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Fall and Winter are typically the season for this, but I've noticed more people than usual have taken up interest in what amount to gyms. These very, very expensive gyms, which market themselves as almost exceptional in how they can help you regain yourself. All the while these "miracle body regimes" are advertised everywhere. Suspicious industry much?

Some neighbors of mine were headed there. I remember this because they were about to get into their vehicle, and I asked "the location is right around the corner, you don't want to walk and maybe save transport money" and they responded "no, we're old, we can't do that" before they rode there and gained entry so they can run on the machine, and returned having used their whole wallet due to the journey/destination. Though not as memorable as the fact they came back with a brand of potato chips with the same name as the place they went to. Nothing like feeding into what you're there to fix.

How about you though?

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 37 minutes ago

Any product which requires proprietary refills or filters.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Crumb free bread is the biggest scam of all.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 38 minutes ago
[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Roller derby is a scam. I have connected the dots to the WWE. The connection is the goddamn leotards. Prove me wrong.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Why don't you want lesbians and drag queens to have a safe space for violence?

[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The world needs more safe spaces for violence.

Otherwise we'll have unsafe violence, and that's really unpleasant

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

A Waffle House brawl, while it is a pillar of Southern life, is not an acceptable perk of employment for their staff.

[–] Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Car Insurance is a total scam. We should be able to make every traffic trip a potential crash derby.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

How about you though?

For many around here the issue will seem perfectly obvious, but I'm worried when I see how often many 'normal' people consider this a non-issue at all, quite the contrary.

I am talking about the destruction of any notion of privacy in the name of always more 'security' and 'convenience'.

edit: added a missing word.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The battle for autonomous citizenship in a democracy was lost decades ago. Its true roots are the move to venture capital to avoid the WW3 that the previous military centric system would have created by around the 1980's. The ideals of a warmonger state lend meaning to citizenship. Venture capital is feudalism. It is a system where autonomy and citizenship are in principal opposition to the interests of capital. A military must justify its cost with action. A feudal lord needs a mechanism of servitude but the name is irrelevant. Slave, and serf have been used in the past. No one will ever try to call you one of these loaded terms. They will alter the meaning of citizen until it is functionally equivalent. The feudal serving class are not owners of their tools, land, or means of survival. They have a theoretical right to legal recourse, but mechanisms bar them from doing so in practice.

[–] bear@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 4 hours ago

This makes no sense. You prefer a warmonger state to one based on free enterprise and economic growth because (checks notes) it makes citizenship meaningful? Literally what.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Anything can be scammy if you connect enough dots.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 12 points 6 hours ago

Food literally grows itself in the ground. And yet we buy it from supermarkets. Absolute scam!

[–] zante@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 hours ago

Not every gym goer is preparing for the olympics or sculpting a body for instagram.