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There is a certain modern rejection of Western tradition in the arts, due to its perceived immorality, Christianity, and elitism (art for the nobility equals bad). This extends to architecture as well. So modern architecture and art have to be ideologically socialist and non-religious, rather than traditional. I have often thought this (since I was about 18), about what culture and the environment would look like if Europe/US were more traditional. Like cities would not be rebuilt in the socialist or modern art style, and instead adopt neoclassical architecture or modernized forms popular in the 19th century. People would also dress differently, and much more formally like they did in the 19th century.

'Power Rangers' Star Jason David Frank Dead By Suicide at 49 (tmz.com)

I had 6 weeks where I was so busy that I couldn't work on it at all but I am back on it now. I recently bought special photography lighting for my home office so I can film at night. My home office only has 1 window. I am finding it a lot more work than I anticipated. It also reminds me that this type of thing is much easier to do if you are doing it as you are learning, so the information is current and fresh. If you come back to stuff you haven't done in years you'd have to re-invent the wheel and waste a lot of time. I spent a lot of time searching/organizing my notes and doing some planning. I finished exploring all possible options and set up a currently empty Forum, Website, Patreon, and chose a vendor for online course creation. Now I want to write a couple of scripts and create some videos real soon.

His twitter account was his most powerful weapon, he had 89 million plus followers. His presidency was a giant trolling/obstruction affair but his performance during the pandemic was horrific. I am more annoyed at that than everything else combined. The Jan 6th riot and attack on the Capitol was the second thing I have an issue with. I am fine with Biden as president, prefer him to Trump but I strongly disagree with their association with the re-branded neocons, and their stupid desire to fight a war with Russia. The Democrats are on track to create a generational cold war II, have nuclear confrontation, and spend trillions fighting Russia like we spent trillions fighting in the middle east. IIRC Trump was one of those anti-NATO conservatives and wanted to pull the US out of the alliance, de-militarize, and leave Europe to fend for themselves. As the situation in Ukraine escalates that could serve American interests if the Russian mobilization is successful and they win the war. And if the Russians win the war regardless of US funding then they will turn into an even more dangerous, fascist and militarized state. They have already increased their defense budget by 80%. Winston Churchill was seen by the British as being a good wartime leader (and even his failures, many of them serious were ignored) but after they won WW2 the British people, in particular the working class completely rejected him despite his role in the victory. Churchill was the leader to have for war and not for peace. Since COVID-19 is mostly over, maybe Trump having a second term would be overall better than Biden having a second term, I don't know. If Biden didn't screw around with nuclear Russia and pretend that they are not highly dangerous I would prefer that he get that second term.

The other chocolate cake in the same bakery is perfect and has a different ratio: 55% dark chocolate cake 30% chocolate mousse 15% dark chocolate pudding The whole cake is then encased with one layer of thin dark chocolate fudge garnished with chocolate mousse

I got a chocolate mousse cake from a local italian bakery today, ate a huge slice. The chocolate mousse was great but there is such thing as 'too much ' of a good thing. The dark chocolate cake to mousse ratio was literally 35:65, there was simply too much mousse. It overpowered everything else. It was the exact opposite of the Tuxedo cake, which had far too little mousse. Still enjoyed it though.

Karlie in the VS SWIM segment from VSFS 2013 Video Screenshots and Gifs

It's been 6 years and he's still finding stuff... next gen livestream coming in a few days.

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Geralt working in his estate

I heard that the main purpose of the royalty in the UK (and why the death of Queen Elizabeth was so big) is that the nobility was primarily cultural- to be beyond politics and given a traditional example to aspire to. I think this was the case in Europe until the 20th century. (pre WW1) However without any nobility and tradition, everything is left up to pop culture, the market, politics etc.

Cyberpunk 2077 also has a Blade Runner easter egg. I remember those trench coats. They looked familiar.

^ It's politics, it's not supposed to make any sense! Trump doesn't want to come back to twitter. I think it will be at his loss. Elon will certainly give him a lot of freedom to project soft power.

The war has moved East now. Reports of Approx. 30,000-20,000 Russian airborne, marine, and army units are being re-deployed in the Z-Oblast and the Donbass. The Ukrainians have moved 40,000-25,000 troops to the Z-Oblast. Russia expects an increase in pressure in this area. Russia has been on the offensive for over a week in the Donbass back to August 2022 levels and Ukraine is more on the defensive now. Russia completed the training of 2nd Guards Motorized Division in Belarus, and is likely going to deploy it. If they integrated reservists into this formation, instead of several BTG it would mark the first doctrinally correct use of fighting unit, in large-scale warfare mobilization. It remains to be seen if the training was successful or not: It is composed of 2 rifle regiments, tank regiment, self-propelled artillery regiment, recon battalion, Air defense regiment, engineer battalion, logistics battalion, communications battalion. I've been waiting to see a combined arms Russian division in action since Feb 24th but the Russians never deployed any in the offense. It is something I am most curious about.

oh my how the tables have turned LOL

oh god, so much entertainment has opened up now. The memes:

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