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question. why do you have 7 featureless grey monoliths in your driveway
There's eight actually but the last one is still in the garage
question. why do you have eight featureless grey monoliths
They're actually a really dark purple
question. why do you have seven featureless really dark purple monoliths in your driveway and an eighth in the garage
Some of them do have features though. There's holes and hinges and stuff, so I can put secrets in em
question. why do you have 8 really dark purple occasionally featureful monoliths
The heart wants what the heart wants
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Something simple as a cooldown, have some bunnies!
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Here's the other thing, though, because I guarantee you that this reactionary whose ideology is a picture would not actually want any of the policies or political changes required to get us to a place where that picture is a reality.
Let's examine the picture so you can see what I mean.
A bright, sunny day. The trees, the architecture, and the Lambo say "Italy" to me. (We're ignoring the roman soldier cosplay for the moment, people do that everywhere) The Mediterranean has a lovely and pleasant climate now; will it continue to have a lovely and pleasant in the future, if climate change gets out of hand? Does this person want to us to do anything about climate change to preserve that? What about pollution? (I looked at his twitter; he's an AI junkie. He does not care about the ways AI is contributing to climate change and pollution) The spaceship/futuristic airplane(??) in the sky is not like anything we currently have. Does this person want to fund scientific research and technological development in order so that we can reach the place where that's real? Does he want to give funding to science programs in schools so the next generation of scientists gets a good foundational education?
The architecture is beautiful. Is this a historical structure, or is this a new building? If it's the former, how are we communicating the importance of history to the public and educating them about our past so that these structures are lovingly conserved for future generations? If it's the latter, return to the questions about science and make them about art and architecture. (And who is funding the building of structures like these? Is this an airport????? It has an airplane(?) flying very low next to it, so it might be an airport? How have we come to a culture where we care enough about quality architecture to take the time and money to build an airport THIS PRETTY rather than a hideous, barely-functional sprawl of concrete and glass?)
Here's.... a Roman soldier???? I guess???? Who is he? Is he a time traveler? (if so, return to the questions about scientific development) Is he a cosplayer? (If so, return to the questions about history and education) Also: who made that costume, and what social structures were in place to teach them how? Home ec classes to teach sewing, vocational classes to teach metalwork, a society that values the knowledge of these things?? (Those are, of course, the good-faith questions I have about the Roman soldier; I have a sneaking suspicion that its inclusion in the picture more of a white supremacist dogwhistle. :/ So uh. That sure is something.) I think this person looked at the image and genuinely did feel something. He clearly has an appreciation and yearning for beauty -- but when he says "whatever leads to this", I don't believe that for a fucking instant. He is a big-time AI junkie, and you simply cannot AI this photo into a reality. To make THIS PICTURE a reality would take REAL investment in and prolonged support of human education, human creativity, human art, human cooperation, and human craft and skill. It would require that on the social level, the legislative policy level, and the individual level. The AI bros do not value those things in the slightest.
But y'know what, I don't even disagree with him. I too want a future where we have cool high-tech air transportation, beautiful public spaces, a comfortable climate, and history nerds having fun in cosplay (at the airport??? ok yeah idk we're not interrogating that too closely). I just feel like we have to be realistic about the hard work it would take to get us there. But oh right, the AI bros hate reality and are allergic to things that are hard or which take a long time, because they've gotten literally addicted to the drug of instant gratification and they're actively destroying their minds with it.
I really enjoy this analysis, and I agree with the premise: taking this image at face value, the guy who posted it absolutely would not want any of the real-world policies necessary to lead to that world for everyone.
I don't read the original tweet as a literal statement, though. That basic interaction - that reactionary ideology is just pictures - is getting at something deeper. Because I, too, could compose an image of my imagined ideal future, right? Anyone can. But when h0mmelette says of some reactionaries that their ideology is pictures, I read it by way of Walter Benjamin when he says that fascism is the aestheticization of politics. And I think it's worth engaging with the original post on its own terms to try to understand what vittorio is saying, so that we know what we're up against.
So I'm going to look at the individual elements as representing a vibe, not representing a material policy outcome. I'll break them down individually, and then I'll bring it together into an overall statement.
Here's what I think he's saying with the individual elements.
Spaceship: I have a vague idea of a high science/high tech future. I think that "the future should look like the future".
