I never knew something could be so deeply destructive, it makes sense how the US jumped on the shit ASAP for consumerist purposes. I never thought I’d be nostalgic for when I went through my instagram feed for the day or when I saw all that I could on a popular subreddit for the time being

All of this because tech bros couldn’t care less about the arts/culture

timmy-pray i hope to one day see the internet destroyed, even if it means losing hexbear. We won’t achieve shit as people without spending most of our time touching grass

Sorry for the ostensibly manic rant, I just cannot stop thinking about how I spend all of my waking hours touching a fucking computer for a company I do not care about then go home to a different computer because my hometown is a land of crumbling asphalt, strip malls and chain restaurants.

There’s gotta be a lot more out there like me unfortunately, especially when you add in the fact that finding anything to do outside is so hard. I’ve genuinely gotten mocked before for saying that the “pave paradise and put up a parking lot” line from big yellow taxi was someone’s interpretation of reality. And those people are still laughing because they don’t care that the neighborhood where they live used to be a forest.

Lmao colonizing your local forest, disrupting wildlife and complaining about not seeing as many deer as you used to is such yankee shit. Send the nukes already XI I’m begging you

  • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    for fucking real. as soon as you could measure attention they sold it to the lowest bidder, with less than zero concern for its users. make a smartphone essential for daily life and then make everything on it as addictive and as braindestroying as possible. capitalism doesn’t even need to pretend anymore.

    and i am telling you, it certainly isn’t like it is any better if you live somewhere that isn’t the US that actually lives in a walkable community. yeah sure i can walk places, but i sure as hell can’t fucking afford to be at any of them and my place is too small and shitty to actually have anyone over (while still being terribly expensive)

    man it all fucking sucks

  • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    4 days ago

    There’s gotta be a lot more out there like me unfortunately, especially when you add in the fact that finding anything to do outside is so hard. I’ve genuinely gotten mocked before for saying that the “pave paradise and put up a parking lot” line from big yellow taxi was someone’s interpretation of reality. And those people are still laughing because they don’t care that the neighborhood where they live used to be a forest.

    For real. I don’t look back on my college days with any real fondness, but the one thing I sorely miss is being part of a dense, walkable community where I could get something to eat or hang out with a friend or go to the library without having to drive. If Hell is real, Ford is burning in it.

    • stigsbandit34z [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      I think about that every damn day. Every day

      Like the fact that I could go to all the places I wanted and walk home at the end of the day? I could genuinely cry.

      Convinced this is why some people just don’t leave academia, though they kinda make you leave with the pesky threat of poverty unless you get an “adult job” that creates shareholder value