Top-shelf rats

My hometown’s cemetry had a tall memorial for a teenager with a character from Slayers, the gravestone painted with anime art and quotes.

I think about those parents sometimes, hope they are doing okay 💔

Its almost as if a single dimension is not big enough to describe the diversity of human political thought.

We gotta increase the productivity of meme generation, obviously.

Also the productivity of eating, socializing, and fucking. Those items really make my life a drag, can we get chatgpt on that.

Let me just pack my programming socks

Read some theory you capitalist stooge

>: |

Femboys are not just about being able to use their tools for the things you want.

Do you feel the same about names?

Based If yes. If no, cringe.

I would love to discuss this with anyone that’s willing. If their government is as awful and fucked up as everyone says why does the average Chinese citizen generally have a better life than the average American in their respective societal totem pole (in cities specifically) ?

Because the social contract of 21st century authoritarian societies is “We give you prosperity, you do politics through gov-approved channels.” Punishment for dissent depends on how insecure the state feels right now.

On the plus side, the government cares about your prosperity. As long as it lasts, elites can divide power among themselves however they like.

On the minus – society doesn’t control its government (power transition happens by committee, not elections) and it can’t force any kind of change when elites are against it. Modern states have so much repression power, they can shut down any activism when they don’t mind bloodstains.

And when prosperity ends, the new contract will be “Do as we say and nobody gets tortured”.

For art to be art you need space to express yourself through individual choices:

• play an original song on a real instrument, and you have the entire artistic spectrum to yourself
• if you make the music for it out of individual pieces, you narrow that range. The sounds are not yours, only their composition and words
• when you record a cover of a rap song over some elses beat, you further narrow it down to your performance only. Its still artistic expression, but to a much less degree than an original song

In a prompt generated image, the image itself is not your expression. The prompt is, but comparing the amount of choices you need to make with a painting over a prompt, its just so… less art?

If there is one irreplaceable content network, it’s youtube. The amount of quality shit you can watch there for free is insane.

I’ll check it out, thanks!

Windows’ lightweight photo editing thing. Great for highlighting screenshots.

All image editing software on linux (that I’ve tried) is 10x more clunky.