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- Comment on Magic Rocks 6 days ago:
I missed the colon in that book title at first and was very confused about a book for their mother entitled “on looking eleven…”
- Comment on heaven 1 week ago:
Did Randy Newman answer your question personally?
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 1 week ago:
After Hank freaks and runs out, when he comes back to apologize there could be a wise, aged drag queen that explains the origins of gay rodeo! “I was there, in 73. The Yankees had Christopher Street day, and we thought ‘well why the hell can’t we have rodeo?’”
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 1 week ago:
How do I submit this to the writing team behind the reboot? It would be seriously good.
The end could have the guys in the alley all snickering and calling him Backdoor Buckaroo, and Hank being super embarrassing but like “it was still the best goshdarn vacation I ever had”
- Comment on Mice 1 week ago:
'tis truth, friend. And it’s absolutely fucking adorable. YouTube “popcorning guinea pigs” or rats or whatever, it’s so fucking cute.
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 1 week ago:
My GOD that would have been a good episode! Hank gets invited to a rodeo, says no. Tells Peggy, she’s like “Go Hank, it’ll be fun!” He says he doesn’t like Rodeo’s, they’re just show and not real sport or something else Hank Hill-ish. Peggy convinces him to go, he has an amazing time, all the while completely oblivious to the fact that it’s a gay rodeo. Makes a comment in passing that’s completely innocuous, but in the context of a gay rodeo makes everyone think he’s a power bottom. Gets the nickname “Backdoor Buckaroo,” which Hank thinks is in appreciation of how much work he does helping everyone out behind the scenes.
The last day of the rodeo he invites the family and friends and Mr. Strickland to the rodeo, and Peggy explains to him what’s going on, right before they announce a special thank you to “Hank ‘Backdoor Buckaroo’ Hill” over the loud speaker. Queue “ahhhh” scene
- Comment on US education 1 week ago:
Damn! Fellow Homeschooled Abeka-refugee, and a fellow Christian anarchist‽ Well met! In fairness, my religion’s all over the place, but Christian anarchism is a big part of it.
- Comment on US education 1 week ago:
I was homeschooled my entire childhood. My mom was a Christian. Not a crazy zealot, just a woman with faith. Initially, my school books were through a Christian curriculum program (I believe abeka books, iirc). One of my textbooks had this module on dinosaurs, with little pictures of humans in leopard print look clothes picking berries while a brontosaurus walked by in the background. My mom, ever the fantastic mother, immediately tossed those pieces of garbage and got me on the state curriculum that the public schools used. Took her forever to get it. Initially, when she called the state to ask how to get those resources she was told to stick with abeka, and was offered several other insane religious options before they finally relented. From then on, even though we lived in Virginia, my school standard came out of California, and I had to take end of year tests that aligned with the state of California. I got a great education, and because Mama let me basically choose what hours of the day I did my schoolwork in, I didn’t really need to take summers off. Ended up finishing 12th grade at 14 years old. I am so thankful that she realized how bad those books were, and fought to make sure, even as a single mother working well over full time, that her kids got a good education. My brother and I both placed highest in the state when we took our final exams, in everything but math.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 2 weeks ago:
Most of my internetin’ is done on mobile, because I’m very rarely at my desk, and when I am, I’m normally working on school. Are there any solutions to handling this easily on mobile without having to manually erase part of the pasted link when I go to send it to someone? A few people have mentioned that’s it’s not 100% guaranteed that the anything after ? Is worthless, so I don’t know how to ensure I’m not breaking a link
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 2 weeks ago:
If you want trump to do, here’s what you’ll need to do:
Make the bottom border go straight across and connect to Mexico, then build that giant wall along the new mexican-us border.
The added benefit here is a larger border with Mexico, meaning he can run around screaming about the now larger border with Mexico, while simultaneously cutting off Mexico’s west coast from the ocean, fucking their supply routes. He’d absolutely be on board for this.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 weeks ago:
Was using a VPN to watch iPlayer last night and then hopped on reddit and was like “whereintheactualfuck is all the porn‽” Before realizing I had it set to the UK. Blew my mind for a minute
- Comment on Well, I mean they probably... Maybe they... 3 weeks ago:
That’s the one that gets me the most, man. People will literally go and say “the sixteen-point-nine-ounce bottle” instead of just saying “500 mil bottle” and it blows my mind. It’s so much less awkward to say. I’ve even heard people ask for the 33-point-eight ounce bottle at the gas station I work at. It’s a fucking liter. Just say the 1 liter bottle!
I know it’s a completely lost cause at this point, but I genuinely wish we’d switch:(
- Comment on So me 4 weeks ago:
Fucking. Exactly. Tap is awesome. It’s fast, it works, but just fucking standardize where it’s at!
