I understand anger at Trump's victory.
I understand the arguments to hold one's nose and vote for Kamala rather than abstaining.
I don't understand how people say "it was energizing and fun", "I love Kamala", "I love Biden too".
It's like a gross food challenge where you're scolded for not smiling
Look, it's certainly not conscious, but if it was, wouldn't it be ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE that they created a consciousness that a person can just force into a relationship, or can be told to pick targets to bomb, or will participate in planning violence against myself or others?
challenge for those who are very confident that my plushies aren't conscious: explain how human consciousness works.
Frame from Koyaanisqatsi (1982) depicting cars driving down a four lane highway.
Frame from Koyaanisqatsi (1982) depicting a bunch of cocktail waitresses standing in front of a casino.
Frame from Koyaanisqatsi (1982) depicting a city with busy traffic at night with a skyscraper visible.
Frame from Koyaanisqatsi (1982) depicting a moon next to a skyscraper.
Just watched Koyaanisqatsi, it is actually incredible how much this film communicates just through striking visuals and through Philip Glass's wonderful music, one of the best edited films of all time and I can't wait to check out the other two films in this trilogy.
“i’m not like the other girls,” i whisper as i alternately flex my pecs to make my boobs dance in time to Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 2 in C minor, first movement, «Allegro maestoso»
well i hope filling up the car today gets me through the next year or two
Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.
This is a press freedom issue.
Here’s what happened:
Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories.
Men: What a scary time for men this is.
This is just plain informative
also hot take but there's an entire cottage industry of pseudo-militarized private security outfits with names like Iron Will and Forced Liberty renting out retired/off-duty cops to businesses to harass visibly poor customers that should be completely unambiguously illegal like holy shit dude what
It's absolutely surreal how no one is talking about the Iran war in daily life. No one is discussing it and they seem oblivious. This conflict is spiraling and deteriorating in a way that it will substantially disrupt daily life for most of the world for the first time in decades.
Frida Kahlo is a famous disabled artist. Her art explores her disability. When she had the accident that disabled her, she painted from her bed in her casts. Many artists in history have been disabled. Many are now. You will not find them fighting to have AI take their creative process from them.
Carney believes in nothing except making his wealthy pals even richer.
Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.
This sucks!
"It is highly likely that members of Canadian military, on exchange with the US, were involved in planning and co-ordinating of airstrikes on Iran. It is long-standing policy to have Canadian service members participate in exchanges with US Central Command."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
they call it “horseshoe theory” because you are likely to believe it if you have been kicked in the noggin by a Horse
This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.
poster whose brother changes the oil in the orphan crushing machine: whoa there, don't be so quick to judge. he has bills to pay
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
i think the people who start wars are bad
i personally think war is bad
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
desperate for even one person in a position of power to live up to even a fraction of a promise of their horseshit speeches. Nakedly evil and morally vacant fuckers up and down
Can anybody else feel the wheels of the bus when the people we share a country with are so willing to "accept moral injury to benefit the country"?
"Carney pragmatically harms minorities to prevent illegal invasion, libs cheer for benefit to the country (not including harmed minorities)"
The Prime Minister of Canada's statements have influence, there is no other reason I would read a statement from a banker.
"Nothing to concede" --> "It's certainly ceding moral high ground"
Morality is not nothing, it shouldn't be conceded.
It would be very bad for Canada, at least on this, right now, to take the moral high ground here?
Woof..... I'm exhausted, 😞
Can I please have an induced coma until acting moral is good again?
rip john mccain you would have loved bombing iran
He literally does not say that he say he supports the Iranian people...
"Canada supports the United States acting", reads like support for the United States, because those are the words he used.
If it's pragmatic to prevent Trumps anger, as a priority over moral action, isn't that appeasement?
