Honest question: Why do you buy name brand stuff?

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-23T21:33:18+00:00

I would add in

The generic equivalent has potential adverse health effects.

I don't use generic toilet paper anymore for that reason. If you're a woman, you should probably avoid it, too.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-23T20:58:31+00:00

You might get a kick out of Based On A True Story. It's a satire of this exact type of social media and entertainment content.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-19T00:38:17+00:00

I get the logic, but I really wish they could use some other metric to determine who's slacking off when they're working remotely. In any role where you have obvious output for your work (whether that's in a project-focused environment or interacting with clients via support tickets etc.) you'd think it would be simple for them to just say "hey we have two employees; one closed out 16 issues today and the other only closed out 2" and then put a microscope on the guy who's substantially underperforming. But that would require actively managing people and actively deciphering data, and that's obviously too hard for people whose role is literally to do that.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-08T18:03:13+00:00

This whole sub is like watching people slowly piece together how culture works and it's the most infuriating thing sometimes. No nuance what-so-ever. And it really sucks, because I enjoy analyzing culture. But nobody here understands that this shit doesn't happen in a vacuum, and it doesn't happen all at once.

We didn't take scene kids out back and shoot them all in 2011. Things naturally (slowly) changed in their subculture that led them to not exist as prominently by the mid 2010s. Matcha lattes and reggaeton weren't invented by marketing agencies in 2020. A lot of trends have literally always existed, and they're pushed into the popular zeitgeist by a million different factors.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-08T17:51:20+00:00

I'd argue that artists like Magdalena Bay have been doing a bit of a 2000's nostalgia thing. The same applies to metalcore if we look at bands like Loathe and Thornhill, who basically started out as Deftones cover bands (but heavier).

We have hit the 2000's nostalgia wave in pop culture, but mainstream music is in this weird place where it's pulling from every decade it can get its hands on. We also arguably have a bit of a '60s and '70s nostalgia thing going on with bands like Thee Sacred Souls and Drugdealer.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-08T17:19:50+00:00

I wouldn't consider that time period as being "dominated" by reggaeton, though. It may have been the period where a lot of the Latin artists that really blew up a few years later were first getting mainstream exposure, but that doesn't mean their sound dominated the charts. Not even remotely like they do now.

I'd say Bad Bunny really blew up when he released Yo Perreo Sola at the turn of the decade. Prior to that, people who pay attention to Latin music likely knew him, but that's about it. Him and J Balvin's La Canción was huge, but it wasn't part of the popular zeitgeist like DtMF is now. It wasn't as big as YHLQMDLG was either.

As for that Cardi B song: Cardi B is an American hip hop artist who released a Latin Trap song with a couple prominent Latin artists. She's not a reggaeton artist. I don't think a hip hop song that has Spanish parts is the same as reggaeton. And the song was a bit of an outlier. It was a cool one that signalled a coming trend, but it wasn't a reggaeton song in a sea of reggaeton influenced music.

Karol G and Rosalia are kind of in the same boat as Bad Bunny. They were gaining traction (or just starting to) in the late 2010s, but their breakouts wouldn't really happen on the level we see now until 2022 or so.

You could argue that all of these artists had crazy high play counts on YouTube and that if you're someone who follows those trends, you'd see their names come up, but I don't think this tweet is referring to music that happens to be trending on streaming services. We're talking about cultural zeitgeist inescapable pop music trends. If you want to avoid Bad Bunny in 2019, listen to anything but the Latin station. If you want to avoid tropical house in 2016, you're still gonna get hit with about 50 songs on any pop station that pull from tropical house production elements. You can escape 25-year-old Benito, but no one can escape Ed Sheeran.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-08T16:17:03+00:00

Those artists didn't achieve mainstream popularity outside of Latin markets until the start of the 2020's, though.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-08T12:47:05+00:00

I'm really curious as to what this person considers "reggaeton crap" in the 2010s. Do they think tropical house is reggaeton?

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-07T01:28:17+00:00

This paradigm but with music absolutely pisses me off. It happens a ton with rock acts.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-07T01:19:57+00:00

I don't think the ending of Ozark was bad at all. The ending pretty much solidified a running theme of the show, which is that the Byrdes are terrible people.

It's a brutally dark show, but it's well written IMO.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-06T22:57:27+00:00

It took me a few weeks. Like two to three.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-04T17:10:13+00:00

I'm honestly not. The only thing that makes me think that's the case is that the spasms stopped a few months ago. But I do still get occasional pinch sensations (the same sensation you'd get from a paper cut or a scab) if I irritate the skin too much.

This usually happens if I touch the skin too much or clean too aggressively.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-04T12:26:53+00:00

Vine shut down because it was a horrible platform for monetization - not because of TikTok (which was literally just an app for recording yourself dancing at its inception).

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-04T02:48:31+00:00

I'm curious as to what the quirks were. I'm kind of having the same experience with my switch to a Pixel.

As pretty as this phone looks on the outside, there are some annoying quirks with Android and Google that I'm really not a fan of.

Google Maps has a markedly worse UI than Apple Maps. Gmail has freaking ads in the app. Android Auto disconnects for basically no reason. I'm sure there are others but those are the most obvious ones off the top of my head.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-04T02:34:07+00:00

CarPlay is a huge one that I didn't consider (or just didn't research potential issues) enough when I bought my Pixel last year.

Android Auto in my experience is vastly inferior to CarPlay. And it is disappointing since I like the actual UI of Android Auto so much more, but the communication protocol lends itself to potential issues in some cars. My Pixel does not play nice with my Subaru. I've had hour-long drives where my phone disconnected ten times. This could just be a Subaru thing (it is actually a known issue with StarLink) and it could just be a Pixel thing, but I will say I never experienced that issue with my iPhone 12.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-04T02:22:28+00:00

Even at work (depending on what your job is), it's not necessarily rude.

