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    Labubus.

    Kids wanting them I get, but the craze among adults for them is baffling to me. And the blind bag mechanic is just a bullshit way to get people to buy more than they actually want in an attempt to collect a full set. It’s honestly kind of sad to see so many adults fall for something meant to manipulate children into begging their parents to buy over and over again.

    You know something is worth your money when they deliberately obfuscate what you’re actually buying.

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    Most things that people seem to get hyped over really. Not big on buying things. Books are an exception but most people aren’t hyped about those

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      It’s been really bewildering and concerning seeing all the crazy consumer crazes online. Maybe this was unfounded, but there was a while where I thought we were starting to wane on consumerism but I guess I was just wrong about that. The internet has just supercharged it. We now have turbo consumerism. Forget about keeping up with the Joneses, you now scroll past 100 of them in your feed and half of them are human billboards influencers.

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      Oh ho ho I am quite hyped for books ! Silly when you can basically get them free to read on a computer ot e reader and then they weigh nothing but…still prefer realism.

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    Any of the vapid and shallow trends. From tiktok “challenges” to the Stanley mug craze. All designed to separate the individual from their money and sense.

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    Most celebrities. I know its usually manufactured hype, but I still don’t understand people falling for it.

    Collectible toys. On top of not getting it, I hate it from an environmental perspective and a wasted resources (incl labor) perspective.

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    The Chance-Vought F4U Corsair. People fangirl over the reverse gull-wings but I just don’t get it. Bending the goddamn wings to fit the the prop on the plan is just a bizarre bandaid for an odd design.

    Gimme that P-47 chunky monkey any day

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    Sex

    Turns out I’m asexual.

    The spicy part is try being asexual yet HOPELESSLY romantic

    But aside from THAT – Brand name clothing.

    Most of it doesn’t even look good

    There was a time the rich dressed decadently, that was conspicuous consumption, but at least it looked pretty and shiny in pictures. Nowadays rich people be buying clothes that look exactly, completely indistinguishable from the discount shop made-in-china artificial-fabric rags everyone else is wearing, but which have a logo printed on them. And that logo is what makes it expensive.

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      When you say “asexual”, do you mean you hate it, or you don’t hate it and don’t mind your romantic partner doing it with you?

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        This varies from ace to ace. With me?

        I am not repulsed but I am violently disinterested

        A partner wants to fuck? Sure, I guess? If it makes them happy and I like them. But like. I’ll never go out of my way to try and get sex.

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    podcasts, owning an automobile, twitter, following celebrities, being competitive, land ownership, having a degree versus having the knowledge the degree entails, marriage, religion, recycling (beyond that of reducing and reusing), collecting things, fashion, owning the newest of anything once it is released especially for phones and i could come up with more probably but this likely covers at least one thing people who read this are into in one way or another.