“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift

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Cake day: July 25th, 2024

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  • I kind of understand fashion shows with exotic outfits not meant to show off things people will actually wear but just to make a statement within an artform.

    I will not now, not ever understand the wankery at car shows where automakers will design concept cars not even close to anything a human being will ever be regularly driving. Yeah, some artistic design goes into a car, but even more than fashion, the designs are constrained predominantly by engineering challenges.

    It’s just: “Hey, I know we’re intentionally ruining the planet and bribing/extorting your governments to let us, but maybe one day it’ll be cloaked in the aesthetic of a shitty sci-fi utopia instead of a shitty sci-fi dystopia.”