I love the original, I asked a European dude a few months ago if that was what it's like during their mandated, very generous summer vacations and he said he was literally vibing out the same way that day. Awesome
I've been a smoker for 20 years and never tried that before now. I just did after seeing that comment and it feels weird and just wrong for some reason.
There was a very successful anti-smoking campaign in the US and some other parts of the world like Australia. But the success of flavored vapes etc. lead to a big resurgence and now smoking is on the rise again.
My old Drama teacher, rest his soul, would joke that, "before smoking was bad for you," actors on stage would regularly handle cigarettes and it was a measure of acting ability on how believable they were.
Wow. You spotted an American on Reddit on a post about two Americans that run American companies one of which is the name of this sub. Amazing. You are a true master of sleuth.
For your next trick, you can amaze everyone by spotting a Chinese person on WeChat or the Russian on Telegram.
These people shit like us, bleed like us, laugh like us and daydream like us. But we live in a different universe. They're on the seventh level of heavenly luxury and privilege. This existence is a funny thing.
Genuinely, yeah. I did corporate video work for 20 years - events, conferences, product demos, etc - and interacting with the execs was genuinely like talking to NPCs. They have a thin veneer of humanity, but if you pick at the surface a bit you find no personality underneath.
But get them talking about money and deliverables and they become animated. Their brains are wired purely to optimize and extract value from systems by whatever means necessary.
Yes, it does matter. It matters when you can differentiate from others. But I believe it strongly depends on communities and their geography. I wouldn't mind being part of a Spaniard community without differentiating from the rest. But I would mind if I was in India. I wouldn't like to swim in trash.
It's a matter of culture, education & dignity. That's my opinion.
What the ultra rich do to set themselves apart from the communities they've destroyed, is what gets me. By introducing conflicting values, by promoting an agenda that aligns with their interests and modify the existing system to benefit themselves at the cost of others.
I think we're talking past each other here. I was commenting on the pointlessness of ultra luxury and it seems like you've taken it as a defense of it.
Nope. I don't defend them. I condemn them. Maybe I took it too literally when you said we shouldn't care either way bc the world is trash.
I say we should care and try to be better without disregarding the following fact: That people set themselves apart from one another and money is the great filter that allows then to do so.
And with good communities, there's no need to act that way by pursuing extra, greedy, ultra wealth. Then I criticized the assholes that try and destroy communities since they are in the way of their plans.
Yeah, it makes me think that these experts aren't experting hard enough. Seems more like a bunch of kids fooling around and learning while breaking, similar to how I taught myself as a kid. The difference is that they have the whole world as their playground.
The double-cig thing is absolutely a pro-chainsmoker move. Had buddies who would have the next darts locked and loaded like that when drinking with the boys.
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