The world is cruel and ugly. There are plenty of justifiable things to be upset and distraught over. I don’t want to hear about those. I want to know what bizarre out of left field takes you have that infuriates you.
I’m still upset about Tenochtitlan falling and being buried. I’m a gringo, I shouldn’t have an opinion about Lake Texcoco being drained centuries ago.
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Exactly what I wanted. Good job.
Omg, the resealable bags that don’t reseal INFURIATE me.
There’s a wonderful bit of fiction writing where an armourer (I think, it’s been a while) had that exact thought: paper never tears where the holes are, it only tears between the holes. Therefore, the holes must be stronger than the paper. Therefore, to strengthen a material, add (impervious) holes. Ultimately, the strongest material is all holes.
That ring of glue and plastic and foil on top of bottle caps is so infuriating, gee thanks another wee bit of plastic that could end up in my body accidentally
Any product that is perforated to tear easily, 9 times out of 10 they fucked it up and the perforations may as well not even be there or even make it worse
Interesting — I’ve always assumed that this was deliberate, in order to increase waste (and thereby sales). Do you really think that it’s because of something innocuous like incompetence or inattention?
How am I supposed to care about a series that takes 4 years between seasons
The only show I ever liked enough for that was Venture Bros, and it was only that bad once.
4 years? What the f do you watch? Three Body Problem?
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Stranger things
I just rewatched this last weekend, immediately thought of it.
Hopefully the new seasons are quality, and therefore worth the wait
This is why I can’t do manga. I switched to webtoons and novels. Novels tend to just get dropped and that drives me nuts.
Bicycle drivetrains keep getting more complex and expensive. A 3x9 drivetrain is beyond adequate, bulletproof, and inexpensive. But NooOoOoOooo, it’s nearly impossible to get a quality bike with 3x9 now, without a full custom, DIY build. Everything has to be 1x11/12, which is expensive, touchy, and very particular, all while still lacking the gear range of 3x9.
It all seriously sticks in my craw.
I’m sorry, 1x11? I’ve never really shopped for a bike more expensive than like $500 and the idea of getting less gear options for more money is wild to me.
There’s surprisingly a fair bit of overlap on the gear ratios of a 2 or 3x that makes a 1x11 or 12 have a similar range of ratios. However you do have to sacrifice either a bit of top end speed or climbing ability so you see a few more 2x on road bikes. I’ve never found myself wanting more from my 1x mtb drivetrain
Wait, you said a 1x can have a similar range, and then immediately followed up with:
you do have to sacrifice either a bit of top end speed or climbing ability
It is impossible for both statements to be true at the same time.
Or some differences in gear spacing. I’m not an expert in it, but tried my best to summarize a succinctly as possible
I don’t know what this all means, but I do know my son blows through bikes like crazy. The chain always, always get fucked up and falls off. Even with a cover, even if it’s a more expensive bike, they don’t last.
I had the same bike all my childhood needing nearly no repairs, yet my kids bike is constantly broken.
The root cause of what you describe is a build or maintenance issue. Properly built, tuned, and maintained bikes don’t drop chains.
Lol The root cause is a 12 year old with ADHD.
Agree with the overall sentiment: the trend towards more complexity is silly, but triples are terrible.
Invasive species.
My region is absolutely infested with Siberian Elm and Tree Of Heaven (A.K.A., the “semen tree”). You cannot cut them down, because they will resprout like a hydra from the stump. You cannot dig them out, because the smallest root left behind can and will resprout wherever it is, leading to a many-year game of whack-a-mole.
I have near-daily fantasies of going around with a powerful backpack sprayer filled with glyphosate (Round-Up) and an application wand that can extend from 1m to 10m, and hitting everything just as they’re sending nutrients to the roots for winter.
The problem is, Glyphosate is highly restricted to purchase and own in Canada unless you have both the appropriate class of Pesticide Applicator’s License (an agricultural variant, for example) as well as the venue to use it in (own or manage an orchard, for example). Thankfully my family owns an orchard, and I am starting the process for the former.
But still. It’s an absolutely bizarre thing to be obsessing over and I. Just. Cannot. Help. Myself. Every time I drive and see clumps of those disgusting trees, I start to uncontrollably strategize how I could hit them with glyphosate in late September.
I hate the spotted lanternflies! When they’re small and black and white they hop and scare me! When they’re a bit bigger and red they’re more scary! Then they get WINGS. Eurgh.
We also have the tree of life around which is what they enjoy munching on. I’d like both gone!
I found out all the ladybugs here are the invasive ones. And if I want to buy ladybugs for pest control, I can only buy the invasive ones. Annoying.
We do at least still have some native pollinators and other bugs.
Russian thistle. These asshole things pop up all over the yard and driveway and I go around and pull them out of the ground with welding gloves. Sometimes I get stabbed even through welding gloves. I can completely understand why someone would blast a cancer causing chemical across their whole yard. I’ve been experimenting with everything else but I’m too worried about my dog to do roundup.
