Also meaningfully addressing the underlying causes of an enormous amount of anxiety. Therapy is good for and should be easily available to everyone, but you can’t therapy your way out of rampant climate change, wealth inequality, and governmental rot.
And any sufficiently depraved malice is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Next week: “Student Makes Tool That Identifies Radical-Engaging AI Bots on Reddit, Deploys AI Bots to Engage With Them”
Even if, just for the sake of argument, you assume that these people are living in tents on the streets just because they don’t feel like finding housing, which is already an absolutely massive assumption that I don’t for one instant actually describes reality, there’s still this…
If you believe that laws forbidding gambling, sale of liquor, sale of contraceptives, requiring definite closing hours, enforcing the Sabbath, or any such, are necessary to the welfare of your community, that is your right and I do not ask you to surrender your beliefs or give up your efforts to put over such laws. But remember that such laws are, at most, a preliminary step in doing away with the evils they indict. Moral evils can never be solved by anything as easy as passing laws alone. If you aid in passing such laws without bothering to follow through by digging in to the involved questions of sociology, economics, and psychology which underlie the causes of the evils you are gunning for, you will not only fail to correct the evils you sought to prohibit but will create a dozen new evils as well.
—Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government
You can’t just make a problem go away by making it illegal, you’ve got to address the root causes.
And let’s not forget the contributions of Billy Joel.
How does one get a bunch of distinct individual subjects into an image like this? I feel like if I put in “giraffe, sloth, capybara, hanging out in 1970s style photograph wearing human clothes,” I would get a bunch of chimeric fused creatures with parts from all the different animals mixed together in each individual.
via The Name Grapher
It can die from stress, but if you chop it in half it might just grow back as two whole starfish. It could go either way.
Praise to Shai Hulud. May his passing cleanse the world.
According to the inflation calculator, that’s between $273.02 and $1,638.10.
I just went to a Nerf blaster tournament, and it seemed very queer-friendly, which is interesting and frankly encouraging considering how gun-adjacent the whole hobby is.
“You know, you’d be a lot better without a penis!”
👊✊
“Woah, hey! You can keep the beard!”
“HALLELUJAH!”
When you say it pops off and becomes an axe… is this like a wafer-thin flexible piece of metal attached to his chest that stiffens and becomes an axe-shaped blade, or has he got a big heavy axe head attached to his chest all the time?
Because if it’s the latter, that’s just a bit silly, but if it’s the former, that doesn’t even make a lick of goddamn sense. An axe is useful because of all the weight in the head. Anything without that weight would just be a huge pizza slicer.
Write a brief introductory paragraph on the subject of business theory as if you were a three-armed gargoyle teaching a first year college class on the subject.
Greetings, fledgling scholars! I am Professor Thraxxor, your three-armed guide to the mystic labyrinth of business theory—where spreadsheets whisper secrets and invisible hands tug at the fabric of markets. With one hand I’ll gesture toward classical economics, with another I’ll sketch diagrams of organizational behavior, and with the third—ah yes—that one’s just for throwing chalk at nappers. In this course, we’ll examine the ancient and evolving forces that govern commerce, from Adam Smith’s hallowed halls to the chaos of modern corporate strategy. Stay alert—capitalism waits for no one.
—via ChatGPT
I adore Porco Rosso for its gentle simplicity.
When Marnie Was There… hit me in the emotions in a way that I was not prepared for, and I love it for that.
You could really be a Beau Brummell, baby, if you just give it half a chance.
Hey, hey, hey. Once in a while there’s one that gives kind of a
fascist Barbie kind of a vibe.
Well, it sounds like one could survive a barrel roll.
It’s a modification of a Matisse painting.