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I saw some people on Reddit discussing whether someone was being orientalist, and I agreed they were simply by using the phrase "zen-like concentration". I'm not offended by them using this term, I just find it stupid. "Zen-like" has absolutely no meaning, but gives an air of eastern spirituality and mysticism. I personally think you should only be able to use that phrase if you can give a detailed and verifiable explanation about the differences between zen-like concentration, huayan-like concentration, mahasthabir nikaya-like concentration, and chan-like concentration, as well as recognize that the last one is exactly the same as zen.

And why is it only ever "zen-like"? I'm sure everyone would find it strange if Asians suddenly started to use the terms "seventh day adventism-like" or "independent fundamentalist baptist-like" to refer to the elements of American culture they find exotic.

I've been debating to myself whether or not voting for a third party candidate (Either PSL's de la Cruz or Green's West, regardless of my criticisms for both) would be the most "effective" use of my time in election season this year. The argument for "not" is that maybe voting at all is bad because it legitimizes this system, even if a third party candidate getting a record turnout would grab more attention (and piss off Blue MAGA cultists) than simply not going since it's not like abysmal turnouts, even by this country's historical standards, are newsworthy at this point. So I guess I have to ask how you people rationalize voting or not this year?

I fully understand that this is more symbolic than anything else and won't materially affect change for a while but it's still something to think about.

These are the 2021 numbers. I have a printout of the 2022 numbers (china 546B, US 141B) but not a digital copy.

This page indicates that the 2023 numbers are out but I can't get access to the report. anyone got the new version of this chart?

Both are very similar games . Lato from fdroid and alto from google play . They didn't even try to change the name . Did someone steal some open source project to make their game or was the idea stolen from the play store version ? Lato says the name is choosen because it's the name of the main character who is always late . Is there any history behind these coincidences ? Not really serious just noticed this and wanted to know if somone had any answers or if there even is any answers . I have only played the fdroid version btw and it's nice.

To be clear, I'm not making accusations about Vietnam, I was just thinking about it and found it a little strange.

I can think of some fairly plausible reasons, but just because those reasons are plausible doesn't mean they're actually correct, so I was wondering if anybody had a more concrete historical and materialist understanding of the situation.

You know when you point a mirror at another mirror and it looks like there are infinite images of the reflection that get smaller and smaller? How small do you think they get and what happens at that point?

Is there some document about what colors, fonts and logos to use for hexbear stuff? Maybe logos in SVG format? I found 4 variants of the logo linked on the site. The sidebar logo seems to have different colors than the others and is the only one with scan-lines.

Logo in the sidebar:

Logo in the header:

Watermark linked in the sidebar of c/memes

tilted sicko hexbear logo:

Not that I need your help or anything baka. /tsundere

/sincere thanks for real though, Google is being fucking useless rn and yandex is coming up with weird shit.

A friend of mine (actually a friend, not me, I have known forever not to buy soda streams I PROMISE I'M NOT A LIB ) wants to actually try to boycott Israeli products (finally). They have a soda stream though and they want to continue to use it, but they don't want to buy the cartridges from soda stream because they're don't want to support genocide. Since this is a noble goal I want to help them.

So what are their options, where do they buy cartridges for their soda stream that don't support literal genocide. This is their Very Important Treat and they really want their treat and we all deserve our treats so I'm trying to help them. Thank you.

Thanks everyone this was super helpful...looks like you just buy an adapter and then I've got a bunch of local brew stores that will fill the tank!

I find there tends to be two general categories of books; those that are exciting and interesting, so much that I want to recommend them immediately, and “slogs” that are just slow and unappealing regardless of the content. Some I get the jist of fast and a lot seems irrelevant like What is to Be Done, some like Fresh Banana Leaves the writing is just dislikable and repetitive. This is in sharp contrast to books like Half Earth Socialism or State and Revolution where I may be familiar with some of the content, but I really like the style and new information and want to recommend to people.

Do you agree with this categorization? Are there any books that you feel strongly about either way? I’m sure I’ve heard a lot of your recommendations before, but I want to know what will actually be fun to read, because some aren’t even if the content is good. I want to know which to prioritize reading.

Since climate change, it isn't even that cold, it was supposed to dip to -8c but now it is summer again. It does rain almost constantly though. I am on a hill, and the wall of the house provides a lot of shelter. I don't think anywhere is particularly boggy, but it is wet most of the year. It is flat grass against the wall of my house, and a slope stepped with stones against the pavement of the road outside.

I'm thinking hardy varieties of climbing rose, hydrangeas, ivy, hopefully jasmine, some evergreen holly hedges and crawling juniper. The previous owners planted a tree in the centre of the garden which does not appear to be making much progress. My phone identified it as something stupid like Goat Willow, which I can only imagine is the most boring plant a person could ever willingly choose to plant themselves.

