I am becoming more conservative…we have to return to the old ways…let’s go fight Nazis in the streets
Me too. I’m conserving far more resources now than when I was younger. Heck, when I was a kid, I never recycled; then I became more and more of a recycler, and now I’m big into “reuse is better than recycling!” I fix when I can, rather than tossing and buying new. I’m waaay more conservative than when I was a kid.
And, like you, I’m ready to go out and kill Nazis, just like my granddad’s did.
Got any advice on reusing all the pill bottles I have from being broken?
I’ve looked into places that reuse them for pills but there’s like one ministry that takes them and I’d need to ship…
Totally nice bottles without labels and you can’t just take them back to the pharmacy or something…??? The fuck.
I refuse to put them into recycling, they won’t be… so I’m just sitting here with 100 or so bottles just… taking up space…
Give em a good wash and use them as seed containers, whether for single plant species or for mixes
Thanks, that’s a good use :)
I actually already have dozens for that sort of thing (as well as beads and other craft supplies, and screws and other construction-type supplies). I’ve been broken for a hot minute (have taken meds most of my life), so I have so many pill bottles. So many.
But maybe I should go ahead and keep them for my farm. I might need real organization. Fuck. Can I hire someone for that…? Fuck.
this is what i do! it works really well.
Old pill bottles would work fine for spices! Or… Buy pills in bulk, and then divvy them up into the smaller bottles. Or, if they are the orange bottles, put little LED lights in them for a warm diffuse ambiance.
I wish I could get my pills in bulk but I can’t. I get three new bottles every 90 days like clockwork. Sometimes I even get more! Yay!
I don’t have enough spices for them. Especially since I keep my spices in sealed glass. But if I didn’t that would be a great use!
The light idea is interesting, but you have to really like orange light, and I don’t ;)
Nope. Utterly stupid. Pharmacies aren’t allowed to refill bottles you bring in, they’re often enormous compared to what they contain, but they’re also awkwardly small for any around-the-house use. Even if you superglued a bunch together for an improv screws and nails container, they wouldn’t hold many.
I’m sure someone’s found a use for those, but I think for the most part it’s just shit that’s going to end up in our brains eventually.
Have to agree all around.
Intensely frustrating.
Small screws/nails/ikea bits, seeds, extra pin-backs or pushpins when the shit container they come in inevitably breaks, weed, q-tips, sewing kits, some vets/humane societies, art AKA makin Injection Molded Robots
You could put a small cylinder in there.
Even after finding out that Recycling is mostly bullshit? You still do it? I mean, I’d do it if I could ensure it was actually happening, but in most places it simply doesn’t and goes to the landfill anyhow.
Glass and metal recycling do happen as far as I know but yeah plastics is mostly bs
Despite doing recycling where I live, they explicitly do not recycle glass. Safety hazard, maybe?
You utterly skipped over the part where I claimed that I’m a “re-user is better than recycling?” Why? Just to take a dig at recyclers? On a joke comment?
I have to give it to you: you’re committed to your crusade, that’s for sure.
Ironically I’m heading from the USA to the heart of Germany but as a coward.
Left as a kid, then drifted to center. On track to that point. But then, slow burn left from 40 years old through early 50s, and then a hard sprint left. Conservatives when I was young seemed like bitter dried up out of touch assholes most of the time, and as I’ve become older I’ve discovered they are also bigoted racist misogynist assholes who will suck off any leader who promises to hurt the right people for them.
I don’t think I could possibly live long enough to want to associate myself with those fuckers.
Similar path, but with a more classical libertarian bent (not the bullshit republican that lives weed and is fixated age of consent stuff thankfully). Hard left turn after being disengaged third party about 10 years ago.
Am now old and get more radicalized by the day.
I had a bit of a libertarian phase. It really did just take a moment to really think about the ideas and realize how silly they ultimately are. It does not help that even at their best their outcomes favor the wealthy.
Agreed. While mutual aid is a wonderful idea (and practice), we need a robust functioning government for all sorts of infrastructure and support.
For sure. Tho I am from Texas so most of the Libertarians I learned about were more of the Right Libertarians. Typically some kind of anarcho capitalist. Which has all of the unsavory aspects of not helping anyone and strange “honor” system that no one is going to swoop in and dominate to rebuild our current system (because why would you not)
If you’re American, it could well be that you remained centre the whole time but the US political spectrum shifted below you, so now you feel substantially left.
Or not .
That’s a fair analysis and hard to say with objectivity. I had and deleted a couple long responses here before realizing I am unwilling to try addressing that to the required level of depth just because I’m too lazy for that much typing.
I also acknowledge that the whole left right thing is calibrated differently over here. 😁
But, relative to my peers at the time, I think I’m not too far off…
Hear hear
I’ve only gotten more progressive as time goes on because of all [gestures vaguely] this.
That’s the lie they told themselves when they found out they were pieces of shit and not being young and dumb.
Makes it palatable.
I’m a former Trump supporter. I will never support Republicans or MAGA ever again after all they’ve done. So I’ve aged but I’ve become more progressive and open minded, not more conservative.
What changed your mind?
It was Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic that got me started questing things, the rise of the anti-vax among his supporters and the violence that happened after the election. Then over the four years I started to change my mind about more and more things and repeatably realized I was wrong.
People don’t become conservative as they age, they become conservative as they accumulate wealth which in the past has typically correlated with age. Once they have wealth they want to protect it.
Nowadays people don’t accumulate wealth as easily so it takes longer before they develop more conservative views if at all.
It’s an “I got mine, screw everyone else” tendency.
I think the prevailing idea at the time was that you would become more conservative as you accumulated wealth and property, and while I can’t confirm or deny that I would be more conservative if I were as wealthy as my parents were when they were my age, I can attest that the accumulation of wealth and property on which this notion is predicated has not happened for myself and my peers.
Is it any wonder, when told that we will own nothing and be happy by people who have never worked a day in their lives, that we want to burn it all down and piss on the ashes of those who oppress us?
I think i became more liberal because im no longer an uneducated dumb ass teenager edgelord.
I see memes like this all the time though I’ve never actually heard that outside of memes.
Personally, I used to be more conservative when I was younger and more naive (and being conservative was less vitriolic).
I believe it comes from misunderstood studies that find out that people tend to become more conservative as they age, but the studies aren’t about the political meaning of conservative, but about our behavior of tending to avoid risks and seek stability as we age.
Same.
I went from middle (trying to reason with it) to left with:
“Maybe businesses are what saves us because the government continues to fail us” to “Star Trek was a dream scenario. We’re headed towards cyberpunk.”
I had a civics teacher tell the class that once. He also fed us a bunch of other conservative bs.
What’s the screenshot from?
“Don’t assume I’ll follow you on your vile path to moral decadence.”
I have become more conservative as I grew old, but not the kind of conservative these racist bigoted fucks talk about.
I’m all for personal freedom. Everyone should be given the opportunity to live their lives as they see fit.
The government’s only duty should be to provide equal growth opportunity to everyone regardless of ethnicity, gender, whatever.
Education, Health, Safety (both economic and physical).
I am still what’d I’d consider liberal but will admit I’ve gotten a bit annoyed with the Democratic party in recent years.
They’re just so goddamn ineffectual. No way I’d vote for the other side, but holy shit can they please stop it with the unforced errors? Just go back to courting the working class with economics and then lobster them into social change.
They will get out of our swamp or else.
