To be honest, when I was working customer service jobs I made light conversation with customers all the time when I made their coffee or whatever, and that wasn't for tips or because I was trained to do it. The truth is I was bored too and any human interaction was nice. Sure that's not always the case but I think people are generally too pessimistic about day to day conversation.
I often try to come up with a joke when talking to staff at a cafe or store. It's worth a shot - it brightens up the day for everyone involved. I'm actually not terribly comfortable in social situations, so this helps a lot (sort of like having a script, I guess?). So I agree, there can be place for a genuine human connection even in customer service. But I also agree with the video - I think we could do better as a society. And maybe one day we will :)
It doesn't have to be this way forever. Soon you can let you autopiloted car drive your robot servant to target, get a puppaccino for your goldendoodle and pick up your kid from the bus stop. If there are still people working at the stores, your robot can record how nice they were and share it with the head company that owns both the robot and almost all the stores, to incentivice good performance. You don't have to interact with anyone or learn any social skills apart from memorizing a few sentences that give quick and reliable results.
dude. get a god damn adblock. You might have to install firefox instead of chrome because google just screwed over ad blockers and they're slowly rolling it out now. Firefox still has manifest v2, chrome removed it in favour of manifest v3 for "safety", oops ad blockers got kneecapped well anyway
I remember being a teen having food poisoning diarrhea in the target bathroom around closing. It was a different kind of hopelessness than late stage capitalism
@@josevictorribeirolisboa7576it's crazy how this just naturally all happened and there's definitely no solutions oh well let's just accept problems as they come and never try to better anything Ha Ha
@@astrocoastalprocessoras opposed to public transport, where and when you go places is determined by the government? Car does represent freedom, drive anywhere whenever and you don’t even have to be on dictated roads.
Right? That "Open Road" which always seems to be deadlocked or under construction. Just you and your machine, and thousands of others and their machines.
Every time I find myself in a Walmart or any similar store, I inevitably start thinking of all the energy, planning, contracts, legal briefings, waste, efficiency , logistics, resources, wealth, exploitation, manpower, decisions etc that culminated in the display that I see before me, and sometimes it's too much to even consider at once. It's both awesome and terrible, and we have zero control over it.
Walmart has literally thousands of supercenters, all of them individually bigger than any city before the year 1500, which each must have their entire square footage meticulously stocked and cleaned by a small army of around 300 employees. It is one of the world's most staggering bureacracies.
@@coconuthead1361 It's kind of a cheap qualification because cities back then had to be walled, and so the size of the city proper (not the metropolitan area) was always super limited. Still true though.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Challenging: Success] She's not wrong. But her scorn is lodged a little too firmly in the bosom of the suburbanites, and not enough in the throat of the mega-corp scum. EMPATHY [Godly: Success] Wait, don't mega-corpo scumlords deserve empathy too? REACTION SPEED [Trivial: Success] No. No they don't. Obviously.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Challenging: Success] She's not wrong. But her scorn is lodged a little too firmly in the bosom of the suburbanites, and not enough in the throat of the mega-corp scum. EMPATHY [Godly: Success] Wait, don't mega-corpo scumlords deserve empathy too? REACTION SPEED [Trivial: Success] No. No they don't. Obviously.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Challenging: Success] She's not wrong. But her scorn is lodged a little too firmly in the bosom of the suburbanites, and not enough in the throat of the mega-corp world-fuckers. EMPATHY [Godly: Success] Wait, don't mega-corpo world-fuckers deserve empathy too? REACTION SPEED [Trivial: Success] No. No they don't. Obviously.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Challenging: Success] She's not wrong. But her scorn is lodged a little too firmly in the bosom of the suburbanites, and not enough in the throat of the mega-corp world-f*ckers. EMPATHY [Godly: Success] Wait, don't mega-corpo world-f*ckers deserve empathy too? REACTION SPEED [Trivial: Success] No. No they don't. Obviously.
"When you're not doing your duties, do they keep you in a little box? Cells. Cells. Interlinked. Interlinked. A system of Cells. Interlinked. Cells within cells. Interlinked."
This assumption that most people wouldn't prefer personal transport vehicles if given the option if it weren't for lobbyists is not only untrue, but the EXACT flavor of generalization that people that say shit like that tend to also claim they are above.
@@Nepeta-Leijon you're using the exception to argue the rule, though. And it isn't like cities are designed specifically to frustrate this goal. It's usually just the path of least resistance for the time period. I'm all for more walkable cities, but that example still doesn't actually touch the point of "most people are going to desire personal transport as opposed to group transport if the option is available." I can't really smoke a joint or bang in the backseat of a city bus. Not usually, anyway.
