• Ghostownhermit@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Mike McDaniel gonna call the lightning special today? Not only do you get a Tua TD but you can get 65 percent off of septic tank cleaner

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      1 year ago

      I was going to watch the game sitting but now i’m going to stand in hopes it pisses of bezos

  • EnjoyMoreBeef@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I spent $27 today, at McDonald’s and the local supermarket. I’ll wait until Tuesday to start buying Christmas presents. By then, we will have cleared all the days we’ve made into holidays for conspicuous consumption.

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    1 year ago

    I like how they think that if it weren’t for an NFL game everyone would be out shopping.

  • Sidecarlover@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    We live in a dystopia, but not one of those sci-fi dystopias that are at least interesting. Instead we have a boring dystopia where companies just try to suck as much money out of us as possible.

    • FizzTheWiz@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Compared to how humans have lived for all the history of the world, including many today, this “dystopia” we live in is actually pretty great

      • TheBulgarianBrute@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        Yeah until this trend of hyper-capitalism inevitably sends us into an actual dystopian world where only people with 6 figures in their bank account can survive while the rest are left behind to perish.

    • fylermurray@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Ehhh WFH jobs, medicine, technology advancements, weed quality/ legalization all pretty nice

    • rodmcmuffins@alien.topB
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      You don’t have to shop on Black Friday or spend huge amounts of money on gifts. The dystopia you’re thinking of is self made.

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          You still don’t have to do it. It doesn’t matter how much someone tries to get you to do something. If you don’t want to do it just… don’t do it

      • LASpleen@alien.topB
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        You don’t have to spend an ever-increasing portion of your income on food, shelter, and transportation. And you don’t have to prioritize pointless work and attempt to monetize your hobbies. All the people who do shop on Black Friday will have lots of leftover cardboard boxes for the rest of us to die in.

      • GABAgoomba123@alien.topB
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        Ever notice how every dystopian story has all of society doing dystopian shit, but there’s always a Bernard Marx or a Guy Montag or a Winston Smith or a Neo that are the only ones who realize or do anything about it? But the fact that they don’t actively participate doesn’t make it any less of a dystopia

        • rodmcmuffins@alien.topB
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          1 year ago

          People lacking the self control to avoid overspending on things they don’t need isn’t dystopia.

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            1 year ago

            I dunno, billions of chinese/indians laboring to keep the quality of life up for a hundred million americans seems like great suffering to me

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              If you got a way for americans to give large amounts of money to chinese and indian people without that being exchanged for good and services I’m all ears. For now, their quality of life is significantly improved compared to doing subsistence farming.

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                yeah I don’t even know how you’d start to gather data on the QOL of subsistence farming vs kids working 12 hour days sewing stuffed animals and shoes

                but even if your assertion were true, a small QOL bump for a group of people an order of magnitude larger than another group with a huge QOL bump is like the basis for any dystopian story of the last 30+ years

      • boyyouguysaredumb@alien.topB
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        Yes under communism there isn’t a chance of a dystopia /s

        Y’all are insane lol.

        Its ads during a football game I think we will be okay

      • Not_Bears@alien.topB
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        Please deposit your hard earned cash for these useless home products that are built to fail in 1-3 years so you have to purchase them again on a Black Friday a few years from now.

    • GoForAU@alien.topB
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      The more I think about it Idiocracy was really a film predicting the future not a satirical comedy.

    • boyyouguysaredumb@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      By every conceivable metric life is better right now than it ever has been in an all of human history.

      But sure boring dystopia because ads are getting delivered to you differently during your football game you watch on your internet connected tv from your couch in the air conditioning

      • NoCapBussinFrFr@alien.topB
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        I doubt people are as happy or fulfilled nowadays though

        Physical and mental health are declining but at least people can sit on the couch and eat fake food and buy products!

        • boyyouguysaredumb@alien.topB
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          Yes I’m sure all the people globally who aren’t living in extreme poverty anymore with rock bottom literacy rates and sky high infant mortality rates are super bummed out they aren’t as fulfilled as when they were subsistence farming

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    1 year ago

    Maybe id stay seated if it weren’t the shit Jets playing. Especially since their QB is some guy they grabbed that was working in concessions

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    I really haven’t seen anything to get from amazon this year. Also, this is looking to be a boring defensive game. I hate watching those.