Stocks, Investing, Gambling, Bitcoin .etc

Look, I’m not a fucking broker or a hustler, okay? I don’t care that you keep running around telling me or others to go waste our time and money to put into markets that can be incredibly unpredictable. It is all about luck, chance and risk. Things most wouldn’t want to put themselves on the line over even if they were down next to nothing. They’d rather buy lottery tickets.

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Oh. My. God. Can fucking apps learn that when I say “block” and “less like this” I fucking mean it? Don’t show me fucking anything about baseball, soccer, tennis, basketball, and especially not American football. I AM NOT YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE.

      Also, I have to block a large fraction of my social feeds at certain times of the year because all they talk about are sports.

  • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    Social media. Both personal (instatwitface) and business (LinkedIn). Lemmy is as close as I get, and to me this is just a modern forum.

    In my opinion social media has done nothing but make people stupider, and I want nothing to do with it. (It’s probably just a sign I’m old now - “get off my lawn!”)

    ;)

    • Hucklebee@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 months ago

      Interestingly, I think people like you and me use Lemmy because one of the same underlying reasons as social media people:

      Either:

      1. Endless amounts of stuff that speaks to your interest. (With us it’s stuff like technology. On Social media, people are “interested” in what others are up to.

      2. Getting likes/dislikes. Even though likes aren’t important on Lemmy, I notice in my usage that I do subconsciously get the same dopamine hits jf a post gets liked a lot, just like Social Media does. It’s less aggressive on Lemmy because you don’t get alerts for it, but it does factor in on engagement.

      3. Engaging in conversations/discussions with other people.

      4. Sharing things you find interesting yourself

      The content might be different, but the underlying principles are really close. Social Media is actually really close to how forums work at it’s core.

      But I know this is an unpopular opinion. And no, I wouldn’t call Lemmy Social Media per se. But the line is more blurry than I’d like to admit if I look at my time spent with Lemmy.

    • the16bitgamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I too do not understand social media. The best I get is it’s about people shouting into a void and hoping someone else heard you to interact with it, by repeating it, liking it, or shouting back at you.

      Hashtags are the only way to organize these posts and you need to add them or no one else will hear your shouts into the void.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    The economy.

    I’m a laborer. When the economy is bad, my cost of living goes up and the price of food goes up.

    When the economy is great, my cost of living goes up and the price of food goes up.

    The only people affected by a positive economy seem to be the people wealthy enough to have stock portfolios and large shares in corporations. It doesn’t affect me as a laborer in any positive way ever.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Newly released music.
    I have access to internet, not just decades, but centuries of music. Why should I need to know the songs released this year? It’s just a drop in the ocean. I don’t need to have the newest music right away.

    Similarly with new movies.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    stocks…incredibly unpredictable

    The long-run performance of broad index funds can be pretty predictable.

    • atro_city@fedia.io
      01·
      4 months ago

      Saving accounts are just a great resource for banks. Their returns are always less than inflation so you’re basically always losing money with them.

  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
    1·
    4 months ago

    Celebrity gossip.

    I have no idea how so many people are so invested in the lives of famous people, and all of the “Did you hear that so-and-so and some-other-jackass are having a baby!?” Is so boring…

    I’d rather mow my lawn with fingernail clippers.

  • neomachino@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    The beach, I couldn’t give less of a bother about going to lay on some burning sand, occasionally dipping my toes in some freezing fish piss water, and getting pelted in the face with sand as a bunch of kids run by kicking up every speck of sand they touch while their parents are getting shitfaced and blasting music no one else wants to hear.

    Put me in a secluded lake in the woods with some shade near by and I’m all in though. I guess more specifically my issue is with the people at the beach, but still.

  • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    Vinyl records…reprise!

    Like holy fuck! I was buying that shit in the 60s, 70s, and 80s!!

    Snap, crackle, pop, wow, flutter, echo, overruns, skips…

  • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    Trans stuff. Before you get the torches and pitchforks, I have no problem with them. I believe they deserve equality, and I don’t believe in spreading hate their way. I’m not Trans, so I don’t have a horse in this race, nor do I desire one. It doesn’t appeal to me, it doesn’t interest me in the slightest. I have my own concerns (keeping my house, paying my bills, keeping my family safe) and they have theirs, I guess is what I’m saying. If I see a Trans person get mistreated, I’ll stick up for them, just like I’d do for anyone, but I’m not interested in it. They are no different from me, we are all people. I think constantly bringing it up to people all the time is more of a disservice.