Family bitching about situations they create for themselves.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
50 points (80.5% liked)
Ask Lemmy
39660 readers
1571 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Trump.
But only because I've lost sympathy with those people who keep saying "We need to get him out in November, blah blah blah"
Holy...fucking...denial, Batman! He's not going away. He's not joking about staying in 2028 and 2032. By all means vote in the midterms but be prepared for that vote to mean precisely jack shit.
Stop bitching and do something about it. Does it risk your livelihood and possibly your life when (not if) it comes to that? Yes. But you know who elses livelihood's and lives were threatened? The founding fathers; they had the courage to do it anyway.
If American's aren't willing to stand up for fear of losing their precious conveniences, than fuck 'em. I'm at the point where they deserve what they get.
The weather. Its global warming, it is a real thing
The Plex/Jellyfin debate on lemmy.
Just stfu already.
Almost anything. Im sorry but anything that is not about the trumped up facist trump going on in the world or how we have trumped the environment or corpo enshitification. Basically if its not about the dystopian present going more dystopian then I don't care. sports. media. whatever. non of it matters really. eh I guess I still talk about normal stuff and I guess people have to have some living outside whats happening all around. I guess it comes down to casual bitching I get but lets face it. non of this matters when we are crashing and burning.
The number of people going about their lives as if we're not being flung head-first into a fascist dystopian hellscape breaks my brain on the daily.
Underfunding education, social security while keeping people working paycheck to paycheck really works wonders in that regard
Noooooo shit.
Damn, I hate anyone who thinks like you do.
yeah. I have come across folks who say they are here for memes and lolz and that is like. mmmm. not the opposite of me but I like block all sports and meme communities. Im not here for news but for genuine online discussion.
There being no original movies. Original movies are released literally every week. I'm using the actual meaning of literally. I get that if you're not looking it up, you won't know about every movie being released. But if you care enough to complain, you should care enough to look it up. When you go to the theatre, instead of seeing the remake or sequel you're bitching about being the only option, take a minute to look at what else is playing.
And when I point out original movies to people, they often say those movies are crap. Well then the problem isn't that remakes and sequels are being made, it's that movies in general aren't to your liking. And yes, most original movies are in some way derivative of other movies. Sorry but all creative work is, in some way, derivative of other creative work, to expect otherwise is just unrealistic. You're literally asking them to create something from nothing.
Also, how are we defining original? I git in a disagreement recently on Lemmy with someone objecting to my use of a movie adapted from a book as an example of an original movie. Different categories apply in different contexts. In the context of people complaining there are no original movies, I always took that to mean as opposed to remakes and sequels. If your standard is it can't even be an adaptation, I find that ridiculously unreasonable.
But I have seen several original films recently that aren't adaptations either. Hoppers, boy is that original. Pixar has never done an adaptation (but they have arguably done ripoffs of other movies). I'm seeing Breadwinner soon, I think that's an original. I'm also pretty sure the upcoming End of Oak Street is original. Recently saw the Drama. I'm not 100% sure these aren't adaptations or remakes. I bet some of the complainers have favourite movies they don't even know are remakes
Ai. It's not going away fam :(
Germany: public transport and healthcare.
You don't know how good you have it, assholes. Stop voting for politicians who want to destroy both.
People bitching about people bitching about stuff tbh
The price of petrol/gas. If you're not happy stop buying it.
Get an EV. Use a bike. Use public transport. Use your own two fucking feet. Fossil fuels are dying anyway, quicker you get off it the better.
Public transport. Doesn’t really exist in this area
Use a bike: works great unless you are older or there are no safe places to ride or both
Use your feet… it’s 5 miles to get to the hardware store, 4 miles to get to the grocery store, 6 miles to get to work. How is that going to work in sub zero temps or when it’s raining
Get an ev . They are expensive and I can barely keep my car on the road.
Public transport. Doesn’t really exist in this area
I live rural with no car and pretty mediocre public transport. No spring chicken and not particularly active. If I can get by anyone can. US is a bit different but thats cos you fetishised automobiles.
Use a bike: works great unless you are older or there are no safe places to ride or both
Okay, what about ebikes? What about electric mopeds or scooters? And infrastructure helps but its definitely not essential.
Use your feet… it’s 5 miles to get to the hardware store, 4 miles to get to the grocery store, 6 miles to get to work. How is that going to work in sub zero temps or when it’s raining
Obviously walking is only ideal for shorter journeys. My grandparents used to walk 5-10 miles daily cos there was no other way to get about. You wrap up warm, and to be honest when theres ice/snow on the ground I prefer to walk.
