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Cake day: July 16th, 2023
  • The alternative is it being too cold to leave without fear of frostbite.

    Also unless you’re wearing a full Arctic exploration suit then the air is gunna hurt when it’s -35c (with windchill) which fucking sucks for doing small errands. I’d rather just be a little hot and not need to put on a whole 10 layers to bring out the garbage or recycling

    edit: I’d also rather die of heatstroke enjoying my 12 hours of sunlight than die frozen in the 3:30pm darkness

  • Everything is just built to be the most utilitarian, and more importantly cheaply built, they can be now. Something that kicked off the lack of beauty in our architecture was a paper written by Adolf Loos in around 1913 called “Ornament and Crime”. Naturally, the arguments he made were nearly all rooted in racism

    Loos introduced a sense of the “immorality” of ornament, describing it as “degenerate”, its suppression as necessary for regulating modern society. He took as one of his examples the tattooing of the “Papuan” and the intense surface decorations of the objects about him—Loos says that, in the eyes of western culture, the Papuan has not evolved to the moral and civilized circumstances of modern man, who, should he tattoo himself, would either be considered a criminal or a degenerate.