HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]

Today I learned of the Pyongyang Metro. Their trains are really cute!

the biggest difference is that hamas isn’t threatening to destroy the schools and hospitals that israel is bombing

hm, i wonder why there’s so many union jacks here?

great suggestion Memezar!

I’ve invited you to learn literally anything about this subject before commenting further. Not much else I can do you help you.

“Freedom of the press” is a joke. I can see what our “free press” is doing with the butchery of Gaza. At a certain point you have to accept that your understanding of the facts is not, and has never been unmediated.

Here is a good starting point if you want to understand the ways this has happened and more critically evaluate it.

I sleep fine. Sometimes I jerk off first.

Part of developing mental maturity is coming to understand that other people might genuinely believe in a differing set of facts from you. And my facts are based on evidence.

like, “such and such country is committing genocide and covering it up!” is a very serious claim! fortunately, it is also very incredible. it’s improbable that mass murder of a population can go almost totally unnoticed except for reports and evidence from sources that are demonstrably untrustworthy. Just knowing who Adrian Zenz is should be making you suspicious unless you’ve completely disabled your bullshit detectors.

I’m a leftist who isn’t a tankie. I don’t much care about China and I think the struggle for liberation can only be fought where we are at. I don’t uncritically accept the propaganda and the worldview of the state I seek to destroy at face value. Thus I do not accept claims about “genocide” committed by the US’ main rival without good evidence. Having principles and critical faculties are important to my politics. What about you? What makes you, someone who identifies liberals as “center-left,” significantly different from them? Your conditional support for Palestinian liberation?

Hm, so you’re saying that every political faction “denies genocide and defends aggressive warmongering”? Could it perhaps be that every faction gets accused at one point or another of genocide and aggressive warmongering, and it’s your responsibility as a political person to use your brain to figure out who is lying?

israelian

I choose to believe that this is from an alternate future where AIWA was more successful and bought the Walkman brand from Sony.

I don’t know if it’s not allowed, but it’s not good. Nothing here looks like anything. Even ignoring the meaningless labelling, if a human made this, I would wonder if that human had any brain at all. Why the tube? What is that window for? What is that spectrogram (??) strip. Why is there a camera lens? I do think it’s interesting that we have the technology to collate and mush up all these design elements together, but I believe that clarity and economy are both important elements of good industrial design, and AI is capable of neither.

Actual source is Italdesign, the Italian company that designed this concept car for VW. It was built on the Golf Syncro, which was the first Golf with four wheel drive. Here is a good video explaining Italdesign’s automotive history leading up to the Orbit.

are there any JS fans who argue that it’s elegant? i thought the supposed advantage was that it’s flexible and universal.

i’m sorry that’s fucked

why in the 90s? all these products still exist except crank windows.

you’re mad… have you any idea what you’ve done??

i mean that’s literally it. None of this shit is genuinely controversial, it’s just the ambient neurosis of the internet that someone out there wants you crucified for your banal identity-forming habits.

they put it in the washing machine