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Watching Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman today made me think of Mordys claim about no good literature after 1945. Because once upon a time, Farhadi would be one of the worlds biggest writers, but people like him now work in cinema. And The Salesman could really have been a very good book, great plot, interesting characters, an intriguing meta-layer. And cinematically, it's ok as well, and a worthy Oscar-winner. It would have been a better book, though, of a kind that isn't there anymore.

Those books are there, just not being written in English for the most part

Well, my example is Iranian, so... :)

The difference between untreated ADHD and incompetence + stupidity is unimportant for practical purposes.

if I read you right that isn't far from my professional position

i have adhd and i agree with that

practical = success in school, especially in the workplace

It's impressive reading the symptoms of ADHD and how closely they align with symptoms of stupidity

this is why my work group switched to a task system we can check -- people request things, we have a window to respond, and any communication is captured there instead of emailing a single person, them saying "oh yeah I'll look at that" and then completely brushing it off

setting up shit like that is, to me, also proactively creating a way to work around ADHD-style lack of focus

I am phenomenally bad at using systems like this, and I know I've looked like an idiot in the past for doing that exact email thing and completely forgetting their request. On a personal level instead of institutional, there's an entire cult of "getting things done" tools and books and I swear, half of it is just forcing people who can't concentrate on shit to organize

can't these people just be eliminated from the workforce and given jobs that are the equivalent of cows grazing in a field?

^ need to keep with the spirit of the thread here

would love to graze in a field tbh

you can reasonably adjust so far, but when the problem is people's inability to function as efficient machine tools then the problem is clearly the machine imo

Even when the prospective tools don't recognize this

you can reasonably adjust so far, but when the problem is people's inability to function as efficient machine tools then the problem is clearly the machine imo

― more polls about food and reactionary art (Noodle Vague), Thursday, June 29, 2017 1:39 PM (fifty-two minutes ago)

another problem is they fuck things up for everyone else.

However, maybe they are the perfect tools to support an authoritarian fascist state as they seem amazingly capable of holding two conflicting ideas in their head, and accepting that 2+2=5 -- I mean, the ability to commit to having people come at 5 to remove their artwork, and simultaneously promote that the gallery will be open for people to view said artwork until 6 ... very impressive.

oh, this is properly ordering things, not forgetting to do things entirely

tools can only do so much, the only thing that is going to make them learn is to show up promptly at 5 and remove all artwork as stated

it is amazing how this person fails to learn basic things

can't these people just be eliminated from the workforce and given jobs that are the equivalent of cows grazing in a field?

― sarahell

my grandfather used to have some variety of pun based around the phrase "outstanding in his field". i can't remember precisely how it went but i'm assuming that since it was a pun it wasn't supposed to be funny anyway. (i thought it was hilarious but i was eight.)

democracy now is bad

democracy is bad now

computer games make you feel fuzzy headed and detached from the world.

marcos when are we gonna hang irl smoke some fat blunts and talk about how bad amy goodman is

ha mordy I would love that

Plato was right about some stuff.

Popular culture actually does have negative affects on youth, just in more complex ways than heavy metal = your kid becomes a satanic murderer etc.

I've been really into comics most of my life but a lot less so in the past few years. Walked into a comic shop recently and thought "it can't be healthy to be so immersed in 95% of this stuff."
I've had this feeling creeping on me for years, a lot of it is the roteness of the drawing but I think a big part of it is the computer colouring. So much computer imagery just grows sickening somehow. Part of why I don't pay much attention to videogames anymore.
I don't think this quality is an unavoidable part of computer art, I like some of it very much but it's difficult to say why some things don't create this feeling.

Too much photography and film with this unpleasantness.

A lot of this might be down to my taste but I think there are types of visual artificiality that are harmful after too much. And yes, think of the children taking it all in.

Plato was right about some stuff.

― .oO (silby),

he was right about findng lasting satisfaction with men :)

Ayooo

some days i'm in favor of human extinction. that's an uncool conservative idea, right?

no, conservatives say don't immanentize the eschaton

no, conservatives say don't immanentize the eschaton

― El Tomboto

their mouths say no, but their eyes say "YES, LET US ALL BE PLUNGED INTO THE ETERNAL FIRE NOW"

rupi kaur's poetry is str8 garbage

Also, that even in one's fantasy life, boundaries can be a good thing. Although I kind of lacked the distance to practice this until my 30s.

did you imagine having more than one wife and the fantasy really got out of hand?

I think some restrictions on face-coverings are reasonable, not a total public ban but at least requiring removal in certain scenarios, e.g. where identification is required.

I don't know if that's a conservative belief. The idea that someone could cover their face while taking a photo for their ID seems... insane???

pee is stored in the balls

The idea that someone could cover their face while taking a photo for their ID seems... insane???

Who does this?

it's an issue that has come up. afaik most places do not allow it tho some states allow accommodations.

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/LWVJ.pdf

Face veils

Departments of motor vehicles vary considerably in their treatment of veiled women.

Many states do not allow pictures with face covering

The following twenty-two states fall in this category: Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Many states are silent on the issue

Nineteen states are included in this category. These are: Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and Vermont.

Several states offer specific accommodations

Nine states fall into this category.
South Carolina, Michigan and West Virginia allow veiled women privacy in taking a full- faced picture.
Kansas, Pennsylvania and Indiana allow veiled women a no-photo driver’s license. Montana exempts religious veils from the requirement of a full-faced picture. Washington allows pictures of veiled women, but stipulates that such driver’s licenses are not valid for identification purposes.
Nevada allows photos with “drastic alteration of appearance.”

I think Mumia is probably guilty and while there were some questionable details at original trial, probably doesn't deserve another retrial (note - not a belief I apply to other similar cases, just that one).

― Neanderthal, Friday, October 7, 2016 10:14 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Came here to post this. Also believe Leonard Peltier to be guilty as well. And that activism that supports them and disingenuously elides their likely guilt is unethical.

i've never watched more than a stray minute of it, and i know a lot of people that love it, but Democracy Now seems really bad to me

Now or ever tbh

democracy? in THIS economy??

I kind of RMDE every time I see a social justice "educator" on facebook asking people to paypal them money for doing the emotional labor of posting stuff on facebook.

that's a much more mild reaction than i would have

Yeah, that's not something I've seen on FB so far. Is it really a thing?

I've seen it a few times in the last few months, seems like a fairly new thing.

The pattern I have generally seen is someone will make some "problematic" post, then an "educator" will step in and insist that they need to make it clear why the post is problematic, and they're right but usually do so in an extremely OTT and hand-wringy way, then they either mention their paypal account or one of their friends will say something like "Thank you so much, can I please send you some money for doing the emotional labor of educated everyone here?"

I've seen everything you describe up until the Paypal part.