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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

workmanship imo

My dad sent me this picture of the sympathy card section of his CVS pic.twitter.com/fLFqFKYkPP

— stephen dickinson (@sdickinson_) May 18, 2020

is that trenchant? feels a bit too real.

Last time I was in a Family Dollar, the card racks were cleared out and the staff was re-stocking them with individually-wrapped greeting cards.

please to post here:
Rolling Most 2020 Images

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I mean, yeah conservative court is bad, conservatives are bad, but they also just upheld the clean water act two months ago, it's not like there is some neat and tidy plan to cover up environmental destruction with ""social progres""

You’re wrong man alive two things cannot be true at the same time

Think people also forget SCOTUS aren't supposed to vote based on their personal feelings but the law itself. That obviously doesn't mean they don't, but RBG probably would have voted against legalizing abortion in Roe v Wade despite being pro-choice because she didn't feel the legal reasoning behind it was very strong.

SCOTUS aren't supposed to vote based on their personal feelings but the law itself.

The SCOTUS is not the source of either social progress or slash and burn capitalism. The law itself is written by Congress, so the SCOTUS interpreting the law 'correctly' does not negate the validity of the quote. The questionable part of the quote for me is whether social progress is truly a ploy conceived by capitalism as a means to distract society from its predations. I doubt it.

it takes work to be trenchant in the midst of this full on clusterfuck but juice media and boing boing is there for you

https://boingboing.net/2020/07/31/this-devastating-video-encapsu.html

It's been 4 years and the country's most annoying grifters are still trying to convince us that trump will be "demoralized and destabilized" by snarky posts

you'll know we've won the virus when the mass shootings happen every day again 🍃🌱🐑🐇🦔🐣🦢🐝🌻🌼🌷

i remember when a boss i didn't like had a poster in her office of a cat like that and the caption "i can haz a cheesburger" or something. i knew that i wasn't going to like where the culture was headed.

― treeship., Wednesday, May 26, 2021 10:10 PM (one hour ago)