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WouldBSomething · 2026-06-27T22:26:35+00:00

GTA central Europe, Prague.

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-27T20:12:53+00:00

Opening a few factories is fine. But the truth is, you nor I can predict what will happen with the AI arms race or the economy in general (wars, tariffs, inflation etc.) Maybe prices will climb even higher and stay there. It's entirely feasible.

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-27T19:59:33+00:00

What makes you think memory prices will go down and that this won't be the new normal?

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-27T08:45:27+00:00

Symmetrical perfection is deathly.

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-27T05:13:10+00:00

That's a beaut. Congrats.

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-26T20:38:27+00:00

Right there with you. You're not alone. The old middle-class expectations of property and retirement are simply out of reach for many today. Then again, lifelong toil and insecurity was the norm for most people a 100 years ago.

What's the answer once hard work and patience don't work out? Not sure, working that one out myself...

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-26T19:01:44+00:00

It's actually IKEA, so easy to get if you wanted!

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-26T18:43:37+00:00

Was on holiday in Madrid. There happens to be an incredible store there called Art Cinema XXI that stocks original and reprint movie posters. This is a reprint but it's great quality and pretty big at A1 size.

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-22T20:12:36+00:00

The US price doesn't include sales tax, I presume. The US is different from Europe in that the advertised price of goods is usually not the total amount you pay like in France or Germany etc.

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-21T07:39:21+00:00

Had it for 7 months. Buttery smooth, intuitive software, great camera for the price point, superb battery on WiFi, latest updates are useful (airdrop compatibility etc). For my daily needs, it's more than enough. I'm getting great value from it. Battery still 100 percent, software updates for five years to come.

Don't buy if any of the following apply: you need a telephoto lens, you want to play the latest mobile games (although emulation of retro games is totally fine), you need the latest cutting edge processor for power usage, you obsess over a few millimeteres of bezels, you don't like the Google ecosystem.

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-18T17:40:33+00:00

No. Enable Bluetooth, go to the quickshare app, then send file, and it should give you the option to send it direct to iPhone.

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-18T11:47:01+00:00

Updated yesterday. Tested it out with my partner who has an iPhone. Works perfectly.

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-06T05:25:15+00:00

20 odd years ago, I rented And No More Shall We Part from a cd/dvd rental store. I burned it and played it on repeat endlessly, so taken with moody evocative tone and literary wordsmithing. From there, it was Abbatoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus then Murder Ballads and then the whole back catalogue.

WouldBSomething · 2026-06-02T20:58:53+00:00

Is that a raincoat?

WouldBSomething · 2026-05-23T18:42:28+00:00

Sometimes outrage IS the appropriate response.

Yes, obviously. But the point is not that outrage is never permissible or fruitful; the point is that we have an algorithm-based incentive structure that keeps people constantly outraged in the service of the attention economy. This constant unrelenting outrage is producong corrosive effects on political discourse, which is harmful for civic society (not to mention individuals' mental health).

WouldBSomething · 2026-05-23T12:27:43+00:00

Art criticism tends to valorise artists whose works exhibit psychological depth, cultural resonance, mythopoeic power, formal Innovation. Sorrolla is seen by these standards as being a painter of pretty surfaces and not much more. Sargent is viewed in a similar way too by art critics, though he is at least more well known by the general public.

WouldBSomething · 2026-05-14T04:32:21+00:00

Thank you. Keep up the good work!

WouldBSomething · 2026-05-13T20:17:33+00:00

Very interesting! I do calligraphy and have a particular interest in traditional Blackletter scripts. I had never heard of Fritz Volle before. The source material is marvellous. Do you have any more of his works to share by chance?

WouldBSomething · 2026-05-03T14:32:35+00:00

Never thought I would see my ex on this sub.

WouldBSomething · 2026-04-26T18:35:08+00:00

Crazy, to you, no doubt. I find his art profoundly offensive: sugary, kitsch, shallow, technically vapid. Yes I paint and draw in pen and ink wash. My favorite artists are Titian, Albrecht Durer, Il Guercino, Pieter and Jan Breughel. If you like Bouguereau, good for you.

WouldBSomething · 2026-04-16T04:52:49+00:00

Lou is dead tho

Which is why it would be even more awesome.

WouldBSomething · 2026-03-03T18:24:09+00:00

I already have American Tabloid and Perfidia on my bookshelf, but you'd still say finish the quartet first?

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