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BurdensomeCount
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17m ago
the second most famous chair designed in the twentieth century, his own Barcelona chair being first
The Eames chair would like to disagree. These people were so far up their own ass they didn't even notice huge developments happening at the same time as them adjacent to their own aresa. The answer these ******* would probably give is that the Eames chair was made to be comfortable, hence it had utilitarian use and was thus not suitable to be considered a work of art, making it unworthy of comparison to anything they were putting out.
FistfullOfCrows
21m ago
Early 4chan had a good overlap with somethingawful before SA turned into a pinko-sj hellhole.
FistfullOfCrows
24m ago
The decline of rome in barista form lmao
sun_the_second
26m ago
It seems like that's largely owed to the fact that any amount of striking buildings that house Hamas and also (by Hamas' design) house the helpless is going to look like massacring the helpless. The only way to not massacre any helpless in this case is to stop doing anything, or invent magical weapons like that one scene from Iron Man where he takes out terrorists with micromissiles while sparing every hostage they had.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
30m ago
Who's talking about punishing Israeli citizens fighting against Hamas?
Jiro
33m ago
I would hope that if American citizens are fighting back against people who are shooting rockets at them, we wouldn't punish those American citizens.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
33m ago
Maybe your experience is more common in the vast low-density landscapes of America, but to me that sounds pretty atypical. Even in a tiny village you'd have a bunch of kids you'd hang out with. This wasn't always for the better, because bored kids in a low-stimulation environment would come up with dumb ideas, but the specific problem of isolation wasn't really there.
I don't know if comparing watching TV with a trip to the theater makes sense, it's not like you'd do the latter every day after work, for most people I knew maybe went once or twice per year. It's not something you'd do to be social, but something you'd do to "uplift" yourself culturally. The mention of restaurants also feels neither here nor there, yeah it was a treat, normally you'd just eat at home with your family, and the typical family size tended to be larger that 2+1.
Don't get me wrong, there were always loners that preferred their own company, and by the sound of it, that seems to have been the case in your entire family, but it was nowhere bear as widespread as nowadays. Plus, the technology we have nowadays turned even social activities, like playing games with your friends or dating, into something rather alienating.
I'm not saying that there isn't a problem, but perhaps it's a recurrent problem. Or a problem that's always with us.
Maybe, but I'm skeptical. It's not just a question of looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses, I can literally just travel to parts of the world that ate less affected by these social changes and notice they still have things like kids of all ages playing by themselves on the streets, and compare it to my country where it used to be a common sight, but isn't anymore.
Traditionalists always catch heat for nostalgia, but as far as I can tell the problem is perfectly symmetrical. There are people who find it really hard to believe that progress caused something to get worse, and once they get over that hump they'll insist nothing can be done about it.
some
37m ago
Given that you didn't correct me, I assume you think I am right. Thank you for taking the time, but precision to the day and dates in the 20th century is all I need.
DradisPing
42m ago
Firstly, those examples which I just listed were examples in which the forces of capital were neutral (CFCs, gay rights)
For an even more cynical interpretation I'd like to point out that CFC ozone damage was first discovered in a research paper in 1974. The CFC patent expired in 1978. Things didn't get rolling on a CFC ban until the 80s.
Sure these things take time, but I think the forces of capital saw the introduction of new patentable refrigerants as an opportunity.
Jiro
46m ago
My proposal isn't making anyone do anything.
"If you don't do this, we will take some money from you at gunpoint" is making people do it.
But the perceived or actual unpleasantness of any given task isn't for you or I to opine on. It is for people making the deal to decide whether they want to accept the deal or reject it.
On the contrary, the unpleasantness of the task is exactly what's for us to opine on. If we're going to have the concept of right and wrong at all, how much people are harmed is going to be important, and how unpleasant the task is is directly related to that.
My question is and remains: why is sex the one part of the deal for which women/employees apparently lose all ability to utilize their agency and make logical cost-benefit analyses?
Because sex is a really really unpleasant task to take on in this context and many employers are also highly motivated in the real world to demand it. This combination is pretty much unique to sex.
JarJarJedi
1hr ago
a) it's really him, and b) he's really dead.
A body can be easily identified using DNA test. And the death can be established by any half-competent medic. If the victims are suspicious, they can get their own medic to check the body. Neither requires contemporaneous observation by any third party.
No conspiracy theories about how he paid the executioner to fake his death when you hold the head up afterwards.
