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yeah i've struggled with those thoughts and actions i've taken toward finding an authentic experience which sounds bourgeois and cringe but after introspection it's actually that i just seek out places where nobody's trying to sell me poo poo
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I totally agree, but maybe we’re just defining the term a bit differently? If someone is seeking to escape alienation through consumer choices they’ve already crossed the threshold. At its core the search for authenticity is the search for labors that one feels a personal connection to and social networks that aren’t mediated by consumption and/or employment.
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Xaris posted:they're working hard on yung chomsky's vinyl LP. cut them some slack! That's fine with me, though they should at least be transparent about what they plan on doing for their schedule.
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yeah 'we' all want to escape consumerism. but for america, it is nearly impossible. we're born consuming and die consuming. our personalities are about what we consume (MCU vs snyder-verse), our friendships are more often than not about about mutual consumption, our metamorphical 'brand' and how we think of ourselves as a a brand is consumption. that's a sweeping generalization and of course not applicable to everyone, but more people than not and it's all very intentional. When the middle class cul-de-sac dweller who was born in a mid-sized white-flight city in Wisconsin or Ohio or poo poo living in relative cultural malaise and lack of communal identity, they've been deluged with cultural nostalgia of "oh wow all these urban-dwelling poor people have identities beyond consumption, look how much fun they have living in drafty lofts hanging out on stoops, and being starving singers or bartenders. look at how much fun these old chinese grandpas live playing chess on cardboard boxes in the park, i'm going to move to the big city in dingy chinatown and live it up". like part of them is looking for that escape of overbearing consumption that has defined them their whole lives, but all their doing is consuming an aesthetic (or rather, experience consumption)
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is there any class in america thats actually upwardly mobile atm? seems like its as bad as its ever been, and those hugely overpriced apartments in commuting distance of tech companies are part of system along with student debt designed to keep the college educated class in the same perpetual serfdom as non college educated workers
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studio mujahideen posted:is there any class in america thats actually upwardly mobile atm? probably the wrong adjective to use
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Xaris posted:yeah 'we' all want to escape consumerism. but for america, it is nearly impossible. we're born consuming and die consuming. our personalities are about what we consume (MCU vs snyder-verse), our friendships are more often than not about about mutual consumption, our metamorphical 'brand' and how we think of ourselves as a a brand is consumption. that's a sweeping generalization and of course not applicable to everyone, but more people than not and it's all very intentional. i mean people have been moving to big cities to find The Real Life in the exact same way for like the last century of american history, what exactly has changed other than it changed from not just being NYC im gonna move to new york and discover myself! is like a huge chunk of american cultural production in the 20th century
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Anna and Dasha from Red Scare are on the new Adam Friedland Show episode
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studio mujahideen posted:i mean people have been moving to big cities to find The Real Life in the exact same way for like the last century of american history, what exactly has changed other than it changed from not just being NYC Wizard Master posted:Anna and Dasha from Red Scare are on the new Adam Friedland Show episode Perfect sequence of posts lmao
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studio mujahideen posted:im gonna move to new york and discover myself! is like a huge chunk of american cultural production in the 20th century it's fun to think of teddy roosevelt as a total poser
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TheSlutPit posted:Perfect sequence of posts lmao lol
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the only way you can have an inauthentic experience imo is by not engaging with your neighbors or the people you interact with. like i grew up in las vegas, so the idea that a space designed to be artificially authentic is anathema to like genuine community is just kinda lol. you just gotta want it, and most people do!
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TheSlutPit posted:Perfect sequence of posts lmao lol
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AnimeIsTrash posted:More importantly why does subway still exist??? Who even eats there??? I do, it's cheap and I got a free sub with a coupon code
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Sep 13, 2022 03:39
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you shouldnt go to any of them but its quiznos>subway>>>>>>>>>>jimmy johns
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I've never had Jersey Mike's, but it looks like absolute trash tier sandwiches on their commercials. Like drat this is what they look like when you're trying to make them look good?
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PostNouveau posted:I've never had Jersey Mike's, but it looks like absolute trash tier sandwiches on their commercials. Like drat this is what they look like when you're trying to make them look good? extremely wrong opinion though i noticed a decade ago their "100% white albacore tuna" just changed to "tuna"
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subway is the only authentic experience left
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Wizard Master posted:Anna and Dasha from Red Scare are on the new Adam Friedland Show episode lmao really i have not listened to any of TAFS because i want to see the videos, but i keep forgetting to do it because it requires a bit more than just putting in my earbuds while i cook dinner.
