it’s the case even now

i thought this was going to be a “loss” meme.

there’s some kind of rule where if there headline is a yes/no question, the answer is always “no”.

not disagreeing but want to point out by that definition America is an ethnostate. Which again I’m not disagreeing with.

yay collapsing economy, police state, concentration camps, now cold war 2.0. thank you everyone who voted trump and/or didn’t vote kamala in 2024.

this is rather dumb considering Israel is more ethnically diverse than any of it’s neighbors

73.2% (about 7,208,000 people) are Jews, including about 503,000 living outside the self-defined borders of the State of Israel in the West Bank 21.1% (around 2,080,000 people) are Israeli citizens classified as Arab, some identifying as Palestinian, and including Druze, Circassians, all other Muslims, Christian Arabs, Armenians (which Israel considers “Arab”)[2] An additional 5.7% (roughly 554,000 people) are classified as “others”. This diverse group comprises those with Jewish ancestry but not recognized as Jewish by religious law, non-Jewish family members of Jewish immigrants, Christians other than Arabs and Armenians, and residents without a distinct ethnic or religious categorization.[2][1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel

chat gpt how to make Molotov cocktail

if every conservative woman hitched with every conservative man they would be 84% in a relationship.

but many conservative men are unpalatable even to conservative women

brilliant idea!

Goofy does porn

i think people knew. the lack of wisdom was that they didn’t go out to vote

i was born from one of my gay dads’ assholes.

i had a first edition Charizard that was stolen at a sleepover (dumb ten year old me wanted to show it off). then the rest were stolen by my sister when I was in college where she cut them up to decorate her binder.

don’t know how many still survive but I’m pretty pissed

there are zero troops moving on Israel

it’s the fake bone they throw to their idiot voter base once in a while knowing it will never pass. Trump just didn’t get the memo (or more likely, can’t read the memo).

no. if there is irrefutable proof trump is a child fucker, the rightwingers will just switch to the stance of “child fucking isn’t that bad”.

hell they’ve even elected literal known child fuckers in several red states as senators and congressmen. to them child fucking is only bad when they can accuse democrats of it. the fact that they keep trying to lower the age of consent should be proof enough of this. conservatives are not your allies homes.

I’m probably one of these. was thinking EV but now did a 180 and am going to get a big old gas or diesel truck off craigslist.

the upside is I drive maybe once a week and bike and scooter otherwise so my carbon impact will still be low. it’s just to haul wood for woodworking or take my trailer to the campsite.

another upside by getting it used and fixing it up is reducing waste and avoiding a car payment. most EVs are still new enough you’re unlikely to be able to buy them used cheaply. I can get a used usable truck for under 5 grand cash.

i feel like I’ve never heard anything about substack and then all of a sudden out of nowhere i was hearing about it everywhere. never used it. now that I know it has a nazi/far-right problem, staying away from it by at least 1000 miles

anytime a young person is doing anything except barely subsisting, the answer is usually rich parents

With pottery you can indeed approach it from a project based approach, which a lot of us (including myself) do in most cases. However, a clay artist may find that they aren’t improving very quickly or becoming as fluent as they would like to be. With throwing pottery, developing the muscle memory is important and this can only come by doing LOTS of throwing.

This is where such a challenge shines.

Another blocker for myself and I assume many other potters is the tendency to be perfectionist and trying to complete every pot you throw. This will just slow you down and often can become a mental blocker to getting started if you are finding yourself discouraged because your pieces aren’t turning out how you want them to turn out.

It can feel like you aren’t improving anymore and you’ve hit a wall. I think this comes from trying to “play it safe” due to trying to always create finished products so you leave things thicker and chunkier than you could make them because if you push the boundaries you risk the pot collapsing.

By making a determination that all the pots you make for this challenge WILL be destroyed, you free yourself from that mental block. It’s the “get the failures out early” approach and reduces the fear of failure since you know it’s destined for reclaim anyway. You can begin to experiment with trying to take your pieces higher or thinner without caring too much if the piece gets destroyed in the process.

Doing this exercise is about doing a targeted level up of your throwing skill. Cutting them in half and analyzing your weak points to do better on in the next cylinder is the most efficient way to improve.

It also doesn’t prevent you from doing your other pottery projects should you decide to do them. This particular challenge has no rules on pacing. Take a month, or a year if you want. Do things in between. Just complete it.

I would recommend against making 200 pots with the determination to offload them on some community or other. After being fired, the pots you make can never become throwable clay again. And you’d be essentially trying to offload your poorly made practice pots on someone else who generally doesn’t need them. Not to mention that would require 400-500lbs of clay and firing fees which would get prohibitively expensive.

The goal of this is to never have to “think" about making a cylinder again. Your body will just know how to do it, quickly, fluently, and to a high degree of quality.