Minimalism is a ploy by big small to sell more less
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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This should be graffitid on a wall somewhere
Wait ✋️ ..... I ....... fuck math checks out?
If I still had the opportunity to meet women, they'd see this
i only count 9 cats hard pass. get more cats and try again
Big mistake, buy them after Halloween when they're on clearance
I thought cats cant eat m&ms isn't this horribly dangerous
I make a special type of M&M, like kopi luak coffee. I only harvest the M&Ms that make it out the cat intact. Wanna try?
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I mean, to be fair, I get that this is a joke... But I look at all the shit in my flat I think 90% of this is clutter. I'm still trying to get rid of my sofa, but it's hard to do for cheap when I don't drive.
I've seen so many flats full of so many little tchotchkes and doodads and superfluous whatevers, and it sort of makes me feel that some people decorate their homes for other people - which is absolutely fine - whereas some people decorate their homes for themselves - which is also fine.
Nothing wrong with a simple life. Maybe get a stand for the fleshlight though, I feel like it would pick up dirt and dust and hair from the carpet like that. 🫡
Man, learning my house should be for me is something I wish I'd known sooner.
For years I had a spare bedroom that was barely used, maybe slept in 15 nights a year.
I had it only because I felt like that's the normal thing to do if you have a space for a spare room. That's what people expect of you.
Meanwhile I'm doing soldering projects on my kitchen table as the only suitable surface in the house, shoving resistors and electronic components out of the way every evening so I can make space to eat.
And then I finally realised, I need to prioritise my utility, not that of other people. I have a massive couch - when a friend wants to stay over they can sleep on there, and be perfectly comfortable!
So I donated the spare bed to charity, turned the room into a space for projects with a huge desk, and I'm so much happier for it.
You could always set up the spare room as a hobby space that also has a bed. That's what I did with my spare room.
Alternatively to that, you could also just have a cot folded and tucked away
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Actually, a little hair on the fleshlight makes it more realistic, fyi.
Minimalism isn't the same as laziness or unseriousness, which is what the comic is making fun of, the way a lot of guys especially are so unable to take anything seriously that they don't know how to even go into a target and pick out a nightstand and a lamp.
You can get by with very few possessions, and should, but you still need to take enough pride in your living space that you are doing it with intentionality and focus on the essentials, which again, isn't the same as "I can make do."
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If your getting rid of sofa. Just break it up with a hammer and saw into small pieces and send it out a bit at a time with the regular trash.
why destroy a functional sofa??
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It's wild how many men were outright offended at this on reddit.
edit: or perhaps AI instances pretending to be men. What kind of world are we leaving to our granddroids? We need to set a better example for the chatbots we're leaving this world to.
Granddroids is incredible, I love it
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That's a fleshlight by his bed, isn't it?
Don't worry, he rinses it off before he uses it each time
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Gotta get the mattress off the floor so the spiders don't come to cuddle at night.
And maybe a houseplant for atmosphere.
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XBox 360
Clearly a man of tastes
Look at the muscles on that man though he has his priorities straight.
Minimalism would reduce the wires. Push the TV and console against the wall to hide the cords.
The zen atmosphere got so intense he couldn't spend even thirty seconds tidying
Other than "m'lady," I fail to see a problem...
Trying to frame his slobbishness as "minimalism". Prioritizing a games console and immature Naruto poster over bed sheets. Fleshlight just left out on the floor. Boasting about his apartment when there's less than nothing there.
The lack of bedsheets really gets to me, more than anything else. I’m okay with minimalism, but sleeping on the same fabric all the time without being able to clean it… not great.
Little did you know, he have ten mattresses in a second room, that cycles regularly and are steam cleaned. Maybe.
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What's peoples problem with sleeping on the floor. I want to upgrade my futon to a Japanese futon so I can fold it up when I'm not using it. Though I'm definitely weird, my back does not like any support
Problem is humidity under your mattress. Japanese daily move the mattress so they don't have that problem.
It's fine when you're young.
When you get older, the ability to roll your feet off the bed and easily stand up is clutch.
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