I've come to an understanding that the 'late' in late-stage capitalism is like when someone is 'late' for their period -- true capitalism hasn't even been born yet.
capitalism is already over if you werent aware. Its just futurustic techno-serfdom now. Except we get way less days off if we work an actual job (fake job people still get a lot of time off though)
Hyperconsumerism is a plague, sure. But I'm here for the sick guitar playing. This something journey would've used as a backtrack. I can just imagine Phil Collins, harmonizing with the minors
She's right yknow, life really does suck when you look down on everyone around you, purposely isolate yourself from others, and believe that everyone has bad intentions.
I cannot possibly guess how you got that as your conclusion and suspect you may be reacting defensively on behalf of "The best system ever" and whatever emotional investment you've placed in it.
@sundown6806 The effects of reddit on the brains of people like you is a crime that future generations will look back on the way we look back on leaded gasoline.
I merely suggested that they should bring the streetcar back in small cities around the country and one of my npc coworkers just became enraged at the thought telling me how ridiculous it is....
Or ask why and see if they have a point and if they don't just tell them that they don't have a good enough point, cause you might be missing something
"We aren't really free? What are you talking about? I can *drive* to so many different places! I can drive to Target™, Crumble Cookie™, the gym, the strip mall, McDonald's™, Burger King™, and more! I'm spoiled with options for places to *drive to!*"
You can drive to your friends/family, places from hobbies, landmarks and interesting locations, places for gatherings. Your obsessed with buying things and not living
"When I sleep at night I dream of Target™ and all of the good deals and friendly people they have. When I wake up in the morning and go to work at my fulfilling job at the Company™, I cannot wait to stop at Target™ on my way back home, and maybe even get my wife a Starbucks Oleato Golden Foam Latte™! She hasn't been able to sleep anyway, ever since our 10 year old son has been drafted to Target's Junior Employee Training Academy™. But I know that its for the best to take him out of school, besides what more is there to learn about the world than Target™ and other brands that care about us as much as they do? In fact, I can't wait to give another 40 years of my life to the Company™ so that I can continue to repeat this cycle until my memories become so indistinguishable from each other that all remembered experiences with my loved ones will have faded away. Then, I'll be able to spend the rest of my life in Target's Retirement and Rehabilitation Center™ until the day I die and my body is recycled for Target's Organic Waste Recycling Program™."
@Meladonessable I think you missed the sarcasm. People should do all those things you have pointed out. The joke here is some suburban people live their whole lives driving between consumer and corporate locations, never truly experiencing things outside the corporate consumer landscape.
Drive to work Work Drive to college College Repeat 5x Weekend (I am entirely happy with this cycle and make genuine connections with my peers at work and college, and find sufficient time to be with friends and do my hobbies on weekends)
@@coconuthead1361 We used to build cities at a human scale in the US. Even Midwestern towns still have the old urban core that is easily bikeable if they were built before WW2. Switzerland is dotted with small rural towns that have fantastic public transit and connections across the countryside. China is larger than the continental US, and they have a massive public transit system that can take you pretty much anywhere. It is always possible.
@@distorted_heavy It’s not that we can’t bike 20 miles, it’s that there’s literally no way to bike 20 miles without serious risk of being run over by a mom van. You have to be on constant alert due to the bike-hostile street design and the people in cars forgetting that pedestrians exist.
That’s why you leave that to the psychopaths trying to become CEO’s and live like a normal person, not someone defined by the economic system they believe they live under
@@mcarrowtime7095 It isn't a transactional thing. They have no reason to think you exist because they are so goddamn rich. People should not be divided into classes when we all do work. If you don't do any action to stop this horrible system, it's just as bad as supporting the billionaires' side. They want you to be silent. They want you to ignore them. They want to occupy half your waking hours with work to keep you distracted and complicit. It's the only way a tiny minority can maintain control over the majority. You don't have to do a lot. Occasionally showing up to protests, educating yourself in anti-Capitalist theory, and spreading the word. We outnumber the bougousie 99 to 1. All we need to do is find the will to fight for ourselves. Especially look into intersectionality. It can really help tie things together for people.
@@mcarrowtime7095does it not speak to a foul issue with the system that we are subject to the self interest of people who have no incentive to even care about the people they're affecting? Live life, but live critically, it's not good here.
@@monbubthe only thing it's saying is "I AM A MASSIVE CONSUMER TO THE POINT WHERE IT DEFINES MY VAPID LIFE!!!1!". Like bro you are not required to drive to target every day and isolate yourself from others. Go do something that isn't consoooooming and maybe you'll feel better
Hearing an alarm. Putting on a tie. Carrying a handbag. Receptionists. Caffeine-filled air. Taking a lift. Seeing your second family. Watercooler conversations. Proper bants. The boss's jokes. Plastic plants. Office gossip. Those weird carpets. Face-to-face meetings. Not having to make lunch. CCing. BCCing. Accidentally replying-all. Hearing buzzwords. Leaving early for a cheeky afternoon in the sun. Disinfecting surfaces we use throughout the day, so we can do it all again tomorrow. The little things we do help protect the little things we love. Keep protecting. Use disinfectants safely. Always read the label and product information before use.
