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"SPRING PITCH
Happy to announce that my Spring Baseball cover for the
@nytimes
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- pablo281
- "Nicusor Dan is reportedly talking by phone with Donald Trump"pablo28
- I hope it's public, and Nicky makes Donny look like a Dicky. Not hard to do!canoe
- I very much doubt that :))
Nicusor would've mentioned it alreadygrafician - So stop spreading bullshit pablo. :))
YOU LOST! You're a losergrafician - https://x.com/Nicuso…pablo28
- Like I said, unless he mentioned it, it's bullshit
Now I stand corrected, Nicusor confirmed the call at noon todaygrafician - I'm not following. By the comments, is this fake? Or is grafician wrong?maquito
- Initially this morning Nicusor Dan didn't confirmed or deny the call - then he came out at noon with the twitter post confirminggrafician
- the call did happen and mentioning briefly what they discussed
So yes, I stand correctedgrafician - Grafician is never wrong.palimpsest
- palimpsest usually I am not :)
And when I am I will stand corrected ofcgrafician - Get a fucking hold of yourself.palimpsest
- and you mind your business?
You call your country Peru a shithole while living in Europe?
Go fix your country bro and stfugrafician - Did I fucking stutter?palimpsest
- You said I had no business being in Europe. Go figure!palimpsest
- Don't fret, maybe you'll get your way in the next elections.palimpsest
- Your hate of me is getting boring, go do something useful with your life and stop trying to antagonize LOLgrafician
- You are nobody to me, I couldn't care less about your situation, but when try to antagonize all the time...
again, mind your business right?grafician - I'm sorry you feel that way.palimpsest
- Wait, so if someone doesn’t live in a country that country isn’t there business and they shouldn’t post about it? Just trying to clear up this double standardmonospaced
- I don't really hate you, graf. I only feel contempt for you. You're low-hanging fruit.
It's still fun.palimpsest - Last I checked you spend a ton of time talking shit about the USA when, by your logic, it’s none of your business and you shouldn’t be antagonizing? Carlify.monospaced
- Bitter little drama queen. Try not to be so goddamn dramatic and get so insanely triggered. Please.monospaced
- "Wait, so if someone doesn’t live in a country that country isn’t their business"
Even better, if someone wasn't born in a country. He's a birther.palimpsest - no monospaced, mind your business not my business!
you palimpsest and canoe are in these notes everywhere I post
just mind your business in that regard :)))grafician - I am not "European" enough for some the same way I wasn't "American" enough for others.palimpsest
- You think I'm triggered just because I reply to you losers? :)))
Just fun seeing you trying to dunk on me all the timegrafician - While I know who you are in real life and you just have a big mouth around here, irl you're nobodiesgrafician
- You're here just to make fun of people
You barely post shit
Your contributions to this forum are almost nonegrafician - So yeah, again just mind your business?
Post something creative, usefulgrafician - Anyway, I'm done here, pa pa!grafician
- I never claimed to be anything I’m not. And to be clear, are you saying this is your business that we are discussing?monospaced
- So can we expect you to mind your business and yours alone, or are you exempt? Just be clear on this.monospaced
- Watching you spiral over being irrelevant is the most consistent content you’ve ever produced graficiancanoe
- NBQ005
- Damn
It's like in the States https://www.youtube.…grafician - Oh boy Detroit
https://www.youtube.…grafician - Oh no not Philly
https://www.youtube.…grafician - Damn not LA too
https://www.youtube.…grafician - Fuck noooo Washington?!
https://www.youtube.…grafician - It's like all the big US cities are shitholes no?
Who would've thought America could be this way :))grafician - https://www.youtube.…palimpsest
- hahahahaha palNairn
- Don't get defensive and deflect or anything. You post all day on the "Fucked" threads and turn instant snowflake over here. hahahaha, fkkn cracks me upcanoe
- Post all day? :)) cope harder canoegrafician
- It's you getting defensive as you can't stand anything, get the shit out of your eyes and look at YOUR OWN country first brografician
- So we’re all agreeing Graf will now not post in the USA threads as it is clearly not his business? Okay. Thanks.monospaced
- No you idiot, I said mind your business not reply everywhere I post!
