As someone who effectively lives in his grandmother’s attic and “vibes” I am insulted by the vague comparison. I have to budget with my job damnit, I work as a courier one day a week.
The rest of the week is me doing autism and childhood PTSD things, so jacking off and playing Fallout NV. Also getting new scars via cats.
I also have a far better sense of fashion, THE 1940 SWEDISH TANKER GREAT COAT STAYS ON DURING SEX!
stays on
Im sure
during sex
Unproven.
My right hand is a very fulfilling partner!
Lucky, my left is way better and im super right handed. Plus the pins on my masturbation cape got sugary coctail on them and they’re really hard to clean.
I consider it sex when my alter ego takes control and starts ravaging my body. Big grey area though, in terms of consent.
Oof. I get that. Must be rough finding people who are both considerate and capable of dealing with that complexity.
It’s rare, finding another with a similar disposition and making it a foursome is the dream.
I wish you the best luck possible.
I may not understand much… but this I get
Don’t you get bored, or back problems from sitting at a computer 24/7 ?
I have enough room to pace in a circle while listening to music and emotionally spiral over my past failures, perpetual inadequacy, etcetera. Also I sometimes need to sleep so I lay down at times. Also it isn’t seven days a week, I need to go out to the desert and deliver vegetables and other produce every Friday.
I feel like I am being trolled, but if this is actually true, it sounds interesting
I’m being completely serious, though theres a good bit of self awareness mixed in. I wish I could get a job that was more than one day a week, but alas unless you want to work front end retail getting any other job is like pulling teeth. Online applications were a mistake for numerous reasons least of all it forces folks like myself more or less out of the job market because I fundementally can’t deal with their stupid song and dance, just give me a job if ya don’t like me fire me.
Or are you referring to my pacing? If so I feel it’s needed context that I more or less have the second floor to myself since my grandmother’s knees can’t handle it. Helps that I’m her only descendant on speaking terms with her, also she raised me.
That sounds mostly okay!
I need to go out to the desert and deliver vegetables and other produce every Friday.
Now that would be fucking awesome. love driving
It’s great, now if only the out of staters knew how to drive in hazardous wind conditions.
But have you 100 % NV yet? I’m currently trying to.
I have had NV since it more or less released I have over a thousand hours on it and have played it more or less continuously for over a decade. Of course I havent 100% it.
Nice. I also have had it since then, but got it for the 360. Did one playthrough and vowed never to play another Bethesda game on console haha. Been doing it on PC this time.
Could be worse, my first playthrough was the PS3 version. Which to say was a scuffed introduction would be an understatement, though luckily I was able to get the ultimate edition at Walmart discounted on August 13 2012 according to my steam profile. Which I am now realizing means I put up with PS3 NV for nearly 2 years fucking hell, kid me had a high tolerance for bullshit.
Oof. Weird thing was that I played FO3 on PC, but then got NV for the 360. Not too sure why. 2 years on console NV is a feat to endure haha.
Skyrim on 360 was even more painful. Hope ya like 10 minutes of chicken loading screen. My laptop back then couldn’t run Skyrim but it could run NV rather well.
Yep. I actually stopped playing it due to glitches. I’ve never actually went back to play Skyrim again.
I for one just had a good job and zero life for 5 years and will kms when my savings run out in a year or two
You really shouldn’t. But if you do, you should consider doing something that would make your death meaningful.
Not going to say anything further.
I survived death. 85-95% chance of dying - nobody’s fault but my own. Let me tell ya: when I go down (probably being dragged to a concentration camp, since I am now an illegal person), it won’t be quiet and bureaucratic.
Ok
Why not just work for 5 more years and build the buffer again instead of ending it?
Long life isn’t everything. World is fucked
World has always been fucked (see Billy Joel’s “we didn’t start the fire” for simple reference). Life is what you make of it
We’ve had a habitable wilderness for all of human existence until now. Dystopian society is now The only option for living in most of the planet. World has not always been this fucked.
Edit: if you’re not convinced, actuaries are predicting 2 billion climate deaths at +2C warming (we’re at 1.7C now) and 4 billion deaths at 3C, which is the absolute minimum we’re in for assuming we stopped all emissions tomorrow. Obviously that’s not happening, so it’s going to be way worse than that. Our existing billions of people also depend on a complex web of logistics systems which are currently falling apart or being dismantled. Google “complexity collapse.”
One of you can have my ration. I’m not gonna fight you for it.
I’m still waiting for somebody to make a mashup of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and The Prodigy’s “Firestarter”.
And I can’t make anything of it so I’m leaving
It’s so weird seeing people making poor interpretations of another ethnicity’s culture their entire identity. I wonder if there are weirdos in India rocking lederhosen or milkmaid outfits at random music festivals and ranting to strangers about Calvinism?
You should see some of the “American food” they sell in some parts of Europe and Asia. I feel like it’s pretty typical everywhere to misunderstand and exoticize other cultures.
Not just typical. It should be celebrated. I for one throughly enjoy seeing cross cultural exchanges of any creative type. Exotic doesn’t need to be derogatory or dehumanizing. (it’s really unfortunate that it most often is.) Everybody is exotic somewhere.
