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I think how I feel about collecting hobbies depends immensely on what is being collected and how it is used. If someone is collecting old books and actually reading them, then even if they buy $10,000 books, as long as they aren't trying to show it off on the basis of price - I have zero issue with such a thing.
Like it's fine if they want to show off that the book is really rare, explain why it's rare, how hard if was to find, what's special about it, etc. And then if as a result of that I can infer it must have been expensive, I'm not grossed out. But if they come at from the angle of "this book is 10 grand and that's why you should be impressed by it and transitively be impressed by me", that's nasty and pisses me off.
I don't think there's anything intrinsically wrong with collection-based hobbies, although I do think that in general they are not really impressive hobbies and should not be misinterpreted as a skill or something to be "proud of". But I think this is just a conflation being made because the word "hobby" does too much double duty nowadays. We use it to describe things that are simple, as well as things that are complex; impressive and unimpressive, skilled and unskilled, creative and consumption. "Hobby" usually just means literally anything I regularly do that isn't required of me. And as a result it carries baggage from it's various applications in between themselves, like using the same spoon for your curry and your soup and your ice cream.
If we taboo that word, then I think people collecting things is freed from hobby-connotations like:
- "this is something for me to be proud of"
- "this is something that makes me an impressive person"
- "this is something that demonstrates a skill or ability beyond that of the uninitiated"
And we can see collecting for what it is: nothing more than liking a thing, and wanting to have it around to admire/contemplate/use. I think collecting can be a very respectable demonstration of someone understanding what is important to themselves, and in being able to take joy in simple things or the same things over and over. The dark side of collection is obviously hoarding, void-filling, status-signaling, addictive behavior. But the light-side of it is cherishing things that being you joy, putting them somewhere where you regularly appreciate and protect them, sharing that joy with others. It can be very humble, vulnerable, and in fact can be very anti consumerist/hoarding/void-filling/status-signaling.
Like anything, I think it's all in the way it's done. But I don't think you need to be working on something or demonstrating a skill with it, or producing something, in order for the collecting to be respectable.
I mean, I think it's less about people having interests that I don't, and more about just the realistic car culture. There are people who are into cars in a cool, healthy way. But in my experience, the majority of them ARE sad, empty people who don't know who they are, and are trying to buy a personality, who think having money makes them good and that showing their money via their car to others makes others perceive them as good. They are often very childish people trying to impress others and fill some kind of void in themselves that they don't know how to fill. I say this knowing at least 5 pretty intense "car guys". It IS very sad to observe, and they don't even seem to enjoy their "hobby" (which really just consists of inventing new reasons to spend more money) themselves. It's just a continual race to one-up your friends cars, get more likes on Instagram, or emulate something they saw on YouTube, or reconfigure something, or trade this car for a different car, like a high-rpm hedonic treadmill. Just objectively speaking, these people all seem pretty depressed. Admittedly they have other shared traits that make my sample not rigorous. But even the common social conception of car people seems to agree. A lot of them are obnoxious losers, even their own community has a whole bunch of archetypes that they agree are obnoxious losers.
I think there are many very cool ways to be into cars. It's just than the majority of people who are actually into cars, are not into them in those cool ways. It's like how playing a guitar, fundamentally and intrinsically, is a pretty cool interest to have...but if 70% of guitar players you know are lonely shells of people with underdeveloped personalities who only started playing guitar to flex their wealth on others and because they thought it would make girls want to fuck them - you might say "guitarist culture is sad".
Real. I can't stand fake things, especially fake nature. Wood veneers, marble painted plaster laminates, LVT, no no no. I'd sooner have no tree at all.
No, I mean, what good would it do this site, as theoretical data harvesters, if I put in my license plate number abcd123.
"oh, someone has a car with license plate abcd123"
I wasn't talking about Flock. I was talking about this site as a potential security threat.
Idk how I feel about this, but at the same time I don't know how bad it really is if they're being malicious, because I have trouble imagining what harm could be done by knowing nothing more than a license plate number
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This is like a special moveset of self-buffs for a brawny no-magic character in a JRPG
Thank you for saying this. I'm seeing this thinking, have people used native apps recently? They're not as great as people say. Have they tried coding a UI in a native library instead of the holy HTML CSS JS trifecta? It's usually fairly miserable and usually extremely non-customizable by comparison.
All this hating on Electron, hating on UE5, etc. really rubs me the wrong way. Firstly because people talk about optimization and "the good old days" while ignoring that we have completely different requirements these days. The new Witcher game isn't fucking Quake. It's gonna use some hardware. What do you want people to do? Implement custom rendering engines for every game? That's the same as saying you want less games, because most teams literally cannot do that for various reasons, and the same applies to the Electron apps.
