Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

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Autistic Joe said:
And now the thought of spending countless hours digging through ~60 years of photos just to digitize a handful of them fills me with dread. More time spent, and for what? The past 20 years of my photos are already digital and nobody looks at those either, except the few I post on Facebook
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Old photos do come in handy sometimes. My sister has, ah, "ishoos" and some years back she started crying to me that she doesn't think our father is her biological father because she's the only redhead in the family... some old photos of our father's close relatives (who we dont speak to) shut her right up. She didn't talk to me for months after that. The peace and quiet was glorious.
 
Autistic Joe said:
And now the thought of spending countless hours digging through ~60 years of photos just to digitize a handful of them fills me with dread. More time spent, and for what? The past 20 years of my photos are already digital and nobody looks at those either, except the few I post on Facebook.
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Photo albums are less for yourself or your children and more for those who may not ever know you, they're a connection to the past that allows us to know things that exist outside of living memory, or things that are right on the edge of passing out of living memory. They let us be connected to our past through those that came before. I never knew my great-great-grandparents, or even my 3xgreat grandparents, but photos and drawings of them exist and that allows those faces and names to remain within our family even after our own family may have forgotten them.
 
I'm not really bothering with the 15 or so scrapbooks, each dedicated to one of my grandma's cats that died decades before I was born. Those were for her own enjoyment and she's dead. But think about all the statues they're tearing down and buildings they're renaming to retcon history: and pictures of China before it was really open to tourism, and pictures of Paris before it was covered in African migrants.

It's really feasible that within my lifetime, they'll be actively suppressing that things used to be any different. Archival isn't the same as consooming.
 

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Madden consumerism is back on the market.
 
glass_houses said:
This guy... has more Funko Pops than I have books. Jesus. What's the point? It's not like he can even display more than a fraction of them.
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yeah at least the other Funko lunatics display them in singles so they can see them all, this mfer has funkos 5 deep
 
DrearyDoomguy said:
My personal vendetta is against Keurigs. They clog up landfills with unrecylable used pods all so the terminally lazy can save 5 minutes of work and pay significantly more for significantly lower quality coffee than if they just had a simple $20 drip coffee maker with a reusable metal filter.
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You can get reuseable pods that you fill with regular coffee like you would a traditional coffee maker. Obviously single serving only, but honestly I prefer that more since it helps me moderate my consumption.
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Photo albums are less for yourself or your children and more for those who may not ever know you, they're a connection to the past that allows us to know things that exist outside of living memory, or things that are right on the edge of passing out of living memory. They let us be connected to our past through those that came before. I never knew my great-great-grandparents, or even my 3xgreat grandparents, but photos and drawings of them exist and that allows those faces and names to remain within our family even after our own family may have forgotten them.
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I met neither of my biological grandfathers. It's really cool to just flip through and see how they were as a person. For instance, one of my grandfathers was very vulgar for his generation. It's cool to see photos of him being goofy and relaxed despite never knowing him, but I could tell I would of liked him. My favorite quote of his is "If I die, I hope I reincarnate into a cute women's bicycle seat". Fuckin lmao.
 
Corpun said:
Of course his custom funko tries to make him look suoer badass and shit even though he is probably a fat balding fuck.

Maui is going to be such a toxic wasteland from all those melted plastic funkos though.
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Imagine how many just like him got their toys melted. Probably more toxicity than all the nuclear testing from the 50s
 
WelperHelper99 said:
Imagine how many just like him got their toys melted. Probably more toxicity than all the nuclear testing from the 50s
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Can't wait for the government to try and turn this biohazard into a public park or some shit once they realize the land is completely useless for anything else.
 
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Hmm, yummy, microplastics EVERYWHERE. The production and testing of nuclear weapons created less of an ecological long-term footprint than all the crap that goes into plastic consoomer merch. This world is so fucked, enviromentally speaking, that it doesn't need for climate change to make Earth a hellscape.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
Imagine the fumes the Maui fires let out from melting that shit down. Actual cancer.
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if they wanna tax anyone for having a lifestyle that directly harms the environment, funkofags should go first
not so much that i think it'll do anything to offset the damage, its just that we all know these people got the money to pay it

its mental to me, really, that climate change politicians and opportunistic grifters fault working men who need to use their car or families with reasonable electricity use first and foremost for environmental damage, and never corporations that produce crap like this, or the citizens who own them in the tons
i guess its easier to wrangle a tax payer than it is to try and take the toy out of a child's hands
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
if they wanna tax anyone for having a lifestyle that directly harms the environment, funkofags should go first
not so much that i think it'll do anything to offset the damage, its just that we all know these people got the money to pay it

its mental to me, really, that climate change politicians and opportunistic grifters fault working men who need to use their car or families with reasonable electricity use first and foremost for environmental damage, and never corporations that produce crap like this, or the citizens who own them in the tons
i guess its easier to wrangle a tax payer than it is to try and take the toy out of a child's hands
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That's what it comes down to. They're children. Mentally stunted adults. It's not like you can even play with a Funko, like a Lego or Transformers, no, it just sits there looking stupid, waiting for its day to rot in a landfill or burn in a fire, much less a car that let's you get to work and kids to school.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
That's what it comes down to. They're children. Mentally stunted adults. It's not like you can even play with a Funko, like a Lego or Transformers, no, it just sits there looking stupid, waiting for its day to rot in a landfill or burn in a fire, much less a car that let's you get to work and kids to school.
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and thats the future they wanna foster, a world where everyone is a child and everyone needs someone to parent them. that's where the state comes in.
this is why nobody trusts the words "climate change" anymore. most people will acknowledge that pollution is real and we're hurting the environment, and that something needs to be done on the matter, but that "something" will never be done as long as there's an incentive to keep us hooked on the things that are causing the damage.
once that set of words comes out, you know its a sign that the same people who are doing most of the damage are getting grubby hands. they wont dare take away the things that keep you consuming, they'll come for the things that make you less dependent.
 
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