“Many of the artists in the database were self-taught, barred from seeking formal training or studying anatomy on account of their gender. They could not hope to make a living from their talents when women were forbidden from issuing invoices.”
Oh my gosh, I love this idea sooo much!
Ever think about how many people weren’t able to develop and share their talents because of who they were? Because they were poor? Female? Born to a minority which their society scorned? Born somewhere where their talents would never be recognised?
Because I do. It’d be nice to acknowledge them now.
Me to american animation: I know your stories are great buy why does your animation suck so bad?
American animation: We have to create simplified characters to make the movement faster and more creative and interesting.
Me glancing at Japan:
Me: k.
Hey you know what studios do in America? Due to animators unionizing, instead of paying all the animators proper wage they started sending animation to be done over seas to lower labor costs. Now most studios’ animation are shipped to Korea and China and etc., which means the designs for the characters have to be simplified for easy character animation. Not to mention the history of American animation overall and how the American cartoon style has led towards more simplified styles over the years.
Also animation in Japan, while it does have plenty sakuga stuff, are actually just budget dumps for the best fight scenes. During normal scenes, characters can be very static and has a lot of holds. There’s also the mouth-flapping thing that a lot of animators in America detest. Everything is revolved around budgets for both countries. For America, to pay animators working wages they decided to cut costs and ship labor overseas. For Japan it means terrible working hours and labor, where plenty of animators have fallen ill or even die in their own cubicles.
So watch your fucking language and learn animation history. People like you are the reason why a lot of studios are cutting costs on their workers in America.
“why is your animation so bad?” *posts gif of good animation*
i think a lot of people hear the word ‘roadrunner’ and associate it immediately with the looney tunes character but uh. real roadrunners actually manage to look even stranger than the cartoon?
Before my parents married my dad worked at a national guard base in Arizona that basically consisted of a bunch of “office buildings” made up of clusters of those long, thin pre-fab style tube houses. In the afternoons if it wasn’t too hot the guys in his building would open the doors on either end to get a breeze through. Apparently a local roadrunner took this as an open invitation and started coming in to “inspect” the offices each day/use the long hallway as an indoor runway. He go up and down the hallway stopping at each desk to see if anyone had anything tasty for him and then wander back out the other end and go about his roadrunner day. If they didn’t open the doors right away he’d just be hanging out, waiting outside the building until someone let him in. They are apparently highly curious (and also incredibly trusting) birds.
this just made me so happy thank you for sharing your story
Bonus Fun Facts:
The closest relatives to roadrunners are Cuckoos
They run up to 26mph, only a bit slower than Usain Bolt!
Roadrunners are monogamous and form lifelong pair-bonds.
They’re omnivores, but have a distinct fondness for meat eating mice, rats, snakes (including rattlesnakes), other birds eggs and babies, and sometimes young jackrabbits!
They have two front-facing toes and two rear-facing toes.
Roadrunners are fully capable of flying, but since most of thier food is on the ground, they really only use it to get away from predators.
a stray cat showed up in my garden earlier and i named him todd howard as a joke but now i have to live with this because my stepfather just said “todd howard didnt eat the cat food i left out for him”
this is him
op are there any updates on todd?
yes ! todd lives with us now and hes incredibly friendly and affectionate, here he is taking a nap on my bed
he also has a tendency to steal food, he slapped a slice of bread out of my hands and ran away to eat it recently
Proposal for a new law: you get a maximum of ten million dollars.
Yep, no one living or doing business in the US is allowed to own more than $10 million in personal assets. Investments, savings, real estate, cars, gold, everything; you hit that cap, and anything over is seized and redistributed as no-strings cash payments to everyone else. You get caught sneakily using a shell corporation or offshore accounts or anything else clever to subvert that limit, it’s a criminal penalty. Greed in the First Degree.
I’ll be merciful here; that’s ten million per individual so your spouse and children can each have their own ten million, it’ll go up with inflation, and I won’t even include your house. (Maximum one house per adult, and only if you actually live in it, so don’t get creative. Farms/ranches can be counted as homes, but only if you live full-time and personally work on them.)
Yeah, this means that certain people would lose literally billions of dollars. But they’d still have ten million! How bad can you feel for them? That’s still enough money that you can livecomfortably without putting in another day of work in your life. It’s very hard to make a case that anyone needs more than that.
I haven’t worked out exactly what the redistribution payments would be, but my extremely-poorly-sketched guess is at least $50K per non-ten-millionaire person when the law first goes into effect. Not enough to be set for life, but it would be a hell of a lifeline for a lot of families. More importantly, there would be a continuing benefit from companies being unable to divert all their profits to upper management and wealthy investors. They’d have nothing to do with that money except reinvest it in workers and facilities.
And I wouldn’t worry about demotivating workers. If an ordinary person is debating whether it’s worth their time to go back to school or apply for a management position or open their own shop, they’re not going to be thinking “Why even bother? All I stand to earn is ten million dollars.” Not if they have any sense of perspective.
Oh, but high achievers will stop working or leave the country once they get their ten million. Good! That’s the point! They’ve earned all the money they need, so they should let someone else have a chance! If they love their job and don’t want to quit, they can still do it for a minimal salary and distribute the rest among their employees. Or they can quit, and we can learn that this whole “only ultra-rare magically gifted people can be successful CEOs, so they deserve to be treated like princes” thing was a wealth-worshipping myth anyway.
We’re in an economic emergency situation right now. 20% of households with children don’t have enough to eat. 500,000 people are homeless. More than a quarter of people struggle to pay their medical bills. Sorry, but it’s a sad fact: Ultra-rich people are a useless luxury that we can’t afford.
I haven’t thought through all the details or economic impacts or long-term consequences of this, but I think by now it’s clear that the people who make the real laws don’t either.
Do corporations get more than ten million in assets under your plan, or do you plan to pave over the business world with millions of Mom ‘n’ Pop semiconductor companies?
Corporate (and other types of organization) assets are unlimited under this plan. I don’t mind corporations getting big, as long as they’re owned by lots of shareholders in sub-$10m chunks.
The only rule is you can’t just blatantly use a corporation as a piggy bank, as enforced by the specific loophole-proof regulations proposed in the attached 300-page white paper.
I’m going to stream myself knitting like artists stream drawing, but it’s just going to be me sighing, recounting, and making little tally marks on a piece of paper for eight hours straight.
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