I still don't get it..

This doesn't work in practice.

The apartment I'm renting no longer has running water? I won't complain to my landlord to get it fixed, I'll just be grateful that I was able to experience water.

The tradesperson I paid to complete a job left the work unfinished? I won't complain to them/their company and just be grateful I was able to hire someone to take my money.

I've been sexually harassed? I won't complain to management/authorities, I'll show gratitude that I received attention.

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Ironic how the guy behind the gratitude desk is not looking happy at all. The drawing would have more impact if he was smiling to the line of people.

Did anyone else read this in Robin William's voice?

Brother! It feels like you read my mind to write this😂 did you watch "The Tenant" fron Polanski? It really explains well what you said about not being a phisical creature. Yeah i get what you mean, the God you talk about is like Socrate's demon, isn't it? Thank you for answering

bro stop listening to these people. weed doesn’t make you lazy, your just lazy… it’s on you.

Any other sub, please😢 Shit is dystopian and sad here.

This is absolutely a corporate account. Fuck no.

I was not expecting the plot twist when I realized which sub this was

This is an ad. I thought I was on /r/ABoringDystopia, but it looks like the marketing cults are catching up.

This strangely makes me want pizza.

Even if my contribution is bucket drops, my drops are there.

OP said they didn't get it

I believe that the overriding consensus is that we are not leaving earth better than we found it. Pollution from plastics and micro-plastics, carbon emissions, chemical irritants, all man-made substances, invading our air, soil, and water…depleting our ecosystems. This impetus, this “progression,” at times foolhardy..this deterioration…driven by ego and greed and childish vanity…are we that much better off? Are we closer to a sustainable planet? A sustainable economy? A sustainable life? Not really. I think that is the point of this entire conversation. People sought out spices and decimated native cultures. People sought out other territories and eventually fought for control. Would war even be an issue if not for greed? If not for control and leverage and “furthering” one’s position? There is a tipping point. At which point do you trade happiness in the sake of “progression?” I don’t particularly know, but I feel like on the whole, we have surpassed it.

Eyyyyy Fryman whats a goin on?

Don’t know if it’s necessarily advertising, not like they named a specific place, though I get your point. They most likely weren’t thinking about that at all, they just like fries!

Honest answer: The truth is that nobody could have predicted the impact of satellite technology. So the researchers of the 1950s couldn't get to satellite technology directly: they had no idea it existed. The only way to discover it was to shoot for the moon. They strove towards a goal which, in retrospect, was foolhardy: the exploration of an interstellar hunk of rock with nothing particularly noteworthy on its surface. However, it was this goal, as well as the equally foolhardy and impossible goal of "stop communism" that provided the impetus for the discovery of much of the technology of the information age.

You'll recall that the explorers of North America had similar foolhardy goals about spice islands and cities of gold. The medieval alchemists who invented modern chemistry did so with the stated goal of discovering the elixir of life, the cure-all, and the philosopher's stone. On the one hand, what childish vanities these ancients tried to obtain! On the other hand, what wonders they discovered in the process!

The man in the chair definitely isn't denying himself anything! We agree. He is denying, however, something that he owes to humanity: leaving this planet Earth better than you found it.

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Yes OP made a typo and you spotted it. We get it.

I'm annoyed that a quote from a book whose entire message is anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist, that more or less had the point that unless we care and do something about it we'll live in a polluted ruined dystopia world, is being used to advertise selling fries...

way before

Lol was your account made before or after seeing this post?

Ah, I see you know the city's motto.

But, yes. I am hoping for a weekend trip down to the bay to see some friends, but money. Hopefully I will be able to get somewhere, but I am trying not to count on it so I don't disappoint myself. I am definitely going to be doing morning walks, though, thats for sure.