Lol , expected some fun conversations but this thread was a lot darker than I thought it was going to be - I guess not unjustified.
On a lighter note, I literally bumped into my thread while working on my 2nd Gunpla kit which has been a lot of fun. Thinking about taking up Yoyo as well.
Funflation
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I’m so tired.
Every blatant indicator of the horrors of late-stage capitalism has to have a cutesy nickname and get repackaged as some quirk of consumer preferences.
Every blatant indicator of the horrors of late-stage capitalism has to have a cutesy nickname and get repackaged as some quirk of consumer preferences.
it works – we literally have a secret police arresting lawfully abiding citizens and brutalizing them to the point of death and the overwhelming majority of americans refuse to accept that we live in a fascist state because it’s not called the gestapo or the kgb.
This isn’t new. Anything DiY/hobby/YouTubeFodder related has shot up in price already, since Covid started.
Even the used markets for fabric, art supplies, wood, tools, old sewing machines that do 1 thing, have been crazy. Estate auction biddings on used sets of student grade garbage art supplies sell well above retail in the mad hunger for these items. ETA gardening/canning supplies.
Again though, as they make distraction less accessible (as with piracy crackdowns) they push the public into a more likely to riot state of being.
This headline hints that it’s getting worse.
All my hobbies are expensive as fuck.
Protip: playing with yourself costs nothing.
Protip: we can all play with this guy.
Protip: consent, look it up.