She's mocking Americans, possibly not knowing people outside of USA don't live like that (you'd have to drive a lot if you're in remote Norwegian village for example, but everything else is different).
do people not realize she's not saying this is how SHE lives but is an observation of others around her. I stg some people will take anything possible in bad faith
I made sure to include “drive to Bible study”, “drive to poker night”, “drive to Warhammer game”, “drive to dog park to actually hang out with the dog”, “drive to church”. Those tend to help out more
I think it’s a problem if all of the hangout places are so far away from each other that the only way to get to them is to drive there, I’ll take walking to a friend’s house any day
If the only place to meet with people is an hour away on foot, that’s part of the problem. And realistically I have to mentally prepare for an hour before driving anyway.
Cause she casting judgements on everyone's else while commenting on a political talking point and then post it on tiktok, yeah shes probably insufferable
For some reason, the “drive your kids to the bus stop” is the most dystopian to me. Like man, our infrastructure is so cripplingly dependent on cars we need a vehicle to bring people to a place to be picked up by another vehicle.
i just worked 7 days in a row of my service industry job making coffee for entitled rich white people and i was repeating this in my head all day like a mantra. entrancing. painful. well done.
"Thermal count is rising in perpetual writhing The primordial ooze and the sanity they lose Awakened in the morning to more air-pollution warnings Still we sleepwalk off to work as our nervous systems jerk Pretending not to notice how history has forbode us With the greenhouse in effect our environment was wrecked Now I can only laugh as I read our epitaph We end our lives as moles in the dark of the dawn patrol" ~ the original late stage capitalism bass solo
Americans are so alienated from their fellow humans that they assume anyone making conversation is doing it because it's a part of their job. Like yes, I'm sure that's the case in many places, but when I was working long shifts in a pub in Ireland I chatted to people non stop because I'd rather be talking to people while doing my work than doing work alone. It's called human connection? Now I live in Spain and know all the people in the places I go to regularly and we stop and chat for a few minutes every time I pop in. It's called being social, you should try it :)
In a lot of American retail and service jobs building a "connection" with customers thru small talk is expected of the workers so it's a forced interaction for already overworked/underpaid employees.
Boy, I sure am glad that my life doesn’t just end at going to the store. From those groceries I got, I can share a meal with the people I love and care about, I can try out new recipes, I can host a hangout or even a party, and so on. And now I don’t even have to go to the store all the time! Sometimes, I can simply have them delivered to my doorstep leaving even more time to spend with friends and family!
![Twenty One Pilots - The Line (from Arcane Season 2) [Official Audio]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XCz7WUotXs8/mqdefault.jpg)
She says "drive to target" like ajet fighter's auditory warning system.
The missile knows where it is at all times because it knows where it isn't
Like "Target locked" but it's the fighter jet's store locator and not the ballistic system speaking
Pull up. Drive to target. Pull up.
😂😂😂😂😂 fr fr
Locking mode on
Drive to target
Target located
Locking
Fire
Close enough, welcome back Pink Floyd
This got me pretty good.
whoa
Careful with that axe Eugene..
This was better than anything Pink Floyd did after 1977.
@@Emlizardo Or before
0:57 A pilot codenamed Drive trying to contact another pilot, codenamed Target, after their plane crashed.
Drive to target
Target does not respond
The wailing guitar really makes it seems like a low-budget ripoff of Top Gun
Someone tell Target that that's a really confusing codename for a pilot
And then they drove into the sun
Pilotredsun
@@ericjf Roger Roger. Whats your vector Victor?
Feels like a monologue from Disco Elysium
Thought Gained: Late Stage Capitalism Zombie
Never played that game but I hate it. Capitalism is cool
Nah it would be way more well spoken/written if that was the case.
@@ictogoncoward
@ictogon heres the secret sauce, batman, all economic systems suck. Reality itself is cosmic horror
I will provide the sound of distant monotone screams myself
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh.
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh.
Aaaaa-ugh.
I remember you was conflicted
@@Liliphant_ Misusing your influence
@@sandensonSometimes I did the same
@@datcap6289abusing my power full of resentment.
To be honest, when I was working customer service jobs I made light conversation with customers all the time when I made their coffee or whatever, and that wasn't for tips or because I was trained to do it. The truth is I was bored too and any human interaction was nice. Sure that's not always the case but I think people are generally too pessimistic about day to day conversation.
