Hrisskar Flat-Foot @hrisskar@qoto.org
You look like you could use a friend, outlander. Perhaps I can be your friend. I'd like you to help me recover some gold.
Joined Jan 2020
Disneyland's Darkest Secrets
https://invidio.us/watch?v=C3j_oL3P5Ps&autoplay=1
You're blaming Coronavirus on Trump? ARE YOU SERIOUS?
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Meghalaya, #India
Just in case you're not aware of: Meghalayan Age, named after #Meghalaya, is the latest age or uppermost stage of the Quaternary. It is also the upper, or latest, of three subdivisions of the #HoloceneEpoch.
#Geology 🌋 🌏 #Holocene #MeghalayanAge #Meghalayan
https://earthsky.org/earth/new-name-present-times-era-meghalayan
@freemo @design_RG Oh yeah, I forgot:
o Ever wonder why there are barely any facial features (or much of anything but the bare minimum to be a human body) on most anime characters? Say hi to Zen again, inviting you the viewer to accept your mind's eye to "fill in the blanks" like the slight wrinkles and damage from surviving teen acne below Rintarou Okabe's left cheekbone. You don't see them? No, don't LOOK closer, as that would be getting in your own way as Taoism helps one avoid. Don't TRY to see, ALLOW yourself to see...
@freemo @design_RG
Japanese art, much like almost every other aspect of Japanese culture and society, is heavily influenced by almost a thousand years of the philosophy of Zen.
Zen originally was Japan's adoption of China's Cha'an Buddhism, which ITSELF is a mixing of India's Mahayana Buddhism with the native Chinese philosophy of Taoism.
Like most branches of Mahayana, Zen embraces sunyata ('emptiness' or 'the void') as a powerful, necessary force unto itself -- which. This shows itself in so much of both ancient and modern Japanese artwork, architecture, poetry, and the like.
There's also Zen artwork embracing the whole "flowing of the energies of life and nature" from the no-mind/no-thought concepts from Taoism's creative quietism -- which does NOT mean "not thinking" but more like "getting out of your own way" and "INTELLIGENTLY going with the flow, working with it as it works with you until you and the flow become as one" as a third option between "fighting the flow, thereby tiring yourself out and drowning" and "nihilistically letting the flow drag you around until it smashes your head against a rock or throws you down a waterfall".
To keep this post from becoming a multi-page thesis on the ins and outs of Zen and Taoism, here are a few examples of the mixings of both sunyata's and Taoism's celebrations of the beauty of emptiness and the positivity of nothingness -- as opposed to a Westerner's fundamental distate of 'nothing', seeing it as somehow a bad thing; Easterners tend to find this idea as bizarre and illogical as hating a valley but loving a mountain peak when they're both as inseparable and necessary for each others' existence as up & down, black & white, life & death...):
o The large area of a canvas untouched by the brush above a painting of mountains and trees expressing the grand, untouchable sky.
o A room with only tatami mats on the floor, the futon kept rolled up in a corner closet during the day, unlike a bed whose unmoving bulk keeps "interrupting" the visual silence of pure, empty space.
o Rule Of Three. I can't be arsed to come up with more examples, I ran out of brain...
@RogueDisciple@mastodon.social Before bed, maybe this kind of thing could bring you back down? 
re: DissidentKitty "leaving fedi" - Very long.
@r000t @portpupper Both extremes tend to treat non-whites with hate: that they're animals who need to be put in a zoo and taken care of (left) or put to work in the fields or into a slaughterhouse (right).
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re: DissidentKitty "leaving fedi" - Very long.
@portpupper yeah that's.... that's an interesting little phenomenon.
People fighting for the human rights of a group of people but denying their human individuality by assuming they all think and behave identically.
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DissidentKitty "leaving fedi" - Very long.
DissidentKitty,
Your behavior is nothing less than a cancer on the fediverse. Over 8 months ago, I predicted a situation like this, and I'm happy to see that (mostly) cooler heads have prevailed, and that your behavior has been called out as wholly unacceptable.
Not only have you tarnished the image of the fediverse as a whole, but you've also tarnished the image of social justice, that cause you claim to fight for with all of your being. Using someone's race or gender as an excuse for your indefensible behavior towards them is racist, sexist, and only gives more ammunition to the far-right, because it shows that you aren't inclusive, you just want to start political drama and be patted on the back for it.
This debacle is the logical result of a few large instances incentivizing and glorifying callout culture. Ironically, it took calling you out to SBC's hosting provider for your admin to actually put a damper on it.
Don't let the socket hit your ass on the way out, consider doing a flip, and be assured that the fediverse will happily continue on without you.
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So apparently this is DK's response to endangering their entire instance...
@freemo First thing I found is this: https://wallpapercave.com/categories/religion
Time to begin the hunt for right-click save-as material! 
@freemo Darn. I'll try my old fashioned methods of image searching and diving into wallpaper sites. 
Where in the #fediverse may one search and collect many wallpapers and similar images and photos? Thank you!
#wallpaper #photo #image #picture
>installed #Manjaro about a week ago
>it keeps freezing every so often 
>see my kernel is marked "experimental" (5.6rc3.d0223.gf87)
>try 5.5.7-1
>still freezes maybe 0-2x/day 
>downgrade again to 5.4.23-1, same result 
If this keeps going I'll try the one marked "recommended" even if it looks to be an old one (4.19.107-1). If it STILL keeps bugging out on me by then I'll switch back to 5.5.7-1 and begin messing around with video drivers because I'm rolling with an accursed nVidia. 
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It looks like scholar.social is starting to engage in doxxing too.
Hrisskar Flat-Foot
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#PSA better quarantine Sunbeam city
after the doxxing incident I don't think its a good idea to send them non public notices. I doubt they can be trusted not to read DMs at this point.
after the doxxing incident I don't think its a good idea to send them non public notices. I doubt they can be trusted not to read DMs at this point.
Is there a common or most popular tag for "currently listening to XYZ"? If so I wanna share what matches my current mood so well: #music #metal #blackmetal #atmospheric #atmosphere
This channel was promising and suddenly she got a concussion and nothing new in a year. Poor girl. I hope she gets well enough to post more! She deserves more than less than 100 views per video!
You look like you could use a friend, outlander. Perhaps I can be your friend. I'd like you to help me recover some gold.
Joined Jan 2020
