@mym Dunno, the roads were weirdly empty. It's like everyone's on some sort of holiday or something.
@freya @ics I've recently been trying to figure out if my undying love for [long-dead friend] was actually a love for her, for some particular aspects of her, or for an imagined idea of who she was (not necessarily an "ideal" or "fantasy"), or what.
(The answer, as is often the case with such questions, is probably "yes".)
we three ants (two workers, one drone)
bearing honeydew from our home
field and fountain
moor and mountain
following pheremones
This is a bit of a left-turn from the OP, but what I'd really like to see emerge from the ashes of this dumpsterfire is something more like a set of federated international coalitions.
Some Americans still back Trump (for reasons I struggle to comprehend), while some never saw him as acceptable ([raises hand]) -- why should those two groups be considered part of the same political entity?
@OccuWorld I mean, the guy had a history of lying to everyone and screwing them over for his own short-term benefit. I'm not sure how that screams "benevolent radical reformer" to anyone... but humans are mysterious to me a lot of the time. -.-
@OccuWorld What I want to understand is why they believed him in the first place, when there was so much evidence that he wasn't trustworthy.
...although since the focus of most dictionaries is meaning rather than diction -- and GTranslate informs me that Latin for "meaning" is "significatio", then maybe dictionaries should actually be called "significtionaries".
The ones that also include pronounciation (which is pretty much all of the dead-tree type, at least) could be called "signidictionaires" or something.
(Caveat: This is a bad idea; do not implement. 🚫 English is just broken, and it has to be allowed to fail as gracefully as it can.)
If a "dictionary" is a reference for how to say words (diction), then maybe encyclopedias should be called "factionaries".
a Christmas carol makes more sense from a Buddhist perspective than a Christian one
the actual mechanism of Scrooge's transformation is way more Buddhist than Christian
there's no salvation through grace, no acceptance of a savior, no forgiveness of sins through faith
what happens is he's forced to see clearly.
he witnesses the causes and conditions of his own suffering and the suffering he creates. he sees dependent origination in action - how his choices ripple outward, how Tiny Tim's fate is entangled with his own actions
The First National Website Dedicated To Documenting ICE License Plates Is Here, from #LATaco (I posted this yesterday, click thru for OP)
@quadrivial @thatfrisiangirlish
It's apparently from The Salmon of Doubt, which I have never read.
The full quote (emphasis mine):
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'
This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
@rnd Yeah, very much agreed. I've also had issues with not being able to rename things, and uploading sets requires doing stuff in CLI...
@quadrivial @thatfrisiangirlish
Poke me if you haven't heard of Douglas Adams's "sentient mudpuddle" thought-experiment...
