remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave
How fucking old are you people?
normal amount
You see, there used to be a time (not all that long ago) when being offline was the default. And going online was the rare and wonderful thing that we (briefly) enjoyed.
It even came with happy modem noises.
They weren’t happy noises.
They were polite and reasonable noises! The sound of protocol being followed! Negotiation and compromise!
The box would scream
It sounds like screaming, but actually it’s a mating call.
The problem isn’t the over designed twinks or the silly horse girls or the goofy cookies it’s the gambling. You guys know it’s the gambling right? I need to you all to know the problem with gatcha games is that they’re just normalizing gambling addictions to younger generations.
yes! this!!! the big grift of gacha games is that they’ve convinced people they aren’t gambling or contributing to the machine of gambling! its a free world and we all have our vices I am not going to blow you up for playing poker at a casino or smashing your yuri cookies together but you absolutely need to treat both the same way
“There aren’t enough hours in a day.” There are actually. The problem is that we think 40 hour work weeks are an unavoidable fact of life.
The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.
No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, there’s no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. “Just wake up earlier” “Just meal prep”… these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We aren’t built for this. There’s no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individuals’ biggest problems would simply evaporate.
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Calling all Bay Area folks! Emergency rally and march planned for TOMORROW October 23st at Embarcadero Plaza in San Fransisco! Over 100 federal agents will be deployed to the Bay and ICE presence will likely increase in all of the surrounding cities
IF YOU SEE ICE CONTACT THE RAPID RESPONSE HOTLINES BELOW
23rd October 2025
Reblogged From pinguinosentado
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