I don’t think this is how efficient markets are supposed to work.

Can’t wait for tomorrow’s.

I want patrons

At first, sorry for poor my English.

I can’t draw enough pixels last 1-2 years, It’s due to my house.

My house is in deep in the mountain (Mt.Kumano). I didn’t talk with human. 30~ days as usual.

There is no hospital, no car, no youth, no friends, and no families.

I’m about to go crazy. 

Honestly, This is worst time in my life.

I want to seeing cityscapes on daily basis, and draw them more.

but I have not enough incomes to live in Tokyo or other city.

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one of the oldest and arguably the most important museum in Brazil is burning to the ground as we speak. home to the portuguese royal family from 1808 to 1821, the Museu Nacional stored fossils, meteorites, pre-historic human skeletons and a variety of artefacts related to natural history. it holds two centuries of latin & brazilian history and now it’s all gone.

some of the things that are now lost forever: the largest collection of egyptian artefacts in latin america; the skeleton of the largest flying reptile ever found in Brazil; the oldest human fossil ever found in the country, named “Luzia” (over 11.000 y.o) and other 20 million extremely important relics and researches just burned to the ground. never to be seen again.

thanks to our government, of course, who didn’t want to pay the museum the necessary funds to make the essencial maintenances since 2014 (which by the way, costed less than a supreme federal court judge’s sallary: R$520 in a year).

another sad instance where the state’s indifference towards culture and history becomes painfully obvious. this is a massive blow to our cultural legacy.

all that in our independe week. happy independe for us, brazilians, who just lost our history and culture in a fire caused by ignorance and indifference.

in case you’re wondering, this is what the museum used to look like:

this is what it looks like now:

thousands of years of culture lost. happy independence week.

“Authorities say the fire lasted for six hours, causing irreparable damage. To put it bluntly: it’s all gone. A meteorite, that can sustain incredibly high temperatures, was found intact. But other than that, there are apparently no other pieces left. It would not be an understatement to call the Museu Nacional the Brazilian equivalent of the Louvre or the British Museum.”

here is a thread of wonderful pictures taken before the fire started, so you can see details of the museum that now is lost forever.

here is some of the international news saying on this, because most articles and videos are all in portuguese, u can check some of the news in english: (here *new york times*) (here *bbc news*) (here *le monde* for french speaking readers) (here *shorouk news* for people who speak arabian) (here *azteca news* for spanish) (here *corriere della sera* for italian).

it was a natural science and historic museum, there were all sorts of important researches and relics. all burned. this was our culture. our history. the first human fossil found in brazil (mentioned above, Luzia) was so important for science, since it proved that way before indigenous tribes existed in Brazil, there were black people.

this is the place where our first constitution was made and the declaration of independence was signed. our independe day is this friday. heartbroken.

the holy grail

it’s him... the Trader Joe

Metal Gear Solid (1998) 

DMC 3

Sonic Adventure 2 (2001)

For all of the critiques against capitalism, the stupidest one I have seen yet is that capitalists want to let infrastructure (roads in particular) crumble into nothingness because it helps them…make more money?

You can’t make money without the infrastructure necessary to transit goods and services. Without [good, quality] roads, your fleet of Wal-Mart trucks ain’t going anywhere.

imo that’s a pretty good way to strawman “a contingent of ultra-rich people who own both corporations and the sort of capital necessary to buy government are, by deliberately impacting the latter, acting to legitimize the former, advancing a formulation of right-libertarianism that’s damaging to the working class and slanted toward the interests of capital.”

To draw a comparison - Amazon is losing money, too, but its investors keep throwing capital its way. They can afford to lose a little money, as long as what they’re spending it on is controlling society and the economy.

Can you dumb this down for me? I am sincerely looking to understand what you’re saying (as it relates to my OP) and I am struggling to parse what you mean.

Maybe I just haven’t had enough coffee.

Sure, let me be more specific-

I think it’s an oversimplification to say “capitalists want to let infrastructure and roads in particular crumble.”

