This critique of CalArts style is 10+ years old and isn’t any more valid or insightful than it was back then.

Bashing Corporate Memphis… Now there’s a 10+ year old take that I can still get behind.

To be fair ours in the US mostly do this, too.

How do Europeans react to pickpockets?

I stopped trying to get work done. I chill on sites like Lemmy between meetings. My micromanagers don’t notice because they’re all in meetings. I’m not worried about not looking busy. Everyone else is too busy trying to look busy to notice that I don’t look busy.

Thank you comrade <3

The US government causes so much suffering across the world. The ability of the world to still distinguish between estadounidense and our institutions is cherished.

Do that many people really never eat a cookie without milk? I eat milkless cookies all the time.

“Not particularly by us” OK then not particularly by anything by that logic, as we’re very much included in the wide range of animals who’s dietary needs have conditioned the evolution of fruit-based seed dispersal. Fact of the matter is we’ve been eating and pooping out seeds for the entire existence of our species and likely the entire existence of our mammalian lineage. We did evolve to eat fruit and they did evolve to be eaten by us.

We evolved to benefit from our own milk, too. Though only for the first year or so of life.

Bruh why are you dragging cookies into this, you don’t need milk to enjoy cookies.

Actually lots of the plant parts we eat did evolve being eaten as part of the survival plan. Fruits disperse seeds and keep us less interested in eating more vital parts of the plant.

It’s actually really easy, you put them in a blender with water and then squeeze them in a cheesecloth so the proteins come out. And you can make crackers with the dried leftovers.

But oat milk > almond milk and for that you do unfortunately have to milk thousands of tiny little oat titties.

Abundance is literally just suggesting that we need to capitalism harder to fix capitalism.

Doing capitalism harder won’t fix the externalities of capitalism. You rent isn’t 50% of you income simply because developers feel disincentivized to build residential.

No but seriously he just announced that he’ll be running in the general as an independent. This meme is just straight-up analogy now.

Generational labels are invented and maintained by marketing consultants so that they can sell demographic advertising services to corporations.

Some people are tech savvy at a young age. And smart. Never discount the kids.

I think it’s shorthand for the raw food / paleo diets that a lot of these types are popularly associated with.

Yes, I do remember ten years ago.

Europeans when they discover that no, most Americans really do not own a kettle rule.

I don’t think universally. Similar to Rowling, his stuff is beloved and can certainly still be enjoyed but contains some totally wack bits. Even as a kid I picked up on how mean-spirited his writing was. But I think that’s also what makes it interesting to some people, it’s got this macabe Grimm’s quality to it.

Not everyone’s experience mirrors mine? 🤷

My 2c tho, the Harry Potter novels legitimately suck. This has been my opinion of them since I was in 8th grade when the first one came out. At the time I described Sorcerer’s / Philosopher’s Stone as a failed attempt at ripping off Roald Dahl (British author who wrote mean-spirited children’s books that stereotyped characters with funny-sounding names based on their physical descriptions). I was frequently urged to and attempted to give the books a second chance, never got more than 20 pages back into any of them before I put them down in exasperation because to me they always felt very petty and derivative. I was not very surprised when JK started to peel off her mask to the public.