muddi [he/him] @ muddi @hexbear.net

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How is it virtue signalling? That's when someone brags verbally about their position or perspective based on social expectations.

Based on your use of the word "destructive" I assume you're talking about radical animal activists like the ones who sabotage industrial meat factories, often secretly and anonymously for their own safety.

So, do you really think these really are people who are ineffectual and desiring social reaffirmation of their views? If anything, this group of individuals are exactly those I would call to mind as ones who are not afraid to make actual change in the world they want to see, whatever it takes. Forget if you agree with them or not. It seems absurd to call them ineffective virtue-signallers.

Prasad is offered to the gods to symbolically consume but then it's given to people to actually consume. You're not supposed to say no. People even sometimes carry prasad across the country and world so they can give it to others to eat.

Idk why any reasonable Hindu would get angry at someone eating prasad, regardless of who they are.

Others have mentioned, everything is moving away from each other, like the surface of an expanding balloon. But that is what we observe, and there is more beyond the observable universe.

There is an idea that our universe might actually be in a black hole in a higher universe. To expand on the balloon simile (pun intended), this would be like a balloon expanding uniformly except in a spot, a bubble appears and expands faster. A bubble within a bubble. Kind of a tumor, an outgrowth universe. Hope I've been illustrative enough.

It's not exactly what you asked, but a higher level black hole is kind of something pulling all matter in our universe instead of pushing.

If you are out somewhere dark enough and look up long enough, you usually see several shooting stars.

Also interesting: some cultures recognize images in nebulae and dark spots in the sky instead of or alongside constellations (eg. Australian indigenous Emu in the Sky)

marvel fans 2 seconds after Martin Scorsese says something

idgi what are you trying to say here?

China hunts down useful idiots? All their firing squad members have penises? The Great Wall is used for executions?

The Egg is a nice story. Although tbh it's nothing new in the history of philosophy. I'm guessing from OP's username they are referencing Indian non-dualism (Hindu variants like Vedanta or Kashmir Shaivism to explain my comment below 😅, sometimes Buddhism). The core idea being that reality is simply the godhead/universe deluded by its material form.

Kashmir Shaivite: I know I am God manifested as a human. Therefore let's party!

Just gotta make sure it's the younger Krishna and not the older one who will slap you a few times and lecture you about doing your duty when you get shy

Voice messages are good for those who speak a language which doesn't get focused on by transcription services or are too old to read tiny text

To be fair, you didn't really say any of that, just linked to a wiki page about censorship in the USSR

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States

Fun part about whataboutism, you can keep asking "what about _?" over and over and still say nothing

From what I read, it seems like they took over a year to investigate the cyber attack before making their conclusions public.

Also I thought the party line was communism, not anti-Americanism.

To be honest, this here doesn't seem that out-of-place in terms of how a sovereign nation would respond to a cyber attack by another sovereign nation.

This is a bizarre reply. What would be the adult response for China after discovering cyber attacks carried out by the US government?

Yeah there are those machines that like instantly cool your soda can or make ice cream instantly supposedly. They just bathe it in ice and salt water for some time basically

this is just humans

Are you familiar with the concept of alienation?

No he wasn't asking it seriously obviously

The circular reasoning I got after proposing to use a code formatter:

• Why are you nitpicking on PRs? Let's use a linter instead
• Yes we already have a linter for compliance sake
• Oh it's turned off though. I don't like it.
• No we can't use it actually, it's a third party one and it's not compliant.
• We can't use the first party one. It's not extensive enough.
• No we shouldn't extend it with our own custom rules. It's too much maintenance.
• I refuse to use any IDE formatting shortcuts or plugins, and will commit my code as I feel. The problem is not how I write my code.
• Why are you still discussing this? Didn't you figure out how to use a linter yet?

We're still at square one with this after a year or so

Same , but in my experience this can backfire even worse because the other person thinks you are trying to show off as well as make them look bad. But the problem is less with you and me, and more with this type of person

I've seen this type of comment in scifi threads. It was about that one planet-consciousness in the Foundation series, some guy thought it would be hell to lose his individuality. But I think that people are confusing privacy or autonomy with individuality.

Also the fact that individuality is already illusory to begin with -- we are social animals, and if we truly tried to be absolutely individual, we'd end up as a feral child or some bizarre hermit. And ironically we live in an age where we are so alienated not just from others but our own selves, and our very species-essence as well