Well, at least you included the “generated by gemini” note so I can easily see it’s slop and I can downvote and ignore it.

You don’t need to watch this or that streamer to live. You can ditch them and do something else. The streamer goes where the money is. If they start seeing people don’t use twitch anymore, they will switch to whatever platform the audience wants. But alas, the audience seems to enjoy ads this way so…

This is self inflicted pain and people enjoy it.

What I find stupid is that people will keep using it after all the shit they are doing. I mean, it’s twitch, you can live without it. And yet, people will accept this bullshit and keep going because the alternative of changing platform is just too bothersome for them. In the end, I’m starting to think we have the internet we deserve.

You choose to. But the rest of the world, that didn’t have a vote in your elections, is forced to.

Uhhh… I wonder what will happen if chinese drones end up raining on tel aviv.

Interesting times indeed…

Who said they were asking them? Seems to me that you may have misunderstood the concept of “bringing” them.

They are mandatory in Ireland, so please stop the “Europe” stuff.

I haven’t said they are not mandatory in Europe. I have said that I am European and haven’t seen them in the countries I lived in.

Tell me, are Spain and Italy countries that for some reason disqualify you from being European or did you just have a rough morning?

I’m genuinely curious: why do you need smoke detectors? I’m asking as an european that has lived without them all their life in more than one country. They are not mandatory here and not even common. What’s the reason to install ther? (I know the reason is to detect smoke, I’m asking the underlying reason behind the need to detect smoke)

Idk, having something that could melt metal from a safe distance as a deterrent seems a bit overkill. But don’t take my word for it, I might be overreacting.

It’s all about peer pressure: don’t bother her or they will suffer the consequences.

/s

That my father-in-law, retired and with the mentality of a retrograde caveman does this kind of cringy videos is understandable. Unclassy, bad taste and ridiculous as hell, but understandable given his ignorance.

That a president of an “advanced” country does it… Fuck, I just realized my in-law can be POTUS…

I do understand that. But I hate hypocrisy. Just say that you buy it because you want to show how rich you are, don’t try to sell me the “superior quality of the gears make them better” bullshit.

Just be honest and say it clear: “I buy it because it’s expensive”. It’s fine. Except it’s not, because you are embarrassed to admit you only want to brag about money and instead try to lie others (and yourself) about the reason why you buy it.

Every single italian who watched that scene took offense at how they looked at Tina. They are not welcome here.

I’ve worked for a touristic business where I live and I had to talk to many usians a day.

I learned there are two types of usians:

1. Those who come to the country to enjoy it; and they are usually cool people with whom you can have a great time.
2. Those who come to the country to be served. And they are extremely insufferable assholes to whom I only wish an intestinal bug that lets them stuck in the bathroom for the whole holiday.

Other than that, it was almost impossible to tell their political compass.

Exactly my thoughts on it. There are things that are expensive just because they are made so rich people can show off. Is there a point on having diamonds on a watch? No, it doesn’t make it better, just more expensive so you can show others how much money you have.

Same thing witd loud cars, they are made just so the owner can be the center of attention for a split second. I kinda feel bad for those idiots thinking they need to show off the money they have. It has to be one hell of an inferiority complex if you need to tell everybody how rich you are every moment of your life.

I got into a discussion some weeks ago about extremely expensive watches. I think they are stupid and just a “look at me, I’m rich” item. But, apparenty, I know jackshit about it because it’s all about the quality of the materials used and “the feel”. Seems a 10k watch is extremely better than a normal watch and I’m just too dumb to understand it because I don’t know how better it is when a watch uses precious metals in its gears instead of less-precious metals. This, said by a wage slave, by the way.

Suffice to say I realized it was pointless to go on with the discussion and I let it die after their “explanation” on why I was being dumb.

It’s about the compensation theory. The bigger/louder the car/bike, the bigger the need to compensate for something small they have.

People needing to be heard when they drive with their car/bike are one of the most pathetic kind of drivers. You have to be a special kind of insecure baby to need others to look at you when you drive by.

There is an issue in autistic individuals with textures. And it’s an issue you can’t really understand if you don’t suffer it. Yeah, I dress by texture rather than fashion. And those tags are hellish to me and many other autistic people in ways that only them understand.

It’s kinda concerning and pretty annoying when some people start with the “this is a normal reaction, not an autistic thing”.

If you somehow manage to put that shit on me, you better kill me afterwards. Because if I take it off, you’re going to deal with an overloaded velocirap human that’s going to show you the meaning of overcharged anger.

I discovered it when I was an adult. But in my case it was the opposite, it was a “oh… so I wasn’t the bad guy, I was just being weird to them and they were being dicks about it”.