You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

[Neighborhood Curmudgeon]

From the very same caste of people who incessantly whine about "cultural appropriation," which doesn't even exist.

Exactly! It's called cultural diffusion and it's been going on since the dawn of man. I know you know that, but I wish those idiots did!

Also regarding the video I posted, I don't even care that they're white people who want to supposedly live a monastic Zen lifestyle. It's the fact that they're treating it like it's one of their consoomer vacation retreats and butchering the very religious and cultural foundations of that said lifestyle. All the same, I wouldn't be surpirsed if they also whine about "cultural appropriation" while also praising multiculturalism. Ironically, they fail hard at actually respecting other cultures while also trying to keep them segregated.

 

[Bone Santa]

When the coaster gets stuck to the bottom of your mug as you lift it, then falls off and bangs on the table.

scares the shit out of me every time.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

From the very same caste of people who incessantly whine about "cultural appropriation," which doesn't even exist.

Exactly! It's called cultural diffusion and it's been going on since the dawn of man.

Before "social justice" went mainstream, pretty much everyone -- even in the West -- were OK with copying and even changing foreign ways. Now The Cult of Progress thinks the intangible ways of "marginalized groups" should remain the "intellectual property" of those "marginalized groups" in perpetuity, as if that somehow "protects" those.

In reality, intangible ways themselves are information: they can't be "appropriated" just by copying them.

Also the BS idea of "cultural appropriation" comes from "intellectual property thinking", which also leads to copyright fanaticism.

Almost as bad as the insufferable preachy demoralizing BS dumped out by SJWs is the insufferable preachy demoralizing BS dumped out by copyright fanatics. Especially when they claim "Fair Use" is much smaller than it really is - or even more or less non-existent.

 

[MadStan]

Poorly done journalism. This article from CNN has a major flaw and was missed by the journalist, the journalists senior editor and editor and made it to publishing.

How does anyone confuse a kilogram or pound with a ton? Laura He; you’re an idiot.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

How does anyone confuse a kilogram or pound with a ton?

Deliberately dumbed down education and hiring for "identity" over skill?

 

[MadStan]

Deliberately dumbed down education and hiring for "identity" over skill?

What gets me about it, is that the tonnage reported is 13 tons total (8 & 5) , and yet at $260 per ton or $1300 per ton, the reporter seemed to think the rare earth minerals in questions were so important, yet the total value wasn't even $15,000. Obviously to even an idiot would know that Lead or Aluminum is worth more than that per ton so obviously it was per Kilo or pound the price for the Geranium or Gallium. Not per Ton.

You can tell the report was simply stitched together and not actually investigated at all.

In other words I think the report was done to create alarm about China and Rare Earth minerals, but is not inf act part of any actual real investigation. Laura He is obviously there at CNN to report on China, but I wonder if she in fact is working for China, and that someone told her to put out a piece raising alarm over Biden's Chip war so as to portray there is a real consequence to Biden's policies. I find it stinks because this is just the type of mistake made by someone who has been told to stitch together an article who has no actual understanding of the subject matter at all.

 

[AnOminous]

Also the BS idea of "cultural appropriation" comes from "intellectual property thinking", which also leads to copyright fanaticism.

Getting rid of "cultural appropriation" is getting rid of progress and literally civilization itself, which shouldn't be surprising since that's the actual goal of these evil fucks.

What gets me about it, is that the tonnage reported is 13 tons total (8 & 5) , and yet at $260 per ton or $1300 per ton, the reporter seemed to think the rare earth minerals in questions were so important, yet the total value wasn't even $15,000.

Even some ape too dumb to do math and realize these figures were ridiculous could have just relied on the first Google hit.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Getting rid of "cultural appropriation" is getting rid of progress and literally civilization itself, which shouldn't be surprising since that's the actual goal of these evil fucks.

Like I said, I heard that tyranny wants to break down the current order to make "The New World Order" -- a prison world.

It seems to be why wannabe communism "social justice" emphasizes "deconstructing" the old way, like family and marriage.

 

[anustart76]

I hate that normies equate wanting to be alone with being lonely. They assume you must need friends and copious amounts of social interaction or else you can't be happy. Generally speaking, I understand why they think this way. However, that doesn't make it any less annoying. God forbid that I want privacy and personal space! How dare I just want to be left alone!

I never feel more alone than when I'm around people that I'm not already very close to.

Here's something that's been burning my beehive: gyms. Why the FUCK is signing up for a gym so convoluted? No, I do not want to book a tour three weeks in advance, I do not want to read through a phonebook worth of contract options, I will not download your diet and workout planning app just to spend a half hour talking to the sales rep about it. I am a grown ass man with a big boy bank account and functioning legs; let me walk in, pay for a year or two outright, and maybe have a trainer on hand to check my form every so often. I'm getting real tired real fast of jumping through Scientology-tier initiations and deciphering corpo-hustle talk just to figure out with gym has the nicest showers and least annoying lighting.

These types of gyms aren't really designed for you, they're designed for the person who makes a New Year's Resolution or whatever, signs up, stops going, and forgets to cancel. They want you to not use the gym while having a nightmare of a time getting out of the contract. Louis Rossmann did a video ranting about it just a couple weeks ago.

Before "social justice" went mainstream, pretty much everyone -- even in the West -- were OK with copying and even changing foreign ways. Now The Cult of Progress thinks the intangible ways of "marginalized groups" should remain the "intellectual property" of those "marginalized groups" in perpetuity, as if that somehow "protects" those.

