stringere
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- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 7 hours ago:
See the other comment for a variation of the story.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 7 hours ago:
In another telling of the story he arrives to find his meager shack ransacked by the thief and writes a koan with a broken piece of charcoal on a torn piece of parchment:
He left it right there In the window The moon
That’s translated and also my memory from a book I read 20 years ago. Do not take this as historically or literarily accurate.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 15 hours ago:
Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing to steal.
Ryokan returned and caught him. “You have come a long way to visit me,” he told the prowler, “and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift.”
The thief was bewildered. He took the clothes and slunk away.
Ryoken sat naked, watching the moon. “Poor fellow,” he mused, “I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon.”
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 week ago:
No but the dolphins said “thanks for all the fish” before they leave.
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 week ago:
The mouse’s design specifically excluded any artists’ signatures.
- Comment on Comedian Russell Brand charged with rape 2 weeks ago:
My first thought was “again?”.
Might be the same incident we’re confused by:
- Comment on Recommendations for privacy-focused, open-source alternatives to corporate apps 3 weeks ago:
Coworker shared this with me. Keeping it going.
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 1 month ago:
How timely a comment.
I just got pop_os up and running to replace windows 11 on my alienware aurora. Still working on a sound issue in Helldivers 2 but overall has been a smooth transition.
- Comment on Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias 1 month ago:
Ori and the Will o’ the Wisps is an amazing sequel, just as beautiful and just as smooth to play.
Moon Studios also has a new project, No Rest for the Wicked. It is very different from the Ori games but just as well crafted.
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anon becomes a shrimp farmer 2 months ago:
You should extract trace elements, then you can literally make gold from shit.
- Comment on Anon becomes a shrimp farmer 2 months ago:
you wouldn’t download a shrimp
- Comment on Anon becomes a shrimp farmer 2 months ago:
Shrimps is bugs
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 2 months ago:
I’m almost as disappointed in the rest of the world not standing up to the USA as I am disappointed in my fellow citizens’ abdication of social and civic responsibility, common decency, and basic humanity.
- Comment on Anon watches The Terminator 2 months ago:
Yes, both sides require wedge issues to perpetuate a two party system in which neither has to enact the will of the people if they can campaign on divisive issues that effectovely change nothing.
I did not say both parties were the same.
Republicans are actively marching towards oligarchy, autocracy, and evil.
Democrats have shown they are too cowardly to rock the boat and fight back. As the opposition party they have shown their true colors: ameaningless foil beholden to the same wealthy donor class as those they purport to oppose.
- Comment on Anon watches The Terminator 2 months ago:
Republicans and Democrats. They both require wedge issues to keep us divided and easily steered.
- Comment on Stay strong, fellas 💪🏻 2 months ago:
I’ve finally freed myself from my deadly vices (nicotine and alcohol) just in time to desperately need them as coping mechanisms for the living nightmare my country has become.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 3 months ago:
Food
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 3 months ago:
Oligarchy, kakistocracy, kleptocracy take your pick.
- Comment on The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales 3 months ago:
I hear you. I’ve had every playstation since the PS1. We even own a PS4 and PS4 Pro. Mythbusters was the beginning of the end for me. When they yanked Mythbusters without warning or recompense it drove home what I already knew: my digital library was only as good as the whims of Sony. I haven’t made a purchase on their platform since.
And like you I also have Plus for a while, but I’ve noticed more offerings are starting to be PS5 only. And maybe it’s bias informing my experience but I could swear they’ve already begun enshitifying the PS4 store the same way they degraded the PS3 store when the 4 came out. They removed some of the browsing options, like browsing by category.
- Comment on Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"? 4 months ago:
all tracert point to akamai like internet rome
- Comment on Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"? 4 months ago:
disconnecting my microwave proves that I can take down the power grid
DO NOT DISCONNECT YOUR MICROWAVE!
- Comment on Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024 4 months ago:
It was good of Sony to bribe enough people to bring it to your attention.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 4 months ago:
And because of double jeopardy he’d be free from further (criminal) prosecution for those charges.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 4 months ago:
ding ding ding
I’m wondering if it will run on the Steamdeck I bought my daughter for Christmas.
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 4 months ago:
Would it blow your mind to find out it’s nuanced and good judgement and data should be used to determine when we should or should not implement new laws or repeal old ones? Or do you prefer binary choices that force a loss on one side or another?
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 4 months ago:
USA checking in with a very short, nowhere near comprehensive, list of the more egregious breaches in trust by the federal government; local and state governments undoubtedly have more to add: Business Plot left uninvestigated Kennedy Assassination and the Warren Commission War on Drugs Bush v Gore decided by Supreme Court for Bush despite losing popular vote which led into… 9/11 and Weapons of Mass Destruction - wars in Iraq and Afghanistan justified by lies
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 4 months ago:
I live in the USA. You’re describing life in the USA.
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 4 months ago:
I always liked the Hooloovoo, from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
“The Hooloovoo resemble a super-intelligent shade of the colour blue.”
- Comment on ugh i wish 4 months ago:
If they’re not from the USA they’re just sparkling pathogens.