Like, I get it. Things should be optimized. But I feel like "software is unoptimized now" is mostly a meme propagated by tech and gaming YouTubers who don't really know what they're talking about, through an audience of wannabes who don't really know what they're talking about. People whining about le yandere dev toothbrush!1!1! And le undertale dialogue if statements!1!1!. E.g I remember hearing people saying that because borderlands has a cel-shaded effect it should be cheaper to render - a completely wrong and backwards statement.
It's incredible how gamers think they understand rendering technology just because they play a lot of video games. And similarly I don't like when developers (and probably a lot of non-developers) make a lot of assumptions about other people's apps. See the complaints about Spotify memory usage. We don't know anything about how Spotify works internally. There could be an algorithm running to determine which songs to queue up next which is analyzing multiple songs at once, or all sorts of other things. It's so presumptuous to just look at an app in Task Manager and be like "pathetic, I could do better", especially if it runs without problems on your device. And maybe it is built with Electron? So what? That just means that you're paying some RAM in order to get an always updated UI that is matching what you get everywhere else. Like are we just gonna neglect that Electron provides a basically fully homogenous experience across all platforms with no extra code needed? We're just gonna act like that's worth nothing? It's so entitled to say "nooooo I need you to spend an extra $2M/yr paying a Windows 8 UI dev team so that the Windows 8 Native App can have a full ten years of service and it can use 80 MB instead of 1 GB of RAM so that way I can also use this app and 200 other glorious native apps all simultaneously but also I don't want to pay any more for the product and I don't care if you're a solo developer because back in my day solo developers authored papers about their custom algorithms and if you don't do that but with my new 100x more demanding requirements you're trash".
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Bravest slop identifier
I am pretty sure 90% of people who get called tankies on Lemmy are not communists. Tankie-calling is by far the most obnoxious Lemmy community pastime. But I'll give them this, it's an extremely annoying word, much more annoying to be called than "fascist". We need an unjustifiably smug sounding pejorative for people who call everyone tankies, to call them in exchange so that they can see how not epic their insult is.
The key thing is that the insult needs to seem like you think it's really badass and brave of you to call them that, and it should seem like you think they're seething at you, when in reality it's a super lame insult. Like so:
"You're a tankie" "Oh no the Tankie-twister has arrived!" "Wtf kind of lame insult is that lol" "Now you know how everyone else feels about being called tankies"
I really like when bosses heal if it's in the style that some jrpgs will do where they have similar health to me and similar health gained by healing. I like feeling like I'm playing against an equal
This is absolutely not a problem of being bad with numbers. That's like if I had trouble reading a Chinese sentence about gardening and said I'm just bad with plants. My issue is that I'm not familiar with the notation used to explain the concept - not a problem with the concept itself that the notation merely arbitrarily symbolizes.
Being good or bad at math is not really an inherent thing, aside from some geniuses and some people with disabilities. If you want to be good at math, you can be!
69 is eternal, or at least as long as Arabic numerals remain in use. 67 does not replace 69, it lives alongside it. But 69 will outlast it. It was first referenced in 1790 https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/69/ and will be repeatedly rediscovered by future generations
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Ugh, that second one is the worst. How dare you invoke that name in my presence
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I've always had an irrational dislike for the word "Bubba". It's just annoying to say, and I feel like it only ever shows up in annoying contexts. This flower is the first counterexample so far
Ahhhh so this is why they want to make everyone poor
"That's right, Snake. Warmth is a physical phenomenon produced by a variety of factors, typically the sun. It occurs most often in tropical environments, but it can even be found in arctic climates...especially between two people. But did you know humans are also capable of generating something known as "artificial warmth"? "
"Hrrm... artificial warmth, huh?"
"In fact, artificial warmth technologies have been incorporated into your sneaking suit. There's a copper lining which is powered by recaptured electrochemical activities from your body, which acts as a sort of radiator."
"...So you're telling me I don't need anyone else as long as I've got this suit on."
"Well, I guess that's one way of putting it...But, don't forget about the 'nice' part, okay Snake?"
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I'm white and I wear shorts - hah! It's funny because it's true!!!
In my experience, it's because as part of becoming millionaires they also become obnoxious money-obsessed losers who are totally unenjoyable to talk to
This is fucking crazy, way crazier than it's getting credit for. Very sentient behavior ngl