6 has three 2’s which is a good amount but of a relatively smaller number, whereas 6 has two 3’s, which is fewer, but 3 is a bigger number, so it really comes to about the same. so youve got options
don’t talk to ME about gay yearning. in 2020 during lockdown i lived alone on a boat for three months. i went ashore once a day to work in a marine bio lab. we all had to access the lab at different times so we were never together & risking infection. i was alone all day every day, from my boat to the lab and back to my boat. one day a woman anchored her boat beside mine. we passed each other ashore just once at the harbor and she hit on me and invited me back to her boat. i told her i’d love nothing more but i could not risk exposure because of my weak immune system. she said it was a shame but that she understood. that night i was watering my vegetable garden i grew in 5 gallon buckets up on my roof and playing music on my speaker. “american pie” came on and she climbed up on her roof and shouted all the lyrics to every verse at me across the water and we danced together on our respective roofs. she raised anchor and moved on a few days later.
so yeah i know what it is to die a thousand deaths in an instant while your heart beats on.
It’s legit terrifying whenever I step out of my little bubble and realize the level of copyright cocksuckery that is normalized in online artist communities.
Legitimately so horrifying to realize that whenever you’re in any big online artist community on ANY platform, you’re almost definitely sharing that space with people who regard concepts such as “stealing a color palette” not as ridiculous ideas that should be laughed at but as legitimate and serious Art Crimes.
And it’s not like a “Breaking news: One Guy said something stupid online, society is doomed” type of situation. Like it’s not some kind of fringe position it’s something that a not insignificant number of people legitimately believe.
Imagine saying “that’s why musicians will sue each other over 5 seconds of a song where the rhythm is too directly similar” with the implication that musicians suing each other over 5 seconds of a song where the rhythm is too directly similar is a good, reasonable thing that’s desirable to emulate in the visual arts space and not legitimately one of the most straight-up demonic practices that have taken hold in the music industry.
If you think that’s a good thing that can be used as justification for acting the same way in the visual arts space or any other medium I as a musician kinda wanna bash your head in with a brick ngl.
I would love to hear these people’s take on famous painters teaching their students by having them make copies of the teacher’s paintings, and that a lot of those paintings that still exist are treated with almost as much respect and care as the originals.
Wow, you people do understand that any extension or legitimisation of “intellectual property” will be used by big corporations to sue anyone else they can out of existence, right? If Disney could sue over ‘stealing’ a color palette from any of their giant library of media properties, making art if you’re not a Disney employee would become illegal overnight.
It’s legit terrifying whenever I step out of my little bubble and realize the level of copyright cocksuckery that is normalized in online artist communities.
Legitimately so horrifying to realize that whenever you’re in any big online artist community on ANY platform, you’re almost definitely sharing that space with people who regard concepts such as “stealing a color palette” not as ridiculous ideas that should be laughed at but as legitimate and serious Art Crimes.
And it’s not like a “Breaking news: One Guy said something stupid online, society is doomed” type of situation. Like it’s not some kind of fringe position it’s something that a not insignificant number of people legitimately believe.
Imagine saying “that’s why musicians will sue each other over 5 seconds of a song where the rhythm is too directly similar” with the implication that musicians suing each other over 5 seconds of a song where the rhythm is too directly similar is a good, reasonable thing that’s desirable to emulate in the visual arts space and not legitimately one of the most straight-up demonic practices that have taken hold in the music industry.
If you think that’s a good thing that can be used as justification for acting the same way in the visual arts space or any other medium I as a musician kinda wanna bash your head in with a brick ngl.
I would love to hear these people’s take on famous painters teaching their students by having them make copies of the teacher’s paintings, and that a lot of those paintings that still exist are treated with almost as much respect and care as the originals.
When I was a kid I desperately desperately wanted there to be a Metroid movie but I was confident that it should be just two hours of watching Samus navigate a planet full of creatures with no dialog. As I got older I thought I learned better, that nobody but me would want that, but now I’m even older and people will watch ten hour video game longplays with no narration. I was right the first time. They should have me direct it. Give me 200 million dollars and I’ll give you two hours of a tall blonde woman in power armor silently running around caverns full of bugs. No other speaking characters and no CG, wet latex aliens only.
Having a really long-term hyperfixation that has since faded is terrifying yes but it’s also so embarrassing. Hi I used to think about Scrimblo Splungus 25/7. Yeah, for 2 years straight. Nah, I don’t think about them anymore except for with a vague sense of melancholy as I recall how they used to make me feel. Anyways this new one, Blimpkins McGee? I’m gonna think about them forever and the cycle will NOT repeat in 2 years. Trust me guys.
person who goes back in time to try and prevent lincoln’s assassination but they get so enraptured by the play that he’s watching that they forget and he gets shot anyways
This is a minor thing but it is very annoying to me when people replace every instance of “th” with þ, while ignoring the existence of ð. Like those indicate very different sounds I’m sorry you are not really saying “þat, þis, þose” unless you are hosing me down with saliva
Now, writing like ðis might be confusing, but at ðe very least ðis actually follows what English sounds like. I only ask for consistency. “ðis þeremin.” “ðat þursday.” “ðis is ðe þanks I get?”
This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…
Listen, this is serious.
Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!
It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.
Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.
So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?
Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.
Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.
Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid
Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.
Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.
So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.
if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge
Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid
Fun fact: by just using imaginary numbers, some Evil Math, and 101 rotating vectors You Can Create a shitty approximation of a fish.
Alrighty since people are curious:
link to desmos graph. I did not include an explanation for how any of it works. good luck.
link to video explaining Fourier series. Lots of people have already added this which is cool and great. This was my first introduction to Fourier series and it’s extremely helpful and informative.
Yes, you saw what you saw. Yes, he did what you thought he did. Yes, they aired that with their whole chest.
The next thing they will do is deny that it happened. (you saw wrong, it wasn’t what you thought it was, etc) After that they will try to downplay it (it was a joke, he didn’t mean it like that, it’s a “roman salute,” etc) They will try to claim it was the work of AI. (its a deep fake, it’s a smear campaign, it’s hate speech, etc) They will do everything they can to sweep it aside. Then they will try to bury it. Then they will distract you with meaningless bullshit.
Do not fall for it. Do not believe it. Do not be gaslit.
You saw what you saw. He did what he did. And we need to make sure that we do not forget.
[ID: a screenshot of a comic speech bubble. The black text in it reads “No matter how open-minded, socially conscious, anti-racist I think I am, I still have old learned hidden biases that I need to examine. It is my responsibility to check myself daily for my stereotypes, prejudices and, ultimately, discrimination.”/ID end]
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antiracism is a constant process. i was raised in a racist village and it’s not easy to get rid of it. i moved away over 10 years ago but those ideas are still haunting me.
also keep in mind that shame + guilt are not conducive to growing as a person. when it comes to “checking yourself” it should be a non-judgemental process. it’s not about flagellating yourself for every bad thought or trying to purify your mind of all corruption. it’s only when acknowledging your own racist thoughts doesn’t fill you with dread that you can really progress past the white guilt of it all.
radical self-acceptance & genuine self-critique are not opposites. they need each other. do not let obsessive-compulsive behaviors colonize your desire to grow as a person.
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