You canoe and palimpsest just reply nonstop to everywhere I post :))grafician - Go get that job you boost about, spend more time with family, live your life! not stay in my ass 24/7 everywhere I post around here!grafician
- But you trying to post about Romania to trigger me while your country is a shithole that's rich :)))))grafician
- So posting about the USA is your business, but posting about Romania isn’t mine? Just clarify the rules please.monospaced
- And don’t get so triggered and cause so much drama. I know that’s something you need to work on.monospaced
- There are no rules :))))
OMG you are so so cheesygrafician - I really can't believe how you interact with people irl if you act like this online monospaced
What a piece of character your are :))))grafician - what thread is this again?sted
- You’re the only one telling people where they can comment or not, therefore I’m assuming you think you make rules. I only talk like this to children and you btwmonospaced
- You seem to think talking about Romania is your business and nobody here should be talking about it. Is that right?monospaced
- Damn
- Gardener5
- also guitar on one of my fave Steely Dan songs https://www.youtube.…Gardener
- ^ Yeah. That's a good one. I didn't know it was him.CyBrainX
- Also Hang On Sloopy, Which as a kid I always thought was "Hang on Snoopy"
https://www.youtube.…fooler
- mort_6
- Plants clearly have consciousness of a sort.mort_
- Vegans cryOBBTKN
- hahamort_
- wokeneverscared
- Vegans are only going to feed on sunrays, rainbows and good vibes.ApeRobot
- ^ You've clearly never gown down a breatharian wormhole.garbage
- Plants also use golden ratio better than graphic designers. how bout that?Beeswax
- But do they use Figma?grafician
- PhanLo4
- Is there a list of these investors?Projectile
- One investor, Roberto Faller, who is trying to trigger a class action suit because he believes United Health mislead the investors. So all of this is false.garbage
- https://storage.cour…garbage
- But also: Fuck UnitedHealth.garbage
- 11 years I spent working for these motherfucking monsters.maquito
- yuekit1
- I still don't get how anyone fell for this clown from the start.palimpsest
- i read his maps of meaning book and then 12 rules for life while i was losing the plot during the pandemic and thought 'yeah, seems to make sense to me'.Ianbolton
- but now i feel like a naive little idiot finding my way again. I find it daft that people say he's like Andrew Tate though. That is a stretch.Ianbolton
- He has some considered ideas and I think he's fundamentally a decent bloke. He likes genuine dialogue and the quest to further knowledge - some of the ...Morning_star
- ...atheists in this exchange are shallow 'gotcha' types which he has little time for. (49min).Morning_star
- But his ideas don't stand up under scrutiny as you can see in this video. He says stuff that sounds like it might be deep and insightful but if you think aboutyuekit
- what he's saying it often doesn't really mean anything. Like "if you believe something you have to be willing to die for it"... why? It doesn't make sense.yuekit
- He's never been "decent". He poses as "rational" but you always have to look at what purposes he actually serves, not the ones he claims to serve.palimpsest
- Fucking "clean your room".palimpsest
- @palimpsets, what purpose does he serve?
@yeukit, do you have an example of an idea that doesn't stand up to scrutiny?Morning_star - What I just said about how if you believe something you have to be willing to die for it. But you can just pick any part of the debate, it's all like that.yuekit
- Remember how in the early days he even claimed to be a leftist!? He's always served the interests of the cultural right. Don't you agree?palimpsest
- "AIn idea that doesn't stand up to scrutiny"
Fucking lobsters, in any academic realm whatsoever.palimpsest - As hard as you might try:
"You are not serious people"palimpsest - @palimpsest, I agree that his perspective is more often that not right of centre but I don't agree he 'serves the interests of the cultural right' . That ...Morning_star
- If you really are intereseted in nature try reading Philippe Descola.palimpsest
- ...would suppose he takes them into consideration when presenting is thoughts and I don't see evidence that he does.Morning_star
- Bruno Latour, Vinciane Despret, Baptiste Morizot.palimpsest
- I don't care what he takes into consideration. I'm talking about what purpose what comes outta his mouf serves.palimpsest
- And I think we agree that it serves the right, or right of centre if I want to be generous.