I want to visit America one time just for the food. I keep hearing from American TV about twinkies and red vines and all kinds of stuff, then I try them whenever I get a chance here in the UK and theyre so bad. I need to know for sure whether we’re getting a version that conforms to our food laws and they lose a lot in the process or if theyre really that terrible.
The store-bought junk food is pretty bad in America, to be fair. But foreigners also tend to overestimate their popularity, because American media is largely funded by product placement; The average American probably hasn’t eaten a Twinkie in months or even years.
Restaurants are where you’ll truly experience American food. You’ll be amazed at how much flavor is packed into each dish, and at how large the portions are. But the latter is largely a cultural thing; Americans typically have leftovers that they take home. Europeans will see the feast-sized portions on the table and immediately go “no wonder Americans are so fat…” In reality, Americans would expect to take half of it home.
Americans typically have leftovers that they take home
Are you just not aware of how overweight Americans are on average? As i understand it we have been conditioned to believe these insane portions are “a meal”. I was simply unable to start losing weight until i traveled to Mexico to discover and internalize what a normal meal portion is. If you go to a restaurant in the US, you should expect to see most of the people around you finishing their plates
The US’s obesity problem is more complicated than that. It’s not just that our portions are big. Americans have to work pretty long hours too. That means much of our lives we probably aren’t getting much exercise, and when we get home a lot of us don’t have a lot of energy to cook so we probably eat a lot more pre-packaged food. Stress also contributes a lot to weight gain.
And once you have gained a lot of weight, all of those problems, plus the fact that healthcare is so expensive, make it even more difficult to lose.
https://youtu.be/TH6Wq4KWu7M TL;DW smaller portion size, better school nutrition, healthier foods from convenience stores rather than omega-processed fast food garbage
As someone from one of the most obese states in the union, the core of the issue is most definitely not portion sizes. Food quality is shit and most people will eat ultraprocessed foods on the daily because money is tight for most people and fresh/healthy food is hella expensive assuming there’s even access to it. If you have the same amount of calories in ultrprocessed food vs real food, your body will still gain more weight from the ultra processed one because it is less satiating because your body burns through it much faster.
Small scale organic farming used to be the norm in my grandma’s time, but nowadays younger people don’t know what an okra plant looks like or cracked open a pecan. Additionally if you’re even able to access and afford fresh produce it’s mainly water and is not nutritionally dense. This is an issue with the entire food system that’s been built on shipping stuff from far away and profit incentives. Not to mention the targeted advertising of ultra processed foods to kids…
Also, there’s virtually no public transit and the small amount of pedestrian and bike infrastructure is laughable and outright dangerous. You have to have a car to get to most places and most places require a lot of driving to get to depending. That means sitting down for most of the day. It’s hard for most people to get exercise in daily life without being super intentional about it, and a lot of people are overworked and underpaid on top of that, so they understandably just wanna relax. As with most things in life, the answer is always complicated.
I’ve had one Twinkie in the last 20 years, and it was breaded in panko and deep fried.
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I’ve traveled a lot for food, and, despite not living and never having lived in America, the US has the best “foreign” food I’ve ever had. The best Chinese food I ever had was in the US, for example. In fact, I think high (and high-ish) cuisine in the US is generally quite good (despite crazily sized portions WTF).
I’ve had incredible Korean food in random towns (~20,000 pop.), incredible Indien in another (<50,000), etc.; I think the US is kinda special when it comes to foreign food like that.
And, of course, there is some American-American food that is amazing. The greatest filet mignon I ever had was also in the US (and again, random small towns, not metropolitan cities). Also: donuts (not from chains) can be craaaaaazy good. Also cheesecake, though I actually prefer the German version of New York cheesecake (cheese cake is originally German, New York improved it, then Germany improved that).
The problem is grocery store food. It all has 3x sugar and chemicals compared Europe. Literally everything, sometimes even organic stuff, tastes fake and disgustingly sweet. It drives me crazy, and is one of the top reasons I would never live in the US. I also dislike the espresso there: nearly all specialty coffee I’ve had in the US has either been extracted by untrained barista or has been a bad copy of faux-skandinavian roasts. I think that situation is better in larger cities though, which I’ve spent less time in.
Ok, sorry for this very, very long ramble. Just some thoughts on American food from someone who didn’t grow up there but has tried a lot of it.
God fuck our coffee. I finally got an espresso machine somewhat recently just so I could have lattes like the ones I had in Europe. A good latte should not need sugar! Espresso should be yummy!
A lot of the stuff in those foods are banned outside of America, and for good reason. You’re getting the better version, such as it is.
Everybody in America seems to remember liking Twinkies as a kid but they’re nasty now. Debate continues over whether the twinkies changed, or we did.
If you want good American food, when you get here go to a Chinese restaurant.
They’re shitty junk food with nostalgia. As other’s have said, try our Chinese food. And our Mexican food. Also hit up an American restaurant here, especially a diner. Oh and wherever you go ask the locals about their local food and try it, (it’s not weird, we do it when we travel domestically) you’ve probably heard of stuff like Chicago deep dish and Philly cheeses teams, bur basically every city has something they cook good or unique and are super proud of, like Cincinnati has a style of chili they put on spaghetti.