Other stuff which does well in my garden is Hoary Willowherb, which is so abundant I had to remove it from the gutter of the roof.

Further away from the shade there is a healthy Redclaw which is home to about a million tiny birds. It is pretty ugly but I can't exactly evict these birds now they have lived there for generations, so maybe there is a way to turn it into a wild hedge made up from lots of different shrubs. Maybe I can grow cranberries and blueberries.

Let me know you guys's thoughts especially if you think I can grow anything fragrant. Personally I could obsess about this for weeks and not make any decisions so I really need someone to help me.

I think it's kinda interesting that there's a whole universal force that kinda goes uncommented upon in popular physics. I also don't know anything about the strong nuclear force, but I heard someone say once that it's actually just electromagnetism on a small scale? If there was, like, a good documentary that centers the history and experiments that lead researchers to conclude the existence of these things, that would be helpful. Being able to situate research in historical context really goes a long way to getting my head around a concept.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3401860

I semi-often hear people complain about Lemmy's moderation tools. It's happened enough that I think it's a sign that moderation tools need improvement. Some ideas I have so far:

• Let community mods view list of who's banned from community
• Put community edit/mod features on own page instead of stuffing it into the sidebar

I'm looking for other ideas for improvement I can do in addition to these.

I'm looking for a website to host a spreadsheet for book recommendations. Ideally something where I could add people as approved editors but is good for privacy (so no Google). Any good options out there?

As title says, looking to read this bad boy, having trouble finding any pdf's or free copies at normal sites I would look. Any help, would be greatly appreciated!

I'm hooked on TNG right now and I need my fix

I’ve ran out of weed so I’m buying a 10 dollar pre roll here and there and I was wondering what a standard price you’re willing to pay is. Personally I don’t see an issue with a ten dollar pre roll it’s good value considering 1/8th is 30 or so dollars

I'll start: "Shoving x down our throats"

the amount of people who have told me i'm one of the good ones because "at least you don't shove gayness down our throats," or "i'm fine with it if they dont shove it down our throats" has made me cringe whenever i hear that phrase used in any context, even harmlessly. how about you guys?

I found this here and have verified the accuracy by copy-pasting into google translate myself.

My question is, is this discrepancy due directly to an intentional decision to translate differently, or is it because google translate has been trained on news articles that have been manually translated for English-speaking audiences?

(To be clear, both paragraphs should involve one person kicking another in the nuts, unless I'm missing something.)

Happy Sunday, comrades!

This thread is a space for you to talk about anything cool you've got going on, anything you want to vent about, or whatever is on your mind. Hope you've all been doing well!

For my own part, been inside trying to stay warm the last 2 weeks or so. Tried to go on a few dates, but either my mental health stopped me, or the person and I just kinda stopped talking. Didn't really feel much like leaving the couch. Today, however, I'm getting stuff done, and them going to stay a few days with my primary partner.

Had a job interview on Friday that I'm actually kind of excited about (aside from the 'hey you need income' thing) - it's a position that would see me working with nonprofits in a consulting capacity that I will not explain here at the moment. We'll just say its a tech role, with salary comparable to my last job that I got let go from, which is a good thing. Also doing my taxes now and that'll be a big help with stuff.

Beyond that, finished Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and loved it. Anyone know where to get an English version of Steel Ball Run?

Hope you've all been doing well, and remember, you are loved

I've seen discussions on here about Biden winning this year because he works in the ruling class's interest.

If the CIA really did just push a button at Langley and decide the next president, why not Hilary?

She's a corporate ghoul like the rest of them, loves war, everyone expected her to win, and the election was close enough to be plausible either way. She would have been a more reliable, or at least knowable, asset to the deep state than Trump.

She would have been the same mid president as Trump, but it would have been more of a banality of evil approach. Everyone's material conditions would have gotten worse in the same way but there wouldn't have been the media circus around everything she did.

So why do you think the 'most qualified' person for the job didn't win last time? And what could that say about this year?

Because thats me, thats what I am

I reconnected with an old friend last night.

This VERY skilled filmmaker friend told me that they have been shooting videos of protests for the past 5 years but doesn’t quite know what to do with an (apparently) vast collection of footage.

I was thinking that they might be interested in some sort of leftist press collective that focuses on protection of anonymity with a dedication to journalistic integrity; something to multiply their efforts.

They’re at an expert level in editing, vfx, (especially) compositing (even without the footage, this friend would be, by far, the most skilled nuke compositor to lend their skills to a leftist cause that has ever existed. They have done work on more major motion pictures and vfx-heavy commercials than they can even name. Imagine the implications of that kind of meme firepower?), color grading, camera, etc so they’d absolutely be a valuable asset to any press team, honestly.

Does anyone have any advice? I want to make sure my friend is protected while also allowing them to leverage the spirit of collaboration to help make an impact on society if possible.