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  • In retrospect, at least the corny Budweiser ad was an ad for an actual thing that physically exists. Every other super bowl ad was for AI, or gambling, or insurance, or some kind of financialized product, or a tech product. A beer ad saying "our beer company is america drink beer because look at this cowboy horse with eagle" was a breath of fresh air.

  • You're learning and you're growing. You should feel good about that.

  • I think "be normal" is basically a way of saying "in order to be a successful leftist, you need to be able to function well in groups and communities, and you need to be able to relate well to the average person." Like, look at this story about Trotsky- this is why Stalin won out over Trotsky, because he was more "normal." You can't imagine Mao or Castro acting towards regular people like Trotsky. Trotsky was weird. Don't act like that.

  • I was talking about the podcast. Obviously a subreddit is going to be full of judgmental weirdos.

  • Yeah so am I, but I don't think that's the problem with them

    Like to take one example, being a vegan in the US makes me "not normal." It's a fringe movement that maybe ~1% of the population follows and that puts me at odds with how the entire rest of my society thinks about the ethics of our relationships with animals. It's weird by any meaningful definition, but it's also a part of myself I consider non-negotiable.

    That's not what they mean by "normal" and "not normal." They aren't talking about being vegan. They're talking about your ability to get along with other people and not being extremely off-putting.

  • I...think I kind of understand what they're getting at? But I think they have maybe a halfway-decent point mixed with some outright bad assumptions and they're phrasing it in a really derogatory way. Like, I think the main assumption is that gay furries are furries because it's a mentally "safe" way to explore their own homosexuality, and they should be helped to accept their sexuality without the need of that medium, and, like, maybe that's true for SOME gay furries but probably not most of them.

    and the "be normal" mantra, the pod gives me definite social conservative vibes.

    "Be normal" is actually very good advice for a lot of leftists. Social conservatives and conservatives in general are NOT normal at all- they are in fact extremely weird.

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  • Figure skating is pretty

  • Tough loss but it's been an incredible season

    And honestly I'm happy for Sam Darnold

  • Up there with his stance on tipping:

    You have to imagine his fall from grace was as much about the other Bolsheviks thinking "Christ, I hate this fucking asshole" as much as his unrealistic policies.

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    big game today

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    John Falter - Sunday Gardening (1961)

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    Maggie Vandewalle - Tantalizing

  • Also, military collaboration with the major research and learning institutions like Harvard has been critical for the US maintaining its technological edge

  • If you watch the videos (though I understand if you don't want to watch clickbait), the charge the channel makes is that many of these plants are effectively already domesticated, or can be bred for further domestication, but because their specific attributes make them unsuitable for for-profit agricultural production, they are effectively suppressed.

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    Can someone who knows more about plants and agriculture than me tell me if the Youtube channel NatureLostVault is completely full of shit or not?

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    Jennifer Hannaford - Endless Summer (2022)

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    Detroit Free Press, Michigan, June 30, 1940

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    Darwyn Cooke - Parker Art

  • Diversity of thought on the right

  • She was terrific! She adapted to the Sam Raimi style perfectly, and in a few scenes strongly reminded me of Bruce Campbell in the Evil Dead movies. Dylan O'Brien was excellent too.

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    Harvey Kurtzman - Cover Art for Mad #4 (April-May, 1953)

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    Bisexual Lighting Kirk

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    René Magritte - Time Transfixed (La Durée poignardée) (1938)

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    Andrew Wyeth - Groundhog Day

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    Bruce Timm - Daredevil Art