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[-] Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

People out here stating obvious human problems and I'm out here like: why do humans like Chocolate?

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Dancing.

I'm biased because I'm rythmically deficient, but it makes no sense to me. It's just weird wiggling.

Worse still is clubbing, which is just dancing in a hot, sweaty dark room where the drinks are $13 each amd you don't get to pick the music, or turn the volume down.

This might be the most boomer thing I've ever written.

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Go put on a banger and weirdly wiggle to it.

There's no way to describe the emotion it gives you. You just have to find a banger, and wiggle weirdly while it plays.

Dancing is a product of human brain rewarding pattern recognition, if it helps you make sense of it. Kinda like music and poetry - "hey I recognize repeating sounds and language structures", dancing is "hey, I move together with repeating sounds". There are also aspects like trying to make movements aesthetically pleasing, physically challenging, moving together in sync with other people and so on. Clubbing is a related activity, but more of a social one. Some people enjoy being together with other people and being able to let loose. They speak with their bodies as they move in rhythm with the music. Not my thing either, but it is possible to understand those who enjoy this activity.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

How some people have to constantly get into someone else's business that doesn't have any negative affect on their lives or society and try to force the latter to conform to the former's worldview. Religion is notorious for this, demanding others conform to the ideology's rules even if they have no desire to participate or believe, but it can also be as simple as being critical of someone's differences and trying to make them change.

[-] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

People who stay with abusive partners the first time they are abused

[-] SarcasticCephalopod@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The first time he loses his temper and screams how stupid you are is shocking. And then he apologizes and love-bombs and you write it off as a one-time bad day, confident it won't happen again. The next time when he screams how useless you are, the love bomb and apology are accompanied with a perfectly calm and logical (and apologetic) explanation of how you made him lose his cool and if you just wouldn't X, he wouldn't get so mad..... Eventually when he screams and calls you names, you are the one apologizing and begging forgiveness.....

By the time he actually hits you, you are already convinced that you are the problem and if you just wouldn't make him so mad, he wouldn't lose his cool - and you're so worthless and useless and bad at life that you are lucky he wants you at all and no one else would even give you the time a day......

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[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

People being mean or cruel to other people or living things just to see them suffer. I don't understand it.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Preferring looks over functionality.

So many things in today's world are dogshit covered in a pretty wrapper and everyone eats it up. Meanwhile things that actually work well and last get ignored because they're not pretty.

I'm not saying things can't be pretty but you should never put form over function.

[-] sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I STRONGLY believe in the whole, "form follows function", idea. Something that fulfills is intended purpose well, repeatedly, efficency, etc. is beautiful to me

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[-] Hello@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

I generally agree with this, but I would like to remind everyone not to take this generalization and run too far in the other direction. A video game that is a perfect simulation of something but has a bad art style will be less enjoyable than a game with a great art style, even if the art detracts from the perfect simulation somewhat.

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[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A type, true believer office people.

It's all laid out, you have at most 100 years and 50ish healthy ones if you're extremely lucky, and you want to spend more energy then you absolutely have to... micromanaging others and bragging about maximizing your office work output as you eek out a living?

I genuinely find the coworkers that try to drown themselves in corpo kool-aid disturbing. Soulless. I find them as sad and pathetic as they probably find me for my half hearted, clearly mocking impression of corpo culture, as I don't show my true self at work.

Like just.. Why? It's a job. The owner truly doesn't care if you live or die. Stop bragging that you canceled on your family yet again in favor of your "work family."🤮 They think they're setting an example for their coworkers to follow, but I'm just sitting there pitying them.

[-] Welt@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 day ago

Couldn't agree more (current boss is one such preoccupant) except it's spelled eke in this case, eek is for the onomatopoeic noise when frightened.

[-] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

When I see that particular typo I get all giddy imagining someone just getting paid to scream out in shock over and over

[-] Welt@lazysoci.al 2 points 4 hours ago

"EEEEEEEEEKKK! I just got my first paycheck and there's a spider on it!"

