[swagophile]

yandere gf: yeah you shouldnt like see anyone else idk. like idk. you should just like be mine and whatever but its like fine. i mean i just think were really compatible. like its fine

tsundere gf: ok i mean i guess thats fine. like sure. whatever. im not like that crazy about you. like whatever. i guess i can make that work. even if youre kind of annoying sometimes

yandere gf: [digging her nails into her palm] yeah that sounds fine with me

[ot3]

its awesome that neither mind reading nor god are real and all of the thoughts inside of your head are completely private and consequenceless forever #myprivacy

[hannahlockillustration]

Vitruvian Ditto.

Day 20 of drawing Ditto...

[kyrasaphira]

Statuette of Venus made from rock crystal quartz (Roman, 1st century BC)

[inlovewith-icecream-deactivated]

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[ontologicalevil]

[sobcat]

people who do a PhD are running from something

[anton--rayne]

I suppose I should ask on behalf of my fellow ignoramuses why that persepolis quote is bad. I thought it was prescient, particularly to highlight the common humanity between the people of two countries that are hostile to each other. I don't think the part about our governments being the same are correct as America's worse for the world, but I didn't expect people to hate the quote that much.

In the era we live in, a government cannot exist independently of its people, "the usamerican government & the usamerican people" are not completely unrelated entities that happen to be on the same land with the people having no influence whatsoever on the government, nor is that true for any country on earth, let alone the Iranian people. The quote tries to ignore this reality by pretending as though the people of all countries are unrelated victims of their governments

While the "east" and "west" aren't perfect descriptions the world is very much divided! Again, the political scene does not exist independently of the population! Denying this reality denies the very context all governments currently exist in and make their decisions based on, it is denying the very active global hegemony's oppression, it therefore denies how the governments of SWANA exist in relation to it: sucking up to the west in expense of the populace and / or trying to protect the populace, it denies the victimhood of all Iranian people within this order actively hostile and deadly to their very life because it pretends such a hostile order does not exist in the place.

As you said it yourself too, "(our) governments being as bad as USA is incorrect". It is actually the worst offender here, the above so far is a deeply flawed understanding of how states & the world order operates. This deeply flawed understanding piles up to logically result in the final misconception: That the US; the deadly force that has been causing suffering and mayhem in SWANA for over a century, couping and scheming to install puppet regimes that results in the death of millions, dehumanizing everyone within the made up category of "the middle east", (something it carries from the west before it!) and the very aggressor here, is the same as its victims

The Iranian nation is a victim of the US, the Iranian Government does not exist independently of the people, the "just the government, not the people!" play pretend of trying to position the government as seperate from the general populace just furthers the said justification to attack every nation the US victimizes. Therefore it is a very detestable quote, born from mistakes in analysis the citizens of periphery who gather fame in the core unfortunately tend to fall in by passively internalizing the core's logic used to manufacture consent and combining them with the sometimes valid complaints they had of their state, admittedly it can also be from trying to assimilate by appearing as the Good Token Anonymized Person Of The Global South who would never think the opposition to the west is justified

[anton--rayne]

Hence why it is especially disgusting with the turn of events that people think this quote is """relevant"" in any way, though of course if the US and its proxy entity were to attack not any civilians but military targets, they would still be very much making their intentions clear

[anton--rayne]

It is being shared again after Satrapi has finally died. We have seen how "US and Iran governments are the same" once again since the US purposefully murdered hundreds of Iranian elementary school girls and crushed their tiny bodies under a rubble of their school, then threatened nuclear holocaust on all Iranian people and the surrounding region. Let me make it clear: I was too kind, if you quote this, you are a dog. People like you manufacture consent for slaughter and have the blood of all the dead children on your hands.

[artchiu]

jan 2025 sticker club sheet!! get here

[everydaylouie]

bull in a china shop

[longseasons]

let's all go out and buy pink refreshing citrusy fruity sexually arousing drinks

[neometalpussy]

my number one skill is being sooo cute and my number two skill is the ancient curse

[littlesweatermart]

(source)

[gatheringbones]

“In the 1970s, scientists realized that humpback whales sing structured songs. Strangely, even if they’re coming from thousands of miles apart, males converging on mating grounds all sing the same song. Humpback song is composed of about ten different consecutive themes, each made of repeated phrases of about ten different notes requiring about fifteen seconds to sing. The song lasts about ten minutes. Then the whale repeats it. For hours in the ocean, in their season of courtship, the whales sing. Each ocean’s song is different, and over months and years it changes in the same way for the thousands of whales in each ocean, the song somehow a continual work in progress, fully shared. Sometimes the change is sudden and radical. In the year 2000, researchers announced that humpbacks’ song off Australia’s east coast was “replaced rapidly and completely” by the song Indian Ocean humpbacks off Australia’s west coast had been singing. It seems that a few “foreigners” made the trek west to east, and their song became such an instant hit with the easterners that everybody had to sing it. The researchers wrote, “Such a revolutionary change is unprecedented in animal cultural vocal traditions.” And once a phrase in the song disappears, it has never again been heard, despite over twenty years of eavesdropping. What do the songs mean? Researcher Peter Tyack says, “We may have to thank the evolving aesthetic sensibilities of generations of female humpbacks for the musical features of the males’ songs.” Songs of humpback whales, by the way, have sold millions of recordings. We share that aesthetic. That might be both the biggest mystery and the best evidence of like-mindedness.”

—

Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

Carl Safina

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I feel like advertising is probably the funniest place anyone can choose to predicate their moral arguments against AI on the basis of environmental impact because like. The advertising industry is already probably the most wasteful i dustry in terms of environmental costs vs. actual value it provides, to the point that adding AI to it amounts to a very small drop in the world's biggest bucket. Like.

"Using AI to design flyers looks cheap and tacky" 👍 I completely agree.

"Using AI to design flyers is bad for the environment" I can tell you with 100% absolute certainty that the environmental impact of printing hundreds of paper flyers which will be looked at exactly once and then thrown in the garbage is like. Several orders of magnitude bigger than the environmental impact of generating the picture that will go on said flyers.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Like I find it hard to think of a position that more succinctly communicates "I never think about where anything comes from or how it's produced or how it's disposed of or the environmental costs of any steps in that process unless there's some sort of moral panic telling me to be concerned about it" than thinking that the "AI" part of "ads made with AI" is the part that's bad for the environment.

[road0flife]