https://twitter.com/djmikeharvey/status/1401300240867733509?s=19
Edit: what is going on with image uploading these days
Reddit cringe for me is something like making a food post where you've carefully taken your pictures to show off what beer your drinking, what music you listen to, and what movie you have on so that everyone knows how cool you are.
I hate that I have to point this out, but your describing commodity fetishism. They think the items possess a cool quality which by possessing they can absorb.
A bit dated, but I’m sure everyone here knows the fedora stereotype but it’s peak reddit thought. These cool guys wear a fedora so fedoras must be an item cool guys wear meaning if I wear a fedora I’ll be a cool guy.
It’s the same stupid mentality applied to everything they do from stock buying, to hyper focused efforts on hobbies. It’s this desperate class driven anxiety about their social place causing them to fetishize objects around them.
Apple built their entire company on this.
They have $192 billion cash in the bank right now.
I’m maybe the wrong demographic for this and this might be me being out of touch, but Apples stuff just sort of works which is the appeal of it and they have extremely sticky integrations. I don’t think I know a single person who cares about your AirPods synced with your iPhone 6.
People buy Apple because they want to be known as the sort of people who buy Apple. Not because of the features, but because they think it makes them some kind of superior intelligent being.
I buy apple because I don’t like other companies. Everyone else feels like I am making some compromise somewhere while I am never happy. With Apple I am often not angry at some compromise even if I am not satisfied. Also you don’t have to resort to huge hacks like custom operating systems to keep a product around for more than two years. I’m always happy when they lose a lawsuit, I’m not a fanboy.
Your thinking of it in purely Marxist terms though. I’m more referring to it how those in the 20th century applied Marx analysis to the way we handle this within our culture. Adorno has a could great books that build on Marx’s work of commodity fetishism and talk about how it interacts among social classes and prestige.
My take too. There's nothing wrong with crafting something you can use for whatever at home. Hell if I had the tools and talent I'd make more DIY shit myself.
I guess I don't see the issue? He made a cool thing to make a minor vice more enjoyable and interactive.
This is day-and-night from early 2000s Facebook weed guys who'd post grainy photos of their mids and wear a 420 adidas hat everywhere.
Our mans out here talking about posting cringe When he himself is out here missing shots at the king
I simultaneously regret posting this but am glad that we exposed this malarkey
Looks cool to me. Obviously it's not a necessity but if you want to roll consistently at high quality you'll want something like this.
Or learn how to roll a joint. I can roll a decent soon while walking using my palms as a surface. Practice practice practice folks.
Real smokers can free roll. I watched Willie Nelson make one once and he just twirled his hands and it was done.
There's a technique to it. If you're standing up break your weed down in one hand and line it up along a crease in your hand, put the paper on too, put your other hand other and flip, finish rolling like normal.
Or cafeteria trays you stole from McDonald's/your highschool lunchroom
wash their pipe under a tap after every use
California wine moms got this part right. If you clean your glass every time you use it, your flower/concentrate/whatever will always taste better (and you won't have to taste the bouquet of ashes and whatever microbiota grow in there) when you smoke or vaporize. I say this as a stoner who used to clean their water pipes with isopropyl and salt at the end of any day they were used. I only vaporize now, but I still clean my dynavap regularly.
As we all know having wood working as a hobby basically makes you a kulak
I do this, but with 3d printing. Just model things that let me organize random stuff. It's good practice for incremental/rapid manufacturing which is a good skill to have and you can take your best versions and turn it Into wood or metal.
