404 demanding my private information to access their article about how I shouldn’t give my private information to companies.

I’ve honestly just been trying to keep my head up and hope for the best. I talk to the people in my life, encourage them to vote, share my political opinions where I can, but I’m ready for this election cycle to end already. I’m sick of worrying if I’m going to have to flee the country some time in the next year to avoid ending up in some sort of camp or just lose access to medications and legal protections. I’m ready to have a solid Democrat that I’m maybe mildly annoyed with for the next 4-8 years and try to drag them further to the left rather than this danger mode existential horror shit.

I feel like enough Americans are in the same boat or similar boats that we’ve got this, but it sure is tense waiting to find out.

I’m not old, I’m Millie. Hormones keep me fresh. :3

Either like the late 80s or early 90s.

Scifi aging poorly is honestly a plus. I love sci-fi that contains incidental retro-futurism. Super high tech but everyone uses tape cassettes and coin operated everything? Sign me up. High tech but for some reason the style choices are all 20 years old?. Yes please.

You joined 11 days ago and your comment history includes you using slurs, saying you’re racist, and warning against “turning mental illness into an identity war like LGBTQ”. Now you’ve made a thread saying you “secretly” hope Trump gets elected so that “radicalized” people will suffer.

Somebody out here quacking like a duck.

Honestly I’m considering just using Windows server 2022. I’ve got it running on my dedi and it’s great. I don’t see any reason not to just install it on my pc too.

Someone ought to invert the colors, stick it in a jokey box, and call it a fair use parody.

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The money from energy companies dripping from both sides of this interview is disturbingly clear. My only hope is that where CNN is clearly grilling Harris for the interests of their investors (energy companies), Harris’ evasive responses are there to assuage the concerns of those investors long enough to get into office. She’s talking out of the side of her mouth for someone and probably needs to to get in office. I just hope that at the end of the day she sides with Earth and humanity over evil incarnate. I think she will, but she has to walk a tightrope to get there.

If I’m wrong I’ll probably be part of a literal chorus of leftists looking to make it extremely clear that she can be a one-term president if she doesn’t find her way to doing the right thing.

Moving blankets are a wonderful solution. Hang them over your windows and enjoy the quiet. Get thick ones. Uhaul has good ones.

Too much thinking.

The right doesn’t care about accuracy, but they will pretend to to keep us busy. To counteract it, we can’t spend our time engaged in good faith arguments of carefully considered wording. We need to beat them on that flippant energy that shows we won’t take their bait and we know we’re right, so we don’t have to prove it.

Weird is perfect for that. They don’t want to be weird.

Now when they turn it around and try to call us weird? Then is the time to say ‘hey, that’s cool! I’m happy to be weird!’ and literally not worry about the contradiction at all.

They picked an arena where they can’t beat us. Let’s meet them there.

I feel like this thread is a good argument for making chat Beehaw-only.

I agree! There’s some potentially useful stuff in some aspects of various religions, but for me the value is in looking at the moon rather than the finger that points at it. The rest are just tools to bring me where I’m trying to get, which is just basically to chill out and be at peace with where I am.

But I definitely do find that the parts that helped point that out were more in tune with zen than the more ritualistic and mythological approach. Also psychedelics, in a sort of roundabout way.

I do have a big soft spot for some of the Greek pantheon, though.

Yeah maybe, but whose ass? Zoroaster’s? Hinduism’s? Ideas that match hell and an evil opponent for a good god are all over the place.

I’m inclined to lean in the direction of some sort of proto-Hindu-Zoroastrian cosmology in the long run. Ahura Mazda looks a lot like the kind of fighty version of YHVH that modern Christians seem to like, with a nice clear villain and a power struggle in place of a confusing omnipotent being with a combative frenemy pushing its boundaries.

But like, maybe by way of some mostly suppressed gnostic tradition that leaks out through late medieval writings? It’s not hard to see the lower emanations in the 2nd and 3rd century gnostic stuff turning into the more kind of blunt angels and devils motif we associate with Christianity. Especially in the context of traditions like Mancheanism popping up around the same time and drawing parallels.

But like really who in America who votes based on the one particular line in Leviticus that they latch onto knows any of that? I’m guessing basically nobody.

It’s kind of wild how much more Dante and Milton seem to have influenced the sort of now fairly standard apocryphal interpretations of the general shape of Abrahamic cosmology than the actual canon. Or like, maybe even Islam, honestly, or like Zoroastrianism. The hellfire and brimstone stuff really seems to come from somewhere else.

Also I’d like to give Christians who gripe about plural they a lesson on the etymology of Elohim.

I’m not a dog trainer, but when I was a kid I was the only one our rottweiler would listen to 100% of the time if I called him.

When you call her, are you like maybe somewhat anxious or uncertain that she’ll listen? I know it sounds like a catch 22, but I feel like when my parents called our dog they had like this anxious expectation that he would just go do what he wanted anyway. When I called him I felt, and he responded, as though he simply would come as I was expressing that he needed to.

But like, I also didn’t really care what he did in terms of dog stuff? Like, I wasn’t trying to get him to go a particular place all the time and I didn’t ask a hell of a lot, so I don’t think there were as many opportunities for waffling and confusion. My commands tended to just be like, come here or go to a specific person (because he’d ignore their calling), or go lay down.

Again, I’m not a dog trainer and the one here can certainly correct me if I’m way off, but for me it was mostly about confidence and not waffling, I think.

It’s honestly less about the particular thing than noticing that they’re receptive and actually do want to hear what I have to say. The last thing I want is to just like bore someone with something I find fascinating. I’m sure I end up doing this anyway sometimes, but I try to be aware enough to notice before going full on ramble mode.

People seem suuuper receptive to like counter-cultural and anti-authoritarian ideas and generally to anything that transcends preconception. They like honesty and realness that can exist comfortably without kissing ass or being a jerk. Just like expressing the idea that art and joy can have premacy over toil and misery seems to be sort of a revelation for some people. That you can just like, breathe, and not focus on making sure every little thing is just so.

Also like, music. But none of that is really explaining things to people, it’s just talking through stuff organically and in the process kind of giving them the freedom to realize what they usually already know. Music is a good example of this because most humans understand music quite intimately, they just don’t have the language of music theory to break down what’s going on and discuss it. But even with a little bit of that, you can see them light up with what they already know.

I tend to play information-focused characters on RP servers, and a lot of what I do comes down to spying, questioning, interrogation, and organizing others to collect information. When you ask someone if they saw anything useful, the answer you usually get will be no. If you ask if they can tell you anything about a person, they’ll usually say they didn’t get a very good look.

But if you ask if they had a hat on, they’ll know. If you ask what color their shirt was or if they were wearing a jacket, they’ll know. Same with piercings, tattoos, odd sayings or personal quirks, whether they were smoking, etc. The reality is that people know all kinds of things that they assume aren’t relevant. But if you ask the right questions, you can uncover loads of information.

The same is true of music, of art, of sooo many things. The barrier for entry isn’t that people don’t have the tools, it’s that they don’t recognize the tools they have. If I can point to a tool that’s already in someone’s hand, that feels pretty awesome.

Okay, so maybe this tangent is illustrative in more ways than one.

I let myself recover and try not to make it worse by shaming myself for needing a bed day now and then.

This is definitely what makes something along the lines of Piefed look really attractive imo. It would be great to be able to still connect to the larger Lemmy community without having to deal with their terrible devs.