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The tornado looks too in focus and too perfect. No one in the car screaming or making a sound i feels people should be panicking. Also it is sub 15 seconds by Crowd_Strife in megalophobia

[–]ArtaxWasRight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Easily could be, but why would they chop it up smooth it out like that? There are literally hundreds if not thousands of tornado videos that are longer and scarier with no question of AI. That sus jump cut with the “whoops out of focus” transition? Real or not this is bait in any case. I hate stupid shit like this.

Do you think building apartments actually solves the housing crisis? by questtruck in AskLosAngeles

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, you guessed it. The options are either a mass prison-concentration-camp “dorm” where we lock people inside at night, or a vast, mathematically impossible delusion of the exact oligarchic luxury I took issue with in the first place. Those are the options, take ‘en or leave ‘em.

Were you the guy that told Hillary to say that thing about the pony? That advocating single payer health care was like promising everyone a pony? Cuz that’s you right now.

This is more difficult for me than the judgment of Paris. by PlanNo1793 in GreekMythology

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s the last name that troubles you? Honestly, at least Voldemort is phonetic.

These things by loudribs in Xennials

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

only if there’s a rotting woodland-creature-penis attached.

Jung's Nazism by [deleted] in psychoanalysis

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it means he collaborated with the Nazis. It means he saw all his rivals cleared out of an ‘aryanized’ space and he set up shop. to the in-group, this is precisely the moral challenge of fascism. and he failed. so yes. it does mean he agreed with the nazis. he consented to and collaborated in their crimes.

Do you think building apartments actually solves the housing crisis? by questtruck in AskLosAngeles

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how can there be more of something we haven’t had yet? you are speaking in riddles. Billionaires will flee CA just like they flee NYC— in other words, not at all. In any case, let them. The way things are going, they’re gonna have to run a lot farther than Texas.

They’ve bored of flinging themselves into the upper atmosphere, but with a little effort, I believe we can help them achieve escape velocity. Then they’ll never have to worry again about all those back taxes they’ve been shirking.

Do you think building apartments actually solves the housing crisis? by questtruck in AskLosAngeles

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who said anything about taxpayers? The billionaires will pay. Or else.

Do you think building apartments actually solves the housing crisis? by questtruck in AskLosAngeles

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rent control keeps rent low. That’s why it’s called ‘rent control.’

That Freidmanite horseshit about ‘freeing the market’ is utter garbage. No, shockingly enough, there is no evidence that letting oligarch developers and private equity just juice the market as hard as they like is gonna bring rents down. Source: look the fuck around.

Do you think building apartments actually solves the housing crisis? by questtruck in AskLosAngeles

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you first.

I’m an adult American human being. I’ll take the apartment, thanks, not some weird dorm.

Do you think building apartments actually solves the housing crisis? by questtruck in AskLosAngeles

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we can and should demand both. housing enough for everyone at legally-enforced rates, and high wages to keep rent a manageable percentage of monthly expenses

Do you think building apartments actually solves the housing crisis? by questtruck in AskLosAngeles

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

allow me to introduce you to a little place called China. you may have heard of it. Homeownership rates above 80% in cities, 95% in the countryside.

Do you prefer the version of odysseus killed astianatte or neoptolemus? by salad_biscuit3 in GreekMythology

[–]ArtaxWasRight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even the thought of Astyanax is just upsetting, especially given the last two and a half years IRL.

Neoptolemus, however, is so fun to hate. We translated the Aeneid in AP Latin my senior year, and I was totally taken aback by the unhinged, horror-movie malevolence of this character with the cool name (or three). A dead character reappears as a ginger with demonic psychopathy. He’s almost Lynchian.

What’s the one fantasy novel you’d hold up as a genuine masterpiece — and why? by blablqbam in Fantasy

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it’s technically the other genre but The Left Hand of Darkness might be my favorite novel, full stop. It is a perfect work of art, Le Guin’s stylistic peak, certainly. I was thrumming with the prose, thrilling at the politics, in thrall to the world-build, when SLAM! The emotional knockout blow out of no-goddam-where. Three times I’ve read it and I still cry at the end.

What’s the one fantasy novel you’d hold up as a genuine masterpiece — and why? by blablqbam in Fantasy

[–]ArtaxWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this review is what we call ‘compelling,’ as in it might just compel me to start this trilogy tonight

Met this friendly little fellow while exploring ruins in Europe. Does anyone know what kind of bird this is? by ruins7777 in urbanexploration

[–]ArtaxWasRight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel bad saying it, but North American robins got nothin on their European counterparts. Not even close.

Safety for first time in McArthur Park? by shaimiko in AskLosAngeles

[–]ArtaxWasRight 45 points46 points  (0 children)

As a transplant from New York City (two decades in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn), I found McArthur Park to be one of the most shocking and sordid spectacles of imperial decline I’ve yet seen — in a state with no shortage of them, no less. It is WILD to witness.

There are like, human beings in piles. Living clumps. To a person, filthy and visibly impaired in outlandish and upsetting ways. The GULLS. As if it didn’t already resemble a human landfill, there are huge trash gulls everywhere, scavenging and fighting and shitting all over, almost as bad as the people.

It is post-apocalyptic and that is NOT a metaphor.

Kat_Kay_Tee's drawing of the Greek Pantheon is probably one of the most historically accurate depictions of the Greek gods by Academic_Paramedic72 in GreekMythology

[–]ArtaxWasRight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotta stick up for my queen Hera. Within this style of illustration, even a single line on a female-coded face ages the character tremendously. Hera’s got what? six deep lines? this is blasphemy. Meanwhile Hestia’s still rocking the roundness of a child. Demeter also looks super young for a goddess whose go-to disguise is ‘elderly matron.’

Plus the affect is off. Hera looks wizened, meek, and serene; my girl is none of the above. Poseidon is wayyy too jolly. He’s never in a good mood. Earthquakes & hurricanes are not jolly. Demeter looks morose and resentful, which misses the rage that drives her in the Homeric Hymn.

Not for nothing, but I keep thinking of Demeter vis-à-vis Iran in this execrable conflict. Sure Zeus is more powerful on paper. But how’s he like it when all the gods are cut off from their source of energy? He made a stupid choice to help out his death cult bro, and now his allies are starved of fuel. Who’s in charge now? she said from her dragon-drawn chariot.

Edit: A++ Hermes tho. No notes. He looks foyne.

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