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Nathan Thorn, 22 YO guy, just looking to relax and look at cute art, plus do some writing on the side

[checkyourasianbias]

[melodies-stereo]

"in my socialist utopia, we will still be allowed to hunt, discriminate against, and kill a specific kind of person" <- a LOT of you for some reason

[melodies-stereo]

in MY socialist utopia, justice will not be emotionally driven... except in regards to this one type of person i really don't like and want deprived of rights and recognition

[fandom-man]

[scholarlypidgeot]

@moethh don't hide this in the tags

[dogpuppy]

[bakersfield-row]

[theconcealedweapon]

[hemipenal-system]

im watching the KamSandwich FATAL character creation stream right now and he's doing race and gender and i'm giggling a bit about everyone in chat being like "oh yeah this game might be sexist"

[hemipenal-system]

[hemipenal-system]

theyre still doing abilities btw

[depsidase]

[spookyteeths]

Feminist icon Judith Butler slams liberals who want to abandon trans people: That's "fascist logic" - LGBTQ Nation

Butler called denying health care to trans kids "an act of cruelty."

[queeranarchism]

For those wondering: yes, she is saying that Democrats who abandon trans rights are using fascist logic.

[godly-girlfailure]

this individual is so goated that when you say something they dont like, terfs will just call you “butlerian” entirely unprompted. happened to me once

[viridiancolors]

[beesmygod]

[steals your baby immediately after his birth][raises him][trains him in the ways of an ancient martial art invented by cormorant fishers in 700 ad for 13 years][enters him in a tournament][he loses in 4 rounds] ok whatever. you can have him back

[johnnyspringgreens]

ok thanks [gives him estrogen][treats her like a human][helps her learn her worth][she knows now she can be whatever she wants][suddenly she wants to be world champion][enters her in a tournament][she wins in the first round but is immediately disqualified for male advantage (its coed)]

[missstrogen]

What the fuck

[godly-girlfailure]

when do we get to the [treats her like a human] part

[romcommunist]

the name "theresa" is so funny like. theres a what

[fried-berries]

[dent-de-l1on]

de naam 'eris' is zo grappig. er is wat?

[shieldfoss]

Navnet "erik" er så spøgst. Han er ik hvad?

[a-book-of-creatures]

الإسم فيفي مهضوم كتير. في في شو؟

[echey]

Göran är också kul. Gör han vadå?

[lesbiankiliel]

tuomas tapani karhu on hassu nimi. tuomasta pani siis mikä?

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[laestoica]

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[joyfulness03]

this literally just reminded me to take my meds

[kurumadraws]

feeling really art blocky lately :c

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[sigmaleph]

i like to imagine how people in the post-material-scarcity future would romanticise the current time period.

having a job gave people a sense of community and purpose lacking in our modern age where nobody is forcing you to get out of bed on threat of starvation. actually the average office worker in the early 21st century was so much wealthier than a UBI-having-modern if you forget to count paying rent and also make some very bad purchasing power conversions. if you look at contemporary records (sitcom where the main characters are only at work when it's plot relevant) it is obvious that employment was never really a major obstacle to having an active social life or pursuing your own passions.

[nitpickspot]

Honestly I have a lot of...concerns about how a post scarcity society would work in relation to the things that I love. But I hope having to give up things like tv and pop culture and toys makes them happier

[sigmaleph]

why would a post-scarcity society have to give up those things? what do you think post-scarcity means?

[nitpickspot]

I mean, cartoons are probably going to end up "reduced" to Glitch Productions type things, like 10 minutes of animation every 6 months. There's just no way to produce 20 minutes of quality animation on a weekly or even a monthly basis in a world where no one has an incentive to work on an idea that isn't theirs.

Why would anyone choose to do inbetweens on someone else's cartoon, when they have no financial or occupational obstacles to just working on their OWN cartoon? Animation takes dozens or hundreds of people to do to current quality and a lot of it is a really shit job to get stuck with.

The same goes for things like toys and collectables. Who is going to CHOOSE to make someone else's dolls all day when anyone with the skill or the talent is 100% fo the kind of person who would just be making their OWN dolls in miniscule batches.

Remove employment from the equation and I just don't see any reason why ANYONE would do large entertainment projects at current scale. And even if they did, most of them would crumble under the fact that the entire workforce can and will just leave at any possible moment, right?

This isn't a dig, or a gotcha, it's just the thought I constantly have when this concept comes up

[sigmaleph]

i think you're imagining 'nobody needs a job to survive' but 'post scarcity' is a stronger postulate than that, and implies something like e.g. if i have an idea for a doll or a tv show it can trivially be mass produced (generally under the assumption that we can automate almost all things that nowadays require human labour)

[nitpickspot]

We're uhh...kind of already starting to try and do that automation step.

and the results are not great.

[sigmaleph]

we've been doing the automation thing for centuries and I would describe the results as nothing short of amazing.

[scribblecrumbs]

The idea that people would always rather “work on their own cartoon” is a bit flawed. There are people who love animation, but not story-boarding. There are people who love to draw, but not to script a graphic novel. There are people who happily illustrate, but don’t want to write a novel. There are people who love to write, but do not enjoy acting. There are actors who love to portray a character, but do not enjoy coming up with the character in the first place.

There are people who love the mundane tasks. People who enjoy adding text to graphic novels, who love to do inbetweens for animation, who enjoy handling foley for movies.

The idea that no one will ever wish to work in collaboration with others is kinda wild. People work in collaboration on open source projects All The Time without any sort of monetary compensation. Much of the time people would RATHER work in collaboration than just do it all themselves because humans love community.

[foxes-in-love]

[homophobla]

Twice a year in Hawaii the sun passes directly overhead and objects cast no shadow. It’s a phenomenon called “Lahaina Noon”

[phoenix-theurge]

You're full of shit, Hawaiians are just able to levitate coconut milk.

[dirty-noona]

As a Native Hawaiian, 1) I thought this happened everywhere, 2) ofc we can levitate coconut milk