Get an ev . They are expensive and I can barely keep my car on the road.
Nope. Healthy second hand market these days, and plenty of cheap little ones most governments will give you a grant for. Cheaper to fuel. Cheaper to maintain cos less moving parts.
"If you don't like the price of gas just buy an EV"
Gives big "if you're homeless just buy a house" energy.
Look, EVs have been around a long time now. Healthy second hand market. Lots of cheap little brand new ones and most governments are throwing grants at them. Cheaper to run and maintain cos of less moving parts.
There was a time when they were the preserve of the wealthy but thats just not true anymore.
I mean that's all true, you can get a decent EV for $10,000. Assuming you're also able to charge it and stuff. But a lot of people aren't in a financial position for even a $10k car loan with no money down. Those monthly payments would put them over the edge. I'm sorry if you didn't mean it that way. This was my knee-jerk response to hearing "if you don't like high gas prices then buy an EV."
Some people can of course and they should just buy an EV instead of complain about putting $100 in their F150. But II think they are a small minority of people who also thought a huge tuck was perfect to commute 20 miles to their office job.
I'm assuming you're in US, and your comment kinda sums up your biggest problem.
You've focussed on automobiles and dismissed public transport, bikes etc. You dont need a car, you want a car.
Fucking trump. Endless 24/7 all trump, all the time. I'm starting to get really sick of it by now.
It's only cuz he's the president and is directly and actively making people's lives worse everyday. People will only talk about trump in the future the way they talk about Reagan now. That all these bad things can be directly traced back to things he did while in office.
I'm sick of Trump giving me things to complain about
Cost of living and blaming it on government.
Sure buddy, government forced you to buy an F150 and do two flyaway vacations a year.
I don't have have two vehicles and never a truck and have had few if any vacations in my life (my wife to). Government policies have massively pushed inflation in the economy and especially the stock market. It effects food n sundries and every other every day expense. I just want to keep a roof over my head.
I didn't start a war with a country that controls like 20%-30% of the world's oil tho, my government did, and it's directly effecting inflation. I just want to pay my bills and go out to eat once or twice a month.
I mean. It is literally true that the cost of living has increased though.
That's literally measurable, empirically. With data.
US-defaultism when the discussion is clearly and unambiguously about the U.S.
I wish people didn't assume I'm American just because I'm discussing the US. Non-Americans have made that assumption too. I get told "your country" when it isn't my country
"We need a revolution and vigilante justice should be meted out on the billionaire class"
I am so tired of seeing this repeated endlessly everywhere by people with no intent to actually fucking do it. Yes everything is shit but you are not improving or changing anything with these empty platitudes.
These people also don't seem to know their history very well when they're using the French Revolution as an example.
Once the common enemy was defeated the revolutionaries realized that they no longer have the thing that united them so they turned on eachother next. Just like the US and USSR turned on eachother once the Nazies were defeated.
The French revolutionary government had moderate and radical factions that coexisted peacefully for many years. The terror wasn't something that happened arbitrarily, it was an escalating conflict between radicals and (mostly) counter-revolutionaries acting in the interests the French burgeroise. During the course of the revolution, the government abolished an extremely oppressive system of feudalism, established universal rights for French citizens, established voting rights that would eventually lead to universal suffrage in France, and abolished slavery in the French colonies. That's not to say it was all good (terror, wars, economic hardship, etc) but it completely transformed the entire country in a matter of years, from feudalism to a limited form of democracy, which resembles our modern democratic states much more closely than the system that had been created during the American Revolution.
If your take on the French Revolution is 'they didn't have a common enemy so they turned on eachother' then I would say that it's you who doesn't know their history very well.
load more comments
(8 replies)
Windows. I get it, Windows sucks. I’ve been saying that since Vista. Fucking leave it already. “Oooh, I can’t. I play Frexus Dilectin 2: Rogue of the Latrine, and that has kernel level anticheat.” Well, sucks to suck. Quit bitchin and feel bad about your life decisions in the corner, quietly.
I use software for work that only runs on Windows. No software, no work. Nothing to do with games.
Do you work on software with graphics? Otherwise, you could probably virtualize or use a separate computer for work software. It's just good practice to separate work from life anyways.
Does it work on Proton?
load more comments
(7 replies)
view more: next ›