What's something you don't get the hype about?

hey, you're valid... I'm from Korea and it's crazy seeing how people drool over kpop nowdays. no attention for the actual good music, the korean rock and hip hop and funk and jazz and so on... just the corporate boybands.

It's the same shit that's popular in the US. manufactured popularity. we could talk about all the factors about how they pulled it off, but who cares, it's a bunch of shitty music created by desperate people selling their souls to rapists who prey on modern social isolation to sell empty fantasies to the masses.

that's the point of the music! you should be proud to dislike it. now go listen to something good, like Jaurim (자우림)

There's good and bad kpop, like there's good and bad of most genres.

I love my small car but it's getting impossible to drive anymore when the LED headlights of these trucks are literally at my eye level blinding everything. They are a danger and the only way out it seems is to join them and get above the lights.

I believe there was some tax-benefit for them in the US at some point..? Then it makes a tiny bit if sense i guess.

It's even stupider than you think. California made a rule requiring that auto makers transition to making EVs, but exempted certain heavy vehicles from the transition, and auto makers responded by turning every single car into a heavy exempted vehicle. Twenty years of marketing later and now you can't convince an American to buy a reasonably-sized car, which is why crossovers are a thing.

This is basically Florida. Tons of massive trucks on the roads, all driven by assholes that I will judge absolutely by their truck alone.

I agree with pick ups. The issue has been that bigger pick ups are generally exempt from fuel efficiency mandates resulting in manufacturers making bigger and bigger pick ups. They don't make compact pick ups anymore. Add in America has some fascination with owning trucks. I'm actually gonna disagree on crossovers. For most people I agree they're impractical. But they're better than SUVs and pick ups. Most people actually need a mini van or wagon but we just stopped making those

Part of it was EPA regulations fucking up small trucks. Another part is that they're safer for the occupants, deadlier for everyone else. And then there's general machismo.

I would go further and say they are stupid for everything. Oh i need it to haul stuff. And you didn't get a bus? Are you stupid?

Bacon was awesome before the marketing campaign. Bacon was awesome during it, and bacon remains awesome to this day.

Sorry about all the shitty bacon you've been fed.

I like her music when I hear it, but don't seek it out. From what I gather she really speaks to women, they get her in ways I (male) would not relate to. She strikes me as moral and doesn't have skeletons in the closet or any weird behavior one would expect from someone that rich and famous. As dad would have said, "That's a stand-up woman!"

She knows how to sell herself, which I find an admirable and difficult trait. I feel I'm 10x more confident than the people that post around here and she's 100x more confident that I. And it's not bullshit, unearned confidence a la Senior Musk.

And who doesn't love how she fucked the record companies over at their own game? Knowing her own worth changed the industry.

Doesn't hurt that she's almost ethereally pretty. :)

You know how people who are into Q-Anon and Pizza-gate look at strange symbols and odd numerology to find strange connections to prove whatever crazy thing they believe. Taylor Swift like to release albums, singles and tours using favorite numbers, hidden symbols and hints in her other songs. So it fits that section of the internet who love to analyze to death things to find clues. Since she is so prolific there is enough material for her to hide these Easter eggs to generate endless conspiracies about when things are released. Since she does drop hints it makes sense that people love to find them. Its like a puzzle-game mixed with a conspiracy theory mixed with a "viral marketing campaign" all in one. And instead of unraveling the fabric of democracy she release music people like.

This is me in a nutshell. The more people that tell me to participate in any thing, the less likely i am to try it. Still haven't watched Tiger King, for example.

Just like the fast food thing, TikTok is literally addictive. It’s the new breed of addictive tech. It’s the fentanyl of tech.

The funny ones are all just somebody using the sound from a funny skit but acting it out themselves.

I'm so funny, I acted out this funny skit somebody else made

Big number go up, get brain drug dose. not much more to it than that.

as a balatro enjoyer i am offended by this comment.

The only real use for the block chain is tracking stocks to prevent illegal shortselling.

So it will never ever ever get used for that purpose.

Obligatory fuck citadel.

Meh I think the decentralization is a pretty nice use case actually. It’s great that no one can shut it down and no centralized entity can just decide that your money is gone now (for cryptocurrencies).

Look at Monero. Since it's almost impossible to track governments are actually trying to ban it but they can’t shut it down because anyone can just spin up a node and there’s nothing any government can do about it except banning it from exchanges. I think that’s pretty neat, although the environmental cost for this technology together with LLMs are absolutely crazy

I think HP and Kpop are both quite overrated.

Anime and Manga are just media, so there are good and bad series, like anything else. It's not worth obsessing over, or writing it off. But there are definitely shows that are worthy of some amount of hype.

Gyms are a good place to have access to various machines and weights for strength training (which is super important!) It has advantages and disadvantages compared to something like calisthenics. Yoga is a great way of moving and stretching the body, which is big for flexibility and general mobility. Especially combined with some form of strength training, it will have a huge impact on how your body feels.

Fashion, makeup, and nail polish are all about self expression. Fast fashion is bad, but fashion can mean just putting together a good outfit. It's worth it to put a bit of effort into what you wear, and making your clothes into something that reflects you. Makeup also has a positive and negative side. On one hand, a lot of people use it (often heavily) to cover up their percoeved flaws and 'fix' their appearance. I think that's unhealthy and a bit sad. But makeup is also an an art form; it turns your face into a canvas. Think winged eyeliner, glitter, colored eyeshadow or lipstick, etc. This includes nail polish. It's an expression of creativity, an you get to look nice at the end! Even if it's something you aren't personally interested in, (or if you are discouraged from self ornamentation due to gender expectations) It should be clear why people enjoy these things.

pretty generic trope

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-not-so-hidden-israeli-politics-of-the-last-of-us-part-ii/

If the show is anything to go by, TLoU is horrifically fascist and nihilistic. The main writer is a zionist with some pretty disgusting views and his politics seep through everything in the show.

i mean it was intended to be a slow paced game as a counterpart to their other franchise Uncharted which was more arcadey and fast paced.

Also to put into perspective, the first TLOU is as old now as Deus Ex was when TLOU released, which speaks of the quality of TLOU since it holds it's weight technically to this day.

Life is strange. Just pure shit.

I like vinyl for it being big enough to be somewhat like a poster. I'm hoping to eventually gave a vinyl wall when I have my own place

I'm 30 so CDs were well and truly widespread during my formative years so it's not nostalgia for me

I don't have room for any sort of physical media. Yeah, I have some legacy tech I occasionally fuck with, and my sound system parts are from the 70s, 80s, 90s and up, but those parts do their job.

The reason the people choose vinyl is because of its limitations. CD has a larger dynamic range, but because it's fully digital, producers can abuse that fact and make an extremely loud and dynamically compressed record and the CD will play just fine.

If you tried doing that on vinyl, the needle would fly off the record. So thanks to this physical limitation, people who produce for vinyl are forced to make a quieter, more dynamic record. It's less fatiguing on the ears, and if you want a louder record, you can simply turn up the volume.

Absolutely do use whatever makes you happy, but that is a false equivalence. Plex just updated their license to allow them to track your content consumption and sell that data to whomever they want...

The only appeal of fast food was that it was cheap, but that's not even true nowadays.

Especially outside the US, for some reason Carl's Jr is insanely popular in Mexico yet its expensive and objectively worse than local burger shops.

Jungle pee!

...does HVAC have a different meaning to you? I'm struggling to understand how you could have such an opinion about centralized air distribution. Do you look at air vents and start scowling?

what do you mean? AC is absolutely a game-changer compared to no AC.

i dont like heating with hot air, but i get why it happens

Idk man, air conditioning is pretty nice.