Step 1: Don’t have kids
Fellow millennials, how do you prevent your child from yearning for the mines?
Submitted 11 months ago by variants@possumpat.io to [deleted]
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NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, I don’t understand the need to breed many people get. I think more people than we think may have worms in their brains.
DaGeek247@fedia.io 11 months ago
Evolution: spends billions of years exclusively selecting organisms that reproduce
Lucidlethargy: "All these people having kids isn't natural, They must have brain parasites, it makes no sense other wise"
Evolution: jackie chan what-the-huh memeTheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
“Do YOU feel the Need? The Need to Breed?”
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s only a basic biological imperative
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Need maybe, “forced to / constantly harassed to by culture / family / church “ also in the mix here
casmael@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Unfathomably based
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Eh I’m an antinatalist, but this is like 5 fathoms based
ameancow@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just think what a massive “fuck you” to the universe it is to just suddenly cut off 3.7 billion years of continuous, uninterrupted survival success, from primordial seas of predators and prey on through ice ages and meteor impacts and the crust of Earth turning inside out… you can draw a line of survivors all the way from the first carbon molecules that started sticking together without breaking all the way down to you, personally standing there, deciding to cut the line.
It’s awful but also beautiful, like dropping an ornate, delicate vase off a 12-story building and filming it in slow motion.
casmael@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Well when I was a small child I wanted to be a bus that’s all I can tell you
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
The last metamorphosis of praxis: become the means of production
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 months ago
gets seized by capitalists
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
In AI capitalism, the content is you
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Just let them play Minecraft. It’s cheaper than Legos and they can’t choke on anything.
ameancow@lemmy.world 11 months ago
they can’t choke on anything
[cue clip of 11-year-olds talking on minecraft]
8bittech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Are you one of those moron who points at a garbage man and says, “Stay in school, or you’ll end up like him” all the while he’s making more than you?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
reminds me of one of my fave tweets:
“Garbage men and pick up artists should switch names”
variants@possumpat.io 11 months ago
No it’s just a meme about child labor laws and minecraft
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 months ago
The funny thing is they’ll probably never realize they were just projecting their own insecurities.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mine would probably love this… I’d feel weird buying something branded like this one though.
casmael@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah the branding somehow makes it seem contrived and a bit weird doesn’t it. If the same toy were to be sold unbranded, it would have a very different vibe imo
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Read them The State and Revolution before bedtime.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You cannot. The children yearn for it from their very DNA.
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
This is true. All evolution has to do is make us want to have sex* and / or care for a baby once they’re in our arms*
- not everyone obviously
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why would I? Work builds character!
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Some even say work will set you free… No way they are lying
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Box has better airflow.
casmael@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Have you tried reversing the position of your case fans ?
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Convert it into a potty chair.
simplejack@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Bertuccio@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OP doesn’t specify, but I read the gripe as it’s a branded truck that’s basically an advertisement you pay to give to your kid. And it’s geared towards kids exactly to expose them at a young age and make a positive association that will pay off when they grow up.
I like UPS more as a company than FedEx or Amazon because it supposedly has a decent union and actually pays their employees. But the toy itself is still an ad, and I personally don’t view it any more highly than I view similar Amazon truck toys that pander to children. If it were some generic delivery truck I doubt anyone would even notice.
Thrashy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When I was a kid, Dad would bring home these little foam airplanes that the FedEx office in his building handed out as swag for people who used their services. I loved those things, and I’d be lying if that childhood positive association with FedEx didn’t have some small effect on my preferences as an adult – but it was free.. I think that’s a bit less insidious than paying for the privilege of giving my kid merch pushing a particular brand association on them.
bulwark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well said, nothing to be ashamed of driving for a living.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
It’s like the trades. People shat on those jobs and looked to cushy office jobs. Now trade workers are in demand and no one wants to do it. They’re all jobs that keep society running.
Landsharkgun@midwest.social 11 months ago
Yah, replace the UPS with USPS and it’d be bangin