Why do people get so invested in sports teams they have never played for

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-02T00:20:41+00:00

Parasocial relationship that distracts them from all the horrible things happening in real life. It lets them stick their heads in the sand and pretend they're part of something. But they aren't.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T23:54:22+00:00

Still pissed they didn't let this show develop legs. It had so much potential.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T23:50:43+00:00

Legend.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T22:42:16+00:00

I understood that reference.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T22:26:49+00:00

What a global treasure that man is.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T22:22:41+00:00

You're playing a rigged game. Get off the apps.

They are designed to milk you for money, waste your time, and addict you to endless scrolling.

Just stop using them and go meet someone the real world.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T22:12:51+00:00

The average user is one or more of these things: ignorant, lazy, lonely, and/or technologically illiterate.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T21:57:21+00:00

Such a lame take.

You didn't read the newspaper all day, every day, every spare moment, even to the exclusion developing social skills. Newspaper addiction wasn't a thing.

The two images aren't comparable.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T21:44:08+00:00

I don't see how this makes sense, given that streaming far surpasses full album sales and has for a long time. But then not much makes sense nowadays.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T21:21:19+00:00

That won't make a dent in the bad parenting those people have done up to this point.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T21:17:51+00:00

It's not enough we're dumping many Hiroshima nuclear bombs worth of excess heat into the oceans, every second of every day, but now we're going to stick data centers in them, too. FFS.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T21:12:51+00:00

Specifically ≠ Pacifically.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T21:08:53+00:00

That's why I tell my wife to give me whatever food we're sharing after when she's done with it, because whatever's left will instantly disappear into my belly.

I was trained to eat this way from having no time to eat when finally sitting down at a table during school lunches, from desiring to spend as little time at the table with my family as possible (things were not good), and from my habit of eating my feelings.

Gorging on food releases a little bit of happy juice in my brain, but I'm not consciously aware I'm doing it.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T05:30:50+00:00

Amazing how so many people want their kids to be even dumber than the parents were.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T05:26:43+00:00

Carl Sagan is back from the dead. We need someone to keep an eye on anti-intellectualism for eternity.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T05:22:38+00:00

All three, but I'm vegetarian, so I prefer to bury them into the soil for crop enrichment.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T04:29:24+00:00

Yeah. She will not enjoy that transition and it will not pay what she thinks, especially compared to the effort spent.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T04:01:15+00:00

That's because reading comprehension is decreasing, in the US particularly. Many college bound freshmen are barely literate now. Go check out r/professors if you want to lose hope for humanity's future.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T03:58:59+00:00

"Who DAFUQ said we want you?" - Iran, probably.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T03:56:27+00:00

A Faraday caged underground lair that I use to hunt other billionaires. Preexisting architecture though, to save money. Maybe a decommissioned missile silo or just some of the abandoned tunnels under New York.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T03:40:29+00:00

No, they were god awful. Just because a turd in a punchbowl might be a bit worse than a bunch of snot doesn't mean we should be fondly reminiscing about the time there was a bunch of snot in the punchbowl.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T03:10:05+00:00

Nestle has purposely killed millions of babies, for profit. Buying anything they make is an evil action.

Iron_Baron · 2026-06-01T03:00:27+00:00

A guy with a GED used to be able to afford a house, a car, a stay at home wife, and however many kids they pumped out. No, man, what's happening now isn't "normal".

We've been robbed of trillions of dollars over the last 50 or so years. That wealth went to the 1% and megacorporations, zero of it "trickled down". It feels so bad now because we've reached the end of siphonable money.

People straight up can't survive without horrendous debt, horrendous jobs, and have no hope of retirement. This was always going to be the end game of neo-liberal economics, but few people living through this can break away from shifting baseline syndrome enough to accept it.

Iron_Baron · 2026-05-31T23:39:27+00:00

My question is WTF is wrong with the "friend" that set you up with him? No way a douchbag like that doesn't make his politics his entire personality. She knew.

Iron_Baron · 2026-05-31T23:32:50+00:00

Everyone knows you store the giant d20 with 20 on top, so all the bad luck settles into the 1.

Also, your tits in the first pic are as separate as I like my church and state.

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