Right now on Twitter— oops, sorry. Right now on X— there are Greek-statue-avatar “modern women are degenerates; retvrn” accounts which are partnering with OnlyFans to signal-boost OF models and promote their streams. The models pay the accounts to RT them with “dunks” like “look how fatherless and decadent this is”, and the models see increased signups as a result.
And like… I’m in awe. This is it, this is the entire 21st century neatly encapsulated.
The beef tallow thing is a legit complaint for McDonalds (McD’s used to use beef tallow for their fries and now they try and fake it with bullion in the oil and no, it is not the same) but that has nothing to do with diners.
But this post of mine has almost nothing to do with the OP, so…
I find it hard to shit on people misidentifying the problem but still upset about a legitimate issue. My whole life restaurants and food manufacturers have been swapping to “healthy” alternatives and formulations yet the food never seems to get any healthier, just cheaper and worse tasting.
Trix isn’t any fucking better for you, it just has corn-syrup aftertaste and there’s no prize in the box. The McD’s fries aren’t killing you any slower and they aren’t any more vegetarian-friendly, they’re just cheaper to make. You can’t own your media but you can rent it forever.*
I’d love to get a float, but a capitalist self-dealing scheme means the machine is always broken… and is it really a float if it’s made with ‘frozen dessert’?
The enshittification of everything via late-stage capitalism is so huge that it’s hard to comprehend enough to even rail against it. But the withering and loss of the little joys and silver linings? The ruination of that special little thing? That’s easy to latch onto.
And what really makes the whole thing sting isn’t that I, an old man, am losing these things. It’s that they aren’t there to be shared with the new generation, that I am forced to hoard those joys in my memory when they should be living on.
There will be a loot box in every game but no prize in your cereal.
*“forever” here means 'until the studio doesn’t feel like paying residuals and banishes your show to the shadow realm.
The state had to prove to a jury that feeding the homeless is a criminal act and in doing so, probably convinced a few members of the jury to sign up for food not bombs lol.
This is a great time to remind everyone on here about Jury Nullification
Def yell this out
I am about to head to Houston’s FNBH because goddamn.
