Return of the Meme: 1565 (hedonic treadmill)

Dec 25, 2025 12:34 AM

CodyBurkett

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Let's get this bread.

Do. Not. Smoke. Around. Your. Bird. Image is cute though.

Pippin tax!

Today's message from Pippin: "Good morning Pippin"

We have a discord, feel free to PM me for a link.
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1) Are you on the run to a safe place and passing through Arizona on your way to safer grounds? My apartment is open to you to crash at, and it is a safe space. Pippin and I will make you a meal and gladly share tea, wine, or mead with you.

2) Hey! Take your meds with a full glass of water, please. Do it for Pippin, or Space Mom, or better yet, do it for yourself.

3) Ĝefeloað wē. We will carry on.

4) all funds from the sales of items at these two links will be sent to support charities aiding to fight for Trans rights in the US (not just T-shirts!)

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/74812801-all-conures-are-anarchists

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/74811778-whiptail-pride

5) Since multiple people have requested this over the last two weeks or so, my ko-fi is: https://ko-fi.com/codyandpippin

Beanie birds back in business bringing brah drip

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#48 oh no!! Three monitors and a company phone?!? Less than corporate slave????

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#30 "So, we all know AI is most capable or replacing us, right?"

3 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

#27 I actually have that gin in my cabinet, from Suntory, it's pretty good, very balanced botanicals

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#48 - Oh shit, I have three monitors plus a laptop on the side. As a little treat.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#25 Sure, but I bet the interviewees or however they got the data were all physically, nutritionally, and financially secure (at least at a minimum level). Bet none were homeless, cause I can guarantee that having those necessities that money would give you helps a LOT.

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#30 so much evil in a single image

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#48 security guard

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What I find interesting about #30, #33, and #36 is the way all three pieces of slop depict Elon Musk (and only him) smoking a cigar.

3 months ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

#30 One frag could have changed a lot...

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#33 #36

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#9 Riddler in the Telltale Batman series was a bad dude.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#9 except in Arkham City where he's kidnapped first responders and has them in electrified traps, and at one point has them all constantly walking on a track otherwise bombs strapped to them will explode. Then in Arkham Knight has Catwoman in a death collar. In Suicide Squad he didn't even go to Metropolis to hide trophies, they're holograms.

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#19 I used to do this a lot only instead of napping it was blackout drunkening

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Pippin headbanging is just what I needed to get TF out of bed today!

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#36 I am once again asking why 7 billionaires can’t afford a better hotel room.

3 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

AI slop.

3 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I don’t think so. It looks like a real photo to me.

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

#27

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#23 here's the obligatory "that's not what angels look like in the Bible, they just look like dudes. Sometimes they're glowing, but that's about it. The wheel things are called ophanim, and they're not angels" for the day.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#5 we just got new neighbors and we keep making jokes that although we haven't met yet that they're definitely painting a picture of us from the stuff I shout at the TV because our walls are kind of on the thin side.

Me: "HE PEDDLES FALSEHOODS!"

neighbors: "what did he say?!"
"there's no way I just heard what I just heard"

3 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

#25 I'm going to go ahead and say that 1971 and 2025 are so vastly different that this is no longer the case.

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#21 that isn’t a katana. It’s a straight, double-edged sword with a cruciform hilt.

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hm, I wonder if he's part of the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword ...

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#25 "Relatively... stable happiness"? That can't be right. Those words don't go together, do they? People have a default happiness? .... How do I get one?

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Riddler commits multiple murders in the arkham games. The fuck is that talking about?

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#32 praise moon and star

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hedonic Treadmill! Thank you for this! It is a revelation!

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#1 is more like "Stuff I'm going to eat regardless of clothing or lack thereof."

3 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Now, the ancient covenant declares that there can only be one naked man eating chiiidogs in this Wafflehouse parkinglot. Have at thee!

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There's plenty of parking lots in the world, friend. Chow down!

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#48 ...what does 3 monitors make me?

3 months ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

Grammar school lifetime hall pass

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Blinks in 5.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Replaced by AI next year?

