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OK it seems like the universe heard me talking about building up enmity with old people, (procial.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by sordid@procial.tchncs.de to c/chat@hexbear.net

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OK it seems like the universe heard me talking about building up enmity with old people,

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so it answered my vibrations with an eccentric fedora'd old man at the gas station who was complaining about the five extra cents per gallon for the credit card so I engaged him in conversation (which he was extremely enthusiastic about) regarding service fees and dynamic pricing taking over things another forms of monopoly rents. Also, I learned that the guy who did bar rescue allegedly invented the Ticket website service fee. I'll have to check if that's really true.
Not only did I immediately encounter 1️⃣ an opportunity to peacefully disengage a deeply uncomfortable and unresponsive employee from an overenthusiastic man allowing agitated people to pay for their gas 2️⃣ I also found a guy who feels relieved to be able to bitch about something to other people like I mentioned before. Maybe I should utilize the Power of Attraction more. I should do amphetamines.
What I've learned here on ActivityPub is that old people love it when you recommend them books especially about the financialization of everything.

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[–] sordid@procial.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

@chat@hexbear.net @velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml I like books about people going off to war and getting messed up quite a bit. So How the Steel Was Tempered & Journey to the End of the Night also get big ups from me. Classic shit. On the new fun high concept sci-fi side but still super readable check out Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks, it stands on its own, I just read the series from there and afterward when I went back to the prior entries I found them lacking and superfluous.
(I have to reply this way because the software of the ActivityPub instance I'm on isn't really set up for federating with Lemmy, and you're not from the instance I posted this to. Just FYI.)