• ArxCyberwolf
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      430 days ago

      My coworkers love her because “She’s a storyteller!”

      I can think of many bands that do the same thing without making aggressively mid music while doing so.

    • @BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world
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      31 month ago

      I think she’s definitely a cut above your average pop singer just from sheer popularity, and most of her stuff isn’t bad but she definitely isn’t a super strong songwriter.

  • @harsh3466@lemmy.ml
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    611 month ago

    Watching sports/sports fandom. I just dont give a fuck about sportsball in any way shape or form.

  • @ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    451 month ago

    Watching sports of any kind.

    I get made fun of for playing video games and shit meanwhile millions of people lose their shit over grown ass men chasing a ball.

    I’d be less insulting about it if I wasn’t ridiculed every time I bring up not liking sports.

    • @Azal@pawb.social
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      51 month ago

      I remember an old reddit post about what it’s like to not like football by replacing it with archeology. I felt that in my soul.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Going to bars. I can’t drink with my medications and I don’t like going to loud, social places unless there’s some other reason to be there.

  • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    311 month ago

    Instagram. I have no interest in taking pictures or sharing things regularly. All the content looks so boring I don’t get the appeal. Even on an interesting post the comments are borderline spam fire emojis and people saying let’s go.

    • @bestusername@aussie.zone
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      101 month ago

      It’s used to be just a way to share photos with family and friends, those days are long gone, it’s just ads and fuckwits.

  • @AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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    211 month ago

    Any social media platform where you follow people instead of topics.

    I have to just sort of flail about in the void looking for people in my same niche to follow, and by the exact same token, no one will ever look at anything I post unless one of the Popular Accounts™ re-shares it. What’s worse, a re-share from a person with a lot of followers has more value than a re-share from an average Joe. That never sat right with me – the idea that one person’s opinions on what was and wasn’t good were more valuable than everyone else’s, and that everyone therefore competed for that person’s attention.

    • Corroded
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      228 days ago

      That does make me miss how Facebook and Twitter used to be utilized with friends following each other and posting content that they made and not simply reposting everything that comes their way.

      I do value the opinion of people I know but I want hear them say it not some larger personality.

    • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      41 month ago

      Live TV is great. I have a live feed of a stork nest in the background, and you get to see it feed its chicks, teach them to fly, and murder a few depending on mood.

    • @BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world
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      11 month ago

      I hate commercials but sometimes still put on the live TV because I get really bad choice paralysis with streaming. Tv gives me a handful of options to narrow down. Even if i don’t love what I’m watching I don’t have to manually decide to pick it

  • Annoyed_🦀 🏅
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    201 month ago

    Watching tiktok. I do not get the addiction it provide, but people around me, young and old, has been glued to it.

    • @threeduck@aussie.zone
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      11 month ago

      It really was excellent in its infancy, once you’d honed your algorithm. Some of the funniest, sharpest content on the internet at the time, with a really tight knit in-joke machine - reminiscent of early internet communities. It boomered up and burnt out, but there was certainly a spark there.

  • @GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee
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    141 month ago

    Going to loud parties with more than 5 people. 1) loud things hurt my ears and give me a headache. 2) can’t hear the person you’re talking to anyways bc of loud. 3) why are there 50 people here? Past 5 ppl, you can’t really talk to people well and the space gets crowded.

    Great for you if that’s your thing but not me.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    111 month ago

    Driving. If it’s far enough away, I can ask for a ride. If it’s any closer, I can walk. Most things I can walk to. I don’t trust myself behind the wheel and don’t feel comfortable contributing to the damage done by vehicles.

    • Jolteon
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      111 month ago

      I don’t think driving’s really an activity that people get into, except in a small percentage of enthusiasts. Most people just drive because it’s less inconvenient than the alternatives.

    • @ursakhiin@beehaw.org
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      I’m going to be honest. I’d be really annoyed if somebody kept asking me for a ride because they don’t want to be a driver. I also hate driving but it’s necessary where I live for most cases.

      Hopefully you’re taking the inconvenience to others into account when asking for a ride to places.

    • @Professorozone@lemmy.world
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      21 month ago

      When I was a kid, an older kid peer-pressured me into smoking a cigarette. I smoked the whole thing and quickly noped out of that. Can’t believe I made the best decision of my life at the age of 6.

      • @redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
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        61 month ago

        This is a factually accurate statement, but it reads like you’re encouraging someone to get into smoking cigarettes, which is (I thought) a myth invented by DARE types. Hey OP, speaking as someone with a 15 year off and on addiction to nicotine, steady on your course, bud.

        • Victoria Antoinette
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          i quit, too. it wasn’t easy. but that doesn’t mean i won’t use nicotine, i just broke the habit.

      • @bfg9k@lemmy.world
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        51 month ago

        If anybody is reading this and thinking of trying vaping/smoking, do not.

        If you never start, you never have to stop, and stopping is the hardest thing I have ever had to do.

        Sure it gets me through the day but I have probably wiped 10 years off my lifespan.