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What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Taylor Swift. Like, I get that billionaires are a problem, and her carbon footprint is huge. On the list of problematic billionaires, I feel like she really doesn't do that much problematic shit compared to the others.

Musk is a Nazi that gutted the US govt, Ellison has a laundry list of major issues, bezos is killing small businesses and bought a news company to whitewash himself, gates was involved with Epstein and did some shady shit to grow Microsoft, the waltons single handedly massacred thousands (millions?) of small businesses with anticompetitive practices.

I really don't think that Swift rises remotely close to the same level of degeneracy and existential threat that these guys do, yet the only other billionaire I see getting criticised as much as her is Musk.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Yes, but have you considered the fact that she is a woman, women enjoy her music, and women enjoying things is a problem because they're wrong? It's like you don't even have a vendetta against pumpkin spice! " - general underlying factor

"her music is not deep" - the opinion of men whose only exposure to her music is the pop songs that gets airtime, not the lyrical depths of the rest of the album that directly hits women in the feels

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

On the first point: yeah, I didn't even want to get into the underlying sexism that drives the critique lol.

On the second: yeah, she made a billion dollars on her music. If you want to appeal to that wide of an audience, you're going to need to pump out some generic shit, at least on occasion. It's not really a great criticism of her, because that's her main skill. She can throw together 10 somewhat specific songs to cater to the fan base, then 2 tracks that get massive airtime and hook more people into the fan base. She's literally the best at it by the numbers.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

No different than Lady Gaga's method which I feel took off a little sooner. The pop funds the art. I appreciate Swift's singing ability, but I enjoy Gaga's range when she makes her actual music. The theatrics, peaking with the meat suit? Just marketing to make her name the name to invite.

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[–] Sv443@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

Sam Altman says "...", Tim Sweeney is against "..."

I scroll past a headline like that every single day.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pizza tastes great. Pineapples taste great. The math solves itself.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I don't eat Hawaiian pizza because of the pineapple. It's because I don't like ham. Pineapple is great

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Cultural appropriation.

So... You're offended. People are living out of their cars now. I'm more worried about that.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also, the person being offended usually isn't even from the target culture. They're being vicariously offended on behalf of somebody else, when the actual members of that culture usually dgaf or like it.

[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago

Don't get me started on "Latinx."

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Pineapple on pizza. I don't even like it that much but holy shit, shut the fuck up about it. You must have zero personality if you think it bring it up

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[–] Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 135 points 4 days ago (55 children)

Steam. Apparently I'm supposed to be angry they are a locked down monopoly but compared to practically EVERY OTHER GAMING COMPANY IN THE WORLD they are frickin' saints.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 43 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's one of those things where one could argue that steam is successful in part to being entrenched (all of your friends are on steam and all of your games are on steam, so might as well continue using steam), but also.. other game launchers are just worse? The fact steam has a lot of useful features, as well as surprisingly few scummy incidents in its history just makes it not worth switching off for me :p

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[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago

I buy based on trust, and at this time, steam hasn’t lost it.

They’ve made their drm more lax over the years while Sony and microslop have worsened theirs. Like how you couldn’t easily play your games offline before steam deck.

Still buying my games from GOG first though.

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 20 points 4 days ago

They've done so much for gaming on Linux I forgive them for having a convenient launcher that launches everything

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 61 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Firefox purity testing. Oh no they ran an ad or made a post on a mainstream platform or developed a widget. Look at the state of the world this is such a non issue and compared to the other browsers out there they are fighting the good fight unequivocally.

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

I'm glad someone said this. I don't have two fucks to give about Firefox's marketing department marketing their browser.

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[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago

anything having to do with celebrities

[–] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 103 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Reddit. They were irritating, so I left, but I couldn't care less if someone posts content here from teddit or(apparently gods forbid) mentions reddit.

I do not care about whatever happens with that company any more than I care about Apple or McDonald's or any other company with shitty products I don't engage with.

[–] LordFireCrotch@lemmy.today 32 points 4 days ago (3 children)

My only issue is the bots that mirror reddit content over.

