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Saitô Shôshû

Snail and Poem by Buson from the series Postcards of Haikai Poetry (Haikai ehagaki) 「蝸牛やその角文字のにじりがき　蕪村」　俳諧絵葉書　夏の部より dede mushi ya sono tsuno moji no nijirigaki

With his horns

a snail slowly scrawls

a hesitant letter

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Going to see children and adolescents dance badly, play ball badly, sing badly, play recorder badly because they are young: YES! YOU ARE LEARNING! INCREDIBLE!

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watch this. this is literally what love is.

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English added by me :)

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I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

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if you die at work in your work uniform the angels will still come down from heaven on all fours and scoop up your soul in their strong jaws like a dog to a tennis ball, but the taste and smell of the circumstances of your death muddles their brain receptors' abilities to distinguish what you are from an inanimate object. so when they go back to the pearly gates they often speed right past afterlife orientation to find a spot to bury you in next to their favorite halo shaped frizbees and toys. and due to the immaculate construction of heaven, being trapped will not feel terrible, but you will not be able to physically dig yourself out. the afterlife orientation committee likely won't even notice you never showed up because your death circumstances makes your name look like easily ignorable filler text at first glance on the rsvp sheet. such is the nature of things.

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The author's poorly disguised fetish

The author's proudly displayed fetish

The author's fetish you're pretty sure they don't realise they have

The author's fetish which they're firmly convinced everyone has and is just pretending otherwise

The author's non-sexual special interest which just sounds like a fetish because of their habitually unfortunate phrasing

The fetish the author is making a well-meaning effort to cater to in spite of clearly not understanding it themselves

The author's fetish that never quite makes it into the text because they keep getting sidetracked by the requisite worldbuilding

The author's utterly pedestrian sexual preference which the text treats like a bizarre fetish because they've got shit to work through

The author's seemingly innocuous recurring trope they're going to have a personal revelation about ten years down the road

The author's fetish you missed on a first reading because it's so far out of pocket, it never occurred to you that you could sexualise that

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Hey, this isn't to start an argument but may I know where in the Mahabharatha does Krishna partake in slavery?

He gifts several people hundreds and thousands of women/maids/"servants" at various points in the epic. I cannot give you exact citations off the top of my head but it happens whenever he visits a kingdom or someone is having some sort of party/gathering/yagya. Maybe I'll make a gigantic spreadsheet about it one day.

-Mod S

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fuck i forgot to share that one photo of two dudes making out on the floor at a punk concert in yugoslavia with one of the top comments being: this isn't homosexuality, they're just drunk and the mood struck them

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Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

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how many more articles of "people are consuming media meant for kids!!! this says something about society!!!" are we going to get where the cart gets put before the horse and people insist this is the cause of moral purtanism rather than the most obvious relationship i.e. people with strong moralistic tendencies and limited ability to grapple with complex and contradictory themes tend towards works that are either aimed at younger audiences or conservative ones. which is, by the way, the average consumer of pop culture and has almost always been. are we not tired of writing the same thinkpiece 39287348324234789 times.

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"I do think someone with advanced dementia is a different person than they once were. What, then, do we do with a patient who made an advance request but now that they've lost the capacity to decide otherwise (but meets the criteria) appears to be enjoying listening to music and eating their meals? What I worry about here is what others have already discussed: the elevation of critical interests over experiential interests. This advance request to be killed is a critical interest. Other critical interests are someone's hope to be a good father, brother, son, mechanic, citizen, etc., to build a table, to run a marathon, etc. Not everyone can form critical interests. People with dementia could have done so at one time, but others, like those born with severe intellectual disabilities, never had the capacity to do so. Experiential interests are focused on sensations. Most of us have an experiential interest in slaking thirst, satisfying hunger, avoiding pain, etc. Even people with severe dementia can continue to have experiential interests. So, when you have someone who has forgotten they made an advance decision based on a critical decision, but are living their life oriented around experiential interests, if you honor that previously expressed wish you're going to elevate critical interests above experiential interests, suggesting that one is more valuable than the other. This is step closer to, if not an embrace of, the belief that some lives are not worth living because of their rational capacities. It is the judgment that builds a culture that points at someone with dementia and says, "We never want to live like that," when, in fact, the person with dementia might not have any qualms about continuing to live now."

