(09-14-2025, 08:10 AM)benji wrote: holy shit
[quote=Nepenthe, https://www.resetera.com/threads/lebron-james-becomes-a-billionaire-first-active-nba-player-to-do-so.590304/page-4#post-87649902]Quote:*Benji's search for the holy grail carrot*
Okay I'm done trying to find it for real.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/%E2%80%9Cfuck-capitalism%E2%80%9D-ok-cool-i-agree-too-but-what-are-the-legitimate-alternatives-that-wouldn%E2%80%99t-ruin-the-world-more-than-it-already-is.655698/page-13#post-96795699
Pretty sure it's in this thread somewhere.
I'm still searching for it, but this is possibly one of the greatest threads to ever exist on Resetera. Just full on unhinged Nep lunacy.
EDIT: I think this is it and we summarised it into a carrot
Quote:You don't have a menial job to go to at a certain time anymore, working for a boss, although you are expected to reasonably pitch in towards the maintenance of the utilities and resources you want to access within your community. Ex. You take from a public garden then you better make sure you're putting back what you took for the next person who comes along somehow, either through time spent cultivating it or providing resources for its maintenance.
As usual, Nepenthe take 60 words to say what can be said better in 6.
EDIT 2: Yep, I found the original post where this was discovered.
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48241.msg3074789#msg3074789
Kudos to Snoopycat for the original find.
Also credit to Jansen for being first to find the thread.
for first using the "Take a book, leave a book" phrase.EDIT 3: First reference to carrots was haughtyfrank
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48241.msg3074862#msg3074862
EDIT 4: Propagandhim with the first use of "Take a carrot, leave a carrot"!!!!!!!
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48241.msg3074870#msg3074870
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