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Ignore The Neko

@nerdyneko265

It's never too early for Halloween!
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Color has been disappearing from the world.

A new research group used machine learning to track color changes in common materials and items, below is their findings for all color changes over time, they used 7000+ items from the 1800s to now to determine color changes in the most common items.

Below are the colors of cars by year, notice how the majority of cars are grey, white, or black compared to twenty years ago.

These aren't data points, but they are comparisons between the 'modern' homes of the 70s and 80s compared to the modern homes of today.

Carpets have equally had the same treatment of grey added to them! The most common color of carpet is now grey or beige.

Even locations that used to scream with color for decades have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism) personality-less locations.

The world is becoming colorless, why?

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you can look at any folk culture around the world, past or present, and find the use of the entire color spectrum. humans are drawn to color, it holds emotional symbolism but it also reflects the land we live off of. I consider it like a celebration of life and our place in it

the problem is that we aren’t actually allowed to belong to the places we live. houses and entire towns are shells meant to be as plain as possible for the next renter, buyer, or investor. the more generic it is, the more consumers it can be sold to. And when you have a country that’s biggest population doesn’t have a distinct sense of cultural identity it will be reflected and mass produced without much complaint

people getting joy from the minimalist gray aesthetic is not the same as the estrangement this country is making between people and place, one of the most fundamental relationships humans need to survive (and be happy while doing it)

Films depict middle ages as devoid of color but it's the other way around.

idk what traumatized or mentally ill person needs to hear this but dreams (especially the really disturbing ones you dont want to talk about to anybody) arent some deep peek into your psyche or a sign of your True Desires or whatever theyre quite literally your brain making fruit salad with whatever it can find on the shelf. just putting all that shit in a blender and hitting obliterate. its fine, youre fine, youre not a weirdo for it

If ya’ll are worried that this election is gonna ruin everyone’s friendships or image or they’re gonna get turned into a Federation puppet, then just vote for Foolish ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s a win-win situation if we’re being perfectly honest. My mans is always at the edge of meta and roleplay but he never ever goes too meta about things (he actively ignores chat when he thinks things are starting to get too meta AND he does NOT actively keep up with others’ lore so he’s actually as clueless as his character). He knows how to communicate and listen to everyone, he’ll take in and implement everyone’s ideas in a heartbeat simply because he doesn’t want to think for himself (want to install communism? you got it! want a council to decide for everyone? sure thing pal! want a capybara day? alright then! want me to abolish the government? well why didn’t you say so earlier?). He’s friends with EVERYONE. No matter what he does, no one could ever actually dislike him, he’s too charismatic (I’m starting to think it’s a problem /j). Even if he wins the elections. So no friendships will get ruined. And he’s already pro Federation anyway, what are you gonna lose if he gets turned into a puppet? That’s what he wants! Let him get what he wants. 

A government ruled by Foolish will be a messy one, but it would be a FUNNY mess.