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He is, but still not as much as the Noxious Offender and his miracle of horrific Amortville science.

Been watching Twin Peaks with my GF recently.

I can hear her song looking at this, great job!

I'd say it's more that many humans are exploitive and have found ways to use capitalism to exploit people, just as happens under every system. It's not an necessary part of capitalism. In theory, everyone works and adds to the economy what they can and receives from it in kind. But the world is not perfect, and people love to exploit whatever they can.

I'm personally a communist in theory, but a realist in practice, and see that communism is just as much or more prone to exploitation in practice. It's basically the same idea of "everyone works, everyone thrives" but with a community centered thought process instead of a self centered one.

What? Reddit usually loves criticizing capitalism.

It does deserve much criticism, but that comment was just dumb.

::swats with newspaper::

It sounds like both need to grow up a bit.

This started as a DIY question, but ended up being a struggling relationship post, lol.

I mean, I love my job and spend much of my free time in wild lands, of which there is plenty. My life is full of meaning and rich experience, and I'm pretty much a poor quasi-hippie with a dirty, blue collar job.

I mean, without technology, how would you not live a barefoot hunter gatherer "cave" life?

I know people who subsistence live off grid, and even they use plenty of technology to make life easier.

Yes, there is plenty of fault to find in our current system, but the "it's too hard" argument is silly. Is it woefully inegalitarian? Yes. Do lots of people struggle to find meaning? Yes. But even the "struggle to find meaning" is a sign of comfort and relative ease.

I mean if you want to go back to hand gathering berries and roots and chasing prey down (no spears though, gotta kill and eat it bare handed), you can totally do it, there's still plenty of wild lands. No fire either though, unless it's wildfire.

Technology and modern society is definitely not without it's faults, but this sentiment is absurdly naive.

And I say this as someone who somewhat shuns a lot of the trappings of modern life.

It's just funny when somebody says "life is so hard these days" as they sit in their climate controlled dwelling, typing on a device that holds the sum of all knowledge, and work likely less than full time at a relatively easy, though possibly still soul sucking job.

Yeah, it was way better when we were working in the mines 10 hours a day without weekends from age 10 for an allowance at the company store.

I advise that author proofread their articles, and that philosopher learn to take good advice now and then.

Makes me think of this video.

https://youtu.be/Kpm1l0HfkV0

Love the color and lighting.

Hyder, AK is accessible by sea, air, or driving several hundred miles across BC.

Worth it though.

That's a more detailed, accurate take, yes.

"Crazy person does crazy thing for attention, negates real struggles of people everywhere."

More at 6:00, 8:00, and 11:00.

I've seen clouds grow in unreal looking ways in Florida, like billowing smoke forming a massive stratocumulus in pretty short order. But not in a couple seconds.

It's nice for plants this season, but doesn't magically replenish the aquifers and such that took many, many years to fill.

Pretty sure throwing hands is part of the interview process.

There's always a fight at a Waffle House.

Been a long few years. I forgot until now, and my boss/friend is a huuuuge Sox fan, so this was big news around the shop when it happened.

Shoshanna rigs the island to explode. Everyone dies.

I've had precisely one pair of owned snowboard boots that I would actually call "comfortable." The rest were between "bearable" and "actually not that bad."

Of course I apparently left them in the parking lot on the mountain last year 😕

It's both. It's mismanagement to extract maximum profits from minimal crews, colliding with bad weather. It's easier to work around problems when you have the staff and planes to do so.

It's a Futurama reference, relax.

A fire extinguisher either puts out the fire in seconds or it doesn't. If you need more than a few seconds to put out a fire, it's already totally out of control until real fire suppression measures get there, and even then it's generally more of a "prevent spread" thing.

10 seconds is a long time in an emergency. Count ten-mississippis and imagine you're trying to put out a fire.

I've used extinguishers multiple times, and it's usually a couple quick one second bursts to knock the fire out, followed by emptying the thing to be sure it stays out.