“Just a sec”
puts on gigantic goose costume
Untitled Goose Car.
That’s a vibe
I kinda miss Pontiac. For my entire lifetime, they were “What if GM products were just a little more ridiculous?”
The Trans Am is a Z-28 with mutton chops. Prove me wrong.
Big Ted. What a nice nickname for someone who I’m sure was a nice young man.
His MKULTRA handler gave it to him
“Hey Big Ted how’s your brain feeling”
“Good enough to mostly make sense” Industrial Society and its Future
Fun fact: You wouldn’t be driving behind them or honking your horn if it wasn’t for the industrial revolution.
The more you know…
You wouldn’t be driving […]
God that’d have been nice. I rarely drive my car but even that’s too much for me. "Hi, yes I would love to sit still staring at another car’s bumper for long periods of time where not focusing entirely could kill myself and others. I LOVE being required by urban planning to do that and LOVE being required to spend tens of thousands on maintaining the luxury of it
I fortunately am not dependent on cars for my daily transportation. I’ve barely driven in my life, don’t even have a licence, but I love road trips and driving in simulations.
But not moving at all, or relatively to dense traffic is not what I like about that, driving as mass transportation sucks.
Bicycle better 🚲
The bicycle cured my diabetes
100%! I got mine fixed up again recently since I’m in office after many years and it’s been great
I still maintain that the humble bicycle is one of humanities greatest inventions. Cheap to build, can be maintained with spit and love, the most efficient mode of transport, and fun to top it off
Ah, a man of class I see 👍
I as well (used to) partake in BMX flatland. I still would if I hadn’t eventually wore my bike out beyond safety.
Yes, this is me, from 2012…
Hell yeah! That’s so rad. Best I could do is sit on the handlebars and pedal around backwards (I stole the gif from the internet)
I’d say the bicycle easily makes the top 10 of all-time best inventions of humanity.
Maybe I’m givin’ 'en too much credit, but that seems like the joke
This bumper sticker is just an edgier version of the “I bought this before Elon went crazy” one.
Prove it fact man
HONK!
I don’t even own this vehicle LOL!
Ironic that someone put this on vehicle powered by gasoline but I suppose that’s the crux of the issue; we can just ignore the consequences of our actions as long is doesn’t immediately effect us. In this case they’re part of the cohort of people that drive to work everyday and indirectly cause the deaths of hundreds of millions of poor people on the other side of the world that they inherently don’t give shit about. Mostly in Africa and India, who gives a fuck about them right?
Industrial revolution stands on the shoulders of a giant called the agricultural revolution.
I brake for hunter gatherers.
Yeah, I see the industrial revolution as an inevitable consequence of the agricultural revolution.
Which is to say:
The agricultural revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.Why is it that everyone says this? Praytell.
We all read Ishmael (Quinn, 1992)
That’s the talking monkey one, right?
Bro I’m pretty sure it’s a gorilla my friend
I’ll do one betterer
Agricultural revolution was a disaster
True. The native Americans did it better.
I read his writing for the first time recently. It certainly sticks with you. He was certainly no dummy. I still take issue with some of his stances. Big of me, I know.
I was about to say, you nod along with Ted until he starts into the racist bits.
Also his entire argument, which is pretty well-structured, completely hinges on certain things he just takes for granted. Namely, that the number of people that would be harmed by his approach might be far greater than continuing on this current path. I don’t know whether he’s right or wrong about that, but it’s PRETTY CRUCIAL, and I feel there’s tons of room for nuance. He, in his frustration, seemingly reduced the potential deaths of tens of millions (if not more) to, “Eh. Fuck it, it’s probably better,” best I can tell. He offers plenty of diagnoses, but no real remedies or cures.
He’s not wrong
Kinda weird to put it on a car, though
Learning to walk upright and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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Our poor spines.
This is totally my mood today
Says the guy using a product of industrial revolution, the car.
Mentally diseased woman hating racist antI-semite incel who unapologetically killed innocent people says “fuck the system” and that’s what anyone focuses on?
As someone who relies on a wide variety of medications to survive and is not mobile enough to reliably get about anywhere without a lot of modern conveniences, and who’s parter would be dead without the above, and who quite likes the internet
No
Cool story bro, what about the hundreds of millions of people that have died from pollution. Are they better off to?
We are undeniably better off because of the industrial revolution. It’s caused problems but those are well worth it for the benefit.
Only if you’re basing your assertion on inherently biased criteria. For many in the west it’s better sure, but what about the majority of people in impoverished countries, or less fortunate people in general? How about non-human species that have been losing their natural habitats to pollution and global warming inch by inch, or just human interference in general? Or even species that have been outright driven to extinction by human activity?
I’m not so sure any of that is worth it for a new smart phone every year with only marginally better features. And I hear the new hyped-up technology is pretty much the epitome of an infinite amount of monkeys on typewriters desperate to type up Shakespeare.
Yes humans suck. There was much more of this before the industrial revolution.
Are you sure? There are an order of magnitude more people around now. And most are still not doing great. So now we have a massive explosion in the net amount of suffering in order to boost the joy of a few people by a few bits.
What the fuck do you think life was like in the middle ages?
Hard? But I tell you what, no subscriptions.
Again, that’s only from your (biased) viewpoint. I’m sure you or I can say that with relatively little consideration from our cushy positions in wealthy countries, but try and get, say, the average Sudanese citizen to agree with that. It’s really not gonna work.
Plus to agree with your sentiment is to say that capitalism is worth the suffering it causes. I’m gonna have to disagree with that on principle.
Of course these people benefited too. Why do you demography in Asia/Africa boomed over the last century?
Right now*
We’ve almost caused, and now will forever have the capacity to cause, a mass extinction event with nuclear bombs. If the cold war had turned hot we probably wouldn’t be saying how good we have it in the industrial age compared to the agrarian age.
There’s also the more slow motion extinction event in the form of climate change.
But yes for those living in the west from 1950 ~ 2150 it’s a good deal
We are currently experiencing a mass extinction event on a similar scale but greater speed than the Permian mass extinction.
CURRENTLY. It is getting worse.
would the children working in sweat shops in … rolls dice … the US agree with this?
Wait till you hear about slave labor conditions
Socialism has been the death of more people mainly because of Capitalist sanctions/meddling to make it fail.
If you gain this, you will inevitably lose that.
