• Blackout@fedia.io
    6·
    49 minutes ago

    The hits from Limp Biscuit stopped coming and the world fell into an ethical depression.

  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
    153·
    3 hours ago

    It’s normalized in the US to be fat. All the people around are fat too, so they are rarely shaming. You’ll fit right in.

    If you’re the only fat one in the group (like when you go to most of Asia) they usually make sure you know - repeatedly - that you’re the fat one. It’s a pretty big incentive to not be that one.

    If everyone else is fat too, then why bother (aside from the million health and happiness reasons)

    • 5oap10116@lemmy.world
      111·
      2 hours ago

      Could also be the enshittification of our food and culture including:

      • Demonization of “fat” in foods leading to “fat free” foods being considered healthy when fats are actually good and necessary in the diet which leads to over consumption. (Don’t get me started on the sugar and corn lobby)

      • Hyper processed food removing micronutrients necessary for our brains to tell us we’re full.

      • Hyper processed foods being cheaper than whole foods

      • Hyper processed foods being super addictive and unwilling at the same time.

      • Food deserts making fast food and convenience store food the only easily accessible food in many areas.

      • The lack of knowledge/skills with respect to home cooking and the deemphasis of “home economics” type knowledge in general…

      • The lack of free time required to both cook and pass on those skills

      • The growing understanding of how perfluorinated materials (PFA, PFOA, PTFE) fuck with our body chemistry including contributing to obesity. Don’t get me started on how much companies like DuPont hid and lied about that stuff (and still are).

      • Sedentary lifestyle…

      • There’s more but I hope you get the point

      Basically what I’m saying is people were fat before “fat shaming” was looked down upon and late stage capitalism is frequently pulling the levers behind the curtain in many areas including this. You’re also talking about “fixing” the outcome instead of preventing the cause which is several orders of magnitude more difficult. The US has abundant wealth but that hasnt specifically translated to better health outcomes. And do you really think middle schoolers have evolved to the point where they don’t bully fat kids? There are very few obese people (both children and adults) out there who don’t feel shitty about how they look regardless of who tells them they should feel that way.

      The point of trying to inhibit fat shaming and bullying of all kinds is so people don’t become reclusive and anti-social, pick up bad habits (such as drug addiction and eating disorders), kill themselves, decide to kill others in mass shootings and the like. Also, just don’t be a cunt and make fun of people.

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
    49·
    5 hours ago

    Man I miss when concerts and events weren’t just for rich kids and people with disposable incomes. I remember going to see Metallica, $40 mid tier tickets. I saw AC DC for about the same. Rob zombie with Ozzy Osbourne. I even saw a WrestleMania for like $80 and that was a lot then for great seats.

    Now concert tickets for Metallica are running $400-500 mid tier each. Even smaller bands and events are more than what a premium event used to cost. The development League hockey games cost more than the NHL games used to. Working class people have been priced out.

    • cheddar@programming.dev
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Now concert tickets for Metallica are running $400-500 mid tier each.

      😲

      And here I thought 80 EUR for GNR was too much.

        • cheddar@programming.dev
          1·
          11 minutes ago

          Neither is Metallica. That’s not how this works, isn’t it? People come because they know the band name, remember good old songs, and so on.

          GNR doesn’t have any concerts right now, so I can only use this data: https://www.rateyourseats.com/tickets/guns-n-roses

          The average ticket price for all shows was $365

          That’s still much more expensive than 80 EUR (which includes taxes).

    • btr_fan87@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 hours ago

      I get 15-20 dollar tickets to concerts by bands I love fairly often, personally. It definitely depends a bit what kind of music you’re in to, and probably what part of the country you live in, but cheap concerts are still out there.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        2 hours ago

        Did you notice they mentioned pretty huge bands that bring in tens of thousands of people? Yeah, these groups don’t do shows where the tickets are 15-20$, but what’s fucked up is that they did back in the 90s when they pulled in even bigger crowds. So what has changed for their tickets to be 10x (or more) as expensive as 30 years ago? Ticketmaster.

      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 hours ago

        15-20$ in my area might get you symphony type concerts, but not one of their good ones. I could also pay the cover at a bar that has a live band. The smallest venues near me are still 50+ per ticket.

    • v0rld@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Pro Tip: A vacation + going to a concert there may be cheaper depending on the band.

  • Ltcpanic@lemmy.world
    202·
    5 hours ago

    This is fred durst at Woodstock 99. Decidedly everyone there was not happy, and after this set everyone was less happy . Has to do with 90s generation being not happy generally.

    There were def fatties back then too. But time has progressed and things have only got worse.

    This green text is false

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    4 hours ago

    Y’all are fat as fuck. Period. But I think I know why… bear with me.

    I’ve spent decades watching Americans get fatter and fatter and fatter. I’ve seen people tonight that were unthinkable in the 70s and 80s. From talking to friends and neighbors over the years I’ve gathered this, “Yeah. I’m/he/she/ is a little pudgy, but at least I’m not as fat as him/her!”

    You see people worse off than you and breathe a sigh of relief. Well… I look at gravestones and think, “At least I’m not that bad off!”

    Keep telling my how bad your joints hurt when you hit 30.

    • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Know someone who cut out fast food for a month and lost 10 pounds like the flip of a switch.

      Everyone is overweight. I get called a twig for being 150 5’9 when in reality it’s normal or even a tad too much.

      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 hours ago

        They aren’t concerned you’ve lost too much weight, they are worried about their own self image and what it means that you can actually maintain a healthy weight.

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
    69·
    7 hours ago

    True, when I see a modern concert recording, all I see are sad and sobbing people, hating that they are at a concert

      • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        5 minutes ago

        What smartphones are you seeing exactly? This looks like a Limp Bizkit set with some professional photographers right up the front. Nobody had smartphones at the time and even if you pulled one out there you’d have lost it in the pit.

      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 hours ago

        The phone thing is so ridiculous. Stay at home and watch someone else’s video at that point. The compulsion to document everything that happens to yourself is something I just don’t get.

  • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
    12·
    6 hours ago

    what I’m hearing, here, is that society peaked at the end of the 1990s.

  • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
    181·
    7 hours ago

    We could be living in utopia, but those damn youths had to go and break stuff

  • CondensedPossum@lemmy.world
    73·
    5 hours ago

    i could tell it was more from Early to Risa as soon as i opened it

    this dude has been flooding rightlean garbage memes from some half asleep Canadian server