I went to an art museum today and had a revelation about abstract art. I don't hate abstract art, I hate pretention. Abstraction is the erasure of unimportant detail, not a lack of detail, and nearly all thought engages in some amount of it. Communication is fundamentally abstract since we lack the ability to beam our entire life experience into someone's head at a moment's notice. We have to rely on arbitrary combinations of sounds and symbols to hopefully inspire a fraction of our desired feeling &/or meaning in an observer. It's honestly unbelievable how well we can communicate given so many blurred lines and unknowns. All this to say: abstraction isn't the problem

But you know what is? Drawing a few concentric squares and calling it art. There is no meaningful communication happening, no informational flow. It's completely and entirely substanceless. It's not abstract, it's useless. And yet, I am forced to look at it, if even for only a second, so that I may write it off

My question now is why bother? I know rich people can use art as a tax evasion thing, but the museums can simply choose to not collect such vapid wastes of space. Furthermore, even if they do want to collect for some tax reason or other loophole, could you at least not show them? Just keep them in cold storage. Is it that the curators as so lost in the sauce that they believe their own hype? Do they see something I don't? Is it a humiliation ritual? Are they projecting meaning onto the "work" and thinking it's good now?

Idk man, I just hate pretention

I baked some chicken thighs and carrots and made mashed potatoes and gravy to go with some leftover cranberry sauce in the fridge, but really it was all an elaborate excuse to make stove top stuffing groyper

找工作？不，我只是坐着。

I've been rewatching avatar the last airbender, 5 year old me had excellent taste this show is great

It is a banger show. We didn't know how good we had it

The one upside to public transit is that you can chat up people while waiting for the bus to come

I really should read LOTR

Hard liquor getting me more drunk, although entirely understandable, is bullshit. I shouldn't have to drink an entire bottle of eggnog to feel anything when I can drink 3-4 shots of rum and feel it instantly

Too bad Parmesan is expensive and I'm brokeish

The thing I find most admirable about my colleagues and peers in the United Kingdom is that they too dislike and distrust the government.

I'm like, "wtf y'all don't trust mfers either?" then I ask if they want to party and almost always they agree.

Good people across the pond

Any good man distrusts the government

My soup smells so fucking good

I weep for those who don't know how to cook

Dropped my phone and the color of the line across my screen changed

The one thing that consistently sucks about Linux is how shitty Bluetooth is everywhere. Not once have I had a good experience using it whereas every other platform on the planet seems to have it figured out

A mysterious iron bar appears in my pants every morning (and at various random times throughout the day)

Dreamt about assembling automatic guns (deagle + autoseer, and 2 modern big fucking things that shot 30-06), blowing up a small water tower with the new gun, then having a bunch of army dudes give us props for it. Then it transitioned into me hanging out in my childhood home's kitchen drinking sour apple whisky w/ my mom and getting hammered immediately

This fucking freak also trips me out