Surprise! The Meaning Of Words Changes As Society Advances. Five Hundred Years Ago, A “factory” Was

have I ever mentioned how much I fucking hate meditation/mindfulness/etc

O’ captain,

My captain

you know that farmed fish are like… not from the ocean, right? this is like saying that the billions of chickens we’ve got are a part of the environment.

you can’t have it both ways. either the problem is overfishing or the problem is industrial farming. not both.

Silicon Valley's Fish Killing Machine

There's a tech company called "Shinkei Systems" that created an "AI powered fish killing machine" (they're using an automated machine to do ike jime, a traditional Japanese slaughter technique where a fish is killed instantly via a knife to the brain). Here's a picture of their machine:

Isn't that metal box such a great way for a living creature to die? Shinkei systems claims this automated death machine is "more humane" than error prone humans, who of course, sometimes miss the mark when severing a fish's brain from its spinal cord.

If the idea of automated animal slaughter doesn't freak you out enough, take a look at their promotional material where they promise to "eliminate 85% of the workforce" wherever their machine is used.

And just to wrap this story up in a bow, the founder is a guy named Saif Khawaja who retweets a lot about "DNA based IQ testing" and other race-science nonsense:

So yeah....a tech company run by a race obsessed skull-measurer decided the most pressing issue facing the world was not enough cheap sushi-grade salmon. The solution, of course, isn't to allow the ocean's depleted fisheries to regain their natural levels by reducing commercial fishing, it's to make a robot that can kill fish in a fancy Japanese way so people who eat industrialy farmed animals can feel less bad about it. And why not put a bunch of fishermen out of work while you're at it? The solution to our ever alienated world is clearly removing any human contact in the food supply and ceding that role to a machine. Clearly, the faster we can kill animals the better; perhaps we can kill them quickly before any concerns about the rapid destruction of the earth's aquatic ecosystems arise out of our collective haunted consciousness.

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RESPECT JACKIE'S TARGET LITTLE BOYS SECTION DRIP.

APPRECIATE THAT SHE WOULD HUNDRED PERCENT BE THE LOSER GIRLFRIEND WHO JUMPS OVER THE TABLE TO HELP SHAUNA OPEN A JAM JAR, PROUDLY TAKES IT FROM HER LIKE 'LET ME BABE 😎💪🏼', STRUGGLES WITH THE TOP FOR LIKE EIGHT MINUTES BEFORE SHAUNA POINTS OUT, TRYING NOT TO LAUGH, THAT THE LID WAS ALREADY OPEN AND SHE WAS TURNING IT THE WRONG WAY.

The purpose of art is to provide the world with beauty. Brutalism is not beautiful. Neoclassical and futurist architecture are. QED, brutalism is bad architecture. Not everything has to be about class struggle or whatever bullshit.

Art should be promoted and celebrated based on artistic merit, not politics. Tradition should be rejected when it is harmful to society - for example, I believe that the Catholic Church should be destroyed because it is a major wellspring of conservativism. But I do not want to tear down Notre-Dame or Saint Peter’s Basilica. The harm is not being caused by the beautiful buildings, but instead the people who inhabit them.

There are three imperatives to keeping fascists out of architecture.

1. Celebrate Buildings from Africa and South Asia over and above Europe, America, and East Asia

2. Celebrate Brutalism and “the ugly” over and above Classical Revival, Futurism and New Formalism. Reject tradition

3. And I cannot stress this enough: Fuck the buildings

none of those dinosaurs would have been alive to see Pangea

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how r u a radical but still defend the us? radically centrist?

I prefer radical liberal. And America is the only liberal-democratic Great Power.

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