bobbyfiend

@bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Painful to recover from⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It might just maybe be similar to why men are also not attracted to intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Want an even less popular opinion? A good portion of the reason people love their dogs so fiercely is because they are such a pain in the ass. It is basic cognitive dissonance: we love what we suffer for, like sororities and fraternities (because of the hazing etc.), military units (because of the misery, starting with boot camp), orthodox/intense religions (because of the constant self-denial and public embarrassment of living the rules), etc. Same with dogs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No argument about the motives of record companies but Elvis was criticized by white people partly because, unlike most swing and country musicians, he openly praised his Black heroes and mentors. He was hated for bringing Black music to White kids. A for Nirvana, it was just the right sound+message+image at the right time.

  Now, Zeppelin… I got nothing. I just want to continue loving Zeppelin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is so fucking good. My fave is pepperoni and pineapple. The sweet acidity of the pineapple with the salty umame acidity of the pepperoni and the richness of the cheese make an excellent combination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The people saying “extroverts need to shut up” are often the same ones posting “you are fine just the way you are, no matter how your brain is wired.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolutely true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Emotional rollercoaster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I never said we get what we think we’re refusing to pay for, just that Americans think they can get something for nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what celebrity culture does to women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely that everyone should be centrist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of it (definitely not all of it) seems to be that Americans want things and don’t want to pay for them. They demand care for the elderly but refuse to pay what it costs to staff a decent facility. They want healthcare but refuse to pay what healthcare workers are worth. But far more than that, they refuse to pay more than absolutely minimal taxes, unless they are terrified into doing so–fear of foreigners, Black people, immigrants, communism, etc. They’ve been believing politicians for decades who promise them the moon with no tax increases.

  So Americans want healthcare but refuse to vote for a candidate who will divert money from cops or weapons toward making it affordable. They want college education for all their kids but keep voting for candidates who are Tough On Crime and Tough On Government Corruption while dodging questions about funding public education. They want better wages and jobs but keep voting for “pro business” candidates who remove regulations so companies can outsource the jobs to nations with cheaper labor. They want cheaper prices on everything but keep voting for candidates who block antitrust regulations and remove barriers to shareholder stock buybacks.

  There’s just enough distance between the voting decisions and their consequences that voters can convince themselves–they’re motivated to–that the consequences are not connected to their decisions, and they’re always provided with a raft of rationalizations in case they figure it out. It’s motivated reasoning on top of ignorance. Like all good cons, these prey on the selfishness and greed of the hundred million or so marks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kids playing on a dead whale and not a tablet or phone in sight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew someone who grew up very poor in rural coastal Alaska. Something like this was her idea of a great time: when she and her sisters found a bloated seal washed up in the beach they used it as a trampoline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandwidth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Take my upvote, you monster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I see your frog, and match you a forg.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for responding. I also feel sorry for this frog, and I am happy to see others in the thread saying that when frogs are randomly born like this they seem to do OK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lass mich!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For the non-German speakers (via online translation because me neither)

  The sign says “energy plants” (or crops)

  The text: A schematic representation (?) of my social skills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s only 3 of the 4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australians doing the country proud again...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I was ever really a part of either of these trends, but my memory is that it started out as the game, then some white supremacists started to use it as their symbol. My hope is that the second association has broken down a bit for most people; I haven’t seen any pics on social media etc. of white supremacists doing this for a couple of years, so maybe the kids can have their game back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I see your frog, and match you a forg.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I say this not as an insult (I promise) but as a genuine question: Were you sober when you made this comment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nostalgia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I vaguely remember these specific things. I more clearly remember a bunch of stuff in this vein, at secretaries’ desks, on office walls, in guidance counselors’ offices, in feel-good TV programs that only aired on community UHF TV, etc. I found them sweet and meaningful until about age 12, and since then, yes, the urge to slap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine How embarrassing that would be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a sightly drunk person I very much appreciate the people explaining the analogy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Possession is 9/10 of the law!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lived near the US-Mexico border for a while. License plates stolen twice. Apparently it’s a big thing there: slap them on a stolen car and drive into Mexico before anyone realizes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When this was posted about 6 years ago on twitter the first time I got more upvotes than ever before (i.e., like 20) for saying something like “But it’s a massive stadium full of car-sized treadmills with a car on each one. Each car has a 1% chance of solving a sudoku every day, so there are a few thousand constantly running, pouring exhaust into the sky.”

  Or something like that.

  And now AI makes it look almost quaint. Fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FACT: Belle did NOT know the beast could turn into a human, she was fully prepared to bang him as is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As one billion fangirls (and some bois) have pointed out: he was more fuckable as a beast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friends with Drawbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard a variant of this joke in 1999 and have repeated it to moderate mirth several times. It is a solid joke.