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Kolanaki ,
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Just let them play Minecraft. It’s cheaper than Legos and they can’t choke on anything.

ameancow ,

they can’t choke on anything

[cue clip of 11-year-olds talking on minecraft]

TokenBoomer ,

Read them The State and Revolution before bedtime.

8bittech ,

Are you one of those moron who points at a garbage man and says, “Stay in school, or you’ll end up like him” all the while he’s making more than you?

funkless_eck ,

reminds me of one of my fave tweets:

“Garbage men and pick up artists should switch names”

variants OP ,

No it’s just a meme about child labor laws and minecraft

knowyourmeme.com/…/the-children-yearn-for-the-min…

DragonTypeWyvern ,

The funny thing is they’ll probably never realize they were just projecting their own insecurities.

casmael ,

Well when I was a small child I wanted to be a bus that’s all I can tell you

grrgyle ,

The last metamorphosis of praxis: become the means of production

DragonTypeWyvern ,

gets seized by capitalists

And now we know why the Autobots started carrying guns.

beefbot ,

In AI capitalism, the content is you

Sanctus ,
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You cannot. The children yearn for it from their very DNA.

beefbot ,

This is true. All evolution has to do is make us want to have sex* and / or care for a baby once they’re in our arms*

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The_Picard_Maneuver ,
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Mine would probably love this… I’d feel weird buying something branded like this one though.

casmael ,

Yeah the branding somehow makes it seem contrived and a bit weird doesn’t it. If the same toy were to be sold unbranded, it would have a very different vibe imo

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    bulwark ,

    Well said, nothing to be ashamed of driving for a living.

    altima_neo ,
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    It’s like the trades. People shat on those jobs and looked to cushy office jobs. Now trade workers are in demand and no one wants to do it. They’re all jobs that keep society running.

    Bertuccio ,

    OP doesn’t specify, but I read the gripe as it’s a branded truck that’s basically an advertisement you pay to give to your kid. And it’s geared towards kids exactly to expose them at a young age and make a positive association that will pay off when they grow up.

    I like UPS more as a company than FedEx or Amazon because it supposedly has a decent union and actually pays their employees. But the toy itself is still an ad, and I personally don’t view it any more highly than I view similar Amazon truck toys that pander to children. If it were some generic delivery truck I doubt anyone would even notice.

    Thrashy ,
    @Thrashy@lemmy.world avatar

    When I was a kid, Dad would bring home these little foam airplanes that the FedEx office in his building handed out as swag for people who used their services. I loved those things, and I’d be lying if that childhood positive association with FedEx didn’t have some small effect on my preferences as an adult – but it was free.. I think that’s a bit less insidious than paying for the privilege of giving my kid merch pushing a particular brand association on them.

    altima_neo ,
    @altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

    I dunno, I had a Alpha Beta tractor trailer toy and I loved that damned truck.

    Landsharkgun ,

    Yah, replace the UPS with USPS and it’d be bangin

    NegativeLookBehind ,
    @NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

    Step 1: Don’t have kids

    Lucidlethargy ,

    Yeah, I don’t understand the need to breed many people get. I think more people than we think may have worms in their brains.

    TheDarksteel94 ,

    “Do YOU feel the Need? The Need to Breed?”

    Wild_Mastic ,

    Need for Breed, now also on pc and switch

    Viking_Hippie ,

    It might not be as polished as Need for Speed, but it’s much more exciting than the hyperspecific baking sim Need for Bread.

    Wild_Mastic ,

    At least it’s not the lame Need for Beans

    TheDarksteel94 ,

    Hey, that’s a cult classic! 😠

    smowtenshi ,
    @smowtenshi@lemmy.world avatar

    tfw need to breed, but have no one to breed

    TexMexBazooka ,

    It’s only a basic biological imperative

    DaGeek247 ,
    @DaGeek247@fedia.io avatar

    Evolution: spends billions of years exclusively selecting organisms that reproduce
    Lucidlethargy: "All these people having kids isn't natural, They must have brain parasites, it makes no sense other wise"
    Evolution: jackie chan what-the-huh meme

    beefbot ,

    Need maybe, “forced to / constantly harassed to by culture / family / church “ also in the mix here

    casmael ,

    Unfathomably based

    grrgyle ,

    Eh I’m an antinatalist, but this is like 5 fathoms based

    ameancow ,

    Just think what a massive “fuck you” to the universe it is to just suddenly cut off 3.7 billion years of continuous, uninterrupted survival success, from primordial seas of predators and prey on through ice ages and meteor impacts and the crust of Earth turning inside out… you can draw a line of survivors all the way from the first carbon molecules that started sticking together without breaking on through tiny animals huddled under charred stumps to early primates defeating their enemies to refugees escaping genocides… all the way down to you, personally standing there, deciding to cut the line.

    It’s awful but also beautiful, like dropping an ornate, delicate vase off a 12-story building and filming it in slow motion.

    SonicBlue03 ,

    Convert it into a potty chair.

    simplejack ,
    @simplejack@lemmy.world avatar

    poopsenders.com

    Diplomjodler3 ,

    Why would I? Work builds character!

    Track_Shovel ,
    @Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net avatar

    Some even say work will set you free… No way they are lying

    Hobbes_Dent ,

    Box has better airflow.

    casmael ,

    Have you tried reversing the position of your case fans ?

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