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I may be missing a joke, but Bob Ross does this by using a lot of shortcuts and brush stroke techniques. I think he’s respected but I don’t think most artists feel at all outclassed. I paint too and while I love the idea of him showing that anyone can paint, I wouldn’t really want my landscapes to look like his do.

No hate towards him at all but it’s just a different way of painting that kindof maximizes time to output efficiency. But I enjoy painting, and I’m good with a painting taking 20 hours.

Resume advice is nonsense. I’ve been told by recruiters that I shouldn’t have removed irrelevant positions because every bit counts. And I’ve been told by recruiters it’s a good idea to remove irrelevant positions because it’s just clutter.

I’ve always kept my resume 1 page long and remove jobs or line items that dont add much. I’ve had recruiters and managers praise my resume for being so compact and others complain that there are gaps or that it’s kindof selling myself short.

It’s all just the whims of whichever middle manager ultimately looks at it. The real advice is to make a resume that gets past the algorithms by rephrasing slightly to include keywords from the job description, and then just cross your fingers that your format happens to align with their preference.

Seriously, it turns out all it took to get regular people to support hitler was to just get a 2nd hitler.

It short circuits them

IQ isn’t real. You claim to be forced by the system to hate Indians. I think you’re not the leftist you think you are

I’ll agree about the rigid format of movies but to say that’s why I think movies have the greatest impact on me of any media.

A movie is a very tightly packaged combination of art forms that has to hit all the right brain pieces at all the right times because they have such a limited amount of space to do it in.

The greatest movies are those that can keep you completely focused for two hours and affect you for days after. They are able to masterfully execute on all art forms at once.

Even for great books I generally read them in multiple sittings which at least temporarily takes me out of their world. Games are an even greater collection of arts in that they also add an interactove element, but they’re often so long that I never quite get fully into the stories. I ran into a soft-lock in Disco Elyseum that caused me to have to re-load a save and redo some pieces. That experience isn’t too uncommon in gaming but it’s something that would never stand in a movie.

Basically I think the greatest movies are those that manage to affect me so so much with such tight constraints.

Zionists conflate Jewishness and the existence of the political state of Israel. To the point that any Jew that does not support Israel as a state or the actions of Israel is considered not a real Jew or a kind of race traitor.

This controlling of the thoughts and actions of Jews by zionists who may even be christian themselves is very much antisemetic

A state is not owed the allegience of a people based on their ancestry or belief

The fundamental problem with your question is the perception that there are these prescribed stages of development and each stage is an advancement on the previous.

Instead, the indigenous peoples in the world were just as “advanced” as the colonizers who slaughtered and enslaved them. They were not on different stages of a tech tree like in a game, they just developed different societies.

So of course slavery was not necessary because there is no such thing as necessary advancement. Even if you argue that advancements in medicine requires more modern modes of production, places like Cuba or the Soviet Union skipped or sped through or skirted around or limitidly used Capitalism and still developed incredible health programs. So then capitalism isn’t even necessary for technological advancement in that way, let alone slavery.

Pretty much in my experience. I’m sure there were some people who worked with companies to help with DEI initiatives who were doing so in good faith, but ultimately the system doesn’t work in a way that would allow change.

HR departments are naturally responsible for any diversity training and practices, but HR is beholden to the interests of executives and investors who don’t care at all.

That’s why the only reason any inclusive practice is ever adopted is because of regulation or because companies think they can get an edge in marketing.

It just makes chud whining even dumber because if they understood how the businesses they pretend to worship work then they’d know that these practices are just capitalism doing capitalism things, which they claim to support.

They’re not real. I’ve worked at multiple places with DEI initiatives. They amount to a yearly training where white people get to vent their bigotry and a position within HR devoted to focusing on more inclusive recruitment tactics.

For the most part we still hired almost exclusively white people.

In reality DEI was just a way for companies to pretend they’re cool places to work and DEI was dropped the moment it started getting backlash.

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I bought such a tiny eensy weensy property and now I have to use it to exploit someone. Otherwise someone will exploit me. I’m so tiny and smol I can’t handle the exploitation that you all do, that’s why I have to exploit you all. Pwease, no more bad feelings, thank you!

If you don’t like the “lick-my-ass/or-be-homeless setup”, try not being a landlord.

I’m such a smol bean landlord, pwease forgive me hexbear, I just have to exploit another human being for my own financial gain but it gives me a sad uwu

Seriously, the responses are wild.

Next there’s going to be a poster who just happened to get a job as a cop trying to get sympathy for hiding that he’s currently undercover while hanging out with friends cause he doesn’t want to be treated like a pig. And the commenters will be like - oh it’s okay some cops are chill

Wild

The power dynamic IS the fact that you and you alone have a choice in how this relationship works (landlord/tenant vs flatmate/flatmate). Wild that after “managing” to own property you would start using your power to twist relationships to your own end. Who would have guessed a landlord would be power tripping and shady

People have the ability to contexualize. Revolutions have been won by people who believe a god controls everything. They still found the motivation to act with a group of humans for their material needs.

Your problem is one of priority. I agree these things aren’t material, but it truly matters so little. Astrologists still protest, christians still read marx.

I think you should analyze why these specific beliefs cause you so much anger that you call your comrades on this forum idiots.

You can make all of the same points about tv, video games, movies, fiction books, playing sports, religion, and on and on. Why is the distraction more associated with women the one you think needs called out?

It’s absolutely false. Go outside and look at couples walking around or in restaurants. Our perceptions of actual romance are so skewed. Most people are just kindof normal looking. In reality its like the top 90 percent of men get 90 percent of women

For women on dating apps there is a huge amount of risk to their safety tied to any match. So if the vibes aren’t immaculate or the vibes are good but the person is just pretty cute then it might not be worth the risk.

For men seeking women there is a question of whether the match will be a disspointment or a waste of money. But for women it’s am I going to die. So of course only a tiny percent of men on effectively anonymous dating apps pass the vibes and initial attraction tests to be worth that risk.

You know there is like history and real life and stuff that happened prior to the invasion right? Like you don’t have to guess or speculate or make up fan theories? Like you can just like read and find out why.

This feigned “who could possibly know” attitude is baffling. Just like look it up

I’m always afraid to recommend it because I’ve never heard anyone talk about it- but I would recommend Station Eleven. Its post-apocalyptic after a covid-like disease. But unlike every other apocalyptic media it has so much love for people. It has some very sad moments but it’s so wholesome. And I loved their little traveling commune.

Think it’s the only movie I’ve ever seen whose message is essentially - violence in the hands of the poor can be used to justly end oppression by the wealthy. Nobody got slapped down by karma for using violence. Multiple communities helped him to do violence without us being made to feel mixed about those communities or about that violence. No, the violence from the very beginning is explicitly justified and your are only made to feel even more on his side as the movie goes on.

And then just the cinematography and general quality of the movie was incredible. Absolutely loved it