• Weedian [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    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.

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      We had something similar with domino’s pizza, but later corporate just changed the prices of the pizzas we were ordering to the employee discount we were using anyway, so no more couponing

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      Maybe less cool, but back in uni, I figured out how to get free Cokes from the vending machine by using my freakishly long and thing arms to pull on the chain inside. I’d bring a friend with bags and we’d absolutely clean out the machines in the middle of the night.

      This was before CCTV was everywhere, you probably couldn’t do this now.

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    Her loss tbh. What’s wrong with some girls nowadays (but actually looking at this pic).

    Get me a girl or a guy who’s all up in that cheapass stealing-from-corpo etc. hustle lenin-heart Doesn’t matter if she can afford it, whether she should is the real question

  • 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?

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    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.

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      who can just afford to pay for Netflix

      ok the $10,000 raid server might be impressive, but who wants to wait 10 minutes for the first episode to download?

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        Finding a show worth watching takes way longer then that anyway - if you want to watch now you’ll need to have started like an hour ago.

        If your torrent client supports sequential download then you can start in half a minute.

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      She’s like “I’m not unimpressed, but I’d be more impressed by a guy who can just afford to pay for Netflix”

      she can speak for herself. my wife loads all the game consoles and pcs up with pirated games because we’re fucking poor. if she could just buy them…cool I guess? wow someone has money. epic. i know which one i think is more impressive.

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        That’s fair, but to be honest I think you might be a bit of an exception. I haven’t found many people who find overfrugality to be particularly attractive.

        Personally I pirate everything, but I’m glad I’ve got a borrowed Netflix account because I do think it implies a level of maturity or something.

        Dating is a show and I’m just trying to be the best actor I can be.

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      I’ve had dates where I showed off my pirate setup, some women have been turned off but idc I’d rather date someone who values resourcefulness and creative solutions. Some women have been impressed.

      Mostly dudes I that I had over didn’t care either way bc they just want to get right down to fucking lol.