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Is this from the Vandermeer book?
Haha, yeah, it's called the bar.
What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts?
Do you have any videos? Can you record tracks and musical production type stuff?
Obligatory, thanks for posting this, I've never seen it before and I love it. (I feel like I say that so much I need an abbreviation. Perhaps TFPTINSIBAILI? It kinda looks like Tennisball... maybe that would be better.)
Anyway, I did some research...
If you go here https://association-emile-friant.fr/index.php/en/november-2021, you can see even more detail. It shows the woman is actually wearing a veil, as if at a funeral. There is also an interesting interpretation of the piece, although a little too "this is what you're looking at" for my liking.
The Franco-Prussian War
In case you didn't know (because I didn't know until this research), Prussia basically means Germany. Prussia began as a united group of kingdoms occupying parts of today's northern Germany.
And they had this really smart Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, who had risen through the ranks of the political structure of Prussia. This chancellor wanted to add more German kingdoms to Prussia, so what did he do? He provoked Napoleon III (Napoleon's Nephew) into starting a war with Prussia over areas formerly held by the Austrian Empire.
And France took the bait. If you can believe it, they invaded Prussia! So what did Prussia do? They mobilized their army quickly and invaded Northeastern France, near Dieuze, where the artist, Friant, was living at the time.
Friant
Friant grew up with his parents, in Dieuze. His mother was a dressmaker, and one of her best customers was a rich couple (the Parisots) who never had any children of their own. When Prussian forces invaded, the Parisots took Friant while his parents stayed behind, and fled to another city, called Nancy. His parents would come later, but the Parisots semi-adopted young Friant. This gave him unprecedented access to cameras, which he used to aid him in his art.
During this time Nancy quickly became known as the second home of art (after Paris), because the invasion caused many French to come to the area. This was during the Art Nouveau period.
Friant painted a self-portrait at 15 and became a minor celebrity in art circles.
This is the self-portrait:
He would go on to wow the Salon and win many prizes. He finished his career as a teacher.
Pompeii
In 79 AD about 2 hours southeast of Rome, Mount Vesuvius erupted. The sun couldn't be seen through the ash clouds. Pompeii was right in the path of the ash. It literally rained fire and brimstone for days. Pompeii was buried under 20ft of ash.
For 1500 years it sat, dormant and mostly undisturbed. It was rediscovered by accident in the 1500s, but kept secret so the erection of an aqueduct could continue unfettered. Official excavations began in the 1600s, uncovering art of the classical period. The discovery became an essential part of the "Grand Tour" (a trip wealthy students would take to visit cities in France and Italy to study art).
Because of these discoveries, and as a reaction to the lavish ornamentation of the Baroque, Neoclassicism was born. A rededication to the simplicity, realism and symmetry of classical art.
This piece has elements of both Baroque and Neoclassicism. The drama of the Baroque and style of Neoclassical. You might even call it part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement (the emo of art styles) if it was 20 years earlier and british.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Friant
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Friant
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Prussian_War
- https://rehs.com/eng/default-19th20th-century-artist-bio-page/?fl_builder&artist_no=115&sold=1
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii#Rediscovery_and_excavations
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassicism
- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grtr/hd_grtr.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood
OK, here's some bullet points with citations, but if you know something that you think I'm missing in my understanding, I am open to it, and I'll change my essay if you convince me.
1928 is really when Stalin's insatiability for power and domination come into full swing. Up until then he was small-time, basically only imprisoning, exiling or killing political opposition.
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In order to rapidly industrialize Russia, Stalin sets mandatory production requirements for factories. Many find the numbers impossible to achieve and Stalin imprisons or executes those that fail.
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Stalin takes land from small farmers and makes them work as not-slaves on their own farms, all the yields are sent off to be redistributed, five million die from famine. That's the equivalent of almost the entire 2022 population of Massachusetts or Maryland. Or Paris could be completely exterminated of people about two and a half times.
In 1932 Stalin's wife kills herself after years of abuse by Stalin. He makes sure the media, which he controls, says it was appendicitis.
In 1934, Stalin starts getting paranoid.
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He executes about 70% of his own government and 80% of high-ranking military leaders because they have voiced opposition to him or his ideas at some point in the past.
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3 million people are sent to concentration camps (gulags)
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750,000 civilians are killed for little or no reason by Stalin's secret police force.
In 1941 his son is captured by invading German forces. They offer for him to be returned as part of a prisoner swap, but Stalin refuses, believing him to have given himself up and joined their cause. He dies in a prison camp 3 years later.
- Stalin throws military forces indiscriminately into the defense of Stalingrad. He also refuses to give evacuation orders to civilians, believing the army would fight better if they saw the people they were defending.
There's more, but let's hear your side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Stalingrad
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/joseph-stalin-national-hero-or-cold-blooded-murderer/zhv747h
The Masked Dancer is most likely performing a "legong" dance from Indonesia. This Balinese dance is an offering to dieties.
One of these dances tells the story of how the God, Siwa, turned his wife into a corpse-eating witch. The God pretends to be sick and to test his wife's faithfulness, sends her to Earth to bring milk back to him. While on Earth she meets a handsome cowboy (Siwa in disguise) who says he will trade the milk for sex.
She eventually gives in and two daughters are born. Naturally this angers Siwa, who turns her into the witch - a Durga - who is forced to dig graves. The daughters are sent to Earth and become gods of dancing.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to find information on this particular painting because it shares a name with a Fox TV show.
Pennsylvania laughs in Amish
Literally hell on Earth. I had to drive through Pennsylvania a few times in my life, specifically that part where the interstate stops being an interstate for like 3 blocks.
I'm not making this up. The interstate stops being an interstate, forces you to go through this town built for and around everyone being forced to stop there, then you get back on the next interstate.
But all along the way, for my entire life it has been under construction. Iirc, it goes down to one lane, and it takes like an hour to get through it.
Honorable mentions: I-4 in Orlando, and 66 West in Northern Virginia, fucking awful, they will always be under construction.
Have you had a steak from walmart recently? Who needs a printer?
Never give up!
Never Surrender!
Yes, but you should always be applying and interviewing. Getting a new job generally gives you a 20% raise, while staying at the same job gives you like 5% if you're lucky and you take on new responsibilities.
What about sublemes