How would one go about this without any money?

You’re paying 800 a month, so you cant afford to build up enough savings to get a mortgage to convince the bank you can afford 500 a month.

I hate it when the success stories are used as ammunition. Because a tiny minority made it super successful its possible for anyone to do it, and if its possible for anyone then its realistic for everyone, so anyone who didn’t is fundamentally bad. They may be stupid, lazy, crooked, unambitious, but fundamentally bad in some way.

We have eliminated a lot of jobs, and we do have large unemployment, and we do have a lot of bullshit jobs where nothing really gets done.

WW3 is also looking disturbingly feasible.

I’m not sure its a coincidence.

Mines always in my pocket. The pocket that I checked 5 times. It only appears when I started asking the group “did one of you take my lighter”

I’m a long way from fully versed in the intricate power plays involved here etc etc, but I’m amazed Russia didnt roll over them, and I’m pretty appalled that the world didnt rally behind Ukraine.

LITERALLY everyone!

It says here youre a smoker, have you considered that might be the problem?

Next.

Its great for the first time. Then it loses its shine. Then it becomes a chore. Then it becomes akin to silence. Then it makes its way into manifestos.

No wonder youre stuck working at MAC FUCKIN DONULDZ you cant even do that right you knoe what let me see your fuckin manager right fuckin now youre fucking done pal

Omg I have some kind of name-forgetfulness. Takes me fucking ages to learn a name. This would be so handy.

The headline doesnt even imply this. Fuck pieces of shit that do this.

I dont know how much I’d be able to actually do, but I could whore bitcoin hard and use the money charitably.

I just wish I could bottle enthusiasm. Some days I’ll get nearly bottomless drive and energy, and shit gets done. I’ll go like the tasmanian devil in reverse and everything gets super clean and tidy and I can not be stopped

Most days ill do fuck all useful. Just an entire day of checking the time and wondering what I was supposed to be doing, spending 15 minutes looking for my shoes and then forgetting why I needed them.

If I could just save the excess inspiration from my good days and ration them out as needed life would be so easy.

“You mean you can just BUY them?”

Home Alone at least is set at Xmas. Town centres are always way busier then as everyone rushes to buy stuff.

I wasn’t considering music or TV, but you’ve just tickled what I thought OP was talking about. With social media taking off a lot of our culture is online now.

We had a lot of fun sharing jokes and songs and parodies of things etc on YouTube. This gave way to mini-cults as people started getting popular, and started sponsored content. Somewhere along the way people stopped doing it for fun, and it started being “game the system by any means necessary to make it big enough to sell shit”.

Its hard to put into exact words my issue, but it makes my soul ache.

Its not that crass commercialisation is dominating music, because that’s been the case longer than ive been alive. It just feels like its reached too far. Its in too much of what we do. Maybe its just this generation that will feel this way. The “old folks” are pretty much out of the game and dont understand this newfangled Internet thing, and the kids are growing up in this world and itll just be normal.

The next thing is “ignore it, get offline, touch grass, go to your local bar and meet real people” but even that is tainted now. People you meet have strong opinions that have been planted in them by targeted bots on the Internet. Theres big signs placed all over the walls “FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA” because you need an Internet presence for your business to survive, which means they need to be mindful of what they present themselves as to appease the algorithm, and suddenly they’re not real places for real people, they’re another extension of this near-singular will.

Its too big a concept for me to put into words, and i might be overstating it or missing a core concept, but it scares a tiny bit of me a whole lot.

It was funny the first time, but the memes oversaturated now.

I always take it to a literal extreme when these sorts of arguments come up.

“I’m happy paying towards unemployment benefits because everybody needs to eat. Even if its going to drug addicts spending it on crack, because they need thst crack and theyre going to get it. I’d rather them be in the dole office with their hands out than sneaking around my house in the night taking my xbox.”