America’s best cuisine isn’t our mass produced mass market foods, its the stuff immigrants came up with to square their cuisine with the available foods and local tastes.
Southern food has entered the chat.
In all seriousness, southern food is some of the best food the US has to offer IMO. There’s a shitton of diversity within the category and it has a lot of flavor and spice.
America and Japan have this as a special cultural relationship. Are the yankii cringe, obviously, but my little yank heart is warmed by seeing people look at aspects of American culture and asking someone to hold their vending machine Asahi. I hope they feel the same about weebs. The thing is we all just see each other as kinda cool and exotic and so we riff on each other’s shit.
The Japanese Elvis culture springs to mind.
Also, there are “cowboys” everywhere in the world.
You mentioned lederhosen and of course those types exist outside of Germany too.
Check out Takeo Ischi, the Japanese yodeler
The longstanding tradition in India is to wander around naked.
I’ve got friends who are vibing without a job. The vibes are… not so good.
im so happy that i was blessed with parents who never struggled with money. nothing wrong with that. and yea, im hella vibing in life jobless <3
Found the trust fund trustafarian 😂
i have no idea what that means but ok
You’ll be able to go through life saying that a lot. Eventually, the only thing you’ll fear is when that might end.
For sure, and props to you for being open about that—something this post is arguing for IRL (trustafarians tend to conceal their privilege)
thank you, im always open about my privilege. but theres always gonna be wage cucks who shit on people like me lmao
Try not calling them ‘wage cucks’ and you may get shat on less.
nah they can shit on me all they want, it makes me laugh
Why are you even here?
just to suffer
I guess. I’m trying to imagine a world where I could consider that suffering. :p
Congratulations on your detachment from reality.
fuck reality
Fuck leeches.
mald harder ✨
Nah, I’m not mad, just disappointed. You’re disappointing.
let’s hope nobody has to depend on you one day
lets hope you stop being a meanie beanie -_-
Fucking trust fund babies.
The best way to fight the system is to be jobless. Imagine if no one had a job? Bye bye capitalism. The end. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
“I don’t want to work. I want to live in the woods and grow my own food and get back to nature.” - City Hippie
You guys don’t have a welfare system?
That chick is annoying. I think I’ve blocked five or six video different clone accounts to stop getting her videos on the reels feed.
Wait, this is a specific person? I assumed OP was a stock photo. Is her shtick just being the 2020s version of a hippie?
Shanin Blake. She has crappy rap about shrooms and acid. She gets worse and worse as time goes by. She will have blasted face tats and be washed up in no time.
Look at that, she’s already washed up
I’m curious too!
Literally thought this was a meme about the travel influencers and those people who attend every concert without ever holding down a job.
As cringe as this gal is (I don’t watch her videos either) I can stomach her easier than the 77 Million people who voted for Trump. I’d much rather focus on fixing whatever is wrong with them over this neo-hippie.
i lost my job earlier this year, so i’m just vibin’. Not exactly ideal but I have some buffer time saved up.
Just skimmed through the thread and its filled with strawmen or plain misunderstanding.
Nobody is criticizing someone for having rich parents, even if said parents got that money from exploitation, heck even slavery.
No the criticism is that someone rich, thanks to their parents rather than their own effort, is promoting a way to reach such a position in life by replicating a path that is not real. If you have rich parents and you promote “making stuff” or writing a book, which you actually did yet never meaningfully contributing to the lifestyle you are promoting, you are basically dishonest.
TL;DR: nobody cares about that specific person or that situation, we are just tired of lies sold for profit.
Reminds me of an aside from this blog article that has been living in my head for a few months — To Save the Arts we must Kill the Artist — that goes like:
the artist as the bourgeois failson
And other such points about the intersections of privilege, wealth, etc, and art.
i wonder what they smell like, hahaha
I go to various small punk shows all the time often they’re not even at a venue. Someone looking like this image is not the person who smells bad. Besides, a homeless crust or gutter punk isnt half as bad as when I meet a tech bro who looks crisp but never learned the art of washing their asshole
If they touched their butthole that’d make them gay, real men let the Musk build up to assert dominance.
Patchouli
Can’t afford to have good vibes. Money brings you happiness and prettier partners.
and prettier partners
Tbh, that’s not true. If your standards are low enough, you can get by with very little money.
When I was at university (10 years ago) I could get by with 5-10h of work per week. I had a single-room flat and no car, a 10yo laptop, a cheapo second-hand phone and ate cheap food. The total amount of assistance that I received from my parents were birthday and christmas presents with a total worth of €700 over 5 years.
Now I have a larger flat, a wife, two kids and a car. Now I need much more money.
Of course, neither the cost nor the lifestyle are comparable.
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Neither nor.
I paid €350 for my flat and made €25/h doing maths tutoring. I had a monthly budget of €800 in 2015 and that was enough.
I never received unemployment benefits and why on earth would someone invest in a random student?
When I compare to my own experience ajusted to inflation, that seems alright. Totally doable.
real ones do acid with theres friends at 3 am
