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[–] 86 points 1 year ago (13 children)

This is, apparently, Shanin Blake. This is a picture from 2017.

Her parents are not rich.

Arguably, there's a lot to criticize her about, but her leading a carefree lifestyle and finding success in publicizing it doesn't seem like one.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Trustafarian is an absolutely brilliant insult.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    why would you insult somebody for being middle-class

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Trust fund isn't middle class.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    why would you insult somebody for having a trust fund

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You're on ML, rabidly hating the rich should be your thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    mm... well I hate billionaires for being exploitative and shit. And I'd like to see their money shared around. But a trust fund is something that one is given by the circumstances of their birth, not something one needs to be an exploitative asshole for. Perhaps their parents are exploitative assholes, sure, but why would I hate somebody just for being born into privilege?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's far too reasonable a viewpoint, you'll get banned from your instance talking like that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I.. I don't understand what is happening here. You are the one who is advocating insulting people for having a trust fund, but you're saying I'm too reasonable because I disagree?

    Anyway, if you think I'd be banned for that opinion, you might have misunderstood something something about our philosophy. Karl Marx grew up in a wealthy family, after all.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Has anyone seen real dreadlocks before? These are obviously not real. Maybe she's not trying to pass them off as real, idk.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm not sure I get why you responded to my comment.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Arguably, there's a lot to criticize her about, but her leading a carefree lifestyle and finding success in publicizing it doesn't seem like one.

    Wanna bet that whoever latches onto the image to jam their lazy uninformed truthiness (as Stephen Colbert coined the term) narrative into, uses the same kind of lazy uninformed truthiness narrative
    bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe MuH pURiTeH
    to not vote and empower the goose-stepping fascist goons into the federal government and into their communities.

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  • I've got friends who are vibing without a job. The vibes are... not so good.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    There are people vibing on fiends couches going from person to person. They they don't look like that.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (24 children)

    I for one just had a good job and zero life for 5 years and will kms when my savings run out in a year or two

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Why not just work for 5 more years and build the buffer again instead of ending it?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    Long life isn't everything. World is fucked

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    World has always been fucked (see Billy Joel's "we didn't start the fire" for simple reference). Life is what you make of it

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

    We've had a habitable wilderness for all of human existence until now. Dystopian society is now The only option for living in most of the planet. World has not always been this fucked.

    Edit: if you're not convinced, actuaries are predicting 2 billion climate deaths at +2C warming (we're at 1.7C now) and 4 billion deaths at 3C, which is the absolute minimum we're in for assuming we stopped all emissions tomorrow. Obviously that's not happening, so it's going to be way worse than that. Our existing billions of people also depend on a complex web of logistics systems which are currently falling apart or being dismantled. Google "complexity collapse."

    One of you can have my ration. I'm not gonna fight you for it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    The Antarctic used to have a giant ozone hole. In the late 1960's, Lake Erie was dead from pollution. The Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so polluted it caught fire. Rain was so acidic that statues in cities were dissolving.

    Read history instead of following social media hype. Despite Trump turning back the clock a few years, the environment has improved dramatically over the past 50 years.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Fine. Until relatively recently, like before mass industrialization.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Your premise is that it's going to get a lot worse. But the past 50 years has been improving. It's therefore reasonable to believe we will keep improving.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    That is silly logic.

    Also the past 50 years has not been all improvement, the global warming crisis has steadily grown worse to name the most obvious. The economic crisis following the results of that global warming is also just going to get worse. This will lead to more political crises as politics will get steadily radicalised and authoritarian.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Those examples you mention are pretty insignificant compared to the global warming crisis we are experiencing now. Reading history won't really help, because we have never faced what we have faced now in human history: manmade global warming in an industrialised, highly specialised society.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    50 years ago most waterways in the US were so polluted as to be dead to wildlife. Cities buildings were black with pollution.

    Global warming is actually minor compared to the immediate death people were facing decades ago. For example unchecked ozone depletion could have resulted in the destruction of all rice crops on Earth. An analogy that comes to mind is the Black Plague vs Covid. It's not that Covid wasn't (isn't) a problem. And like Covid we are deploying modern technology to fix the problems. Solar is being installed everywhere. The US is going backwards temporarily. But the US isn't the world. Europe and China are getting things done.

