jankwashere

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dude what. who smokes or not doesn’t change the fact that it’s harmful lmao. i used to smoke too! and frankly with all the shit going on i’ve considered going back. like it’s 100% your choice to smoke where it doesn’t bother anyone but yes it’s bad for you and it’s bad to self-medicate mental illnesses with it. it’s an argument for better health support in the states, not smoke.

I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping

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me at work the moment the caffeine-induced manic pixie state wears off

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this is some supreme hating but i would have to agree

I wanna say from very bottom of my heart that I deeply truly rabidly despise Taylor Swift and the glamorous black hole of immorality, gracelessness and lack of integrity she represents. I truly hate that I have to witness her 2-chord mediocre stream of consciousness high school ballads win the highest accolades in music. I hate how there's not a single discourse - from sports to fucking queer theory - that's free of her. I hate her white feminism, how she's never stood for a single thing that didn't ensure her wealth. I hate how she's credited and praised for things marginalised artists did before her. I hate how she latches onto new artists so they serve HER fame, like remoras to a shark. I hate her phony humble beginnings narrative that people parrot without acknowledging she's a nepo baby. I hate what she did to olivia rodrigo and how no one talks about it. I hate the waste her concerts, lifestyle, and merch create and that a young girl died from heat illness at her concert because the swift team prioritises exclusivity and profit over safety. I hate how she and her fandom popularised the idea that critiquing a woman = misogyny. I hate how she's in her mid 30s and still writes songs like she's a teenager and that songs written by a woman in her 30s acting like a teenager are inescapable. I hate she deliberately re-releases songs and records so other artists can't chart. I hate how she regularly and openly associates with bigoted people but somehow is always given the benefit of the doubt. Most of all I hate how she does and continues to do all of this and so much more and her fans will always have a, "but!" always have an, "anyway!". she's openly and uncritically supporting a presidential candidate who's administration is enacting genocide, but because she made a joke with her cats, we're meant to be like, "yay!" I truly despise Taylor Swift and the black hole of neoliberal white feminist mediocrity she is in popular culture.

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sis thought she was voting for geralt of rivia

Booktok should die and I’m serious

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i think art is about the journey you took to get to the end product and what decisions you actively made. maybe you could do that with artificial intelligence but i unfortunately mostly see it used by grifters and people that want an easy content -> patreon money pipeline. if you are going to try to make ai art in earnest that sorta stigma will always be there if you ask me (or at least until the grifters jump on the next trend). i think it’s less about ai and more just “what counts as art?” which is ultimately up to you - the beholder. like i don’t see a lot of art in duct taping a banana to the wall but some people do i guess.

i dont think its necessarily ableist to hate AI art, but if you then qualify that by arguing that art derives its meaning from the effort and skill that went into it then you're being kinda ableist

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i am looking at how gen z is acting in the wake of the election right now and i think it’s safe to say the microplastics have already started scrambling our brains. thanks for taking the heat for irreparable brain damage boomers, now it’s our turn

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…america what did you just do

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They’ll never do a Hitman level set in a Furry Convention because gamers would absolutely ruin it but imagine. like the target isn’t a furry he just owns a hotel that happens to have one every year but you can disguise yourself in a fursuit and some guy will ask you “what species is your sona” and 47 would be like “a wolf. i always felt a connection with…hunters.” and then diana would be like “let’s see if you can sniff out some information, furrty-seven” and then he comes to my house and kills me for writing this

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you type like you are 26.5 years old

Fuck. Those fuckers at the store sold me No Purpose Flour again. What the fuck do I do with this

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also evangelion the original series is explicitly anti-capitalist if you ask me. i don’t get how people just see cool robots and waifus when they went to great lengths to show how awful the robots and weird lusty obsessions are. did they get up to take a piss during the “it feels really good” scene or the scene where it’s revealed — SPOILER AHEAD —

nerv literally tortures beings 100x more sentient than they are. like i think evangelion is about taking the dreams of being a savior of humanity for a morally just institution and ripping them to shreds. like nerv is the lockheed martin of that universe mate

ok so confession time i’ve only seen up to episode 21 of evangelion. yeah no i adore the series and how fucking real it is with portraying the sheer amount of emotional acumen it takes to live with mental illness and how unsustainable ignoring one’s mental health and own state of being can be. but yeah the series leaves me feeling awful to the point where i feel at risk of self-harming. honestly interacting with eva in any capacity beyond aesthetics leaves me in a worse state of mind. i wondered if the show itself was a literal demon calling people like me to the void but really i don’t think so; i’m just a bit soft. uh but yeah extrapolating the meaning out of it that i did (which for me boils down to call to action to value oneself as a human being in a world that values people by utility/potential exploitability) and choosing to ignore myself and make myself feel like shit over entertainment would be fucking stupid. i’m probably not rei ayanami in real life fr, though i probably came close a couple occasions.

