As the saying goes, philately will get you nowhere.
As the saying goes, philately will get you nowhere.
The Simpsons’ version of Bill Clinton.
In philosophy, it’s called Pasta’s Wager.
Look into design thinking and in particular ideation. There are lots of formal processes, exercises, activities, etc. that are used by individuals and teams in all sorts of contexts specifically for coming up with ideas. The process is usually one of throwing a bunch of things on the table, sorting through them, getting rid of most of them, elaborating on the ones that seem interesting, then following one to completion, or at least to some sort of first draft/prototype/mockup. You then decide whether or not you want to work on the draft further, or decide that it’s a dead end and start from scratch. The thing with “ideas” is that all of them are terrible and only serve to help guide us towards doing something interesting. Creating things is an intensely iterative process, and what you start with is unlikely to look much like what you end up with after a number of iterations.
Ideas are also all derivative. There are no new ideas, just riffs on existing ones. Even most interesting and innovative works have been influenced by past works, or works from different disciplines, or inspired by nature. If you’re looking to make a short comic, start by figuring out what works and artists and styles you like. Try recreating parts of them, or emulating them, or combining elements of them, and see if the results speak to you. That’s one of the few actually useful applications of LLM AI. You can quickly test concepts, maintain some elements and discard others, do mashups, etc. When something grabs you, try to figure out what it is that resonates about it, then try to recreate it with your own spin.
Ultimately, ideas are just prompts for doing work, and having a good idea (to the extent that such a thing even exists) is far less important than being willing to test a number of ideas to find out what will motivate you to spend real time and effort on creating something.
“Living’ la vida loca” would translate roughly as “Ballin’ the crazy ball”, which sounds pretty fun, tbh
I tried opposing genocide but they threatened to put me in jail for antisemitism
There is no evidence that belief in Santa is harmful to children, nor is telling them the truth. They only believe in Santa for like maybe three years, and they’ll figure it out on their own. The vast majority of kids figure it out by age ~7-8. You can tell them whatever you want, it won’t matter either way.
If you do tell them the truth, or they figure it out on their own, be sure to also tell them that even if they don’t believe, other kids do, and being a Santa-truther will not win them any prizes or make them any friends. It’s a good lesson about living in a society.
Of all the states showing solidarity with Israel, Ukraine makes the most sense. Both are effectively client states dependent on the US to maintain their increasingly-tenuous status quo. Supporting Palestinians would be biting the hand that feeds.
It’s all great, but the tiny podcasting mic is clearly the icing on the cake
Ticket scalpers take way more risk, plus they don’t get sympathetic coverage on the news when they’re whining that people aren’t buying their tickets at a high enough markup. Also ticket scalpers aren’t withholding a fundamental necessity from people. Ticket scalpers work harder, too.
Really, ticket scalpers are just incorrigible scamps compared to landlords.
This is an incredibly embarrassing attempt at trolling. You should post it on Reddit, they’d love it over there.
Elon Musk got me to stop using Twitter.
“Ma’am, please don’t sit on my snack tray.”
I’m actually two kids in a trenchcoat, but good luck proving it.
Yeah, it depends on the criteria. The Nazis were only around for a few years, whereas the British did their thing for centuries. The Nazis were a rookie prodigy who retired after a single red-hot season, the British were a multi-season MVP with way more points on the board.
Without flaws, we would all have achieved nirvana, and would be freed from the cycle of birth and rebirth. There would be no people and no society, because we would no longer be chained to the flawed and impermanent material world. Simple as.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not sure you aren’t a Nazi, either.
But yeah, the Hitler and slavery apologia is also really bad and you should probably stop that if you’re not a Nazi.
Some may consider these statements to be (insert trendy prefix, here) phobic, but they are also factual
The first is subjective, the second is a counterfactual. By definition, neither can be factual statements.
The headline on this should be that the theory is actually testable.