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Hot Dog Water Ice Sculptures
I hate art like this, but this makes good points about the relationship between wealth, capitalism, charity, and art. The artist made ice sculptures of hot dogs from hot dog waste water, sold them, and mailed them out. @sunday.nobody.art ♬ original sound – Sunday Nobody Art I think it’s a good demonstration of how a…
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Why does a candidate sometimes win the popular vote, but lose the Electoral College vote?
There are some misconceptions floating around about this. I’ll note them in parentheses in my explanation below: The people’s votes do not directly choose the president. The Electoral College (EC) makes the final decision, following its own rules and the laws of each state. The EC gives a number of votes to each state based…
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Stockhausen vs. Zorn
I thought this would be a matchup of dissonance, but it’s not feeling this way at all. It feels like classical versus jazz/rock, and it’s difficult to compare. https://brackethq.com/b/82sib/ More on this later, when I figure out which is going to win this. Zorn has the edge. This setup was just a bad idea. I…
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
I went down a rabbit hole after I needed to learn about feasibility; so this is a self-education page about that, organizing, and strategy. Since I don’t have expertise in this, I’m just listing some things I’ve found, or recalled. I’m including business and community and political organizing resources. If you aren’t up for reading,…
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Comparing “Uncle Tom” and the “Model Minority” Stereotype
This was written by Bing Chat. I asked it to compare the two, and format it as a table. That specific prompt, to form it as a table, caused ChatGPT to find more parallel comparisons than it found without the request for a table. Here is a table layout that compares the character of “Uncle…