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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • This is actually an ongoing process starting with the Vietnam War and the war on terror.

    I’m only barely old enough to remember how, in the 90’s in Europe, everything that came from the US was cool and everything local was lame and embarassing. People older than me probably remember it being even more so before.

    Nowadays that’s only true for movies. I genuinely think that the US’s imperialistic behavior has spoiled the goodwill earned from WWII, in combination with the internet shattering the monoculture that the US used to dominate.




  • I’ve been to many protests, and oddly enough i enjoy the feeling of freedom. Normal traffic rules don’t apply and there are no cars, suddely you can walk in the middle of the street which is normally a forbidden space. You can dance, you can shoot fireworks in the middle of town, you can do loads of things that you normally can’t.

    Normally there’s a nebulous sense that this space doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to landlords and the state maybe? You don’t feel a sense of ownership. But when it’s being taken over by people in an unorganized way, now it feels like this space belongs to you.

    And yes i’m french lmao


  • I can understand why you wouldn’t want to draw this, it’s a very room temperature 20th century take; but that doesn’t make it okay to use genAI for it, that makes it worse. Now it’s also cheap tacky and supports garbage companies.

    Yes, the worst thing about this is that it’s a shit idea, it doesn’t refer to anything specific and there’s something annoying about the binary format itself; but it’s made way worse, not better, by also using technology developed for profit, through theft, by sillicon valley tech firms, at the cost of an enormous waste of resources, for no purpose other than shareholder value.