Furthermore, if we deconstruct his arguments, his thoughts...palimpsest - ... there's nothing there.
Zizek already ran circles around him.palimpsest - Even an idiot like me can see through it.palimpsest
- @yeukit if you wanted to we could get into this a little deeper as that's what explanation of his claim requires. Picking out soundbites and expecting a...Morning_star
- ...revelation will always be a route to misunderstandingMorning_star
- Do your own research, aimrite?palimpsest
- The main reason why we get into any of these thinkers are "sound bytes", because they manage to articulate a thought that speaks to us (or doesn't).palimpsest
- Post a 5h lecture.
"Why is this not true? Post facts, to debunk".palimpsest - @palimpsest. I hear you. The Zizek debate was a car crash and he admitted as much. I see him as a man thinking out loud in public, that in itself is a little...Morning_star
- ...foolish. The expectation that he comes with fully formed, fully interrogated ideas is unfair.Morning_star
- @Morning_star
I do appreciate your approach, and I think there's a lot of honesty in it.
But IDW have always come off as the Mormons of the web.palimpsest - I think you can ignore all the left vs right culture war stuff and his ideas are still half-baked. The best way to describe it is sophistry... vacuous ideasyuekit
- This is not the best framework for the type of converstation you seem to be after.
Hit me up on Discord if you're looking for a better exchange.palimpsest - dressed up in pseudointellectual jardon. This guy is supposed to be a philosophical genius so why isn't he winning the debate against a bunch of college kids?yuekit
- It's not unfair.
I keep my unfully formed ideas to myself.palimpsest - I thought yous was all about "the marketplace of ideas".
If so, he's selling air-dryed pottery on Etsy.palimpsest - He's a joke. My daughter goes to UofT where he used to be a prof. His former colleagues think he's an embarrassment.exador1
- He's ALWAYS been a joke.palimpsest
- Yuekit has it right. it's pseudo intellectual jargon. My brother in law is a scientist and prof at a university and we've chatted about this guy a fair bit.exador1
- There's literally nothing of value in his theories or his posturing. He's just another con artist, and like most of his ilk, he's realized the biggest 'marks'exador1
- are the far right. Their threshold for believing just about anything makes them a perfect target.exador1
- timothy leary ate scoundrels like perterson for as a sidesnack...so trivial is petersons pattern recognitionneverscared
- What is so important about his work that would impeed someone from accepting he's an idiot?
Even Woody Allen's work can stand up to scrutiny.palimpsest - Sure, he put his logo on a suit like an Adam West Batman villain. But that's all the props I'm willing to give him.palimpsest
- To wrap it up:
If in any point in history you heard Jordan Peterson and your though was "tell me more" you are not serious people.palimpsest - @Morningstar If you want to understand the criticism this is a good podcast that analyzes his ideas in detail from a rationalist/skeptica... perspective.yuekit
- https://decoding-the…yuekit
- @palimpsest There's some truth right there :)Morning_star
- 2 hours 26 minutes 36 seconds
Post facts to debunk.palimpsest - Personally, I don't need a 2 hour long podcast to "really understand" Peterson so I wouldn't impose the same on Morning_star.palimpsest
- @exador1, who's he conning?Morning_star
- Let's be honest here.
