uriel238

@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a pope dies are they being fired or promoted by the Boss?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  According to the dogma it’s a promotion. Gathered unto God. However, even within the church there is controversy regarding how heaven is attained by a person, which really comes down to which passages you prioritize and how you interpret them. If we went by the strictest standards, Heaven would be empty (contrast to Hell, which could have up to five-hundred-billion souls, mostly in the Limbo of the Innocents)

  Francis himself, asserted only God knows what’s on the other side, and the true nature of divine judgement. And yet no small number of ministers and bishops presume they know what scripture is meant to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For all you inked people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  According to the Trump administration, the entire population within a specific range of millennials are gang members to the last.

  OG Boomers and Silents are gang members, but they’re called lodges and esoteric societies, sometimes churches for tax reasons.

  Remember that the primary efforts of Black Panthers and Hezbollah are community support (often cooperating with NGOs like Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders), we can expect that other terrorist organizations are similarly extremist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pronunciation is important⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At the time for an applet it was amazing. Real artists were expected to get a design suite individually marketed full applications for copy (word processing) pixel and vector graphics separately (often then divided between design and photoediting).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Easter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell me this is all chocolate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Easter from the POTUS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For comparison, also, Trump’s 2024 Easter message:

  Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country,

  Easter, the gift that keeps on giving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Easter from the POTUS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …This Holy Week, my Administration renews its promise to defend the Christian faith in our schools, military, workplaces, hospitals, and halls of government. We will never waver in safeguarding the right to religious liberty, upholding the dignity of life, and protecting God in our public square…

  Obviously not actually Trump, but certainly the Project 2025 / Seven Mountain Mandate faction of the current regime. May their steak knives be extra pointy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Autism is a modern epidemic"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, In the 1970s I was just a weird kid. Super bright but eccentric. Didn’t get along with peers…or anyone really. Was often the target of bullies.

  Also very very sad all the time. But that was major depression diagnosed in my twenties. I was around fifty when I got an ASD diagnosis from my therapist.

  I am pretty sure I was the thesis for her PHD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hear The Good News⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He wasn’t the first person to get in trouble with the establishment by suggesting charity and kindness.

  He wasn’t the last either. And we keep exiling or executing them all.

  Even if you’re not a believer in miracles, the bible tells us that this is not a new problem; The public and established authorities have been disregarding the impoverished, the foreigner, the widow and orphan since time immemorial, that civilization gets subverted time and time again to preserve old power structures that no longer serve the community (and suffer because they need a healthy community to survive)

  Oh and Free Palestine, Death to Monarchists, No War But Class War

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accurate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2008 during the California Proposition 8 controversy, there were was a clever ad suggesting You want to stop gay sex? Let them get married. It showed a gay couple transitioning from honeymooning to blasé cohabitation and even bickering as old spouses are wont to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It happens...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I very much appreciate the offer. Part of it is that I’ve been wailing like Cassandra about the rise of autocracy since the CIA torture thing in the aughts (and hippies older than I have been noting the rising police state since the 1960s) so I’m kinda taking CECOT and the dismantling of federal institutions personally. But then a lot of personal life stuff happened about the same time, so here we are.

  I’ve got a few friends left, a rugged protocol for when I am triggered,and I am rebuilding a support network. It’s not my first rodeo, but (to mix metaphors) I’m definitely playing hard mode now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate, Atheists!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As Blue from OSP, an early example of self-insert fanfic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It happens...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the middle of a psychotic break (since November 2024, and yes, the collapse of the US is a factor) and off and on suicide watch.

  Here’s an exchange I’ve actually had (more or less, paraphrased) more than twice these last three months:

  🥼📋👓🩺: In the past week, have you been having thoughts about killing yourself? (Another version is “How recently have you thoght about ending your life: a) less than a year, b) less than a month, c) less than a day, d) today.”)

  🐰🎩🫖☕: Oh sure. Every day. Hourly.

  🥼📋👓🩺: What!?

  🐰🎩🫖☕:Yeah. For me this is Tuesday. The brain is always considering heading to check-out. I have a numerical scale of one-to-ten for suicidality the way we do pain assessments.

  🥼📋👓🩺: I…see?

  🐰🎩🫖☕: It’s fine! Ambient unlife stuff is at a S-3, like “shit I need to get to bed so my boss can scream at me early tomorrow. If that bus careened through this crosswalk, that problem would be so resolved.”

  🥼📋👓🩺: …This is normal for you?

  🐰🎩🫖☕: Routine. At S-5, I may look around for wandering death opportunities. I don’t talk to anyone about it until about S-6 and start having fantasies of getting proactive, at which point I might tell my therapist if she isn’t squeamish. (A lot of therapists are hair-trigger and will start threatening involuntary committal with any noise of suicidal ideation)

  🥼📋👓🩺: Maybe you should…

  🐰🎩🫖☕: It’s gotta be an S-8 or S-9 before I’m going to inconvenience a hot-line operator or crisis counslor. By then I’m looking at chemistry sets on Amazon. A fun game is trying to cross a hundred busy intersections in two hours. I’ve won so far.

  🥼📋👓🩺: You can’t just…

  🐰🎩🫖☕: You can’t just charge death head on. A million years of evolution will drop you before you commit. You gotta sneak up on Death. Icarus, not Heracles.

  🥼📋👓🩺: < 🎩 gibbering noises >

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It happens...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get to enjoy that the reverse happened, when he made mocking jokes about Islamic jihad and the promise of 72 virgins, and I got to school him about the Houri and the more general (and often pacifistic) notions of jihad as a personal quest.