And it's not that it's from reddit that bothers me, none of the posts I've seen ever have any engagement. So it feels like spam.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Being upset that female characters in video games don’t have huge boobs and asses and the intelligence of a watermelon.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 72 points 4 days ago (14 children)

Trans people: I don't care which sportball team you play on or what bathroom you use, just wash your hands when you're done.

Whatever is in your pants is none of my business unless you're trying to make it my business (in which case, I'm flattered, but in a monogamous relationship, sorry).

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This should be the baseline bottom, but somehow its not. If you care or not or think its "wrong", just keep it to yourself because Trans people are not harming anyone.

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[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 days ago

Ill keep this train going. I don't care about sports, much less who is playing them.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

My only real interest in this as a controversy, is bringing back single use bathrooms open to all would be nicer for all of us while leaving this outrage nowhere to go

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[–] BranBucket@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Climate change deniers.

Is climate change bad? Very bad, existentially bad. Do I want it to happen? No. Do I try to take steps to mitigate it? Yes, I put my drop in the bucket and vote for people who support policies that would help.

But we're eyeballs deep in Brandolini's Law at this point and by the time we get ourselves out of the quicksand, massive change will have taken its toll.

I'm not saying we shouldn't take action, but working ourselves in to a spittle-flecked outrage everytime someone says something stupid on social media is a waste of energy when we're already in damage control mode. The battle lines have been drawn for decades and the backlash effect is a very real phenomena.

Economics is going to win this fight before logic and debate does.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 71 points 4 days ago (21 children)

Star Trek vs Star Wars. I like both.

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 68 points 4 days ago (10 children)

It's more that the internet demands that I'm constantly outraged, but I want to spend the majority of my time being chill and happy. I can get my dander up for most things the internet wants me to be mad about, I just... don't.

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[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 59 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Usually anything to do with celebrity drama. While it's not that common on Lemmy, the rest of the pop internet seems infatuated with what actor/musician threw shade or dissed some other, or which diva is being treated SO unfairly...

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago (7 children)

The moral failings of celebrities and creators who've been dead for decades.

Save your outrage for things that are happening now, that you still have a chance to change.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Shitlibs"

Weird fuckin' american paradigm. I've simultaneously been called a shitlib, a tankie, a communist and a capitalist. Piss.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The more someone throws around words like "socialist" or "lib" as an insult pretty but invariably can't even define socialism or liberalism, never mind articulate what about them they dislike.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

there are definitely people who treat political labels like religion. Usually from a religious background, they dropped the faith but keep the framework for familiarity. You see it over and over and over again. Politics, fandom, Queer identities...they will be left, but they can't let go of that absolutely punitive purity politicking.

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What a CEO or founder of a company does off the clock. Brave, Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, GrapheneOS - I just don't care. If I picked a product off of the CEO not being a dick, I wouldnt have any products or services to use.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The Brave one is hilarious because no one bothers to look into it. If they did, they would be embarrassed by how big of a deal they make of it. In like 2009, the current CEO made a one-time, $1000 donation to an anti-prop 8 campaign.

That's it.

No donations to any groups since.

Brave wasn't even a thing when he did it.

He's also the same guy who created JavaScript, yet no one seems to have an issue using that.

Just a giant game of telephone where people hate someone because they were told they should hate them.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

I love Tolkien. I don't like what Amazon did with Rings of Power, but I just didn't watch it, simple as that. That's how the free market works. People make a sucky product. You don't buy the sucky product, they stop making the sucky product. And if they don't stop making the sucky product, you make your own hopefully less sucky product. I don't have the energy to complain about it online.

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[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Sony discontinuing physical media.

I haven't bought a physical game for any platform in I don't even know how many years and I doubt I ever will again.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 36 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think I wrote this in a few hundred comments already. It's a little weird people make it about physical games, it's not really about that, physical games are dead on PC, barely anyone cares. It's about Sony locking people into the Playstation Store and having full control over prices. With physical copies you can buy them wherever you want and they usually go down in price relatively quickly after release. Digital store prices remain high for years after release and only drop sometimes during sales, but even then they drop to the level of physical copies. The other issue are used games, at the moment that only works with physical copies.

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[–] FRYD@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago

Most things. The internet is a rage factory these past few years. I got enough real things to be upset about.

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