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That would probably be China then. And really should be the US, rather then dumping that money into the military industrial complex.
yeah i agree. natick has gotten a little out of hand
did they never consider the environmental impacts of nine cheesecake factories in the same square mile!?
I am, however, now capable of doing 3 20-second plank sessions. I tremble while i do it, but i do it anyway.
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I'm talking specifically about grants and fellowships to artists, in the context of the NEA.
I'm not talking about street festivals or museums or commissioning works for public spaces.
Right
but Cambodia doesn't really have any good place to put a dam reservoir
Its natural lakes are already huge and the problem rivers and flood areas are just too flat
The environmental impact of dams is stopping the replenishing of soil at the mouth of the river and screwing up the biodiversity in the river. Also they magnify problems like fertilizer runoff or acidity issues.
And the floods don't replenish the soil nutrients because they don't happen any more. That's sort of a problem too.
I still disagree with you then!
Lets fite
Choos your weapons
Wait are you saying no to grants and yes commissioning public works?
Separating out the President Obama part of this -- which is pretty dumb and I feel like that company is relying exactly as heavily on batshit insane right-wingers as it is on the troll reaction from outraged Everyone Else...
How is this actually different from what we do with video-games? Realistic combat -- sometimes even blood spatters -- are an actual selling point for FPS titles and other violent games. What makes us sane and them crazy?
I hope Gooby isn;t being serious here, because if so he is basically saying that Kinkade is the pinnacle of good art.
Shit like Jackson Pollock, Picasso, Dali and other irrational or surreal art is just as important a method of expression as hyper-realism.
Never trust a race that can only take the Illusionist specialization for Wizards.
Generally, the debate tends to split into a couple of fairly poorly defined positions: "There need to be consequences to being unemployed, or else nobody would work", which is not, in and of itself, unreasonable. It gets sticky when it is primarily voiced by those that consider poverty and/or unemployment to be the result of moral failings.
On the other hand, there are those that recoil in horror from anything that would impinge upon the personal autonomy of those using the services.
I don't think anyone's really managed to propose a satisfactory compromise. Not least of which because there are a surprising number of people that won't accept any system that isn't explicitly punitive in some way.
imo
Use of live ammo.
THERE IS ONLY ONE YOU JERK. It's right next to a PF Changs and the Macaroni Grill.
(I am moving for real this summer, eyeing Somerville)
Well it should be. Because it simply doesn't mean that, or at least ONLY that outside of Bill O'Reilly's fever dreams.
It also includes things like copyright and fostering programs in schools and museums and festivals and blah blah blah
It isn't just sending a check to a starving artist. In fact it rarely, if ever, is.
What message did you get?
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I did, yes
YES. What the fuck is this.
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I'm extraordinarily meh on government grants and fellowships to artists.
I don't support the conservative agenda item of abolishing the NEA at this time because such grants and fellowships are literally the only way some people can avoid dying like Blind Willie Johnson.
But it was unjust for Johnson to die broke and homeless because it is unjust for anyone to die broke and homeless; that Johnson was a great jazz musician made that injustice more palpable.
Indeed. Punitive measures and highly restrictive rules seem to go hand in hand when it comes to welfare reform.
Feed trolls illegal kings forest is
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like i said; i don't really know anything about cambodia besides the fact that tons of people live there and they flood every year
also they use fermented fish a lot as a seasoning and it smells like a mixture of vomit and low tide.
Which is why I clarified.
This conversation started when somebody (don't remember who, now) brought up the NEA.
somerville is tits. i'll keep an ear out
are you looking to rent or buy? any neighborhoods you have in mind?
So.
Good show, chaps.
Someone post a fucking kitten or a puppy or something.
arch you get me
I think these positions are not directly comparable. If we work from the same idea that yes, it is unjust for anyone to die broke and homeless, and we somehow had a strong safety net for all
I would still want the NEA (or similar) to exist, just like how a safety net for people wouldn't mean I want to get rid of the NSF
It takes money to make art, beyond just "I hope I can eat today"
That is the way to go in what seems like very Lorc-like behaviour.
Also, hi [chat]! Day 1 of me being da boss is complete. For me.
And on the topic of funding the arts, as a culinary artist ...
Don't encourage him.
Is that a bridge too far? Is the 'virtual reality' versus 'real reality' part what makes one person perfectly capable of living a normal Sane life and the other incapable of keeping his homicidal tendencies in check?
I've never been but I hear it's the greatest. I should go see Pacific Rim there.