This reminded me of something my dad told me when I was younger. It was mostly to justify saying that no, I did not need a TV in my room, but still kinda interesting:

In many cultures (definitely the ones my family grew out of), the fire served as a gathering spot. People would talk about stuff, share food and jokes, and relax together. It was a shared experience and source of comfort that helped strengthen interpersonal bonds.

His argument was that the family TV served a similar function (without the whole 'also it's the means for cooked food' aspect, which shouldn't be overlooked). It's a point that made some sense to me at that stage of late 20th century mainstream society.

Hmm...the 21st century, defined as billions of little fires, and many of us cold. There's a really pretentious poem here somewhere.

This is some damn fine analysis of a screencap of a TikTok.

Autism + Boredom + Lemmy =

Inordinant level of analysis on entirely random subjects

EDIT

Oh right, social norms!

Skipped my mind.

Thank you for the compliment =D

Is that a jab about all the forest fires CA keeps experiencing? If so, well done. I chuckled.

I'm from the Inland Empire here in SoCal I have to make jokes or the sirens call of the inferno starts to eat away at ones mind.

My take is that 'violetsoftness' just seems like a feminine username. So if you used to identify as male but now use that username, I also guessed trans woman. The name itself doesn't necessarily make me think trans, just fem.

For whatever it's worth, I think it's a great name! It gives a nice, friendly vibe, like you would be fun to hang out with.

You forgot the Midwest Bonfire with 1000 drunken teenagers and a fire big enough that the local fire chief comes to check on it.

Yeah I miss the days when my entire family would gather by the TV at night to watch something, anything really, I could be laying on the sofa reading a book but still enjoy the company and finding something interesting while channel surfing was it's own joy, now I can stream or download anything I want to watch on all my devices and I can't find anything interesting that makes me feel the sense of peace I had back then as a kid

100% agree. Fucking hate tiktok. Even beyond the data they collect and shit, how skeezy they are about watching the videos makes them so shitty.

That said, open it in a browser and then set to desktop site it you're on mobile. It allows it to play without the popups. Mobile browser tiktok feels like a late 90s porn site with the popups

It is insane how much that dude looks like my brother. He even has the exact same shirt and shoes. Like I genuinely thought some random picture of him had been put online. When I texted him about it he had to text his best friend to find out if the chick in the picture was maybe one of the friends old girlfriends or something he'd forgotten about. Even my brother thought it was a picture of him. Lol

Might be easier to talk to her, if fuckin' Debra over there'd get off her damn phone while camping, FFS. ‍️

This is the campfire equivalent of that one person who makes best friends with the family dog at every party. Some of us enjoy the group but our social skills are only on par with fires and dogs.

Thanks a lot There's always a lemmy user who really fucks with explaining a meme and I respect that

no cap man fr fr, gotta recognize the w's when you get em, appreciate you gassin' me up!

low key, you gotta lay off that brainrot addiction a bit, replace it with just a dash, a little sprinkle of linguistic hyperfixation, as well as healthy downtime, contemplation, and then a lot of those jokes and memes? they just hit different.

(uh, uh, ok, imagine this comment also overlay bordered with subway surfers or something)

(up to you to determine if the meta irony of that is intentional or not)

You know it's American when skin colour is mentioned for no reason

Thx for the info!

Destined to link the flame

Isn't that just Sunday?