It puts me in mind of squares of cornfields, which are in and of themselves a gross imposition of human industry upon the natural world. Though us contemporary humans look at them and think how picturesque, how wonderfully alive and fertile such a scene looks.
As per my previous thrown brick.
Microsoft still pretending Linux doesn’t exist I see.
The lack of pain-empathy in healthcare is mind-blowing. I’m a white man in an excellent position to be listened to, but when I had appendicitis last year getting people to understand that no, I am in crippling pain and I think it’s urgent was far to much hassle for someone in crippling pain. I can’t imagine what it’s like for women.
I can understand folk getting jaded eventually but I often get the feeling that many people start out not caring.
‘vampire smut’ is almost, but not quite redundant.
You probably don’t want to know the details of any science done before… What? the 90’s?
For honour, for the hive, for things ordinary humans can not understand.
The real sad thing is after stabbing their opponent the winning beekeeper dies anyway.
It’s worse than that. Some folks actually reject the idea that those poorer than them should have nice things, or even OK things. This is why there are voucher programs, why so much social housing (when it was built) are ugly, plain boxes showcasing the worst of brutalism.
To add some evidence (from a basic internet search, skimmed but not read in detail):
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5510957/
My point on art is that it can create an experience when perceived, rather than requiring you go there. If you listen to music, it will move you or it won’t, but you can’t choose (though you can lie). You can plug your ears but I don’t think you can sit there and just choose to feel nothing.
At the risk of getting too mystic, creativity is the ability to explore the inner world, communication is the ability to path and map that world. Art is the ability to push someone into that world, potentially forcefully and against their will. All of this is quite separate from ‘value’ or ‘worth’.
That said, capital is willing to pay for this because it has no connection to the inner world (interesting considering how it spawns some of the most foul and evil egregors out there.) They pay for solutions where necessary, but mostly they want it to be decoration within their egregors, defined only in those terms. You see this whenever anything gets committeed or focus-grouped out of their art-as-product.
Limits are imposed by culture and language, but those can be broken through, it’s just hard. But the inner world is infinite and contains all possibilities there to be found and pathed.
It’s going to depend a lot on the design of the pen. If it has interchangable nibs then yeah, should be able to just get a new feed.
If that isn’t an option you might be able to get some milage out of super glue just make sure to not over-apply and to use tweezers or pliers so as to not get finger grease up in there. If you do that you will probably want to stick to water-based inks.
Probably because we don’t have any democracies, by that definition anyway.
[Edit] to add, I don’t think there is much desire for democracy either.
Authority doesn’t exist. He does likely have the power however.
Died quicker too.
Just follow Baldrick’s recipe.
See the problem with this is that even if I write code with this font, I can’t force people to read it in this font.
I suppose if they killed it to make the lamp. If it was already done using the body though?
I mean it’s not great taxidermy but I’m not sure it’s bad. It’s not even a case that I question who would want it. I know several people who would love to receive it as a gift.
Perhaps the only mistake is that the eyes don’t light up.
Just tell everyone you use arch, even if you don’t.