I regret buying a guitar, I can’t even do the simplest shit on it according to YouTube… I dunno if it’s laziness or just being tired of sucking so much and not being able to play the music that I like… Maybe a mix of both?
I got myself a ukelele during lockdown. Inexpensive and I figured easy to learn. And it is. But the problem is, it’s not a rhythm instrument. And I can’t sing.
So it’s me strumming away and quietly butchering songs. I can not perform for the enjoyment of anyone and that makes me sad.
Sounds like they have some nasty views irrespective of politics. Treating gay and trans people like people has nothing to do with politics.
We’re a similar age. I’ve let go of people who voiced these views a long time ago. It’s not that our politics don’t align, it’s the fact that they’re an ignorant, offensive piece of shit… And I’m not.
A decade’s worth of these views is enough to consider the person a prick. Being ok with one gay person’s existence (standing ovation for that bare minimum) is not acceptance of gay people. That’s pretty much 'i have black friends so I’m not racist '.
Why though? Making everything US-centric helps no one. Have you started talking about one-sixteenth of an inch and tipping people?
Yes we have a dollar and it can be confused with other dollars around the world. Putting in AUD clears up any confusion there and people can do their own conversion and learn something about another country.
Taxpayer funded it’s certainly on the nose. But I don’t have an issue with a skilled writer being paid that much. I know a hell of a lot of people earning similar who don’t possess that kind of skill in anything they do. Creatives should be paid well.
I know a lot of shitty things are happening in the world right now. But I get this feeling that most of the posts I see in lemmy feed are sad or depressing....
I’m torn between curating what I subscribe to here to eliminate overly negative things, with wanting to stay in the know specific industry topics and about important world events.
Unfortunately most of the important world events are negative. And my industry is a disgusting race to the bottom of the consumer exploitation barrel.
So on some days I just try to not open specific types of posts if I know it’s just going to get me down. I stick to memes and comics on those days
I’m unnaturally good at flat pack furniture assembly. And I know how pathetic a brag that is, given it’s a set of instructions and equipment. But everyone I know complains about it. I genuinely like it.
I set out all the materials and count them against the inventory to make sure they’re all there. Then I follow the instructions.
Whenever I’ve helped someone else do it, they start trying to figure out what attaches to what in the abstract, they tear open bags of bolts as they go and grab the one that looks right only to realise later that it’s 2mm shorter than the one they’re meant to use.
I don’t get it. It’s a recipe with all the ingredients provided. Prep the ingredients, cook following instructions.
My partner, who falls into the category of just trying to guess things, is pretty much banned from assisting me until there’s a bit where another human is necessary. But even then I’ll make do using leverage from furniture if I can.
And that’s my super long comment about how I’m good at something that’s remarkably easy, because it’s designed to be easy, but everyone wants to make it hard and then fight about it.
Same. I like fixing broken things. Also, if a handle breaks off a mug it becomes a pen holder etc. We’re drowning in our own rubbish so I don’t understand making more being fun?
Like seeing food fights in movies (which I think is the only place this ever happens), it just looks like wasteful stupidity to me.
“If you’re someone who’s buying products on the web, we know who is buying the products where, and we can leverage the data,” Grether said in a statement to the WSJ. He also said that PayPal will receive shopping data from customers using its credit card in stores....
I’m so over this. So exasperated by it. Every company in a scramble to the bottom. Meanwhile my country’s reporting a downturn in FOOD spending because people are fucking poor.
We’re being bombarded with ads at every turn, having our data sold off, stolen, or repurposed for LLMs… Meanwhile the customer experience gets worse and worse.
I work in digital ux and honestly, I just want to unplug and go live in a cave.
When did a movie or a show misrepresent the country or city you live in?
Tourist finds water pipe at source of China's 'tallest waterfall' (www.itv.com)
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Why we gave up on learning how to play an instrument?
I regret buying a guitar, I can’t even do the simplest shit on it according to YouTube… I dunno if it’s laziness or just being tired of sucking so much and not being able to play the music that I like… Maybe a mix of both?
Lenny Rush on Taskmaster
I just watched the 2024 NY treat taskmaster episode....
Top Five (feddit.it)
Art by False Knees
Dancing In The Dark by Bruce Springsteen (lemmy.ca)
Prompt was the lyrics to a song. Test out your lyrical knowledge and try to guess the title of the song. The genre is Rock.
Self Portrait as a distressed poet - Augustus Egg (1858) 🇬🇧 (upload.wikimedia.org)
You should lie out here and take a nap (lemmy.world)
Boys will be boys (lemmy.world)
Dreams of AI (lemmy.world)
Taxpayers forking out $600,000 for Bill Shorten's speechwriter over two years (www.abc.net.au)
Um… $300,000 a year. Do sparkles explode from the page as you read her writing?
How to get a bit more positivity in the Lemmy feed ?
I know a lot of shitty things are happening in the world right now. But I get this feeling that most of the posts I see in lemmy feed are sad or depressing....
I don't believe it...! (lemmy.world)
Atleast it comes with a Allen Key... (lemmy.ca)
If you were home and had five minutes to hide from foreign agents who were coming to hunt you down, where would you hide?
What's the most popular activity you could never get into?
PayPal will use your purchase information and shopping patterns to sell targeted ads (www.theverge.com)
“If you’re someone who’s buying products on the web, we know who is buying the products where, and we can leverage the data,” Grether said in a statement to the WSJ. He also said that PayPal will receive shopping data from customers using its credit card in stores....
Sovcit made her own license plate out of cardboard. (lemmy.world)