Just like the fast food thing, TikTok is literally addictive. It’s the new breed of addictive tech. It’s the fentanyl of tech.

The funny ones are all just somebody using the sound from a funny skit but acting it out themselves.

I’m so funny, I acted out this funny skit somebody else made

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The only real use for the block chain is tracking stocks to prevent illegal shortselling.

So it will never ever ever get used for that purpose.

Obligatory fuck citadel.

Meh I think the decentralization is a pretty nice use case actually. It’s great that no one can shut it down and no centralized entity can just decide that your money is gone now (for cryptocurrencies).

Look at Monero. Since it’s almost impossible to track governments are actually trying to ban it but they can’t shut it down because anyone can just spin up a node and there’s nothing any government can do about it except banning it from exchanges. I think that’s pretty neat, although the environmental cost for this technology together with LLMs are absolutely crazy

The only appeal of fast food was that it was cheap, but that’s not even true nowadays.

Especially outside the US, for some reason Carl’s Jr is insanely popular in Mexico yet its expensive and objectively worse than local burger shops.

In the same way that sugar/candy is physically addictive, fast food has been proven to have the same physiological effects. It’s literally an addiction.

Both of your takes are insane.

If you think Scotch tastes like listerine, I don’t know what bathtub hooch you’re drinking.

And your idea that you don’t get how video games can be pleasurable is just absolutely willingly ignorant. You have an obsession with booze which is little different than people wanting to play games for pleasure.

…‘scotch’ encompasses such a vast diversity of spirits that i presume anyone who blanket-dislikes it either 1) doesn’t like malt whisky in general, fair enough, or 2) mis-apprehends a specific style as endemic to scotch whisky as a whole…

…the latter folks typically dislike peated malts, often after sampling bottom-shelf blends…

hey, you’re valid… I’m from Korea and it’s crazy seeing how people drool over kpop nowdays. no attention for the actual good music, the korean rock and hip hop and funk and jazz and so on… just the corporate boybands.

It’s the same shit that’s popular in the US. manufactured popularity. we could talk about all the factors about how they pulled it off, but who cares, it’s a bunch of shitty music created by desperate people selling their souls to rapists who prey on modern social isolation to sell empty fantasies to the masses.

that’s the point of the music! you should be proud to dislike it. now go listen to something good, like Jaurim (자우림)

Isn’t it basically the same as back when western boybands were popular, just with more internet? I suppose I don’t quite get those, either, but it’s not that hard to figure out why these groups are so appealing to many girls and women.

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There’s good and bad kpop, like there’s good and bad of most genres.

I would go further and say they are stupid for everything. Oh i need it to haul stuff. And you didn’t get a bus? Are you stupid?

I love my small car but it’s getting impossible to drive anymore when the LED headlights of these trucks are literally at my eye level blinding everything. They are a danger and the only way out it seems is to join them and get above the lights.

I believe there was some tax-benefit for them in the US at some point…? Then it makes a tiny bit if sense i guess.

It’s even stupider than you think. California made a rule requiring that auto makers transition to making EVs, but exempted certain heavy vehicles from the transition, and auto makers responded by turning every single car into a heavy exempted vehicle. Twenty years of marketing later and now you can’t convince an American to buy a reasonably-sized car, which is why crossovers are a thing.

This is basically Florida. Tons of massive trucks on the roads, all driven by assholes that I will judge absolutely by their truck alone.

I agree with pick ups. The issue has been that bigger pick ups are generally exempt from fuel efficiency mandates resulting in manufacturers making bigger and bigger pick ups. They don’t make compact pick ups anymore. Add in America has some fascination with owning trucks. I’m actually gonna disagree on crossovers. For most people I agree they’re impractical. But they’re better than SUVs and pick ups. Most people actually need a mini van or wagon but we just stopped making those

Part of it was EPA regulations fucking up small trucks. Another part is that they’re safer for the occupants, deadlier for everyone else. And then there’s general machismo.

Nowadays I use my pickup for work, but when I bought it, it was simply for fun - not for any practical reason. There’s not much more to it. They look cool, they’re fun to drive, and they make you feel like you’re operating a machine, not just something meant to get you from point A to point B.

You’re just not the kind of person who’s into that - and that’s fine. You probably aren’t into playing the flute either, but I doubt you’d say you “don’t get it” or that it’s dumb.

Bacon was awesome before the marketing campaign. Bacon was awesome during it, and bacon remains awesome to this day.

Sorry about all the shitty bacon you’ve been fed.

I am so annoyed with bacon on burgers. Stop putting bacon on your burgers. Restaurants will go through the trouble of having some delicious house sauce or concept for the burger, and then overpower it completely by putting 4 strips of cheap ass bacon on it, what the fuck are you doing people, trust in your burger sauce why are you like this

I don’t remember a bacon marketing campaign. Regardless, bacon/pork belly is the most delicious meat in my opinion.