AllNewTypeFace
@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
- Comment on Anon tries to break the ice 3 hours ago:
That’s not so bad. If you want to filter out people who don’t share your dark sense of humour, it could work
- Comment on Anon tries to break the ice 3 hours ago:
Either that or a police badge
- Comment on Why don't county jails open up their free bed space in times of severe cold and severe heat to the homeless and others and just give them their own cell? And can leave whenever. 5 days ago:
It is an unwritten social rule that prison is a place of punishment for transgression, and as such separate from the free population. Opening spare prison cells to free people in need of shelter (whether the unhoused, or paying tourists/seasonal labourers, or low-income tenants), with some residents having different privileges than others, would violate this separation and the symbolic significance of prison.
A similar policy would be to make housing double as a low-security prison: have the locks be configurable so that apartments can be reconfigured as cells. This would make it too easy to go between freedom and imprisonment, though: in a free society, this process is meant to have a lot of friction. Of course, there is currently due process meaning that your leaving-the-house privileges can’t be revoked summarily over, say, unpaid bills, though they are now a matter of policy and can be changed as such.
- Comment on What comes after postmodernism? 5 days ago:
It goes around in cycles, and “postmodernism” is just the name we gave to the idea of borrowing superficially from movements of the past without submitting to the deeper totalising meanings that the aesthetic/stylistic details in question emerged from, at that point in history. (It was so named because it contrasted with 20th-century high modernism and its belief in overarching systems and the possibility of universal meanings.) Looking back in history, you find postmodern-style epochs of stylistic appropriation/recontextualisation at various times, such as the rediscovery of classical aesthetics during the Renaissance.
It could be argued that postmodernism emerged from an unspoken universalising ideology: the me-first individualism of the baby-boom generation and the market-oriented neoliberalism that took charge in the US and UK at the start of the 80s and proclaimed its victory for all time when the USSR fell (as in Fukuyama’s “end of history”); to wit: there are no universal truths, only individual opinions, all overseen by the invisible hand of the market. Since then, history has loudly restarted, and the eternal consumerist utopia of the 90s feels as retrofuturistic as an episode of The Jetsons. Parts of postmodernism will be absorbed into what follows where useful (i.e. the idea of novels having metanarratives, or sampling/appropriation by mechanical reproduction as a creative tool), others will become a stereotypical period feature, in the way that that art-deco font signifies the 1920s or angular motel signs the 1950s, and the cycle will resume.
Having said that, with history having restarted, various kinds of Romanticism and/or Neue Sachlichkeit-style realism could emerge; though, of course, not in the same form as past versions.
- Comment on Human, all too human 6 days ago:
The Tamil equivalent of “you can’t have your cake and eat it” translates literally as “you can’t have the moustache and eat the soup”
- Comment on As voter disillusionment grows, why aren't voters flocking to the Greens in Australia? 6 days ago:
Same reason the proletariat want to watch sports matches, drink, gamble and whore rather than spend their time in theory study groups and people’s committees: what Marx called false consciousness.
- Comment on Anon awakens something 1 week ago:
Reset her prompt
- Comment on Never forget. Never again. 1 week ago:
Once you take the leap of faith and accept that a housecat can have opinions about days of the working week, anything can follow.
- Comment on A lack of sex held back life's diversity for millions of years, fossil study finds 1 week ago:
Epic handshake meme material
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The kangaroo is played by a gangsta rapper too.
- Comment on Punk rock 1 week ago:
Malcolm McLaren was one of the great admen of the 20th century.
- Comment on Insert a Title Here 1 week ago:
Or, to use the scientific term, chesticles
- Comment on 20 Jobs that people once thought were irreplaceable are now just memories 1 week ago:
They forgot about fish-benders
- Comment on Socialist Revolutionary Flag in an alternative universe where english is written in the perso arabic script 1 week ago:
The sword and hammer should be crossed diagonally, and the sickle balanced beneath them, IMHO.
- Comment on An economic draft? Drive to get young Neets in the military divides opinion 2 weeks ago:
If the UK goes for the Russian approach of sending its undesirables and surplus population to the frontline with the cheapest possible equipment, essentially as ammunition, it could cost little. Though that only works if you have a frontline to throw them at.
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
If the gold is in an accepted standard form, such as krugerrands, you just need to find a precious metals dealer. If it’s just a pile of gold, then there’s a lot of hassle. I imagine ingots of the sort national gold reserves hold would be somewhere in between.
Shifting a large quantity of gold may require a non-optional explanation of its provenance, with “I woke up and it was just there” or “a genie gave it to me after I did an online quiz” not being adequate, and an inadequate explanation resulting in its forfeiture if not more serious legal hassles. With a large pile of gold and no good explanation, you may be reduced to smurfing small pieces of it to different dealers, moving around a lot and avoiding the attention that such a pile would inevitably draw.
- Comment on The most useless website in Britain (Parliament Petitions) 2 weeks ago:
Have you seen most of the petitions? Between bloodthirsty gammons calling for public hangings to be brought back and people whose mates think they’re a legend calling on the government to legislate something frivolous or physically impossible, there’s a lot of rubbish there.
- Comment on NOT THE BEES 2 weeks ago:
If mellified man is a thing, turnabout is only fair play
- Comment on Liars! 2 weeks ago:
Who would make a better astronaut: a smart kid or a dumb kid?
The dumb kid: they take up space at school.
- Comment on understand thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hail power! 2 weeks ago:
It was also slang for bisexual, though not sure if that preceded or came after the band.
- Comment on Can the second coming of Tony Abbott resurrect the Liberal party? Or is it another step toward ‘self-destruction’? 3 weeks ago:
It’ll certainly fire up the rusted-on culture-warriors who watch Sky After Dark and take horsepaste for their wind turbine syndrome. Though, since Australia already has compulsory voting, this probably won’t yield a significant number of extra votes. Meanwhile, the bourgeois women voters in leafy suburbs who shifted to teal independents don’t look like they’ll be coaxed back into the tent by this.
- Comment on Peetsie Paws 3 weeks ago:
Cats’ hearing evolved to pick up and locate minuscule ultrasonic sounds. One of the tradeoffs is that it really sucks at pitch discrimination compared to human hearing; in short, your cat is, by human standards, tonedeaf.
- Comment on Important plant fossils!! 3 weeks ago:
The birth control Marie Stopes?
- Comment on What's the difference between the UK justice system and the U.S. justice system? 4 weeks ago:
In the UK, magistrates, who try cases at lower courts, aren’t trained lawyers but civilian volunteers, who have trained lawyers as advisors on the technical aspects. Not sure if this is the case in the US.
- Comment on First Great British Railway branded train unveiled in Brighton 4 weeks ago:
It looks a bit Brexity, but hopefully that’ll goo away when they change the livery in a decade’s time or so
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The owl cares that the mouse exists
- Comment on ABC, SBS reject federal government, special envoy’s definition of antisemitism [DE-PAYWALLED LINK IN POST] 4 weeks ago:
Surely it’s not a question of whether they choose to accept it, but whether it is to be enshrined in the law of the land, as it is in the UK and Germany.
- Comment on Rare, slightly used 4 weeks ago:
It’s this guy, right?
- Comment on Uno reverse😭 4 weeks ago:
“I’m not that kind of girl”
“…but, surely, you must be!”
