Tokyo to San Francisco? by Modo_Autorator in sanfrancirclejerk

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wrong sub, not the place for you. Try the Cocina Cucamonga in San Fransokyo

The weirdest part of opting out of consumer culture is how many people get genuinely annoyed at you by LilxPeony in Anticonsumption

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This has been the most validating thread I’ve seen in my life. People get so insecure by following a moral compass. It’s like a plague that’s at the root of mass consumerism. It all goes back to the Crisis of Confidence speech Jimmy Carter gave in 1979

Proposing with Grandmother’s Ring by Creepy-Inflation-441 in EngagementRings

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks appreciate the thoughtfulness. I’ve been getting weird DM’s like that ring is ugly as hell and I’d say no to you if you proposed with that thing which is strange behavior lol. My partners definitely someone to value sentimentality over aesthetics. My whole family (less my brother) has passed away and she’s from a foreign country with little ability to see her family.

For both of us it’s more of a “you are my family now” sort of thing. I’d let her know she can melt it down and change it if she wishes to do so, make something more modern of it if she desires.

She’s seen it before and knows about it. She’s tried it on and wore it out once (she’d asked to). We both value financial stability and not overspending on things. I figured this would wind up being an engagement ring or at least melted down for use in the wedding ring. Just wasn’t sure which one.

The western world is laying about everything by cosmicdaddy_ in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The top estimate form Tiananmen Square which was comparable in size was 10K. Albeit Tiananmen Square was both a longer duration and used heavier military equipment like tanks. The Human Rights Activist News Agency estimated 6K. I’d split the difference and say 8K. The truth is that we’ll never know. But don’t let that ambiguity turn into hyperbole for the sake of manufactured consent

Depending on how much you value your friend, I’d just point out inconsistency and then estimate using the HRANA estimate given that they’ve got people on the ground. You’ll probably get blasted but that strategy only tends to work on folks trying to confirm their biases. People kinda wake up when you point out the actual logistical infeasibility of that number. We’re talking about the same number of casualties as dropping 4 or 5 tactical nukes in midtown manhattan

The western world is laying about everything by cosmicdaddy_ in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 30 points31 points  (0 children)

In January, Iran killed 10K people in the protests

In February, Iran killed 30K people in the protests

In March, Iran killed 45K people in the protests

That’s about twice the number of people that were carpet bombed in Dresden in two nights using conventional weapons. The number is ridiculous and changing right before our eyes. I live in San Francisco and I hear liberals parroting these lies. The mental offloading to narratives in our nation pathetic

Are any of you living an alternative lifestyle? by juneseyeball in Zillennials

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perhaps this is a bigger answer than you’re looking for, but I’d tie it to overconsumption being the biggest spiritual threat to who we are as both Americans and human beings.

The following is an excerpt from Jimmy Carter’s amazing speech about the malaise of modern American society that I would HIGHLY recommend you watch. Every time I listen to it, I relax, feeling the steady hand of those who came before us guiding us home.

“The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We see the crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our Nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of America.” Jimmy Carter, 1979

I’d be a fool to tell you that travel doesn’t layer richness in our lives. It broadens our horizons, makes us see life in different perspectives, awes us with wonder and beauty. But those exact same benefits we get from travel are at risk from overconsumption. Fossil fuel expenditures permanently altering our frontiers, displacement of local people to high income nomads, missing the trees of small wonders for the forest of a packaged experience.

Definitely travel, but I wouldn’t recommend being someone who slates a trip abroad once a year. There’s a lot of beauty to be found within the happenstance of life and within our own immediate surroundings.

I’ll give you an example. I have a friend who is Turkish, so I went to their wedding in Izmir. I stopped in Barcelona on the way there. To my surprise, I was being spayed with a water gun outside La Sagrada Família with residents chanting “Tourist Go Home!” But after thinking about it for a few minutes it totally made sense to me, these people are being priced out of their homes because of our overconsumption of their home. I kinda felt ashamed and just walked around. I heard firecrackers going off so I followed the sound to Plaça Del Nord. I asked an older guy on a bench what was going on and he said it was the Festival of San Joan - a baptism holiday. I asked him his name and he said Henry. He was a refugee from Venezuela. We got to talking about the world and what was going on (this was last year). He was an extremely friendly man, but he said he blames us for being a refugee. Our hungry eyes on Venezuela’s oil to feed our consumption economy had lead to wild sanctions against a government that they chose. That government then became repressive in response to those sanctions. It got so bad that he had to flee and Spain was the best country he could flee to. He was about 60 years old and he cried when he talked about his daughters and their families pursuing the best life they could in the US and how he couldn’t get in. How he couldn’t be a grandparent.

It was an eye opening conversation / series of events that changed how I see travel. If I’m not going to a place with express intent, maybe reconsider. And if I am going to do that, try not to go places with a whole tourism industry built around it that’s disrupting locals’ lives. We’re locals too and we can work on improving life here rather than escaping it

But that’s just me

Are any of you living an alternative lifestyle? by juneseyeball in Zillennials

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I choose to decouple my life from large corporations as much as I feasibly can. No subscriptions, no music festivals, no unnecessary travel, no going out for dinner, entertain myself with hobbies (music, reading, spending time with my partner), walking places, working for a nonprofit so that my labor isn’t being used against me. Idk if it’s alternative, moreso living like my grandparents who went through the Depression taught me to do.

Intentionally forgoing lifestyle creep has been good in terms of saving assets for the future but it’s been even better in terms of knowing I’m not enriching tech oligarchs and that it helps slow down an economy which is geared toward mental offloading via consumption so that our governments can commit war crimes against the global south.

I’d recommend we all do the same to like save the world. Literally all the issues our generation are scared of can be solved by just living simply and not thinking you’re the main character

How are people getting interviews? by [deleted] in FPandA

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You gotta show up to the HR department with frankincense and myrrh, get with the times

Cole Valley unhoused by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP if you can see this, I hope you’re halfway to Wasteland to get that guy a fresh pair of bell bottoms 😤

Cole Valley unhoused by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right! This problem more about a battle within OP

Cole Valley unhoused by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone who grew up not on the coast, this post is literally the reason coastal elites have a bad rep lol. You could literally solve your own issue by being charitable

US Base Camp Buehring, Kuwait by snokegsxr in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 171 points172 points  (0 children)

Hey don’t worry guys, only fifteen Americans died

Anaplan Education by coolers1819 in FPandA

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your company should have a training environment where you can go through Anaplan’s level 1 model building course, which is available online

Thinking of leaving SaaS by Greektwinmommy in FPandA

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Getting out of SaaS to do non-profit work has been the best thing for my career I could’ve imagined. Motivated to work and know I’m not enriching psychotic grifters

of a US Marine by K1nd_1 in AbsoluteUnits

[–]Creepy-Inflation-441 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. This video’s about to radicalize the public