A powerless arrogant at least we can laugh of. And I do like myself some British comedy. as for #1 keep telling yourself that as the empire crumbles.

I was talking about the comments under article as well as the article itself. The arrangement of the dollar as global currency did not came by coincidence or a strategy to victimize the poor wittle amewican citizens; it was policy. So much so that this policy was imposed in many parts of the world. There is a reason why te United states is so afraid of Brics And de-dollarization. It is good news for the world That America is loosing grip on their empire, It is good news that countries around the world are choosing to drop the dollar as reserve currency and it is especially good news that America could be weak enough to stop dictating economic and political policy. Particularly an economic policy that benefits them.

We need other economic blocks and options when it comes to banking and investment. We need to stop a country from dictating other countries who they should do business with or deciding what country should be isolated like it’s happening to Cuba. I welcome less american control and they can take their victim butts behind their borders and close them down if it means they will stop meddling with the world.

It is always cringeworthy to hear Americans call themselves “the world economic anchor” Or the “world police” Fucking manifest destiny, national narcissistic exceptionalism is one of the main reasons for the collapse of the US empire. At some point in the future they will need to pull their heads out of their own asses to learn some humility and humanity.

I joked around 10 years ago that the ultimate Leftie Psy-op would be convincing chuds that straight sex makes you gay.

To avoid panting with black is a common truism for traditional painters that will save your saturation in the lower values of your painting. When painting a naturalistic scene in a traditional medium, you are in a loosing war against the cost of saturation. (saturated pigments tend to be more expensive.) Ivory black and lamp black are very cheap pigments, hence the mixture of black paints tends to have more pigment vs medium. Also, Pigments lose saturation over time. so vibrant paintings you made 10 years ago can start to become grey.

The area of your painting where the saturation loss will become more daunting is the shadows. They tend to be a cool temperature and have a lower value and saturation. This is one of the reasons why it’s dangerous , especially for a student to use black; And this is the reason why a lot of traditional painters plot their shadows with washes of earth pigments: Burnt sienna, burn umber etc.

The other reason is convenience: Leaving you some space at the bottom and top of the value structure for final touches. Once you reach the floor value of pure black it’s hard to go back up, especially if the rest of the values are down with that black. Same for white. If the key of your painting is too high, it’s hard to add any detail without just burning the rest of your picture. So keeping some floor and headspace for the final details can save you a lot of headaches! And this is especially true for black paints since they tend to have so much pigment in their mixtures

In digital media it can also be beneficial to avoid blacks, or at least clip-mask them into a black with a little temperature in them at a early stage of coloring. I can’t really explain the reason for this exactly, but neutrals and especially black and white have a lot of visual pull in a monitor that displays thousands or millions of colors. Just adding a hint of temperature to your blacks and whites can make them gentler on the eye and keep the colors from becoming muddy*.

(*Muddy colors are a result from disorganized value and temperature structure between your lights and shadows.)

So your teacher was right, he was just either too lazy of busy to explain all that shit!

Edit: I remember my very cruel first semester painting teacher gave us an assignment of making value swatches for 15 hue-degrees of the color wheel. We had to make 10 swatches of low saturation greys (grey mixed with a hint of color pigment) From the lightest we could manage to the blackest. He would make us repeat the whole set if one swatch was “too saturated” or if a value scale was off. IT WAS HELL. I am not sure if that exercise was intended to make us despise black and white tubes or give us an idea of how different the proportion of pigment and value is between painting tubes. I developed an irrational fear of adding black to lower values.

I hear ya’ I really don’t know about the history of Quakers, (to be honest I didn’t even noticed the headline was from their point of view,) i just found the headline kinda funny coming From an American news agency as someone who is not from the US.

… … … Oh, you mean for everyone that wasn’t repressed before!

Pitch me ideas for a good economic torture machine. Like a device where we chain up a guy and there’s this bill counting machine giving him paper cuts.

Joke’s on you I was only pretending to be an imbecile!

“My foot has a bullet wound if I keep shooting my foot until no foot, then problem solved”

The anti woke gamers that can only see politics when it intersects their treats will be thrilled by this. But I don’t expect any self reflection or deep analysis by them.

I know from reliable sources that the mothers of said genocidal defense forces indeed goose step and bark at the same time

I got banned about a year ago for… checks notes repeatedly calling a genocidal army “bastards” =,D

Edit… ok maybe I called them sons of bitches and nazis.

Lets gooo! United Healtcare denying US patients of their scheduled bloodletting and leeches!

These are the fuckers that want to dictate to the rest of the world about freedom and democracy.

Join in rest of the world, there is a lot of musk property to trash and destroy!

“I am just a poor smol bean uwu nazi”