I often try to come up with a joke when talking to staff at a cafe or store. It's worth a shot - it brightens up the day for everyone involved. I'm actually not terribly comfortable in social situations, so this helps a lot (sort of like having a script, I guess?). So I agree, there can be place for a genuine human connection even in customer service. But I also agree with the video - I think we could do better as a society. And maybe one day we will :)
Fed
I mean specifically Trader Joes
@@kevinosborn3258
*Adjusts Oakley sunglasses*
Wh-what that's r-ridiculous!
@@undeniablySomeGuy
Oh yeah that and Dutch Bros. I do find those interactions incredibly uncomfortable
It doesn't have to be this way forever. Soon you can let you autopiloted car drive your robot servant to target, get a puppaccino for your goldendoodle and pick up your kid from the bus stop. If there are still people working at the stores, your robot can record how nice they were and share it with the head company that owns both the robot and almost all the stores, to incentivice good performance. You don't have to interact with anyone or learn any social skills apart from memorizing a few sentences that give quick and reliable results.
genuinely terrifying
the people who got put out of their jobs and now won't get hired because there are robots everywhere:
...That or the crops all burn and we starve in a bloodbath.
it sounds glorious
@@mutoneon just don't water the crops with brawndo, the thirst mutilator, and we'll be fine.
The minute of unskippable ads that ran before this really set the scene.
dude. get a god damn adblock. You might have to install firefox instead of chrome because google just screwed over ad blockers and they're slowly rolling it out now. Firefox still has manifest v2, chrome removed it in favour of manifest v3 for "safety", oops ad blockers got kneecapped well anyway
Get vanced no ads no sponsorships
alternatively, firefox + ublock origin + sponsor block
unskippable if you're stupid.
Use a VPN, set location to Albania, no more ads
You could poop in the target bathroom. That's something different.
Ive taken some of my best shits in a target bathroom.
In Aus targets don't have public bathrooms, just for the staff in the back area
@@sam8742 Improvise, adapt, overcome. I'm sure one of the aisles will be empty enough.
@@skipperdipper5186 I'm glad I work in the back unloading the trucks instead
I remember being a teen having food poisoning diarrhea in the target bathroom around closing. It was a different kind of hopelessness than late stage capitalism
this feels like a welcome to night vale ad for target
That’s so true
holy shit it does
Oh my god your right, or like a really REALLY obscure “and now, the weather”
I haven’t heard of that series is YEARS! I completely forgot about it. I still haven’t really got into it. I might check it out again soon.
Holy shit, you're so right
Maybe she's an assassin and has completed multiple kill bounties today
Cruelty Squad
I think I know where the victims were...
Fitter, happier, more productive
like a pig in a cage on antibiotics
Drive to target
A pig, in a cage, on antibiotics
drive to carwash on sunday
(baby still in backseat)
What trying to squeeze infinite growth out of a finite world does to a society
I like you drlemon7729
No other alternative.
@@josevictorribeirolisboa7576it's crazy how this just naturally all happened and there's definitely no solutions oh well let's just accept problems as they come and never try to better anything Ha Ha
@@josevictorribeirolisboa7576We've tried nothing else and we're all out of ideas!
How else are we supposed to get to Target
“a pig in a cage on antibiotics”
- Radiohead 1997
EXACTLY
Americans: "The car represents freedom"
The cars did not in fact represent freedom
sauron vibes
Yeah, try not having one.
@@snpr1022 you are proving the point
@@snpr1022 that's the point dumbass. The fact that we are all so reliant on cars to get anywhere is a huge problem
@@astrocoastalprocessoras opposed to public transport, where and when you go places is determined by the government? Car does represent freedom, drive anywhere whenever and you don’t even have to be on dictated roads.
being dependent on an car-monopoly to engage with my society sure does make me feel free
Right? That "Open Road" which always seems to be deadlocked or under construction. Just you and your machine, and thousands of others and their machines.
Oh is that what this is about
You sound broke. I'd let you borrow one of my 3 convertibles but poor people don't take care of stuff
@@chuckhunter77 sounds like a you problem
@@killtheheretics2915 Ikr? Its almost like they're the only one who actually drives. All the other drivers are holograms.
Every time I find myself in a Walmart or any similar store, I inevitably start thinking of all the energy, planning, contracts, legal briefings, waste, efficiency , logistics, resources, wealth, exploitation, manpower, decisions etc that culminated in the display that I see before me, and sometimes it's too much to even consider at once. It's both awesome and terrible, and we have zero control over it.
one of the realest comments i’ve ever seen on yt
An ant seeing a motherboard for the first time
Walmart has literally thousands of supercenters, all of them individually bigger than any city before the year 1500, which each must have their entire square footage meticulously stocked and cleaned by a small army of around 300 employees. It is one of the world's most staggering bureacracies.
