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‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’
  • It’s not deleted from where I am.

    Regurgitating for your enjoyment:

    gonna suck when those underwear, sheets, towels get huge holes in them. gonna make their own soap, shampoo, and deodorant? how bout medications, not buying any of those? subway, L, bus tokens? gasoline? bicycles? shoes? smartphones? lol. this should be interesting to watch.

  • Reading through the Project 2025 PDF is insane
  • In a similar situation here in NZ. On a perm resident visa through partnership, can’t vote, keenly interested in being on my best behaviour here. Labour wasn’t amazeballs, but the current coalition is like watching a pack of dogs with diarrhoea tear through a quiet town. You just know it’ll be on someone else to clean up after them.

  • New Zealand shown from the International Space Station
  • That’s one thing I noticed about NZ, during my first trip: the speed limits are generally sane. If anything, the rural speed limits have a genuine sense of reality to them.

    In stark contrast, driving in Canada (Toronto area) and the US (Texas) most times I felt I could safely go faster, were it not for the constant threat of speed traps or random / stealth cruisers.

    In NZ if you’re doing a long drive and you don’t heed the slower speed limits as you enter a bend in the road, you may have just fucked yourself. Especially if the roads have a layer of moisture, which is likely.

    And the more built up areas have a decent amount of traffic calming, which is nice.

    Toronto and really all of the GTA need a severe dose of NotJustBikes to get sorted.

  • Time to unionize at Kohl's!
  • How bloody insane. I can’t think of too many indoor occupations that would require someone to stand in order to be better at their job.

    Even surgeons should be as comfy as possible. If someone needs to cut open my skull to remove some badness, I’d really like them to be comfy the entire time.

    Time for chair pants aka ‘chants’ to gain some popularity.

  • Questions
  • Back in the 80s one of my first jobs out of university was working downtown Toronto. One of my coworkers was this effervescent woman of Japanese-Canadian descent.

    She would talk about what it was like meeting guys in clubs.

    “So, where are you from?”

    “Scarborough”

    “Uh… no, I mean where are you originally from?”

    (feigning an “oh I getcha now” moment) “Ohh okay, yeah… Saskatchewan”, since that’s where she really was from, previously.

  • Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV
  • 2 years later, somewhere in their sales and marketing departments:

    “Hey, you know what would make us even more money?”

    “No, but do tell”

    “Advertising”

    “Genius - how is it nobody has ever thought of this before?”

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