Sure, it was tougher when you couldn't establish the identity easily. Any random asshole could declare himself miraculously rescued king X, and create a lot of mess. But now we can identify people. It's a solved problem.
SteveKirk
1hr ago
In the 80s-90s there were a lot of people talking about Gaia Earth Mother Magick spelling Womyn with a Y, who have since Evolved and now spell it correctly (with an X). It's sort of like the permed mullets and neon spandex fashion land mine: you can't cancel anyone for it because they've got your yearbook pics too.
Jesweez
1hr ago
I think we should at least mandate that tech companies provide the ability to opt out of maximally addictive features.
For example, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, to an extent X, basically every social app has adopted the “infinite scroll of short video reels” that makes TikTok so addictive.
You used to be able to opt out of automatically being shown “shorts” on YouTube. However, they’ve taken away that option.
Instagram, used to be a place where photography enthusiasts post their pictures. Now it’s an attention on screen maximizer using algorithmic suggestions and infinite scroll short videos.
I read a book recently which if anyone is curious I can link the name, but basically identified that a problem with the digital age is that all of our digital tools and utilities come built in with distraction maximizing features. An article tries to shove 3 videos and 4 advertisements with maximally weird looking photos in my face while I read it. A currency exchange rate app is showing me ads. Everything that I do is trying to grab and divert my attention.
Some people say it’s choice, e.g. it’s my choice to use instagram for example. And I could always go for a dumb phone. Yes, but. The choice has largely been engineered out of my environment. And I believe we should mandate the ability to opt out of addiction and attention maximizing features on the tools and the so called town squares of our digital age.
philosoraptor
1hr ago
That's because it is just two random English words paired together. You don't need a non-English speaker (real or imaginary) in the picture to see that. You'd never guess its meaning from the words alone if you didn't know the history and context behind them.
TIRM
1hr ago
He made one woman call him master like a character in Sandman made the muse when he enslaved her as his rape slave. That one issue in retrospect is almost a confession.
The rest of Sandman, not really unless we strain ourselves.
TIRM
2hr ago
I read the wholesale series for the first time a few months ago. Yes, moon magic works for women and the witch asserts the transwoman is a man so it won't work for them.
TIRM
2hr ago
Also gay characters casually accepted. This being the 80s to mid 90s even that was outside the mainstream.
SteveKirk
2hr ago
this article was published more than 43 years ago
Thank you nyt, I'd already noticed because of how funny and well written it was.
TIRM
2hr ago
Having a nanny lick shit and blood off your dick or piss off of your hand while your 5 year old is in the room or eat vomit?
Pavlovich says. Gaiman pushed down her pants and began to beat her with his belt. He then attempted to initiate anal sex without lubrication. “I screamed ‘no,’” Pavlovich says. ... She continued to scream until Gaiman was finished. When it was over, he called her “slave” and ordered her to “clean him up.” She protested that it wasn’t hygienic. “He said, ‘Are you defying your master?’” she recalls. “I had to lick my own shit.”
I get he liked sharing younger women with his wife. They both liked fucking 20 year olds and I won't pretend to be shocked. But the degradation and torment of these women including in front of a young child is vile. The boy was confused and thought she was supposed to be referred to as "slave".
SteveKirk
2hr ago
I'd be able to buy a mansion with the extra dues from the national American statutory rapist association, so thanks in advance.
BahRamYou
2hr ago
Hahaha. The Bauhaus strikes again!
There was always a set of bentwood chairs,blessed by Le Corbusier, which no one ever sat in because they caught you in the small of the back like a karate chop. The dining-room table was a smooth slab of blond wood (no ogee edges, no beading on the legs), around which was a set of the S-shaped, tubular steel, cane-bottomed chairs that Mies van der Rohe had designed—the second most famous chair designedin the twentieth century, his own Barcelona chair being first, but also one of the five most disastrously designed, so that by the time the main course arrived, at least one guest had pitched face forward into the lobster bisque.
Though, in this case I guess it kind of makes sense, serving double duty to both look cool and as hostile/defensive architecture to prevent people from sitting there too long.
jkf
2hr ago
At some point in North American history they cost ten cents, so my guess would be this goes back quite a ways.
Citation:
Here I sit, broken-hearted,
paid my dime and only farted
Next time when I take a chance,
save a dime and shit my pants
That would depend.
Is there an objective ranking somewhere for "top five most famous chairs of the 20th century?" How would you measure that?
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