@@ratronald I'm pretty sure there were cities bigger than a Walmart before 1500. But I get what you're saying
@@coconuthead1361 It's kind of a cheap qualification because cities back then had to be walled, and so the size of the city proper (not the metropolitan area) was always super limited. Still true though.
The Phoenix AZ Experience
Oh damn, I was just thinking that.
What happens when you build a city on a desert.
it didnt have to turn out like this tho, we couldve made the desert more habitable by humans instead of cars
Pheonix is the worst city in america
Just moved away after 10 years. Can confirm. 😂
I worked on that giant nightmare clock in the Great Wolf Lodge! 0:50
Ever since the incident, I've been cataloguing everyone who worked on it. Thank you for your admission
@@kapwns The ritual was completed years ago.
It’s far too late for cataloguing.
I think a shopping list might alleviate all that back n forth
Big british sea power's disco elysium ost vibes. I mean that horn line is exactly it that can't be a coincidence. good nod nice playing
SHIVERS [Trivial: Success] The car represents freedom. That is why nobody can go anywhere without owning one.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Challenging: Success] She's not wrong. But her scorn is lodged a little too firmly in the bosom of the suburbanites, and not enough in the throat of the mega-corp scum.
EMPATHY [Godly: Success] Wait, don't mega-corpo scumlords deserve empathy too?
REACTION SPEED [Trivial: Success] No. No they don't. Obviously.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Challenging: Success] She's not wrong. But her scorn is lodged a little too firmly in the bosom of the suburbanites, and not enough in the throat of the mega-corp scum.
EMPATHY [Godly: Success] Wait, don't mega-corpo scumlords deserve empathy too?
REACTION SPEED [Trivial: Success] No. No they don't. Obviously.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Challenging: Success] She's not wrong. But her scorn is lodged a little too firmly in the bosom of the suburbanites, and not enough in the throat of the mega-corp world-fuckers.
EMPATHY [Godly: Success] Wait, don't mega-corpo world-fuckers deserve empathy too?
REACTION SPEED [Trivial: Success] No. No they don't. Obviously.
CONCEPTUALIZATION [Challenging: Success] She's not wrong. But her scorn is lodged a little too firmly in the bosom of the suburbanites, and not enough in the throat of the mega-corp world-f*ckers.
EMPATHY [Godly: Success] Wait, don't mega-corpo world-f*ckers deserve empathy too?
REACTION SPEED [Trivial: Success] No. No they don't. Obviously.
The instruments are so beautiful but I have to say her delivery is so great too
would actually be a banger sample
Mate. She's talking about programming using TikTok to convey her message.
@@D13Nword How is that not the most appropriate possible venue for this message? The people who most need to see it are right there~
Am loving this sequel to 'Fitter happy' by Radiohead.
That solo was epic tho
That was one hell of an existential dread solo.
I know this woman, she delivers the random packages I order daily at Target.
The latter part feel like the bladerunner baseline test
“Drive to Target”
_“Why don’t you say that five times fast?”_
"Drive to target, how does it feel to eat a home cooked meal? Drive to target"
"Drive to target"
@@GodIwishIknew When was the last time you rode a bicycle? Drive to Target.
@@coconuthead1361 how does it feel to get a bad deal? Drive to target
This Godspeed You! Black Emperor B-side goes hard
They don't sleep anymore on the beach
"When you're not doing your duties, do they keep you in a little box? Cells.
Cells.
Interlinked.
Interlinked.
A system of Cells.
Interlinked.
Cells within cells.
Interlinked."
The guard can’t watch all of us.
With Incels Interlinked
smells like metal gear solid in here
Goddamn, the way you really hit that Ghost in the Shell/bladerunner vibe with your guitar
Simply amazing.
"drive your kids to the bus stop" the american dream
Honestly that part is completely inaccurate, if you live in any decent suburb the school bus will pick you up directly from your neighborhood or home.
it's hyperbole
Ah the glory of lobbying so now you have to drive everywhere
Yeah definitely a government conspiracy.
Get over yourself.
This assumption that most people wouldn't prefer personal transport vehicles if given the option if it weren't for lobbyists is not only untrue, but the EXACT flavor of generalization that people that say shit like that tend to also claim they are above.
@@Psychonautical89 you missed the "everywhere" ; even places 3 minutes on foot from my house cannot be walked to because design Only accommodates cars
that's the problem. Everyone wants to drive, but having everyone drive is innefficient.
@@Nepeta-Leijon you're using the exception to argue the rule, though. And it isn't like cities are designed specifically to frustrate this goal. It's usually just the path of least resistance for the time period. I'm all for more walkable cities, but that example still doesn't actually touch the point of "most people are going to desire personal transport as opposed to group transport if the option is available." I can't really smoke a joint or bang in the backseat of a city bus. Not usually, anyway.