But until then, as someone who works a register, people, please, look at the machines and see if there is a very clear label on it saying TAP HERE. I don’t know how every customer misses it, but they do.
- Comment on Oh Kurt Gödel, you lovable logician freak. 4 weeks ago:
One of my favorite ways this has ever been expressed is through David Graeber. Paraphrasing:
If you convince 100 million people that you can breathe under water, and you go sit at the bottom of a lake, you drown.
If you convince 100 million people you’re the king of France… Then you’re the king of France.
- Comment on Oh Kurt Gödel, you lovable logician freak. 4 weeks ago:
Fairly short read effectively, it’s never been made public what the loophole was/is, and all those who knew first hand are dead now. But it’s speculated to be a few different things, the leading theory (and the one I think is it) is article V, the process by which we amend the constitution. If we can amend the constitution, we can amend article V, meaning we can then make it easier to amend again later, in a downward spiral. We could also amend the constitution, do a bunch of fashy shit, then amend article V to make it so the constitution could not be amended ever again.
- Comment on oops 4 weeks ago:
I remember when I found out that shit was plastic. I always assumed they were organic material of some kind, like the body scrubs with the crushed up walnut shell in it (which probably has fucking microplastic in it, too). So disgusting.
This is why we need to change how shit works. It shouldn’t go: company does some shit > fall out > government steps in. It should go: company has an idea > must get permission first from environmental agencies
- Comment on Are you ready skids? 5 weeks ago:
I was pretty stonery in m’youth, and lemme tell you, I was not about to wake up early enough to brunch
- Comment on Are you ready skids? 5 weeks ago:
What the fuck is this place?
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 5 weeks ago:
Same thing that’s wrong with mine: the brain is really good at working collaboratively with other shit, and that means if the phone can remember the numbers your brain will happily give that task to the phone. I can remember so many number from before I had a cell, and almost none since then.
It’s also got to do with repetition. We used to dial the number each time, now we almost never type the digits in, just pull up a contact (or more likely, a text from them) and hit call
- Comment on Back in my day... 5 weeks ago:
Thought basically the same thing (but wasn’t going to comment about it until I saw yours). I always associate this meme format with, basically, what millennials/gen z will sound like when we’re old
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 5 weeks ago:
I know the number is exaggerated for comedic effect, but it blows my silly little 'murican mind that phone numbers in the UK have variable length. All of our numbers are the same length. Country code (1), area code (757) prefix (368) and then the line number (0441). I’m sure something else might exist for super niche things or something, and we’ve got the 3 digit important numbers, like 911 (emergency/cops) or 988 (suicide prevention hotline), but personal numbers are always 7 digits plus the area code. It’s just weird to my brain that the length can be variable within a country.
Also, try giving that example number a call…
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 5 weeks ago:
Look, you’re gonna have to face facts. People like you. Yes, your meme collection is great and mighty and powerful, but the fact that you collect all the memes that people love speaks to you. You saved those memes because you loved them, and then you selflessly decided to share them with a fledgling community to bring joy, and the people loved them. You bring joy. Santa doesn’t make the toys, he delivers them. You’re the lemming Santa. Stamta.
Also, you are literally famous. It might only be locally, but you are, factually, famous 'round these parts
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 5 weeks ago:
Stamets publicly acknowledging me? I can feel my Lemmy clout growing!
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 5 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I fix
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 5 weeks ago:
Because I just glanced at the picture while hiding my phone from customers and thought they were bees
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 1 month ago:
What is it with European bakeries and bees? I’ve seen memes and stuff about it, and this one youtuber, a Vietnamese woman who’s German BF never shows his face, I can’t remember her name right now. She showed a bakery in Germany with bees everywhere. Why is this a thing?
- Comment on I'm ready for it 1 month ago:
Time machine or a benevolent necromancer?
- Comment on I'm ready for it 1 month ago:
34 currently and just came out of retirement, as I see. I was my mom’s caregiver. Got paid through the state to hang out with my best friend, the person I love most in the world. We were broke, just barely made more than the bills, enough to splurge on a 30-50 dollar item in a month… But honestly, my life was perfect. She passed away in April, and while going back to work isn’t the thing that sucks most about all this, standing on concrete floors at a gas station with plantar fasciitis and being generally fucking miserable isn’t helping. I just want my mom and my life back
- Comment on It will 1 month ago:
Well that’s genuinely one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a looooooong time
- Comment on Anon is disabled 1 month ago:
As a professional gay, and purely out of interest for my shareholders, could you elaborate on this “hypnodick porn” you mentioned?