IME the agile process is a distraction that makes it hard to get any actual work done. Hopefully it will have this same effect on the military.

yes

This guy’s afraid of red, yellow, and blue!

It’s not a hard sentence to understand. I guess this is your first time encountering someone who likes art that you don’t like

Reinventing the concept of d*generate art but making it leftist this time

Edit: Slur filter broke the wikipedia link. But you can find it if you search “d*generate art”

According to the article you linked, the artists weren’t aware that the CIA was using them

every well known YA author I can think of off the top of my head has shit politics. Also most examples of YA I know of have shit politics story wise too.

This is true for books of all genres in the global north I think.

what specifically about them makes them for “young adults”?

That’s a good question, and I’m sure the definition is controversial (like all genre definitions). I haven’t read this too closely because I’m hexbearing at work, but I found this article which is probably a good starting place: https://www.tckpublishing.com/young-adult-fiction/

Oh yeah, Cory Doctorow has written a few YA books too. I forgot about him when I was writing my other comment.

Probably, yeah. There are a ton of different YA authors out there. Off the top of my head, the book Feed by M.T. Anderson is a great depiction of a techno-capitalist dystopia. In the book,

I’ve seen YA authors get derided a few times on this site (once, it was aimed at male YA authors in particular), and it comes across as reactionary to me. I just don’t understand.

weird take

I don’t trust Hank green, but it’s because he’s a lib

It’s unsatisfying

Beauty influencers: “Noooo don’t use heat on your hair, it’ll dry up and disintegrate and spontaneously combust!!!1!”

Me: “Haha, hair dryer goes brrrrr”

I always resented the “I’m going into engineering for the money” crowd, like damn, leave some room for the people who actually want to do this.

I always resented the people who thought this way, because I went into engineering for the money, and the people who vocally thought this tended to be upper middle class with big safety nets. Not saying this is where you’re coming from, btw. But it always felt like some people thought I didn’t belong there or couldn’t be a good engineer because my motives weren’t “pure” enough, like I should feel bad for wanting to live a more comfortable life than my parents and I did when I was growing up.

Yeah but I wouldn’t assume any woman with this style is a turbo lib. And as far as this meme is concerned, I think this is a case of “you do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to the right wing misogynistic meme”

I’ve only seen that emoji used to make fun of liberalism, since the person in the emoji made a video advocating for that kind of liberalism. I haven’t seen that emoji used in the context of making fun of anyone’s appearance, and if I did see it I’d think it was sus.

Like, the reason we make fun of is because of the liberalism, not because of their appearance… right?

That’s because there is a difference between mocking the appearance of CHUDs and petty crackers vs. mocking the appearance of random women we know nothing about.

(When I say appearance I am referring to fashion and style, not body characteristics which are ofc never okay to mock)

It’s wrong because it’s a shitty misogynistic meme that judges women based on appearance

I bite and eat popsicles like bananas too, but it’s because I’m impatient