In Serbia as well. Whenever someone mentions an annual salary, I have to divide it by 12 to get some sense out of it, because we only talk about the monthly.
Right, I think it only covers personal information: companies can only collect what they need to run their service, users can request to see their data etc. I don't think it applies to comments and posts.
This might be due to the fact that I'm not a native speaker and I encountered this phrase at a later date, but people saying "it's all but xyz" to mean "it's xyz" really gets on my nerves. I get it, "it's all but complete" means that virtually all the conditions are met for it to be complete, but I find it so annoying for some reason.
"The task is all but impossible" registers as 'it's not impossible, it's everything else: possible', so the fact that it means the opposite of that makes my brain twitch.
I'm so traumatized by that video that now, 17 or so years later, I had to carefully scroll your comment in case the picture you posted was the screaming face
But in short, the Symposium creates a complex web of how everything ties in, but the point made was that love is a messanger between humans and the gods, it draws people towards the form of the beautiful, and in his steps towards the Beautiful, the love of bodies is the first and lowest step, which when overcome by the next (love of the soul) is seen as nothing in comparisson. Socrates himself, presented as the ideal philosopher and lover, refuses Alcibiades' sexual advances.
But the most explicit statement against sexual relationships is given in 'Phaedrus', where beauty and love for people reminds the soul of the form of Beauty, but the shameless part of the soul pulls the body towards sexual relations, to "mount them like an animal", but the reasonable part of the soul, upon being reminded of Beauty, pulls back and subdues the shameless part.
Plato is against most physical things on a good day, but when it comes to love, sexual relations are out of the question because they miss the mark (knowledge of the forms) by a mile.
A colleague lent me a book with various yoga poses a few weeks ago and it has massively improved how I feel. Currently I'm working on digitizing it by creating an application where you can choose a pose, and it will be shown on your screen. I never made gui apps with GTK before, so it's a nice learning experience.
Seriously, I never would've guessed that my most unpopular opinion on lemmy would be "murdering people vaguely connected to your problem because you're angry is bad".
This wasn't an ideological act or whatever, the assassin's mother was brainwashed and financially ruined her family, he was angry because of that (so because the church caused his mother to ruin the family, it's a personal grudge against the church because it affected him), wanted to kill the head of the church, but couldn't, so 20 years later he settled for Abe since he was accessible and supported the church (as the party did before him).
The assassin could've exposed and drew attention to the church and their connections in various ways, instead he shot an old man at the end of his career. I am all for exposing corruption and malpractices, for taking away influence and power from those who have too much, but arbitrary killing is disgusting. Shall we applaud every broken and desperate murderer if the target they could get their hands on was bad enough by some criteria of the day? I hope this is people just trying to be edgy.
Because the political violence mentioned in the title is murder. The title is "murder works and is good sometimes actually". And the 'sometimes' mentioned here is when a man held a grudge against the Unification Church, couldn't find a chance to kill high ranking members of the church and then decided to kill the former PM because he had connections to it and was easy enough to find.
When people had analogue technology (radio/phonograph) there was no solid concept of the universe being a simulation
I'd argue that Neoplatonism is very close to the idea of the world being a simulation. "The One" is a creative power that made all things, itself being beyond existing. That neatly corresponds to the idea of a machine simulating us, as it itself is not simulated, but simulates.
Even Plato can be seen in that light. There exists a world of perfect forms, and this is but a projection = There is a reality the simulation is based on and computed. Our souls know everything in their pure states outside the bodies = The class is on the same level as all other data until you instantiate it.
Of course nobody talked about computers, but the general idea was there. The simulation theory could be seen as just fleshing out the technical details, but the architecture was there for a while. Not that I necessarily agree with either, I just think that the simulation theory is not really a new concept in its core.
Don't know honestly. I once ate cold mashed potatoes and peas, like straight from the fridge cold, and it was awful. The thought of eating frozen flat bean soup, the liquid gelatinized, gives me a gag reflex.
I had a colleague that would bring frozen soups/stews, warm them just enough so that he could break through the ice, and he'd eat that. It was disgusting.
Well random cheap mice could die after a while (happened to my brother), or need battery replacements often (happens to a colleague). Logi MX vertical has the benefit that you can charge it, and it lasts quite a long time before you need to recharge it.
Though honestly I'd never spend €100+ on a mouse. My company offered money to buy office things, I didn't need anything so I took the mx vertical haha.
I generally wait more than a month for things to arrive, be it random stuff from aliexpress or books from bookdepository (may it rest in peace), blackwells or kennys. It's kinda the norm here, and we don't think much of it.
Yeah, I forgot about that. It varies from company to company, I get exactly nothing above my standard salary each month lol