trenchant social commentary 2

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)

I like the idea of this cat poster as a terrible harbinger, like some film set in 1933 Germany where someone catches their first glimpse of a swastika.

“hang in there, baby” was the original facist wall hanging

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/AnimalRightsNaziGermany.jpg

it sort of almost was really!

Big HIGNFY energy from Simplicissimus under the nazis

Big HIGNFY energy from Simplicissimus under the nazis

― maybe the beeple would be the times or between clark and hill (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 27 May 2021 10:05 (nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.amazon.com/THOUGHT-RETHOUGHT-Consciousness-Causality-Philosophy/dp/1613050178/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1622517351&refinements=p_27%3AT.+Max+Devlin&s=books&sr=1-1&text=T.+Max+Devlin

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really doubt such a clear, linear thought process as "better dead than autistic" is actually going on in antivaxxers minds

“I’d rather have X than not do Y” when it’s those stakes are college stoner thought experiments and not great for the real world

so sure, how trenchant

I also feel like it follows a formula I see a lot on Twitter where you take something that is already bad (antivaxers, hatred of or misunderstanding toward autism) and extrapolate an even more extreme conclusion that doesn’t actually follow. Like “White America’s apathy toward police killings of black men just proves they would like to see every black person in America dead” or “Global warming inaction demonstrates how much our politicians hate our children.”

Hmm

I was following up to the examples and then hmm

it’s not far fetched at all there is a massive overlap between anti-vaxxers and autism parents. and neither of those other examples seem massively out there to me either

they might not necessarily be part of a conscious linear thought process but what is

anti-vaxxers generally question the efficacy of the vaccines. so it is a stretch to say that they would rather their children dead than autistic. this kind of thing is usually an emotional response, often from someone with autism themselves (or close to people with autism), so is a bit more understandable in that context

man alive is technically correct; more accurate statements would be "White America’s apathy toward police killings of Black men just proves they don't give a shit about the treatment of Black people" and “Global warming inaction demonstrates how much our politicians don't care about the existence of the world past their lifetimes.”

however, anyone capable of parsing sentiment should be able to understand what those original examples are driving at so it really is just splitting semantics for the sake of splitting semantics

hmm

fair