Things I Don't Get

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Tiktok.

I tried the app a couple of times, but it's not for me. Personally, I found it unsatisfying. There's no real conclusion to the videos. So of course you keep scrolling. That's the idea.

However, I noticed that when I looked back on the time I had spent in the app, I didn't recall what I had witnessed. Yet I had spent hours, scrolling through the feed. It made me wonder - what am I actually getting out of this experience?

So I deleted the app. I haven't felt the need to go back. I think I would rather go watch a film, listen to a Podcast or read a book. Such activities feel more actively engaging in my opinion.

Why people are offensively pro-tipping, especially in this economy, but are virulently hateful toward the unhoused.

Why happy meals actually look really sad

There’s a lot of people that cannot stand the app just like you (myself included). What really concerns me is the impact to attention spans that that app has and the massive amount of fast content online. A constant, quick stream of content completely erodes your ability to stay focused. I volunteer teach 3rd and 4th graders and some of them cannot stay still and watch a 15minute video. (It was not a boring video, it was meant for children and the other students were watching it just fine.) I’m not expecting them to have pristine behavior, they’re young, but it’s how quickly they became bored that concerns me.

Also that app is a breeding ground for so many awful things especially its romanization of mental illnesses which is definitely impacting impressionable teens.

Why the people who like to tell people to chill out are actually the ones who should chill out themselves.

^ Or tell you to stop shouting when your voice was not the one that was raised

Passive -aggressive whiners. On and on and on and they don’t do anything to resolve their problems (that they have caused),and don’t listen to advice.Just hung up on one earlier.
The older I get ,the less tolerance I have for that sort of thing.I’m going outside to listen to the birds.

Wow! I can really relate to that one. Life’s too short to spend any time listening to these people.

I don't get why fast-food chains are allowed to serve such unhealthy food. Since they want nobody telling them what to serve or how to run their business; why not put little bottles of liquor or snuff as a prize in their kiddie meals?



P.S.: I am not in favor of giving children alcohol or tobacco; I was making a point

I don't get why there's always so many domestic animals and stock on the loose in my area.
I know sometimes livestock etc can escape, but there's several reports per day of dogs, horses, sheep and cattle on the loose.
Considering the simultaneous reports of livestock being mauled and killed by dogs and hit by cars, I dont know why people aren't more concerned with keeping their animals safe.

I don't get why everything is so freaking hard. Always.

You are trying to navigate a world built for neurotypicals.

I still struggle to have this world view, but I have been luckier than most here and assimilated (well for a while till my brain broke )

'I gotta Hot Wheels.'
"I gotta Barbie."
I gotta bottle Rémy Martin.

Someone got a little extra happy in their meal.

Dog owners who love their pets don't let them roam and wind-up 3S'd.

Shoot.
Shovel.
STFU.

Why 3 good things happened really close to each other. Touhou 19 and the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 DLC (Touhou and Xenoblade are probably my biggest special interests) got announced (for Xenoblade it was full trailer, announcing that the DLC releases the 25th) back-to-back, and today I realized that the The Owl House finale aired 10 days ago (thanks YouTube...) and watched it today and was very happy.