The late in "late stage capitalism" gives me the false hope that it's gonna end soon.
I've come to an understanding that the 'late' in late-stage capitalism is like when someone is 'late' for their period -- true capitalism hasn't even been born yet.
capitalism is already over if you werent aware. Its just futurustic techno-serfdom now. Except we get way less days off if we work an actual job (fake job people still get a lot of time off though)
this solo actually sounds insane
Dude, this is pure art.
The eye doctor asked what kind of frames she wanted. This is what she said
Hyperconsumerism is a plague, sure.
But I'm here for the sick guitar playing. This something journey would've used as a backtrack. I can just imagine Phil Collins, harmonizing with the minors
She's using TikTok.
@@D13Nwordconsumerism is when use public platform to voice critique
Thanks for pointing out this soulless circle of despair.
i wanna drive to great wolf lodge, that sounds fun
Midwest emo, except the screaming is internal now.
"buy this car to drive to work, drive to work to pay for this car"
Metric, hand$hake$
drive to target
bret giving us the most amazing and haunting lick
cursing us to live with only this 1 minute snippet
Check "listening to godspeed you! black emperor on shuffle be like"
@rwquote yeah, they're great as well
dammit this comment section isn’t good for me someone give me a comfy chair hangout with friends right now I swear to god
Fr, people really don't want to talk to others irl or get any hobbies
@@lilcotorroi think you've missed the point.
Where in America are you? I can meet you for coffee at a fancy cafe sometime
I feel you. Honestly it's always hanging out with friends that make this all feel worth it. Let's escape the Internet and socialize- together /ref
Don't worry I'm going biking to the local coffee shop 300 miles away, see you in two weeks
dude, you play a mean fuzz tone. Maybe do more, love it!
She's right yknow, life really does suck when you look down on everyone around you, purposely isolate yourself from others, and believe that everyone has bad intentions.
I cannot possibly guess how you got that as your conclusion and suspect you may be reacting defensively on behalf of "The best system ever" and whatever emotional investment you've placed in it.
@sejwok2628 well you've got the "believe that everyone has bad intentions" part down, only 2 more to go
@sundown6806 The effects of reddit on the brains of people like you is a crime that future generations will look back on the way we look back on leaded gasoline.
how does that boot taste? genuinely curious. do you ever add a bit of salt and pepper to it, maybe dip it in some bbq sauce like a real american?
@@Silverado-pq6xe how little self awareness do you have to read my comment, see my reply to the other guy, and still type this out?
fitter
happier
more productive
like a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics
Stay on target! Use the force Luke!
Why does this make me so sad 😢😅
Cause music speaks to our souls.
God damn the car, wretched beast that tramples all in its way.
actually I have a target gift card thanks for reminding me
I merely suggested that they should bring the streetcar back in small cities around the country and one of my npc coworkers just became enraged at the thought telling me how ridiculous it is....
People are evil. Coworkers are the worst of them all.
Calling other people NPCs is part of the problem
@@bduck-r3c if they refuse to even engage with an idea I consider them npc reactionaries who don’t actually want to solve problems
Now you know the cycle of their NPC Dialogue Loop and can just walk widely around them or exit the dialogue without listening to it.
Or ask why and see if they have a point and if they don't just tell them that they don't have a good enough point, cause you might be missing something
"Watch a shallow Tiktok lamenting real issues in the most lowbrow, easily consumable way possible."
Not sure what else you're expecting out of a tiktok my friend
@@realjameOh, are you guys friends? :D
replace all those locations with "work". maybe this is the stay at home wife pov
I love Godspeed You! Black Emperor
"We aren't really free? What are you talking about? I can *drive* to so many different places! I can drive to Target™, Crumble Cookie™, the gym, the strip mall, McDonald's™, Burger King™, and more! I'm spoiled with options for places to *drive to!*"
Don't forget the other Traget and the Super Target! So many options
You can drive to your friends/family, places from hobbies, landmarks and interesting locations, places for gatherings. Your obsessed with buying things and not living
"When I sleep at night I dream of Target™ and all of the good deals and friendly people they have. When I wake up in the morning and go to work at my fulfilling job at the Company™, I cannot wait to stop at Target™ on my way back home, and maybe even get my wife a Starbucks Oleato Golden Foam Latte™! She hasn't been able to sleep anyway, ever since our 10 year old son has been drafted to Target's Junior Employee Training Academy™. But I know that its for the best to take him out of school, besides what more is there to learn about the world than Target™ and other brands that care about us as much as they do?
