kat_angstrom
@kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Hear here
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
In the year 1000, there was (apparently) rioting in parts of Europe in the belief that the end of the world was near.
In 1284, Pope Innocent III predicted the end times would begin, as this was 666 years after the birth of Islam.
Martin Luther predicted the end of the world would arrive “no later than 1600”.
Christians have been seizing upon everything from Nero to UPC codes as “666!” as a sign of the “end times” for nearly 2000 years.
You don’t have knowledge, you have a hypothesis. You don’t have evidence, you have a biblical interpretation and faith; and faith is not an accurate pathway to truth.
- Comment on DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. 4 days ago:
Because this post had been up for 7hrs before it got reported to me. Taking down meow
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 4 days ago:
I’m not sure what you mean. I’m referencing how Walmart underpays their full time employees so badly that those employees need to be on food stamps in order to afford food.
- Comment on Time for battle fam... 1 week ago:
- Comment on Sacre blu 1 week ago:
It’s true, a much smaller number than most of us expected.
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
Here hear.
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
Oooo, I also love chimerical colours. Especially because I remember them after seeing them and can reproduce them visually in my mind and can picture them anytime I want after I’ve seen them and now reality is weirdly underwhelming because its color pallette is not only limited but boringer than it otherwise could (and perhaps should) actually be.
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
Good answer. Not untrue
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
Nice. Appreciate that write-ups, thanks!
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
I did know that, but I like to remember it anyways. Birds are weird. Emus are weirder
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
I was forced to watch this movie no less than 5 times before the age of 12
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
Train subculture goes back generations. It’s a.techmeme from an era where autists were trainmen because they were (amongst) the only ones who could see the repercussions of this new and exciting technological leap.
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
<3 Ramanujan.
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
Oh, that’s interesting, I appreciate that. Strangely, I’ve heard of illegal primes before somewhere, but not illegal numbers as a whole. Thanks!
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
Your views have merit and it’s a shame that they will remain largely untested amongst the greater populace for repercussions unknowable perhaps forevermore.
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
Why yes, that is a historical anecdote
- Comment on Pain 1 week ago:
I don’t know who that bearded fellow is, and I don’t care enough to find out. For anyone who’d like to tell me, instead please reply with some of your favourite numbers, colours, and/or historical anecdotes.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
Unfortunately “capitalism” as a colloquial term has grown to encompass everything from Shell’s human rights abuses in Nigeria to WalMart’s continual underpaying of full time workers who need to be on food stamps to live.
What the market allows, persists absent regulations or interventions.
- Comment on WHAT? 1 week ago:
I have no doubt of it!
…which is why I’m hiding in the woods
- Comment on WHAT? 1 week ago:
My alliances with the Fae are well known and documented, including in the Accords. My reserves of iron are entirely for my own personal use, for entertainment purposes only. My Denarian coins, however…
- Comment on WHAT? 1 week ago:
Who’s whining? My cold iron reserves have been hoarded for generations: The Forest Folk don’t know the Pandora’s Box that they’re opening (and I got one of those ready too).
- Comment on WHAT? 1 week ago:
I refuse to capitulate without proper information regarding the nature of the clause that voided the contract, and I invoke my rights as a signing member of the Unseelie Accords to accept binding third party arbitration in the courts of the Winter Fae!
We honoured our side of the pact! The requisite sheep, goats, and human sacrifices were paid, the Equinox Festivities always included offerings of fruit and wine, and the Solstices featured a metric shit-ton of REDACTED as per the agreement!
Just because the Forest Folk have discovered democracy and had a series of coup d’etats, that doesn’t void the contracts written in the blood of our ancestors and spilled upon the land.
- Comment on WHAT? 1 week ago:
Pfffft. The paperwork was binding for eternity as long as the sea didn’t overwhelm the land, and I don’t see no sea 'round here. This seems like a clear breach of protocol that the Fae courts will judge, and if there’s one thing we know about the Fae, it’s that they love their judgements
- Comment on gaslighting your boss is not a crime, it's a lifestyle choice 2 weeks ago:
Make sure that once you get your boss to do all your work, you make them check the work and then find issues with it. Once they’ve redone it from scratch a second time, you should probably host a meeting to discuss how bad their output was despite three full attempts.
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 2 weeks ago:
As a Canadian, I was entirely ignorant of the Supreme Court’s role in this travesty of a Law. Appreciate the explainer.
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 2 weeks ago:
I remain convinced (from my Canadian perch up above the USA) that if Occupy Wall Street had made repealing Citizens United as their main platform, it may have actually worked. Unfortunately OWS was instead a mélange of angst that couldn’t organise itself effectively, for a hundred reasons that ten thousand people smarter than me could better speak about.
- Comment on Salute the fallen 2 weeks ago:
Needs more jpg artifacting
- Comment on Everyone should know the name of this iconic dog 2 weeks ago:
Roger?
- Comment on It'll fit 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t a shitpost, it’s a winpost