I haven't even clicked on the video in this post. I'm using this as an opportunity to make fun of the poor feller.palimpsest - I was an early hater. See page 1.BonSeff
- @yuekit Thanks, i'll give it a listen.Morning_star
- had a quick 3 second look and the kids seemed even more annoying than Jordan, don't need to watch it.PhanLo
- People are over-reading JP. He appeals to the mentally unstable angry crowd because he's them.garbage
- Peak comedy though, that whole Chinese Cum Farm conspiracy that further broke his drug-addled mind.garbage
- Jordy has a good grift system going, can do his sad wee lectures, sell his shitty books, fly over to Israel, get some of that end times jesus cash. total mad cuPhanLo
- What an unsatisfying debate format.monNom
- I always felt like he was ultimately dismissive of people who didn't fit into conservative mindset. Like art and culture are profoundly based in a certain chaosIanbolton
- He now seems like one of those cunts who claims everyone needs fixing and he was the guy to do it claiming he 'understood' human behaviour more than anyoneIanbolton
- If everyone listened to him and 'did as their told' the world would be one boring as fuck place for everyone.Ianbolton
- *drops acid* yepMorning_star
- I think a big element of it is that he has a lot of Christian followers. They like the interpretations of Biblical stories, it's like a new spin on somethingyuekit
- they are very familiar with. Peterson is connecting it to evolutionary psychology and giving it a kind of scientific legitimacy.yuekit
- Not sure about that. I think your second point about evolutionary psychology is an early step in the way he is interpreting Christian myths. And I guess...Morning_star
- ...because he's landed on Christianity as the framework for his ethos it will resonate with Christians more. But, I think you may be missing his reason for...Morning_star
- ...choosing Christianity and why he gets in to difficulties when someone asks if he is a Christian.Morning_star
- This sounds too much like Astrology.
Cool if that's the map you'll be using but it's a hard pass for me.palimpsest - FWIW, i think his ideas have some interesting foundations and worth understanding but I don't agree with 80% of what he spouts.Morning_star
- that's the core of all those pseudo intellectuals. 10% reasonable and 90% bullshit.pango
- Morningstar did you even watch it? He's not a Christian, he just grifts them. Christians and morons is his game.garbage
- Yes I watched it. It was entirely unsatisfying. Neither side had time enough to form fully coherent challenges. A pretty valueless exercise in outrage porn.Morning_star
- I don’t agree it’s a grift. As a man who’s on a very public journey I think people elevate him to a station, whether good or evil, that he doesn’t deserve.Morning_star
- In case you don't know, the guest at these get to choose their panel, and Jordan chose atheists. The atheists were then expecting a Christian debate with him.garbage
- Then he flew in, acting like it was some ambush, dodged easy questions..garbage
- ..to the point they had to change the upload title. JP's a moron and a grifter. There's nothing deep about him.garbage
- It's fine if you want to interpret it that way. But the video doesn't show that. As you point out, JP squirms and dodges the question about whether he's...Morning_star
- ...christian which suggests that the atheists were the only ones expecting atheists vs christians. The questions he posits to them are quite clearly coming...Morning_star
- ...from a broader place than just christianity and anyone who has paid the slightest bit of notice to him would realise that he's not particularly interested...Morning_star
- ...debating clumsy Atheists and their oh-so-clever semantic traps.Morning_star
- thats true garb.... nothing deep there... u cant drown in shallow water (except u fall) ,and u can make a lot of money with shallow folks who hang out there..neverscared
- if u cant even hang with teens and students and stay loose .. u def. are on the wrong side of history...neverscared
- I did kinda appreciate his foundations - saying christianity told us how to be human, while science 'supposedly' measures how human we are.Ianbolton
- I feel like it's giving way too much credit to Christianity. Ultimately these ideas came from people and it shows the evolution of society and cultures.yuekit
- Ianbolton3
blog
Sorry if this makes me sound old as fuck, but do people (QBN) use iPads now for sketching instead of pen and paper?
- nohans_glib
- Storyboarding, scamping, layout roughs - Yes. Sketching - You could but for me, not so much. I like the feel of the substrate and pencils/crayons/mark... etc.Morning_star
- Also the iPad can make things a lot faster and safer. Sketching IRL creates different results because of this.Morning_star
- nopalimpsest
- https://procreate.co… bro.ideaist
- nope, papermaquito
- Illustrated an entire book on ipadtank02
- Yes, I draw cars on my iPad in Sketch. Been meaning to try Fresco..slappy
- Thanks everyone. I've seen loads of people doing some great illustrations on their iPads. I don't own one and thought it'd get me back into drawing.Ianbolton
- I'm just your regular consumer of tech bitch thinking an IPad would inspire me to be more creative.Ianbolton
- ^Lolmaquito
- hans_glib7
- not just a horrible nightmare its the most horrible...neverscared
- jagara22
- quite_niko
- Nice! Cheers for posting it :-)PhanLo
- Yeah. This is sort of my skill level :)jagara
- Oh, I like this.Continuity
- "class adjourned"AQUTE
- there's a new Font style buried in thisKrassy
- < I know :)jagara
- Really dopePonyBoy
- Sassymort_
- Very nice.