  (I’m not Muslim, but researched them during the war on terror in order to separate functional culture from violent movements. It’s complex and valid criticisms intermingle with harmful stereotypes, like Christianity and vampirism)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is possibly true. He seemed more left leaning as the mayor of San Francisco, and I didn’t realize he was actually a chameleon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at my traitor of a governor with the monarchist tyrant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just venting into the void⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember our oligarch masters have invested over a trillion dollars into a multimedia empire to fuck their brains in the first place using what is nothing less than mind control or brainwashing techniques.

  In the old days, we regulated services that took advantage of common human bias (such as gambling). But in this era, even gambling is AOK in all fifty states (so long as it’s sports apps or lootboxes)

  That 20-Minutes-Into-The-Future cyberpunk dystopia that scared Orwell and Stephenson and Gibson is here. (—1138)

  The US is still supposed to regulate inciting speech, but not when it’s backed by a closet full of blue-haired lawyers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If our present was a dystopian future, you wouldn't believe it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We live in a YAF dystopia that is way less cool than most of the storybook ones.

  And while every kid’s story is their chance to veer away from the usual fate of becoming a corporate cog (laborer or soldier) in a billionaire vanity project, most will just end up stuck like Winston without his nook, or will get imprisoned or will just go homeless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so cooked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re pretty sure it’s the Monsanto pesticide and anyone who suggests it is hit with a litigation threat. Curiously, as we’re speed-breeding domesticated bees the wild bees are dying out faster, so as the bee population dwindles it also becomes more domesticated and less wild. I know that’s a bad thing, but I am fuzzy on the why details.

  I’m a brown thumb, and plants wilt as my shadow falls on them, but if you’re a green-thumb, plant pollinators, which will help the bees.

  Also plant milkweed for the monarchs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horror⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but the police don’t hover over us in Spinners as in Bladerunner. They still have to chopper from helipad to airport and ride off in air traffic, so less in our faces.

  Their superfluous greenhouse emissions fit the cyberpunk vibe though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Appreciate the effort, but I can't handle my own shit. much less a extrovert instigating a million things to do on top of all that.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It my current state of five months into a long-term psychotic break, I have the joy of feeling lonely, walking to where people are, and needing to leave immediately, and feeling lonely by the time I get home again.

  What a marvel the brain can be!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horror⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad we got ubiquitous smartphones instead of only rich people having flying cars.

  Still, I’m promoting way, way more punk in our cyberpunk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This 18th Century French Doctor Has a Solution to Oligarchy…⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of The Terror was to burn the Révolution into the skulls of generations to come by making it so horrible the ownership class would be terrified into treating the working class nicely (this was before class consciousness, so it was the Petit Bourgeoisie that actually formed the Assemblée nationale representing the third estate. They, too, are ownership class, once Marx sorted it all out.)

  This is why heads had to be piled high. We were supposed to be scared into civility. But as the early 20th century demonstrated to us, it didn’t work, and we still have people voting for far-right parties in order to vote against neoliberalism (which is happening a lot in Europe right now, and is a sound explanation of why Trump still got so many votes.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating new wage slaves is child abuse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  65% of life forms on the planet engage in parasitic survival strategies. This was a risk we took when we started using agriculture, allowing for specializations other than chieftain and shaman. (Everyone else was a generalist.)

  Our instincts are still the same hunter-gatherer stuff from 25,000 years ago. Which includes behaviors antithetical to large, complex civilization.

  One of those is a bias towards obedience to authority, and to loyalty to clan, over principle (creeds, laws, codes of ethics) . We tend to want to obey the chieftain who commands us rather than challenge them when they demand the unconscionable.

  Demagogues, who exploit these biases, were known in classic Athens, hence we have a Greek name for such people, and Athenians tried to recognize and shun them.

  The bible has a lot of proscriptions against manipulative tyrants and priests. It also has many decrees to uplift the widow, the stranger, the immigrant, the destitute. This tells us the problem of dudes seeking to consolidate social power (money and authority) and then abuse that power has been a problem throughout known human history.

  Obviously we haven’t fixed it yet and still want high tech water, sewage, power and information infrastructure.

  We need a movement that is willing to assert its collective power not just for a few concessions but until we have an ironclad social contract that distributes political power widely, and does not tolerate surplus when there is scarcity and need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's just eccentric⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was eccentric when I was seven years old. They had meetings about me.

  Was diagnosed with ASD around 50 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨frenly warnin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope he gets messaged every hour about how his name might draw the wrong crowd.

  Also that he needs to take pills for a bigger penis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Years ago, I played Homefront: The Revolution which was a ridiculous premise (North Korea magically invents and develops microcircuits in the 20th century instead of the US, and invades the US) but had solid weapons and a really great remote-control car bomb.

  Its version of the flying cameras from Half Life 2 that actually identifies you and calls for reinforcements also was spot on.

  It also had a pretty cool pause-screen song.

  Then it had trouble working with computer upgrades, and I moved on to other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#EverythingHappensForAReason⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving the benefit of the doubt, it’s illustrating a process for near-readymade art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Terraria currently. Satisfactory and DRG before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't you just be normal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a much cooler (and much more 3D) bone than the two nodules at each end flat bone.

  I get that they flattened it to make it cheaper to stamp, but still. I’m counting at least three peaks at the top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have to pick one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I assumed. Assuming its non-injurious, the marble will sting a lot more, on the other hand, I’d be under a bowling ball (or holding it.)

  If its at a significantly injurious amount of momentum, there is no right answer.