    People who see the problems are the absolutely not the ones who should be killing themselves. They're the only ones that can contribute to the future.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Difference is that, those problems had relatively easier solution which was being worked on. This does not hold for global warming, we are not even trying!

    Honestly, it's pathetic that you try to look at things rose-tinted. Is it that hard to accept imminent crisis?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Difference is that, those problems had relatively easier solution which was being worked on.

    It required global cooperation to ban CFC's and restore the ozone layer. It required destroying large corporations so the the rivers could be clean again. These things were done and can continue to be done.

    This does not hold for global warming, we are not even trying!

    Absolutely not true. 1.08 terawatts of power are solar in China. 1.6Terrawatts in US. 107.6 GW in Germany. France has always been Nuclear. Massive EV adoption in China and Europe.

    it’s pathetic that you try to look at things rose-tinted

    I grew up in the 1970's when you couldn't swim or fish in the rivers. The city was filthy, and not in today's sanitized "oh there's some trash". Every surface in the city was covered in black grime. Moths in cities evolved into black variations because cities weren't white concrete- they were black grime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution

    Statues were crumbling from acid rain.

    The world is so much cleaner than 50 years ago.

    This is what has been done recently:

    Past improvements don't mean we need to stop!

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Climate change isn't the same as cleaning up litter? It's on a global scale of gigatons of emissions, involving every industrialized nation all interacting together with the environment.

    This is bigger than anything in human history. Stop fucking comparing it to cleaning up some fucking tires in a river.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Climate change isn't the same as cleaning up litter?

    I didn't mention cleaning up litter at all! In fact I specifically said it wasn't.

    It's on a global scale of gigatons of emissions,

    I already mentioned CFC's which required global cooperation on a scale never seen before.

    This is bigger than anything in human history

    Everything is bigger than anying human history because we have more people.

    Stop fucking comparing it to cleaning up some fucking tires in a river.

    WHAT THE FUCK? QUOTE ME.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Lake Erie was dead from pollution. The Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so polluted it caught fire.

    I misunderstood the examples given, I figured they were filled with trash, looking it up I see trash was only part of the problem.

    But that doesn't actually change my point! Cleaning up toxic waste at a single lake or river site isn't the same as cleaning the atmosphere of the entire fucking planet. It's absurd to put these on the same scale as climate change.

    We don't even have the technology to clean the atmosphere on a human timescale, and it might not even be possible.

    I already mentioned CFC’s which required global cooperation on a scale never seen before.

    CFCs were only emitted from a few specific industries and could be eliminated with existing alternatives, and they weren't the basis for the entire economy. CFCs are also not present in the atmosphere for very long and they decay very quickly, and were only present at a little over 1 part per billion. They're already falling because eliminating them was easy.

    We're at 415 parts per million in CO2 concentrations. That's orders of magnitude in difference, and the carbon that is already present will take multiple human lifetimes to be removed via natural means. And it's still getting worse.

    CFCs were baby shit compared to this crisis of civilization.

    EDIT Oh I forgot, wanna know something funny? Those CFC alternatives we're using actually contribute to climate change.

    Everything is bigger than anying human history because we have more people.

    That also means we have more enemies, and at the moment those enemies are controlling the US government.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Cleaning up toxic waste at a single lake or river site

    It wasn't a single river and single lake. It was everywhere. There wasn't a clean river, large lake or bay in the US. The examples I gave were only the most publicized.

    The air in all cities, everywhere, was so polluted the moths evolved to be black.

    https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/plants-algae/signs-recovering-harbor#%3A%7E%3Atext=In+the+1970s%2C+43+communities%2Cof+Shame%E2%80%9D+in+the+1980s!

    https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/baltimores-swimmable-harbor-movement#%3A%7E%3Atext=Until+the+1970s%2C+inland+industries%2Cfilter+and+refresh+the+water.

    https://www.californiasun.co/photos-when-l-a-smog-was-so-bad-people-suspected-a-gas-attack/

    We're at 415 parts per million in CO2 concentrations. That's orders of magnitude in difference, and the carbon that is already present will take multiple human lifetimes to be removed via natural means.