(But does it say something?)Longcopylover - Nope ;)jagara
- Fuck me. I spent too long trying to read it. Love this <3monospaced
- I tried to read it too. It bent my brain a little.CyBrainX
- autoflavour2
blog
every year I teach a course at uni.. every year i tell the students just do the work as i will catch you cheating.. and every year i catch them.
usually its a slap on the wrist and they need to redo the course..
just got word one of them got expelled as when they were investigated by academic integrity unit, they have been at it across every class they did..brutal defeat.
its so stupid tho, the bar is already so low for this class.. like painted on the ground low .. like its more work to contract cheat than to phone it in and pass.
- reading stories about students who become so dependent on AI to solve the work for them. I'm sure some will do it just out of habit.Nutter
- thats not necessarily a bad thing, a student that can pass a degree using AI is more employable in some roles. digital literacy innitkingsteven
- i hear our students talk about using AI to check their work. it's kind of annoying because we pay people to do that, learning is the point not the mark. but heykingsteven
- we still get a load of plagiarism even with AI, either way... some people just love cheating... as auto says it's often not easier than actually doing the workkingsteven
- Someone lacking critical skills because they've outsourced them to AI won't be employable for long.i_monk
- they arent using AI to pass, they are paying people on the internet to do the assignments for themautoflavour
- contract cheating is a whole thing..autoflavour
- And the contracted people are using AI to max the number of contractswoowahesque
- utopian0
- Not that I give a shit - but that's for any new car since the dawn of dealerships - "It loses %30 of the value as soon as you drive it off the lot."toemaas
- Always buy "pre-owned' ;)toemaas
- concerningKrassy
- No way a pickup has 6k miles on it after 5 years. Typically 5 years is 60k for a commuter car. Likely more for a work truck. Would expect 50% off at 5 years.monNom
- toemass, yup, ALL new vehicles lose 30% when you drive them off the forecourt.microkorg
- Let what sink in? the entire planet already knows this applies to all carsGnash
- cybertruck is a massive desaster ...we all know that already...neverscared
- https://www.vice.com…neverscared
- the glue couldnt hold the car together it was more than utter shit..neverscared
- No sympathy for anyone dumb enough to buy one. You're paying the beta test tax.i_monk
- HijoDMaite24
Art of the Day Thread
Some of my dad's latest paintings. Clearly, he's having peyote for breakfast on the daily.
- <3microkorg
- Wow. These are amazing. Great work, Dad.CyBrainX
- I really like them. thx for sharingArchitectofFate
- ❤❤❤❤
Really cool to see morePhanLo - these are fantasticFax_Benson
- your dad is an incredible artist!exador1
- Thank you guys! Any still available for sale at family prices for you.HijoDMaite
- So goodPonyBoy
- #dadskillzmort_
- Wow. Love the black and white flowers.Longcopylover
- Dang! Amazing work!nocomply
- These would make great wine bottle labels. That's meant to be a compliment :)stoplying
- jagara2
draw something
Sheesh, the talent on this page (ugh, jealous). You'd be excused for mistakenly thinking QBN was a design forum or something.
- monospaced8
NYC Job hunting
Recruiter I do not know reaches out to me via email about a creative leadership role at financial company a couple weeks ago. We talk briefly, I send over some additional samples and a bulleted professional bio upon request (thank you for the help there chat gpt), and long story short, I just had an interview on Friday morning with the president of a major investment company looking for someone to come in and bring this established institution up to date and make them look good. They need real help, and way more than one person in my estimation.
