Yes, I've been away from access to my servers for a while, and the new big lemmy instances are hammering my lotide instance pretty hard so it keeps coming back up and getting knocked back offline, that's what's going on. Going to clean things up when I get back, maybe upgrade my lotide instance to something with more jam.
Yeah, acting loud and stomping around without a care and not running away if you see a bear is the way to act, which if you've never met one before and nobody told you is the exact opposite of what you'd expect, right?
I'm seeing bears in my area almost daily now. I'm sure there'll be a cull soon at the rate things are going.
I'm seeing bears in my area almost daily now. I'm sure there'll be a cull soon at the rate things are going.
I feel like a lot of people's relationship with nature is like a person's relationship with a model on the cover of a magazine. They adore the fantasy, but if they actually sat down with the model, she's got flaws you don't see, but the things you might actually love about her once her looks fade are also invisible. In the same way, most people from cities idolize nature in the abstract but don't realize she's got fangs and claws and will kill you dead, and the night sky in the middle of nowhere is beautiful especially when the northern lights are on display. A bear is pretty looking, and dangerous if you behave wrong, and wrong behavior is unintuitive if you don't know how bears think.
There's a haiku from the era where Japan reentered the world after centuries of isolation after their warring states period:
泰平の
眠りを覚ます
上喜撰
たった四杯で
夜も眠れず
As it's been explained to me, it can be interpreted as talking about drinking just a few cups of tea, or of just a few steam ships, and then keeping you awake at night. Such duality of meaning is common.
For a culture with a poetic culture like that it's tough for me not to notice the resemblance and wonder if there was some intentionality in naming the new capital the opposite of the old capital on the other side of the island.
That being said, the two names are etymologically different and I'm not aware of any evidence that it's true. I'm just demonstrating maximum weebosity
泰平の
眠りを覚ます
上喜撰
たった四杯で
夜も眠れず
As it's been explained to me, it can be interpreted as talking about drinking just a few cups of tea, or of just a few steam ships, and then keeping you awake at night. Such duality of meaning is common.
For a culture with a poetic culture like that it's tough for me not to notice the resemblance and wonder if there was some intentionality in naming the new capital the opposite of the old capital on the other side of the island.
That being said, the two names are etymologically different and I'm not aware of any evidence that it's true. I'm just demonstrating maximum weebosity
It a funny linguistic accident (maybe an accident) that the two cities are basically the same sounds but reversed. To kyo and kyo to
"PLLEASE BE AFRAID!!! WE NEED YOU ALL TO BE AFRAID AGAIN!!!"
omg just Canadian healthcare yourself.
omg just Canadian healthcare yourself.
In the Aristotelian definition of an aristocracy, I would tend to agree with you. I was referring the American conception of aristocracy as a bunch of people elites in power purely through an accident if birth. The aristocrats in the demeritocracy would be the people we all agree are the best at being losers.
Every law is signed with a bullet. Every one. Yes, even the one you're thinking of that proves I'm wrong. People have been killed by the state for not complying with laws as innocuous as selling loose cigarettes or not cutting their lawns. Every law is a potential threat: "Do this thing, or the state might kill you".
Some people want to make politeness the law. "You should be doing this anyway, it's just polite!" -- Well it isn't politeness if it's signed with a bullet.
In the past, we have had people you had to be polite to under penalty of law. They were the aristocracy. Nobles or samurai could have commoners punished if they were disrespected. People did die for disrespecting the aristocracy.
At that time, the aristocracy wrote stories to explain why they ought to be respected under penalty of law. They explained that they descended directly from God or heroes, that the people protected were specifically deserving of their station as protected.
It bothers me a lot, that people don't realize you shouldn't put a gun to someone's head and say "Be nice". It bothers me that people want to create a new aristocracy.
Some stuff just shouldn't be part of the state. "Everything is part of the state, nothing outside the state" (paraphrased) is literally fascist doctrine stated by Mussolini.
Some people want to make politeness the law. "You should be doing this anyway, it's just polite!" -- Well it isn't politeness if it's signed with a bullet.
In the past, we have had people you had to be polite to under penalty of law. They were the aristocracy. Nobles or samurai could have commoners punished if they were disrespected. People did die for disrespecting the aristocracy.
At that time, the aristocracy wrote stories to explain why they ought to be respected under penalty of law. They explained that they descended directly from God or heroes, that the people protected were specifically deserving of their station as protected.
It bothers me a lot, that people don't realize you shouldn't put a gun to someone's head and say "Be nice". It bothers me that people want to create a new aristocracy.
Some stuff just shouldn't be part of the state. "Everything is part of the state, nothing outside the state" (paraphrased) is literally fascist doctrine stated by Mussolini.
Bathing at least once a week is basically kryptonite for women. It isn't even fair to their delicate constitutions. Our modern times are unable to comprehend such magnificence.
Article title: "No (Stupid), COVID mandates are not coming back."
Article body: "While it is true that COVID mandates are coming back..."
I was reading an article that was shocked that fact checks by the media have no impact anymore. Maybe the writers should read "The boy who cried wolf"?
Article body: "While it is true that COVID mandates are coming back..."
I was reading an article that was shocked that fact checks by the media have no impact anymore. Maybe the writers should read "The boy who cried wolf"?
I've been playing games from these guys since daggerfall. It's always been terribly broken and amazing.
Some of the best parts about daggerfall were the broken parts. Its Like "wow this isn't fair, but life isn't fair."
Some of the best parts about daggerfall were the broken parts. Its Like "wow this isn't fair, but life isn't fair."
I seems to me that ChatGPT is a solvable problem for teachers. It isn't very smart, you can create a prompt it cannot correctly answer.
The thing I don't get is... Why is anyone surprised? The guy has more lid days during his campaign than not. He napped in his basement and let msnbc carry his campaign. People got exactly what it said on the tin!