⚜︎ arscyni.cc: a sentient stack of stardust pondering nothing and everything.
Well, we don’t do witch hunts anymore.
[Accidentally checks world news.]
Oh goddammit.
Technologically we’ve witnessed wonderful advances. Appendicitis? Appendectomy. Rotten tonsils? Yeet them yonder. However, psychologically and ethically, when reading back to societies from 2000 years ago, we haven’t improved a bit as a species.
“Advertisement: a public notice
especially : a paid notice that is published or broadcast (as to attract customers or to provide information of public interest)” ―https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advertisement
Do you think Clay Butler pays to have his cartoons published?
“What a way to kill the fun.”
But, where does killing the fun start exactly? Isn’t it you who first expressed the contrarian opinion? Surely you must expect people to refute your claims, or at the very least some pushback.
Why do you consider this an advert? Because it mentions Sidewalk Bubblegum, which is “Clay Butler’s self-syndicated weekly political cartoon”? I hardly think that by drawing cartoons such as God Bless America, Or Else! he belongs to the racket of greedy profiteers who manipulate people into buying stuff they don’t need.
Source: Aha! Graffiti! by Clay Butler, Sidewalk Bubblegum (1996).
Direct link for others who also prefer avoiding piss-poor websites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yO_TUNd0Xg
“And do not, under any circumstances, take a job that involves night shifts. This shit should be illegal.”
While true for most professions this obviously doesn’t apply to firefighters, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), emergency dispatchers, air traffic controllers, nurses, trauma surgeons, police, weather forecasters, et cetera. Basically all professions where human lives are at stake require night shifts. The crucial part is that people who want to do night shifts should only need to do night shifts as to have a healthy sleeping pattern. Anything preventing people from having a decent sleeping cycle against their will should be illegal.
Give each and every one of them housing and health care. 🖤🐜
Definitely.
Also, I stand corrected: the “e.g.” was preceded by a dot and capitalized, so my picks indeed seem silly haha. Those are two of my favourite artists so my choice was primed. 🙃
“The average person has one Fallopian tube.” ―Bo Burnham
While you made me laugh out loud, those belong to the “and…against our whole corrupt system” part of the sentence, not the “many artists do not have plenty of money”.
Feel free to append the list ;)
Buy merch from your favourite artists/bands instead and be vocal about taxing the rich. Also stop using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, et cetera. The EU Parliament has plenty of money, many artists do not, yet the latter have way more reach than wearing an EU t-shirt, and plenty of artists are vehemently against our whole corrupt system. E.g., Massive Attack, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, et cetera.
Well goddamn, the history and backlash behind 🙂 totally came out of left field. I knew I should’ve used black and white Unicode emoticons instead; ☺ ☻ *. However, I stick to my point though, and at 18:39 the interviewee pretty much agrees.
* In case one of these shows as an emoji, the intention is to render these as non-emoji black and white Unicode glyphs: 
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Oh lol To avoid any further ambiguity, Im criticizing your webpage.
You’re a bad person aren’t you.
Vivaldi mail requires you to be an “active community member” in the Vivaldi community
Shit, didn’t know. Thanks for pointing that out.
Vivaldi Mail beats Proton and Tuta because Vivaldi strongly opposes cryptocurrencies / pyramid schemes, the others support it.
I’m sorry you feel that way. To avoid ambiguity, I’m criticizing your argument, not you as a person.
The solution? Create womens leagues where they can compete against other women in the game and see more success.
Sorry, in terms of solving the root cause of the problem this suggestion doesn’t make sense to me.
The solution is to decrease people from making judgements based on in most cases* meaningless differences like gender or skin colour, e.g., to not think “You got beat up by a girl? How pathetic!” anymore. Basically prevent any prejudiced, juvenile, or toxic male thought patterns which scares people from ever trying something. I hate that running competition results are still segregated by gender. I don’t give a rats ass what the gender or country of origin of the person was who beat me, I simply care about the thrill of competing and the festive yet athletic mindset that comes with it.
An analogy, I think it was a stupid decision to make emoji distinctions by skin colour. Why? It exactly undermines the entire purpose of having done so for inclusivity by putting even more emphasis on differences in skin colour. Yellow was perfect because nobody is yellow so it simultaneously represents everyone an no one, except for sick people who are jaundiced.
* Exceptions: pregnancy, sickle cell disease, et cetera.
What do you mean “skill against skill”?
Like your boxing example.
On lichess.org new accounts gets the average Elo rating from where they can work their way up or down. In sports one can simply go to a club and start off with the beginners or where they or a coach think they could manage and work their way up.
Another way of interpreting your comment is dismissing differences and simply making people all compete against each other. This would obviously exclude all women from most sports so you’d have to be a pretty committed misogynist to think that was preferable to gendered sports.
This wouldn’t be misogynist but bullying because heavyweight men/women would beat up featherweight men/women too.
I’ll take whatever of that sparse good stuff that’s given us.