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Cake day: August 25th, 2024

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  • I understand what the cartoonist is trying to imply…

    I actually don’t think you do. They are a pacifist, as is shown by their desire to demilitarize the world. They clearly think that violence is currently used primarily to maintain the status quo, and they depict that in a negative light quite obviously.

    What they were actually implying is that a lot of people claim to be against violence despite, in fact being pro-state-violence











  • I think that we’re not actually disagreeing, if I’m reading this right. My point about social needs was mostly to do with social media. I could blab some science about how that affects our social needs, but that’s not what we’re really focused on from what I can tell.

    We’re both suggesting reducing/moderating our usage of corporat bullshit and particularly American corpos.

    However, there is one thing that I noticed which I feel like you misunderstand, or perhaps I misunderstand you.

    Stress and long hours in the job and they spent all their money in “stuff”

    These are definitely not social needs, but a symptom of the lack of social needs being met. Humans crave companionship, and many people seek that in their items. I think you and I are similar in seeing the absurdity in this, but it appears that you find it more annoying than I do. There is one more layer to this, though, which we’re probably intentionally ignoring; American corpos have monopolies in many areas. I know people who literally do not have access to anything other than corporations


  • But I was talking more in general

    You could have made that more clear. You came off quite pointed.

    Him or her

    Them is way easier to type and it’s more formal.

    I’m starting to get tired about the…

    Lost me. People are doing what they must to stimulate their social needs. Let me say that again social needs. It’s not an option for humans, we get depression and shit. We have to buy in to the bullshit at least a little bit because that’s the system we live in, the best we can do is change it from within or start a revolution. If you’re not starting the revolution, the best thing you can do is bitch about shitty circumstances until someone with the vindication does start the revolution



  • Right? It would be so much cheaper if we just used to the reinforcing steel to create thin tracks which we could put much more thermally efficient and eco-friendly wheels onto. In turn, we could carry exceptionally large loads of cargo or people over vast distances for a mere fraction of the cost (monetary) and a fraction of the cost (to the world) by creating long, highly aerodynamic vehicles capable of moving at ridiculously high speeds that would be uncontrollable for the average joe on the road.

    Wait, haven’t I heard of something like this before?