Step 1: Don’t have kids
Fellow millennials, how do you prevent your child from yearning for the mines?
Submitted 4 weeks ago by variants@possumpat.io to [deleted]
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NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
“Do YOU feel the Need? The Need to Breed?”
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
It’s only a basic biological imperative
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Need maybe, “forced to / constantly harassed to by culture / family / church “ also in the mix here
casmael@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Unfathomably based
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Eh I’m an antinatalist, but this is like 5 fathoms based
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Well when I was a small child I wanted to be a bus that’s all I can tell you
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
The last metamorphosis of praxis: become the means of production
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
gets seized by capitalists
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
In AI capitalism, the content is you
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 weeks ago
Just let them play Minecraft. It’s cheaper than Legos and they can’t choke on anything.
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
they can’t choke on anything
[cue clip of 11-year-olds talking on minecraft]
8bittech@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
reminds me of one of my fave tweets:
“Garbage men and pick up artists should switch names”
variants@possumpat.io 4 weeks ago
No it’s just a meme about child labor laws and minecraft
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
The funny thing is they’ll probably never realize they were just projecting their own insecurities.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mine would probably love this… I’d feel weird buying something branded like this one though.
casmael@lemm.ee 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Read them The State and Revolution before bedtime.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You cannot. The children yearn for it from their very DNA.
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Why would I? Work builds character!
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Some even say work will set you free… No way they are lying
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Box has better airflow.
casmael@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Have you tried reversing the position of your case fans ?
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Convert it into a potty chair.
simplejack@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I mean transport / delivery goods is a solid job that’s pretty essential to modern society. I’d much rather a child look up to a delivery driver or trucker than a CEO. The capitalist branding for the wage-slave version of the job is a bit much. Its just another example of capitalism sucking all the intrinsic and extrinsic value out of decent humans just trying to do a job that benefits others.
Bertuccio@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Well said, nothing to be ashamed of driving for a living.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’m getting pretty sick of people blaming the jobs themselves. I firmly believe that’s another one of capitalism’s psyops to convince us we’re lazy and selfish for not wanting to put up with its bullshit anymore.
I actually love my job itself, even the butt-wiping. Tbh the butt wiping has actually been one of the better parts of my job, because I get to help someone who is uncomfortable and unable to do anything about it get comfortable again.
It’s the capitalist influence that’s consistently rotting the heart and soul out of everything, not the actual work of connecting with and caring for other humans. I think the propaganda has gotten good at making us forget that.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Yah, replace the UPS with USPS and it’d be bangin