Sophistically Speaking...

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
dunmertitty
armeniangenocidehistory

Yepraksia Gevorgyan, 110

Armenian genocide: survivors recall events 100 years on

shingeki-no-survivors

To this day, the quote I read in a survivors biography in 7th grade still haunts me. “Who does now remember the Armenians?” 

You know who said that? Hitler. Adolf Hitler, as a way to justify the Holocaust. Because the world turned a blind eye to the Armenian genocide, he thought the world would turn its back to the Holocaust.

The worst part is, he was right. America, Europe, the governments knew what was going on. And they ignored it. Now, more than ever, remember the Armenians. Remember the Cambodians, Rwandans, Jews. Never again means now.

red--thedragon

Remember the Armenians because it’s happening again and it can literally be stopped but not if people keep turning a blind eye, just as they did a century ago

niftybottle
pikestaff

"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

themythicalcodfish

To wit:

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switchelsweets

I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕

unashamedly-enthusiastic
muckmage

if everyone in the world was always so niceys i'd totally dox myself and see who comes to hang out. alas there is evil in the world yet

grayve-mistake

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@lepidopteri you cannot just leave this hidden in the tags

unashamedly-enthusiastic

Just banger after banger in the tags @listen-to-the-inner-walrus

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woodcider

I told a cell full of women in central booking where I lived and what time I’d be leaving for work if they wanted to fight me. The fact that I was in central booking ought to tell you what kind of day I was having.

phoenixonwheels
distractedbyshinyobjects

The vulture capitalist hedge fund that bought and subsequently destroyed Toys R Us now owns Overdrive/Libby.

They have already begun making it worse/less usable and they have a chokepoint monopoly on the delivery method of ebooks borrowed from public libraries in the US.

A fun thing about capitalism is that rich people can buy something a lot of people love and depend on, and then destroy it for fun and profit, and there’s not really anything we can do about it.

The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry
open.substack.com
distractedbyshinyobjects

And now they’re in closing negotiations to buy Simon and Schuster. I’m sure this will have no negative consequences for books at all.

arrows-for-pens

I couldn't get OP's link to work so here's a clean version: https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries

dduane

They've bought it. :/

Simon & Schuster sold to private equity firm KKR for $1.62bn
Paramount Global has sold the publisher after a federal judge blocked rival Penguin Random House from buying it
the Guardian
tropesarenotbad
blackfoxsposts

The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again

fangirltothefullest

Yes please be mad about it, genuinely- You used to be able to purchase a single disk to install it and use it forever after that initial purchase of one key. It sickens me to see all this stuff which used to be a one time purchase be shunted under a subscription now.

thephilosophersapprentice

THIS

ryanthedemiboy

“Why is pirating going back up?!”

This. This is why. People don’t mind paying a high price for software if it’s only the once, or every 4-5 years.

But having to pay a high price regularly? Especially in the cases where you lose access to your own work if you don’t?

That’s why people are pirating software.

fallintosanity

It’s possible to buy a non-subscription version of Word; Microsoft just intentionally makes it very difficult to find (and also expensive).

However, I know a guy who knows a guy website: MS Office Pro for $50. If the link starts going to a Page Not Found, just search the site; they usually have some form of this sale available. 

Worth noting: while $50 is still more money than $yo-ho-ho, that money is a great way to make VERY clear to Microsoft that we DO want one-time-purchase products, not subscriptions.

corbinite

Or just download libre office or one of the MANY open source word clones

acti-veg

OpenOffice is completely free, legal, virtually identical and all of their files are compatible with MS office. You can even save in MS office formats.

eloquenceandemphasis

I would recommend LibreOffice to OpenOffice– OpenOffice was last updated in 2011 (over 12 years ago from the time I made this)– and while it still works, there are newer and more supported forks of it out there.

LibreOffice is updated super regularly and has support on a ton of devices (I can use it on a Chromebook if I’m so inclined).

There’s also Apache OpenOffice, another fork of OpenOffice that gets updated, less often than LibreOffice, but still exists. However, it can’t export into any Microsoft format post 2007, which LibreOffice can.

I have a Microsoft subscription through my university so I generally use that these days, but when I’m on a computer that doesn’t support that, I use the LibreOffice suite.

possiblythreefourthspeahen
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dyskomike

It’s a War on Children.

It’s a War on Communities.

It’s a War on Working People.

It’s a War on Humanity.

It’s a War on YOU!

confessionsofatextmexhoarder

And a war on Mexicans and other Latina/o undocumented folx!

saberwriter

News article from Global:

U.S. sanitation company accused of employing kids to clean slaughterhouses - National | Globalnews.ca
Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. is accused of using child labour for overnight shifts in slaughterhouses and meatpacking facilities.
Global News
bobthebenevolentpirate

When people talk about human trafficking, they rarely talk about labor trafficking, but it is the MOST COMMON form of trafficking happening in the US.

somecunttookmyurl
wenchyfloozymoo

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dovewithscales

Some of Van Gogh’s best work was done during a period of his life that he spent in a hospital being treated for his mental health problems. I could be wrong but I think Starry Night was among those.

This is consistently the case. Creators tend to do their best work when they are in a healthy place and receiving proper treatment and not being self destructive in their efforts to cope. Go figure.

All our experiences, good and bad, inform what we create, but suffering is not the price of great art. Suffering is what prevents artists from completing great art.