We have Autumn olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) here.
Ive been battling it for years. I mentioned bittersweet in my comment down thread, but I’ve won my battle with bittersweet. I pluck it everyyear and keep it at bay. I have not won with this fast growing (so fast) shrub tree. You cut it down, it grows back triple, relentlessly. It’s everywhere. I hate it so much. If it could just chill and be a bush, it would be fine, but no, ive a 40 foot tree bush in the back that was cut to stub 5 years ago. 40 feet tall, in five years. I hate chemicals, but when I get to the day I can afford to haul away 40 ft of tree bush brush, I will definitely be spraying this shit this time around. Fuck invasives. I go down the road and the forest edges are just bittersweet and autumn olive, also called japanese silverleaf. It’s ugly.
Loud lawnmowers. Ass hats who maintain the classic American yard. Every Saturday morning on cue, the whole neighborhood erupts into noise. It’s so loud.
Everyone in my area has about a quarter acre of land, yet here come the zero turn riding mower guys, mowing their grass too low, every weekend, just to water it the next day.
They are loud, disruptive, and just remind me we are slowly killing the planet every day for vainity yards.
I have a reel mower from the 1950’s I found and fixed up. I got a lot of compliments the first summer I used it, it has self shapening blades and works mostly well. Folks were shocked I was using it, one lady stopped and even gsve me a “you get it girl!”, like what? It’s a quarter acre people, and takes me 30-40 mins. Why do they need giant gas guzzling, louds stinky mowers? After a few years with the reel mower, I did get an electric line trimmer, … I’m crazy, but sometimes I mow most of my very small lawn with it when I dont want to fix and use my reel mower. It’s quiet, it doesnt smell, and I have control to skip over dirt/sparse patches. I can leave areas longer where I see native plants popping up. I feel like im working with the land, not just decimating it.
They ride these giant mowers up and down the street, they mow dirt just the same as they mow field. I literally get triggered everytime I hear one start up, so often, it’s a running joke in the house. It’s a quarter acre lots here, not baseball fields.
Perfect lawns, but then its just bittersweet growing wild on the edges taking over trees.
I also hate bittersweet. Like, really really hate bittersweet. It kills everything and takes over gardens. Invasive garbage that may seem like a cool plant to the unknowing eye, but it is invasive garbage everyone just looks past as it kills our native trees and plants, suffocating the life forms they parasite off from. I have to stay vigilant to keep it from my yard. It is persistent, it’ll tear your house down if you let it.
I hate lawnmowers and bittersweet. These things make me feel distraught.
I agree with you. There’s something a little nostalgic about lawnmower noise, but if you live without it for a while it’s so much nicer. I don’t have lawns at any of my house- crushed coral and desert dirt- but it’s been nice to see everyone get irritated with draining gas and fixing carburetors every year and switch to electric mowers which are mutch quieter.
Don’t send me videos if the background audio is some asshat wheeze-laughing about whatever supposed funny thing is playing. It’s never funny and it ruins my interest in watching the shit immediately.
I feel the same about videos with titles like “Try not to laugh challenge” - well guess what, I’m not watching your video and I won your challenge, plus I saved myself some time. Just… leave it to me to decide for myself what I find funny, okay?
“Watch to the end!”
Came here to add this to the comment chain haha. It’s never worthit.
Yep. If the video has to explicitly encourage you to watch it, just imagine how worthless it is.
all of my hatred and disgust is perfectly and completely justified
bingo.
like LED headlights that are obviously way too bright. no, I don’t care that you bought it like that. you chose to buy it like that. you are the consumer and you have responsibilities. you are therefore an asshole. perfectly justified and reasonable take.
I wfh so my car is 99% of the time outside my house. It’s in the shop for a few days and no one is choosing to park in front of my house! I swear to God they must think I’m a raging hambeast or something, ready to screech out the window if someone parks there. It’s not MY spot. I don’t own it. Please park there when my car isn’t there! So annoying!
😕
Maybe there are simply enough places, and people can park in front of their own houses, so there’s no need to park in front of your house?
Okay, you are winning the thread so far.
Yeah the concensus in my town is you own the spots directly in front of your home unless there’s a party or severe parking shortage.
Why would you park farther than you have to from your destination?
Might be different for you if you live in tight multi family homes.
People who loudly watch videos on their phone in public spaces or stores/restaurants should be caned.
I don’t want to listen to your ignorant ass braying like a fucking mule at some right-wing hack reheating the anti-trans memes he found on Reddit while I’m eating breakfast with my wife. Maybe you should put the phone down and meditate on why you’re the only person in this place eating alone.
