I’ve been struggling to make sense of it. The white queen is the Roman goddess Fotruna and the only depictions of her with a bared breast I’ve found are modern art. Usually a bared breast is either meant to represent nurturing/charity or an indication of sexual violence.

Sure, it could mean be a symbol of her being nurturing, but in the context of this set, I wonder if it is a reference to Nazi depictions of ancient mythology such as the Night of the Amazons where they used a warped image of the mythology to display women naked amidst their “master race” propaganda. Fortuna was also popular in Germany at the time given Carmina Burana was written in the 1930s.

Ultimately I came to the same conclusion about decadence as you, but I’m not sure if there is anything more to the symbolism than that.

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15-18 yos? The oldest of Gen Z are about to turn 30. Not saying they’re justified, just that Gen Z isn’t just 15.

Have you tried soap or wood carving ASMR? I think that’s the only one I could kind of get into, but I’d also rather listen to music, a podcast, or a history doc to relax or fall asleep to.

My name is Xi, but seeing as communism is when no money, I will not be distributing any of the Xi bucks I owe you. Instead I will pay you back with the people’s love.

We need centralised R&D free from market influence for the benefit of all life.

So you’re actually saying holding on to capitalism past it’s useful point was the mistake because it created the conditions for these things to happen?

One of my favorites:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2019.09.020

It’s important that you also read the section titles.

Pretty sure $1000 is the line where it becomes a felony. Walmart has been known to keep track of theft and wait until they have enough evidence to bust you for a felony. “If we hit them with a felony, they go to prison and they can’t steal anymore,” is the justification. Really, they just don’t see us as humans.

If I was a good capitalist, I would release a line of spray paints containing a concentrated, strong acid so they would corrode the metal, leaving a mark after the paint was removed. Call it something stupid like “Muskoleum,” “RustEloneum,” or “Cybertruck Repair Spray”," but preferably something catchier.

“…following unprovoked attacks on innocent mariners by Iranian-backed Houthis,” Central Command added.

Maybe they just felt like it. I bet they also didn’t offer any warnings or demands that would lead to them stopping those unprovoked attacks.

Yeah, I feel like a good middle ground is to cite your previous work in the context of “as we previously reported,” but maybe that’s just based on something that was ingrained in me by academia. It seems tacky. My boss has no problem with it though, he’s like, “idgaf, more citations, more views, higher impact.”

Communism is when capitalism.

Not interested.

Communities dedicated to battle videos often become cesspits. I haven’t seen a community that hasn’t, and I’m not interested in the sort of drama that will bring.

Like others have said, if these posts contain geopolitical analysis and it’s not just an armchair military tactician circlejerk, I think they can spark good discussions. As an alternative source of news to MSM reports, I think they can also show merit, but a lot of times they end up being communities that may as well be dedicated to blood sports.

It would be something I would block.

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I have a boss who will remote to a meeting that takes place right outside his office, then come in-person to the next meeting that immediately follows in the same room. People like the flexibility.

I was kind of thinking of that with the institutional journal bit. It doesn’t need to be a traditional journal, the only things important to me are:

1. peer review (skip #2)

2. open access

3. professional editors to help improve phrasing, spelling, flow, etc.

4. DOI link or similar unique identifier

I’m totally down to ditch the traditional journal format otherwise. It was just a quick comment not meant to go in-depth, but point out that we already have public institutions that can host publications.

I swear it’s an official rule that reviewer 2 is required to be a huge pain in the ass.

Institutions could easily form their own journals. National organizations that provide grants could also require you to publish in their journal. Universities can run their own journals. These sorts of entities already exist and provide article access for free, publishing in them would just need to be normalized.

These are just a few options without researchers organizing anything for themselves.

It’s all good.