In fact, I can't wait to give another 40 years of my life to the Company™ so that I can continue to repeat this cycle until my memories become so indistinguishable from each other that all remembered experiences with my loved ones will have faded away. Then, I'll be able to spend the rest of my life in Target's Retirement and Rehabilitation Center™ until the day I die and my body is recycled for Target's Organic Waste Recycling Program™."
Not a good take
@Meladonessable I think you missed the sarcasm. People should do all those things you have pointed out. The joke here is some suburban people live their whole lives driving between consumer and corporate locations, never truly experiencing things outside the corporate consumer landscape.
That Great Wolf Lodge reference hits home
Dang new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album sounding sick as hell
close enough, welcome back radiohead
I get delivery cuz AUTISM and i can't drive. But replace all that with *RUclips, therapy, hospital, insomnia, RUclips* and it's very accurate.
If Pink Floyd were in their 20's and made Dark Side today, this is probably what it would have sounded like.
Drive to work
Work
Drive to college
College
Repeat 5x
Weekend
(I am entirely happy with this cycle and make genuine connections with my peers at work and college, and find sufficient time to be with friends and do my hobbies on weekends)
Just ride your bicycle 💪
What Midwest American city are you from? When everything's at least 20 miles apart a bike only does so much good.
@@coconuthead1361 We used to build cities at a human scale in the US. Even Midwestern towns still have the old urban core that is easily bikeable if they were built before WW2.
Switzerland is dotted with small rural towns that have fantastic public transit and connections across the countryside. China is larger than the continental US, and they have a massive public transit system that can take you pretty much anywhere. It is always possible.
@@coconuthead1361what you can't bike 20 miles to the store? Sounds like you need to bike more, friend
Yeah ofc why didn’t I think of that? lemme just ride my bicycle down the freeway to get to school
@@distorted_heavy It’s not that we can’t bike 20 miles, it’s that there’s literally no way to bike 20 miles without serious risk of being run over by a mom van. You have to be on constant alert due to the bike-hostile street design and the people in cars forgetting that pedestrians exist.
Fitter Happier 2 Electric Boogaloo
Ooh I love that sound 😌
Godspeed You Black Emperor
There is no soul in a system based on greed. No empathy when ruthless competition is not only encouraged, but the expectation.
That’s why you leave that to the psychopaths trying to become CEO’s and live like a normal person, not someone defined by the economic system they believe they live under
@@mcarrowtime7095nice thought but thats not how it works. pretty hard to just not think about the 1% that controls every part of your daily life.
@ for you, maybe. I’m too busy thinking about my actual daily life to be thinking about the rich people who don’t even know I exist.
@@mcarrowtime7095 It isn't a transactional thing. They have no reason to think you exist because they are so goddamn rich. People should not be divided into classes when we all do work. If you don't do any action to stop this horrible system, it's just as bad as supporting the billionaires' side. They want you to be silent. They want you to ignore them. They want to occupy half your waking hours with work to keep you distracted and complicit. It's the only way a tiny minority can maintain control over the majority. You don't have to do a lot. Occasionally showing up to protests, educating yourself in anti-Capitalist theory, and spreading the word. We outnumber the bougousie 99 to 1. All we need to do is find the will to fight for ourselves. Especially look into intersectionality. It can really help tie things together for people.
@@mcarrowtime7095does it not speak to a foul issue with the system that we are subject to the self interest of people who have no incentive to even care about the people they're affecting? Live life, but live critically, it's not good here.
"Drive to target" is now part of my active vocabulary
Drive into the sun
I remember when I used to think stuff like this was actually saying something.
it is.
@@monbubthe only thing it's saying is "I AM A MASSIVE CONSUMER TO THE POINT WHERE IT DEFINES MY VAPID LIFE!!!1!". Like bro you are not required to drive to target every day and isolate yourself from others. Go do something that isn't consoooooming and maybe you'll feel better
This genuinely made me tear up with how ethereal and beautiful the solo sounds lmao
DRIVE
INTO
THE
SUN
💀
Hearing an alarm. Putting on a tie.
Carrying a handbag. Receptionists.
Caffeine-filled air. Taking a lift.
Seeing your second family. Watercooler
conversations. Proper bants. The boss's
jokes. Plastic plants. Office gossip. Those
weird carpets. Face-to-face meetings.
Not having to make lunch. CCing.
BCCing. Accidentally replying-all.
Hearing buzzwords. Leaving early for
a cheeky afternoon in the sun.
Disinfecting surfaces we use throughout the
day, so we can do it all again tomorrow.
The little things we do help protect the
little things we love. Keep protecting.
Use disinfectants safely. Always read the label and product information before use.
Notice how she never says "drive to work."
Honestly, she has a point lol.
The irony how shes saying these are your only choices for hobbies when someone is playing an instrument right beside her
drive to guitar center
You don’t gotta take it so literally
She's mocking Americans, possibly not knowing people outside of USA don't live like that (you'd have to drive a lot if you're in remote Norwegian village for example, but everything else is different).
