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back where I belong. (in bed.)

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The way the government treats homeless people and panhandlers ought to be evidence enough on its own that empathy doesn't always lead to ethical behavior. Middle and upper class people get uncomfortable seeing homeless people because seeing someone in a bad state triggers an uncomfortable empathic response. They feel bad seeing people suffering. But people respond by trying to remove the source of their discomfort just as often as they respond with compassion.

That's why cities respond with hostile architecture and brutality. They just need to make the problem invisible, and people stop complaining.

Empathy is very useful, but it's no substitute for actual ethical principles.

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Coprinus quadrifidus, Ontario, Canada

photograph by Corrie White

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was anyone going to tell me that the pope's dressmaker posts dick and cock on instagram or was i supposed to find out for myself

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Share to save someone with nut allergies a hospital trip hoooly shit

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Kaori Someya "drizzle”

染谷香理「糸雨」

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Rent control is on the ballot for California voters this November.

I uh, get that tumblr isn't exactly sorted by geography, but this is a huge deal.

It's a huge deal even for people who don't expect to be personally affected by it -- rent control is a protection against the poorest people living in a city being forced out, and that's just bad for everyone. When you have a city where only medium well off to rich people live, you get their service employees coming in from a suburb an hour and a half away (blech) or else you get people stacked three to a room. Or people holding down a job or three while trying to earn enough to get off the street or, well, out of their parents' place or away from the abusive partner they can't afford to break up with. Point is, a lack of housing that people can just keep living in at the same price, means a lot of bad things for society, and we probably aren't going to socialize housing within the next ten years but maybe we can get rent control back.

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my message 2 the world

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David Moreno

Rotterdam-based David Moreno prefers his spatial pieces to oscillate between initial sketches of architectural projects and fully-realised constructions. His steel sculptures are comprised of lengthy metal strips and piano strings that are arranged to form building complexes, cathedrals, and steep flights of stairs. Despite being three-dimensional artworks, they mimic an architect’s outlines with their swooping lines and grid-like qualities.

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new favorite YouTube comment just dropped

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여어- 히싸씨부리 （ ɔ̸ᴉʇɐ͟N͞さんのツイート ）