idk there is an ilxor who has done well where shakespeare studies was definitely a portion of dissertation iirc
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 06:05 (four years ago) link
no no no, those aren’t “actual” degrees you see
― brimstead, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 06:10 (four years ago) link
it’s true, I have never seen him do english but he was very good at rubbing plastic objects for an audience
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 06:12 (four years ago) link
Most people who go to college and do ceramics have their degrees in sculpture if it’s even that specialized. Like no, just no
― sarahell, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 07:21 (four years ago) link
Honestly tho depending on what type of ceramics you do, you could actually get a machinist type job
― sarahell, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 07:22 (four years ago) link
Fun fact: by longstanding custom, ceramicists must always have "Unchained Melody" playing while they work.
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
I bet these people could make a ceramic drone: https://www.alfred.edu/academics/undergrad-majors-minors/ceramic-engineering/index.cfm
― rob, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
cool vase ulysses
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
u lyv to ssees yt
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
B+
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
^deems not ulysses, I don't know pottery grading
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
Sanpaku, Sanpaku, Sanpaku.
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
or specific users, such as imago
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 16 March 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
i honestly feel nothing is "trenchant" in these times.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 March 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
otm
― whistling (brownie), Monday, 16 March 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
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― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Monday, 16 March 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
workmanship imo
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 00:22 (four years ago) link
My dad sent me this picture of the sympathy card section of his CVS pic.twitter.com/fLFqFKYkPP— stephen dickinson (@sdickinson_) May 18, 2020
― na (NA), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
is that trenchant? feels a bit too real.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
please to post here:Rolling Most 2020 Images
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/104170621_686141665567302_665584395677918307_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=aMpLvCpdxfYAX9II2GZ&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=32381ae23b1a8b78416900762de38e14&oe=5F0FFF06
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
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""
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
You’re wrong man alive two things cannot be true at the same time
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
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.
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
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
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 August 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
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
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Monday, 3 August 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
you'll know we've won the virus when the mass shootings happen every day again 🍃🌱🐑🐇🦔🐣🦢🐝🌻🌼🌷
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 18:59 (three years ago) link
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)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 May 2021 03:22 (two years ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 27 May 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
“hang in there, baby” was the original facist wall hanging
― mh, Thursday, 27 May 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/AnimalRightsNaziGermany.jpg
it sort of almost was really!
― calzino, Thursday, 27 May 2021 08:50 (two years ago) link
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 09:05 (two years ago) link
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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
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/36321576_10214588339735351_4289374204903555072_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=uSvpgqzx_TkAX-lslHn&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=3ee4de104e3826f79589e1b40a25a346&oe=60EBA022
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 8 July 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link
really doubt such a clear, linear thought process as "better dead than autistic" is actually going on in antivaxxers minds
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 8 July 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
“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
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
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.”
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 8 July 2021 05:05 (two years ago) link
Hmm
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 8 July 2021 07:33 (two years ago) link
I was following up to the examples and then hmm
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
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
― Left, Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
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
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
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.”
― an eco-conscious Music Box (DJP), Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
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
― an eco-conscious Music Box (DJP), Thursday, 8 July 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
hmm
fair
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
DJP has parsed those the same way as I did. Apathy becomes indistinguishable from directed harm when it’s unyielding
some philosophers may say differently, etc etc
― mh, Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
and also indistinguishable from tacitly condoning
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
to the outside observer, you are just a guy staring blankly as it happens