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a unique quality to the feeling of it’s drive

I have to admit I’m skeptical, and not just because it sounds written by a marketing team.

Things like the subjective feeling of something are strongly socially determined. When we’re told something is fancy or high quality we have a different and better experience of that thing.

As humans it’s rarely possible to separate our experience of a thing from our judgements of the people and identities we associate with it.

Why repost low effort trolling?

Amateur flint knapper.

That’s him, the one whose stated goals can be seen in every move the trump regime makes.

I’m sure you will be surprised to learn after reading that picture of success that I am barely even an achiever.

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• 15000+ kms
• Yes but undiagnosed
• two but one’s not mine
• shards of flint

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.

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.

A substantial portion of the anthropocene extinction event is the Monsanto extinction event.

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.

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

Allowing Russia free rein to directly manipulate US voters and create false realities has already enabled a fascist coup.

I don’t want an authoritarian level of internet censorship, but not censoring hostile foreign lies online is a big part of the reason that russian-bought plutocrats are able to kill your grandma and thousands of other americans who need Medicaid to live.

I just can’t imagine why any of those things rule out sleeping unburdened by clothes.

I suppose I understand if you’re sleeping in the same room as 2 people you’re not dating. But not if you have a separate room in an apartment or have sex with the other person in the bed.

Is this one of those weird American prudishness things?

use ax as plumb line

Lol sure, if you’re the kind of noob who doesn’t carry a plumb bob with them.

Domestic violence is within a family, especially spouses, femicide is “when women and girls are killed because of their gender”, to quote the article.