you're a xentlexem and a scholar
peeonyou
joined 2 years ago
I remember feeling pressure when I was a kid to say I was middle class when we had some sort of assembly where a guy came in and taught us the difference between 'needs' and 'wants'.
Somewhere in there kids were telling what class they were and I felt the need to say my family was middle class when we were nowhere near that, but I remember my dad saying we were 'middle class' at one point or another during my childhood, so I didn't know any better.
My mom used to wake my 3 sisters and I up at 4 in the morning to go pile into the backseat of the frozen ass car to drive my dad to work. This was so she had the car to then take us to school at 7:30, and she could run errands if necessary later on. I would get made fun of at school for my shoes being so small that my big toe stuck out the front and for my coat not zipping up properly because it was too small. This in brutally cold midwestern winters.
We ate casseroles or hotdogs or soup for dinner most nights and we weren't rich enough to bring "snacks" to school for "snack time" so I was always one of a couple of kids that had a family that couldn't afford to send snacks to school, while other kids were eating their gushers and fruit roll-ups and whatever else right in my face.
But you know.. I'd be damned if I was going admit to anyone that we were poor as fuck.
holy fuck.. digg is still around? and jesus it looks even worse than it used to back in the day
oh man.. i'm old.. i dont even know what this means
that is true
its also very highly consolidated in the tech industry right now
what's fae?
I saw this not too long ago when I read something awful and was trying to figure out who FOG was.. this made it all the more confusing
I'm cool with it tho. Anything to take away market share from the crony capitalist tech companies. I don't watch youtube or tiktok myself.. at least not on purpose, but I hate everything google so I applaud anyone making them hurt even the slightest amount
I cancelled Netflix the same day they blocked my partner's parents from watching it in Canada. We hardly ever used it and I only kept it because her parents are old and had a tv with a Netflix button.
My partner and I still watch netflix shows from time to time... we just don't pay for them anymore.
it was inevitable, capitalism ruins all in that never ending quest for exponential growth
oh wow.. this is a keeper
I went a different route by getting perma-banned for wishing death upon israel.