I'm on medical leave with Havana Syndrome

yeah that's why they're on BDS's pressure targets list.

feel real good about cutting my employer's AWS spending by 70% this year

The "art world" is elitist gatekeepers for the most part and always has been. My wife is an artist so I've heard her analysis on it plenty.

95% of getting art into the "art world" is connections, and the other 5% is making up absolute bullshit about the piece. The "art world" doesn't actually like new things, for the most part, unless it comes from someone who's already in "the art world." (Famous example: huge backlash to R. Mutt's La Fontaine, frequently attributed to Marcel Duchamp but actually created by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven)

The overwhelming majority of people who go to art school and enter the "art world" are trust fund kids whose trust fund had a stipulation that they needed to go to college.

The problem is capitalism, but we shouldn't pretend like the "art world" isn't the same big bourgeois club as you see in other institutions. Of course it's pretentious. And of course their taste is reactionary.

Edit: sorry if you're doing a bit and I missed it, that soup-cans comment makes me think this is a copypasta I'm not familiar with

Huh, I thought he died of a cocaine overdose in like 2011

Because Boston is actually like 20 colleges in a trench coat

On the plus side, Allston Christmas rules

Thanks! super helpful

heard there's women there

scarf a bunch of edibles right before you get in the TSA line

They want you in debt so you're forced to work, and so that they can grift interest money off you. According to their system it's irresponsible to not have debt, and it's also irresponsible to ask what their magic number is.

I have serious doubts that I'll see one in my lifetime, unfortunately.

Not with that attitude you won't

You're not difficult or lazy, you're autistic and you have ADHD.