@@KasumiRINAyou don’t know much about the world, do you?
do people not realize she's not saying this is how SHE lives but is an observation of others around her.
I stg some people will take anything possible in bad faith
Godspeed You! Black Emperor's new record is looking good
"Late stage capitalism" people when other human beings have a normal life and don't complain about everything constantly.
This is art 🤌
I made sure to include “drive to Bible study”, “drive to poker night”, “drive to Warhammer game”, “drive to dog park to actually hang out with the dog”, “drive to church”. Those tend to help out more
Religion is the opiate that sedates people from their miserable lives. You just admitted to that.
Yeah the people who try to make a fuss about materialism are often the most materialist
I think it’s a problem if all of the hangout places are so far away from each other that the only way to get to them is to drive there, I’ll take walking to a friend’s house any day
@@hunderslash walking would take an hour while driving takes 5 minutes?
If the only place to meet with people is an hour away on foot, that’s part of the problem. And realistically I have to mentally prepare for an hour before driving anyway.
I want this on an album! This is a perfect mash up
What are those effects man? That's a badass sound
If he says anything about effects let me know, it sounds amazing! Definitely some sort of fuzz, maybe a synth too and pitch shift?
this is honestly beautiful
THIS IS THE SECOND UPLOAD TODAY.
not a problem.
IS THIS A REAL SONG WTF THIS SOUNDS SO GOOD
She seems really cool and not insufferable or annoying at all
You seem really cool and detached and not upset
@@blipboigilgamesh7865 you are correct, thanks.
@@blipboigilgamesh7865 do you see the irony in your own comment
Cause she casting judgements on everyone's else while commenting on a political talking point and then post it on tiktok, yeah shes probably insufferable
@@Meladonessable she isn't judging anyone?
For some reason, the “drive your kids to the bus stop” is the most dystopian to me. Like man, our infrastructure is so cripplingly dependent on cars we need a vehicle to bring people to a place to be picked up by another vehicle.
legend uploads once again
Perfect Dystopia intro
i just worked 7 days in a row of my service industry job making coffee for entitled rich white people and i was repeating this in my head all day like a mantra. entrancing. painful. well done.
nigga just blend my coffee up with my caramel bro you aren't that special
Racist
@@D13Nword i bet you don't say that when your friends or your family says the n-word.
@D13Nword It’s fine, almost all the people she served probably thought it isn’t possible to be racist against white people
@@D13Nwordcry more about it maybe something will happen
Meanwhile, we're supposed to be mad at the banks and credit card companies when you spend every waking moment in Target
That SSRI stare
Yes
fluoride stare
she's mindbroken
Sounds like GY!BE
"Thermal count is rising in perpetual writhing
The primordial ooze and the sanity they lose
Awakened in the morning to more air-pollution warnings
Still we sleepwalk off to work as our nervous systems jerk
Pretending not to notice how history has forbode us
With the greenhouse in effect our environment was wrecked
Now I can only laugh as I read our epitaph
We end our lives as moles in the dark of the dawn patrol"
~ the original late stage capitalism bass solo
Americans are so alienated from their fellow humans that they assume anyone making conversation is doing it because it's a part of their job. Like yes, I'm sure that's the case in many places, but when I was working long shifts in a pub in Ireland I chatted to people non stop because I'd rather be talking to people while doing my work than doing work alone. It's called human connection? Now I live in Spain and know all the people in the places I go to regularly and we stop and chat for a few minutes every time I pop in. It's called being social, you should try it :)
In a lot of American retail and service jobs building a "connection" with customers thru small talk is expected of the workers so it's a forced interaction for already overworked/underpaid employees.
Boy, I sure am glad that my life doesn’t just end at going to the store. From those groceries I got, I can share a meal with the people I love and care about, I can try out new recipes, I can host a hangout or even a party, and so on. And now I don’t even have to go to the store all the time! Sometimes, I can simply have them delivered to my doorstep leaving even more time to spend with friends and family!
Just don't think about the person delivering the groceries
@@cat-b They're doing their job just like we all have jobs to do??? I'm not sure what your point is
@@marstothestars33 damn that's true I love capitalism
@@cat-b So what's your alternative?
idk what a suburban zombie is so I clicked on this video waiting for her to start explaining how this was relevant to surviving a zombie apocalypse
I love this
She's driving to target like its a grocery store lol
Super targets contain grocery stores, and are also just called target stores now, so yes she is treating a grocer as a grocer
@@distorted_heavy they contain aisles of food, but its not a grocery store.
All of the targets I know of are super targets, I haven’t seen a regular target in decades
@@hunderslash regular targets exist??