They want the government to let infrastructure and roads crumble, so that they can send in - say, for example - Domino’s, in order to fix the damage. The capitalists who own Domino’s then take credit for fixing a problem that they, themselves, created.

The money they’re losing out on due to infrastructural damage isn’t worth as much to them as the narrative and the control they’re buying elsewhere, and I think this holds as true for Amazon and its investors as it does with Domino’s and theirs.

It’s an act of corporate propaganda meant to delegitimize the government while legitimizing corporations.

Thank you that’s much clearer. On it’s face, I can see the merits of this perspective, but I think the premise breaks down under scrutiny.

For example, who or what incentives are signaling to the State to diminish or withdraw spending on infrastructure? I suspect the answer would be that the cuts in spending are related to tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but why should that mean—necessarily—that infrastructure spending goes down? The corporations aren’t forcing the State to draft a budget where this spending is cut, and the revenue of the Federal government has skyrocketed over the last two decades; there is plenty of money being spent, and many facets of that spending have grown despite revenue cuts.

It is difficult to imagine that Domino’s, for example, has lobbyists actively petitioning legislators to cut infrastructure spending in order for the corporations to obtain the much-valued legitimacy (in lieu money, and to usurp the State).

But although I disagree with this particular example, I will not dismiss the notion that large corporations are actively working to upend the traditional institutions in this country and replace them with corporate-friendly “government”.

Look at the U.S. tax code for clear examples.  But the simple answer is if there’s less income spending goes down by that amount.

You’re right in saying that there is plenty of money being spent, but it definitively isn’t going for infrastructure; that’s because you make relatively little money off infrastructure.

You can make bank, sure, but you also have to deal with millions of construction workers, national laws, multi-state laws, labor unions, etc.  There’s money to be made there, but compared to (for example) buying more planes that nobody needs it’s pulling blood from a stone.

It’s not inherently “stop funding infrastructure” or “roads suck”, but more a matter of roads being pushed to the literal bottom rung of importance, in addition to “Walmart’s roads are fine and it doesn’t care about yours”.  Which is wholly dysfunctional with services and goods necessary for everyone with pricetags that only a few people can afford ($3k-6k for a driveway).

But this relatively poor profit margin has lead to a severe underfunding in favor of other programs/projects.  That is literally what happened in the real world with a government that, to varying extents, is meant to help people.  Removing the power of the people at large from the equation would only lead to less benefit for average schmoes.

Except that’s literally what’s been happening in the real world.

There’s no getting around this.  Private interests have manipulated public spending to line their own pockets at the cost of the public good to the tune of at least a trillion dollars a year.  Yes, trillion.  Yes, every year.  And that’s on top of extra-governmental costs, such as higher private insurance rates ($4,600 per person per year), deflated wages and wage theft ($19B/year), and more.

I think a lot of your disagreement comes from the concept of this being a necessarily deliberate plan.  A lot of public corruption is composed of smokey back rooms and deals with code words.  But far more of it is people grabbing what they can, gobbling it to the bone, and then not caring about anyone else.

Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and BAE Systems  don’t want Americans to have crumbling infrastructure.  But they sure as fuck aren’t going to give back the $2billion+ they made from sheer corruption for the F-35.

Thank you for this breakdown. Can’t say that I disagree with any of the observations you’ve made here, especially considering that you put my own observations into a broader (and more applicable) context.

Blessed post

*knock knock*

“Anyone there?”

“Ah ha! You are here. Won’t you let me in?”

“No? I’m afraid you won’t have a choice in the matter.”

“That should do it!”

“Now, now. Don’t be afraid.”

“I’m only here for your life.”

Whiplash 2

I’M DEAD AFSHGASJHJHA

That squirrel is gonna learn how to use the ripple and then the birds are gonna be fucked

most parents : afraid their child will find their gun and get hurt

me: afraid my son will find my protein powder and get too strong and then he has to be my dad

cats are just funny little dudes made of knives that live in your home. pretty solid conceptually and in practice 

“i am a full-time student working hard to get my degree in design and pursue a career in animation, graphic design, or illustration.”

i finished him

update: my portfolio professor wanted him in a series

i think i’ve done some good work today