    Unchecked CFC's would have resulted in the sterilization of the entire planet. In the 1970's pollution was at a level where all life was destroyed in many local ecologies. It wasn't "It's too hot here so native species died out and were replaced with desert species." It was complete annihilation of all life in the area.

    Global warming means a few billion die. It's an extremely serious problem but we are improving.

    https://rhg.com/research/preliminary-us-greenhouse-gas-estimates-for-2024/

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I grew up next to the Cuyahoga in the '70s and I don't think people today could even begin to understand how nasty it really was. Old tires everywhere, rusting steel barrels full of god knows what, and a thick oily scum over any part of it that wasn't moving. Factories along the edge had big drainage pipes that just emptied directly into the river (one of these factories made Oasis foam, that green shit florists stick flowers into). The real shocker was not that the river caught fire from time to time, but that it wasn't on fire all the time.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    This is a local observance and an expression of your privilege. That trashed environment didn't disappear or get rectified, the pollution and heavily polluting industries necessary to support our lifestyles were offshored and exported to poor countries.

    What makes now a million times worse than the 70s is the immense global destruction of habitat that had only started gaining serious momentum in the 70s.

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    [–] 63 points 1 year ago* (22 children)

    As someone who effectively lives in his grandmother's attic and "vibes" I am insulted by the vague comparison. I have to budget with my job damnit, I work as a courier one day a week.

    The rest of the week is me doing autism and childhood PTSD things, so jacking off and playing Fallout NV. Also getting new scars via cats.

    I also have a far better sense of fashion, THE 1940 SWEDISH TANKER GREAT COAT STAYS ON DURING SEX!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    But have you 100 % NV yet? I'm currently trying to.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    I have had NV since it more or less released I have over a thousand hours on it and have played it more or less continuously for over a decade. Of course I havent 100% it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Nice. I also have had it since then, but got it for the 360. Did one playthrough and vowed never to play another Bethesda game on console haha. Been doing it on PC this time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Could be worse, my first playthrough was the PS3 version. Which to say was a scuffed introduction would be an understatement, though luckily I was able to get the ultimate edition at Walmart discounted on August 13 2012 according to my steam profile. Which I am now realizing means I put up with PS3 NV for nearly 2 years fucking hell, kid me had a high tolerance for bullshit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oof. Weird thing was that I played FO3 on PC, but then got NV for the 360. Not too sure why. 2 years on console NV is a feat to endure haha.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    stays on

    Im sure

    during sex

    Unproven.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I consider it sex when my alter ego takes control and starts ravaging my body. Big grey area though, in terms of consent.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oof. I get that. Must be rough finding people who are both considerate and capable of dealing with that complexity.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Don't you get bored, or back problems from sitting at a computer 24/7 ?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I have enough room to pace in a circle while listening to music and emotionally spiral over my past failures, perpetual inadequacy, etcetera. Also I sometimes need to sleep so I lay down at times. Also it isn't seven days a week, I need to go out to the desert and deliver vegetables and other produce every Friday.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I feel like I am being trolled, but if this is actually true, it sounds interesting

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  • I'm being completely serious, though theres a good bit of self awareness mixed in. I wish I could get a job that was more than one day a week, but alas unless you want to work front end retail getting any other job is like pulling teeth. Online applications were a mistake for numerous reasons least of all it forces folks like myself more or less out of the job market because I fundementally can't deal with their stupid song and dance, just give me a job if ya don't like me fire me.

    Or are you referring to my pacing? If so I feel it's needed context that I more or less have the second floor to myself since my grandmother's knees can't handle it. Helps that I'm her only descendant on speaking terms with her, also she raised me.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    i lost my job earlier this year, so i'm just vibin'. Not exactly ideal but I have some buffer time saved up.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That chick is annoying. I think I've blocked five or six video different clone accounts to stop getting her videos on the reels feed.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Wait, this is a specific person? I assumed OP was a stock photo. Is her shtick just being the 2020s version of a hippie?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    As cringe as this gal is (I don't watch her videos either) I can stomach her easier than the 77 Million people who voted for Trump. I'd much rather focus on fixing whatever is wrong with them over this neo-hippie.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The best way to fight the system is to be jobless. Imagine if no one had a job? Bye bye capitalism. The end. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't afford to have good vibes. Money brings you happiness and prettier partners.

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