3 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Are you perhaps a security guard

3 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

3 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

ZERO COOL

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Overworked

3 months ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

#25 "Hedonic treadmill" applies once the bills are paid and there's savings in the bank. Happiness increases with income up to $75K - $110K annually.

3 months ago | Likes 93 Dislikes 1

My family is there: wasn't really anything we wanted for Xmas, so we enjoyed things like fuzzy slippers, chocolates, homemade meals, & playing games/watching movies together. We don't own a home/cars, but we take an international trip about 1/yr & that's fun. Very relaxing to spend Xmas at my apt instead of going to the US to see lots of extended family. Most of my happiness now comes from trying new social activities & making friends in new classes, like college again. Highly recommend!

3 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Yeah. When I was in school the studies we covered generally described it as a diminishing marginal utility of wealth. I guess that's less catchy than OPs chosen wiki excerpt though.

3 months ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

THIS. Money does make happy. To help the most unlucky you give them money. Here I solved this for you.

3 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And this is why everyone is so damn unhappy all of the time.

3 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

After taxes?

3 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Research I saw referred to annual income. Assume that means before.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That probably depends on how many services are covered by taxes. In the US...I'm not sure that's enough after taxes in half of the country.

3 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

In that case it depends on the benefits package you get from your employer.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A bunch of America isn't even making that much BEFORE taxes.

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yep, it applies when you're not actively being dragged down by problems that could be solved with money. It's like platforming when it comes to physical training, you're gonna platform at much lower level of performance no matter how hard you try if you've got literal weights hanging off you.

3 months ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

This. Most of my family's problems are still problems, but they're things like, "my son needs help graduating from high school since we are immigrants and the classes are in french and his french is okay but not great," or "how is our immigration paperwork process going?" Not "how to make more $ to pay the bills?" Money won't solve our problems at this point, which is nice.

3 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I would be stoked for you if I weren't so fuckin' tired. Have a happy holiday(s), wherever you are 💜

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You too!!!

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#25 Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure as fuck could take away most of a persons stress!

3 months ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 1

it may not be able to buy perfect happiness ( Cause nothing can ) but i'll sure as fuck be a million times happier than this shit.

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

For real. If I had enough money to retire that would immediately eliminate 50% of my stress. Then the other 50% could be eliminated by hiring someone to figure out all the bullshit maintenance that needs to be done on my house/yard and having them hire the people to do all that bullshit maintenance. At that point I could then maybe have the time or energy to figure out something to do to make myself happy.

3 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Money let's you buy drugs and puppies this argument is invalid

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Correct, it's objectively false that money can't buy happiness. The people who say that either have money or they're idiots. If I could afford to go to Bora Bora every winter for a lavish holiday I'd be a lot fuckin happier than I am currently.

3 months ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 5

Sort of - if you have enough money to afford $10k on annual vacations, you probably also don’t worry about healthcare, food, mortgage, kids and school bills, how long you can ignore a check engine light, etc.

Having enough money that you can choose between different fancy vacation spots is a side effect of turning money worries from “existential” to “preference”.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It was just an exaggeration to make a point. Every data point of my life is an existential threat these days.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Money really can't buy happiness. If it could Musk would be happy.
What it can do is remove virtually every source of unhappiness. It can give you room to find happiness, but money in itself will never grant anyone real or lasting happiness.

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well I think it's always going to depend on the person. Musk is damaged goods. Even though poor I'm generally a pretty happy person. If I suddenly had enough money to be frivolous I'd buy or rent homes to keep the people I give change to a good place to stay warm for the winter, good food, clothes. You bet that would make me happy.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fair, I was more thinking: healthcare, therapy, food, drinks, home, car, etc. just everyday stress would be WAY lower, letting us be happier.

3 months ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

In my head I'd already taken care of all those things with my new found money and was moving on to untasted luxuries. But I agree, I would be deliriously happy to have those stressors taken care of. Bora Bora would be nice though.

3 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Same coin, 2 sides, friend. 🥰

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Indeed.

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0