It never stops surprising me how eager some people are to become meat crayons

I love watching him in the stupid repetitive action flicks! The whole genre is great entertainment when you want to just see something total garbage, and he’s my favorite lead for them because he has the vibe of doing it ironically. Sometimes the actors are too serious and that kinda ruins the fun

And that’s completely fine, something like that is just a matter of taste anyway. But trying to smear his reputation and spread false shit about him just because someone doesn’t like him? That’s not cool at all - and even worse if it’s just because he’s not a hateful piece of shit!

Also fuck JK Rowling, that terf bastard deserves nothing but a kick to the shin.

Also the culture that causes toxic masculinity in first place needs to change, any amount of therapy alone won’t fix the situation. Treating it only as a personal problem is like treating symptoms of a plague but leaving it rampant. But how to nuke the idiocy on a cultural level…? Things seem to have even taken a turn for the worse lately…

Which is very ironic.

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40)

“The message” has as many flavors as there are branches of christianity though. They cherrypick whatever they like the best from the bible and ignore the rest; sometimes even changing that depending on the context. It’s reasonable in a sense since the texts are full of contradictions anyway

It’s also the smell of smoke. The crackling. The heat. How the poking stick feels in your hand. Poke poke

In finnish it’s the same and I’ve even had the same experience! We write almost completely phonetically so something like “spelling bee” is an insane thought. English writing system is basically abstract at this point and you just need to learn to pronounce each individual word lmao

Here’s a lot of places where pedestrians and cyclists share the same walkways, maybe it’s the same where the other commenter is from? It can definitely be a problem of infrastructure; even ones biking without electricity often go waaayyy too fast for it to be safe at all.

I walk with my dog a lot and almost every day there’s a situation where some crazy cyclists flies past us like 30km/h and doesn’t even ring the bell. If I had a more reactive dog it would be a nightmare, a lot of of dogs are triggered to chase if something “runs” past like that, even if they’re super friendly and wouldn’t actually do anything if they caught the “prey”. I don’t understand how the cyclists don’t care for their own safety even if they clearly don’t care about others; if a bigger dog lunges at them (which is almost impossible to prevent with zero warning time, even if they dog was held by the collar) they’re the ones that could fly to the asphalt from high and hard. I’m surprised more small children aren’t hit by bikes as well, since the cyclists don’t seem to slow down for them either.

And yes cars are often a problem as well and the crosswalks can be horribly unsafe because of idiots driving, but at least here the cyclists too are causing constant danger to pedestrians - because of the bad desing. Even without ebikes bike lanes are a must just as roads for cars are

Sure the pieces of land don’t matter to but the ukrainians, but if Putin gains anything it’ll signal to his own that he won and that attacking works. At this point any security guarantees mean basically nothing since the west has shown such a weak response, and Putin will just challenge the promises the moment he has the opportunity. Seeing how USA and western Europe still don’t seem to fully understand the situation, it’s easy to believe Ukraine can’t trust any guarantees given unless it’s something like straight up joining NATO, which isn’t on the table.

I agree completely. Getting mad just vindicates them, especially online

If Putin gains parts of Ukraine, the war will not end. It means he succeeded in the war; that the west is weak. Which in turn means the war will “end” as in Russia will just regroup and build it’s war resources for a while - maybe some years, maybe more, maybe less - and then attack somewhere again. Why would they stop? Russian imperialism is not based on logic or reason; it was insane to attack Ukraine in the first place.

It is pointless to expect Putin to be somehow reasonable or actively want to stop warring. It is also completely pointless to believe whatever he or his lackeys say, they’ve lied from every step on the way and will continue to do so for their own benefit. It’s very likely the war will continue whatever the result in Ukraine is anyway, it can only be postponed now that Russia has again started on this damned path. If Putin gains land, they won and it’ll continue; if they don’t gain anything, Putin needs to attack again to prove it wasn’t a loss. I cannot believe people still seem to think you can somehow just reason with Russia

To expand a bit on the idea that the process itself is as important, or more important, than the resulting work standing in isolation

This leads to my take on photorealistic art: basically photography has made fully realistic drawn and painted art obsolete. Even “unreal” things that look real but aren’t based on actual places or things can be achieved by photoshopping pictures together in a fraction of the time it takes, to make something look even close to a photographic accuracy drawing or painting by hand. If you see a picture of photorealistic art somewhere you’ll just think it’s a photograph or photoshopped, unless someone explicitly tells you it’s painted. The visual representation of photorealistic art has stopped being meaningful as it used to be, and the works need the context of the hard labour to be appreciated as what they are.

As a disclaimer though, photography and digital editing can be art in themselves, I’m not making point about that. It’s just fascinating how the value of hand drawn photorealistic stuff has almost fully shifted from the visual representation of reality to the actual process of producing it

I know about one that managed to steal a whole 6kg christmas ham and eat it! Would have loved to see the faces of the owners lmao. Apparently the dog had terrible diarrhea for hours from that, so not only did they lose the ham, they also had to keep up all night to make sure the dog didn’t need an emergency vet visit and wasn’t shitting inside

Yeah, one can’t exactly control being born in poverty, health issues, accidents… the list goes on. It’s true though that you can still try with whatever you got. Climbing a tree is not reaching the sky, but it is off the ground

Yeah numbers are pretty hard to conceptualize unless you already know what they mean. The addition I would do is put the actual numbers there as well at the same time, so you could get a good reference with an example

“Hey why don’t you use this tool you don’t need? It does the thing worse than you do and also fucks up the planet in the process!”

I honestly thought it was, I guess I can still have too high expectations of people. If they’re not even seeking the adrenaline rush from the danger, it’s like extra mega ultra omega level of pathetic instead of just extremely pathetic

Often the individual animals preying on humans have some sort of health problem or something along the lines, making them desperate and thus continuously dangerous - so it is easy to pretend we don’t do it for vengeance too. There’s also the weird still lingering belief that once an animal has tasted human blood they’ll want more. Humans like to believe we’re not controlled by instinct and make up explanations for why not, but our actions have more truth than our words

There’s also the stupid belief that being mean = intelligent, which kinda overlaps with this. I somewhat blame House MD for that; that show was popular around the time when the idea got normalized in media, and now it just keeps going and is repeated in multiple ways in movies, series… etc. Rick and Morty is another great example of what that type of portrayal can cause, it’s done terrible damage in making it’s target audience associate meanness and assholery with being intelligent.

You can be both kind and intelligent, these qualities are not linked in real life, just like being naïve and kind are not. This means that being mean doesn’t make anyone look any smarter; it just makes you look like a mean asshole. This also seems to escape a lot of people and worsen the hateful shit both irl and online