jwiggler

@jwiggler@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you create?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  35mm film with picture negatives on it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like Skill Up on YouTube did not recommend – I typically trust his takes over review outlets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually was fortunate enough to visit the Sistine Chapel this summer, and although when you take a close look at images online of the paintings, it’s clear they aren’t “realism”, when you see the paintings in person they look very real. I was especially struck by how real Jonah looked, as if he was just hanging out, sitting on a ledge near the ceiling. Very cool experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the part where one guy goes, “Justice is paying your debts” and Socrates goes, “oh yeah? so it would be just for me to return the gun my friend loaned me, when he comes back requesting it in a murderous frenzy? Yeah, that’s what I thought.”

  And the guy just leaves lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is anti drugs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lmaoo thank you for the laugh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is anti drugs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s totally cool with me, I am absolutely a dumb idiot.

  Difference is I don’t go around correcting people’s spelling to make them feel stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is anti drugs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oops for you, because in your comment you come off haughty and dumb. Happens to all of us though, no big deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is anti drugs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  insults someone for their spelling mistake

  fails at simple reading comprehension

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Second Term: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but that just isn’t a maintainable party platform. There may be denial and violence in the short term, but at that point I think the Trumpian wing of the Republican party is in its death throes and is doomed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Second Term: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not so sure. While I don’t necessarily have a positive outlook on the future of American politics, I think the Democratic party is in a really good spot at the moment. The Republican party is completely beholden to one person right now. They are in a very, very bad spot re: extremism in their party. It’s essentially their party platform. We’re seeing the ramifications in the House, now. Their party is in disarray and is proving they can’t manage to even govern themselves. Meanwhile, Democrats are capitalizing on that disarray by consolidating around abortion access, protecting democratic institutions, and willingness to actually get things done. We can see this in the immigration reform bill that Trump nuked – that was set to be a huge policy win for conservatives and Democrats were willing to push it through.

  If Trump loses this election, where does the Republican party have to go? They can’t just conjure up another personality like Trump – I think DeSantis proved that. They’ve alienated their moderate voters in favor of bigotry and disruption of the institutions they grew up with and helped maintain. Either they’re going to have to revert to establishment, pre-Trump conservatism or double down on his insanity, further alienating the moderate Republicans. And where would those moderates go besides the Democratic party, which, while sure, is supportive of gender-affirming care (a knock for them), at least they are still willing to uphold capitalistic, business-centric values (or in other words, socialism for me, not for thee).

  If Trump wins, then the Democratic party is still gonna be around and having a field day with all the issues he causes (see: Dobbs ruling). I dunno this may be a hot take but I could see the Republican party crumbling, and Democrats splitting into left and right camps. Maybe someone can check me, because the more I think about it the more I see Republicans as a fringe extremist group and Democrats as capitalists, and then me over here thinking to myself, “How could we seize collective ownership of Amazon and Google’s computers?” lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Second Term: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad he did an episode on this. People need an accessible and digestible way of understanding the threat of Project 2025.

  Yeah, neoliberals are destroying the left, but I’ll take them over an authoritarian theocracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is America Really That Bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in a small city about an hour away from a major city. I’m also an hour away from what I would call the boonies – rural, remote areas where owning guns and open carrying is normal. In fact, I’ve seen open carry around here, in the city, quite a bit. It’s pretty normal around here.

  I heard a shooting happen in the suburbs near my house when I was a kid. It’s what’s considered the “nice” part of town. An old woman walking her dog was killed. I heard the shot through my bedroom window. Only til I moved into the inner part of the city did I witness guns being shot in the city more often. Most of the times you hear pops, it’s fireworks. A couple times, it’s been guns. Those couple times are pretty freaky.

  Every once in awhile I’ll walk past a crime scene downtown, usually something happened like a stabbing the night before. One day I scrolled through reddit and saw a video – a point-blank execution had occured outside the club down the road. That one was disturbing. I think the kid is going to jail for a long time.

  The inner part of this particular city is not as safe as the suburbs, but for the most part you should be okay, as long as you’re not looking to start trouble. When I’m walking around town, especially the immediate area I live, my eyes are open. At night, they’re wide open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Maher Bashes ‘Barbie’ as a “Preachy, Man-Hating Zombie Lie”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This dude is totally content with 300,000 years of subjugation of women by men, but has problems when a single feminist movie comes out. Comedy can only make fun of the other, apparently. Soon as you (men) get made fun of, they’re all up in arms.

  Get with the program or get out of the fucking way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans keep falling for the Democrat and Republican scare mongering and propaganda?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mainstream media is generally propaganda, too, even lots of “left leaning” media.

  For example, we don’t hear about the war crimes committed by Ukraine, only ones by Russia.

  We don’t hear about how the US was actively working with right-wing groups in Ukraine to overthrow the government in 2014, efforts that helped further fracture relationship between Ukraine and Russia.

  Or the military posturing by NATO in a geographically adjacent country to Russia.

  War makes us forget nuance and accept simple absolute truths like Russia attacked Ukraine and therefore Ukraine must defend itself.

  And for the record: fuck Russia for this ongoing conflict. They are the perpetrators, for sure. But all historical context to this conflict is completely thrown out in the eyes of the mainstream media.

  Where are the anti-war democrats? Where are the people looking to end the war, rather than further fuel it with weapons? Nowhere to be found.

  You know why? Because war makes too much money. Americans are paying to subsidize the cost of weapons to keep the war going. We the people are funding this.

  We say “what are we supposed to do? Just let Russia invade Ukraine?” And then turn a blind eye to Palestinians occupied by Israel.