Crazy how I can apply to a hundred jobs and not get an interview, and the one major interview I get is for a job I never would have applied to, as it’s above my pay grade, in my mind at least. But here we are, and they think I’m the one for the job, but there are major red flags. They don’t have an established creative organization, no true brand stewards, and expect everyone in the office 5 days a week. Huge pay but at the expense of family life balance. A real crossroads for me in my career and so much to consider.
- "Death is the end of life; ah, why Should life all labour be?" Feel the same, is any amount of money worth time away from the family?_niko
- Fuck You Pay Meutopian
- Honestly, I would rather change sectors, and reduce expenses to the minimum possible to compensate lower salary, than lose the freedom I have now...OBBTKN
- its a crazy world....neverscared
- Everyone in the office 5 days a week is a big ask after everyone has been used to fully remote. Most places asking for 2-3 days tops.microkorg
- no room to negotiate a hybrid package?lemoucheron
- I’m seeing this as all about negotiation, and also with my current position where I just launched a team, but the pay is low.monospaced
- Does your wife work @monospaced; you're in NYC, yeah?
A tough call indeed!ideaist - We both work from home in the burbs now, with two young kids in school and activities. It’s a commute to nyc now (under an hour) but that’s a significant cost.monospaced
- A lot of the higher salary would go straight to commuting costs and extra help, meals, etc since I wouldn’t be around for as much.monospaced
- Honestly, as a dad who seems to have a similar situation, kids and what not, I took a lower paying job to be fully remote.BonSeff
- The lower stress and time with family is invaluable.BonSeff
- That’s where I’m leaning. At least for now.monospaced
- I too am in the "lower stress" / "time with family" boat... Seem to be making good household income on paper, BUT also seem to be buying a lot (also on paper).ideaist
- Let me ask you a question that may help. Do you need more money?maikel
- a) I don't think that 5 days in an office is a big ask. It was normality a few years ago.
b) What everyone else is saying. Personally, I want time with my kid.Nairn - "At what cost more money?"Nairn
- A few years ago I could have walked. But the world shifted and we moved, so commuting is a burden on time and family.monospaced
- Yeah, I could always use more money :)monospaced
- Less pay for more life is worth it (if you're able to keep up with all your overheads that is)sausages
- Thank you all. Confirming and supporting my own feelings. Let’s see where this goes. Thanks.monospaced
- Mono this sounds GOOD. It feels like you hold the aces here and could set terms re family/work/life balance. A two year plan + then review.Horp
- add some tariffs for higher pay...neverscared
- I’d say, fucking congratulations man. Having options in a job market as dry as the current one is a pretty big feat.maikel
- Chinatown, Mono. Financial Company is going to be a conservative environment. 5 Days onsite is the norm. That's the culture; not pajama parties with llamas.MrAbominable
- Get ready to do the work of three people, to never get approval for recruiting, and to get sodomized on hours until you burn out into a festering heap.cannonball1978
- That’s my primary concern, cannonball. Cheers!monospaced
- neverscared1
- viva la franceneverscared
- He's her/his bitch since he was 15.ApeRobot
- https://encrypted-tb…_niko
- just havin fun .. viva la france https://www.youtube.…neverscared
- Candace Owens:
"Boys will be boys."Milan
- Gardener10
blog
At the car boot today I found a bootleg DVD of the same night I went to my first gig! My memories are not too hazy, considering I was only 14. I do remember being impressed by the size of the hall and I had quite a good view. My abiding memory though is of my Dad taking me and my friend Ilya to our seats and telling us "I'll be back soon" and he didn't return for the rest of the entire gig. However we eventually tracked him down at the bar where he confessed he thought "they were rubbish and too bloody loud". Tonight I'll find out if memory serves me well, I remember the night with great affection.
- my ticket had loads of pinholes where I had pinned it to various boards over the years, so I decided to cut the corners off one day.Gardener
- What a good gig to have went to. :-)PhanLo
- jelly jellyKrassy
- Wouldve wantedmaquito
- Well that was emotional, ropey hand cam but excellent sound, nearly cried twice.Gardener
