I remember seeing a poster of Maxfield Parish’s Daybreak, looking the painting up online and feeling super depressed when I read that no one can ever see the original in person because some anonymous asshole bought it for over $25 million dollars. The worst part is that for all we know, the buyer could’ve decided to set it on fire and feed the ashes to pigeons. It’s their property. Rich people can seriously just take important artifacts with barely any oversight. They collect the weirdest shit, too: the personal letters of celebrities, Gutenberg bibles, stolen Egyptian art. It’s literally just hoarding but expensive.

Good read, I don’t know why people are being so defensive about it. I agree with what the author says about the polarization of 9/11 reactions online. People pretend to be either nihilists or nationalists, which feels redundant to an extent because both sides cynically exploit other people’s trauma for the sake of establishing their highly performative political personas. There’s no room for mourning in our culture. Genuineness is seen as disingenuous. You’re either make memes that joke about 9/11 jumpers or ones demanding that the middle east be nuked.

Never realized how affected I was by my environment until I got to live in Peru for a bit. Being in a walkable town was 100% a better antidepressant than my actual antidepressants.

B U T A T W H A T C O S T ?

Except they already do that now. Companies have abused the legal system to go after negative Yelp and Glassdoor reviews.

Pretty soon it’ll be illegal to sue corporations. I give it five years, maybe less given how reactionary the Supreme Court is.

A lot of the Chinese international students at my college were like that. Might be a biased sample size, though. People who move to different countries are more likely to be partial to said countries.

Ummmmm, srry honey, but we actually need to give a gajillion dollars to cops for all the trauma they endure watching nurses get beat up.

Data shows American health care workers now suffer more nonfatal injuries from workplace violence than workers in any other profession, including law enforcement.

This is so obvious it shouldn’t even have to be said at this point. Being a cop is the easiest fucking job in the universe: just sit back, let things get worse and profit. The proposed solution to hospital violence is literally stationing even more useless cops at hospitals.