Rottcodd

@Rottcodd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have any expertise with which to answer your question definitively, but I wanted to chime in to say that my first thought was exactly this: “hands that are gripped together are unable to present a threat to you, so it is a signal of voluntary vulnerability.”

  And rather than vulnerability, it might be more accurate to say that it represents submission, which would tie in with your second question, so it’s not so much that one is signaling that one is not a threat to the god(s), but that one submits.

  And in that context, it’s likely noteworthy that the most common example of clasped hands oitside of prayer is when one is earnestly begging something of someone else, and especially a favor or a certain inconvenience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favourite games to play around Christmas time?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really shouldn’t like it, since games in which you die repeatedly generally just irritate me, but something about it keeps me coming back. And dying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favourite games to play around Christmas time?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Skyrim is the most obvious one - it just seems more appropriate in the winter.

  Ditto The Long Dark, though it’s notably not festive.

  When it’s really cold, and especially at night, I sometimes get an urge to play Little Inferno - it’s sort of like one of those old fireplace videos, except with added surrealism and silliness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's what's in the spending bill that's drawing the ire of Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No - not particularly.

  I don’t doubt that they have some gut level opposition to the other things, but I don’t think they’d care enough to force a potential government shutdown the week before Christmas or threaten to spend however many millions it’ll take to primary Republicans who won’t come on board if it wasn’t for the debt ceiling.

  It’s very simple - Trump’s been lying all along about cutting spending, and he’s trying to avoid having to get the debt ceiling raised by the next congress while he’s in office and he’ll be the one signing the bill. He’s counting on his supporters’dull wits and short attention spans to stop them from paying too much attention to the fact that he’s pushing to raise it now, Later on, he’ll be able to say that it had nothing to do with him because it was passed by the previous congress and signed by Biden, and the dunderheads will just nod and go along with it.

  The rest is diversion, meant specifically so that allied media can run articles like this one, in which they gloss over the debt ceiling (if they mention it at all) and instead talk about the sorts of things that will get Jim Bob Bigot’s jockeys in a twist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's what's in the spending bill that's drawing the ire of Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what it’s really all about:

  It even prompted President-elect Trump to say he is “totally against” the legislation and insist any spending deal raise the debt ceiling before he gets into office,

  The rest is just distractions to keep his dull-witted supporters from thinking too much about the fact that the guy who promised to cut spending - who actually created a new office that was supposedly going to do just that - is pitching a tantrum until Congress proactivelybraises thecdebt ceiling for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I sincerely have no idea.

  The narrative that a leftist couldn’t win is repeated so predictably and so often and by so many people that the whole idea has become sort of detached from reality, and there’s no telling what would happen if it was actually a possibility.

  And particularly since the one thing I’d pretty much guarantee is that the concerted efforts on the part of the ruling class to prevent a leftist from running would be as nothing compared to what they’d do and say in order to prevent one from winning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Israel FM says Palestinian state not 'realistic'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The most maddening, astonishing and discouraging part of the whole thing, for me, is that that isn’t even really debatable. From any reasonable, purely fact-based and unbiased viewpoint, Israel has been clearly maneuvering for decades now to conquer everything from the river to the sea, and to oppress, displace or kill as many Palestinians as it takes to do it.

  The Gaza genocide isn’t an aberration - it’s the direct culmination of decades of very deliberate Israeli policy and strategy. It’s not a coincidence that they had exactly one Prime Minister who advocated for Palestinian statehood and they assassinated him - it’s because Palestinian statehood has never really been an option.

  The plain fact is simply that the only reason there’s even any difference of opinion about the matter is that some number of assholes - power-hungry assholes and greedy assholes and hateful assholes and ignorant assholes - have a vested interest in lying about it or at the least promoting the lies that their fellow assholes tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Israel FM says Palestinian state not 'realistic'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the clearest indicator of the philosophical and moral bankruptcy of the entire matter is the fact that anyone believes for even a second that Israel has a meaningful opinion on whether or not a Palestinian state can or should exist.

  In any sane and rarional world, Israel would not be seen to have the right to make that decision, or even to hold a meaningful opinion on the matter. It should be ENTIRELY a matter to be decided by the Palestinian people.

  But this is not a sane or rational world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do people just not know who and what Chris Roberts is?

  This is what he’s done throughout his career - the only thing that’s notable about Star Citizen really is the scale of it and thus the opportunities he has to find ever more things to obsessively tinker with.

  It’s entirely possible that if Microsoft hadn’t bought out Digital Anvil and given him the boot, this wouldn’t even be Star Citizen - it would be Freelancer, coming into its 25th year of delays.