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Cake day: April 10th, 2025

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  • these mind formations last into adulthood and artists have to train to see and reproduce what’s actually there instead of what their brain is throwing up.

    There’s an easy way to test this with your own mind, you take a simple photograph of a face and do your best to reproduce it with whatever artistic talent you have. You have to give it a solid effort though.

    Then you rotate the photograph upside down repeat the process trying to reproduce exactly what you see.

    It’s like a parlor trick because for most people the upside down image, which doesn’t trigger the brain to draw it’s idea of a face, comes out looking passably good even if their right side up copy is shite.

    I learned this from a drawing book when i was learning to draw and it blew my mind!






  • as a buddhist i think this refers to the inherent struggle that is life itself. every organism is born hungry and needs to fight that constant hunger or die. life IS suffering, because only the living need to fight for every minute to just exist., All of our existential suffering falls from that.

    What buddha taught is that it’s our gift to be able to be present in the moment and observe the sensations that arise from all this suffering without suffering directly.


  • american cops have some of the worst crime clearance rates on earth despite having the largest budgets.

    vs some civilized countries:

    src

    they put up these impressive numbers while sucking down most of the budget in every town, while abusing minorities and the homeless and anyone else they can. You ever have to deal with cops for insurance when you get robbed? They are making sure you aren’t scamming the insurance company, who they actually work for. They don’t give a fuck about helping you.

    Wonder why those leftists aren’t happy with the state of things 🤔

    Wonder why anyone could be pleased with it tbh.