Things You Just Don't Care About

bandcamp releases

I'm taking this thread to mean "things you cant be bothered with but care enough about to mention them dismissively"

Oliver Stone

Nihilist poseurs

what you take this thread for *snaps fingers*

lol

oliver stone! sheesh, there's a blast from the past...

kinda like saying you don't care about R.L. Stine or The Baby-Sitter's Club.

Ladies and Germs, let's give a warm welcome for Oliver Poseur & The Nihilist Stoners

"tahhhhm, is on mah sandwisch, yes it ihyiz"

I honestly don't know if I've seen an Oliver Stone film. *checks for a minute* I've seen a bit of Platoon and it seemed okay.

If we listed things we really don't care about in the slightest it'd be about things like the color of your neighbors eyes, what the bestselling type of denim is, the history of screws and rivets.

Unless your neighbour has beautiful eyes, you love denim or work with denim or written a history of screws and rivets.

fuck mayne u picked the wrong thread the wrong night

More...

the majority of soup flavours

first person shooter games (although I have some fondness for early Doom, Quake, TimeSplitters and Bioshock visual/sound elements)

Amazingly I found a few flavours of soup was loved recently.

soup I loved recently.

television ratings

"If we listed things we didn't really care about, it would be impossible: how would we know about them to list them?

Waving our hands in the air like we don't care, is this not the most transparent indication of our deep commitment, a fraudulent face saving subterfuge liable to result in the non-saving of the faces of others when we accidentally (or perhaps purposefully) poke them in the eye with our fraudulently flying fingers?"

- Roland Barthe Thimpson

When animals go extinct is a horribly depressing thing to not care about.

If you don't care about that you're a wanker.

eh, they'll come back. or something will, when we're all gone.

if you tell ppl what they should care about you're a wanker imo

depends what animals

im not telling anyone what to care about although I admit it was rude to call him a wanker. it's really awful to not care about that, though.

Apparently what makes one "a wanker" is definable; heaven forbid anybody should confuse sharing that definition with telling people what they should care about. That would be controlling behavior and WE CAN'T HAVE THAT.

Animals have been going extinct on their own or bc of climate change or seasonal weather patterns or volcanoes ruining their habitat or other animals eating them for as long as there have been animals. Human intervention is sad and everything but we're only even aware of the ones that have died off in written human history. There are worse problems imo.

Like genealogy afficionados.

anyway, everybody wanks, let's be sex positive people

Ancestry.com says my great-great grandfather shot the last passenger pigeon in the wild, sorry about that.

We got Ant-Man movie

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/01/02/globalpost-species-near-extinction/21182221/

Just look at all these asshole animals we won't have to worry about soon!

But really, in orbit pretty much otm.

I'm also ok being a wanker.

in orbit not otm

http://endangeredspecies.about.com/od/extinctionpastandpresent/a/Why-Does-It-Matter-If-Species-Go-Extinct.htm

Didn't read that link fyi but i imagine it's about ecosystems getting fucked up, which has consequences for humans especially in regions where peoples' fated are more closely tied to the land

dude u are so weird

The Parsi community in Mumbai have traditionally exposed their dead to vultures in "towers of silence," as they're called in English. Now the vultures are disappearing. Estimates suggest that 97 to 99 percent of the birds have gone in the last few decades. So the Parsi community is left in a very difficult position of trying to figure out how to appropriately and respectfully take care of their own dead in a world without vultures...

They've also played an important role in containing disease of various kinds and controlling the number of predators that feed on those carcasses and spread other diseases, like rats or dogs. The worry now is that the decline in vultures may lead to rises in the numbers of scavengers and in the incidence of diseases like rabies and anthrax in India.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140820-extinction-crows-penguins-dinosaurs-asteroid-sydney-booktalk/

i am kind of weird, but i still think that animal extinction is a relevant issue.

Yes, I care about animal extinction too. Lots of people care about animal extinction. You seem to be in earnest about what you post.

I wouldn't speak for others, but beginning a post with "didn't read that link" and then going on to explain what you "imagine" the link is about....that kind of behavior can get a person called weird.

wrong thread for talking about u cares

each poster will write of something uncared for and move along silently

"the notion of the 'pastoral' in literature"

excellent, move along

my friend is a phylogeneticist and in short... yeah, it matters when animals go extinct.

mass extinction needs its own thread

humans are conditioned to care about only a minuscule purview and to view facts as discrete isolated entities. it enables one to sleep at night and to invest in things like physical culture, tv shows and the costs of rideshare services.

idg why there's so much pearlclutching abt this

because it's scary.

"We tend to think about extinction as loss of a species from the face of Earth, and that's very important, but there's a loss of critical ecosystem functioning in which animals play a central role that we need to pay attention to as well," Dirzo said. "Ironically, we have long considered that defaunation is a cryptic phenomenon, but I think we will end up with a situation that is non-cryptic because of the increasingly obvious consequences to the planet and to human wellbeing."

Well okay, I said I "cared" in defense of caring. Now, what happens when you realize that "caring about things" isn't actually doing anything?

And what would I do, abandon my family, go lie down in front of a bulldozer somewhere, so I could pretend I am "doing something"? I guess I will have to ask my "conditioners".

My human conditioners owe me answers. I keep waking up over not having enough money, not having accomplished enough the day before, and worrying about where I will be working in nine months. And here I could be waking up over mass extinction events, nah, it's just my first world problems costing me sleep.

Condescension person, please explain what "physical culture" and "the costs of rideshare services" are so I can know whether I am tainted with worrying about them, I'm not sure yet because I don't know what you are talking about.

Wait, just realized, get whole family to lie down in front of bulldozer. Sorry.

fascinating stuff

recognizing problems is obviously the first step in trying to solve them, or else align one's personal conduct in ways that would make it less harmful. it is in this sense that saying you "don't care" about an important issue, be it the ecological crisis or racism, seems negligent.

that said, compartmentalization is an important coping mechanism and i don't really think clouds was being condescending as much as descriptive. there is a reason people don't like to think about the problems over which they, individually, are basically powerless. the issue is that when everyone does this the issues are never addressed.

this isn't the thread for this discussion though, i admit, and it's my fault for starting it so mea culpa

i said humans, so i include myself in that description. i am sorry about your money troubles.

I'm sorry about them too. But money, like species extinction, is something that so far as we have reason to believe, only humans care about.

I care about ppl preaching to adults like anything mattered in this harsh and cold void of an existence

kind of preachy

its a tight line 2 walk ;-;

sympathy

I don't care about the psychological survival strategies others use to compensate for their fear and a sense of overwhelming dread... Except to the extent that I can employ such strategies myself