get an electric line trimmer, … I’m crazy, but sometimes I mow most of my very small lawn with it when I dont want to fix and use my reel mower. It’s quiet, it doesnt smell, and I have control to skip over dirt/sparse patches. I can leave areas longer where I see native plants popping up. I feel like im working with the land, not just decimating it.
They ride these giant mowers up and down the street, they mow dirt just the same as they mow field. I literally get triggered everytime I hear one start up, so often, it’s a running joke in the house. It’s a quarter acre lots here, not baseball fields.
Perfect lawns, but then its just bittersweet growing wild on the edges taking over trees.
I also hate bittersweet. Like, really really hate bittersweet. It kills everything and takes over gardens. Invasive garbage that may seem like a cool plant to the unknowing eye, but it is invasive garbage everyone just looks past as it kills our native trees and plants, suffocating the life forms they parasite off from. I have to stay vigilant to keep it from my yard. It is persistent, it’ll tear your house down if you let it.
I hate lawnmowers and bittersweet. These things make me feel distraught.
I agree with you. There’s something a little nostalgic about lawnmower noise, but if you live without it for a while it’s so much nicer. I don’t have lawns at any of my house- crushed coral and desert dirt- but it’s been nice to see everyone get irritated with draining gas and fixing carburetors every year and switch to electric mowers which are mutch quieter.
I can tell you’re not a homeowner.
What the fuck else are people supposed to do with their yard?
If you don’t cut the grass, it grows and eventually you’ll start getting brush. Not to mention lots of idiots have HOAs which mandate they cut the grass.
Reseed with clover and then plant moss and native flora. Its good for helping out bees and other pollinators and invites other wildlife into your yard if live up against woods like I do. I’ve seen rabbits, raccoons, deer, flocks of turkey, and even a bobcat once.
HOAs can eat my whole ass.
And today on Lemmy we learned that bees thrive on the right amount of the nutrient sterol 🐝 😊
Man, it’s telling how many of you believe things because you never tried them yourselves.
Get out into the real world. Get some experience.
Plant native species! Anything but lawn grass!! For the love of insects and ecological diversity.
Have you tried this?
Where I live, native species is brush that will eventually cover my entire house.
Edit: yes I am trying this right now. I’ve planted a bunch of native species in one area of my front yard. They seem to be taking well, next summer I will plant some more in a other part. Mulch around the natives helps to keep the weeds and grasses down.
There are often more than one native species of plant. And repairing a yard ecosystem takes time and care and attention. I understand folks have little spare time with full time jobs and whatnot, but an imperfect naturalized yard is better than a sterile grass monoculture that requires a ton of mowing.
So… I should go through all of that trouble because you don’t like hearing lawnmowers?
I’m curious what planet you are from where you think anyone would do that.
Brush that will cover your house is likely not a native.
What makes you think that?
Native pants tend to have checks and balances in their environment. Kudzu, eastern honeysuckle, English ivy, vining nightshade, all of them will eat your house if you take them out of their native environment.
I explained how I do my yard in the comment. I don’t let it go crazy, I maintain it. I have made four garden beds here since getting the house, and that’s in addition to the four already here. Both for flower and vegetables. I have a potted plant corner, and a “track” where the grass grows low or turns to dirt from my son doing laps around the house and playing baseball in the back. If I was a millionaire (I’d move) I’d like to put stone on the “track” he made because it follows the natural curves of the yard. The front yard is sparse, it’s so dry and like sand, I don’t have to mow that side, I hit it with the trimmer if it gets wild. I’ve seeded with clover and a native grass type. I keep a small patch over grown, circling around a tree, maintain it with weeding, and give space back for the insects. It’s filled with purple flowers most of the year. A typical lawn care person would just mow it over.
What I’m getting at, is folks with brown grass they still mow weekly. Whether its going to rain or not, weather their grass is long or not, they mow it to check it off their list. Every weekend. Then, if you look, some houses like this, there’s invasives just growing everywhere on the edges of their properties. So lazy. To mow ones lawn, fat ass on a riding mower for less than a quarter acre of lawn, just mow it and put it away, while thier tree line suffers with invasives.
My goal is to have no grass, but my son’s track and baseball area, and the rest garden. As it stands I only have to mow maybe 40% of my yard, and I’ll be damned if I’ll fall in line to get a riding mower to kill beneficial plants every weekend, while leaving the harmful ones.
all of my hatred and disgust is perfectly and completely justified
bingo.
like LED headlights that are obviously way too bright. no, I don’t care that you bought it like that. you chose to buy it like that. you are the consumer and you have responsibilities. you are therefore an asshole. perfectly justified and reasonable take.
Those plastic bags at the grocery store, to put loose fresh produce in? Why the fuck do they never open easily? With all these whizz-bang technologies we’ve developed, you’d think someone would design/make bags you don’t have to wrestle with to open.
paper produce bags enter the chat
I want to bring reusable ones but everything is measured by weight and that fucks up the scale
Yep. We are ruled by idiots.
Weigh the produce before putting it in the bag.
