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Even if you were, if every college freshman dipshit on the entire internet is saying the same exact thing then why bother? it's not like you're bringing any new insight to the table, you're pointing out really obvious things and saying "that, like, sucks man".Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
you know telecommunications companies like AT&T have been given grants since back in the mid 90s to improve infrastructure? Which they didn't. They were supposed to upgrade everything to fiber and throw out the copper, instead they just used the grants to do slightly more than standard maintenance, called it "improving the infrastructure", and pocketed tax payers money.
Why would they ever want to upgrade to fiber optics now, they are making way too much money off of leaving everything as copper and charging extra money for bandwith.. If that's not a consumer's nightmare, I don't know what is.
I didn't read that but I'll bet it's how about corporations, like, screw us and stuff, man.
plug drugs shut the hell up man. you just got out of the red rep pit and you are spamming like a bitch.
I wish you were right, that would mean the next generation of educated individuals knows what's up. But they don't, they're all talk; some of the claim to despide consumerism, then turn around and buy the limited-capability iphone and an overpriced macintosh, made by a company that has survived on the corporate philosophical principle of assuming that its customers are idiotsQuote:
Originally Posted by maks
I have to ask myself "If plug drugs is just taking things that have been said a billion times and making them slightly longer, why should I read his posts?" and the answer is I shouldn't
Early 2000s:
Everyone's making mp3 players: "Here buy our mp3 player, it can hold 200mb of songs, just copy/paste the songs you want on it from your music folder into the mp3 player's folder."
All of the consumers; "Wow that is pretty neat!"
Apple: "Here buy our iPod, Ummmmmmm yeah okay, its not an 'mp3 player', its an iPod okay, get it right. Mandatory software has to be installed before using it, NYAAAAH! Go to our store and pay money for the music that should be free"
All of the Consumers: "I fucking love it, way better than that other fucking thing i was using! And it's an iPod not an mp3 player mmkay *smug as fuck*"
Apple is then resuscitated and re-enters the playing field as a formidable opponent so they can continue to spread their disease in the pc market for decades to come. And everyone was sooo close to forgetting that Apple even existed, and letting them die off. God damn you ipod!
the alternative sounds like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
"Apple is gay!"
"No it isn't faggot!"
who cares lol
yeah and meanwhile asia's internet is about 10 years more advanced than ours, and that gap is growing. We're all still too preoccupied over here with trying to make money to do something that would be objectively better for everyoneQuote:
Originally Posted by maks
"Just not buying Apple products isn't good enough for me, I have to spend every waking moment obsessing over not buying them because I love being a contrarian."Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
i dont think anyone here can say they dont spend most of their freetime on the internet, that's why it matters. Everything is in the shitter and fixing it starts with an attitude adjustmentQuote:
Originally Posted by Camoron
You do absolutely nothing with your life. You sit around doing drugs and posting lengthy diatribes on the internet that nobody will ever read, you fucking hypocrite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
shh quiet everyone the unemployed cart pusher on heroin is about to tell us how to live our lives, listen up!
no that time is spent obsessing over how the world could very easily slip into dystopia now that the technology is becoming available for it; corporations handicapping their customers is a big contributor to that, and Apple is a very noteworthy exampleQuote:
Originally Posted by maks
"Wah I don't like one of the 12,000 different mp3 players available at every single walmart"
ive made somewhere around 600k (gross) so far in my life, im doing better than most ppl in the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by hiroshima
when's the last time anyone's actually done something with their life?Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
Do I need to take out a loan for a new car and have a patio set before I can be in the cool kids club?
i'm young and don't know what to do okay, this is me figuring it out. Don't think i'm content sitting around doing nothing; every path laid out consists of either A) Getting into debt or B) committing myself to just one thing in life
No one else my age has anything to show for themselves either really. The ones that do had to completely dedicate themselves to something like moving across the country to do a high paying manual labor job out in bumfuck where there's a 9 to 1 guy to girl ratio
I wish I had 10 grand to just play around with investments, I'd make that my full time job.. Take speed and trade; it'd turn it into a video game for me and I'd win
there's people out there making a difference every single day. you're not, and never will be, so maybe it would be in your best interest to keep your mouth shut about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
what gets you off on pointing out someone's status to invalidate what they're saying? "get back in your place, serf!"Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
I guess a peasant back in the dark ages could have wrote the entire works of shakespeare, but no one would have read them or taken them seriously for being written by a peasant.
How about unemployed cart pusher on heroin who is smarter than you, has more potential, and is also a better person?
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Originally Posted by Batty
Let me know when you meet him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
things pludrugs can do that will not stick him in one thing for life and still look good on a resume:Quote:
Originally Posted by maks
Volunteering for local church/youth/homeless events and programs (be a big brother plugdrugs, youll feel good without drugs)
A mall job, at least its getting you out the house and meeting new people
fast food work or waiting tables, see above
(literally hundreds of thousands of people have paid their own way through college doing shit jobs and never gotten "stuck")
and literally millions of people have worked shit jobs and HAVE gotten "stuck".. Here's just some horror stories to name a few:
- becoming an alcoholic and blowing all your money at the bar
- knocking some girl up and losing all your money to child support payments
- getting married to some girl who doesn't actually love you, getting divorced, and her taking everything
- getting so burnt out from working you don't care about anything else at all, and eventually just accept that position you're in
- being unable to resist the urge to spend all your money as soon as you get it (this was my Mom's problem; got into insurmountable credit card debt)
I will not fucking work for a company that treats their employees like shit, pays them peanuts, and makes millions doing it. I will literally shoot myself before working retail again, I'd rather work for satan himself than the asshats running corporate franchises
Imagine if every fast food worker across the country simultaneously quit their shitty minimum wage job; it would send shockwaves through the corporate world, it would force them to increase their wages. People around here can fish and hunt and farm; that's ALL we were doing just a few decades ago, and people only "went out to eat" a few times a year. People in Northern Minnesota will be just fine and cozy if the system totally collapses in on itself, Hell I'd almost prefer it that way.
no i felt that way when i was a teenager and then i grew upQuote:
Originally Posted by Plug Drugs
let's do it, lets start a facebook group called "National Quit Your Minimum Wage Job Day", set a date for next spring
we can cite some perfectly valid reasons for doing it:
1. Your minimum wage job is disposable and you are likely going to quit soon anyways; why not make it matter when you do?
2. If our little scheme doesn't work, you can just roll across town and get another minimum wage job in like a week; in fact you could just think of it as a vacation.
yeah plug drugs is a perpetual high school sophomore, a manchild with no concept of how the real world worksQuote:
Originally Posted by hiroshima