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even the parks have very restrictive hours in many cases.

enjoy having a downtown full of nothing but tweakers & fent zombies i guess. sure beats letting some kid skate the plaza.

i mean i get the cops called on me just skating down the street

as a parent you have all the control. why does your kid need a tablet? why do they need a smart phone like at all? these devices did not just magically materialize in your home, the tooth fairy didn't put them there. you chose to plop your toddler in front of a screen because electronic vicodin was easier than parenting and then you chose not to lock down their devices with the abundant parental controls you are given and then you decided you couldn't be assed to teach them basic internet safety habits or how to develop healthy skepticism and that seeing isn't always believing. really the only thing your children have been '''exposed to''' is your own laziness and utter unwillingness to offer them direction. the world will continue to exist whether we like it or not, and some day our kids will have to live in it just like we do. we can either prepare them for what's really there, warts and all or we can hide them away only toss them to the wolves when they turn 18 with the delusion that this somehow preserved their innocence. i personally believe giving them the grace of a childhood to learn how to deal with the bumpy parts of life is a much kinder option.

i just want to be able to live in the town i was born in.

i felt similarly until i actually ended up homeless and had to deal with shelters. they are shockingly non-viable and since most close early in the day, getting a bed for the night and getting employment so you can stop being homeless end up as mutually exclusive propositions.

it kind of boils down to a question of who is the actual customer? me or advertisers? if i'm paying a subscription to youtube, then i don't want post-adpocalypse censorship & sanitization.

here at least that just leads to ditches and bike paths strewn with shopping carts.

more likely they think 'rush hour is awful' or 'traffic is awful', i highly doubt they would prefer to experience the same density of bodies traveling on the bus or train.

i would say bike autists equally struggle to imagine what it is like to live anywhere besides the most population-dense, infrastructurally developed 15 square miles on the face of the earth. i have a very good sense of what it is like to live without a car as i did so for 20 years and it fucking sucks. i have no desire to have to bike 10 miles in 80+ degree heat with a saxophone in one hand and a guitar in the other ever again. i have no desire to experience the vibrant living of being packed into an 11pm vomit comet ever again. i have no desire to have to pad every commute & outing with an extra 45 to 60 minutes of stops ever again.

i don't even hate ads or the idea of targeted advertising in theory but 20+ years into the panopticon and the company that has the most information about my purchasing habits, interests and dislikes still has never shown me any advertising that was even remotely relevant to my life. i still have better odds of seeing something i actually want to buy just by flipping through the paper and those adverts don't demand that i put my life on pause just because corporation x spent a whole lot of money on a branding campaign that is annoying, unfunny and makes me hate them and their products.

there is a significant difference between skiing at vail and skiing at jackson hole. we have the tourist-friendly mountains basically.

colorado is a resort, most of those other states live or die by resource extraction. if we didn't happen have an amenity that was especially attractive to rich liberals (and geographically discriminating against the poor & working class) then co's politics would be no different than arizona's.

weird how so few of these communities with social pressure are even remotely civil.

disposability is like, the main appeal of discord.

aishit is a reverse turing test. if you find it's output exciting or impressive you can no longer qualify as human.

It's not clear that any development in AI will be any different than the transition to mechanization in the 19th and early 20th century.

so you mean utterly hellish?

https://martyrmade.substack.com/p/martyrmade-22-whose-americ...

i would not say life has become any more car dependent than it was in the 90s, if anything, public transport where i live has improved dramatically.

for me the dream would be a competitive game where you could get exercise. like if you could race other people with your peloton online. someone made a jank prototype of this for mario kart. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN6iYyGgqmA

while true, teenagers in particular have lost a great degree of the agency that was afforded to prior generations. the concept using surveillance devices on your children did not exist 20 years ago and yet you can see threads of HNers discussing how they or their schools monitor their children quite regularly.

We will continue to take efforts to prevent and mitigate a harmful person's ability to cause harm.

the channel in question is literally a bot that strings together semi-coherent sentences from chat gpt with little to no object permanence. there is no person or harmful intent to mitigate here, it is just a bunch of words in a blender.

