Anyone using Linux, based on 60% of the content on lemmy. Uh… maybe also lemmy.
I am not in a cult.
This is not a cult.
By the way since you never asked, can I interest you in a new way to use your computer?
How about Linux on a Thinkpad? DOUBLE CULT!
I am a puritan, I will not be satisfied until we have open source hardware, like reference RISC-V, to power
the holy wordLinux.Yes I know about MNT Reform or whatever, but the price and still some binary blobs.
Have you not heard of our Lord and Savior glorious Debian?
Heresy, the savior is Arch!
Burn the witch! openSUSE is the messiah.
Arch Linux
Pff hater, Arch users are definitely not cultists who are obligatory to share their divine wisdom and forcibly announce that they are part of this cul… Hobby.
I use arch btw
If you don’t tell people you use Arch, then they come and install Ubuntu on your PC.
If you don’t tell them, how’d they know you’re better than them? Smh
I would say NixOS might be even more cultish. I am a part of that cult.
Only to people who haven’t been inducted to the cult of gentoo
Unironically a neat clean system
If I knew how to get it
I wouldn’t know, I’ve never met a person in real life professing to using arch BTW. I see it everywhere online though, but that might just be eight guys with a ton of sock puppet accounts for all I know.
Is arch linux even a thing, like Hanna Montana and Justin Bieber Linux is a thing?
Can’t spell anarchy without arch 🏴
It’s absolutely crazy to me that there are unironically people recommending Arch to newbies.
One hell of a deep end. Sometimes that’s the right choice for the right kind of person, but most people… Yeah maybe stick to something easier. If you want, mess with arch in a VM. Maybe switch down the line.
CrossFit.
so many people get injured from that.
Religion. All of them are cults. Every single fucking one.
Nothing. No other hobby even comes close to the death, genocide, rape, murder, and hate generated by that type of religious cult. It’s every single year, too. Every single year religion tops its hate, greed, and pain inflicted on everyone.
Your particular brand of invisible sky wizard is different from my particular brand of invisible sky wizard. Die heretic!
I’m pretty sure that religion was mostly used as a kind of motivational tool for the masses, but without religion there probably would have been another excuse why the enemy needs to die
It’s always about resources and shit anyway
I don’t think anyone would call their religion a hobby, though.
They said hobbies not belief systems.
I wouldn’t call a cult a belief system.
It is, it deviates from the norm and demands an irrational amount of obedience. Than it nests on top of the previous beilefs of the vitctim.
For a lot of people, when you look at how they spend their time, it is clear that their religion is both their belief system AND their hobby.
Think of the “Bible study” types. They’ve turned it into a hobby-like activity. Some I knew growing up clearly had nothing else. It was their hobby.
It’s not a hobby. They’re practicing their faith…it’s such a huge difference.
If you spend more time to consider and think about the differences between spirituality and religion, you’d see what I’m getting at. There’s a blurring of lines sure, but a lot of these religious activities are not at all necessary for their beliefs, and merely a choice that fulfills them in a similar manner as other hobbies.
In that case it degenerates into superstition…i think
What a fun answer!
Yeah seriously. It’s pretty severely missed the point of this thread.
Ironic that it looks like someone came through and downvotes every answer in this thread other than this one, considering. It’d be pretty great if the mods banned whoever that was.
oh no not the downvotes how will my children eat! listen to yourself for fucks sake
To be clear, at the time I made that comment, every top-level response in this thread had precisely one downvote, apart from two. One had many downvotes (“Most of them”), obviously just not very constructive. The other was this one. It’s obviously the result of some troll.
Edgelord atheist mad at christianity and islam: “every religion is genocide and hate, and I hate them.”
Buddhists , jains, pagans, etc: “hey excuse you buddy.”
I mean, Buddhists just did a genocide in Myanmar. They have a cleaner track record than Abrahamic faiths for sure, but if you spend serious time in actual Buddhist places it fills the exact same societal roles.
Neopaganism is a bit of an odd one out in that list, because it’s a newly invented thing.
Baha’is would as well, but nobody ever remembers them. The one time I saw a question about TBF on Jeopardy, it was the Final Jeopardy question, and no one got it right.
Adults going to DisneyWorld as if it was a sacred shrine
never understood the appeal either lol
Going to Disneyland, buying that doll, having that retro console, collecting all the items in the set, buying that vintage car, getting a fat hog to crank it up with…
Its melancholic nostalgia, having the things we could never have when we were young.
