askchapo GaveUp • Now • 100%

Old people, did people used to be so afraid of doing things alone? This has to be because of social media right?

Zoomer here, will go to concerts alone once every few months because I have pretentious taste in music + the one friend I have with very similar tastes is a little agoraphobic Hell all 3 festivals I've been to have also been alone cause people flaking before a big fest is pretty common in general and happened to me all 3 times. Will sometimes try to meet people and hangout, sometimes not depending on what vibe I'm feeling So many zoomers who find out I do this look at me so weird but like what, am I just not going to enjoy myself and do something I want just because I don't have somebody to go with? I have a few friends that are 40+ and it sounds like they do stuff alone frequently. The ~30 year old friends aren't doing it a lot but they don't seem to have the same fear zoomers do either. I regularly run into 30+ yo ppl I know at an event there alone but never happens with zoomers

covid GaveUp • Now • 100%

I already got ~7 COVID vaccines but what's the scoop on this new one in USA? Anybody read about this and confident big pharma isn't just lobbying to get shit out every year for more money?

I'm not anti-vaxx, I just don't trust American health agencies. Wouldn't even think twice if this was in most other countries

news GaveUp • Now • 100%

Biden Administration Ratchets Up Tariffs on Chinese Goods

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Most important part of these tariffs: "The trade rule allows packages to be shipped from foreign countries directly to consumers or businesses without paying tariffs, as long as the shipments do not exceed $800 per recipient per day. The new proposal would strip that exemption from a wide array of products and most likely have a significant impact on large importers of Chinese goods such as Shein and Temu, two online marketplaces that have become popular with American shoppers." This trade rule being taken advantage of by Aliexpress, Temu, and Shein is the sole reason why significant amounts of Americans could still afford to buy a lot of consumer goods despite having their real wages crash year after year. This would genuinely trigger another cost of living crisis

askchapo GaveUp • Now • 96%

Do y'all notice "office occupation" accents?

I feel I can def pretty accurately tell whether somebody works a tech or some business/finance/marketing/HR job just by the way they speak. Like I talk to them outside of a work context, I make the guess, and then they later reveal what they do and I'm usually right if it's one of those 2 categories

technology GaveUp • Now • 99%

Get the fuck off big tech photo storage apps if you're still on them for some reason. Coworkers have been discussing gen AI photos in your gallery

So that if there's a big event like a Taylor Swift concert you couldn't go to and they detected you're most likely a fan, they'll gen AI a photo of you at the concert If you missed a Christmas gathering with your family, they'll gen AI one for you If like Japan but haven't been there yet, they gen AI a whole vacation album of you there They're literally trying to embed fabricated events into your life and brain lmao People are largely very excited for this idea. All the apps between different companies constantly copy each other to achieve feature parity, there's no escape. You will live a life of luxury and excitement whether you want to or not

askchapo GaveUp • Now • 100%

How many insects in your apartment is a problem?

I have 450 sq ft that's on the ground floor. Like almost 0 elevation at all from street level. 100 year old building. I live a 10 minutes walk away from the Pacific Coast, SF climate Every time I wake up and go to the bathroom, I see 2-5 insects in it. 1-2 are cockroaches, rest are some other small thing. Flies maybe? Always see some cockroach droppings on sink counter that I have to spray and wipe down Every time I leave a room dark for a few hours and turn on the lights, I always see 1-3 insects During the day with lights on, I notice 1-4 insects per hour in various places excluding tiny fruit flies. Those I probably see like 5 times a day Problem has been getting worse since I've moved in but this is also the first summer I've lived through in this place And if I need pest control, how much work is it to have them come in? Should I just move apartments if I need them?

em_poc GaveUp • Now • 100%

Black transmascs and east asian transfems, do the racist stereotypes of your race being masculine/feminine make you suspicious/mad when you pass?

I shouldn't pass which is fine but on the rare occasion I do, it's always a white person who lives in a place without many east asians The last white liberal I tried to befriend unironically told me I was so lucky to be Asian because I naturally already look more feminine than white transfems (like her)

badposting GaveUp • Now • 100%

Easy and Simple Guide to De-Zucc (Meta/Facebook) your life. Alternatives to all major services

Follow-up to my De-Google post to ensure your privacy and prevent your weird fetishes from being advertised back to you Meta service - Alternative Facebook - Your retirement home's bulletin board Messenger - WhatsApp Instagram - Touching grass Meta Quest/Oculus VR - PornHub Hope this helps and as always, pussy is in my bio

badposting GaveUp • Now • 100%

Highly Requested Easy Guide to De-Google your life. Alternatives for all major services

Since people always mention wanting to do this in the comments but say it's always say too hard Google product - Alternative Google Search - Bing Google Drive - iCloud Google Chrome - Safari Gmail - Outlook Google Photos - Amazon Photos (if you have Prime, it's unlimited photos storage + 5GB for videos) or Apple Photos YouTube - TikTok Waymo - Uber or Lyft Let me know if I missed anything in the comments section and what I should cover next post

games GaveUp • Now • 100%

Vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz once endorsed a high school Valorant team

This has surprisingly garnered lots of support amongst gamers Every day I keep getting surprised and my bar keeps getting lowered deeper into the ground

chat GaveUp • Now • 100%

asd

The workers are largely just as pro-capitalism and anti-worker as the employers but they're way less likely to support acceptance and extra corporate or governmental resources for minorities, women, queer, and trans people (they even regularly complain about tampons in the mens bathrooms), even as a farce to increase labor productivity

chat GaveUp • Now • 97%

Anybody realize English language female dominated chronically online culture is largely media consumerism while male ones are just white supremacy?

Edit: I'm not saying anything negative about the female side here, just the male one On one hand, you have fanfics, kpop Stans, fandoms, Sanrio, etc. On the other you have literally 4chan, literally reddit, circle jerks about muh superior white music genres like metal, modern rock, and being "cultured" by liking suffering porn with socially conscious hip hop, Roman history, WWII history, military obsession, geopolitics obsession, gamer shit with n-words and Japan stuff, some weird shit with obsessing over your body/facial features to be the perfect Eurocentric ideal, etc. Also shout-outs to pro incest and pedo anime culture In the words of a friend who agrees: White men just cannot be trusted to be left alone together on the Internet