It seems like you’re too emotionally invested to have a normal conversation like a person.

My bad for having opinions. Sorry. /s

Health is an app you can delete. It’s not forcing you to do anything. You don’t even need iCloud for anything. You don’t even have to use their walled garden App Store. I know because I download and install shit from the internet all the time.

All lies.

OSX has several things going for it, primarily, it’s got the clowns at apple running the show, thus, it has a bunch of “natural” interface bullshit that only make sense if you intend to live like a caveman and not understand that computers can function differently to physical objects.

On top of that, they pushed themselves as an “alternative” to windows back when they were even more corporate than fucking Microsoft, while blaring out the ignorant ass ipod adverts whose goal was to make the user into consumers making computing choices based on fashion. The iphone and it’s money gated, walled garden BS was just the cherry on top.

If you wanted a fucking alternative to microsoft, linux has been there for you all along instead of the “worse but shinier” osx, which mac served to just overshadow with its increased advertising budget and psychotic CEO.

And I mean that literally, Steve Jobs was actually fucking insane and a horrible person. From firing people at random, to abandoning his kids, to stealing livers and trying to cure his cancer with smoothies.

Also, it’s basically open/free BSD with more propriety bullshit on it than you can shake a stick at.

I don’t know how anyone can use Windows after 7.

Yeah, windows 8 , 10 and 11 are toxic shitholes. You know what macs did before windows started begging you to log in and create microsoft accounts? Force you to have Icloud or whatever the fuck it is accounts. You know how I know? My work laptops suck ass and force me to have mac accounts, and is complaining that it can’t sync HEALTH DATA. MY WORK LAPTOP WANTS TO SYNC HEALTH DATA.

Apple blew the doors off for enshittification. They primed the fucking pump, and now microsoft and google are following through the door, you guys are like “yeah, putting osx on a steam box would be cool” fucking no. Ew.

She learnt it while working for the Nazis?

What he lacks in compassion for the sick, respect for human dignity, and any sort of verifiable formal training in medicine, the Medic more than makes up for with a bottomless supply of giant needles and a trembling enthusiasm for plunging them into exposed flesh. Raised in Stuttgart, Germany during an era when the Hippocratic oath had been downgraded to an optional Hippocratic suggestion, the Medic considers healing a generally unintended side effect of satisfying his own morbid curiosity.

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Medic

Schola? Schova mea glacie illa refrigera, scorta!!!

🤮

This relatively soft hand, as opposed to 19th century nations beating children for speaking ‘dirty’ languages, actually was very effective at establishing Latin in conquered territories.

once again, the europeans are the real savages.

there’s layers to my man Mickey7

You can install OSX on there /s

texas red also got taken out by the Arizona Ranger like a bitch, so I’ve got that going over him.

nazi prick

it’s still bullshit doublespeak if they are not adapting new things being developed by communities like using more gender neutral forms of the language.

“oh a bunch of people are doing a new thing? let’s ignore that and just add another loanword that roughly the same number of people are using”

that’s so sad. PC gaming isn’t worth slave labor :(

exactly. Corsairs make pc gaming gear, I assume that the logo is of the heat dissipating off whatever card they sold.

what else would it be, a boat with sails?

I didn’t want to come off pissed. I’m sorry if it was perceived like that

You did not come across that way, just that you assumed I put in Merkel when I deliberately avoided putting her in, so in terms of tone and whatnot, there’s no problems.

I guess people could interpret the decisions of Thatcher in multiple ways as well. Those people would be wrong though.

With thatcher it’s a bit more straightforward for some of the things she did and it’s wide ranging impacts. I don’t think Merkel decimated entire regions of germany the way thatcher did to britain, even though she made some people very rich.

Merkel may have made choices that had undesired impacts, but thatcher was really something else.

I purposely avoided putting her name in as she is a complex ruler who is largely average and debatable the same way most male leaders are and her decisions can be interpreted in multiple ways by multiple people…

unlike May, thatcher or kitchner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy

A technocracy is a model of governance wherein decision-makers are chosen for office based on their technical expertise and background. A technocracy differs from a traditional democracy in that individuals selected to a leadership role are chosen through a process that emphasizes their relevant skills and proven performance, as opposed to whether or not they fit the majority interests of a popular vote.

a system that lets the money guy call himself CTO.

is probably more of an oligarchy or some other thing about rich people having power; technocracy is about getting people who know their shit run stuff that they know about

Well, here’s the thing. There is a story about a writing assignment, where a student is asked to describe a street. They find it difficult. So the teacher asks them to describe a house. They still struggle. The teacher asks them to describe a wall. They still struggle. The teacher asks them to describe a brick. The student finds all kinds of interesting details to describe in the brick due to its texture, shapes of pores, etc.

The thing that you are missing is that the world around us is full of minuscule details and things that can spark our imagination and show us things if we sit there and consider them. These things are not created by auteurs, they simply exist, and its up to us to look at them in detail, and due to our humanity, we can extrapolate all kinds of ideas from them.

When I say “those works are not expressing anything” I am saying that the majority of the expression is being done by the interpreter. The same interpreter could look at a blank wall, and due to the details within that wall, they could see and think about all kinds of different things.

When someone goes for a walk in a naturally occurring forest, they have lots of different thoughts and emotions. Who is the artist?

My proposition is that if you actually have the balls to call yourself a artist, you need to put in some actual fucking effort and actually do something better than a brick does by existing. Because if you don’t , and what you make gets called art, it destroys the fucking meaning of the word ART, since if everything is art, nothing is art; since nothing separates things that are art from things that are not art.

The other point you are completely missing is that these works have value as instruction materials and thought experiments within the world of art to DEVELOP techniques; these works are unfinished and need to be contextualized in different ways in order to achieve something beyond possible techniques of applying paint to canvas. Take for example 4:33 by Cage; it is an effortless piece of shit that anyone can recreate, but it has value as a teaching material to let you be aware that silence in music is important, ambiental sounds can participate with and color your art in different ways, etc etc. It is not an expressive piece of music, but in terms of being a thought experiment to teach musicians, it’s very useful.

what do the PC gaming guys have to do with history?

so you think that the purpose of visual arts is literally nothing more than to express emotions and aesthetic beauty?

I actually indicated that there is another aspect to it, but since you’re not pointing out your ideas completely, I’ll let you go back to my post and see if you can get it through the non-subtly expressed text I wrote.

here is an artist very clearly explaining to you that they got something out of these works that you obviously missed or did not perceive and you’re not even a little bit curious as to what it might be, already deciding that there is no way there is anything of value there, and I think that’s just very unfortunate

Yeah, I’d care if the works were distinct enough to express different emotions instead of “I dumped the paint on the canvas randomly, without fine motor control, good thing I have buds in the CIA” which, BTW is the point of this thread.

The world would be so much better with women in charge.

The women in charge we end up with :

(nb : I’m not saying women are incapable of power, just that assuming women would be great leaders is a stupid idea. There are examples of great/not horrid female leaders like Jacinda Ardern, but thatcher, this woman, Kirchner, theresa may, the lettuce woman are all terrible)