Ask Lemmy

On tinder, I can't fucking stand seeing pictures of people's kids. Like, if I'm swiping, and I come across a woman with pictures of her kids? Hell no. Automatic left swipe.

I know that that picture has probably been logged on a dozen servers, it's been scrapped for AI training, and someone is already falsifying videos with her kid's face before she gets a first date. And I get she might not know that. But I kinda can't help feeling like a responsible person would think about these things and try to learn about them.

Also, I'm pissed that it's happening at all, and people who have no idea it's happening get caught in the crossfire. Their kids will grow up in a world where generative AI can perfectly replicate them online, where intelligence agencies have cross referenced data on their every movement and formative event from their childhood. And their parents unwittingly made that easier instead of trying to protect them.

That drives me up the wall.

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.

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.

That everyone dies alone.

There's a new Tron movie. With Jared Leto in the lead role.

Fuck Jared Leto.

This shouldn't be weird, but I'm consistently upset at how dumb the average idiot is.

It's scary how stupid most people are without even realizing it and I hate how I have to suffer for it every day.

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’m reading through the nearly all of the comments here and I’m like…

“Yup! Me too. Here’s your upvote.”

all of my hatred and disgust is perfectly and completely justified

Those plastic bags at the grocery store, to put loose fresh produce in? Why the fuck do they never open easily? With all these whizz-bang technologies we've developed, you'd think someone would design/make bags you don't have to wrestle with to open.

I'm sick to fucking death of hearing about the quantum multiverse. It's a delusional fantasy, and even though I respect the hell out of Sean Carol, it's time for him to shut the fuck up about it and stop giving it air.

I'm tired of hearing about the quantum multiverse which is a fantasy, and I'm tired of hearing about quantum consciousness and all that other fucking horse shit.

Phil Collins pisses me off, I can’t explain why, I just fucking hate that guy.

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?