Ha ha! We got this one for free!

I do think they have an obligation to be pretty. Pretty things make people happy. It’s a contribution to the social project we’re all working on.

A walkable city, not that a McDonalds drive-thru is specifically part of that, should have greenery, places to hang out, and pretty buildings to look at. People should like being wherever they happen to be.

If you compare the two buildings in the picture, the top one I’m sure you have to drive to, but it at least looks like an inviting place to hang out with your kids or something. The bottom one almost seems hostile to that idea. And the main reason it even looks like that is austerity. At least I think so. Big gray cubes are cheap to build and easily templateable.

Are you referring to the conversation where Trump and Vance threw an embarrassing toddler temper tantrum when asked what diplomacy Trump had engaged in when he was -The United States President- in 2016 and for four goddamn years after?

Wow, they must be paying you a lot to try to spin that one.

Because you would care about the validity of the statements, you wouldn’t be suggesting that Zelensky is a liar.

I can smell it on you, dude, like the breath of an alcoholic. Why are you pretending you don’t know what this whole Ukraine thing is about? It’s been world news for 3 years.

Do I look like I’m trying to be an influencer to you?

You’re arguing with one. What do you think OP is doing?

as biased as Selensky

Ah, so you’re not impartial. Funny how easy it was to figure that out.

LibsOfTiktok, on the right, was effective. They are, apparently, much better at motivating people than you are.

Also, let’s not pretend you don’t just disagree with what is being said. Nobody asks for sources until it’s an issue somebody might pick up a sign over.

> I do not and never had any anger over Ukraine.

> dictator Zelensky.

But for God’s sake, to post logically malformed statements

What country doesn’t have an army? Russia obviously has an army. What else did they invade Ukraine with? The fact that you would leave this to me, the reader, to verify, is frankly ridiculous.

there litreally was no Russian army

This is factually incorrect.

You too, I posted a comment here.

I am too sleepy to explain, so here is wikipedia.

The test is for ideological alignment, and when said, it typically means someone is failing the test over something they think is trivial. Failing the test in a political sense means you cannot be friends.

Somebody might call it stethoscope theory, but I think that’s mostly a joke. Those other quadrants you’re talking about are not really on the left, they just pretend to be because it makes them seem more appealing. I mean, even the nazis pretended to be socialists. They just don’t get much purchase when they’re honest about what they want to do to poor people.

Holy shit that’s scary

Uh… maybe?
Trump and Elon don’t actually care about the constitution, you know. They pretend that they do because it’s patriotic, but it wouldn’t stop them from doing anything they’re doing.

I don’t want any. :(

Maybe if people actually gave them power by voting they could do something.

We did that in 2020.

Yes they will. Conservatives are weird, not whoever you have in mind.

And so conservatives will say that “being the borderzar and opening up the border” is weird—just tell them no. Be confidently unconvinced, they won’t win.

You know you can just not call them weird, right?

Loudly and proudly: Tourette’s is normal; it’s just a condition you can have, who cares.
With gusto: Mandatory genital checks in the highschool girl’s locker room is weird.

They like being bad, though. Bad is like Darth Vader.

I think we’re mature enough to recognize that weird (quirky) and weird (lingers around children) are different things.

but I justify it by pointing to things like splatter or fluid acrylic painting.

The counter I would give here is that those are just techniques. The challenge, then, is whether the generation machine can be made to do things that are interesting and meaningful. I know it can produce spectacle, but spectacle and meaning are different concepts.

I don’t know much Pollock, but isn’t he valued largely for his process and expressionism? I’m not making this accusation of you, you do seem to actually care, but a lot of people who bring him up seem to think that his work actually is random and unintelligible—I don’t think that it is.

I will concede that the process of interacting with the generation machine to produce something is a creative one, I just don’t think it’s anywhere near what a lot of proponents claim it be.

I’ve used Suno, and my lasting impression of it is that it was fun, sometimes really funny, and overall kind of soul sucking. As a musician, there were essentially no times that I felt anything produced there was mine. It was just novelty. Some of it sounded really cool, but none of it was an expression of me or what I was really looking for.