This is great advice for signing up for streaming services, and very, very bad advice for a gym membership.

They absolutely will send your delinquent gym membership account to collections and it will wind up on your credit report. It’s part of their business plan.

You’d have to sign up with a false identity, which is technically fraud.

I expected nothing yet I’m still disappointed…

I was really hoping this would go into effect so I could sign up for a gym membership. I’ll never sign up with a gym again…Their cancellation processes are offensive and predatory.

The “click-to-cancel” rule would force gyms to allow you to cancel your gym membership as easily as you signed up for it.

For some reason these businesses are against losing the free money they get for making it hard to cancel subscriptions.

It’s been a law in Germany for three years now:

German Online Cancel Button Law

Any country where healthcare and higher education are considered human rights and not commodities will work for me.

I only post or reply on Lemmy.

I don’t have a facebook, instagram, snapchat, or twitter account.

I deleted my two reddit accounts after RIF stopped working.

I do have accounts on a couple of car forums so I can ask questions about fixing my car, if that counts.

Sure. I agree with all of that. But I live in a suburban sprawl of a US city that is just dense enough to have lots of cars, but nowhere near dense enough to have decent public transportation…unless we as a society decided to bulldoze this entire vast suburban landscape and start over with density as a goal. It’s hot here too. Nobody is riding their bike 12 miles to work in 95⁰ weather (35⁰ for our metric homies).

Maybe within the next few years the Netherlands will let me and my family in as refugees so I can bike everywhere on a 72⁰ summer day.

But I like where your head’s at. Hopefully you’re young and can make a difference.

To be fair, you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying in an automobile accident.

Based on modern safety standards for everything else, that’s unacceptable.

If I offered you a job and said you have a 1 in 95 chance of dying from working this job, you would refuse. The most dangerous job in the USA is logging, with about a 1 in 1000 chance of dying. More lumberjacks die driving home than die working their extremely dangerous job.

Not only should we have self-driving flying taxis by now, but we should also at least have level 5 self-driving cars so people aren’t constantly dying driving to get groceries or pick up their kids.

I’d really like to at least see humanity fully switch to clean energy in my lifetime but I’m losing hope.

I should already be able to take a self-driving flying taxi to work. I should already be able to vacation on the moon. We shouldn’t be burning stuff to power all our modern tech.

I grew up on 80s/90s scifi. I hope humanity can get it’s shit together and that the current anti-intellectualism phase we’re in is just part of a larger cycle.

Calling anything about beauty a standard.

Obviously fake anything. Boobs. Lips. Butt.

Trying too hard in general. Just be you.

I get we’re not perfect and we all have insecurities. Why are they called love handles? But people are just people. We’re all human.

People who don’t drink water make me unnaturally irritated. It’s just so crazy. “I don’t breathe air because don’t really like the taste”.

I know I sound like an asshole. It shouldn’t matter to me what you do. It’s your body and your life.

Still…c’mon, like what? It’s water. It brings life. It’s the original thirst quencher. It’s what your body needs. Just drink it.

As a working class adult you have to start applying time management skills to your life or you’ll be overwhelmed.

One of those skills is budgeting time for recreation and hobbies. If something is important to you, put that time on your calendar.

I have teenage kids and a busy life. We plan for game nights on the PC, usually Tuesday and then one other night during the week as long as there’s no sportsball practices or whatnot.

Unfortunately the old “I’m bored, time for gaming” won’t work anymore. You have to assign value to your activities. Doing nothing on the couch can be an activity, gaming can be an activity, doing the dishes can be an activity. If you don’t assign values to activities and schedule them then you’ll get overwhelmed because you won’t have time to do anything.

Definitely. I think imposter syndrome is basically the same phenomenon.

I used to think there was this Council of Smart People running the world and keeping the nuclear weapons from accidentally launching and the planes from crashing and the electricity on and the bridges from collapsing.

It can’t just be me and all the absolute idiots I grew up with now running the world. That can’t be right. Oh, Jesus…oh no.

That “adults” are just kids that got older. Same goes for “old people”. Everyone was once a 14 year old. There is no dividing line where you suddenly become an adult, and there is no dividing line between being an adult and being old.

We’re all born, and we live a life of days, months years, decades… it’s just you and your one, single life. You’re always going to be you.

Make this one life count. Don’t wait. Don’t procrastinate. Make shit happen. You’ll regret it if you don’t.

PCs and all devices will become more locked down, with a small rebellious minority. Pretty much what we have today, but the divide will become greater.

All consumer devices are designed for the consumer to consume content. Music, Movies, Books, TV Shows, Web Sites, Social Media, Video Games…all of it. Very, very few people at the consumer level use computing power to perform complex calculations or process large datasets.

All of that content is someone else’s creation, and they want to get paid for their creation. Either by you directly purchasing/subscribing to what they’ve created, or via advertisers. Everyone has rent or a mortgage and bills to pay and they want to buy food and buy stuff for their kids.

Any time you sit in front of a screen, whether it’s a TV or a PC or a smartphone and begin to consume content, think about that. Whoever created what you’re looking at wants money, just like you want money.

So when a PC isn’t locked down to make sure you’re somehow paying for the content you consume, that upsets the entire supply chain that is delivering this content to your eyes and ears. They have to make sure they’re somehow getting paid…

Firefly. Specifically, Shepherd Book’s backstory.

Cabin in the Woods is fine art.

10/10 Premise 10/10 Execution

I’m helping my teenager get through all the horror tropes so we can watch Cabin in the Woods together.

What brand/model # are you using?

Even the toploaders do the same thing now. They don’t actually fill with water like they used to. I got frustrated with my modern toploader and that’s how I wound up with the highest rated frontloader I could find. Both garbage.

The washing machine I bought in 1996 for $250 cleaned clothes better than any machine I’ve had in decades.

I just want to wash my clothes. In water.

Washing machines.

My washing machine 15 years ago would wash my clothes with…uhhhh…fucking water.

Now you can’t buy washing machines that actually wash your clothes in water. They all spritz your clothes with a little water then jiggle around your damp clothes for a bit.

I don’t live in a desert. I live in a place with access to plenty of water. I should be allowed to buy a washing machine that actually fills up with soapy water and washes my damn clothes.

I could buy a Speed Queen washer for $2,000 from a specialty store, but that’s ridiculous. Why can’t I just buy a washing machine that washes my clothes? They’re ALL terrible now. All the washers in all the big box stores are just…bad.

Totally agree but for the opposite reason.

Wrasslin’ is very story driven. Not everyone has time to watch, and the sports news outlets is all spoilers.

It’s like a Harry Potter fan opening their news feed to “Snape kills Dumbledore after epic battle!” plastered all over the news on the day after the book came out. (my apologies to any Harry Potter fans who haven’t read all the books or seen all the movies by now, in 2025).