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[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 133 points 10 months ago

1994: If you don't straighten up and take your education seriously you're gonna end up living in a van down by the river!

2024: If you don't straighten up and take your education seriously you'll never be able to afford to live in a van down by the river!

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

2044: if you don't straighten up and take your mining operation seriously, you'll never be able to afford middle school.

[-] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 39 points 10 months ago

2064: If you don't fight in the water wars, you aren't entitled to your daily rations of water.

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 31 points 10 months ago

2164: If you don't endure the bottomless despair of unfathomable suffering, you will never be permitted to endure the bottomless despair of somewhat fathomable suffering.

[-] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Service guarantees citizenship!!?!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Would you like to know more?

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[-] booleT@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

2054: if you don't straighten up and take your education seriously, you'll never be able to afford to live

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago

You're behind on your oxygen bill again. If you don't pay by next week your nose and mouth will be sown shut.

[-] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 80 points 10 months ago

Kentucky is currently making "unlawful camping" punishable by death now at the hands of the land owners so double check where the bog is

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Is there literally any "unowned land" left on the planet?

[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

Depends on what you mean exactly. In many countries including the USA there is land that's not owned by any private person, but the state. Not claimed by any entity is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Same thing, effectively. Funny enough that land was grabbed back in the 1600's based on very flimsy rhetoric about how just claiming land for yourself was a god given right for all human beings and that it would solve all problems by free market principles (which were not yet formalized but would soon be, specifically based on said rhetoric).

We were fucked by hobby philosophers hundreds of years ago. Don't come tell me a philosophy degree is worthless.

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[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 12 points 10 months ago

As in the landowner can just shoot them right there?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Yes, but it's a bill that has been introduced. It hasn't even been voted on yet.

[-] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I didn't do a great job phrasing it. "Currently" is doing a lot of lifting there.

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[-] crashoverride@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

The whole concept of trespassing on " private property" is bullshit anyway.

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[-] raynethackery@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

My nephew wants me to move to Tennessee. I'm a gay man that lives in New England. Just for laughs I looked at rents in his area. They are exactly the same as what I am paying now for a 1 bedroom. Not going to happen.

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Sure, but have you considered moving to a holler in Johnson County?

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[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 10 months ago

The flip side of the coin are people who tell me to "just move" away from my ass-backwards little shithole to a more progressive area. Like sure, I'd love to live in the city, let me just quit my job and reach into my suitcase full of gold bars...

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Wait... The free market, capitalism, it was all a lie?

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[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

City vs. Country

Red vs. Blue

Type A vs. Work to Live

Homed vs. Homeless

White collar vs. Blue collar

Etc

It's a shame the divide and conquer routine works so well.

Keep the peasants hating and rooting against one another so hard, they never look up at their common enemy. Credit where it's due, insatiably greedy owner class, you have us dead to rights. You keep us so busy working and hating one another, we'll never organize against your tiny population of manipulators betraying your own species and turning it into your personal livestock.

[-] centof@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

How does type A relate to work to live?

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Type As are the people that kill themselves at work and show frustration at those that don't. The annoying true believers of the workplace. They live for "that grind culture," and in many to most cases, brag about the toll it's taken on their personal lives if they still have one. Their sense of self is tied to their job.

People who work to live are just that. They don't derive their sense of self of life's purpose from their job. They do what they have to for their pay check and leave.

For this, Type As often mock them as lazy, while work to liver's mock type A's intensity and values.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

As a "work-to-live" person Type As are my natural enemy. If I've got a meeting before noon some Type A person is the culprit.

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[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Hah, here I was about to say there is some grey area in there, but the reality is that if I didn't have to work to maintain my standard of living, I fucking wouldn't

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[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The annoying true believers of the workplace.

The obedient house slaves. "Stop fighting for your rights, you'll get us all killed! If you would just be more obedient they might let you live in the big house too!"

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England!"

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago

One day, lad, this will all be yours.

[-] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago
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[-] Epzillon@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Become the man of the bog. The one who occupies the swamp. Only then are you truly free.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I genuinely believe this is true.

[-] nodsocket@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP?

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[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Listen, show me where to find WFB jobs, and I'm there. Bog life!

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 10 months ago

Seriously... I'd kill for a WFB job, even a WFF job but no one seems to want to build businesses out in the forest either...

Joking aside, it's literally why I can't move out of my HCOL area... The affordable places are affordable because they're summer homes/winter getaways... There's no work near them whatsoever. :/

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

I've had WFB jobs for the last decade or so. It's super nice. You know those meetings where they have way too many people in a conference room and it's after lunch so you smell everyone's hot breath while some VP's jerk each other off? Those are much nicer from the seat of a riding lawn mower with a beer in hand.

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[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

Why is there an HOA in me swamp 🧌

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Shrek’s kids moved out so now he has nothing better to do

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[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 17 points 10 months ago

Honestly, groceries are pretty much the same price or higher in rural areas and you'll be spending a lot of money driving around. Might get some cheap rent, though, if you'd rather rely completely on online shipping for anything other than the absolute basic resources than live a life of convenience and opportunity.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago

I’ve lived in a bog. It’s rather nice, actually

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago
[-] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

They might be one of the Cranberries…

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[-] dotslashme@infosec.pub 9 points 10 months ago

Checks available listings: Ah yes, bog witch it is

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[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago

Brought to you by the ones who also made the statement "Hey, is that MY air you were breathing there?" :-|

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