but weren't we dying anyway?

"what do they mean by social media? does Roblox count? what about all the stuff I've built?"

"you'll be fine, doesn't your icloud say you're 34?"

Neither lead really wants to be there and is suspicious and angry at the systems that got held up as examples for them to follow then betrayed them (and their loved ones) in the worst ways. They both start the series in different mental spaces; Charlie is very obviously using the system to get what he wants, but ends up helping people. Creating connections and community, and attaching to people again. Dani starts doing her best to re-commit to the community who betrayed her and left her in the cold. To earn her place back, so to speak. And ends up confirming that the system is partially rotten and deserves to be destroyed, but also people. And connection. And community that is not dependent on the structures she was taught and allowed to define her.

It’s not a perfect show. A lot could be said about how white it is. It was produced in 2007-2009 (and I LOVED Jane Seever, let me be blunt about that) and it ,I think, intentionally decided to go with a lead the primetime audience would sympathize with; a ginger white guy. It also got lost in the weeds a few times and made some choices that I didn’t love.

But DAMN this show legit said Most Cops Are Bastards on primetime NBC tv in 2007. Moreover, it also managed to tell a love story about community and found family and how our past may define who we were, but it absolutely is up to us to make a choice about who we eventually want to be.

REST IN PEACE, SAM NEILL (1947-2026)

pure individualism is a disease that kills communities, isolates individuals, and leads to things like the anti-vax movement.

you are not so important that you aren't bound by social responsibility and decency.

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Editing to add some context: This is from the IWW's static archive site. The IWW is a radical union with a long history. All the actions above are cool and the OP's actions reminded me of them which is why I shared this! But some of responses to this post have questioned, "why don't more workers do good work strikes instead of work stoppages?"