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You'd think, but that nonsense developed specifically because a point blank not interested wasn't enough for some people. Occasionally a critter is largely only capable of noticing the clue by four when it has some sort of spike embedded in it, for whatever reason.

The problem with that is that "mansplaining" is constantly used for the sole purpose of ensuring that no dialogue can take place, allowing the person using the term to win by default.

Or just end the conversation. The whole "win" perspective is kinda' part of the problem the term popped up regarding, really. Sometimes a person isn't trying to goddamn fight you, they just don't want your input. Alway's kinda' said repeatedly that ensuring no dialogue can take place is more or less the entire point. People not being able to disengage without considering some stupid shit lost is probably half the reason the thing's around.

... and ninja'd, but I'm entirely too tired right now to just delete it and move on. Consider it a +1 or some crap, I'unno. Don't even really know why the hell we're having this conversation in here.

Any case, the critics can kinda' stuff it if they're going to refuse to acknowledge there's reasons for that button to exist, methinks.

Man, don't go saying things that could get people thinking about ways to prevent that. Wouldn't be the first music/etc. venture that had a "solution" for it.

Nah, pretty sure that stuff's kinda'... canvas-y, iirc. Not (nearly) that far, but sort of in that direction. That type of rough. Stiffer than your average paper, also usable for foldystuff. Rougher, not necessarily rough. Something like that.

Oooh.

... common/easy to use effects in major photo editing software? Could swear there's some mimicry there of old stuff, too, actually. Just hit me that sort of general color scheme was fairly signature of, like... old autographed disney art and crap, if I'm not completely misremembering things.

... other than anime in general? I don't particularly know, but if I had to wager a guess it would be starting resources for just that. Looks about in line with a higher quality example of some of the end results of those "how to draw anime" books that have littered shelves for a while (like, since the 90s or something) now.

Which would be both where it came from and why it's so popular, if that guess is correct; helluva' lot of artists faffing about nowadays cut their teeth on stuff like that, or were involved to some degree with someone who did. Those sort of instruction/intro books have pretty easily been one of the easier to find and engage with resources for a beginning artist you could just sorta' casually pick up -- and they've been that for a good chunk of a lot of artists entire lives, nowadays. Given that, it's pretty unsurprising it'd be common.

Huh. TEVUS submission went through. Need to poke around a bit to find out exactly what I'm not supposed to mention sans permission, but, uh. Even in like three minutes of use this thing is pretty neat. Hopefully it's general enough to mention that apparently a full half of left-wing domestic terror incidents since... '74, if I'm parsing this right. Occurred in three states. Over a quarter in one. Right wing is rather notably more spread out, though two of its most hit areas are shared with that top three, if not in the same order.

Left wing incidents also seem to be notably better... understood, I guess. Right has unknown for location in its top three, whereas it's down a bit for the left. That's somewhat surprisingly unsurprising, I think. Common sentiment is that stateside enforcement is notably more lackadaisic about right wing extremism, even when it's significantly (like, around twice vis a vis what tevus's sources cover) more likely, and at least on the face of it that kind of lack of information is pretty much exactly what you would expect if that were accurate.

Now we poke around the time related stuff and... jeez, what the hell happened in '93? I'd actually guess it was some sort of change in tracking and enforcement, but incidents bloody doubled that year, while general crime was starting its downslope.

... anyway, at least so far as what these folks track, the answer to if extremist acts are trending towards an increase is "Definitely not." Shit spikes up and down, doubles and halves what appears to be fairly randomly (i.e. the trend is a lot less trend-y), and largely looks to be roughly on par with early (pre-93) 90s numbers in terms of events in a few years leading up to 2015 (haven't actually finished poking things to get a full per-year count, 'cause I'm damn hungry and about to go feed myself, but I've tallied the bits from the start of what I'm first checking (period from 1990 to their latest, which is 2015) and the end), which is, uh. Our 2015 population was about 150% of what it was in 1990, up by a handful of millions short of a full 100 of 'em. Would suggest that to some degree the extremist ends of political violence are actually dropping, on the net.

Which would actually sorta' be what you'd expect, given the general crime trend, though parts of the extremist timeline doesn't even remotely mirror the general one. Interesting stuff. Entirely too specific for what I was curious about, heh, but still interesting.

I dunno, I can't help think that at least part of the reason Trump pulled out is a tantrum at the way Europeans leader in general and Macron in particular treated him abroad. I don't think he react well to opposition, the way to go is to flatter is dumb ego and make him think he had the idea in the beginning.

Well... yes, trump's reaction to people not falling over to metaphorically and literally fellate him has a fair amount to do with how things are playing out. Pretty sure most world leaders don't really have the option to audition as probationary members of the trump tower brothel, though. When you're on camera and in the eyes of the entire world there's only so much room available to flatter a bastard like trump.

Leader worth a single shit knows that and, even if they are narcissistic little nutjobs, gives other powers room to at least maintain the facade of personal sovereignty and national dignity. Unfortunately, we get to deal with trump.