That’s a fair question.

The arts are seen as a luxury and a frippery. They are also seen as elitist.

If you want to defund public services and remain popular, the playbook is to remove the arts first. That way you are demonstrating the order of needs.

That’s not cheese, that’s yellow shrink wrap

Related to another popular post right now…so what was Bruce Dickinson’s ancestor?

It’s 1994. The Bosnian-Serbian conflict is still raging. Some cool dude from the UN peace keepers thinks it would be good to have a concert.

He contacts Bruce Dickinson and says, “wanna play a much needed gig in a warzone?”

Bruce says, “yes”.

Here’s the documentary.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6481232/

You can’t defund social welfare programmes without defunding the arts first. To defund healthcare you have to defund the arts. To defund schools, you first have to defund the arts.

You know where this is going.

The arts are the canary and it is lying dead at the bottom of the cage.

Adore the darktable gang.

Cretins? Not sure that’s a word you want to use, pal, it’s a pretty bad slur.

Couldn’t let it be could you?

And opposing those actions is not antisemitic.

We take those two things together as truth and we are getting somewhere.

Seconded on round keys.

I blame cooking blogs for introducing this bloat.

“First let me tell you a little about my relationshio with cinnamon… It all started 40 years ago whilst I was…”

Yes totally, but counter to that there are still an awful lot of places where internet is borderline dialup and access to information is still primarily text based. Furthermore, translating text under these conditions is considerably easy than translating audio.

Investing in education on a global level, as opposed to a US level is a question of access and infrastructure.

This was the video that caused me to post:

https://youtu.be/fBqOSENDakY?si=MWNDvT4OIkWsGW6J

I’m gen-x and I am at the point where I don’t know if I say anything unironically any more.

(But you are spot on, slang is there, always, and it mutates as it is needed, but it isnt generational so much as sociopolitical and regional.)

Nah, its for “grizzled tanman”. You oldies just don’t get it.

That hair though.

C’mon man, it’s time to get a coverage appropriate cut or just shave it altogether.

He looks like a boiled sweet that’s been dropped on the carpet.

I once made a music video for Sony Universal.

They paid me £4k.

They liked it a lot and asked if I would do another. I asked if the fee was the same and they said I’d be doing it for exposure.

I told them I’m capable of exposing myself.

I stuck it to them.

I’m still poor, but at least I’m not working for it.

All my heart still belongs to the canon HV20 forum. It taught me how to film, it taught me how to chat to people in an online community.

It was never about a camcorder. It was about connection.

Plus, you could search for stuff on google and the forum results would pop up. Good look with discord doing that.

Yup, needs are approx 115% of my budget, but thanks for insinuating it is me that’s being shit with maths.

(And in before the “live within your means” crowd… I was doing until my landlord doubled my rent and they started having to put anti-theft devices on packs of butter).

Hi, I’m Issac Newton, you might remember me from… The motions.