I worked at Disneyland for 8 years. I still go there every year. It’s been over 10 years and I’m still running into people I used to work with and can shoot the shit with them for an hour.
For me, there is something about that place that I took ownership of, cared for people there, and tried to make it better in the small way I could. I see all the effort that so many people have and continue to put in and really appreciate the artistry and care these people have.
It’s a place that I feel comfortable in, and I like to just sit, listen to the music and the sounds of the crowds and people watch.
Went to Disney last year. Never again. Lines are too long, you must use a phone app to get 'fast access’s to rides, but fast access is now just normal access. Standby waits are over an hour for all rides. Some rides had no standby, so no phone app, no going on that one. Oh and the phone app has limited space that I found out is usually gone 5 min after opening at 6 am or some shit.
I had to wait 2 hours for jungle cruise while watching a non stop line of fast pass people just constantly walking on.
It’s too crowded, elbow to elbow people.
Still 20.00 for a crap hamburger.
Tickets were like 380 for 2 of us.
Save your money and leave Disney for the foreign stupid tourists
We foreign stupid tourists have Disney Land Paris, thank you very much.
Still 20.00 for a crap baguette.
Yea but Disney makes money off of that passion…
having the things we could never have when we were young
This is why I went through a period of collecting multi-cultural dolls in my 20s. When I was a kid and asked my mom for a black Barbie, she got weird about it and made me feel very uncomfortable. All over wanting a doll that wasn’t white. Fuck that noise, my Barbies span the human rainbow now.
Adults going to Disney without kids.
those are the one’s that I was thinking about
When I meet a chick in an online dating way, at the first mention of Disney I’m gone. Unmatch, block, whatever’s fastest.
i read an article where a guy was going there almost everyday, or every chance because had nothing else to do. i think somewhere in that article mentioned that people were creeped or got suspicious because he is a man with no children at that place frequently.
Lots of people that live locally near Disneyland or Disney World have annual passes. Except for a few “blackout” dates you can go for free everyday. I can’t imagine why you would even go more than, maybe every 6 months.
old people
Pickleball.
Seriously what is the deal with it? I remembered playing it in gym decades ago and everyone hated it. Now I see people lobbying for new freaking complexes for it. Let’s see if the fad lasts more than a year before dedicating public land space to it
It kinda looks like tennis for the unathletic, which means I should fit right in, but I have zero interest.
People should just play badminton… I remember that being pretty fun in gym class once everyone got decent enough for a few volleys (those rackets are tiny).
The best thing about badminton is saying the word “shuttlecock.”
It’s been lasted more than a year. Its super easy for beginners and the gap between never played and mediocre player is pretty small in my experience. Groups of different ages/skill/athleticism can play the game relatively easy together. You can get drunk while playing and still be good. You don’t have to break a sweat if you don’t want to. Games are short.
I think it gets way too much flak and it is a little too overhyped rn. But it’s a top contender for the ideal casual game.
You’re doing the cult thing.
lowk I am. Don’t knock it til you try it lol
Oh I’m not against it at all 😂 guy at work has been extolling the benefits for weeks now.
Internet personalities/“influencers”
One way money transfers, controlling people’s time and career aspirations, dividing families, rape, and murder.
Not all “Influencers”, but some notable cases.
Are they fundamentally different from celebs and TV personalities of the past, or is it the scale and presentation that has changed?
There will always be grifters and those who are led in to loyalty follow them. It’s bizarre.
Kpop-Stans, Warhammer, Disney - Adults, Harry Potter.
Warhammer.
Competitive Super Smash Bros Melee, we won’t ever die. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
Nintendo has been trying to rub us out
“Stop, Nintendo. You’re just mashing it.”
Time to salt Nintendo.
. And Nintendo has been trying to rub us out since 2008.
dedication like that… phew. impressive.
Knitting. It’s part witchcraft, part voodoo.
That’s because it’s math, which is voodoo witchcraft.
Don’t even get me started on fucking crochet…
At this point, trading card collecting and grading. Oh, a new series of trading cards for pokemon or yu-gi-oh or whatever dropped? Time for all the adults to buy out every single card in the store and then run home in hopes that their scam leaders like PSA will encourage their behavior by gracing them with a card they claim is worth money despite only being out for less than a week.
