• @voldage@lemmy.world
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      Only thing I can promise you with somewhat high degree of certainty is that you won’t stay that way for long. 2-3 years tops.

  • @archonet@lemy.lol
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    literally just trying to stay alive until my mother passes away, just so she doesn’t have to bury a child. Then it can finally be over.

    Like, I got personal reasons I think life sucks, but boy howdy I have no shortage of “big picture” reasons too. The future is bleak, at best.

    • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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      I’m sorry you feel that way too, I’m in the same exact boat so I know what that feels like… I’m just waiting for my older relatives to pass so I don’t hurt them and then I can finally stop existing.

  • @hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I genuinely can’t tell if this is fake. I fucking hate this world. Anyone want to team up to build a time machine and travel the future until the perfect utopia is achieved?

    • @paddirn@lemmy.world
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      We’re probably more likely to see a return to feudalism, with the wealthy getting worshipped as god-kings and regular folks going back to being illiterate peasants working the land for their overlords.

    • @BreadOven@lemmy.world
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      That’s a big assumption that humanity actually makes it out of this situation the wealthy have gotten everyone into.

      But things will survive, just not sure it will be humanity.

    • @backgroundcow@lemmy.world
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      Anyone want to team up to build a time machine and travel the future until the perfect utopia is achieved?

      How about we team up and try to make this world better instead?

        • @LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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          Reminds me of why some people turn to religion. Clinging to fairy tales & imaginary promises of a better future, makes life bearable.

          • @kmaismith@lemm.ee
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            Religious groups are about the last active groups who can be swayed to actually do something about the state of the world, i don’t understand why we rail so hard against them. So what if we willfully subscribe to fantasy and fairy tail? Are you trying to say that we are weak for enjoying video games, role playing, good books and company?

  • @multifariace@lemmy.world
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    I went on chatgpt and said “Write an advertisement that plays on the fears of gen z then suggests they eat a snickers”. It returned almost the same as above.

    • @Revan343@lemmy.ca
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      Well you can just buy that check mark, and I have trouble believing the advertising people at Snickers are bold enough to actually post this, so it’s probably satire

    • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      Welcome to the 2024. This year’s presidential election will have exclusive live coverage on election night, from your official election coverage team…The Onion. No word on if they’ll still deal in satire on the night, but it is confirmed that it will be absurd.

      • @booly@sh.itjust.works
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        The sign of a successful ad campaign is when the campaign itself gets satirized to continue to build on brand awareness.

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          But that only works if the satirization is still somehow stylistically distinct to be recognizable as a satirization of your brand.

          You could put Wendy’s, Walmart, Northrup Grumman, Tyson, Bank of America, whatever, into this, and just change the last line a little bit, and I still would not be able to determine if its satire or not.

          Twofold reasons:

          1 Corporate Advertisement in general is almost completely stylistically played out. Almost everyone has tried almost every approach. It’s all just blended together, at least for me, into ‘insert nearly any kind of rhetoric or style or music or imagery here’ followed by: So buy the thing.

          Sure, there are still some general trends for certain marketed product types … but …

          2 Is anything on Twitter/X genuine? First we had a whole bunch of brand accounts acting like increasingly twitter brained idiots, then we had Musk’s disastrous takeover and blue check fiasco with people impersonating corpo accounts running wild, now the bots are even more widespread AND the general corpo trend seems to be ‘yes actually just have AI generate/do everything’, why wouldn’t text only posts currently be able to be handed over to an edgy ChatGPT model?

          Like… this image, the account has some kind of silver tick or badge or something.

          Is that from older Twitter era meaning its verified?

          Was the account hacked?

          Was this image photoshopped?

          Can you even tell the difference between a serious idiot, an unserious troll, or a bot mimicking one of those, without an investigation?

          • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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            The next comment I read after yours links to:

            Meme aside, either one of those guys straight up shilling? Ehg.

            btw in my personal opinion:

            You’re 35 years old, mired in college debt that did nothing for the career you have and hate. You’ll never own a house. You can’t even consider having children. You’re filled with anxiety over climate change, inevitable wars. The world is doomed.

            When life feels extra spicy, cool down with a Frosty. It won’t fix everything, but it’s a start. Wendy’s.

          • @booly@sh.itjust.works
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            You could put Wendy’s, Walmart, Northrup Grumman, Tyson, Bank of America, whatever, into this, and just change the last line a little bit, and I still would not be able to determine if its satire or not.

            I read this as an oblique reference to the “you’re not you when you’re hungry” campaign. It’s a bit of a reach, but it works.

            Corporate Advertisement in general is almost completely stylistically played out

            It’s like any other thing with fashion or styles. Trends come and go, different eras have distinct markers, later eras may intentionally evoke references or tributes to earlier eras, or other contemporary trends in other fields.

    • Lemminary
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      Thank goodness my “third world country” offers free tuition for uni. 🤩

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      I worked full time through college. So much that it often interfered with the time that I needed to be spending on study. I still owe $40k.

      My ex husband who’s billionaire family paid his tuition while I paid our bills owes nothing of course.

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        I worked part time through college. Summers I had two part time jobs, and a couple summers three that worked with my schedule. Started school with about 10k in savings and finished about 12k in debt.

        Edit: I’m also super frugal. Found cheap food, cheap/free furnishings/clothes, cheap housing, pirated textbooks, and rode a bicycle and took the bus to get around.

        Wish I could have afforded the time for some unpayed opportunities. Really struggling to find a decent job at the moment. (Studied math at a top university with fairly significant cs experience and decent gpa).

        Wouldn’t not recommend college, but man not feeling too good about it at the moment in terms of job opportunities (certainly wouldn’t trade the experience and what I’ve learned for anything though)

    • Continue to be thankful. I made some boneheaded choices in college which resulted in my throwing away a full ride, and I left school with like 80k in debt. Thankfully, I am much more fiscally responsible than I was academically responsible, and I managed to pay that off over the course of like 7 years (aided in no small part by the forbearance periods Biden forced through during COVID). Which is good, because more boneheaded choices were made which resulted in a significant change to my financial situation. If I were still making payments at this juncture, I would be in a position where I’d be moving back into mom’s basement just to make ends meet.

      Not that there is anything inherently shameful in that (it’s fucking hard out here, and if that’s a resource that you have available, it should not be turned away simply because of pride), but it does cause me to wake every morning pleased I didn’t listen to any “financial gurus” out there who talk about shit like “good debt”.

    • @GluWu@lemm.ee
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      No joke. I just went to a in state university, of which I had a few very good ones to choose from, and the state paid my tuition and I was able to pay rent working part time.

      I often forget a lot of people around me are sitting on like $40k of debt because their state didn’t do lottery scholarships or they just wanted to go out of state, sometimes just to get “The College Experience”.