Modern dating is so depressing

Back in college my friend and I found pictures of a bunch of "free large anything no purchase necessary" coupons to like 3 different fast food joints. He was an art and graphic design major so he photoshopped the expiration dates so they were still valid and we would print stacks of them in the university library for free.

We used them so many times the managers had to come out and be like, look we don't know where you're getting these coupons from but we called corporate and we're not going to take them anymore. So what we did was drive out to the next restaurant further away and do it all over again.

We must have gotten several hundred dollars of free food each over the course of a few months.

I have no moral objections to doing this, but you really want to subject yourself to eating main McNuggets?

i would be so down for someone with these instincts and the initiative and skills to pull them off, but i would have to insist we limit fast food intake.

this is called plunder and besides being cool + good, it's a survival strategy.

Some former MetalEurop employees become bank robbers rather prison guards. Some EDF employees show friends and family how to rig the electricity meters. Commodities that “fell off the back of a truck” are sold left and right. A world that so openly proclaims its cynicism can’t expect much loyalty from proletarians.

On the one hand, a commune can’t bank on the “welfare state” being around forever, and on the other, it can’t count on living for long off shoplifting, nighttime dumpster diving at supermarkets or in the warehouses of the industrial zones, misdirecting government subsidies, ripping off insurance companies and other frauds, in a word: plunder. So it has to consider how to continually increase the level and scope of its self-organization. Nothing would be more logical than using the lathes, milling machines, and photocopiers sold at a discount after a factory closure to support a conspiracy against commodity society.

The feeling of imminent collapse is everywhere so strong these days that it would be hard to enumerate all of the current experiments in matters of construction, energy, materials, illegality or agriculture. There’s a whole set of skills and techniques just waiting to be plundered and ripped from their humanistic, street-culture, or eco-friendly trappings. Yet this group of experiments is but one part of all of the intuitions, the know-how, and the ingenuity found in slums that will have to be deployed if we intend to repopulate the metropolitan desert and ensure the viability of an insurrection beyond its first stages.

How will we communicate and move about during a total interruption of the flows? How will we restore food production in rural areas to the point where they can once again support the population density that they had sixty years ago? How will we transform concrete spaces into urban vegetable gardens, as Cuba has done in order to withstand both the American embargo and the liquidation of the USSR?

I remember once seeing a bit of standup comedy where a comedian was talking about going over to a guys place on a date and he shows off his elaborate pirate movie set-up. She's like "I'm not unimpressed, but I'd be more impressed by a guy who can just afford to pay for Netflix". Anyway I think about that a lot in my dating life.

Props to the girl for communicating honestly.

What's the problem? Did he not share them with her?

Wow that’s horrible, anyone got step by step instructions so I can make sure I avoid doing this?

can't be industrious in post-industrial hellscape

I can make out OP's blurred response they say "RIP u ig"

Couldn't handle the nuggy grind set.

This girl is not gonna last long with bad judgement like that.

Sound like they dodged a bullet

Get yourself a partner who appreciates scamming McDonald's out of the delicious nuggets.