bloup

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[–] bloup 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Can we please always identify Epstein confidant Steve Bannon as Epstein confidant Steve Bannon?

[–] bloup 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I want to see a sitcom from this era get a new episode/movie with all the original actors except they pick up the characters from where they left them and no effort is made to explain why everyone looks so old now.

[–] bloup 2 points 2 months ago

https://youtu.be/F3BuusGkHiU

This video has a pretty good skannerz joke in it

[–] bloup 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You literally said to me that as far as you can perceive, the works you cited are “not expressing anything” and then compared it to the emotional experience of staring at a blank wall. I really don’t know how I’m supposed to read this other than that you think these works of art are pointless because they don’t inspire emotions within you and that you literally have not wrapped your head around the things that they are actually expressing

[–] bloup 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

so you think that the purpose of visual arts is literally nothing more than to express emotions and aesthetic beauty? Is that seriously the only kind of “expression” that you can imagine?

Something to think about: here is an artist very clearly explaining to you that they got something out of these works that you obviously missed or did not perceive and you’re not even a little bit curious as to what it might be, already deciding that there is no way there is anything of value there, and I think that’s just very unfortunate

[–] bloup 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

The problem is part of my life is being an artist which means incorporating the things I’ve learned that I want people to understand into my artistic work.

Have you ever considered that artist don’t actually owe you something?

[–] bloup 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Thinking deeply about these artworks has literally helped me understand the world better so what do I do with that knowledge?Just throw it away?

[–] bloup 10 points 2 months ago (9 children)

As an artist and philosopher, I find this comment extremely ironic as you have identified some of the artwork which I find the most valuable and thought-provoking.

[–] bloup 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I would not just assume that this would actually disproportionately hurt heavier consumer vehicles. In road engineering, there is something called the “fourth power law”. In a nutshell, the amount of stress a vehicle applies to a road surface scales roughly with the fourth power of its axle load. In other words, a vehicle that is only twice as heavy will cause roughly sixteen times more damage to the road. Currently, even people driving the heaviest consumer vehicles are basically subsidizing road maintenance for trucking companies.

[–] bloup 3 points 2 months ago

At best, your skull is a vat

[–] bloup 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Reddit gold was a paid subscription service that gave users some additional or enhanced features. It was possible to buy another user reddit gold as a gesture of appreciation for some kind of comment they made and a little icon would appear on the post if that happened. Really nothing about what i remember of reddit gold seems remotely similar to this “certified bangers” thing. Maybe you can explain what your understanding of what reddit gold is.

 

I would see this squirrel from time to time in my parents’ neighborhood about two years ago. I was always struck by its crimson tail. I remember being very young and all squirrels were just gray. When I started to get a little older, I noticed the odd black squirrel every now and then. By the time I was fully grown, black squirrels seemed to be just as common as gray ones. And now apparently there’s the odd squirrel with a red tail. Makes me wonder if in 30 years a child will have grown to notice the odd calico squirrel.

 

Musk says for-profit OpenAI harms public interest—and his own company, xAI.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17556433

This controllable prosthetic, the Third Thumb, attaches to the right hand, granting wearers the ability to perform a slew of one-handed tasks such as grasping objects, opening bottles, sorting cards, and even peeling a banana.

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