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- Comment on Mine was the fact that Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were both born in 1929 😭 1 week ago:
'Member that song “74-75” by The Connells? That was a big hit in the Nineties.
We’re now at 31 years after the release of the single and 49 years after the class of 1975 graduated. - Comment on WILD 1 week ago:
- Comment on Capsaicin 2 weeks ago:
In a very traditional Afghan restaurant I used to frequent, if you ordered something really spicy, they’d bring you these small mint drops afterwards to chew on, no extra charge. Worked very well for me.
- Comment on Adulting rule 3 weeks ago:
“I am a fox,” said the fox.
“Please - tame me!” - Comment on Rock diagram 3 weeks ago:
Don’t know much about history… Don’t know much palaeontology…
- Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 5 weeks ago:
They are now putting laughing gas into energy drinks, as I found out recently. It’s also in whipped creme which might be one reason people are all over it.
I’m loving it. So much better than CO2. Also makes for good social commentary. - Comment on You're not you when you're dooming. 5 weeks ago:
OBEY
- Comment on Is there a subsect of the minimalist community that's focused on portable living? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m missing something here, but plenty of folks - blue collar workers, technicians, engineers - have away jobs where they work in different places for weeks or months at a time, and there are landlords who specialize in providing this clientele with bare-bones furnished apartments.
- Comment on No longer dating 1 month ago:
Rachel and I resumed dating.
Well, not each other, but still… - Comment on Can relate. 1 month ago:
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do are doomed to watch on helplessly as everybody else repeats it. - Comment on Can relate. 1 month ago:
This fantastic opening quote must have been Marx’s weirdest flex.
- Comment on More trustworthy than what's currently on the road 1 month ago:
No, it’s Ocho!
- Comment on a few centuries 1 month ago:
Solé’s fantastic and extremely recommendable book “Phase Transitions” covers this as well. Quoting Janssen et al.: “even when the group is faced with negative results, members may not suggest abandoning an earlier course of action, since this might break the existing unanimity.”
“More generally, the underlying problem here is why complex societies might fail to adapt […]. Even if there is some social perception of risk, short-term thinking often prevails when facing long-term vulnerabilities. Such undesirable behavior is often favored by a combination of incomplete understanding of the problem, together with the misleading view that all changes are reversible.” - Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 1 month ago:
Yeah but it is, though. Plus the psychological pressure from social media/ FOMO, plus enshittification everywhere, plus the constant undercurrent of wages and job opportunities eroding away from us due to inflation and upper-class greed.
People were happy when mobile phones entered the scene and became affordable. It didn’t take long for employers to use them for asking tasks of us during off-time for profit maximization, though. Not to mention the constant feeling of being spied on and experiencing the gathered data being used for being bombarded with creepily targetted ads.
I’m sorry for today’s youth, growing up thinking this is all perfectly normal and nothing can be done about it. - Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 1 month ago:
One of my family members paid something like 60 € to see Michael Jackson in the 90s. I still remember how back then, I thought “what an outrageous price tag.”
- Comment on Anon attends school online 1 month ago:
Counterpoint: I still vividly remember a guy ripping a fart in class more than 20 years ago. Maybe because we’ve been writing a test and, up until that point, the classroom had been deadly silent before bursting into laughter. Or maybe because he did it again, a couple of days later.
- Comment on Eureka 1 month ago:
That must have taken more practice than doing a cucumber, though.
- Comment on Wildlife Photography 1 month ago:
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
- Comment on This should be the right address.... 1 month ago:
- Comment on i need an rv, and lab equipment, and a helper 1 month ago:
♫ It’s true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through being dealers every time you gave them shelter
I know that kind of man, it’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who’s reaching for the sky just to surrender ♪ - Comment on Anon doesn't like reddit 2 months ago:
It’s just the way it is.
When Reddit was new, it mentioned Digg a lot.
When Digg was new, it mentioned /. a lot.
When /. was new (yes, I was there, too), it mentioned Usenet a lot.At some points in time, the likes of The WELL, the Facepunch forums and Metafilter got their own mentions, prompting me to check them out.
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
- Comment on PSA 2 months ago:
Cobb: “I’ve come back for you… to remind you of something. Something you once knew. That this world is not real.”
- Comment on color-coded and pool-approved 2 months ago:
Two for me.
- Comment on Shart, not fart 2 months ago:
Can’t escape capitalism.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 3 months ago:
*Sniff*
- Comment on Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question) 3 months ago:
“Darling, guess what? Blackberry jam is on the menu again.”
- Comment on The moviegoer experience these days 3 months ago:
Wind River, Fall, and so on and so on.
- Comment on Hey guys I love Jodie Foster so much any tips on how someone like me can impress her? 3 months ago:
♪ Hinckley couldn’t shoot straight, hit a guy in the forehead ♪
- Comment on Get in the Hilux 4 months ago:
I believe it was Marx who first observed that superfluous jobs, as well as unemployment, are inextricably linked to capitalism.
See also Marcuse, 1969:The absorption [i.e. disappearance] of unemployment and the maintenance of an adequate rate of profit would […] require the stimulation of demand on an ever larger scale, thereby stimulating the rat race of the competitive struggle for existence through the multiplication of waste, planned obsolescence, parasitic and stupid jobs and services.