Would it have been OK

twitch is a platform where you can stream yourself preforming grotesque acts of murder in the most violent videogames. i could foreseeably mod transgender prostitutes into gta or use the names of notable trans activists in rogue survivor and then go target them in a killing spree. trying to draw arbitrary demarcations around permissible culture & expression rarely if ever has the desired effect. calls for empathy, just like those for a return to faith/patriotism/civility/etc can never be sincere if they are enforced by top-down dogma, more than anything else, they breed resentment towards the sacred cow. there are a lot of pressing issues for improving the lives of trans people, primarily issues of law and healthcare policy; banning 41% and ywnbaw jokes is nothing but a distraction. on a personal level i find the mentality of 'be nice to trannies or they'll rope' far more insulting than any memepost.

Joking about people currently experiencing trauma isn't funny.

humor is how we overcome trauma, once you can laugh about something it doesn't hurt anymore. if you ban laughter to try and protect someone all you're really telling them is 'nope you're fucked up forever'

i think a big part of what has been lost on people is that for an illustrator in the computer age, copyright is quite literally your product.

most news and politics are tacit exercises in emotional manipulation. i'll leave it to you to decide which emotional states are most valued.

reflexive shame towards the nation is the only cultural practice americans are still taught. in contrast to japan who have pretty much eroded their past atrocities from the public consciousness, the intelligentsia seem fixated on wallowing in ours. i leave it to you to decide which strategy has created a more cohesive public.

i think a big part of it is that they are an industrialized nation that seems to have modernized in a positive way and without losing all of their uniqueness in pursuit of becoming another utterly bland and inoffensive global commerce hub. i personally have a great deal of admiration for the japanese because they have managed to embrace & preserve their traditions and artisanship across centuries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC1-sTIbDQc&

while also leading the world technologically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AiYirZPwIs

and not to mention they are still building giant cool things, a style of monumentalism which the western world seems to have largely abandoned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIucUB23zZ4&

describing a highly competent, domestically popular & highly trusted government as 'MAGA' is perhaps one of the most pro MAGA statements i have ever heard. the fact that in spite of all of it's problems and what is essentially at this point a whole generation of recession, japan continues to be a high trust society with civil services and infrastructure that is the rival of the rest of the world speaks very highly of the japanese system's integrity. consider that at the peak of our prior recession, many us state & local governments essentially ceased to function.

as others have already stated, art history is a pretty wonderful subject and in the pre-modern era was just as much a pursuit of science, technology & esoterica as it was aesthetics. there are also many fascinating characters

http://historyonfirepodcast.com/episodes/2016/8/15/episode-1...

if you want to learn drawing i would recommend looking into peter han's dynamic sketching courses and scott robertson's how to draw/how to render books.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaif0PpNMas&list=PLQ9CsVTcIG...

for painting, richard schmid's alla prima is probably the best starting place. i also think the preface alone is something every aspiring artist would greatly benefit from reading. plein air and figure drawing sessions are a very good way to dive into your local art scene on top of being one of the best ways to learn. for a mix of all the above http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com

i would also be remiss not to mention

https://www.youtube.com/@ArchipelDocumentaries/videos

which has been putting out tons of great interviews with contemporary japanese artists

something to consider is that you can really do most beginner drawing exercises & rudiments with only a fraction of your attention so it is pretty easy to draw while doing other things. if you watch tv/commute/cook meals/go out to eat/listen to books & podcasts/use a laundromat/ etc,etc you can use that as supplemental drawing time as well. you can start with basic coordination exercises (drawing lines, circles & ellipses) and work your way up to observational drawing and dynamic sketching practice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaif0PpNMas&list=PLQ9CsVTcIG...

i did some of my most productive studying on the bus or in hospital waiting rooms. even with a fulltime job i would say that 5-6 hours of drawing in a day is very achievable without much sacrifice. you don't need to be that serious about it, but you probably have more time than you think.

i really hope we reach a point where more parents play video games with their children, especially as a teammate rather than a hoverer. it seems like in most homes vidya is usually tolerated as a necessary carrot or a babysitter rather than something that is shared. kids learn from the people around them, this is why sportsmanship gets such heavy emphasis in junior sports leagues. we recognize that it is not enough for them to learn how to hit the ball, they need to learn how to be gracious competitors as well. imo this is equally true of games. if kids aren't given an example of what good habits & moderation look like, then why are we shocked if they emulate the grinders and the nolifers?