Dummies think that caring about butterflies is for romantics & bleeding hearts. It’s not. The larvae of butterflies are one of the primary paths by which solar radiation is converted into a living food web, i.e. the ecosystem upon which all life relies. Without them, we are gone
It’s little stuff like this that reminds me humans were built for play and joy, so much of our existence robs us of it, but we are searching for it everywhere
@beepupkin The Venn diagram of people who say that you should “separate the art from the artist” (esp. as a defense for still liking art made by terrible humans) and people who think AI art is acceptable is a perfect circle, and both fundamentally misunderstand what art *is*.
i want to be exactly rich enough to buy a spacious, perfectly organized kitchen, where i’m not forced to stack all my pots and pans in a psychologically unmanageable way. and no richer
The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save—the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour—your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.
You shouldn't run The Brothers Karamazov through ChatGPT to shorten it. Instead, you should have your friend who is obsessed with it explain the entire plot to you like a bard telling you a legend (me, for example)