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crepeface posted:lmao really yeah i'm falling behind. it's not a podcast anymore!! i have to pay attention
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All this fake authenticity talk made me think about the main character in Burn Notice living in a derelict industrial loft above a night club and I only just now realized that was supposed to be really coolAnimeIsTrash posted:More importantly why does subway still exist??? Who even eats there??? Back in like 2013 when I was extremely poor Subway had this month-long anniversary special or something where certain subs were like $1.50 each, and I think I ate about forty of them in that timeframe and now I never want to eat there ever again
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AnimeIsTrash posted:More importantly why does subway still exist??? Who even eats there??? nothing like bland wilty translucent sliced lettuce that's been sitting out for 72-hours congealing together on soggy mushy bread to really get that boomer pallete satisfied
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in hindsight that should have been a sign that they were going to gently caress me over to the tune of thousands of dollars when i left and withhold vacation payout so they could scam PPP loan
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Xaris posted:baby bombers. my bosses at my old job loved subway that’s why you gotta get the sandwich toasted
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crepeface posted:lmao really I just finished it and it’s extremely funny, but it’s basically a short film and wouldn’t work at all in podcast format. Also according to the credits eugene kotlyarenko co-directed it which probably explains both the dasha cameo and the better-than-normal production quality.
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studio mujahideen posted:you shouldnt go to any of them but its quiznos>subway>>>>>>>>>>jimmy johns you literally have this backwards, it's JJ > SW > shitnos keep in mind that i've been severely depressed for years and as such I value food by calorie/$/ease of eating
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Xaris posted:baby bombers. my bosses at my old job loved subway they make fresh bread that smells terrible. that shouldn’t be possible. I’m waiting for the scandal of wtf chemicals are in their bread to finally drop someday cause I am very curious.
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C-Euro posted:It's a few days old but I really liked the most recent Tech Won't Save Us ep on surveillance in school, both as a parent and as someone who is fortunate to not have any weird surveillance crap on any work-issued device. Of course, when I want to post I just do it on my phone The whole episode was totally maddening. It's disquieting to think about how kids nowadays are being raised with severely diminished expectations of privacy. It has genuine impact on self-expression on a basic level.
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Morpheus: Do you believe that my being tastier or healthier has anything to do with my sandwiches in this place? Do you think that's bread you're eating now?
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tokin opposition posted:you literally have this backwards, it's JJ > SW > shitnos hot sandwiches > cold sandwiches for cheap sandwiches imo
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tokin opposition posted:you literally have this backwards, it's JJ > SW > shitnos Now that you mention it I don’t think I’ve seen a Quiznos in five or six years. They used to be kind of common but seem to have died off I guess Best Friends posted:they make fresh bread that smells terrible. that shouldn’t be possible. I’m waiting for the scandal of wtf chemicals are in their bread to finally drop someday cause I am very curious. Did you completely miss the yoga mat controversy? HashtagGirlboss has issued a correction as of 06:04 on Sep 13, 2022 |
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A Bag of Milk posted:The whole episode was totally maddening. It's disquieting to think about how kids nowadays are being raised with severely diminished expectations of privacy. It has genuine impact on self-expression on a basic level. i just listened to it and yeah. its hosed up ive seen a whole lot of lib goons and elsewhere say "there's no way the internet and computers can harm childs development! it's perfectly natural and fine!" yet everything about this poo poo, and in your face every waking second of the day, is going to be harmful
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Now that you mention it I don’t think I’ve seen a Quiznos in five or six years. They used to be kind of common but seem to have died off I guess there's a thread about its demise
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Xaris posted:i just listened to it and yeah. its hosed up the late founder of this very website knew that the internet makes you stupid a literal quarter century ago
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HashtagGirlboss posted:
yes I did miss that entirely. huh, that’s interesting. but it looks like they (supposedly) stopped using it in 2014, and their bread still smells extremely weird. we must go deeper
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Smythe posted:idk how to watch the adam friedland show =/ theyre on youtube
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Goa Tse-tung posted:theyre on youtube where
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