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a peer-reviewed study has shown that professional diggers demonstrate weaker outcomes in digging with a shovel after using an excavator for 6 months. academics seek to explore more appropriate and targeted uses of excavators to ensure that the outcomes of diggers aren't negatively affected in cases where using an excavator is inappropriate or unavailable. a press release has proclaimed that excavators may make diggers unmotivated and lazy in their jobs, for some reason referencing a study demonstrating reduced skill acquisition caused by an entirely different class of heavy machinery as supporting evidence. a commenter has replied "heavy machinery is regressing people's brains. in a year they won't even know which end to hold a shovel anymore. we must abolish and condemn the use of heavy machinery."

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*gets different kinds of pseudoscience confused* you only use 10% of your brain until you're 25

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portraits of utility poles

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personally i'm just glad that the non-AI datacenters don't use water

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Mini tintypes of a girl, 1870s

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Me if I was different from how I am

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[becoming crazed] art should physically harm you

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I have a suggestion.

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(parent feeding a baby in the 1800s before airplanes were invented) here comes the nothing

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nobody will remember

- ur salary

- how busy u were

- how many hrs you worked

people will remember

- the date of your illness which coincides with the murder of an old pawnbroker

- your article on crime published in the periodical review

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'consolation' by edvard munch, 1894 and 1907.

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how life feels when you go alone to see a fun movie and when you leave the cinema the sun is still out

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No more little breaths in and out. One really deep breath per day; 12 hour inhale, 12 hour exhale. During the brief stillness in between I'll survey the day, future and past, as from a high summit, hours stretched out in all directions.

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Artem Rohovyi - Symphony of Branches gouache on paper

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(guy reading through slanderous propaganda from political rivals) whats so inspirational is that every great leader and emperor in history was gay

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but fandom in general has this boner for the crux of all characters being highly imperfect self-knowledge - your repressors, your delusionists - but those types are not necessarily the most interesting to me. i think a lot of people have self-awareness but whether this changes things is the operative question. i think this reversion to this as ultimate character type - that there is some BREAKTHROUGH that must come for one not to be miserable, and it is the challenges to that breakthrough, whether it will happen or not, that drives narrative tension - is very sort of historically specific, structured by kind of a psychoanalytic gaze. it’s an framework where what is in the MIND is the most vital part of a life, always, more than material conditions or structures, and the character arc is about battle between individual and mind with other characters as additional opponents providing obstacles or getting in the way. but straight up a lot of people especially in the epic span of human history have not conceived of life this way, you know? and so like what if you took what they say they want seriously. they probably actually do want it. people want things that are either not to their benefit or not actualizable all the time.

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A postcard of the train tunnel underneath Michigan Central Station / the Detroit River, running to Canada, c.1912. Via Detroit Public Library.