Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
A lot of people do seem to think “bush looks good in comparison to trump”, ignoring the fact that the open corruption and rejection of reality under bush was an earlier iteration of our current fascist coup, an important stage in that same process.
Obama openly refusing to enforce the law against those bush era criminals (“I’m looking forward not backward”) was another important step towards fascism.
It’s worth remembering the bush era’s invade the hague act, committing the US to a military attack on the ICC if they prosecute any US personnel for the many war crimes we committed in full view of the world.
Sanctioning judges for acting on an allies’ war crimes is new, sure. But the US is an old hand at spitting in the face of international law to protect mass murderers from justice.
this is an evil incarnate thing.
This is a human thing.
Infanticide of both kin and non kin is a rare but incredibly well documented part of our behavioral repertoire.
There’s an urge to distance ourselves from someone who does this, to say that he is evil, a demon, not human. But he’s us. In very specific and awful conditions, this is what we’re capable of.
A substantial portion of the anthropocene extinction event is the Monsanto extinction event.
How in good conscience are you posting links to a news site that is actively involved in a fascist coup?
Yes! House of reps is what I meant. Thank you.
There are some exceptions and it’s definitely not all they do, but attending to the interest of the powerful is their day-to-day work.
Senators accept bribes from various industries and wealthy individuals in order to block or advance legislation on their behalf.
Because a Senator’s electorate is the entire state, they are more likely to be servants of large state-wide industries like dairy in WI, oil & gas in TX, etc.
This is as opposed to the Congress, where the make-up of their specific district can alter which moneyed interests they benefit most from serving.
Every state has only 2 federal Senators, compared to a variable amount of congressional reps based on population. So individual Senators are generally considered more powerful.
I dunno, teenagers all smoke and they seem pretty on the ball.
that face is a consequence, not a goal.
My understanding is that it is a goal. It’s not just a botched face job or over use of botox. People walk in and ask for a face like that.
I have no idea if you’re being serious.
Tbh I struggle with that myself sometimes.
But mar-a-lago face is a real thing and while the first instinct is to recoil in horror at what these people have done to themselves, elites have a long history of this kind of extreme identity signalling. And I do think this phenomenon is best understood as part of that tradition.
2, 3 & 4 are examples of what’s called “Mar-a-lago face” - really blatant plastic surgery to emphasize your ability to afford plastic surgery.
Elites frequently engage in body-modification intense enough to look grotesque to others as a way of marking their status. Mayan and Hunnic cranial deformation and Chinese foot-binding are prominent other examples.
Thats largely untrue though. In crises people come together. The term academics use is “spontaneous self organization”. It’s really just the upper classes who turn to brutality at every possible opportunity.
The point of Lord of the Flies is that the upper class are always brutal savages.
It’s not an accusation, it was a question.
I don’t have strong feelings about AI art, I just enjoy going over the tiny details that makes it look so AI-y. That’s why I commented instead of searching - I was hoping for discussion more than I wanted an answer.
Your detailed response was the kind of thing I was hoping for. I just could’ve done without the unnecessary defensiveness, but otherwise thanks!
This is AI though right? Not real kitties.
The white and black blur in between the cats is clearly trying to be a tail but the color and placement are wrong. The pile in the top right doesn’t make sense, the stairs leading to a square door set at an angle from the stairs is wrong, and the building to the left of that makes no sense either. Plus the overly rich texture of the stairs
This list is very silly.
Not just because the meanings are off for many of them and “very” is fun to use sometimes, but because you need multiple replacement options for the different contexts of common adjectives. It would’ve been more helpful to provide 4-5 options for 25-30 words.
But it’s not meant to be helpful, it’s not a YSK, it’s just an ad for some proofreading company.
I’m not saying it’s good or even super common, just observable. People make up names for people who think differently than them. Once a group hits a certain size, it’s just pretty likely that they’ll have those sorts of terms, even if only a small percentage actually use them.
Illegal immigration is a fiction anyway - seeking asylum is a legal right of all humans.
But legal and illegal are irrelevant distinctions to the trump regime’s current ethnic cleansing campaign.
Not being able to unpin email chains unless you change it to non-threaded replies, select all, unpin, then go back to threaded replies like a civilized lifeform. Otherwise it just repins the chain when it refreshes.
Our office also uses teams phones which still don’t have a way to show missed calls. We literally cannot call people back if we don’t get to the med room phone in time.