Card grading ain’t nothing but a scam, cult, and great way to encourage the worst in people, while simultaneously gatekeeping trading cards from everyone with more than 2 braincells. Ain’t nothing gonna change my mind about it.
on reddit its very cultish, they dont buy it because they want to play it, because they want to sell it at a huge markup, or hold onto like a stock portfolio. people on pokebeach and the main tgc forum were complaining how the scalpers and pokeinvestors are ruining the game by pricing them out of purchasing it, and competing with scalpers. Also tcpi is doing very little to fix it, limiting online store or the vending machine isnt really working, increasing the pull rates and buying singles would reduce it significant.
mtg seems to be on a whole nother level, especially they are focusing on making cards of different well established IP.
I second DnD and Warhammer, and i’ll add Magic the Gathering to this list
Yeah, anything that has you speaking in game jargon in public should qualify.
One of my friends at a pizza place a few years ago: “I can’t believe I didn’t get to poison anyone last night.”
Me: “Dude, context! We are in public!”
First intro to MtG was in college I walked past a room with the lights out and only candles lit, the four people were wearing robes and playing… MtG. Decided right then that nah, that’s too far for me.
Cycling. They go from ‘this is fun’, to full blown road dictators, in about 2 weeks.
Edit: just watch. The downvotes will likely display their cult rage.
Please explain exactly what you mean by “full blown road dictators”, and clearly detail how it is different from “use the road in a completely legal manner in ways trying to keep yourself and others from getting run over by the many car drivers with a sense of entitlement to the road”.
Well you see, cars go faster and are stronger, so by being in the road you are a road dictator.
I honestly don’t understand what you’re trying to say, but then again I’m stoned out of my gourd.
Could you rephrase it so an idiot would understand?
They’re saying that cars are bigger and stronger than bikes, which makes them able to bully cars, which makes them feel entitled to do so. Because they then feel entitled to the road, they start calling cyclists “dictators” when they are merely using the road.
It’s a shockingly accurate description of behaviour that cyclists face on a daily basis, with drivers threatening their lives for no reason more than that the drivers feel entitled to do so.
I still don’t follow the logic… Wouldn’t the bigger vehicle be more able to bully the other?
Yes. Cars are the bullies and the dictators. But as the famous saying goes, “when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression”. Drivers like @[email protected] are pretending that cyclists are the ones being “dictators”, merely for existing, because they perceive that existence as a personal slight against them. Drivers feel entitled, and when that entitlement faces even the slightest pushback, they accuse the others of being dictators.
I think that’s sarcasm
No, I think it’s something about dictating the speed but the cars can pass unless the bikers are deliberately blocking the drive by.
I don’t get it.
As a cyclist, I’d have to guess “riding two abreast when there’s a car behind you.”
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They’re motorized vehicles when its convenient to them and pedestrians when its not
Almost like…they’re neither? What you describe here is perfectly legal.
They split lanes
Legal
blow through red lights
Imagine thinking cars don’t 🤣
and they loooooove to go out in big groups
Not remotely against the rules
and take over the road
Please define. Because as someone who has spent many hours in a car, I’ve been prevented from going at the speed I would like to go by other cars far more than bikes. And my life has been put in danger by cars, not by bikes.
The simple fact is that data tells us cyclists and drivers break the law at roughly the same rate at worst. (Incidentally, one study from a place with better infrastructure shows that when good infrastructure is in place, cyclists break the law considerably less often than drivers.) Studies also show that cyclists break the law to keep themselves safe (this has been backed up by multiple studies). When drivers break the law, it’s because they think it’s more convenient not to bother.
The simple fact is that though @[email protected] claims it’s cyclists being “dictators” and you claim they “take over the road”, the reality is quite the reverse. When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. And no demographic in our society (excluding socioeconomic and racial discussions) is more privileged than drivers.
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Splitting lanes is not legal in the vast majority of the United States but idk where you’re from
Where I am it’s explicitly allowed for motorbikes (at a maximum speed of 30 km/h), thanks to a relatively recent law change. Pushbikes are a different story. There’s no law explicitly allowing it, and this has led to some people (even people in positions of perceived authority, such as the social media team of the Department of Transport and Main Roads) to suggest that it’s not legal for bikes. But the reality is that it is legal, as a necessary side-effect of the fact that cars are allowed to overtake bikes without leaving the same lane. Basically, bikes are allowed to share a lane with another vehicle, and this has the effect of also allowing a bike to come up through congested traffic.
