PoundSand posted:

It feels like a lot of hobbies are prohibitively expensive and/or require a flexible schedule with ample pto to really pursue anymore and people spending all their time on their smart phone or tablet is more a symptom of it just being something they can sneak in after/before work that's free.

loquacius posted:

oh so it's an entirely different type of bullshit fuckery, got it

The Oldest Man posted:

[combining 'total labor fixation' with 'total labor alienation' in the large hadron collider to create a black hole]

RandomBlue posted:

All you have to do is pick the right stock, it's so easy.

Justin Tyme posted:

There's no winnin. Go back in time 20 years n tell your little goon self to put all your money in the graphics card company with the weird fairies on the box, because it'll be one of the most powerful companies on earth some day. You'd be like, what? Being able to play hl2 on max at release is THAT important for the economy??

the milk machine posted:

if you have a bit of space or even just a window it is very relaxing and rewarding and inexpensive to grow plants

the milk machine posted:

if you have a bit of space or even just a window it is very relaxing and rewarding and inexpensive to grow plants

anime was right posted:

american culture, perpetuated by protestant "values," makes identity and self-realization heavily intertwined with the sort of work you do, your job title, and your income and serves as arguably the most important hierarchy in social status. because we aren't given the room to create a sense of self independent of work, people become lost the instant they aren't working. it's not just people being unable to retire or falling apart after they do, it's probably the largest root cause of why young men are thrashing out and becoming right wing idiots, because our patriarchal society's identity and placement of a man is pretty much "job and wife" and no one can actually get the job part of this, so the only thing they cling onto is the entitlement and feeling of self-fulfillment that a wife would give them, and when they can't get that because women are like "hm maybe i dont want to marry a person that would beat me how about some like, standards or something" men individually cannot fathom a different world. without work, or even "good" work, people in america just fall the gently caress apart because when you make everything in american society about work, it's only going to function if people can!

DickParasite posted:

What if my very presence sucks the life out of everyone and everything around me?

mawarannahr posted:

the great satan is getting upset
Janet Yellen says China's rapid green energy production is creating unfair competition that will hurt American workers and distort global prices

Animal-Mother posted:

A good post.

DickParasite posted:

What if my very presence sucks the life out of everyone and everything around me?

DickParasite posted:

What if my very presence sucks the life out of everyone and everything around me?

Retromancer posted:

My favorite thing is that Coke and Pepsi are categorized under "Consumer Staples" instead of "Consumer Discretionary."

You have no choice but to drink the diabetes juice.

Smythe posted:

hobbies can be pretty cheap. hell you can literally just wake up, read, have lunch with friends, go for a walk, read and write, and then go to bed. it worked for a weird little guy named immanuel kant

Hubbert posted:

This has to be the most American thing I've read all day.

RealityWarCriminal posted:

would love to build something but shits way too expensive

Cold on a Cob posted:

PoundSand posted:

It feels like a lot of hobbies are prohibitively expensive and/or require a flexible schedule with ample pto to really pursue anymore and people spending all their time on their smart phone or tablet is more a symptom of it just being something they can sneak in after/before work that's free.

Salt Fish posted:

The JDRF response to that campaign was basically "we don't give a poo poo about type 2 diabetes we're a type 1 org".

PoundSand posted:

It feels like a lot of hobbies are prohibitively expensive and/or require a flexible schedule with ample pto to really pursue anymore and people spending all their time on their smart phone or tablet is more a symptom of it just being something they can sneak in after/before work that's free.

PoundSand posted:

It feels like a lot of hobbies are prohibitively expensive and/or require a flexible schedule with ample pto to really pursue anymore and people spending all their time on their smart phone or tablet is more a symptom of it just being something they can sneak in after/before work that's free.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Just make shoplifting your hobby, easy peasy

Woke Mind Virus posted:

get into sports betting or poker.

In Training posted:

Yup very good advice

Justin Tyme posted:

There's no winnin. Go back in time 20 years n tell your little goon self to put all your money in the graphics card company with the weird fairies on the box, because it'll be one of the most powerful companies on earth some day. You'd be like, what? Being able to play hl2 on max at release is THAT important for the economy??

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

*extremely Hans Moleman voice*

I need the cheapest zero emission vehicle fleet you have
...
no, that's too cheap

rex rabidorum vires posted:

Let me tell you about the joy of recreational cycling....

no lube so what posted:

frolf is a great hobbies for this

just chucking a frisbee through the park

no tee times

free

$20 at play it again sports and you have a life time of equipment

tons of random doubles, meet people, community

RandomBlue posted:

Put all my money in 3DFX and then the Voodoo 5 happened. Now I live in a carboard box.