Calm down Tyler Durden
Oh we’re calm.
Everything is a copy, of a copy, of a copy.
Calm down Trent Reznor.
Fuck Martha Stewart.
Y’all able to afford more than paying bills??
Depends on the bills. Upkeep goes up with stuff.
The only Ad I want is the supermarket flyer
Fight club vibes
“I still can’t think of anything.”
“Ah, flashback humor.”
Advertising, the true villain supporting all the grift and more invasive than zebra mussels. We need to get money out of politics and advertising out of tech.
Personally, I’d still want clothes even if capitalism fully collapsed.
It’s state sanctioned #CapitalistPropaganda
Unpopular opinion: macroeconomically, “need” is tricky as a bar for purchase decisions. In our pretty-efficient and specialized system people make way more stuff than is needed, and often stuff that isn’t “needed” in exchange for their salary which goes to food, shelter, etc. Without consumer demand for their specialized labor, they can’t afford necessities in the current system.
If you pare down the economy to things that are truly Needed, then so much of our work and livelihood is on the chopping block. I don’t think we should all go to being isolated subsistence farmers - rather we need to establish a baseline of support so that everyone’s real needs are met and if folks want to labor in exchange for advertised luxuries, they can
So what you’re saying is everyone could do short work rotations and spend the majority of their time just living life.
Hell I’d do a month in a coal mine if I got the rest of the year off
There are SO MANY supposedly “menial” jobs I would love to do, if they were part time, or temporary, and I had some guarantee that my needs would be met throughout. In other words, under current circumstances, if there were no concerns about future employability and the chasm of “quality of life” such behavior now guarantees crossing.
I’m a curious person and I also deeply enjoy physical labor of almost any kind (when it isn’t constant, wildly underpaid, and thus soul crushing). I’ve also been around long enough to discover I am not very unique lol, I am certain there’s a sizable bunch of folks who would actually just enjoy spending their time in all kinds of supposedly shitty ways, if things simply didn’t feel so goddamn permanently “existential personal risk”. We’re doing all of this (gestures broadly) so, so stupidly.
[Edit: instead, I presently write software, like a fucking asshole. At least I never write anything I can’t feel proud of, and in exchange for that (substantial!) privilege I also get to enjoy a continuously narrowing field of places I can go and work and still respect myself. Lovely stuff.]
The most powerful thing an individual can do to disagree with capitalism is to stop spending money on anything other than necessities. Currently, luxury brands are already struggling in this K shaped recession. Wealthy people are going to start realizing their money doesn’t mean much when society goes to shit.
I’m confused. What is this an ad for?
Fight Club (1999)
Looks like anti-consumerism.
Y’all motherfuckers are able to buy shit you dont need?
I to have seen fight club
I think the movie is good, but about as corny as the original post here but on the other hand if you manage to exit the idea of cars as status symbols and/or, if feasible, that every adult in a household needs one you do tend to save absolutely stupid amounts of money. I’ll not pretend this solves every problem about affordability that faces much of everyone today but good god car brain overwrites large parts of peoples fiscal sense
Amen to that. Husband’s co-worker - a kid all of 19, just burdened himself with a 35k debt to buy a 3 year old used car.
WTF kid, get one a decade old for 7 or 8 grand and you’ll have more than enough to fix whatever may break on it - for sure it’s monthly operating cost will be a fraction of the payment on that 3 year old vehicle. With an older, cheaper car, what you don’t spend on car payments, you save for when something does need fixing.
While I agree with the sentiment, labelling wage cucks “slaves” is cringe bordering in atrocity denial.
I was reading about raspberry pi last night. Spent like two hours reading through the forums.
Imma ad block my router.
Check out OpenWRT. I recently installed on my router with AdBlock and it’s been great.
I spun up a tiny Debian virtual machine under Hyper-V in Windows. It take almost no resources and there’s no extra hardware to fiddle with.
Be glad to help if you have a Windows computer. It’s also easy in Linux, but it’s been a long time since I did a VM.
Thank you that is kind!
For fuck’s sake, not every single board computer is Raspberry Pi®. There are lots of other brands. An old regular computer will probably function as well for everything you may want except the GPIOs, maybe slightly less energy efficiently though.
Im a fuckin noob and read official forums, no need to be emotional
Oh, I am not mad at you personally, just the corporate propaganda in general. Now you will know.
or you could have known by clicking around on WikipediaI learned what a DNS actually does, and what a DNS sinkhole is, oh no, the corpos dont want you to know this one simple trick.
<s> Im going to order a years worth of Rapberry Pi magazines just for you </s>
Get a fancy enough used wlan dongle (optional) with some ancient PC to get an all-in-one router and file/build/web/dns/pxe/gemtext/gopher/proxy/vpn/irc server.
Or at least look into all of the other “{insert fruit} Pi” brands that are a fraction of the price. (pro tip: compatibility might be slightly less than ideal if using a distribution not by the manufacturer, look up “{name of CPU} linux mainline support” to get a table on some wiki showing what features are available; OR look around pages of the distribution itself if it’s non-linux (NetBSD OpenBSD my beloved))
ALSO ALSO pro tip: there’s a chance your router DNS settings don’t matter where you use it the most aka your web browser. It’s called “DNS over HTTPS” (“DoH”). Try using one of these servers for (relative) privacy then just get the UBlock Origin extension because the default filters there are a superset of the DNS filters.
Shit. The word is shit.
Screeeeeeeeeeeeee! Others enjoy shit other than sitting alone in the forest. We deserve death!
Oh they enjoy stuff alright, but they do it at the cost of the biosphere
Who enjoys ads?
