trenchant social commentary 2

I'm waiting for a "C/D: Friends with babies that grew up to be teenagers who are only interested in fast-tracking themselves to be an influencer or a entrepreneur because anything else is 'too much work'"

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Anti homeless art + boomer art. Rare combo! pic.twitter.com/Lmy2rhQOJN

— 👹 spawn of seitan 🎃 (@soi_girl) October 27, 2019

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love 2 buy five iphones per semester

if my parents had netflix production values

Apples 'not orange enough!'
Oranges 'just the right amount of orange!'

Everything in life is about meaningless, bad faith comparisons.
What do you want if we order Thai tonight?

that's not trenchant social commentary, that's some asshole dad passive aggressively criticizing his wife and children on social media

...instead of screaming at them in person, as a good father would have done back when men were men

why would an asshole dad want the family members he is abusing to pay for a therapist?

that's probably the gay conversion therapist he keeps pushing on his children

ohhhhhhhh undoubtedly worth every penny

nah that’s clearly aimed at the wife

nah but if the wife went to therapy, the therapist would tell her that she needs to stand up to the abusive POS that is her husband, or else like ... leave him? or maybe he's a narcissist and wants both of them to go to couples therapy so his wife will be forced to pay even more attention to him, and there will be yet another person who has to listen to him complain?

https://i.imgur.com/DUDtcCS.jpg

(And I shouldn't have to say it, but yes, that's an altered version of the original.)

RAP BAND

Sure nails the private equity looting that trashed Sears

Sure nails the private equity looting that trashed Sears

― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 29 November 2019 10:27 (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

the comics journal DESTROYS new yorker cartoonists
http://www.tcj.com/reviews/everyones-a-critic-the-ultimate-cartoon-book/

Why criticize when you can lean back and laugh with a gentle, anesthetized, uncritical blandness?

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https://theoutline.com/post/8406/worst-takes-of-the-2010s-bret-stephens-david-brooks-megan-mcardle

TCJ review otm

although watching people get insanely angry about NYer cartoons is also very entertaining, imo

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pretty sure drones have ceramic parts unless it's all composite these days
pottery

The trenchant commentator is correct. After all, "capitalist enterprises" make up (does some quick, back of the envelope calculations) nearly 100% of the economic activity in capitalist societies and STEM expertise seems to result in marginal improvements to basic manufacturing that generate increased profit margins more reliably than having the ability to throw pots.

Well yeah. Half of the observation is just a truism -- a capitalist economy is going to pay more for functions that are more valuable to capitalism. The rest is just silly. Ceramicists don't get paid six figures because we can just mass produce that shit. It has nothing to do with whether it kills people or not, and that's the most /trench part of the whole thing.

you're trying to tell me this is mass produceable? i am definitely doing this wrong.
http://i.imgur.com/HZhCeJ9.jpg

You can't make a drone out of poetry either

And yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there

TRENCHANT

"that shit" we can mass produce being common household dishware, not yr fine work forks. But even if you could throw a working drone I doubt the DoD would be much interested.

you're trying to tell me this is mass produceable?

As long as it's OK that the product of the mass production is nearly indistinguishable from the original, then yes, that particular piece of pottery is almost certainly mass producible. The next question would be how big the market might be for machine-produced items exactly like that and what could be charged for them versus the cost of their production, including packaging, transport and ancillary costs. If the unit cost is too high, then there's no point in initiating mass production.

but can you put a unit cost on a soul
*places back of hand on forehead, gets clay all over face, exeunt sobbing upstage*

I don’t think ceramics is an actual degree though? It’s like Shakespeare. You can spend the vast majority of your coursework studying it but the degree is in English Lit or Art. Maybe it would be a BFA in Painting and Sculpture or mayyyyybe just Sculpture at an art school.

https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mfafactorsfreemium.pdf

i know several (very broke) people with BFAs in ceramics and i think at least one (very broke) person with an mfa

idk there is an ilxor who has done well where shakespeare studies was definitely a portion of dissertation iirc

no no no, those aren’t “actual” degrees you see

it’s true, I have never seen him do english but he was very good at rubbing plastic objects for an audience

Most people who go to college and do ceramics have their degrees in sculpture if it’s even that specialized. Like no, just no

Honestly tho depending on what type of ceramics you do, you could actually get a machinist type job

Fun fact: by longstanding custom, ceramicists must always have "Unchained Melody" playing while they work.

I bet these people could make a ceramic drone: https://www.alfred.edu/academics/undergrad-majors-minors/ceramic-engineering/index.cfm

cool vase ulysses

u lyv to ssees yt

B+

^deems not ulysses, I don't know pottery grading

Sanpaku, Sanpaku, Sanpaku.

or specific users, such as imago

i honestly feel nothing is "trenchant" in these times.

otm

i honestly feel nothing is "trenchant" in these times.

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, March 16, 2020 5:53 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink