Usually what makes it worth it is if the person in question has any works under copyright. It is usually fair game to make an unauthorized biography of a politician since very little of their public work is protected. In contrast, various artists, especially singer-songwriters, generally need to have their works be official since the copyright holders want control over how the artist is portrayed.

Yeah. I feel that a lot of later 20th and early 21st century work has shifted from deconstructionism to some form of constructionism, attempting to build from culture rather than demolish it to its core items. I just don’t know what that will look like.

For physical labor no one wants to do, you can finesse your response to be less “not my job” and more “I have other tasks I need to do now as part of my job”. It may sound similar, but one is making it so that you are determining what is and isn’t your responsibility and the other is pushing that decision on someone else.

Someone else hired you to push people around. You can’t override your boss, so you need to focus on the work they give you and take the breaks you can on their time table. A nurse may have deserved status, but unless the chain of command runs through them, you got to follow the chain.

Still applies more to Trump than Biden or Harris, given Trump’s open corruption feeding into crony capitalism.

Like I’ve said before, it feels like the term is being changed because the argument behind how I’m using it is hard to refuse, so the choice is to try to redefine the word rather than discuss the argument.

No. It means picking the person who will accelerate into whatever calamity which will cause a collapse.

I feel like there is a lot of revisionism of the definition because the definition is inconvenient to the opposing argument.

An accelerationist is picking someone who will collapse the empire due to incompetence and destroying American institutions. Between Trump and Harris, I don’t see Harris causing a collapse of American institutions like Trump.

Also, in regards to Iran, Trump has been far more antagonistic than Biden and Democrats in general were. The Biden administration at least needed a false flag attack to support Israel and a lot of the opposition came from Democrats. Trump got rid of Obama’s multilateral nuclear treaty and has participated in Israeli attacks where Israel was the aggressor.

Not that surprising. Becoming a doctor in the USA is part hazing ritual. Cuba developed a program that showed you can train doctors at a far lower cost.

Next time you want to say “that’s not my job”, change what you’re saying to “I don’t have the authority to do what you’re asking and you have more authority in asking the admins to do it than I do”.

That way, you’re not communicating that you won’t help, but that you can’t help. It also comes off that you’re trying to help with the situation rather that being a road block.

Teams isn’t made for the users.

Maybe not the worst but something else: the need to be in control and the inability to make decisions.

So you get people who want to be in charge but can’t actually do anything when they are in charge.

No. Wanting Trump to win is accelerationist because he’s going to cause the empire to fall faster due to incompetence.

You aren’t angry at Democrats for war crimes, you’re angry at them because they are better at governing.

They aren’t going to make the movie they should.

Ahh, so you’re an accelerationist.

I don’t think Harris would have bombed Iran.

But hey, it is better to do something that feels good than something which affects change, right?

I work in a field that requires human validation of outputs by law. I don’t see that changing before I retire.

Yeah. The criticism of Biden in Gaza was valid, but Gaza wasn’t on the ballot in 2024. A Trump election meant US support of more Israeli aggression.

I’ve heard a lot of people like the Musee d’Orsay, but I found the architecture to be a little garish.

The problem with killing off all the leaders is finding leaders with enough political capital to negotiate a cease fire.

I love the second example. The Catholic Church needed so much money to build the place that it caused a religious schism.

A lot of mosques aren’t that glittery. There are different styles to building mosques; I found the Blue Mosque in Istanbul to feel somewhat like a cathedral, but lighter and with patterns instead of iconography. The only mosque I’ve been in that felt off was the Hagia Sophia, and that is because it was converted from an Orthodox cathedral so it feels different.

I’ve also been to an Art Deco cathedral in Brussels that felt off too. It is the only Art Deco cathedral I’ve been to, which makes sense given what was generally built with Art Deco. Also, the modern Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City feels like a Catholic Space Mountain given that the style of architecture used for the basilica was heavily used in Disney’s Tomorrowland.

I think that, for you, maybe a lot of it is that you’re seeing some places of worship in a vastly different architectural style that you’re used to. The combination of grandeur and out of context architectural presentation makes the place feel alien.