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vala

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  • Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars,

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  • Yeah it is dawg. This is really completely new territory in almost every way.

  • Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars,

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  • Europeans are always like "we're bad too". When your country has probably done what like 1, maybe 2 large scale war crimes. Let us have this one /s

  • Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars,

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  • Likely less than 1% of boomers were hippies. They call it "counter culture" for a reason.

    What most people would consider "hippies" consisted of a pretty small group of people mostly living in California.

    A larger and much less genuine movement came later when John Lennon decided to appropriate hippy fashion. But that's all it was (fashion).

    People who truly held core values like "peace, free love and compassion" were absolutely not the majority but they were loud and colorful and now we remember that period of time as being overrun with hippies.

  • Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers

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  • It's really unlikely this will become an issue. Especially not one without an easy solution. Fedora is a very popular distro.

  • Cheeto devouring his nation

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  • Yeah I've heard few different intersting takes. I think most people agree the expression is mechanical like you said.

    This is just my impression. It's the lighting more than anything that makes me feel this way. The painting seems to be illuminating the devourer in a way that suggests he might be seeing his own act for the first time himself.

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  • Edit: wrong thread.

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  • Yeah, I've always seen Goya's version (if this is even Saturn at all) to be an inversion or some kind of commentary on the original theme. There are a few famous paintings of this scene from before Goya's time.

    If anything it feels to me that Saturn was in the darkness doing this act but now there is a bright and sudden light being shown on him and he is shocked or ashamed. Almost like he has possibly "snapped out" of the state he was just in and is now maybe seeing what he has done for the first time himself.

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  • Fair point. I guess it would be better to say that there isn't much to learn about in terms of hard facts.

  • Why did Trump appoint so many incompetent underqualified sycophants to government positions?

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  • This is probably the most reasonable non-consipiracy based explanation.

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  • Yeah he didn't even actually name this painting. We really don't know who the subjects are for sure.

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  • Part of this art is that there really are no "facts". It was painted on the wall of his home some time before his death but wasn't found before he died. He never gave it a name or said anything about it.

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  • Imo in this original painting Saturn is horrified either to be doing this at all, or to be seen doing it.

    So I don't think the poetry transfers to trump here.

    I know this is shit posts but we're also discussing high art so...

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  • It feels weird sleeping at the in-laws house as a married person lmao

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  • When the Wind Blows

    In this hand-drawn animated tale, elderly married couple Hilda (Peggy Ashcroft) and Jim Bloggs (John Mills) have their quiet, simple lives in the English countryside interrupted when they learn of an impending nuclear attack. Not completely understanding the gravity of their situation, Hilda and Jim react archaically and insufficiently after the attack -- and the film takes a dark turn as the radiation begins taking its toll on the unsuspecting couple.

  • What's the smallest laptop that runs Linux and is actually usable?

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  • GPD laptops run Linux well. Even their smallest laptop. So it's really up to you as far how small you want to go.

  • Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development

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  • The Luanti community generally does not see it as a "Minecraft killer" and doesn't want it to be that. But it's a cool project for sure.

  • The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'

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  • Idk if most software developers know this is what they should be doing and ignore it completely or if they just don't know.

    There are so, so many reasons to do this.

    But I don't think this really happens very often in the real world because it's not the shortest line from A to B.

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  • Imo most movies are kind of bad and I usually regret watching them.

    But I kinda feel like this is because I can easily think of other things I would have had more fun spending that time on. So it's a tangible loss to me.

    FWIW I keep watching movies because I have seen a few that makes the pursuit worth it.

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  • Having fun is always a valid reason to watch a movie. And making a fun movie is a valid pursuit.

    Buuuut at the same time movies can be more than just fun and some people really want that.

    Expecting a movie to be more than just fun can lead to let downs.

    Tl;Dr people take movies too seriously