Sincere belief in any god is fundamentally just as delusional as believing in faeries, flat earth, or that you've been abducted by aliens.

Whenever generative AI (or whatever, could be the climate driven death of slop) has completely replaced the need to use actual live child actors we’ll look back at Hollywoods use of child actors as straight up barbarism and child exploitation of the worst kind.

As always, without the economic incentive to do the barbarous thing we’ll suddenly turn around and exclaim, “how could humans have done that for so long” completely oblivious to whatever horror is going on next to us at that time.

Similar example, child chimney sweeps. Small enough to get into those numerous chimneys, someone has to after all, and they’re cheap! (Paid less than adults to do a job adults can’t do, sounds familiar…) They were phased out, not by safety concerns for the kids, but simply because they weren’t needed anymore as technology advanced. In modern times we have the luxury to look back and think we’re so much better than that now, but we aren’t. Not even close.

“Enlightenment” is a real physical human possibility (but not necessarily how religious people describe it) that is compatible with dialectical materialism.

I liked season 2 of true detective. And i loved Dark Souls 2 (at least the Scholar of the First Sin version)

China is useless and it seems like they would love to return how they were with USA before Trump.

Ansel Adams' photos are glorified tech demos of the zone system. They have little artistic merit on their own. Adams should have stayed in the darkroom.

Sometimes it takes just as much effort to be kind as to be cruel.

Like, some video game, public chat, someone says like "these poison monkeys are so fast. They keep killing me".

Someone replies "skill issue".

Like ok big lol I understood that reference, but also like... Why? Now the monkey victim feels mocked. Could just as easily said "I hear you bro. Those monkeys are jerks".

Could also just say nothing.

I feel like sometimes too many people are stuck acting like insecure 14 year olds.

Music is getting worse and anyone with a certain degree of historical knowledge would agree with me

Straight marriage is bourgois