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JakobVirgil  ·  3543 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Coming Democratic Schism - NYTimes.com

A way to be Left and still enjoy the benefits of exploitation.

Shopping at Hole Foods and having gay friends as an ablution

It works and is entirely more pleasant

you don't have to hang with poor people and union folks.

JakobVirgil  ·  3556 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Poetry's Alive, We Just Call It Rap

I think "academic" poetry took the left turn into irrelevance at the exact moment the MFA was invented. Work done to impress ones adviser is not likely to be anything but obtuse and rarefied.

It also limits the class of "real" poets to college types. Middle class kids that could afford to have a romantic major.

Of course there are exceptions and in my opinion these exceptions tend to be stronger poets.

Replace poet with painter, journalist, writer or jazz musician and I think it reads as true.

JakobVirgil  ·  3563 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski -- some observations

I got a extra we will say that it is from you.

JakobVirgil  ·  3650 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An interesting question

Because it is unpaid

Because it assumes that some humans are not as human as others.

Because it robs folks of their humanity

Because it degrades the morality of the owners.

Because it steals labor

Because it sets up power relationships that lead to sexual abuse

JakobVirgil  ·  3681 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Book Club: Watchmen Final Discussion

The author of the book of Kings answers the question of who is fit to be a king by offers us three cases 3 men Saul (a prophet), David (a hero) and Solomon (the wisest man in the world). (s)he than shows us how each of them failed and hence no man should be king. (S)he was prolly some kinda anarchist or romanticized the rule of the Judges.

I think the archmagnus Alan Moore is using the same rhetorical plan. He presents us with each of the Superhero archetypes and shows us how they are Naive, unhuman, or just plain evil.

The high tech dilettante - is just play acting

The heroine - is just furniture

the superman - has no human connection

the vigilante - is a sociopath

the genius - is a conman

the super soldier - is a scumbag

Capes suck

JakobVirgil  ·  3684 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Any other reddit exiles ?

My theory is that the following scheme leads to fragmentation as size scales up.

The structure of future hubski will look more like twitter than reddit.

Also following people rather than issues make one remember they are people.

JakobVirgil  ·  3509 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.

I have spent all morning on reddit and just want to say ,I miss you guys.

JakobVirgil  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "That's Retarded." Words and Offense.

My daughter and I have replaced the word retard with Jack Black and retarded with Jack Blacked. So far so good.

JakobVirgil  ·  3558 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Supreme Court's Cold Indifference to America's Workers

I think the anti-union one is more serious in the long run. The tide is in the favor of women's issues in the long run but the light at the end of the workers tunnel is nearly non existent

JakobVirgil  ·  3559 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen FULL ALBUM

Once a friend of mine a big Cohen collector called me and said the local record store had the whole catalog and if he should pick it up for me -as he already had everything-.

I said I wanted a few things but did not have the dosh for everything. He brought it over then went home another call came asking for it back.

Turns out it was his collection his roommate sold it for weed money.

JakobVirgil  ·  3563 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski -- some observations

I tend to agree I think follow based schemes like pintrest instagram don't end up like reddit.

Also politeness is cultural and I think we have a culture of thoughtfullness here.

I am not myself thoughtful but I enjoy it in others.

JakobVirgil  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Speaking up every. Fucking. Time

I only have one exception to take and that is historical. And I know it only because I am old.

Feminism has never been less radical. Feminists have never been more conciliatory and timid than they are today.

I am just gunna throw that out there

JakobVirgil  ·  3560 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are Kurt Vonnegut's best works?

Bluebeard puts a pin in midcentury American painting it should be required reading for anyone who wants to pretend to be an artist.

Kurt himself said you could skip all of his books and just read Catch-22 instead.

JakobVirgil  ·  3656 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Obama to "Call for End" to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection

We have always been at war with Eurasia

This is not even about terrorism, Law enforcement or public safety. the NSA exists to channel pork. The contractors need to get paid.

JakobVirgil  ·  3719 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The World's 85 Richest People Are as Wealthy as the Poorest 3 Billion

yes their political power distorts markets, culture and democracy.

JakobVirgil  ·  3743 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Show me a new idea
JakobVirgil  ·  3543 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Proudly Muted! But I still can't shut up about feminism.

misandry is a stupid word.

A word for folks in power

that want to steal even victim-hood.

JakobVirgil  ·  3550 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Suggestion About The Layout (Not A Bug Maybe...)

Yes

Urban Poverty = black folks?

Canada has close to the U.S. Ethnic / Cultural breakdown

I'll say what I always say. in Canada they hunt a lot but they also have very restrictive gun control laws. In Canada less people get shot.

Perhaps if Urban poverty is not just code for Black Folks (I am confident you are not using it that way but I like to tease people.) then increasing the minimum wage ending redlining etc would do more to decrease gun violence than less guns.

but remember the most common gun crime is a white dude blowing his own head off.

Erykah Badu

Coltrane

Thelonious Monk u

Morton Feldman

Benjamin Britain

John Adams

Pere Ubu

NWA

Nas

RZA

Jay-z

Miles Davis

Albert Ayler

Ike Turner

Buddy Holly

Billie Holiday

Elizabeth Cotton

Maybelle Carter

John Fahey

And a few others.

JakobVirgil  ·  3656 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why did we evolve to appreciate beauty?

Perhaps as a guard against the suicidal risk that comes with sentience?

JakobVirgil  ·  3754 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cis feminism is a failure to the trans community

If this was a diner party or a evening at the pub with friends. (which really is what hubski is at least to me)

What I would do here is say to geneusutwerk "this is Laurelai - Laurelai this is geneusutwerk I think both of you have an interest in gender politics"

y'all would shake hands, realize the other person is a person, mumble greetings/apologies and prolly hit it off.

so whatever the online equivalent of this is.

Cops have a full range of political views from center right to fascist.

Everybody should spend some time in a police forum.

In America no one likes the poor including ironically the poor.

JakobVirgil  ·  3559 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen FULL ALBUM

Always for me for my buddy the humor took a few years to sink in.

JakobVirgil  ·  3564 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Original art: Share it.

This is a used paper towel I drew on just as I was waking up

JakobVirgil  ·  3616 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Does the Internet Hate Self-Promotion?

For me kleinbloo is the only negative of hubski. His views are pedestrian to the point of banality. His tone just reddit neckbeard turned up to 11 He pouts he rants he writes 5 paragraph essays about things that don't even require 2 words. He bullies demands site changes belittles anyone who disagrees with any of the tired bullshit he spouts . I have him ignored hushed and whatever that third option is.

Still I don't think it okay to drag something he said on reddit a million years ago. Partly because hubski should be a reddit free zone but mostly because why spend time on boring?

JakobVirgil  ·  3670 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

And responsible for Manning being behind bars.

I refuse to click on a wired story.

JakobVirgil  ·  3673 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: List yer favorite "Great Books" Hubski.

The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges

The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz

Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac

Candide by Voltare

FANTASTIC FABLES -Ambrose Bierce

The Parenticide Club -Ambrose Bierce

Crown of Feathers - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Cain - Jose Saramago

Imaginary Magnitude - Stanislaw Lem

Nine Humorous Tales – Anton Chekov

War with the Newts - Karel Čapek

The Anxiety of Influence - Harold Bloom

Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstien Veblen

The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

JakobVirgil  ·  3686 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudoscience.

Whole foods is all and all a bad thing.

Even the name is a linguistic swindle.