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ok so confession time i’ve only seen up to episode 21 of evangelion. yeah no i adore the series and how fucking real it is with portraying the sheer amount of emotional acumen it takes to live with mental illness and how unsustainable ignoring one’s mental health and own state of being can be. but yeah the series leaves me feeling awful to the point where i feel at risk of self-harming. honestly interacting with eva in any capacity beyond aesthetics leaves me in a worse state of mind. i wondered if the show itself was a literal demon calling people like me to the void but really i don’t think so; i’m just a bit soft. uh but yeah extrapolating the meaning out of it that i did (which for me boils down to call to action to value oneself as a human being in a world that values people by utility/potential exploitability) and choosing to ignore myself and make myself feel like shit over entertainment would be fucking stupid. i’m probably not rei ayanami in real life fr, though i probably came close a couple occasions.

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if there’s anything i’ve learned from going to a bar in the city last night it’s 1) i’ve lived a very insulated life thus far and 2) the conservative propaganda machine wants suburbanites to be massively afraid of cities so they never visit one and discover just how insular their own communities are. i’m sure city life is rough in its own respects but i’ve never seen that many people in a room letting their freak flag fly at once (i mean this positively). they all flew them differently, yet no one cared how anyone else flew it. we were all just people. idk i didn’t talk to anyone new there but i felt like i got to know them more than the people i’ve come across at my job. i think usa leaders both conservative and liberal want us to just not talk to each other and to be ghastly afraid of catching someone else (or let someone else catch oneself) with their pants down.

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ness after defeating the mani-mani statue inside his head:

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that “gamble responsibly” caption at the bottom is working overtime

Engagement farmers on Twitter are now putting gambling advertisement on their posts

But most importantly, just look at this freaking community note

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yes - vegas pro 11 specifically with wine 8.0. i got to the splash screen but couldn’t get around it crashing before loading in. i could try a more recent version and maybe it’ll play nicer with modern wine - i’m not sure how it is. i do know it’s possible, just a major pain in the ass.

i wish it wasn’t so but i’m kinda tempted to go back to the windows 10 lifestyle because i want to get back into video editing. i mean i have the tools on linux but they’re not exactly replacements for vegas pro or premiere. davinci resolve is nerfed to hell considering it doesn’t take mp4 files on linux (they don’t want to pay the licensing fees which is dumb because then resolve is kinda unusable if you’re not a professional shooting lossless video). like i just want to make dumb shit like i did in high school; i’d love to use resolve but too much of a hassle

i mean in a professional capacity i’d say linux is there because blender can do all the shit premiere + after effects combined can. but that comes at such a high learning curve you may as well live inside blender

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getting some inb4s out the way:

>just ffmpeg it

i tried. i could just convert the necessary video files to a format resolve likes. i have a script for it i wrote a while back. the end result was that video files ballooned to 10x their original size in mp4. that adds up pretty fast, especially if i’m just using it as a hobbyist

>set up a vm

i hate using vms. if i can avoid them i will avoid them. even outside nerfed performance and latency and just not feeling good to use, i dislike the compartmentalization aspect and the fact that it’ll be ~200gb of reserved space by the end.

>dual boot. you don’t have to get rid of what you like using for one program

this one is somewhat plausible. two major reservations: managing storage on both ends is a pain and i usually just end up gravitating toward one os anyway. idk what it is but if i’m dual-booting i literally just zero in on all the space i can’t use while on one os. and if i assign an os to a singular purpose, that usually ends up getting broken just from natural pc use. i don’t like dual booting.

>suck it up and use kdenlive

i mean kdenlive is goated. i’ve used it before. not sure if i’d like to use it long-term though. i think i’d just think of how easy one task would be if i just had sony vegas working. there’s a lot of mental hurdles i have now that i think about it

i wish it wasn’t so but i’m kinda tempted to go back to the windows 10 lifestyle because i want to get back into video editing. i mean i have the tools on linux but they’re not exactly replacements for vegas pro or premiere. davinci resolve is nerfed to hell considering it doesn’t take mp4 files on linux (they don’t want to pay the licensing fees which is dumb because then resolve is kinda unusable if you’re not a professional shooting lossless video). like i just want to make dumb shit like i did in high school; i’d love to use resolve but too much of a hassle

i mean in a professional capacity i’d say linux is there because blender can do all the shit premiere + after effects combined can. but that comes at such a high learning curve you may as well live inside blender