Fall and Winter are typically the season for this, but I’ve noticed more people than usual have taken up interest in what amount to gyms. These very, very expensive gyms, which market themselves as almost exceptional in how they can help you regain yourself. All the while these “miracle body regimes” are advertised everywhere. Suspicious industry much?
Some neighbors of mine were headed there. I remember this because they were about to get into their vehicle, and I asked “the location is right around the corner, you don’t want to walk and maybe save transport money” and they responded “no, we’re old, we can’t do that” before they rode there and gained entry so they can run on the machine, and returned having used their whole wallet due to the journey/destination. Though not as memorable as the fact they came back with a brand of potato chips with the same name as the place they went to. Nothing like feeding into what you’re there to fix.
How about you though?
Not so much scammy as scary, and no one else seems to have noticed.
They’re building storage units like mad around here. This suggests that thousands of people have been forced to downgrade their living arrangements/housing.
Not every gym goer is preparing for the olympics or sculpting a body for instagram.
Any product which requires proprietary refills or filters.
The battle for autonomous citizenship in a democracy was lost decades ago. Its true roots are the move to venture capital to avoid the WW3 that the previous military centric system would have created by around the 1980’s. The ideals of a warmonger state lend meaning to citizenship. Venture capital is feudalism. It is a system where autonomy and citizenship are in principal opposition to the interests of capital. A military must justify its cost with action. A feudal lord needs a mechanism of servitude but the name is irrelevant. Slave, and serf have been used in the past. No one will ever try to call you one of these loaded terms. They will alter the meaning of citizen until it is functionally equivalent. The feudal serving class are not owners of their tools, land, or means of survival. They have a theoretical right to legal recourse, but mechanisms bar them from doing so in practice.
This makes no sense. You prefer a warmonger state to one based on free enterprise and economic growth because (checks notes) it makes citizenship meaningful? Literally what.
Where did I make any kind of statement of personal opinion of preference?
Roller derby is a scam. I have connected the dots to the WWE. The connection is the goddamn leotards. Prove me wrong.
Why don’t you want lesbians and drag queens to have a safe space for violence?
The world needs more safe spaces for violence.
Otherwise we’ll have unsafe violence, and that’s really unpleasant
I’m convinced Thailand is super chill because everyone there is good at fighting. It’s literally their national sport.
A Waffle House brawl, while it is a pillar of Southern life, is not an acceptable perk of employment for their staff.
As a healthcare worker who has had a patient try to strangle her before…I would like violence not to be an expected part of my job.
Crumb free bread is the biggest scam of all.
That’s a thing? 🤨
He’s 4
Bread is composed of “crust” and “crumb”. The hard part on the outside is the crust and the fluffy part is the crumb. So crumb free bread would be what you have left after you cut the crusts off a sandwich, but keep the wrong part.
I’m not outright trying to be contrarian, but for some older people or people with things like arthritis, foot injuries, hip injuries, etc. walking or running on a treadmill is vastly less painful than walking or running on concrete.
There is absolutely a huge commercialization problem with fitness and health in the western world (and in America in particular), but if going to a climate-controlled gym and getting your steps in on a treadmill or elliptical is what it takes to get you to exercise, I’m all for it.
For the potato chips, that’s really sleazy of the gym, but I do want people to know that even if you don’t/can’t make a bunch of changes to your diet and you don’t lose weight, getting exercise of any kind as often as you are able is still a positive thing for your heart and metabolic health. Please don’t let being fat, or out of shape, or an inability to overhaul your diet prevent you from doing something positive for your health. Losing weight and keeping it off is really only possible through major lifestyle change, and, for a lot of people, the only sustainable way to make the necessary changes is one at a time.
Anything can be scammy if you connect enough dots.
Food literally grows itself in the ground. And yet we buy it from supermarkets. Absolute scam!
Videogames that intentionally break their difficulty curve with the intention of seeming elite and prestigious. I’ve suspected for a long time that games like Darksouls and Kingdom Come deliberately try to manipulate their players into getting caught in sunk cost falacies, trying to get people to blame themselves for any failure of game balancing.
Over time they’ve fostered communties which are so toxic that they will lash out at anyone trying to criticize the game. This then frees the developer from all fault and casts any grievance as the players lack of understanding, skill, or hardware. Eventually, any mistake the devs make becomes seen as an artistic choice and will be defended tooth and nail by the players.
How about you though?
For many around here the issue will seem perfectly obvious, but I’m worried when I see how often many ‘normal’ people consider this a non-issue at all, quite the contrary.
I am talking about the destruction of any notion of privacy in the name of always more ‘security’ and ‘convenience’.
edit: added a missing word.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten scrutinized whenever I’ve pointed out to some other people, about how abused the word ‘security’ has gotten in the tech world. If people not in the know, so much see the word ‘security’ and are promised to be secure, they’ll happily sign away everything for it.
When the word itself is artificial in that scenario. Why does Google need my street address for “security” of my account when 2FA is a thing and strengthening your password is another? There’s nothing secure about prying me for sensitive information than it would be if you’ve performed regular scans or something that ensured my account is secure and not hacked into.
I am annoyed everytime I want to make a transfer on my bank dashboard from account to account. They give me “one-time” codes all the time to do simple actions and they do that for “security purposes”.
No, I disagree, it’s to nag me to fucking death.
Car Insurance is a total scam. We should be able to make every traffic trip a potential crash derby.
I love the absolute chaos you’re bringing to this comment section. You’re my kinda people.
