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Thaninini aka ธานิ aka Thani (Thai, based Thailand) - 2023, Paintings: Gouache

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I feel like your model of the world has to be totally distorted for there to be anything notable about the Taylor swift marriage. "Pop star marries football player, more at 11"? What are we doing here

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Sesame street is in Manhattan! It's from the 60s when Manhattan still had areas that were the bad part of town. Like west side story

i think NYC would really benefit from having a giant mythical bird that lived here. maybe roosting on the empire state building. or maybe one in each borough. something along those lines. pokemon

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For your consideration: The Mystery Bird Dyna Blade...

I'm sorry man this thing sucks. Not even in the top 10 kirby birds.

Consider bird on

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Pigs and cows are very charming which like on an esthetic level I feel makes them worse to eat. I'm trying to think of a particularly un charming animal that it would be better to eat but most animals are really charming when you meditate on them deeply. Maybe just something really plain. A bunch of fish are really boring I don't have aesthetic qualms there just ethical (I feel like if "pescatarian" wasn't already a thing I might be pescatarian. But it feels gay and cringe within the context of pescatarians. Do you know what I mean). On a purely esthetic level I would probably eat a dog before a cow, in a vacuum. I feel like dogs are kind of Disney. Do you know what I mean. Unsubtle. I don't like how they have like human-chosen faces but they're incapable of moving like a human's. DFW was right.

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À new york themed pokemon region is such a good idea and they really squandered it with unova, which is BARELY nyc themed. Can you imagine if it was as nyc themed as Kanto is Kanto themed. It'd be awesome. The urban jungle....it seems like they are trying to do this with the legends ZA so maybe this is their run up to the kalos remake (almost certainly not. By a girl can dream)

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There are several people in my classes who wear the kippah (aka yarmulke) full time and I was thinking about how you would possibly keep such a little hat on your head before the invention of those little clips (pins?). Anyway from what I can find the answers are two fold: kippahs used to be bigger and so had more friction on the head, like a normal hat. But ALSO Full time kippah wearing seems to be a mostly recent phenomenon. Like you would only wear it for prayers and stuff. So didn't need much grip.

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i think NYC would really benefit from having a giant mythical bird that lived here. maybe roosting on the empire state building. or maybe one in each borough. something along those lines. pokemon

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man i just can't be a population doomer. US had above replacement fertility until the '08 financial crisis? Nobody had a deep reason to think population had to keep expanding in the '70s and nobody has a deep reason to think it has to keep contracting now. Not that it's contracting everywhere but there's this idea that below replacement fertility is just this unavoidable destination on a natural trajectory and like... why?

Also you notice how the population doomers are all selling something? Space age futurism, Christianity... recently I've read a lot of old novels about young people getting started in life, starting their careers and getting married, from back in the age when it was just normal to start a family. Sometimes there's intense social pressure (in The Citadel, a medical practice is supposed to include the doctor's wife, to the point where his fiance is worried he's just proposing for career reasons!). And in all these old novels I've been reading, religion just doesn't come up. The Church got involved when they needed someone to do the ritual. That Christianity will bring back fertility seems about as plausible as that drought is because we aren't pleasing the gods.

So maybe population doomerism isn't convincing to anyone, maybe it's normal that I don't feel the appeal, what has appeal is the "solutions". Well, then there's the neurotics, the doomers-by-nature; I wonder if the same personality was an overpopulation doomer in the '70s.

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im bothered by most piercings, they make me sqeamish. but i have ear piercings, so it feels hypocritical in theory, but i dont experience any sense of internal inconsistency, it FEELS consistent. so i pondered it and i think the pattern is this: im bothered by any piercings which, if they were violently ripped out, would induce a lot of distress. thus earlobes are fine. like, obviously it would hurt, but i would not be super bothered about it. more integral cartilage piercings, those are distressing. face piercings of any kind. belly button is a middle ground, but mostly fine. genitals, definitely bad. ive solved the system

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Holy god damn freezing sperm is expensive

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i think NYC would really benefit from having a giant mythical bird that lived here. maybe roosting on the empire state building. or maybe one in each borough. something along those lines. pokemon

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Summer I come seeking your wisdom. Is Kurt Vonnegut reddit?

kurt vonnegut is like. a little bit reddit. we cannot honestly tell ourselves he is 0% reddit. but reddit isnt all bad! kurt vonnegut is really good, and his goodness projects onto the good dimensions of reddit. (some of) the things that are good about reddit are good about vonnegut. i mean. a little bit of the bad stuff too he's not perfect. he is slightly annoying in the way reddit can be. but he's one of the greatest ever in the sci fi space imo

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young people yearn for a people's temple or a heaven's gate but it's actually so much harder to get a brick and mortar new religious movement off the ground these days due to the lack of third spaces and such

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@raginrayguns said:

new york gym leader, pidgeotto radicate grimer. Some appeal to that as well

and trubbish :)

he's so cute. and apt cuz they leave their trash on the street here. i wish there was a good cockroach mon, pheromosa is cool but kind of off vibes-wise

@smoke-in-the-winds said: What about Kingkong?

oh man i mean. he'd just be gravy. id love if there was a king kong. we could give him one of the islands as a nature preserve home. it might get too cold for him in winter tho. assuming he has magically scaled up gorilla biology

i think NYC would really benefit from having a giant mythical bird that lived here. maybe roosting on the empire state building. or maybe one in each borough. something along those lines. pokemon

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i think NYC would really benefit from having a giant mythical bird that lived here. maybe roosting on the empire state building. or maybe one in each borough. something along those lines. pokemon

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The term "book of the dead" doesnt really give you perspective to how big a lot of Egyptian funerary texts are.

Imhoteps book of the Dead is 64 feet long.