I mean, most people just suck ass at realizing what part of a story could possibly be interesting to outside parties.

"A mukbang YouTuber (That's someone who inhales disturbing volumes of food as entertainment) weighed over 350 pounds and just revealed that more than a year of their videos were pre-recorded as they lost 250 pounds!"

There. Simple. Easily worthy of a ”That's wild!"

OK but why is my state mandated minimum insurance nearly $90 a month for a Toyota Prius that I only drive like 30 miles per week?

My liability only plan was $55 in 2018.

I'm over 30 years old with no tickets or accidents on my record.

Maybe the whole data farming thing is being used as an excuse also, but this is bullshit all up and down.

Yes, it's normal to feel like shit about driving past the homeless, that's your humanity working.

We are not faster or stronger than bears, so we evolved to work together as tribes.

Seeing other humans abandoned by your own tribe should make us feel bad.

No, it is not YOUR individual responsibility to assist others beyond your own means. Retiring in the U.S. costs millions of dollars and that may seem far away for some, but time comes for us all and most can't afford to help others with their oxygen mask before putting on our own.

When I drive by someone who needs help, knowing I'm not equipped to help them, I get angry at every politician and lobbyist whose life work is making sure meaningful social programs never get started.

My responsibility is to vote for the most humanitarian candidate possible at every opportunity, and to share my values of "people first" any way I can.

We all struggle, and the struggles of others doesn't disqualify your own. It's healthy to spend your personal resources on your personal problems, and use your social/political power (vote) to address social/political problems.

Props on being a human being.

Imagine how racist that shark must be

In a long dumb story I once went to jail over a speeding ticket that was a day late.

The two cops couldn't believe they had to arrest me for it and the jail was so backed up I was there for four days.

I was still a teenager and terrified, but I put on a face and told every joke I'd ever heard to get by. My last morning there My bunkmate found me so entertaining he offered me a free prostitute, which I had to very politely decline.

Grandma must pay for her sins. We might not be able to save the world, but maybe we can avenge it.

I don't see this as a problem, the media is terrible at understanding/caring about real cultural trends.

The fact that I have a better time on Lemmy than Reddit on my phone, despite the huge difference in user numbers, says it all to me.

Reddit has been seeing a meaningful and lasting decline since they decided users don't matter, and there's no coming back from that.

Just like Facebook has suffered a permanent user loss and failure to grow, so will Reddit. It won't be overnight, but newer generations are increasingly tech-literate, even when they aren't more media-literate.

I never thought Mastodon would become a place to be, despite always hoping. Never imagined a real Reddit alternative would start to form, but here I am.

Cambridge Analytica laid the foundation of general disdain for centralized social media, and Elon Musk single-handedly exhausted the public's patience with corporate bullshit.

I think decentralized options are here to stay, and I think the only centralized platforms that will take longer to upend are video-dependant ones.

All in good time.

I'm turning 31 this year, and my girlfriend is 25.

We've been together six years now. I didn't realize she was still 18 until the end of our first date, and she caught that I was visibly startled by it.

I owned up that I didnt realize and assumed from our interactions that she was at least 20-22 and she laughed and apologized, saying she thought I knew her age.

After going home and thinking about how well we hit it off, and how she found my concern amusing, I decided I was being silly and that if the age gap was a problem it would make itself evident.

Best decision ever. Nothing wrong with paying attention to those things, just keep open communication with each other 👍

Everybody knows the fifth element is love

"How are you ever gonna keep a job if you can't keep juice in a cup?!"

I was 9 years old

Honestly one of the reasons I fell for a pyramid scheme coming out of high school.

A friend invited me and I went to shit on it and get him out, but the main guy's whole thing was "everything is a pyramid scheme, at least here you have the chance to build a pyramid beneath you."

Obviously there were other reasons as old as time, but the argument of "so what, your 'regular job' is already a pyramid scheme you can't win" was pretty rattling to a teenager in 2011.

As someone who did some UX for a touchscreen product in Healthcare, it's 100% just boring old capitalism making real work impossible.

Any time immediate profit is put above the company "Mission Statement" (which is every time) it becomes impossible for designers to do a good job.

I was working with a broken and 90's looking UX/UI and made a modernized Material 3 style redesign that never even got full evaluation because it "wasn't a priority".

They'd regularly recognize UX problems and ask for the best solution. I'd research, test, and design options, explaining how I got there, and then a non-designer from an unrelated department would say some nonsense and we'd scrap the whole thing.