What is this from?
They Live.
Yes, but what’s the name of the movie?
No, What’s on second.
Third base!
That movie always wilds me out because it was so much better back then for this shit, and it was still recognized that it’s insane we live like this.
“some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.”
“Those who died are justified; by wearing the badge, they’re your chosen whites”
These problems have been seen forever. Everyone is comfortable working through controlled opposition so we just chill on the ratchet. Its only going to get worse until people grow a spine and stop being tolerant, which is never going to happen.
Man, I know. Too many people didnt understand the point of these events or the cultural icons that spoke about them, and instead chose sides of an imagined political spectrum in North America. Abbie Hoffman and Fred Hampton are rolling in their graves.
…hindsight, for some reason, always appears in 20/20…
“AI feature that I will eventually disable”
Jokes on you, the reason im not upgrading is that I cant disable it. So im holding out on my current devices until they die of natural causes (last smart phone lived 8 years and my FP4 should last 10), or I find a replacment I fully control.
(Just got rid of my last windows device a few weeks ago, still got the one for work, but it can be done).
Weren’t these the same people saying that we should stop buying new iPhones and avocado toast?
Money hoarding by billionaires is literally destroying the entire world
Seriously, I remember the days when buying the newest model of phone every year was seen as near parody levels of hyper-consumerism. It was lambasted, mocked, looked down on.
I just thought it was some rich people shit, when I was a kid
Hollywood movies made people feel like they were the rich, important ones.
I’ve been costing the economy for decades now
When I saw the title, I thought this was talking about like keeping old devices and never using them again after buying new ones. How is continuing to use an old device instead of buying more eventual waste “hoarding” smh…
By their logic, I’m hoarding Thanksgiving leftovers by planning to eat them over the next couple days. How dare I not go out and buy new food when I already have good food to eat!
“Costing the economy”
Thankfully wealth horders aka. billionaires pouring money into offshore bank accounts, unaffordable real estate, government bonds, and inflated stocks are all in our benefit. Only us peasants are being selfish.
If those billionaires wanted to increase the GDP they should pay more so more money circulates.
But they are so generous because they are protecting the rainforest in subsuharen Africa or something. Case closed, no need for tax reform, they know better and are better.
Seriously, the belittling nature of some these billionaires borders on perverse, Bezos mentioned something about how he likes to be looked at like a daddy to his employees.
Why is anyone listening to 24/7 cable news networks? You know they stir shit all day cause that’s their $$$.
Yes, these people are truly insane. I recently read the following headline:
Rheinmetall shares: Fear of peace shocks investors
(Translated from German, source | Rheinmetall is an arms manufacturer)
wtf
The macroeconomics over welfare economics bias is strong.
So we aren’t spending our minimum wages on $2000 phones often enough, because we’re wasting it on steadily rising costs for food, housing, utilities, and health care?
Well, they can just go fuck themselves.
I have a Samsung S23, and it is going to be the first time my phone WON’T either be destroyed or stolen before it is fully paid off. I won’t be getting another phone until something like Cape phone is fully functional in my area and I can have a GrapheneOS compatiable device. I will not be allowing any more bullshit be spying on me more than I need to (which ideally should be zero, but that is basically impossible).
It’s the same trend as desktops then laptops then phones then now on small smartwatches, they get good enough and standardized enough that they didn’t really change much anymore. And the mature technology means that as long as the old one works people won’t upgrade it until it breaks.
For me personally the last three phones I got were destroyed, stolen, destroyed… in that order. Ironically I didn’t armor up the last two phones due to the fact that the first phone was cased pretty strongly and was broken BECAUSE of that .
However it seems that my current phone is armored up and it is lasting well. Btw my previous phone was a Motorola G5 Power. Meaning it was grapheneOS compatible… Just my rotten luck.
I swear to god if I get one more commercial of someone dancing and taking a photo. I’ll ignore it even more
“Buy the new Google Pixel T1000!”
“okay, why”
(advert shows the camera, and some “Ok google do this” feature)
“so nothing new since the last 5 phones, eh?”More dancing!
Hey, it was thanks to these kinds of people that I was able to buy a literally new Galaxy S24 for $300 like a month after release.
My wife’s Samsung Note10 is still going fine. Koodo is offering me a Pixel10 for free (no tab) if I choose direct banking withdraw option for my $50 phone plan instead of using my credit card monthly. They seem desperate.
