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    2 hours ago

    Oh, forced to inherit your families debt is fucked up law anyways, middle-ages shit.

    In a more human (socialist) world aging population means more social transfers for healthcare (and/or providing minimal income/pensions), but also more people working in that sector (doctors, nurses, carers, etc). All of that is a challenge for millennials and gen-z to finance (or let them just die).

    And I don’t se capitalism solving that issue in a humane non-Soylent-Green manner.












  • I agree with that point.

    And I agree with the harm it can cause.

    Next someone will do a series called ‘The Duke Boys’, w/o comics, just live action. The Southlander will be the celebrated hero that can do no wrong. And the cultural shift might start going in that direction.

    Yet I don’t see a better way out of that, to drive humanity/culture forward. You need people to evolve, and you can’t really do that without education.

    Having racists brainwashed into not begin racists isn’t a permanent fix, or perhaps even a bad long-term fix.
    (But it does make the lives of so many minorities better for a time, which is huge, those are actual lives being lived.)

    Pretending that racism either doesn’t exist or having propaganda against racism just reduces the issue into a simplistic yes/no contest.

    And social issues should not be treated as sports.


  • Oh, yes, kinda.
    IASP has (imho) a positive comment on issues, highlighting them, in the ‘let’s benefit society with this work’ kind of way.
    Drawn Together doesn’t attempt to make a better world with it’s impact.

    Ofc (and by definition) one is better than the other.
    But I don’t think any bad thing should ever be a taboo.
    If someone wants a racists in their work (it doesn’t even need to be a comedy), that’s fine, they were and are people like that. Its not arts job to tell/educate you about how bad things are bad (tho it doesn’t hurt), as long as it doesn’t hype them as absolutely good (ie propaganda-ish/as a commercial).

    But let’s bring Hitler into the convo, that’s always fun - I do think its really bad how Adolfy (and Nazi Germany) became a sort of one dimensional meme in modern culture/knowledge, overly simplifying such a thing is bad af, those were people doing people things & we need to have a basic understanding of that.

    Mr Ham being racists is still good for the knowledge how that is a person/character, how that sounds out loud, how that sounds a bit like your neighbour/politician/company/laws/traditions/etc.

    So, Drawn Together imho still highlights issues by putting them into your thoughts, but it does not do a PSA about it (nothing actually bad happens to any of them as a ‘moral story to learn from’, even the moral stories there are an intentional joke, and consequences for other people aren’t much more that a sidenote). Not that IASIP does a lot of that, but consequences are a bit more obvious (but not life-changing for the main chars).


  • The bulb (with aluminium heatsink) is 11×40×23 cm overall and 200W (1165cd/cm²), with monitoring and sync options.

    Bcs it’s a neat design:

    But perhaps to note - bulbs like that are only if you want to keep those giant rotating fresnel lenses (and even with that those LEDs on that bulb still need a lens on their own).

    The simpler solution is to use one of the new designs, without the old lenses or even without the whole old lighthouse structure, eg: