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2·7 months agoThe TARDIS, outside AND inside, even though its bigger on the inside…
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Have you considered www.OpenClipArt.org ?
XOR, you can simply learn actual-drawing, which isn’t difficult, it does require a kind of honesty/patience & the actually right instruction…
The book you’d need is “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive Edition”, by Betty Edwards.
These drawing-pairs are from her 5-DAYS killer-class.
https://www.drawright.com/before-after
Unless you’re autistic, like me, 5 days is possible.
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Upholstery-soot ( the fire-retardent version of polyester, etc ), is evil smog/fumes.
If your food was sealed-away from the smog/fumes, then it should be fine.
I’m saying that after learning 1st-hand how evil upholstery-smoke is.
( guy down the hall fell asleep with a cigarette )
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81·7 months agoThe right to NONassociation should always outrank the right to association.
Molesters may claim the right to closely-associate, but the right-to-be-not-molested should outrank their association-right.
Nonassociation needs to be a fundamental right.
In multiple contexts.
Abusees who want no-contact to have teeth,
molester-survivors,
etc.
Including identity-molestation/theft, and other abuses of one’s personal information.
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473·7 months agoEXPECT legislative-shenanigans, people…
EITHER they’ll extend copyright again,
XOR they’ll just “conveniently” have copyright apply in court, even-though it doesn’t apply on-paper.
Never believe a career-criminal, or Dark Triad entity, has changed, unless you see robust, consistent, years-long, actual, objective proof of that change having-happened.
Extraordinary-claims require extraordinary backing/evidence.
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Duh.
how could that be surprising??
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Once Trump’s coronation happens, and he guts NATO, backing Russia instead,
China is going to be rampaging Asia, creating its “Chinese Century” or “Chinese Dominion” empire.
He’s a fool if he believes that Vietnam is going to be exempt from that.
Modi’s India is relying on Russia, China’s economic-vassal-state to help it against China.
That too is idiocy.
I wish I’d known, decades ago, that no matter how idiot-proof a governance is, Nature can evolve better idiocy.
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I have a very special 6-sided die that I roll, to tell me if I’d enjoy it …
… it says “No” on all 6 sides.
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I’m an old autistic.
Having someone else’s pre-digested meaning forcing itself into me is … emotionally-violent abuse.
PS: if you want to REALLY UNDERSTAND Story, WAAAY more awesomely than the shit-quality “education” we all had, pushed…
Please, Please, PLEASE invest in John Truby’s “Anatomy of Genres” & “Anatomy of Story” books.
Nothing else in all the writing literature comes even close to the psychology & writing-competence he offers in those 2 books.
I’ve some minor disagreements with him ( his concept of “village” is a Wild West village, mine is a Tribal Village of the 0.5-2 millions of years before our recent agriculture invention ), but there is simply sooo much wealth of understanding in his books, you can’t imagine…
Not only that, but your understanding of how movies work skyrockets, having read 'em, too!
Just as, in movies, there was Before Star Wars, and After Star Wars,
and in gaming, there was Before Alyx, and After Alyx,
in Story, there is Before Truby’s Books, and After Truby’s Books.
( for presentations, hit Weissman’s “Presenting to Win”,
for editing, Coyne’s “The Story Grid”,
for building muscle in writing, Josip Novakovich has books of exercises to do… )
Beauty, eh?
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IF she was justified in doing it,
THEN I’ve no problem with it.
A bit of honesty in mass-media would be refreshing, you know??
: )
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Illegal Anti-Competitive / Cartel behaviour, yes??
Apple, you are only exempt-from-law UNTIL the regulators decide to do their jobs honestly.
THEN, you’re hosed.
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That, ITSELF, speaks of the murder-regimes that are enforcing fear of consequences of accountability-speech.
If God is real, and it is prone to purifying populations, then I wouldn’t want to be part of any regime enforcing demon-law, ANTI-accountability-for-abuse, in God’s face…
That is Russian Roulette, from the religious perspective, with a grenade,
and it is being done by the religious?
shaking head
Apparently intellectual integrity is mutually-exclusive with religion?
Or the specific intelligence of seeing what inevitable consequences means?
Baffling.
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There is a CATEGORY difference, between:
- Not supporting Hamas
vs
- Supporting what UN officials have openly called genocide.
I would have expected Germany to not require people to support genocide??
??
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And …
… should be considered every-bit as much of a crime as home-invasion is.
Only permanent, because internet.
Nobody’s got spine, anymore, though…
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IF EU doesn’t have a removal-from-EU mechanism,
they are fools.
Putin’s ally is going to do ALL the harm he can to EU’s survival.
Grow The Fuck Up, EU-gov’t.
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THEN their claim that they offer wages that…
…WITH TIPPING…
meet the min-wage laws,
no longer has any bearing.
Sue them to hell.
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I’d LOVE to see OpenAI’s lawyers’ reaction to that…
Is liability a thing?
"But, your honor, it wasn’t ME who wrote the ransomware, I only deployed it!
It was ChatGPT who wrote it!"
Yeesh.
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You eventually see different-dimensions of attractiveness…
Young women’s simple vitality is like a breath of fresh-air in the eyes, after living in the smoggy downtown, – but … their minds are too blank.
Sometimes you see gorgeous determination…
Sometimes you see profound depth, pulling at one’s soul…
Dwelling deeply in both yoga & meditation can do that, as I discovered a few years ago…
( I hadn’t known it’d be visible until seeing it! : )
Sometimes you see delightfully ferrocious multiple-intelligences in a woman…
but our world is so systematic about stomping-out girls’ & womens’ LivingValidity, LivingWorth, LivingPotential, & LivingOpportunity, that it’s too horribly common to see only 1 dimension of pulling-one’s-Eternity-to-them, for me, anyways…
I’m committed to ripping my Soul/CellOfGod from the endless-churn-of-OceanOfPhenomena/UniversesStream.
Solitude, Dwelling Within: war against my unconscious-ignorance.
Forever.
Someday one of the someones/personalities/lives that this-Soul has, will get the final breakthrough…
Someday, UniverseContainment will be broken, for this Soul/continuum.
Enlightenment can happen: the basic foundation-realizations exist, so therefore the rest of the structure, already-described long ago, must also exist.
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That’s a VIRUS.
Duh…
( yes, I know they are implementation-orthogonal, but it’s the same concept. )
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Peculiar…
I don’t understand why they’d do that.
Distraction, perhaps??
An anomaly.
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Seriously, though, Betty Edwards’ “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive Edition”, would be a major augmentation of your exploring, and faces are what most people are wired-for best.
( I’m face-blind: I didn’t know ANYONE could identify another person by their face, until I was in my 30’s or 40’s, & read about that.
I’ve always used context+way-of-moving+how-the-sound+clothing+etc to figure it out )
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