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I like group fitness classes, yoga, dance, etc so don't mind paying something to have that space to do it; but yeah I stopped going to any that were too far away to walk in, say, half an hour. Driving to gym to work out freaked me out too, it feels crazy - a gym should be on your path home from work or really close to work or home, otherwise you are less likely to use it. But I say this as the privileged spouse of a man so rich in free weights that I can always lift heavy at home - if we didn't have those I might be willing to drive and pay to use the equipment.

I think a lot of things are scammy, most investments and crypto are pyramid schemes, the US private healthcare system and I'm not sure Medicare fraud isn't what the public system was built for.

I'm not outright trying to be contrarian, but for some older people or people with things like arthritis, foot injuries, hip injuries, etc. walking or running on a treadmill is vastly less painful than walking or running on concrete.

There is absolutely a huge commercialization problem with fitness and health in the western world (and in America in particular), but if going to a climate-controlled gym and getting your steps in on a treadmill or elliptical is what it takes to get you to exercise, I'm all for it.

For the potato chips, that's really sleazy of the gym, but I do want people to know that even if you don't/can't make a bunch of changes to your diet and you don't lose weight, getting exercise of any kind as often as you are able is still a positive thing for your heart and metabolic health. Please don't let being fat, or out of shape, or an inability to overhaul your diet prevent you from doing something positive for your health. Losing weight and keeping it off is really only possible through major lifestyle change, and, for a lot of people, the only sustainable way to make the necessary changes is one at a time.

Not so much scammy as scary, and no one else seems to have noticed.

They're building storage units like mad around here. This suggests that thousands of people have been forced to downgrade their living arrangements/housing.

Any product which requires proprietary refills or filters.

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'.

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Videogames that intentionally break their difficulty curve with the intention of seeming elite and prestigious. I've suspected for a long time that games like Darksouls and Kingdom Come deliberately try to manipulate their players into getting caught in sunk cost falacies, trying to get people to blame themselves for any failure of game balancing.

Over time they've fostered communties which are so toxic that they will lash out at anyone trying to criticize the game. This then frees the developer from all fault and casts any grievance as the players lack of understanding, skill, or hardware. Eventually, any mistake the devs make becomes seen as an artistic choice and will be defended tooth and nail by the players.

I mean the thing you mention has boggled my mind for years as a big walker, biker, public transit, standing desk guy. My condo has a pool and im not big on swimming but I use it a few times a week when its open. Im not big on it but hey man its available and a nice enough activity.

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

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

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.

Anything can be scammy if you connect enough dots.

Crumb free bread is the biggest scam of all.

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