what a horrifying nightmare, i love it.

The text actually really doesn't go into the title question but I couldn't be arsed to substitute my own either. It's not what you'd think it is though.

I'm not gonna read this but it's because conservativism is completely reactionary and morally bankrupt

lol i wasn't but i guess i should have been

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oh yea definitely! i don't mean to say you're in the wrong or anything.

It was definitely an interesting and worthwhile read and a good post!

While a lot what I post here is whimsical, I thought that the domain washingtonpost.com and the board /f/general was enough to suggest that this was a serious piece about an absurd thing. I suppose I should have rewritten the title to make it more clear.

I'm not usually into stories about crime, but I thought this was particularly interesting as how contemporary it all was, like:

1. dating app on a phone launching jealousy
2. boyfriend being a huge gamer and a self-defined "ethlete" up to 13 hours a day
3. katana (the commercialization of them perhaps more than recognizing them as a thing you use for crime)

It's a very modern spin on an age old ill. This is a bit utopistic at the moment given how abstinence only education is gaining more steam under the present administration, but ideally I'd like to see infidelity treated with more depth in schools since it's so common. Not just a superficial "nu-uh it's bad".

this reminds me of ai weiwei's sunflower seeds exhibition, millions of individually painted and crafted seeds, none of them really unique but still singular

I was only tangentially aware of the work, but I thought that they were just ordinary sunflower seeds this whole time! Let's just say that back then I wondered what the deal was, exactly.

same

just train a neural network on my posts and simulate me on the internet after i die

I understand this brand

i want to be an android

lol, I think it's great out of context but I should probably specify that it's a parody of promo videos for the brand ACRONYM. They make jackets and bags with fancy pockets for stuff like electronics and knives, and have extra feature for getting stuff out easily and taking them off and carrying them around and stuff. Here's an example and honestly they're almost as funny. They're supposed to make you feel like an android and cost like a thousand dollars lol.

All that said I think they're actually pretty cool, You might have heard of em cause they designed clothes for the last two Deus Ex games.

This is really funny? But also serious? The fact that I don't know how to feel about it or interpret it probably means it's good art I suppose

I love this story, added a content warning tho.

i thought this was a satire article for most of it wtf :(

Chinese artists … never lose sight of the fact that producing works in large numbers exemplifies creativity, too. They trust that, as in nature, there always will be some among the 10,000 things from which change springs.

this reminds me of ai weiwei's sunflower seeds exhibition, millions of individually painted and crafted seeds, none of them really unique but still singular

and re the last paragraph, the way i was taught to approach brush painting and calligraphy was more focused on creating a kind of flow for strokes. like, having a feel for qi or the spirit of nature in order to transfer that power into your work. it sounds really uhhh superstitious i guess from a western perspective but it is what it is

The Ise Grand Shrine, the supreme Shinto sanctuary located on Honshu island, is 1,300 years old for the millions of Japanese people who go there on pilgrimage every year. But in reality this temple complex is completely rebuilt from scratch every 20 years.

I've been there! That was my first exposure to that concept of "replacing all the parts of a thing doesn't make it stop being the same thing". I still find that whole idea really cool.

and then

This religious practice is so alien to Western art historians that, after heated debates, UNESCO removed this Shinto temple from the list of World Heritage sites. For the experts at UNESCO, the shrine is 20 years old at most.

c'mon man -__-

I always did find it weird how like, an incredibly accurate forgery of a painting is worth so much less than the original. It's such a good forgery that you couldn't even tell the difference! It looks just as good!

This is really interesting!

sometimes i really want a warm hug, but it is so hard to reconcile with my touch aversion and mysophobia

A few months ago, i was riding my bike and a person stepped off the curb, causing me to swerve and ultimately my bike to come out from under me in a crash.

As I was laying on the ground the guy came up and put his hand on my back asking if I was ok. It was the first time someone had touched me in like, months, and it was inexplicably nice. Just a concerned person, showing their concern.

Which is not to say, everone go out and touch everyone, but, it was nice and it really struck me.

I have no idea what you're going on about

why did you jstpst this i thought you didnt want raddle beef here (|L:)

tbh I do want to admit contemporary academic success measured by metrics isn't, like, the way to decide these things since phrenology also had its heyday once. I haven't been reading Chomsky since I was like 14 so I can't judge him adequately but I'm also somewhat disinterested in him so yeah.

Chomsky is like the second most cited person ever after Plato though.

Good article and I agree. There is more too it, there's something of sad story about how all these animals were pulled from the wild, but zoos as they are are good.

Here's a good interview with a sociologist who studies zoos. That is a little more negative but comes to the same conclusion.