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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ughhh, I hate ingesting stimulants and sitting at computer at work >:(

I wish I could ingest stimulants and sit at computer at home :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

I WFH, so I technically do both simultaneously.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I use depressants and stimulants. It helps the day go by a little faster.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I hope you wait until after work to take the depressants. IDK about you, but recreational depressants are against policy to use while working.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago

Wish i could afford a better life

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

Yikes man... This is my daily thought

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

This is going to sound out of left field, and I do understand that, but I’m legitimately ready to go learn how to forage year round, build mobile tents out of natural materials, and live in a small band of 10-30 like evolution intended. Let’s pool our resources to buy land back from the idiots who are enslaving us and fuck off into the forest to live a genuinely free existence.

Civilization was a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe joining a commune would be easier and achieve what you're looking for. I found this link: https://www.ic.org/directory/communes/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Communes always sound great, but every single one I've ever heard of eventually collapses to some drama so dumb it makes PTA meetings seem sane

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Communes (and my run-away-to-the-forest idea above) will never work without the proper cultural education and social rules to prevent that kind of behavior. To relearn how to build a socially sustainable culture, we should look to cultures that have been around for thousands of years and have done it successfully. It would be a really hard transition because it requires a complete restructuring of how we view other people and how we relate to them. Which, honestly, I think we should be doing anyway, commune or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I absolutely agree with you and I'd love to be able to pack up and move to a commune tomorrow. Problem is that some people just seem to thrive on power and drama.

If it wasn't so incredibly unethical, I'd love to see what'd happen if some children were raised in a commune with minimal interaction from outside adults. I wonder how their culture and language would develop and to see whether or not they form a society similar to our society or if they manage to make a sustainable commune.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We can just look to indigenous cultures for this. They’ve been doing it for tens of thousands of years before being colonized. Like, indigenous Australian cultures sustained themselves for 60k-100k years without ruining their environment while also living in commune-type societies. Native North/South Americans did it too. We can hand off our kids to untouched/minimally touched cultures to learn how to relate to the environment and each other. There will always be human conflict. It’s how we handle that conflict that we need to learn again, and how to appropriately handle conflict needs to be retaught by those who know how to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Very true, though I'm more interested in how a completely new culture would develop. There's absolutely no way I can think of that would allow the children to be completely unaffected by existing adults since they can't exactly feed themselves, but I really wonder what would happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

It’s an interesting thought experiment!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I can imagine that happening. A substantial share of marriages end in divorce, where only 2 adult individuals need to agree on how things should be run. I can't imagine adding additional people would make things less likely to fall apart

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Just like a successful marriage, it would require effort and commitment from everyone involved

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Until they come killing pillaging and enslaving you, then little by little the bands group together making bigger and bigger groups with the worst people leading them until we end up back where we are now

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

You guys are getting stimulants?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Yup. We even have automated dispensers for them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

I wish the stimulants would stimulate happiness and not just urine production

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

My stimulation has me evacuating my bowels

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

If you work is not at least giving you coffee you need to start mailing the CEO pictures of Luigi. Amphetamines and coke would be a nice perk too while we're at it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

I'm getting stimulated right now!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

anxiety is stimulating.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I'm generating shareholder value! Its all I live for

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Oh I thought we were talking about eating adderall and playing Monster Hunter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Woah brother! Save some turns on the hamster wheel for the rest of us!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

I'm getting these references because Im caffinated!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

As far as I know work is voluntary

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

how are you gonna live if you can't buy food?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I can buy food, but I'm still not sure one could call this "living."

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 hours ago

What I'm trying to say is: nobody is forcing you to do a job that you hate. Nobody except the internalized worldview that you are only human if you can proof a professional career.