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[-] Mio@feddit.nu 17 points 1 week ago

I can't understand someone that want to attack another country, go to war, just to take some piece of land. And then want to die for this reason.

People should just learn that you can't get everything they want in life and deal with it in a good way.

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[-] MTK@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Eating boogers!

Why!? Like sure, kids do it but they also eat sand and basically anything they can put in their mouth.

But why would you do it as an adult?! You can pick your nose and the fling it away, or even wipe it on a wall like a psycho, but eating it?? I guess at least it's keeping the environment clean?

[-] gazter@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago

There's such an amorphous dividing line around bodily fluids. Swallowing your saliva is fine, but as soon as it exits the mouth, it shouldn't go back in. Unless it's from someone else that you really like, but even then only a tiny bit, incidental to the act of kissing. The same does not apply to boogers. There's also some sort of age or stage of life after which it's no longer acceptable to drink breast milk, unless it's from a different species.

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[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago
[-] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Just today I was thinking about how we've folded basic animal instincts (breeding) into elaborate social constructs. Humans are so weird...

[-] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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Rally 'round the flag effect

Like, why???

Its like... your parents have been abusing you for your entire life, and a sudden home invasion is gonna make you love your parents? 🤨

Nah, it feel like some weird movie/tv script where 2 people bond over a traumatic event, too cliche. Doesn't even feel real.

[-] moonlight@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

It's more like, you feel scared so you stick with what you know. Fear causes people to revert to a more tribalist mentality.

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[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Handshaking. We’ve both touched our crotch recently, let’s not

[-] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I was hoping that would go away when covid stuck around. People still want to shake hands!

shakes head

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I hope you've washed your hand since the last time you've touched down there.

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

But what if I want to touch your crotch?

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[-] recentSloth43@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Impersonal revenge. I understand the overwhelming emotions when it personally happens to you and needing that "payback". Not that i support it, but i understand it and I'm pretty sure I'd feel the same at the moment if it happened to me. But when it's people you don't know, and you still seek "justice"? There's no justice in increasing cruelty in the world. It only makes the world worse, not better. I think a lot of prejudices, like racism and such, evolve from this way of thinking, and our civilization would be a better place if we stop our revenge centered thinking. Hurting someone because they hurt you or others is weird to me. There are so many other ways to punish people without hurting them without a benefit other than "it makes me feel good to see them hurt because they're bad people".

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

A very light one, but "Gotta have it all" attitudes in video games.

I too, remember the Gamecube days when the console didn't connect to the internet, and if there was anything to unlock in the game, it came from hitting buttons really well. We're now in the days where the glittery, shiny purple armor (with the same armor stat) sometimes costs money. And yeah, quite often it's more money than I'd say it's worth.

I guess I just don't get the people who still get a bunch of "cool" things in the game, but still feel angsty and frustrated because they don't have everything - because they haven't completely cleared their minimap of every objective, gotten a platinum achievement, or grabbed that one pointless thingy that only shows up through RNG.

I tend to experience a "majority" of games that I enjoy, and that already is enough to absorb a lot of my time. For games that have DLC content, I might buy one or two skins I like, and still spend less in total, inflation-adjusted, than I would on one disc back on my gamecube.

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[-] FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

When you discover a bump somewhere on your skin and the very first reaction is to scratch and dig whatever may be there, out.

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[-] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] critical@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago

Kissing. Why? What's the point of it? What's the appeal?

[-] Subtracty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Do you mean making out? A quick kiss as a sign of affection makes sense to me. Locking lips and moving your tongues around? Weird. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but if you are doing something that intimate, there are a lot more fun things to be doing.

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[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Watching reading videos.

I also enjoy these, but what on earth is that about? We have videos of someone's face telling a story, we have videos of things happening for us to see (real and fake), why are stories read aloud while the words appear on the screen so interesting?

Also, we have access to the websites where these stories are coming from. This is the part that does make sense to me, I often miss those certain comments that make the best stories... So it's like a best of the best compilation to watch the reading videos.

But still, why? Why is a reading video the preferred way to find these cherry picked posts and comments from Reddit and Tumblr. Wouldn't a Best Of collection of screenshots or reposts do that job?

[-] deepfriedchril@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

In a similar vein, reaction videos. I don't understand why anybody wants to watch somebody watch a video and do over the top "reactions".

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[-] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Most of them

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