Samskara
@Samskara@sh.itjust.works
- Submitted 6 days ago to startrek@startrek.website | 13 comments
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This is what self care looks like.
- Comment on Sydney Sweeney says her success can be 'intimidating' to men as she lays out relationship non-negotiables 1 week ago:
You know in ‘The Princess Diaries’ when Anne Hathaway says that when she kisses the guy she knows she’s supposed to be with, her foot will flip up? That’s what love feels like," she said. "The lights will magically turn on. The birds will start flying. The fountains start shooting water. Love is a Disney movie
- Comment on Simple 1 week ago:
über - over, above
rasch - rash (adverb), quick, hasty
So a literal translation of Überraschung would be something like overrashness. Something that happens very quickly and unexpectedly.
- Comment on How to study nature 2 weeks ago:
Me while on a stroll outside with magic mushrooms.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Mobile penis inspection
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 1 month ago:
A sense and need for justice might be genetic in humans.
- Comment on Ever the Critic 1 month ago:
You can have a setup with a fish tank and some pots in your home.
- Comment on History of Biodynamics 1 month ago:
Yes, I am German. I come from that alternative milieu. My father was a founder of the local chapter of the Green Party and active in the peace and environmental movement. His job was working at a co-op owned bookstore with a book selection that had a strong emphasis on environmentalism, peace movement, leftist politics, third world authors (mostly Latin American leftists), etc.
I was born in an anthroposophic clinic. Throughout my childhood I ate mostly organic food and was treated with alternative medicine, mostly homeopathy and herbal. This impacted my life pretty negatively as I never received antihistamines for my allergies, only some vaccinations, nor any kind of attention to my ADHD. When I first visited a regular doctor as an adult, it was mindblowing to receive medicine, that actually works.
Some of my friends went to Waldorf schools, so I have second hand experience. Their school philosophy has lots of things going for it, but in practice can be pretty terrible for some children.
I can talk about this stuff for hours.
- Comment on History of Biodynamics 1 month ago:
They didn’t invent it, but they encouraged and invested in it. The number of biodynamic farms increased from 100 to 1000 after 1933. Some high up Nazis protected biodynamic agriculture and it was used on some SS run farms.
However the Nazis rejected Anthroposophie as an ideology.
- Comment on History of Biodynamics 1 month ago:
Both stem from romantic and naturalistic idealism, that‘s Part of German culture. Modernity had severed the relationship between the people and the land and nature. Christianity and Judaism were seen as invasive religions, that eradicated the natural indigenous religion.
There‘s an antisemitic strain that rejected modern medicine as Jewish, and favored alternative methods. Homeopathy, Anthroposophic medicine, new Germanic medicine, quackery, and other alternatives were supported by the Nazis.
The Nazis regulated quacks and providers of alternative medicine as Heilpraktiker (healing practitioners), a law that‘s still around today in Germany. This legitimized them in the eyes of the public until today.
It’s all pretty convoluted and there’s no clear line. Nazism as an ideology has a lot of inherent contradictions. It’s both against modernity, for a more ancient indigenous culture, while embracing modernity, technology, media, and revolutionary change. It’s very syncretic.
Anthroposophy and other alternative medicine remains popular in Germany today, especially among the educated middle and upper class. Left-liberal hippies will often send their children to Waldorf (Rudolf Steiner) schools, which you can find in every medium sized city. I have personally listened to a Waldorf teacher talk in front a group of 40ish people how the Holocaust was the result of bad karma accumulated by the Jewish people. According to him the Jewish people were were cleansed by it and transitioned now to a higher stage of development.
- Comment on Ever the Critic 1 month ago:
Industrial scale permaculture is the solution.
- Comment on Speedy Delivery 1 month ago:
Santa is a shared delusion running on people’s minds in a distributed fashion, known in magic occult spheres as an egregore. All of those minds then manifest Santa by their own deeds and the spread of Santa memes. Santa‘s sled is everywhere at once as the sequence of delivered packages doesn’t matter. One Santa manifested everywhere through human thought and action.
- Comment on I GOT THAT VIRUS 1 month ago:
This is actually kind of a good analogy.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Handschuhe ist korrekt. Perfekte Rechtschreibung. Gratuliere.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
German Word for mittens is Fäustlinge, literally fistlings.
- Comment on overstimulate yourself 1 month ago:
Also do at least two psychoactive substances.
- Comment on Word. 1 month ago:
Not that I know.
Depending on your exact needs a more specialized tool like SmartSheets or AirTable (browser based, subscription) can be good. WPS office is a little better than Calc in some ways, but no full replacement for Excel.
- Comment on Word. 1 month ago:
LibreOffice Writer has eaten comments on documents several times for me. Word handles comments much better.
- Comment on Word. 1 month ago:
Exactly. Excel is the workhorse. The combo between Exchange and Outlook is the other major major strength of MS Office.
- Comment on Word. 1 month ago:
Microsoft products can be quite good, but you’re right that they are severely hampered by boneheaded decisions.
Microsoft Office is still very good overall. Definitely one of Microsoft’s better products. The ribbon UI was revolutionary and is still great.
The Mac version of Microsoft Office is also a good example of how good and bad versions alternate. Office for Mac 98 was terrible. Office for Mac 2004 was great and and in many ways better than the windows version. 2008 dropped support for Visual Basic. 2011 reintroduced it. Microsoft’s email client for the Mac changed between Outlook, Entourage, then Outlook again with various changes and supporting different features.
My favorite versions of Microsoft operating systems are: DOS 5, Windows 3.1, NT 4, 98, XP, 7, 10, Phone 8.
I’m still mad Microsoft canceled their fantastic flight simulator.
- Comment on Word. 1 month ago:
It still exists.
- Comment on I'm definitely 1 lol. 1 month ago:
That‘s what number 2 should be.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 months ago:
The instance matters if you post about anything political. If your instance admins don’t like your posts, they will delete your account. Mods and admins of other instances can only ban you.
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 2 months ago:
😭 absurdist humor is ruining Lemmy.
- Comment on Nuremberg (2025 film) includes a film shown to the court about concentration camps, including executed and tortured prisoners. Where do I find that footage? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Heavy is the head that wears the frown 2 months ago:
Happiness comes from inside of you.
- Comment on Best meal ever 2 months ago:
It’s smörebröd in Swedish, I think.
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- Comment on What ever you do, don't think of the number 37. 2 months ago:
using that word against someone you don’t like
It means you don’t actually have values in this regard.