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Time Lapse of the Land Taken From Native Americans

via reddit

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the epidemic of grown adults playing tiktoks at full volume in public is rampant why are you acting like a 7 year old with their first ipad you have a mortgage

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Do you love the disparity of the EA CEO's pay?

I'm sorry for doing this, but also I'm not. Andrew Wilson is the one who should be sorry.

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the US is the most evil country to ever exist

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thinking about that time i (an art major) was hanging out with a guy (an engineering major) in college and the conversation got onto the topic of what art is and i said i have a rock solid, completely non-subjective definition that i go by, which he was very interested to hear. so i told him, "art is the product of human expression" and he did NOT like to hear that because that definition did not distinguish between different mediums of expression or quality or purpose of the art. and i told him that beyond that point there is no way to avoid subjectivity in the definition, and that there is no objective way to decide what forms of expressions qualify as art beyond its core purpose -- human expression. he let the conversation die after that

i suspect that my definition would still upset a lot of people, especially computer guys, but i really can't imagine a better definition for art. art exists as a product of human expression, our interpretation of existence -- without humans, there is no art, just the world existing for its own sake

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thinking about that time i (an art major) was hanging out with a guy (an engineering major) in college and the conversation got onto the topic of what art is and i said i have a rock solid, completely non-subjective definition that i go by, which he was very interested to hear. so i told him, "art is the product of human expression" and he did NOT like to hear that because that definition did not distinguish between different mediums of expression or quality or purpose of the art. and i told him that beyond that point there is no way to avoid subjectivity in the definition, and that there is no objective way to decide what forms of expressions qualify as art beyond its core purpose -- human expression. he let the conversation die after that

i suspect that my definition would still upset a lot of people, especially computer guys, but i really can't imagine a better definition for art. art exists as a product of human expression, our interpretation of existence -- without humans, there is no art, just the world existing for its own sake

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thinking about that time i (an art major) was hanging out with a guy (an engineering major) in college and the conversation got onto the topic of what art is and i said i have a rock solid, completely non-subjective definition that i go by, which he was very interested to hear. so i told him, "art is the product of human expression" and he did NOT like to hear that because that definition did not distinguish between different mediums of expression or quality or purpose of the art. and i told him that beyond that point there is no way to avoid subjectivity in the definition, and that there is no objective way to decide what forms of expressions qualify as art beyond its core purpose -- human expression. he let the conversation die after that

i suspect that my definition would still upset a lot of people, especially computer guys, but i really can't imagine a better definition for art. art exists as a product of human expression, our interpretation of existence -- without humans, there is no art, just the world existing for its own sake

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a baby gouger. call that a gouger gaga

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why are yanks ignoring how they put Japanese ppl in their concentration camps and trotting out what the Nazi germany did yet again? The US govt has already put ppl in a concentration camp even if they were legally allowed to own firearms before. The firearm ban (which likely will not even happen) is bad because it opens up transgender people, already likely to be victim of stochastic terror, to be victimized while bigots can be comfortable in their knowledge that there's no possibility of us fighting back, not because interning ppl in concentration camps is like a video game tech tree that every state must follow. Ignoring the fact that the USA did intern its armed population with little to no pushback to focus on the Exceptional Evil of Nazis and What They Did is literally whitewashing the USA's own history of concentration camps.

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follow-up from the same anon: You're going to the Field Museum!!! I fucking LOVE the Field Museum. I'm temporarily living near Chicago, and I really need to go there again as soon as I can. I went in April when I was here on vacation, and I was there for 4 hours and didn't even touch the anthropology collections or really anything other than the natural history sections. (I then walked outside and found out Lionel Messi was playing at Soldier Field, and it took way too long to get to Union Station and I almost missed my train. But it was worth it.)

it was good.

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said this as part of a larger point in a reblog but I'm gonna make it its own post:

humans have the right to do things that are mildly bad for us sometimes.

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Nearly $678 million was raised by scam PACs during the 2024 election cycle, yet less than $11 million of that sum went to Democratic candidates or the party’s national committee. That devastating finding, from data scientist Adam Bonica, makes it clear: This is theft—pure and simple—bleeding the progressive movement dry while the right builds real power.

In July 2024, I warned readers to beware of scam PACs as the Kamala Harris campaign itself urged donors to be cautious. These are fundraising operations that pledged to “take the fight” to Donald Trump, only to funnel the donations into their own coffers. I highlighted one such appeal and tracked the financials for the Retired Dems 2024 PAC.

That PAC claimed it was “electing leaders who will stand up for older Americans.” By year’s end, the PAC had raised $10.6 million and spent $4.1 million on “campaign expenditures”—leaving a tidy $6.5 million profit for themselves. Only about 40% of what it raised even pretended to benefit the campaigns it name-dropped, and that was spent on ineffective ads that further fed the consulting machine through commissions and fees.

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it seems very unfair to me that these horsegirls not only have to aggressively and intensively train for racing like any other top class track & field athlete but they also have to perform on stage afterwards with a massive repertoire of songs and choreography to memorise and master as well. like youre kinda just training two different sports at the highest level at once

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