Otoboke Beaver

Punk isn’t dead, it just put on a dress and moved to Japan

My brain has coalesced around this fantasy version of who I was when I was 25.

I’m in my 30s now but when I imagine myself that’s who I picture. And funny enough that person wasn’t even who I was at that age. I was way insecure about so many of the things I now think back on fondly. Getting older is a funny thing.

60°F. Not raining, but misting.

This is why I live in the PNW.

I jokingly said “1999 Honda Fit” so many times that now they call me asking about that fictional car.

I had a similar experience. I was maybe 17, driving alone at night to choir practice. Stopped at a red light on an empty street and a guy walked straight up to my car and tried to open the passenger door. It was locked and thankfully the light turned green a second later. I peeled out.

Human beings are FUCKED.

Drawing. I tried so hard in school, practiced regularly, and never got better. I’m in my 30s now and my DND group still makes fun of me when I draw anything other than walls on the wet erase mat.

Average “no one will listen to my under baked political opinios in real life so I’ll hold a meme community hostage” 17 year old

Anyone here play Call of Cthulhu? Its my favorite TTRPG by far (as long as I can lump in Delta Green along with it). It has some masterclasses prepublished scenarios that are the best I’ve read of any game I’ve ever run.

A if I know the vocabulary. B if I don’t.

Its all about the audience.

Great. I got downvoted for pointing out the fucking rules which you’re breaking. Enjoy your dumb fucking rage bait debate that goes nowhere. If you hate California and Democrats then move to Texas and freeze to death with the rest of the republicans.

Rule #2 - Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions.

Yeah :) I actually am going to reach FI myself next year at 33 y/o. Was hoping to hear this person’s story since its a concept I’m very interested in.

How do you support yourself and how did you make that happen?

Holy shit Fortune thinks someone is going to pay $20/mo to read clickbait? Wild.

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How did you get an invite?

I know you’re joking but yeah, I basically don’t watch tv or movies or listen to music.

And yes, I do exclusively wear logo-less clothing!

That’s because the writer is trying to make it sound that way to get people to click the headline.

In reality, the 1,000 people were mostly just tagging the videos to help train future iterations of the model. It would have taken way more than only 1,000 people to actually run the technology as a mechanical turk.

Its just poor quality sensationalist journalism.

I definitely think there are things you can do to lessen the effect of ads on your decision making.

The best way is to try not to see ads at all. Use Ad Blockers on all digital devices. Wear headphones in public places. Train yourself to look away from billboards, elevator televisions and all other kinds of physical environment advertising. Don’t shop at stores run by the products’ brand. Every time you see a product recommendation, ask yourself if its possible the writer got paid for making that recommendation.

There are also lots of behavioral approaches you can take to un-do the effect of marketing and advertising when purchasing things. Define what you need before you start looking at products. Use the price per oz instead of packaging shape to make decisions at the grocery store. Only buy store brand.

That’s all my helpful advice, but I’m also guilty of taking this stuff too far. There are absolutely products that I would like, but refuse to buy because I hate them for advertising to me. I’ve stopped consuming lots of media because I thought their advertising revenue approach was gross. I have a bunch of generic containers & big bottle of GooGone in my house and remove all the labels from everything I buy as soon as I bring them home. These things don’t actually help… its just spiteful behavior I haven’t been able to bring myself to move past unfortunately.

Ticketing people who don’t pay for parking is “bullying?”

This is pretty insulting to people who have actually suffered from real bullying. There’s plenty of real problems in the world to be righteously angry about. Maybe let’s not post shitty Facebook memes on Lemmy.