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theo van gogh was the one who suggested that his older brother vincent start seriously painting. as soon as theo was gainfully employed he gave vincent around 15% of his own yearly salary for art supplies, lodging, and food. about 2/3rds of vincent's surviving letters were to theo (including vincent's earliest and last letters), all of which were found stored in theo's desk. theo's child, vincent willem, was born on january 31st, 1890, and vincent was so delighted by his nephew that he painted almond blossoms for him. vincent shot himself half a year later on july 29th, 1890. theo's distress at his brother's death worsened his syphilis symptoms and he died half a year after his brother on january 25th, 1891 (four days before vincent willem's first birthday). theo was reburied next to vincent in auvers-sur-oise at the request of theo's wife johanna.

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why do people think gender neutral bathrooms would have less privacy. i’d like to have ungendered restrooms with ceiling-to-floor walls and stall doors you can’t see over, under or between the cracks. i don’t want to and don’t need to know the gender of the person in the stall next to mine

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im incredibly conflicted by the phrase ‘the question is not who will let me but who will stop me’ because on one hand its so fucking raw and powerful but on the other hand it’s derived from ayn rand but on yet another hand the first and primary time ive ever seen it was on a picture of a lawnmower flying through the sky which is the perfect level of absurd and nonsensical that would piss ayn rand off

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It feels like so many (even "leftist") people in the USA are desperate to skirt around the objective fact that Military service is voluntary. They wanna come up with every reason under the sun to not have to acknowledge that it's a conscious choice to sign up.

"Oh but recruiters-" military service is voluntary. this is not a situation where it's *legally* voluntary but people are basically forcibly conscripted. It's a situation where the lives of other people are seen as less valuable than the financial enrichment of US citizens.

you are not adding "nuance" by saying (debunked) shit everyone has already heard. you are refusing to acknowledge the fact that military service is voluntary because then you'd not be able to present yourself as the victim.

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We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"

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the entire concept of renting an ebook is totally fucking inane

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“no crew, no help, just pure hustle” cut to this poor woman bawling her eyes out. what the fuck is wrong with people? why is this being framed as a good or impressive feat? this person makes below poverty wages already. Burger King meanwhile takes in $27 billion in global revenue every single year. everyone involved in making this woman endure this should be tortured and force fed chicken fries until their heart gives out. fuck this country.

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obviously fuck the troops etc etc but i do think one of the funniest things to come out of the US armed forces from an engineering perspective is the solution to the problem of "how do i land this fighter jet on as short of an aircraft carrier runway as possible". and it turns out the best answer the combined brainpower of the most overfunded military in human history could come up with was "stick a hook on the bottom of the jets and a bigass rubber band across the runway lol". actual looney toons shit. and to top it off the most common failure mode is for the rubber band ("arresting cable") to snap and release ungodly amounts of energy capable of literally whipping US troops in half, which fucking rules

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The censorship of women's nipples is craaazy. Like it is blatantly just "we will censor your body but only if you're a marginalized class who we consider inherently obscene/sexual" like holy shiiiiit why do we even humor this bullshit?

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Endlessly funny to me that I, a sex-repulsed aromantic asexual, have infinitely fewer hangups about sex and sexuality than the average heterosexual Evangelical. The thought of having sex myself makes me feel nauseous and I don't enjoy porn/most erotic content, but I am enthusiastically giving allo people who enjoy that stuff two thumbs up and defending their right to goon. I am pro-sex and pro-gooning, just not for me.

That's why it's also funny to me that a lot of aphobes and exclusionists act like asexual people are the ones driving purity culture and sexual repression. Like I'm pretty sure it's actually the religious fundamentalists who WANT to have sex/masturbate/etc but have been repressed about sexuality to the point where they think they'll go to hell if they experience sexual pleasure or desire outside of an extremely narrow context.