Things You Just Don't Care About

Who Elon Musk is dating

Who basically anyone is dating

what people writing hot takes for a living think about whether a piece of music is any good based on its embracement or rejection of a notional zeitgeist formed of hot takes

ppl writing hot takes

ok i care to the extent that everything in whatever you call what's going on in the media at a given moment, news cycle or whatever even tho news as a word now is fully assimilated to this gaseous blurp, anyway it's amping the nausea i'm already feeling from hay fever or a virus or chronic overindulgence or whatever it is, in short have we've reached peak blather but i'm not quite able to tear myself away just yet so the noise still gets in my head

so-called challenger banks and their fluctuating share prices and whatever the fuck it is they are allegedly challenging.

xp shame ta fuck on ya for equating that shit to the great tradition of blather, constituent item #1 of which is that it knows it is of no consequence and all characteristics of which flow from this bedrock

guff

yeah its guff youre maybe thinking of

maybe a cross-channel difference of use idk, should we have a thread to argue about whether blather or guff are selfconscious? could stick it in ilm and nobody would bat an eyelid.

any discussion on blather has only one rightful home, flann o'brien thread

we have a thread on guff obv

a whole board on it sez he

working up to something that includes guff, hot takes, what cultural artefacts mean and the ubiquity of customer fucken surveys at the moment

im here for it

ex-wives of uber rich dudes who write tell alls about how surprise the guy was an asshole

when did not-caring become so aggressive

what the Fuck is the "intellectual dark web"

trump thread

(answering flappy's question, not submitting an entry)

i can't read the politics thread it moves too fast / also paying attention to & posting about trump every day is exhausting & i don't know how people do it

they recycle

it's just a sandbox for funny guys

that's a sandbox i stopped playing in bc there's a very cliquey group of deadpan comedians in there

Cliquey in what way? As a regular poster there, I hadn't noticed, but maybe I'm part of the problem.

Yeah me too I guess. I've found the thread to be a useful digest of the whole shit show. I don't have the constitution right now to subject myself to the dozens of daily disasters via primary sources. It's been comforting at times, too, so thank you funny guys.

good mourning!

mourning wood truancy

xp i don’t know about deadpan but there is a fair amount of gross out posting on the pitics thread that keeps me off of it

politics thread

ha Alfred

only when certain people share their Trump-inspired sexxytime. The Dem thread is grosser.

well tbh i'm not sure if it is deadpan but i like to think it is bc these dudes can't be serious srsly

there's def a lot of Trump shit I don't care about, like Stormy Daniels and "OMG Paul Manafort just said that Johnny Poppadopalous took a Black Sea cruise with Paul Blart and PUTIN CRONY Evgeny Barishnakov in 2013, just as Trump was getting to build a new trump tower in Malaysia. A month later, Poppadopalous had lunch with a lobbyist for a Malaysian mining company."

said in the voice of Robert Stack

i really appreciate the politics thread, the wit on display keeps me marginally sane

the trump/politics threads could be a LOT worse. i mean, you guys have seen this place, right? there is remarkably little fighting/rooster crowing on them. plus, Nedlinks.

but it is a total info dump. which i imagine might make some people's eyes go blurry.

man alive is wise.

I do sometimes get caught up in it as a way to pass the time, but yeah - I only really care about that stuff to the extent that it harms and hinders the wicked. Harming the wicked is not the same as helping the downtrodden but it may be a necessary first step.

my feeling is this: I doubt the russia investigation is going to take down Trump. If it does, great, but there's nothing I can do to help it along, and getting caught up in every twist and turn just leads to agita (although occasionally also comic relief). Meanwhile, there's lots of actual political/policy stuff going on that is important and dangerous, and at least by talking about and caring about that I spread the word about something that might actually impact midterm elections.

Not to get too deep into a topic that people just don't care about ITT, but there's a fair argument to be made that the Russia investigation and various related clusterfucks will have a far greater impact on midterm elections than any policy details.

that thread is complete trumpsterbation and nothing is ever funny in it it is like ilx snl

great so let's turn this thread into another Trump thread

Any point someone is about to make if they preface it by bringing up that they are a veteran or a military spouse.

man alive otm, and

that thread is complete trumpsterbation and nothing is ever funny in it it is like ilx snl

i really appreciate the politics thread, the wit on display keeps me marginally sane

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otm

flappy bird deems and infinity offtm which is i guess par for the course

shakey, tombot, old lunch, ymp and alfred are specifically the posters that make me laugh/keep me sane

my feeling is this: concern trolls still suck

what abt concern trolling in bad faith

brad u wound me ;_;

Face it dmac

You’re one of us

It’s not so bad friendly

whether I ever find out what "the Childish Gambino video" is

Finding out what pretty much anything is