It’s very very rare for me to see a car blow through a red light outright
I find this rather hard to believe. First, remember that an amber light does not mean “be careful” or “get ready, you might have to stop soon”. It means stop right now, if it’s safe. How often have you seen drivers actually do that? I’ve had so many times where, as a driver, I saw the amber and found myself in that awkward position where I didn’t know whether it was appropriate to keep going or to stop, and eventually decided to go through; a situation where it is obviously going to be the case that anyone behind me should stop, because I was on the borderline, so anyone behind me must be well over the other side of the line. And yet, so many times not only has the car behind me gone through, the car behind them did too. And that’s before we even get into the daily cases where they don’t even start to enter the intersection until after it has turned red. I’ve got a mate who rides a motorbike and posts helmet-cam footage on Facebook at least weekly, and every one of his compilations includes at least one case of a driver who runs a fully red light.
For cyclists, recall that there are some places in your own country that explicitly allow cyclists to go through a red light if it’s safe. Not everywhere does (nowhere in Australia, to my knowledge), but those places that allow it do it for a reason. Evidence shows that it makes cyclists safer. Not all lawbreaking is equal, and the evidence pretty clearly tells us that when cyclists break the law, it tends to be for far better reasons than the reasons drivers break the law, even though the rate of lawbreaking is the same.
Found the cyclist.
Would you like to try answering the questions?
I’m still waiting for an answer from @[email protected].
I didn’t make the original statement, which sounds more like hyperbole than specific, legal, actions.
From experience I can tell you that I have personally encountered cyclists disobeying the law and endangering my safety more than any other non-car transport.
See, I was an endurance rider for most of my life. Meaning I spent long hours, 3-4 days a week on trails, on horseback, moving at speed.
On these trails, cyclists are required to stop and move to the side when they hear or see an equestrian.
The number of times they did this, over 20 years as an equestrian? 4.
The number of times they didn’t? Dozens, possibly over a hundred.
The number of times it caused a wreck and people got hurt? 3.
Cyclists whine about horse poop and having to stop, but WE maintained those trails, they did nothing other than whine and cause accidents.
I’m sure there’s some of you that are not complete tools, but there’s a reason you are despised by all other users of trail systems.
I can’t speak for horses. I’ve only once in my life encountered people on horses while on a bike. It’s an exceedingly unusual scenario.
I can tell you that, as a matter of fact (not anecdote), drivers and cyclists break the law at roughly the same rate. But that in crashes between cars and bikes, the car is the responsible party in 80% of cases. And that studies have established that when cyclists break the law, it is overwhelmingly done in the interest of their own safety, while drivers break the law in the interest of perceived convenience.
I only realised after writing the above that that you mentioned “trails”. Sounds like you’re talking about mountain biking. I can’t speak to that, I’m almost exclusively a roadie, using the bike either as a means of transport or for exercise/training on the road. Saying “you” doesn’t really work here. The amount of overlap between mountain bikers and road bikers is surprisingly small.
I hate cyclists, and I’m dutch. Cycle to work or the store? Fine by me, I do it all the time myself. Being a cyclist however? I’ll hate your guts.
Tho I’m pretty sure it’s not that uncommon of an opinion here, most of the time people either hate cyclists, or are one themselves.
Heh I remember several years ago, I bought a cool vintage 10-speed bike which was lovingly restored by a local bike co-op, it wasn’t ever a top of the line pro racing bike or anything, just a nice old street bike for casual riding. The co-op did a great job making it like new, but with subtle finishing accents.
I posted some pics of it on r/bicycling on Reddit to get their feedback, advice. SUCH SNOBBERY! My god, you’d think I took a shit in the middle of the lobby floor of The Ritz-Carlton. They made me feel wholly unwelcome and unwanted.
ive seen those, they have all the getup, wearing the gear aerodynamic helmet, and they act like karens while in the store too sometimes. and they loudly try to chatise you for almost running into them, when they suddenly pulled in front of you. i call them bicycle douches. oh and they disregard pedestrians too
Gunpla, pop/labubu, liquid-cooing/overclocking, 3D printing, drones/RC
There is a bit of a threshold between an innocent hobby and a cult, but once crossed, it’s… yeah…
If you’re into liquid cooling cause it gives “better performance” then that’s cope and a cult, but if you just do it to make your PC look cool asf then there’s nothing wrong with that
Can you still overclock tf out of a liquid cooled cpu or has that changed?
I don’t see what makes the last two cult-like?
