People crying about Nintendo Online pricing. First off, it’s for an entire year, not by monthly, so I don’t know how that’s a negative. That’s just an example.
The U.S. as a generalized complaint about the country. I understand complaints about the current government, but condemning the country makes about as much sense as condemning all Israelis for the actions of their current government, or all Russians for the actions of theirs, or all Chinese for the actions of the CCP. People are so eager to hate on Americans, and they don’t realize they’re as human as the rest of us, their society as complex as any. Lemmy is rife with anti-American commentary. It’s sad.
Every tv show has the worst ending of any tv series ever
Family bitching about situations they create for themselves.
i dont pay attention to it, a little drama is ok, but constantly engaging , i ignore those.
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 founding fathers used others peoples lives mostly to enrich themselves. Their net worth was like 100 to 10,000x what is considered middle class now. They were the original 1%
Gotta love the big tough keyboard warriors here, shaming people for not literally ending their own lives in attempts to stop a cult that contains about 1/3 of the US population.
The weather. Its global warming, it is a real thing
Germany: public transport and healthcare.
You don’t know how good you have it, assholes. Stop voting for politicians who want to destroy both.
No, you don’t.
The Plex/Jellyfin debate on lemmy.
Just stfu already.
Just use Jelyfin if you want to.
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
Everything you said, I have nothing to add about movies. Practically anything that wins an award is an original movie.
But I will add on with complaints about movie theaters. The price of popcorn? If you can get through a movie at home without popcorn, you don’t have to buy any at the theater! Crowded/noisy theaters? If you’re waiting for it to stream anyway, then you don’t have to watch it opening weekend because theaters have way lower turnout than pre-2020! Can’t pause it for a bathroom break? Alright, I can agree this is an issue with longer and longer movies and the compulsion to buy 64oz of soda, but listen, I’ve peed in so many movies and never missed any life-changing events.
But I guess it’s a cool bandwagon or something.
You can make movie theater popcorn at home, it’s really easy and cheap.
Buy some flavacol or “butter flavored fine grain salt” some people swear by the flavcol brand, but I don’t notice a difference. Then make your popcorn in an oil popper and sprinkle on the flavocol. You can also buy the butter oil now too that they use.
Ai. It’s not going away fam :(
What are you honestly tired of people bitching about by this point?
Literally everything.
Half the posts I scroll past are just someone bitching about something. Few people posting about cool stuff, most people posting about rage this or rage that. Or if there is a post about something good, there’s people bitching in the comments how it’s not good enough.
Ugh. It’s like this place wants to be miserable and doesn’t know any other way to exist.
Complaining about bitching. Wow! Is that ironic or meta?
The only important things are the things that affect OP personally. Literally everything else is triggered snowflakes
How dare they answer the question OP presented. What a hypocrite!
The Fediverse is just full of Carols (on the right/brown coat):
Uh oh. It’s infectious. Quick! Everyone post more cool stuff!
Lol, it really is. It’s how we got the terms “Debbie Downer” and “you’re bumming everyone out”.
I like that meme picture where someone on the left is complaining about something around a group on the right. Then someone just rises from the group to give a big thumbs up before returning to the group.
That’s how it feels like. It’s also like the lyric from ‘Touch of Gray’ where it’s like “say your piece and get out”.
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.
People bitching about Windows already use Linux…
That isn’t true in my experience.
While true, it doesn’t stop them from attempting to derail posts when Windows is talked about. They always have to come in and be smug about how they’re using Linux. Like, we get it, you feel all superior and mighty to have all of the time in the world to deal with a single Linux distro. But, some of us still using Windows have our reasons too and we’re not going around browbeating people into using Windows at a given chance, unless it is out of mockery.
Always used Linux at home but have to use windows at work. It’s so terrible…
I do not, literally for the reason that guy just said. I like to play Gelatinous Fentaculus 4: Shart of the Lactoids, amongst others, which do use that anticheat nonsense.
Full time Linux at home for gaming, home lab and services, supports enterprise Windows at work. The year of the linux desktop is almost upon us (really just waiting for the gabe-cube and the OS along with it), yes that how it be some times.
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.
Most of the time we do not get to dictate the hardware, software and protocols of what’s used at work.
Does it work on Proton?
