• TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com
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    6 months ago

    “Have you seen this”

    10/10 marketing effort

    Life really was that easy back then huh (except for that whole racism thing)

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      6 months ago

      except for that whole racism thing

      And great depression thing … and then the world war 2 thing … and the Spanish flu and world war 1 only about a decade before.

      You can imagine a future person looking at a video of someone with a fidget spinner and thinking “life really was easy back then.”

      Every generation has different luxuries and problems.

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        6 months ago

        Guess you don’t have to try hard to sell a product if people are addicted to it, be they cigarettes or fidget spinners.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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        6 months ago

        I dunno… I can look back at native Americans before whitey showed up or further back to hunter-gatherers and think they had it pretty easy compared to now. They didn’t spend 8+ hours a day, every day working at a thing that’s meaningless; they didn’t have mortgages or bills; they didn’t have traffic; or ads, or any number of the dumb ass things we’ve made harder in the effort of making things easier.

        I’d take a lack of medicine and the possibility of being eaten by wild animals over all the modern bullshit that makes it impossible to just live.

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    6 months ago

    I can’t quite tell because the picture pixelizes quickly when zoomed, but that cigarette looks like a mostly smoked butt.

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      6 months ago

      Somebody told me once that cigarette paper contains what is basically gunpowder, which is why it burns continually and makes it burn quickly when smoking it. I don’t know if that’s true, but maybe there’s a connection there.

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        6 months ago

        I’m sure that’s the first thing he’d fill it with. His personal joint roller would probably be able to go on vacation once in awhile too.