what’s interesting about it?

it looks like another well-off person cosplaying as a poor as a lifestyle. the semi itself probably cost 200k.

this just seems like easy publicity for well-off artists. why trust any of these people?

directors these days are all nepo babies. take note when someone like john carpenter turns down the job.

old man anecdote: my first car was a toyota celica, 10 years old, this was back in 99’. it cost $500, bought in the classified ads, and the deal was sealed with a firm handshake and a passing of legal tender in unwashed hands.

that same car nowadays would run me 8k.

this is a nuanced topic. as much as this meme is trying to be intelligent, it’s just as dumb as what it’s critiquing.

you learn to think from books, but film and TV exercises that thinking. in film you’ll find symbolism and metaphor and meaning, intentional or not.

being able to extract that is intelligence, not raw facts. americans love to boast about how educated they are and about the virtues of education, but why are there millions of users of goodreads and letterboxd and few can write a coherent paragraph about a book they read or a film they watched?

it’s because of this type of braindead thinking–it’s all about imagination!!! imagination is great, but it’s really about thinking; it’s about not being stuck in thought patterns that lead nowhere.

maybe they don’t fully understand the role that artists play in rendering your daily life.

do you feel unease and sadness every single time you pass a fast food restaurant that looks the same as the others? i sure do.

the people who designed the new ones are artists but they work for satan and have no morals. they may as well be AI.

do you ever watch commercials on your streaming box and become quickly annoyed but then take in a commerical from the 80s and vibe to it? maybe not, but if you did, you’d notice the juicy fruity jingle was catchy as fuck and the aesthetics of the commercial were alluring. the modern ones? not so much. artists create all that.

the person in the tweet is too dim to notice these things. maybe they’ll never notice it. maybe they do notice it and they don’t care because they’re disgusting examples of humanity…and embodiments of biblical evil.

it’s in texas though.

now all of a sudden we care about texas? what goes on in texas is as important to me as the affairs of a random tiktok influencer.

we’re fucked no matter if this data center is built or not.

nintendo used to mean games like castlevania, metroid, earthbound, final fantasy, shadowrun, goldeneye. now it means ‘games for little kids featuring goofy characters with too-big heads.’

you shouldn’t have this system to begin with.

we’re all adults, right?

i’d rather go back to browsing the 1998 internet on a webTV box than this modern bullshit. no offense to anyone.

the modern internet is a heavily propagandized mild abstraction of real life. the old internet was ‘the internet.’ it was a playground for nerds, misfits, shut-ins and the regular folk who made the mistake of logging on and trying to talk to the rest of us.

why was it his responsibility? he passed the knowledge onto the proper authorities. he did the right thing.

maybe he didn’t want to jeopardize an investigation by publishing hearsay. maybe he thought they were investigating.

what a silly comment. lol @ the upvotes.

probably has more to do with people not wanting to see ‘lessers’ get ahead–those who put in less effort and minorities, etc.

you can’t fight this with memes. it’s something that’s fundamental to american programming and not everyone sits on the internet all day reading this shit.

look at the underlying messages in films, tv shows and popular media, and it’s the same ambition and personal responsibility driven nonsense that has always been there. it’s always putting out the message that only the most deserving should succeed.

the conversation about wokeness and representation is just a distraction.

gen-z are not only dumber than their parents but less cool.

they don’t even wear baggy jeans right. dudes are out there flexing cropped t-shirts with confidence like it isn’t a bad look even without any gay connotations.

i have such a simmering nostalgia for the old days. on tuesdays there would be 39 cent hamburgers and on wed there’s be 49 cent cheeseburgers. this was at the local micky d’s. that’s what we called mcdonalds in those days. we were beyond a first name basis.

this was around the time i started my first job, which paid $7.50 an hour. and no, this wasn’t in 1970, it was 2001. i wasn’t in the middle of a space odyssey, but an odyssey of the everyman; it was days filled with the aroma and flavor of savory fast food and nights spent with fit y2k hotties in low-rise jeans sipping strawberry shakes. neither of these things cost much and that was a mutual expectation.

i hate zoomers who never experienced past decades being like ‘lol nothing was good.’

bullshit. go and watch home movies in a burger king shot in 1995 and really pay attention to what you see.

“everyone is happier” should be the main takeaway, even the employees.

right lol.

there was at least a balance between profit and caring about the human experience, even if it was on some small level in the name of profit.

she was more interesting than anyone in the celebrity world now. that’s for damn sure. but that’s true of any artist from that time period that was popular enough to be played on the radio or MTV.

nowadays mainstream art is missing the passion of experience.

i was thinking about this the other day when i was watching curb your enthusiasm. larry david was so in tune with the human experience because he lived in the thick of NYC when it was a melting pot of would-be actors and comedians and artists and musicians and everyday people. it was a diverse mix that could afford to live in a hub of culture and opportunity no matter where their lives would lead.

shit now is so out of touch, soft and self-absorbed. the brooklyn gentrifier doesn’t have to live next to the waiter at the restaurant they eat at every day. those lesser people may as well not even exist. and they’re seen as lesser, and this is something that’s just understood even if nobody says it out loud, but in the past you didn’t feel that way unless you were at the furthest edge.

the working class and the poor used to have a voice within culture even if it could be muted at times. maybe kurt cobain or madonna were rich and famous and maybe they never preached the right politics but they spoke for us just the same.

the difference is the level of freely available instruction. you can go on youtube nowadays and probably a find a guide to augmenting or hacking your preferred mmorpg in whatever language you prefer. you can find a tutorial on anything and everything.

back then if you wanted to learn how to code, you’d have to go to college or buy some dry $50 text called the C++ bible and try and make sense of it. online tutorials existed but mostly to teach the basics.

it’s wild to me that zoomers are so stupid when you can learn ANYTHING YOU WANT for free.

you’re ignoring the spirit of the post.

when the wealthy want something done, it gets done.

nothing you’re talking about is outside the power of government… do you want someone’s land? then you just take it. nobody is going to put up a fuss for longer than a few months.

and when they do put up a fight, you crush them or pay them off.

we don’t have anything good because nobody in power is interested.

i feel like a lot of culture nowadays is questionable. a person with the fullest social calendar will still feel special if someone texts them the next day. ‘i’m loved and wanted,’ they’ll think, even if they’re annoyed and not interested in the person.

so, where is this energy coming from?

those aren’t encouraging numbers tbh.

half of the population hating you is a big deal. half of a state hating you, even montana, is a big deal.

a lot of that approval may have to do with cancel culture as well. people may be hesitant to share their real viewpoints even in supposedly safe environments.

if you’re a man, go out in public wearing pink sneakers and tell me you don’t feel the gaze of other humans.

this is why psychiatrists are useless most of the time–they’ve never experienced what you’re going through.

‘just have fun’ lol.

the entire reason you have anxiety is that you’re incapable of achieving that mindset. it takes A LOT of work to undo all those crossed wires.

this advice is like dumb shit in a hollywood movie, like when good will hunting is cured because he gets a hug and someone tells him that ‘it’s not your fault.’