“Decades of culture” and it’s just rust, shitty tags, and layers of stickers that have become illegible lmao
why are urbanites allergic to cleanliness and order? Is living in major metros so bad that they have to delude themselves into thinking that the trash is “culture”?
just seen a video of a guy cover up decades of culture and stickers just to give it a sloppy landlord special for the sake of 'fixing' it (it will never function again)
Really not fond of how suddenly people are switching up on Oshii GITS cause of Saru and vise versa. A great new manga adaptation coming out should not suddenly devalue one of the best anime film series, at the same time painting the Saru adaptation as “childish” is equally nuts.
I stg I always thought I was the weird kid but this app makes me feel so well adjusted
if most of the time blindness people spent half the energy it takes to write these thinkpieces about why it’s somehow not their fault on just managing their time this wouldn’t be an issue lmao
all the lefties complain about wanting “a village” and hating “individualistic culture” but will perpetrate the most anti-social behavior ever time after time because they’re allergic to accepting personal responsibility for literally anything ever
why the fuck does showing up on time have to be some insane historical/psychological/spirtual discourse? it’s totally normal to just strive to keep your word
punctuality is a virtue no matter how much the terminally online try to “um ackshually” you into believing otherwise
sorry you’ll never convince me that the “lateness is a moral failing” isn’t rooted in colonization and capitalism, it’s CONTROL!!! and I get we live in a society blah blah blah but if it’s ur friends you know is always late tell them an earlier time or whatever but acting like it’s a moral failing is so puritanical and silly sometimes you just got to accept people as they are
I love my progressive friends, but it really is crazy how negative they are. They are like recreationally miserable
I really do think it’s socially desirable and encouraged in progressive culture and it’s not all just an organic response to hardship or mental illness
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
mfs will be like “my politics? just, like, have some fucking basic fucking human empathy”
then their idea of “basic human empathy” is just the state controlling everyone’s lives from cradle to grave