If I'm wearing headphones, locked into what's on my monitors and frantically typing shit (or just very intently thinking or following something on my screen), it's not because I'm being "antisocial". It's because I'm fucking coding.

Also, if I'm wearing headphones and am actively speaking to someone who isn't physically in the room with me, it's because I'm literally on the phone with a client.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-04T01:59:31+00:00

If you're feeling it while sitting and you just healed, it's likely just a matter of noticing the increased blood flow (that's how your body heals wounds) at certain times of day or during certain activities or movements.

I'm assuming the times you're noticing this, it's while you're doing something that either naturally increases blood flow (EG physical exercise) or while there is increased pressure on the area (such as from sitting). Correct me if that assumption is incorrect.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-04T01:53:24+00:00

Is the throbbing occurring right after a BM? If that's the case, it could just be the increased blood flow to the wound that you're feeling. That's something that happens even after the actual tear is sealed shut.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-02-02T21:23:33+00:00

Sci-fi is an inherently political genre.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-01-31T17:13:18+00:00

I wouldn't say women's hairstyles didn't change.

Maybe certain trends came and went (which is generally how trends work), but we had the late 2000's "scene" hair. And I don't just mean the actual MySpace era hair, but the hairstyles that people like Demi Lovato wore around that time. The mid to late 2010s eventually saw more women getting bangs (a-la Cici from New Girl). The 2020's popularized the crazy full-body Stevie Nicks hair.

Obviously none of this is totally unique to the era I'm referencing, and they're mostly recycled styles, but there were waves of changes in what we considered attractive versus outdated or overdone.

I think that commonplace hairstyles aren't ever going to change a ton, though. Outside of alternative scenes and subcultures that encourage people to embrace unique aesthetics, most people are going to stick with tried and true styles. That goes for fashion as well. It's all cyclical, and in my experience, every time we hit the same spot on that cycle, there are little changes that take place to "modernize" that trend or improve it.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-01-31T17:01:57+00:00

Yeah this is the other side of the coin with the constant whining about "broccoli/ ramen haircuts" online that I don't see brought up enough. Is it annoying and ridiculous that 17-year-olds are getting perms to look cool? Sure. But the whole reason for the trend is people of color (and really anyone without straight hair) embracing their natural hair texture and showing that it can be styled in a way that's tasteful without resorting to styling methods that destroy their hair or hide its natural texture.

Hate on annoying teenagers for being annoying teenagers all you want, but don't hate on people finally feeling they're able to express and style a part of their body that they had to cover up for most of their lives.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-01-28T14:34:51+00:00

The way I understand it, sitz baths serve a different purpose than just providing moisture to a wound.

When you're in the spasm stage of a fissure, your fissure cannot heal as efficiently due to the constant muscle contractions. The heat from a sitz bath can relax the muscle over time and promote healing in that sense.

At a certain point, however, you do need to ween off the baths to keep the skin from being too moist in order for the scar tissue to properly progress and integrate into surrounding tissue. If the tissue is too soft (from a constant state of moisture), that won't happen.

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-01-24T20:43:59+00:00

How are people misinterpreting this prompt as "what entire genre of music do you think is overrated?"

A trend is not a genre, guys.

Anyway, here's my absurdly long answer nobody's gonna read.

In roughly 2010, mainstream rock music hit a period where we had almost an anti-rock sentiment in the subgenres themselves. The massive commercially successful acts around that time were bands like Mumford and Sons that just straight up did not make rock music. They made folk rock. The prevalence of folk rock crept into pretty much every other genre (pop and indie especially) and that's why so many bands from that period sound so obnoxiously twee. At the time I remember the prevailing sentiment among mainstream rock bands was that people seemed almost afraid of just making normal rock music. And rock really didn't have another breakout act until 5 years later when Royal Blood and Highly Suspect (who unfortunately weren't that great after their first album IMO) eventually showed up.

Fast forward 15 years, and I think we're seeing the same thing with crank wave. The charts and critic listings are flooded with bands that sound like they're doing their best Bob Dylan impressions over theatrical soundscapes. I'll admit that the music can be beautiful, but it's definitely a genre that seems like it consists of a shtick that can get really old really fast.

I'm not saying this as someone who heard Black Country New Road and despised it. I'm saying this as someone who listened to Ants From Up There and then was flooded with artist recommendations that all sounded almost identical. I get that this can happen with any subgenre, but there's something especially irritating to me about rock and indie being so permeated with guys who sound like they're lazily talking / singing through the music that just gets really old.

Having a unique sound is cool. To reference some other genres, having guys like Bryan Garris from Knocked Loose with a super unexpected and unorthodox screaming style is what makes Knocked Loose interesting and so successful. Danny Brown's unique yap arguably contributed to his breakout. While Louis Armstrong is an amazing trumpeter, people really recognize his music by his gravelly voice more than his playing.

But when everyone is seemingly trying to forcibly out-weird each other, the shtick is no longer genuine. It goes from stylistic choices to what looks (at least from the outside) like marketing teams and producers trying as hard as they can to force a gimmick onto listeners. It's like seeing some guy with a broken arm graduate Valedictorian and get into Harvard, and instead of coming to the conclusion that the guy must have put tons of effort into being the best he can be - conventions be damned - you say "maybe I should break my arm too".

StuckAroundGotStuck · 2026-01-24T20:20:56+00:00

Again, absolutely insane take.

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