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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • That’s not an AnCap (anarcho-capitalism) sticker it’s an anti-capitalisim sticker, but it’s obvious you knew that and just mixed up the acronyms so forgive me for being pedantic but it is important for the point I wanted to make. I don’t want you to think I forgot the context of the meme, but you shouldn’t forget the context of your comment. You have said directly that any apple product, new or used, with an anti-capitalist sticker on it would indicate hypocrisy by the owner. I said that would be a hard position to defend, and then got you to say that your car isn’t an example of hypocrisy using the fact that it’s used as support. I think that’s a solid hit on my point that your argument is difficult to defend because for some reason you get that defense and she doesn’t

    On the totally separate personal values-driven argument in the context of the meme, anti-capitalist doesn’t mean “responsible and frugal capitalism”. It means anti-capitalism, and while sure, there’s probably some hypocrisy there, the idea that the brand you pick says something about you is absolutely not one of the points they as a movement are making. For hypocrisy you have to show them saying one thing and doing a contrary one. To say that certain specific brands aren’t acceptable for people against capitalism is a misunderstand of anti-capitalisim. They all get nationalized and you’re still allowed to have cool shit in Star Trek.


  • You did say new or used isn’t a deciding factor. Correct me if I’m wrong, butIt really sounded like you didn’t care how old the laptop was. A car is one of the biggest status symbols in modern society and I’d argue that my airpods on the bus laugh at your CR-V on the freeway thinking you’re the better socialist. (Sarcasm by the way, my real position is that judging people by their possessions is the real capitalist kool-aid and you’re drinking it just as much by buying into the Idea that certain brands put you on “the other team”. Also I’m the worst socialist, I can’t defend my consumerism in any area except transportation)






  • Yeah, I was getting fed up with going out to buy soda without a car, even to the point I tried getting deliveries from a wholesaler, so I went up the soda machine tech tree. Started with a soda stream, tasted like trash and was so expensive. I started buying real soda syrup, still bad, really flat.

    I ended up buying a 5lb co2 container that I get refilled at welding supply stores, regulator, tube, and carbonation cap. Finally, great soda, at a good price. Maybe I should have stopped there. But instead I decided to move to a carbonation keg. Pretty easy to set up and only having to fill it once a week was awesome. It took 6 months to tweak everything to where I could get it decently carbonated though. (Have to increase pressure, and decrease temperature which required tons of mods) and it still wasn’t quite as good as the carbonation cap.

    Finally, I recently bought a “benchy sparkling” which does everything automatically and is a real step up. Again though, I’m still chasing the soda quality from when I just used a carbonation cap to manually carbonate one bottle at a time. Damn it’s so convenient though, you don’t even know.