You cut immediately to the heart of the matter.

It is deeply depressing to me that somebody looked at that collage of a bunch of completely normal people doing a completely normal thing and felt compelled to comment know it, lol

Not a great sign for the intellectual future of our culture that so many people see a dude reading a book and are like "he must be doing some kind of performance, there is no other possible explanation for that behaviour"

We are gonna find beauty everywhere....even in the trash and we are going to be extra about it.

Thank you! But here's one where my mom would agree that it's pretty, lol.

It is a shame. I think there was some issues with finding a venue or something? No idea if they're planning to come back.

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I can't believe I never noticed this before but it feels intentional, presuming that parable would have been familiar to a Romanian in the 50s, which I have no idea how likely that is one way or another.

Like, instead of being a story about someone being alarmist for no good reason, it's about living in a world where you see the wolf plain as day, yell "wolf!" at the top of your lungs, and then the townsfolk just stand around uselessly debating whether or not wolves exist.

It's all so frustratingly prudish, lol. Like I get just having a zero nudity policy, but parsing shit like "genitals are okay but not when they're engorged or being used for their intended purpose" just feels weird to me, lol.