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Europe is still capitalist, imperial core etc etc, but the whole EU is just pushing forward into the future in a way the US isn't. High speed rail, re-pedestrianizing cities, both carbon reduction and local biodiversity. France banned Roundup nationwide last year, and told farmers "figure it out".
A professor at UC Davis summed it up to me: European governments are willing to accept slightly lower efficiency in order to protect cultural heritage, like regional varieties of crops and small town economies, whereas in the US it's all efficiency. The government is completely hands-off and has allowed the entire agricultural sector to consolidate into massive, massively profitable industrial farms and ranches. It's not just heirloom apple varieties, or farmers' markets - Wisconsin's famous cheese industry is currently being pushed out of business by huge California cow farms.
Feels like a settler mindset, as much as building wide streets with no shade in Arizona because we can just crank up the A/C and keep pumping water.
Working somewhere where making things better isn't completely hopeless was what got me looking at Europe. But I'm now trying to work in the international development space because I want to see the world, and flying to rural Peru or Kenya for job and then using my 6 weeks of paid vacation time to ride trains around Europe as a tourist sounds better then vice versa
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i cant get over the king charles portrait. they made that thing to age in his place. that painting hangs in the house of a too-friendly family you find in the post apocalyptic wasteland who inexplicably has a ready supply of fresh meat. if mario jumped into that painting he wouldn't find a charming platformer he would be flayed and hanged like a medieval criminal by an unseeable force in a droning red void. that painting is a color blindness test for people who work in IT but believe in the divine right of kings. that painting is going to weep the sequel to blood. after he dies charles is gonna crawl outta that thing like sadako.
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Isn’t New Hampshire the Florida of New England?
Hiking in the New Hampshire woods alone, would you rather meet a bear or a libertarian?
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The straight woman is unsatisfied with straight studio porn. She wants to get off to something in which the actors actually emote and show passion beyond canned moans from the women and, at best, vacant grunts from the men. She turns to gay porn. She knows it's not "for her," but neither was the straight porn, and at least the actors look like they're enjoying themselves. And for a short while she is satiated by Sean Cody et al, but she runs into the same problems she had to begin with. She was not looking at sex but a simulacrum of sex, trapped in Plato's cave. Unsatisfied, she turned to vintage gay porn, harkening to a time when most gay bars still had darkrooms and reliably smelled of piss and Amyl Nitrite. Here was the real thing, in all its animalistic passion. But she still couldn't immerse herself in the fantasy. She wanted the media to engage with her own imagination and meet her half-way, rather than having it spoonfed to her onscreen. She turned to yaoi, with its elongated figures reminiscent of mannerist portraiture, then bara, including hardcore BDSM scenes. But the tactile sensations depicted in the pages didn't do justice to their real life counterparts. She turned deeper into her own imagination, this time reading erotica. No, not the poolside paperbacks sold at Barnes and Noble. The good shit. Why then, was she still not satisfied? She dug deeper, searching for the true meaning of eroticism. She studied the psychoanalysis of Freud, the cultural criticism of Susan Sontag, the feminist poetry of Audre Lorde. She took vacation time and flew to Europe, starting at the caves of Lascaux to explore the human urge to create, then traversed the Camino de Santiago on foot, along the way meeting a 56 year old carpenter from Burgos named Andrés, with whom she had an explosive affair. They both knew it couldn't last, which made them cherish each other's touch all the more. Upon flying home, she gave up. If her search for true eroticism never bore fruit this whole time, why would it now? It would take years before she stumbled upon the answer by pure happenstance: dubstep.
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Honeytraps do not work on French spies because their wives are used to them having affairs, a television documentary about France’s equivalent of MI6 has revealed.
[...] The agent known only as Nicolas, whose voice and face were blurred, says: “Defectors from the Soviet Union used to talk about the ‘French paradox’, namely if you surprised a Frenchman with a mistress by telling him, we’ve caught you red-handed with a 22-year-old called Tatyana, work for us or we’ll tell your wife, it didn’t work.
“That was because he generally said: ‘Go ahead, show her, she’ll understand,’ or ‘she already knows about it’.”
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imagine the history textbooks. she was on her way out anyway, they should have let us have this one.
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Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?
Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".
My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.
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