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The actual reality of humanity. Everything we do is fucking weird if you overthink it, and I constanly have a feeling of surrealness when focused on the real world around me instead of lost in my own thoughts. Reality is too real to be real.
I dissociate a lot so that's probably why.
News and people giving a shit about sports ball.
It's fun to play and complete in your local sportsball league. It's exercise while being fun. Spectating is fun when watching a sport that you also play. Seeing the pros play is it properly lets you bring something back to your own game. I don't actually care who wins. That's tribalism.
Going to a "sports" bar to watch fat people get drunk and place bets makes no sense to me.
I also hate sports trivia. It's just celebrity trivia but for people to star on the field instead of in movies. If I get asked who won a particular award in a particular sport in a particular year, I would have absolutely no idea. If you aksed me to explain the "infield fly" rule, I've got that covered.
And yes, a full 8 minutes of the nightly news covering sports is just insane. I just don't care.
Bars with parking lots.
Designated drivers are a thing. And I haven't had more than one drink at a bar since I lived in Europe in 1989 where they actually had public transportation. For many years I'd just drink at home or at a friend's house if my wife was driving. I recently quit drinking though.
Dreaming.
Driver's in Atlanta Georgia.
The left two lanes on i85 are for faster drivers and right of way is a real thing!
Customers. Seriously, how absolutely incapable are some people. I wish I could force some of them to write down all the questions they have, make them watch a 5 minute YouTube video and then only bother me if they still need help. Jesus Christ it's a hardware store not kindergarten where I'll take you by the hand and tell you not to eat the crayons.
People. "This is fine, the world is fine, our societies inverse robin hood economy is fine, climate change is no big deal, ecosystem collapse is no big deal, wars? Those are overseas and we're not in them. Yeah, we'll be fine."
Executives from non-IT companies joining internal IT planning meetings.
Speed humps. On my daily 5km drive, there are about a dozen of them each way.
I have a 900kg car with sports suspension, and I need to slow almost to a stop for many of them.
Meanwhile people in 2500kg road-blimps are blasting through without slowing.
Most are bumps in the road that taper on the sides. Vehicles with a wide enough wheelbase miss them amlost entirely, whereas my 1.6m wide car gets launched into the air.
The greater the kill capacity of your vehicle, the less you are affected by these "safety" devices.
That we are emotional animals that sometimes have logical thoughts. But we live in a society (at least in the west) where we have to pretend that we are logical animals that sometimes have emotions.
The human body. We often take it for granted, but when you start looking at all the different things individually, you'll see how enormously complex the human body is.
Social media
Housing prices and incomes.... Absolute insanity
My bosses and their decisions.
Reality itself: “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” —Niels Bohr