China is so bad when it comes to this. A single train car can have like 10 people on their phone speakers - its utter chaos and I genuinely don’t understand how people can live like this. When wife and I travel we’re both wearing noise canceling headphones lol
It’s Reese’s Pieces, not Reesee’s peesees.
You’re a fucking idiot if you say Reesee’s peesees. When have you ever used the term peesees elsewhere, you month breathing dunce?
I’m the opposite, I only trust you if you say reesees peesees. The other way you’re either a spy or a terminator awaiting activation.
I also don’t trust people who don’t pee in the shower, but that’s just because they’re lying.
I pee in that bad boy every time. Sometimes when it’s a real yellow one it smells like popcorn
Hmmm…
I half trust you then I guess but you’re still a spy!
Reesee’s feces
Month breathing huh?
I done fucked up. I’m leaving it.
If you breathe the days you risk hyperventilating.
Apparently, concrete blocks are a thing to be mad about
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Who decides when a species becomes naturalized / stops being invasive? As an example, the European Starling has been living in North America since 1890 and are still considered invasive. They have natural predators. The ecosystem is adapting around them. Just let them have citizenship already!
Another thing: Taxonomy. Just all taxonomy. If a shark and a trout are both fish then we must also be fish because both of those animals are closer relatives to us than they are to each other. Obviously the way we define a fish has to change. Why has nobody done this? There are a TON of things like this in taxonomy and that all make me absurdly angry.
If they weren’t known for taking a single bite out of every fruit on the tree/vine/bush and ruining entire crops/gardens they would be more welcome. * Shakes fist at starlings in the tomato garden *
Also, isn’t the taxonomy thing being addressed with clades and what not?
Yes and no. Clades still have issues with things like hag fish.
Well, fish doesn’t really have a scientific meaning… https://youtu.be/uhwcEvMJz1Y
That doesn’t really make it less agitating though. There is a group of birds called jays (like blue jay) and the word jay is scientifically meaningless. It is still infuriating to me that these birds aren’t even vaguely related to each other in many cases. Just name them something else. Make it make sense. Koalas are not bears; just call them koalas. Guinea pigs are not from Guinea and they aren’t pigs. Horned toads are lizards. There are many examples of this. The names of animals don’t have to describe what they are, but they should not be accepted when describing the animal as something it is not. Animals should not have names that conflict with their taxonomy.
Invasive is just a slur for things people don’t like. Same thing for weed.
Random thing I was disappointed by recently. I live near a hospital that has a pizza vending machine near the cafeteria. So whenever I have to go to the hospital for appointments and stuff, I like to get some pizza. I went for an appointment a few days ago but the machine was broken so I didn’t get to have pizza.
I really wish we’d have gone down the “vending machines everywhere” timeline instead of what we did. I love vending machines.
Timezones are fucking dumb and I hate them
Found the programmer.
I think you mean daylight savings time is dumb & you hate it,(?) which would be understandable.
Time zones however are part of nature.
Hating daylight savings isn’t weird, it’s dumb and everyone knows it’s dumb.
Timezones are arbitrary lines on the map that were made when trains were new and there was no good way to coordinate otherwise. We are way past that, everyone has an automatically synced and precise way of telling time on them pretty much at all times. The “time” is an arbitrary number. Noon is not when the sun is highest in the sky most of the year unless you live near the equator, midnight is rarely “the middle of the night”, 9 to 5 should be deleted, and have one universal time would be one step closer to uniting human kind.
Timezones are fucking dumb, it’s not the 1800s. I’ll fight to the death over this.
I’ve argued for this before, both on Lemmy and elsewhere. Nice to see someone else with the same take.
Do you also get the impression that people who disagree with you almost always fail to understand the argument?
Absolutely, I’m probably going to do a YouTube video or a podcast or something with a friend of mine soon, this has been a multi year debate and we got into it over the weekend about it lol
If everyone in the world was on one universal time, some people would be functioning in the dark while people on the other side of the world are functioning in the daylight. Not fair. Time zones are essential. And yes, in most places in the world, 12:00 p.m. is when the sun is highest in the sky.
Why would they be working in the dark? They’d still get up in the morning, go to work, come home in the evening, etc… just the number on the clock would be different
I understand why we have timezones, but I’ve never heard an explanation for leap seconds that was particularly compelling.
I know that years and days don’t exactly match up, but as far as I’m concerned, whoever it is that’s being inconvenienced by the Earth being a few seconds out of rotation can go figure out their own workaround instead of messing up a million peoples’ daily rollup scripts.
Good news for you, the CGPM decided in 2022 to abandon the leap second by 2035.
Unfortunately we need them: https://qntm.org/abolish
I am glad someone fleshed out their arguments some, but I still don’t agree. I think they are fundamentally missing the point. The sun position and a “time” do not, and I would argue, should not, be coupled.
There’s a new Tron movie. With Jared Leto in the lead role.
Fuck Jared Leto.
Wtf
Jared Leto does fuck a lot of people