Most cultures will be thrilled when you copy their stuff, as long as you do it respectfully.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

They assume you must need friends and copious amounts of social interaction or else you can't be happy.

Looks like "social engineering" at work there, like the "social engineering" to BS people into loving city life.

When one is overly dependent on others, and is surrounded by people at all times, one will be easier to control.

copy their stuff

Intangible culture itself cannot really be property (at least outside of any IP law), as it's information. No one can own the concept of origami itself, just like no one can own the knowledge that 1+1=2 itself. And being happy about others copying the ways one follows without being a jerk about it is definitely a more reasonable view than thinking that not copying a tradition is "protecting" that tradition somehow. If no one but an endangered kind practices a way, that way will go out if they go extinct...

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

When the weather says there's 0% precipitation and it starts raining minutes after you start your walk.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

When the weather says there's 0% precipitation and it starts raining minutes after you start your walk.

Whenever my family/I need to do anything that can be affected by the weather, I have to get weird about it because the forecasts are always so fucked. If the hourly says that there will 100% be thunderstorms from noon to 4pm, I have to make my plans around the fact that there is a 50% chance of thunderstorms and a zero percent chance that they will be between the hours of noon and 4pm.

Does anyone else ever look at the radar? Let it do the live play that spans the past four hours or whatever, and it flows in a sensible way. Once the time lapse gets to the present and into the future though, suddenly everything teleports, vanishes or appears all at once. This is one area that society would actually benefit from replacing humans with properly developed AI, emphasis on the properly. The fact that meteorology (outside of tornadoes specifically) doesn't seem any better than it was 30 years ago pisses me off.

 

[DavidS877]

This is one area that society would actually benefit from replacing humans with properly developed AI, emphasis on the properly. The fact that meteorology (outside of tornadoes specifically) doesn't seem any better than it was 30 years ago pisses me off.

Meteorology has some of the largest computing clusters in the world working on it right now. They are looking at Machine Learning as well with some promising results but it takes a ton of computing power.

Warning, math: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/medi...023/rise-machine-learning-weather-forecasting

The weather guessers on TV really just take the results from the various computer models and guess which one is going to be the most correct. You can use something like Windy(dot com) to switch models yourself and see how the predicitions change.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

Meteorology has some of the largest computing clusters in the world working on it right now. They are looking at Machine Learning as well with some promising results but it takes a ton of computing power.

Some of those computers are fucking nuts. Anything that gets even remotely close to simulating anything created by nature makes actual rocket science look like babby's first calculator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFx9y4g9kNc

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

When the weather says there's 0% precipitation and it starts raining minutes after you start your walk.

Those fuckers go back and stealth edit the hourly weather forecasts too without any annotations just like the fucking journoscum.

Gaslighting motherfuckers.

These types of gyms aren't really designed for you, they're designed for the person who makes a New Year's Resolution or whatever, signs up, stops going, and forgets to cancel. They want you to not use the gym while having a nightmare of a time getting out of the contract. Louis Rossmann did a video ranting about it just a couple weeks ago.

One time in an industrial town a little gym opened up in a residential neighbourhood just down from my house.

I signed up and the guy who was working there said he lived in town.

I had buyer's remorse and read the contract seeing that it could be canceled for full refund within 7 days.

I walked up the street to cancel the contract a few days later and the original staff was gone. They'd lied and said they were local, but actually were some national sales ringers they'd brought in. The local gym wouldn't honour the cancelation terms of the contract because they claimed I'd signed it with the roving headhunters and not them.

The local gym chain had a bigger location on the other side of town, but I had no car. I took the bus across town and talked to the manager there within the cancelation period. She was much more sympathetic.

I can't remember the exact details, but the manager from the other location somehow helped me get my 100$ signing fee back, but it took six months and lots of bus rides back and forth.

 

[BaskingBarracuda]

Well-off diaspora kids who have had every privilege in life yet act like they're permanently under the heel of white people. Double points for ones in 'New World' countries like America and Australia who bitch about colonizers when they're no more native than whitey is.

 

[internet friend]

Well-off diaspora kids who have had every privilege in life yet act like they're permanently under the heel of white people. Double points for ones in 'New World' countries like America and Australia who bitch about colonizers when they're no more native than whitey is.

That shit fucks me off to no end. In a way it's even spitting in the face of the parents/family that moved to give them a better life.

 

[DOUBLE_WHEEL]

Coomers in general, but more precisely the ones that anthropomorphize everything into an anime woman and I say this as someone who didn't used to mind stuff like the 4chan board-tans.

 

[Nonconsentual Pronouns]

anime woman

LMAO, "woman". If only they were at that level of degenerate rather than where they actually are. Last I checked, they favor Earth as a little girl with her oversized clothes falling off.

 

[The Last Stand]

Reddit 'safe edgy' people who pat themselves on the back about how they're sensitive not to punch down and offend oppressed peoples, yet go out of their way to be as viscerally unpleasant as possible to those that are deemed acceptable targets.

If you refuse to joke about a subject because you consider it insensitive then that's fine, but if the only thing holding you back is some arbitrary rule then you're not a Good Guy(TM), you're an obnoxious prick.

I thought it was me that thought the same way. "Humor" nowadays is passive aggressive, unpleasant behavior with not-so-subtle jabs against whoever/whatever they dislike. Or "dad jokes" that have no punch line whatsoever. Bonus points if it's nothing but swearing and childish antics.

Since we're talking about work: I hate it when you have to request a supervisor's approval to complete the next task. It then turns into a waiting game to get a response while you're stalling for time.