Things You Just Don't Care About

Meghan & Harry's failed podcast

I still don't believe that people thought Nelson Mandela died in the early 90s.

i've yet to meet one person who thinks this. maybe the 'mandela effect' is based on it's own premise.

I dug into the Sinbad - Shazaam thing, convinced this was overblown as a mistaken shared belief, but I found hundreds of people on Twitter aggressively arguing WITH SINBAD that he was in this movie and someone was covering it up.

About eight people linked to the same "proof", a CollegeHumor video that purported to find the lost tape, none of them realizing it was a comedy video making fun of them

An April Fool's joke, at that

Most Mandela-Effect stuff is just people being wrong. The more suggestible you are, the more likely you are to nod in agreement when someone in your social orbit with a strong personality says something. They're just wrong, but they say it with conviction so you don't question it.

People were wrong about stuff way before it had a meme-y name.

THAT SAID, I am also susceptible to harboring wistful fantasies about alternate universes. We will never be able to completely prove a negative, so the information landscape would seem to permit speculation. Perhaps some of us accidentally slipped through the veil from a universe where things are slightly different.

an ILX with no hen fap

W33d

Walked past a new dispensary in my neighborhood yesterday, the first thought that popped into my head was "yeah, i don't care"

there was a time when my life revolved around weed to an alarming extent, glad it's legal and all, just not interested.

The High/Long/Triple Jump events in athletics.

Those are all good, the shot putt is probably the dullest event

Walked past a new dispensary in my neighborhood yesterday... "yeah, i don't care"

Same - as I've said elsewhere, most of these dispensaries look so uninviting, like the Verizon store next to a Starbucks.. I guess they wanted to 'go legit' but I just don't care anymore

The High/Long/Triple Jump events in athletics.

― Ste, Thursday, 29 June 2023 14:34 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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There are at least three weed dispensaries in my town, which has fewer than 5000 people.

i think the shot put is weird and fascinating tbh

my recommendation is to get high from a product sold by your local weed dispensary and then watch guys doing shot put online

Shot put is definitely the most fun to try

Hammer throw > shot put

Tossing the caber

Javelin seems best for causing death/mayhem, pole vault just hurts the participants when the pole breaks

I like all field events, they’re delightfully weird.

Javelin is just a fancy form of lawn darts

javelin and pole vault are both equally dissatisfying to try vs what you might imagine having watched them

triple jump otoh always fun

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but i don't own a cell phone. so it makes sense that i wouldn't care.

People with cellphones don't care either.

it took me years to realize that i could use instagram on my laptop. i thought it was just for phones.

It was, for quite awhile!

Who Kylian Mbappe plays for.

So obvious it's hardly worth mentioning but Nigel Farage's bank account or lack of one.

amazing we have to hear about that for the rest of recorded time, he even wangled an apology out of the hapless BBC, which naturally has given the non-story extra legs

still don't care about Barbie/Oppenheimer and now add Lizzo to the heap of things going on right now that I do not care about.

When people put up Christmas lights

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Shoot on sight anyone wearing sandals and socks

Sounds like you care a lot

My wife has strong opinions about when Christmas lights should come down.

Some of our neighbors' are still up from December. I'll accept that trade-off for not living in an HOA. In the past, my wife has tried to blur the lines by putting up strings of lights for other holidays - red for Valentine's, green for spring, red white and blue for the 4th, orange for Halloween.

i definitely don't care about robbie robertson's huge impact on music. or The Band. i'm pretty sure that impact resulted in really bad beer commercial music and the late-blooming beer commercial music of steve winwood not to mention the 80s beer commercial guitar of robbie robertson. it was a revolution. it was...woodstock!

ILU scott

how dare you dismiss the great art of beer commercials outright

Taste the yuppie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4lkkYO3TXY

roll with it robbie. we will never forget you. and you can leave your hat on at the pearly gates just like joe cocker said to the lady when he was channeling that disney troll in that one beer song video that one time. rest in power. #gutted #likeafish #ohcanada

just pulled this out of a box to price. when a beer record was a beer record!

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Damn, Scott. Harsh.

oh i am not for the faint of heart.

why are there 300 separate news articles profiling that rich weirdo who's trying to "age backwards" by taking 150 pills a day and eating dinner at 11 AM and injecting himself with his son's blood? why are we supposed to care about this? what kind of deranged son of a bitch wants to actually live that way? who are these "experts" saying he's gonna live until he's 200? give me a fucking break, this dude's legacy is destined to be to have some brand new thyroid disease named after him

probably belongs on the hated words thread, but 'biohacking' is one of mine

why are there 300 separate news articles profiling that rich weirdo who's trying to "age backwards" by taking 150 pills a day and eating dinner at 11 AM and injecting himself with his son's blood?

Are you familiar with the concept and role of publicists? Journalists, particularly when it comes to "this rich guy who's written a half-million-dollar check to our PR company" stuff, are so easily led around they might as well have rings in their noses like cows.

what is biohacking, a way to optimize your shit and piss?

From The Atlantic: Biohacking has become a marketing buzzword used to sell unregulated “dietary supplements” and to repackage old products