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

This product costs $14 to make, they sell it for $30.

They remove three screws and replace the beautiful $6 screen with a bottom of the barrel $3 screen saving $3.06. People would easily pay $5 more for the nicer screen, but they can only focus on cost cutting instead of making a still modestly priced great product.

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[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A lot of ceremony-like events confuse me.

They seem designed to be as tedious and gruelling as possible. Consider Graduation Ceremonies, or the ceremonial part of Weddings. Just hours in a hard chair, listening to some old motherfucker blabber on and on about random bullshit. (the parties afterwards I understand and respect, even if I'm the opposite of a party person. The only thing I like about parties is the excuse to dress up and eat cake. But hey, people enjoy dancing and drinking and stuff, that makes sense to me.)

Is this some Neurotypical thing I'm too Autistic to understand? Like do people actually enjoy this?

EDIT: Actually, since I brought up drinking when talking about parties.

.... I don't comprehend people that like alcoholic drinks. It's one thing to enjoy the feeling of being buzzed, we all want to turn off our brains sometimes, and of course it is literally addicting.

But I am talking about people who apparently enjoy the taste. Every type of booze I tried tasted like something between "medicine" and "actual poison".

People will spend a fortune in Wines and Beers and they all just taste bad. Then they'll swear up and down "no no dude, this wine is super sweet" and then you try it and it tastes like every other wine, which is to say it tastes like you took grape juice and sucked out all the joy.

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Insisting to spend your attention on exactly 1 (one) significant other.

I can't imagine being monogamous.

[-] pixeltree 6 points 1 day ago

Hahahaha I'm the other way around, I can't imagine having enough energy and attention for more than one person

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[-] Sho@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Over compensating when an injustice is learned. We don't change anything meaningful, it seems, and when this happens, we create a whole new problem

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago

Smoking. Let's see, I could pay a ton of money for something that reeks and damages my health and the health of those around me, that once I start I'll become addicted to so I'll struggle to quit even if I want to, or I could, uh, not. Yeah let's go with not.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Also, vaping. Somehow, vaping seems even dumber than smoking.

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

As someone who recently quit tobacco let me tell you: cigarettes are amazing! A cup of coffee, a crossword and a good summer morning on a patio is basically heaven. Smoking is cool and makes you look cool too! Everyone should smoke.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I’ll believe the addictive qualities for sure. However “cool” has not been true for years. I’ll never forget in college where some friends would encourage me to join them outside “where the cool people are smoking”, yet it always seemed like 2-3 people outside alone not enjoying a party or whatever. At least I was there because I’m an introvert and the party is exhausting, not fooling myself about thinking it cool.

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[-] CerealKiller01@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Not technically a behavior, but - having hurt feelings over other people expressing their negative opinion about myself.

Like, say someone tells me I look bad of that I acted badly or whatever. I see three options:

  1. They're right, so it's a good thing they told me.
  2. They're mistaken, so it doesn't really matter (though the fact some people might think that way is still valid information)
  3. They're being mean, in which case I don't really care about what they say.

I guess it's some defense mechanism? I can see how that would work with people prone to narcissism, but having ones feeling hurt over things like that seems normalized in (most?) societies.

Oh, also religion. People believe in an all powerful being that personally cares about every person in the world, but is unwilling to reveal itself? Despite having zero corroborating evidence? And he's responsible for every good thing that happens to me therefore I should see that as proof it exists and believe more, but if something bad happens that's because I didn't believe hard enough and should therefore believe more? And you're sure about that and don't see how that might be purely because this answers a psychological and social need? I understand I'm exaggerating a bit, and no offense to religious people, but... I don't get it.

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[-] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 days ago

Not putting your fucking shopping cart away. There’s no better way for me to explain it than the shopping cart theory:

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[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago

(Wo)men screaming when something unexpected scary/frightening happems

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