Some really fantastic writing on dementia, assisted suicide, and the ableism of equating the worthiness of someone's life with their cognitive capacity.

Here's a great common the piece from a substack moot of mine, who works in elder care:

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love those old soviet posters that are just advertising like, an activity. not some “go to mike’s hardware for the BEST deals around!” just “hey, you can learn stuff at libraries” or “consider going for a hike in the countryside” big kin

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I don't care if the characters in the text try to justify it either. Their justifications are not valid 90% of the time anyway.

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variations on "feel old yet" meme:

lying (overshooting): feel old yet? the first episode of spongebob aired 36 years ago

lying (undershooting): feel old yet? the first episode of spongebob aired 7 years ago

lying by a ridiculous amount (overshooting): feel old yet? the first episode of spongebob aired 900 years ago

lying by a ridiculous amount (undershooting): feel old yet? the first episode of spongebob aired 15 minutes ago

real date of event no one reading was alive for: feel old yet? the great san francisco earthquake happened 118 years ago

real date of event no one reading was alive for or cares about: feel old yet? prince frederick henry died 395 years ago

event no one reading was alive for and also lying: feel old yet? the great san francisco earthquake happened 4 years ago

event that did not happen: feel old yet? brian mulroney was assassinated 48 years ago

event that did not happen and even if it did this would be a lie: feel old yet? brian mulroney was assassinated 197 years ago

real date of event on a cosmological scale: feel old yet? the sun was formed 4,600,000,000 years ago

lying on a cosmological scale (undershooting): feel old yet? the sun was formed 12 years ago

lying on a cosmological scale (overshooting): feel old yet? the first episode of spongebob aired 12,000,000,000 years ago

real date of a personal anecdote that only you know or card about: feel old yet? i made a really good stir fry 5 years ago

reversal: feel young yet? frozen 3 is coming out in 3 years

reversal on a cosmological scale: feel young yet? the sun will collapse in 8,000,000,000 years

reversal (lying about event): feel young yet? the first episode of spongebob will air in 3 years

reversal (lying about time, overshooting): feel young yet? frozen 3 is coming out in 8,000,000,000 years

reversal (lying about time, undershooting): feel young yet? the sun will collapse in 3 years

reversal (lying about time, really undershooting): feel young yet? the sun will collapse in 12 minutes

real date of a recurring event that wasn't very long ago: feel old yet? halloween was 13 days ago

lying about recurring event: feel old yet? halloween was 10,000 years ago

reversal of recurring event: feel young yet? thursday is tomorrow

reversal of personal anecdote: feel young yet? my laundry is done in 52 minutes

real(?) date of a nonspecific event: feel old yet? something happened 2 years ago

lying about the reader (undershooting): feel old yet? you were born 5 years ago

lying about the reader (overshooting): feel old yet? you were born 650 years ago

making a reasonable guess about the reader: feel old yet? you were born 22 years ago

technically telling the truth about the reader: feel old yet? you were born between 0 and 120 years ago

threatening the reader: feel young yet? you will die in 7 days

non sequitur: feel old yet? half of all chameleon species on earth live in madagascar

non sequitur (lying): feel old yet? chameleons are immune to fire

lying on several levels: feel old yet? chameleons were invented 36 years ago

self-reference: feel old yet? i started writing this post 40 minutes ago

giving up: feel old yyet?th e emmenkr,tn dbw a 8 gn m hk\

i can't finish the joke someone else come up with a punchline: feel old yet?

declarative statement: you feel old.

subversive declarative statement: time isn't even real.

reference another meme: feel old yet? yeah. this is the beach that makes you old.

reference another meme specifically about injecting non sequiturs into long posts: feel old yet? the glue that lets you walk up and down anything was invented 36 years ago