it’s so wild because i’ve tried nicotine gum and it does nothing but burn my throat, the idea that other people are literally chemically addicted to it is insane, like being addicted to banging your toe against a table leg.

no it doesn’t

hot, tamales
hot hot, tamales

recycling!

tbf modern commercial chickens are basically spherical, the poor bastards

i definitely saw ads from e.g. coca cola for a while, but they were more like sponsored PSAs saying “hey, lids are going to be attached from now on! just flip it to the side and it’ll stay there. neat, huh?”

which is vastly better than it ending up in nature or in a landfill, incineration with collection of the waste heat is effectively just the worst form of recycling.

PET is so hilariously easy to recycle that you can literally just clean out bottles and put them in a little jig that cuts it into strips and feeds it into a 3d printer, it’s not peak quality or anything but it totally works.

while technically true it’s not accurate, the real reason to attach the cap is simply that we don’t fucking want bottlecaps strewn about everywhere.

from what i can tell it’s like half a percent of a percent of people who give a singular thought to it beyond “oh they changed it”

one who likes living in a world with… things… in it

what you’re talking about is people who treat capitalism as a fucking religion, who think the only point to life is to make number go up.

A sane “capitalist” will realize that it should be a means to an end, that the actual goal is to make life nice, so it only make sense to apply capitalist practices up to the point where it causes harm.
Like, what are you going to do with billions of dollars if there’s no one to maintain the roads and airports and railways? What joy would you experience on a wasteland planet with no pretty nature and human culture?

Think of an old-timey shopkeep for example, sure they operate under capitalism, but they still want to fucking talk to their customers and be part of the community, and they’ll give kids some extra candy for free because they can trivially afford to do so and it brings them joy to see happy kids, plus those kids will then grow up and remember how ol’ shopkeep Williams was nice to them and they’ll help him out in his twilight years.

unfortunately a lot of people blithely stand around defending the wealthy as the wealthy kick them in the balls

really telling on yourself there

i miss that brief period some 5-10 years ago when they had genuinely pretty green glass mosaics with gold streaks throughout

brutalist state-owned fast food joint, everything’s cheap but not that cheap and perfectly middling quality, and there’s 4 things on the menu

it’s an american business, it’ll be corn burgers with cornbread and slices of corn served with deep fried popcorn and a tall glass of corn syrup

the old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born, and Zohran is our midwife

the distilled essence of 90’s new york nostalgia

the most violently british name ever invented “hi, i’m berwick-upon-tweed, nice to meet you!”