Herbert Bayer, "Diagram of Extended Vision" (1935)

Unclear, the obvious answer is something about ubiquitous American informality, but that seems too obvious.

…I typed, leaning against a brick pillar, legs like the Hanged Man.

One of those Reddit-facts that turns out to be true and that since learning it I can’t help but notice everywhere is that we Americans, almost uniquely, lean on things and further cross our legs while standing so that one heel is up in the air. This sounds like bullshit, but now you cannot unsee it.

“…While we’re here, we might as well set up a government…” (from October, by China Miéville)

intellectual property law vs. defamation law is a real rock and a hard place type problem

I miss Periscope terribly and TikTok Live is a poor substitute, but I am currently watching guys play cricket in a Texas shopping center parking lot at 1AM local time.

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*foghorn*

This is absolutely fascinating

You should be making kombucha in a 5 gallon paint bucket as God intended.

Frame #70800 from S03 -E22 - Battle Tokyo X-627686

THE DREAM

It’s worth noting that say Gorsuch’s project (completely disassemble the State) and Coney-Barrett’s (wield the State like a weapon) are diametrically opposed.

Sure, but that quote as written puts human remains in the same category as like explosive bolt shards, which I suppose I get in terms of “impurity,” but is still…a lot.

A long time ago I idly wondered “who were the indigenous population of the British Isles?” and answering that question is so maddening, it made me question the entire concept.

We must return the land to its true indigenous heir: unfrozen caveman.

Discards?!

You know, I specifically chose the Hapsburgs, NAFO and North Korea to cover the widest possible political spectrum (you could make an argument for the not-so-distance between the HRE and NATO/the EU, but still)

That’s hilarious and I didn’t even consider it as an implication. (This trick also works for things that aren’t flags, like suits.)

No joke, aside from my tone I guess, the steam from the shower “irons” out the sharp creases in flags that have been folded a long time and that you can often see on flags that people ordered from Amazon etc.

Holy Roman imperial banner? Steam it. DPRK flag? Steam it. NATO flag with a doge on it? Steam it.

ITT, actual unalloyed Idealism

…let’s go to the S&P 500 Futures pit at the CME.

Andreas Gursky, Chicago, Board of Trade II (1999)

I got you.

Just as an example, this was prompted by today’s mercifully incompetent school shooter posting a (beloved of the Columbine fandom) KMFDM song on TikTok this morning.

Business in the front, business in the back.

CKY (1999)

Stamps, Arkansas
Population: 1,465
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamps,_Arkansas

Samuel Longhorn Clemens