A friend of mine was charged with “Malicious Mischief” and I was very jealous. It was a snickerer of a crime, too. He was trying to steel a famous wrought iron sign that was about 4-5 tons heavier than he had reckoned. He was basically arrested for being drunk and delusional about his own abilities.
When I start to lose all faith in American culture, I simply look up at my TV screen to see shows with titles like “Animals on Drugs” being promoted, and somehow it makes me a little less ashamed to be American.
I think visiting Graceland as a final goal is very poetic.
I was almost imagining him visiting Graceland as being some kind of final check on his bucket list, lol.
Easter and this convo reminds me of my friend’s Persian-Catholic dad’s Easter display, which is like a bunch of little bowls representing aspects of the year and has a bunch of specific choices involved. Otherwise most of my memories of Kaveh were him just reading all day.
They are obscenely well-read, by my experience.
The grand irony is the of all the countries in that region, the one most like us in a historical long term sense, the one that shares our culture more than most, is Iran. Every Persian I have ever met has been extremely erudite and more culturally sophisticated than just about any American I know.
Making a diplomatic path for other nations to use the SoH was such a baller move in terms of hyper diplomacy. They are turning our sanctions outwards towards us.
My point is, these people are typical mediocre humans who are only exceptional in terms of biographical luck and pure uncut colonizer-brain-ed-ness.
…is often credited with inventing, but they didn’t. My own GF built a whole company around this premise in the 80s for radio ads. Google just applied it in situation if naturally thrived in. It’s not a radical concept, more of a lustful fantasy held by advertisers of the mid 20th century.
So, SV is a place devoid of useful or original ideas being “leveraged” by what are traditional investment bros pretending to understand whatever product they bought to sell. To put this in perspective, almost all of it is some form of demographically targeted advertising which is something Google…
It’s an indentured servitude model.
Like, a woman installed a short hose into something and would bend the hose into an “S” and crank it around like she was crank-starting an old car in order to screw the threadings in. Which has more happening than you think, the eccentric force locks up the free spinning flair fitting etc.
I just realized watch how it’s made more for the manual techniques of the workers and how the labor is organized than the big machines. Someone who does one thing for 14 hours a day, is basically an expert at that skill witching days. Amazingly talented people behind those disembodied hands.
Ditto.
WATCH: “Democracy means mob rule.”🤔
Ag chair Rep Chris Todd says the quiet part out loud, opposing a fellow REPUBLICAN’s bill to protect the River in SCOTT COUNTY from a proposed landfill.
@brotherjones.bsky.social says he owes an apology — local meeting TUESDAY: www.cumberlandclear.org
The origins of furry culture tracks this pattern. Apparently the first time the idea was publicly considered was at meeting of people at a convention about the old Disney Robinhood foxes, and the complex feelings it invited in the participants of the panel/meeting attendants.
I have been involved since diffusion models hit, and I have yet to use any of the online versions of anything, SD/automatic11… has been my only tool. I live in the pollution plume of Grok, so I am not super into the big bois. Technology is fun, but the way people exploit it is not.
I have never tried to have a better life than others, but I did want the life I was trying to have before it was taken from me by others. I miss a speck of sanity from the world around me. Everyone is talking about an upcoming depression, I have been in it for decades at this point as xennial.
Me jerking the camera away is me being super pissed about how it ruined her lips with that clown outline. Despite using a machine to do this, these are not completed project files, they are simple outlines, I am using the parameters of how the machine interprets the paths for the hatch/fill.
Will be redoing this as an 8x10 and keep the grays banded better with less interruptions in the gamut.
#plotter the darker grey going on in this actually ruined the dynamic range of the greys
Tonight’s work.
#plotter pranks
Wet wipes to clean their telephone receptacles and a flow-bee for trimming their space-hair.
I think we should get them to go along to mars and we will promise them we will be right behind them “ready for all that mars slavery” the whole way. Kind of reverse Douglass Adamsing them.
I know the exact existential rage you are feeling, it guides how I think about any of this.
