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Mio Hashimoto ( contemporary Japanese sculptor, b. 1980)

#we got a kitty in november #and i love her so much i’m gonna cry #the apple of my eye frfr

when i have to do the captchas that ask you to pick all squares that have, say, a bus in them, but the bus is broken up over different squares, my brain goes through a horrible detour of a mix between Wittgenstein's duckrabbit and Quine's gavagai: is a square that has the edge of a bus's mirror "a square with a bus"? surely it's a) a question of interpretation as to when a piece of a bus becomes enough of a bus to call it a bus and b) a question of idiolect, mediated through common usage, as to whether that detached bus part is a bus. this all takes about half a second. then i fuck up the captcha for unrelated reasons.

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Me Gongaga Monday

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Have a happy and healthy Me Gongaga Monday

#my roommate’s (re)playing crisis core so yes happy gongaga monday to you all!!!

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*through gritted teeth* it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be-

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Happy fifth anniversary octo expansion!! That shit changed me permanently!!

[ID: a google result showing the release date for splatoon 2 octo Expansion as June 13, 2018. End ID]

#i am a little embarrassed to admit how special splatoon 2 was to me

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#ffxiv #music #not to be nsfw but #i saw a tweet from someone saying how bad they want to have sex to this song #and tbh i 100% get it #but also this song does a good job of conveying a unique quiet brand of outrage and anger

#spyro

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Courage from Courage the Cowardly Dog - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

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Okay wait this brings up a point Dr. Richard D Wolff (americas leading Marxist economist) brought up in a lecture a while ago; economics needs an ethics review board.

Every other major discipline has an ethics review board. If you're a doctor and prescribe a patient a lethal dose of the wrong medicine, you get disciplined. If you're a biologist and commit animal cruelty, you get disciplined. If you're a psychologist and conduct an unethical study, you get disciplined. If you're an engineer and neglect safety standards when building a bridge, you get disciplined.

But if you're an economist and your policies actively harm people in a demonstrable way, nothing happens. It's all just a 'matter of opinion'

American and other western economists advised the Russian government on how to run the country following the end of the ussr and its estimated that the economic policies they recommended directly lead to the deaths of millions of people. And not a single economist so much as even lost their job.

Economics degrees also need courses on ethics and the real human impact of economic policies so that economists can learn how to avoid harm in the first place.

#i do think we’d benefit from this #but i think that because economic theory and changes operate on such a huge scale that it’d be hard to trace culpability back to just that #idk if that made sense #like just because you followed an economic theory and x happened afterward doesn’t necessarily mean that that economic theory is to blame #and therefore it’s hard to judge an economic theory based on its ethics because they never operate in a vacuum??#sort of like how people think communism is evil on principle because of its misuse in the past #but i don’t study this stuff idk idk