DharmaCurious

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcement: Startrek.website will be read-only for a while, and down for a few hours while we migrate hosts (Sept 4th)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Okay, cool. I’ve been trying to log in for hours (using jerboa and connect) and for real worried. Haha. Had to log into my alt to come check things out. Glad to see all is okay. Geordie and Data will have things running in no time, I’m sure.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
You wouldn’t be able to link me to a tutorial to do that, would you? I’m not trying most technologically inclined, tbh.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Block The Rich" is like an ad-blocker, but for obscenely wealthy people with overinflated egos.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I absolutely love this! God, I need it. There are several websites I have to use for school that have bullshit articles on the side bar that I would love to block these assholes from. And for the people talking about blocking them being ignoring the problem, you don’t have to keep it turned on all the time. Sometimes it would be nice to be able to scroll through something without having to know what the fuck warren buffet thinks, or how the emerald heir is going to cure cancer with the power of a truck that looks like a PS1 asset.

OP, I love this. Please tell me there’s a way to do to this from Android?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The crew is in safe hands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
This would be the best series they’d ever made.

Captain Ross, a former Indiana Jones type explorer who’s taken over the identity of her dead twin sister after a tragic accident, to escape the Orion syndicate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how common human-exposure to radiation is becoming, the primary base system might not be base-10 anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I like your method! I’m curious how to do binary? I only know the method I talked about because I really, really like base 12 for a story I wrote and got very into it with the research. I’ve never considered other techniques for finger counting before.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could for example an Orangutan be divine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Fair enough. The other great apes, elephants, dolphins and a few other species sort of blur the line between animal and people in some ways.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm ready for September 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Plot twist, they’re all the same war.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm ready for September 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Happy to see that this conversation is so amicable. I really love the whole climate here on Lemmy.

Communism cannot be defined by what the state tells you, as communism is, by definition, a stateless society. Depending on what kind of communist or socialist you ask, you’ll get answers on what the difference between the two is that vary from “they’re interchangable terms” to “socialism is the stage of society that eventually will become communism, which will happen when the state, money, and class withers away.”

Anarchism, specifically anarcho-communism, sees the end goal as the same as communists. A society in which no classes, money, or state exists. The difference is that Marxists tend to believe in a necessary interim period, normally referred to as socialism, before communism can be achieved. Anarchists believe communism can be achieved directly by simple behaving as communists now, and fighting for a revolution for communism directly.

These are all generalizations, and I’d you ask 11 communists… et cetera.

As someone else said, the issue most people point to when critiquing communist philosophies is central planning. Specifically central planning done in some nefarious way by a shadowy unelected government. It’s worth noting that places like the USSR, Cuba, et cetera, democracy was increased after their revolutions. It may not be what some would want out of a democracy, but it was more democratic than what came before. Central planning, too, isn’t exclusive to communist/socialist ideology. Walmart, Amazon, and plenty of other retailers run massive centrally planned economies that rival the size of many nations. It’s an incredibly efficient way to run an economy, and with proper democratic control of the government, oversight, and a focus on what the actual needs of the people are over the profits of a corporation, or the welfare of an elite few, those models could prove to be able to end hunger, homelessness, and all manner of societal ills. Or we can use them to make sure the Walton family can buy extra mega yachts or bookman can go to outer space. Societal priorities are all that need to shift.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could for example an Orangutan be divine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
How are we not great apes? I’ve taken 2 whole anthropology classes and this is the first I’m hearing of this! /s

For real, though, would love an answer. These things interest me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could for example an Orangutan be divine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’m a sort of hodge podge of different traditions, philosophies and religions, and this is absolutely my view. In Hinduism, one of the reasons humans are at the “top” of the reincarnation cycle is because we have the intellect to understand things like karma, and are able to achieve liberation through that understanding. In my view, while we may be the only ones able to achieve liberation, we are also the only ones building up negative karma. It’s a double edged sword. Animals, plants, bacteria, they don’t do wrong things, they don’t engage in wrong thinking. They act on impulse, on intuition, on instinct, and as such, they’re pure spirited. Humans on the other hand are capable of evil, and as such we are the only species on earth that must struggle towards divinity. We just also happen to be the only species that can understand the nature of divinity. You don’t think the universe be like it is but it do, y’know?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With how common human-exposure to radiation is becoming, the primary base system might not be base-10 anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That’s not how radiation exposure works. The types of mutations in DNA it causes is generally things like cancer, not birth defects that transfer into future generations. In order for the number of fingers human-wide to change, there would need to be a specific mutation for that, and that mutation would have to be beneficial enough that the 11+ or 9- fingered folks would be more likely to breed than us 10 fingered folks.

On top of that, while base 10 is convenient because of our fingers, it’s unlikely to change due to how ingrained it is in our culture at this point. It’s also hardly the only system we’ve used. The Babylonians used a base 60. Many cultures have used base 12. Base 12 is actually very convenient for our fingers already.

Hold your left thumb against the first segment of your left pinky and count 1, move up one segment, count two. Count each of the segments on your left fingers. You’re now at 12. Move your right thumb to the first segment on your right pinky, and then start over on your left. Each time you count 12 on the left, move your right thumb up one. You can now count to 144 on your fingers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder where police cars get their gasoline from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve lived all over, moved a lot, and have never seen a set up like here before, either. But, I’ve also not paid super close attention to farmer’s co-ops before moving here and getting chickens and ducks and doing small scale farming/big ass gardening. Lol. I assume they also sell diesel like you’re talking about. Maybe they just got a deal with the county and I’m/other people here are confusing that for the red diesel thing?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder where police cars get their gasoline from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
In my rural county the cops, school busses and basically all the public service vehicles like ambulances and plows fill up at the farmer’s coop, where farmers get cheap gas for their tractors. I have heard that this is not technically legal, because that has is specifically for tractors and has some kind of special price because of that, but I don’t know if that’s true or not. I know you’re not allowed to fill up your regular car there, but some of the farmer’s and cops do.