• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    8·
    17 hours ago

    Honestly nothing. It’s almost like a compulsion, where I feel like if I ignore something I’m a bad person.

    • silentTeee@lemmy.sdf.org
      21·
      10 hours ago

      I thought I was the only one.

      I studied computers down to the transistor level. I know many of the different cells in the immune cascade. I’ve researched child psychology.

      But ask me to explain what a car’s transmission is and the only thing in my brain is dial-up tones…

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
      3·
      19 hours ago

      Same. I’ll go as far as changing a wheel when I have a flat, but that’s pretty much it.

      Otherwise, I can lift the bonnet and go “yep, that’s an engine” quite convincingly.

  • 6stringringer@lemmy.zip
    81·
    22 hours ago

    Hobby Horsing. It really is a thing and it’s not something freaky deaky strange. It’s just kinda cringy & well why not ditch the pretend horse thing and just parkour? That there is another thing that I don’t care about. I do enjoy the outtakes of parkour mishaps. On second thought, if a highlight reel of Hobby Horsing accidents exists, I’d absolutely watch. It could really be quite entertaining.

    • cristo@lemmy.world
      3·
      20 hours ago

      There is a dude on Instagram who has been doing “hobby Enduro” which is basically the same thing but with an Enduro bike stick thing between your legs. I’ve been following it for a while because it seems like it’s ironic but it’s starting to get to a point where idk if the guy still thinks it’s a joke anymore.

  • sploder@lemmy.world
    19·
    1 day ago

    The kardashian universe. I’ve never seen an ep, don’t know their names or whatever the fuck they do or say. As a 30 year old woman I feel like a unicorn not knowing shit about fuck when it comes to that whole thing.

      • sploder@lemmy.world
        2·
        13 hours ago

        LMAO! I’m married and now basically live the life of a 95 year old legit couldn’t be happier. Never had an instagram either. I don’t wanna get caught up in that shit.

  • Redacted@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    24 hours ago

    Chess theory. If i wanted to play against someone that knew all the best moves id play a chess robot

    • WhiteRice@lemmy.ml
      3·
      17 hours ago

      The French language exists purely so that there can be English speaking with a French accent.

    • chris@l.roofo.cc
      3·
      22 hours ago

      French was my only choice for a second foreign language in school and I hated it. Such a weird language. They need a writing reform. Bordeaux is just comically bad. English could use a writing reform as well.

      • SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml
        4·
        20 hours ago

        I’m blaming the French when English needs a reform. Much of the language is stolen French, with the diabolical inherent spelling traps, the other reason reform is required is the halting of the vowel change, which is why some words, though written the same, sound different - one example: though (tho) and bough (bau).

        Can’t see it happening to be honest.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    10·
    1 day ago

    Short form content that isn’t a to the point tutorial.

    Hell, on that note, tutorial videos where the person rambles on and on and on before finally showing you what to do. I came for a tutorial on how to do something and not a blog!

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      21 hours ago

      That’s a fascinating subject IMO.

      Like there is a king/celeb/hero/… hole in ther mind they just must fill.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      7·
      2 days ago

      Same reason people like watching TV dramas. It’s escapism. They get to vicariously live someone else’s more colourful life - or are glad they’re not living the celebrity’s real or acted horrible life - for a short while to get away from their own.

      And anyone on a screen is usually better-looking as well, which is a big draw.

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        This is a really fair way to put it. I can’t understand it personally, but I read fantasy books to escape the real world, and I tell anyone I can that I read fiction only because I live in the real world and I’ve had enough of its shit. So appreciate your shedding some light on it, because I certainly didn’t understand it (celebrity nonsense). Still don’t, but maybe I will soon.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 minutes ago

      NFTs actually are an easy concept, a dollar bill is a Fungible Token, because all dollar bills are the same, you can change one for another and it all works out because both represent the same thing (one dollar). A deed to a house is not fungible, you can’t just change one deed for a different one because they represent different things. NFTs are just that, Non Fungible Tokens, why some people wanted to own a digital token representing ownership of a publicly available digital image is what can’t be explained.

      • ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 hours ago

        It’s a form of tax avoidance.

        Art is a tax deduction in the US. Say you have a tax liability of $10k, you buy $10k of Art and you can claim the value (not including sales cost) as a deduction.

        Then after the tax year, you sell it to the next guy. As long as you sell for the same price, you pay that much less tax (that is, about 25% of the value less in tax).

        Well an NFT is just Art without the hassle or expense of insurance or storage. It could be used as a tax deduction.

        When the IRS ruled it was no longer eligible, the NFT market collapsed.

      • uid0gid0@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 hours ago

        fungible

        adjective fun·gi·ble ˈfən-jə-bəl

        1: being something (such as money or a commodity) of such a nature that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in paying a debt or settling an account