[braaaahp]

I don’t mean protest.

I mean consume less media. Stuff.

Take burden off workers in the sweatshops and learn to sew a shirt. How many new shirts does a person need a year? 2-3? That’s like what, a cold December?

Be a human not a battery in a Matrix pod propping up ad companies and Hollywood.

We live in a Newspeak bubble; it’s freedom to stare at screen.

Local culture in the US is hyper-normalized around money making metrics.

Boomers did all the drugs and lived. They convinced GenX and Millennials to Netflix chill, order grubhub and watch AI content

It’s so bizarre

Edit: this is what gets attention not blocking roads https://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-badly-misses-on-earnin...

[tbrownaw]

> Take burden off workers in the sweatshops and learn to sew a shirt.

Presumably they're working there because it's the least-bad option? If so, removing it so they have to go with the next-least-bad option might not be much of a help.

[braaaahp]

Yeah the usual uncreative answer “copy paste the Newspeak”

This answer is a euphemism for “don’t rock my boat.” Because if they ain’t sewing your shirts, you are. Your freedom from such is due to blowing Vietnam (and elsewhere) to a crater, fostering existing conditions. Not exactly informed consent.

The rest of the world doesn’t buy this analysis. They lived being oppressed by US military. They see Americans as the Taliban, not a great white hope Americans have been propagandized to see themselves as.

[eli_gottlieb]

Ah yes, smashing capitalism by restoring the bourgeois ethic of thrift /s.

[braaaahp]

Ah yes, a sanctimonious tech bro reducing everything to a Twitter size sound bite.

We know; you’re scared of change because you have seen your lived experience and know you cannot grow a potato.

But you’re just a meat suit and your personal story and literacy aren’t anyone else’s concern. And that’s under the political norm. You prefer no guarantee of healthcare. The risk someone else will obsolete your research. Oo so titillating.

Fine, have it your way. Let us continue under American norms where I can give zero fucks your meat suit exists.

Fortunately for me I have generational wealth thanks to the building and auto booms in the US, and EE degrees, hands on building useful machines and technology. SWEs exist so long as open compute platforms exist and there’s no guarantee governments around the world will forever allow that.

Should you find yourself shut out of employment opportunities, thoughts n prayers.