The Pretender

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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land-of-blitheness-and-catharsis

oh man i never told you. recently we went to the albertina art gallery and in the contemporary wing we saw this painting, “nacht der skorpione”

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and we were fucking blown away by it, like audible gasping from everyone, it’s almost as tall as the room and incredibly expressive and impressive

and after having walked around looking at the work of 99% male artists and their endless studies dedicated to The Female Form for so goddamn long my very first thought upon seeing it was “this was painted by a woman”, so i walk closer and sure enough, i was right, her name is xenia hausner.

and then i look at it for a moment longer and my chest swells because these are intense characters with internal lives and that is what makes them attractive and my second thought is “this was not painted by a straight woman”

and i mean i can’t say anything for sure but i looked her up and

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and nobody else picked up on this in the original painting? when i told them they were like “what, why, because of the masculine (???) brush strokes”? they were not shaken to their very core by the authenticity of it? what i’m trying to say is gaydar is extremely real and straight people extremely do not have it.

crjdedicated

i found another one and i’m about to spend the rest of my evening staring at this painting

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mysterycatcowboy

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this is her btw

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teaboot

please god above can someone explain to me why we're still working on self driving cars when trains exist

teaboot

"we're training them to interpret road signs!" Train goes same place every day. No road signs.

"when forced to choose between old lady and child, which is more ethical for the car to hit?" Fence around train track. Nobody on the road.

"people with disabilities preventing them from driving themselves can be independent" Yes but also. Train.

"reduces the dangers of fatigue with long distance trucking" Train.

"the technology is not yet price effective for the average driver" Train.

Seriously come on choo choo bitches let's goooooooooo

rosalarian

We will never invent a car that's as eco-friendly as increasing our rail infrastructure.

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ernestsewell:
“I was actually just reading about this in Caste: The Origins of our Discontent. The author talks about how one’s body goes into stress or anxiety or defense mode when the person knows they’re being followed, watched, or otherwise...
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I was actually just reading about this in Caste: The Origins of our Discontent. The author talks about how one’s body goes into stress or anxiety or defense mode when the person knows they’re being followed, watched, or otherwise scrutinized. She brought race into it. A Nigerian man, who was just a person in his country, was healthy as anything. He got to the U.S. and within a year, his doctor told him he was suddenly pre-diabetic and had high blood pressure. He never had those things in his country. He learned that being Black in the U.S. is a very different experience than being Black in a Black-centric country. The author elaborated more about those in poverty, women, and being a minority in general. Having that “fight or flight” triggered in the body, sometimes for hours or days or weeks at a time, degrades the body’s natural defenses, making them more vulnerable to disease.

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thatdykepunkslut

It's not "everyone" acting like it's normal. The majority of people know something's wrong they just don't have the tools to fix it. Maybe a plurality don't know that the problem is capitalism, they blame it on something else, but they're still aware there's a problem. "Everyone" is just too exhausted from working 4 jobs, 50 hours a week to scream into the void in their spare time.

anarchistmemecollective

cartoon of a gopher pointing at a diagram of a spaceship of billionaires flying into the sun saying "Remember capitalism is working perfectly. You're supposed to be exhausted and frightened that you will lose your job and die old and homeless, it makes it easier to treat you like garbage and pay you less. If you're worrying about the rent you're not worrying about firing all the billionaires into the sun where they belong.". below is a panel with a gopher saying "Regardless of how today turned out f you the best that you could, and you can't so do any more than that. Also I love you."ALT
artemisiatridentata

two panel meme of the Simpsons bus driver. the first image is him saying "don't make me tap the sign." the second image is his hand pointing to a sign that reads "let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair."ALT

guess I gotta pull out this bad boy again huh