“I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I’ve got transgender people. I’ve got gays. I’ve got lesbians. I’ve got drunks. I’ve got drug addicts — all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge.”

“And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are. I know how important this is to them. That’s who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there’s something to be judged, that is God’s business. But we are all God’s children and how we are is who we are.”

From this interview in 2023.

May the earth rest lightly upon her.

The difference between non-ill and ill people is: “feel like that sometimes” VS “feel like that all of the time”

It is exactly the same for physical illnesses: Everyone has a tummy ache once in a while. You definitely need medical help when your stomach does not stop hurting.

And - of course - there are plenty of toxic people who will also belittle that.

I don’t know. Do you expect to get some great reward out of this?

Yeah, he lives there with is “uncle” and there is only one bed. I don’t want to make any assumptions, but maybe someone should call CPS anyway…

Right. Lovingly quoting song lyrics to a special someone? That’s my policy of truth.

Yeah, or maybe something from Albrecht Dürer; even Spitzweg’s “The poor poet” would make more sense.

Germany is Gabriel von Max, Clairvoyant Veritas

A baffling choice. Von Max is anything but a well-known painter.

I had to do a reverse image search myself, but I have an answer: Laura Palmer and Bob from “Twin Peaks” (or rather their actors).

“AI gives wealth access to skill while denying skill access to wealth.”

Barbara Loden is a criminally under-appreciated actress. If possible, I highly recommend tracking down the only film she directed (and starred in), “Wanda”. It is a gut punch of a movie that stands out as a singular feat in US’ independent cinema and shows how much Loden was capable to complete disappear inside a role.

I will just leave this article from 5 days ago here:

Ubisoft Barcelona Celebrates Successful Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Launch With Layoffs

Despite Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced being considered a successful launch by Ubisoft, 51 employees at Ubisoft Barcelona, many of whom worked on the game, will be celebrating its launch by seeking new employment.

Announced on June 10, 51 employees at Ubisoft Barcelona face layoffs, with those who spoke to Insider Gaming saying the layoffs felt premeditated and were going to happen no matter how successful Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was.

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but here it goes…

Because the Hero’s Journey is junk science. Joseph Campbell who created the “Hero’s Journey” was an arch-reactionary who had intended to present an alternative to the literature of his day which he disdained. He longed for a return to the “wisdom of the past” and his book “The Hero with a thousand faces” was positioned as presenting this wisdom, arranged around Freudian and Jungian theories, particularly the debunked “collective unconscious”; as well as the ideas of reactionary philosopher Spengler and ethnologist Frobenius (particular Frobenius’ idea of “paideuma”).

What the book actually is, is a mashup of quotes from various myths and legends, deprived of their cultural context and strung together along the lines of Campbell’s preconceived beliefs. These myths and legends are never considered in their entirety, nor did Campbell dwell on the culture that produced them. From a standpoint of anthropology, it is a profoundly unscientific book and upon publication it was largely dismissed as such by Campbell’s peers.

In the “American Anthropologist” Stephen Porter Dunn wrote:

Campbell’s book is in a sense a throwback to an earlier heroic age of anthropology, when the air was dark with flying hypotheses and comparisons rained down like acorns in autumn. Reading it, the case-hardened social scientist derives the same sort of nostalgic, half-shamed pleasure as the ordinary adult would from reading G.A. Henty or Robin Hood to his children. Campbell uses the traditional equipment and methods of a literary critic, for whom comparison and analogy are tantamount to proof and fact. He writes in a curiously archaic style - full of rhetorical questions, exclamations of wonder and delight, and expostulations directed at the reader […]

Accordingly, The Hero’s Journey always mattered more to literary applications than as a genuine human artefact. Still the importance of the The Hero’s Journey as a storytelling concept only came after the success of “Star Wars”, when Hollywood discovered it as a template for blockbuster movies. Though Hollywood largely discarded most of Campbell (for good reason) in favor of the simplified version as presented by Christopher Vogler (for example: The 12 steps of the Hero’s Journey are Vogler’s version, Campbell used 17) who did not care much about the Hero’s Journey allegedly universal applicableness, than in its usefulness as a tool set.

Lots of people are still heavily invested in painting the Hero’s Journey as a universally shared principle of storytelling. To those people I recommend Robert Ellwood’s “The Politics of Myth”, which traces the development of Campbell’s thinking and the development of the Hero’s Journey.

I hate Elon with every fiber of my body, but: No, this is not going to happen.

Most people don’t care/don’t know about Elon’s politics. Look at Henry Ford: Most people don’t know he was a fascist either, they just know that he was the guy who made cars and maybe they even know that he had something to do with assembly lines, but that’s about it.

You can currently observe in real-time how white-washing the reputation of a guy like Ford/Musk works outside of leftist circles. Mainstream media won’t even acknowledge Musk’s nazi salute ever happened, let alone how he instigates racist progroms on exTwitter.

Still, I agree that leftist spaces should never stop calling him what he is: A fascist.

Another user already made the point about enjoyment, but allow me to add another one: Every activity can be turned into a hobby if it is pursued with intent and intensity: You can flip burgers and the you can triple-flip burgers, salting them in midair and send them flying into a bun you juggled in your other hand.

Jokes aside, if you enjoy making beef jerky and spend your time perfectioning this particular skill, it is certainly your hobby.

I love the smell of bursting bubbles in the morning.

I did not know I wanted this, until you mentioned it.

Yes! This way please!

…and buy a shark plush from IKEA.

Good point. I will mention it to them next time when I drown under one of their trees.

While I recently dug into some Alemannic folklore, I discovered a different spin on the “fairies/spirits drowning people” tale, the Dolden. Essentially these malevolent spirits/ghosts resemble children caught in trees above stretches of water. At night they will call out for help, pretending to be trapped children, but they only wish for the helpful people to approach the tree they sit in and then fall into the water below where they drown. According to the myth, the Dolden were once mortal children who left to drown in a flood and now punish humans.