Sounds like a shitty game. Games that use kernel anticheat make me nauseous.
“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.
Where could I read more about this?
Armchair Revolutionists are the worst kind of armchair types to confront online and anywhere.
Try asking them about the aftermath if this theoretical revolution were to be successful. They almost always don’t have one, because they do not think that far. They just think that if we go around destroying everything and killing off those involved, the world will be a better place. No we wouldn’t, not if we don’t have a process or a plan in how to go about it.
But that’s too big of a concept for them to think about, so they just stir idealistically in how things should be ran and those who don’t agree are just part of the problem. They’re honestly sounding like micro-dictator versions of themselves if you listen to them long enough, which is ironic in of itself.
Ugh yeah, also this.
I’ve encountered a truly depressing amount of self proclaimed ‘anarchists’ who’ve gone on and fucking on about how if they could just organise their own paramilitaries and forcibly take over the governments to impose ‘totally not fascist, we’re the good guys!’ mandatory regimes of wealth and resource redistribution on the public, they could really fix everything…
And the worst part is that I get it, I was also once a naive and optimistic teenager who read Marx and thought that if I could just explain things to people the right way they’d get it too, and we could fix everything wrong with the world together because most people were fundamentally good and would want to make the world better, if I could just get them to understand Marxist theory…
Lmao, it was fucking soul crushing realising that’s not actually how anything works.
At least back then I wasn’t on about paramilitaty takeovers and ‘anarchism’ though, like I get why more people are armchair revolutionary-ing to those extremes now but that’s just so much more fucking stupid than believing people are ‘mostly good and should read Marx’.
I try not to interract with these types of people any more, I just wish I could stop seeing them pop up so often.
They mix up cause and effect. They think the system is making people shitty, but it’s people making the system shitty.
Yes. Any system, ANY system that gets put in place will have to contend with human shittiness. The American Founding Father’s tried to split the power 3 ways tri-force style to try and prevent any serious abuses from happening, and yet they are still happening.
No matter what system you devise, these fucking sociopaths will never stop trying to break it for their own personal gain.
Yeah I was one of those people. I still kinda am. But I agree with your sentiment. The biggest risk of turning things violent is that there’s more likely a chance for an authoritarian system to emerge than a truly egalitarian socialist one.
So I’ve decided that the best thing is to try to figure out ways to develop alternative stuff to market systems. Grow your own vegetables. Host your own cloud storage/streaming service. Try to contribute to ongoing projects in your community to help realize that(volunteer at free clinics, food pantries) and try to join an organization.
Isn’t that why the Occupy protests never really went anywhere? There was no plan for afterward.
Occupy made a number of bad decisions that doomed the movement, not least of which is that they made it about literally occupying a specific place, which made most people feel like they couldn’t be part of the movement.
There was no plan period, other than just sit there and basically be handled by the authorities. All it did was make a buzz in the media, who totally screwed around as the media does, by twisting around what the purpose was and manufacturing their own perspectives about it. And was largely forgotten about in weeks.
Any Occupy protests would’ve spoken a lot louder, if there had been a plan for it and if there had been a loud voice behind it about why those protests were happening. Not just mostly being quiet about it. That’s why they failed.
Fucking trump. Endless 24/7 all trump, all the time. I’m starting to get really sick of it by now.
I’m sick of Trump giving me things to complain about
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 hope you’re right. I look forward to a better day.
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.
“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.
Ok, first of all you are correct in that I never considered using public transport lol. So fair point to you there. My city does have busses, I looked up routes for the first time ever (lol) to see what my commute would be like.
My 10-15 minute commute becomes 1 hour to 1.5 hours. Just disgusting lol. I might be able to bike but I’m not sure there’s good paths and living up north I couldn’t do that in the winter.
I do WANT a car as not having one seems awful. But I’m not really complaining about gas since my commute is so short I full up maybe once a month. But I thought we were talking about people in general not my specific situation. I could probably afford a used EV if I really wanted one.
If you’re talking commuting you actually have more options, like living closer to work and home/hybrid working
And ebikes - mentioning this again as honestly these things are fantastic.
I get that this is all a challenge and the fact I’ve been roundly down voted is not lost on me. The thing is, regardless of what your president thinks, ICE cars are dying. Make it easier on yourself and plan for that now.
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.
