• blargh513@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      Intellectual would be something like reading enriching books or contributing something useful to a broader body of knowledge that others can use.

      Creative is making something new, special or meaningful.

      This is none of those. This is taking old junk and wasting lot of time to make something useless.

      It would be like going to a junkyard and using a bunch of old engines to make one one car move slower than even the cheapest car from 20 years ago.

      This is pointless and wasteful. People that defend this are part of the problem.

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          Seriously what a terrible example. With a couple of buddies and a few packs of beer, constructing a working vehicle out of obsolete junk sounds like a good time. That’s why I’m on this rock right?

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          You’d build one and drive it. That has value as you will have something useful and you will learn things as you do it.

          You would not build one that doesn’t function in any useful way and you wouldn’t use completely obsolete stuff to do it.

          That would be like making a car out of plaster that uses a hot bulb engine.

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            I promise you, auto enthusiasts have built weirder stuff just because it’d be funny. You have a sense of humor don’t you?

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              Clearly, I do not. You got me. Am dead.

              However, the effort that goes into a good fuckery should correlate the the quality of it.

              This is at the level of , ha that a funny goof. If this were done on a bored Sunday afternoon, I’d say “ha ha this is funny”. Since I don’t have a sense of humor, there is not even a single ha evoked.