Italian supercar: This is personal aspiration. Supercars, and especially Italian supercars, are a well-established cultural signifier of wealth and opulence: rappers sit in Ferraris and Lambos while they wear gold chains and sexy women in bikinis fawn all over them in music videos, so that's the life I want, too. I invest in crypto and talk about "fiat currency" a lot. I want to be rich while other people are poor. If I am not rich, it's because there's a conspiracy to keep me from being rich. If other people are not rich, it's because they're undeserving.
Roman-esque architecture: This is a white supremacist dog-whistle. We need to retvrn. Western Civilization produced the objectively best architecture in the world until the post-modern cultural bolsheviks tried to destroy our civilization with their bauhaus.
Roman soldier: This is a white supremacist dog-whistle. Rome was the superior civilization; I have fetishiszed specific, poorly-understood aspects of their culture. I crave a patriarchal, highly-militarized society where I, a man, am owed a beautiful sex-maid who bears me many children, all of whom are totally obedient to me. I believe that I know what's best about how society should function and that therefore I should be involved in the political process, but I also believe that anyone who disagrees with me is inherently evil and stupid and deserved to be barred from the political process.
Mediterranean climate: I want to live somewhere beautiful. I have never once considered the implications of how that could be achieved or what that might mean for anyone else. I deserve this and that is all that matters. It is unjust and cruel that the world does not conform to my wants.
Obviously, I can't be inside this guy's head and know that these are his exact thoughts. I am editorializing, and synthesizing the commentary expressed by many people online. But, overall, I think that these are fairly accurate assumptions.
And I think the important thing to realize is that when he says implies that this is the future he wants, he does not mean for everyone! He's saying "my political ideology is whatever leads to this for me". This guy doesn't want to live in a better world, he wants to live in a theme park.
You could, absolutely, argue as ariaste does that the real-world policies that would lead to this world for everyone are very left-wing (and that they would absolutely fly in the face of this guy's actual politics). I think that ariaste does a great job on that side of it.
But I argue that this future could also be achieved, for a very small group of people, under world-wide authoritarianism. The reason you don't see a lot of tech billionaires worried about climate change is that while a lot of people will die as a result of unchecked climate change, not everyone will die. And the people who survive are the ones who have all the money and resources. If the Mediterranean becomes a hostile desert, that's fine, the wealthy will just move their villas to balmy, sunny England. So what if major farming regions become inhospitable? The wealthy can just pipe in water, or buy land in areas that are becoming more conducive to farming. The goal for these people is not that everyone lives well, only that they live well.
That spaceship in the picture could well be a slave transport. I know that traditionally in sci-fi the slave transports always look dirty and evil on the outside to show the audience that they're bad, but realistically, if you live in a theme park world, full of sleek, futuristic-looking technology, why would you want an evil, slimy, rusty cargo ship ruining your view? Much better to have a transporter that so easily fits into your society's aesthetic that it fades into the background so that you don't even have to contemplate the implications of its presence. There's a reason that in aristocratic manors, the servants have their own entrance around the back, and very likely even their own staircases and passages to their living quarters and work areas. The goal is to render totally invisible the daily machinery that maintains the nobility's life of ease.
As a leftist, it's very much my impulse to look at any depiction of the future and think to myself, "are these things desirable? How would they improve everyone's life? How could such improvement be achieved?", but I think it's important to remember that fundamentally, when a reactionary depicts a future, they're only ever imagining it for themselves. Everyone else be damned.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
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UPDATE: my stardew wizard portrait mod is now compatible with the RRRR (romanceable rasmodius redux revamped) mod ! now expanded to a full 32 portraits :-D enjoy!!
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the funniest dynamc between my boyfriend and i is the chef/baker divide runs so deep. experimentally my boyfriend is a genius with figuring out what flavor profiles will not just taste good together but also will be enjoyed by the specific audience he is cooking for. a recipe is not a guidebook so much as a suggestion and he will frankenstein ideas together to get exactly what he wants to happen. he also didnt know that sugar will not work properly if you dont mix it with the wet ingredients in banana bread and when i asked 'why didnt you do it in the order of the recipe' he said 'i didnt really think it mattered'. autistically i exploded his head in my mind
when your pumpkin loaf or banana loaf is not delightfully moist and soft and sweet like the pillow of a cherub and instead is like a dense fruitcake brick of misery we will see who is pretentious then. beast
Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics.
Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start!
Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because you didn't make more than last year!
Okay, say year 2 you make $2 mil. Now you're profitable!
Then year 3 you make $3 mil. Oh no! Your business is failing! But wait, you made more money than last year right? Sure, but you didn't make ENOUGH more than last year so actually your business is actively tanking! Time to sell off shares and dismantle it for parts! You should have made $4 mil in profit to be profitable, you fool!
If you're not making more money every year by an ever-increasing exponent, the business is failing!
Absolute degenerate LUNACY
#we loooooove the methodology of a cancer cell
#constant expansion at all costs!! go go go go go!! what do you mean the body has died
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leftists have gotta be a bit more diligent about understanding the economic system we are criticizing. because while yes, irrational greed and lust for growth permeate capitalism wholly, there are structural material explanations for this behavior as well that illuminate more contradictions within the system as a whole which will give you a more grounded foundation to participate in conversation
businesses do not seek constant growth because of surface level ideological notions that are irrational - they seek constant growth because the international financial system of capital punishes entities that do not behave this way.
take for example the entire tech industry in America. it emerges at a time where banks are granting loans with extremely low interest rates. this allowed companies like Uber, Doordash, Facebook, etc to emerge as market disrupters operating at a loss. essentially, banks and venture capitalists gave money to tech industrialists for free (well on loan, but you can’t collect if the venture fails), speculating that these industrialists could use that money during an economic boom cycle to establish infrastructure that may or may not have value in the future. it’s like a bet. all of these companies failed to be profitable at the beginning. but, when a billion people then use Facebook, advertisers see a market and a relationship between two industrial sectors began, now data collection, AdSense, and similar services are a multi billion dollar industry. or Uber - they took loans to operate at a loss in their formative years, charging incredibly low prices for private transport that undercut the existing taxi industry. they were not profitable nor did they have a path toward being profitable UNTIL they were able to secure a significant enough share of the taxi ride market that they were a competitor (using loan-backed funding to subsidize low prices to secure that position) . and then, once they have enough recognition and market capture, they change the pricing structure toward one that actually produces a profit. this is done after taxi companies go bankrupt and consumers have no other choice, securing Uber’s future profits.
back to constant growth. the reason a business is in need of exponential profit is because they require investment. they need revenue to operate, but also an initial amount of cash to establish their existence. it costs money upfront to make a company. a loan from a bank, selling shares to investors, etc.
NOW. inflation is a constant financial force with time, and this is the motivator - every year, the exchange value of $1 is worth less and less. using money as Power, quite literally $1,000,000 in 2015 is More Powerful than $1,000,000 in 2024. inflation, interest rates, and banking regulations are determined by the government. Loans are determined by banks, and investors buy stock depending on how liquid they are (cash flow). these are the tools of government and capital in their control of the proletarian and petty bourgeois classes. this entire scheme serves to clamp down on entities that try to find a niche in the market and serve it in a static way, for example - publicly funded services. see where I am going?
so, when periods of economic depression occur such as the one we are all in presently, the government increases interest rates and banks become more withholding about loans. this is why tech laid everyone off last fall, they no longer have the milk coming in to support the fat. they are encouraged to focus solely on profitability. the time to collect has come and we are seeing if investor speculation works in their favor or not. this explains layoffs, enshittification of web services, etc. banks and the government have signaled that the time for experimentation and speculation is over, and that raw value must be realized.
in America, coupled with 501(c) laws, this serves to terminate entities that serve a market while paying their employees fairly and not really making a profit. taxes, inflation, and loans are the sword the powerful use to cut down co-ops and worker owned enterprises. In this way, the government has monopolized the concept of a service that does not generate a profit. they have structurally eliminated the ability for entities that are not the government to do this. or at least, rendered it almost impossible.
it’s not just mouth breathing upper middle class folks being greedy, or an evil cabal of venture capitalists looking for profit. it IS those things, but there is an actual system at play enforcing this structure and it’s extremely important to be aware of it, otherwise you aren’t going to be able to effectively critique and combat it. otherwise, you’re just shouting at a cloud about greedy men. and that’s not going to produce a just revolution, just a force that seeks retribution.
happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.
Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful
Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers." What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from." It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem." It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."
It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.
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Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
MapCrunch. Environment artists rejoice. Random locations, filter by indoor or outdoor, rural or urban, specific country. Great for realistic/authentic building ref.