Hegar

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Colorado Supreme Court, in landmark ruling, bans Trump from state’s ballot under insurrection clause (apnews.com)

DENVER (AP) — A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the...

Hegar,

I'm sure this will boost his fundraising. That's guaranteed to happen anytime he's held to account. But the alternative is to not hold him to account for his many publicly committed crimes. I fear that much more.

Hegar,

I'd encourage you to expand your worldview - a lot of problems we attribute to capitalism are mostly because of hierarchy.

Hegar,

What a well whittled wizard.

Saudi Arabia Is Trying to Block a Global Deal to End Fossil Fuels, Negotiators Say (www.nytimes.com)

The Saudi delegation has flatly opposed any language in a deal that would even mention fossil fuels — the oil, gas and coal that, when burned, create emissions that are dangerously heating the planet. Saudi negotiators have also objected to a provision, endorsed by at least 118 countries, aimed at tripling global renewable...

Hegar,

They don't need to insulate the population, just the ruling house and the oil sector. The rest of the country is basically disposable, that's the nature of the resource curse.

Hegar,

There's one location on the Oregon coast that grows it in small quantities. They serve it at Zilla Sake in Portland.

Hegar,

People are taking this as a dig on China, but it's a tale of how fragile nationalists are the world over. This is a level of dumb on par with freedom fries.

Hegar,

We stopped using pretty litter because it didn't absorb as much smell as pine chips, smells bad itself, tracked everywhere, and the pH changing thing sounds cool but just wasn't necessary. It's also needlessly expensive.

The crows loved their cat food though.

Hegar,

Agreed!

Hegar, (edited )

Pine pellet for horse stalls is definitely the correct answer. It's the most effective, easiest litter AND it's monstrously cheaper.

I've tried maybe 5 or 6 different litters, nothing absorbs as much smell as pine pellets. You can ignore it for a couple of days without issue. It doesn't track or clump. You don't have to scoop pee, although you should give it a quick stir or sift daily. That's easy enough to do when you scoop any poop.

Hegar,

I'm very partial to early bronze age names.

Epirmupi

Manishtushu

Tiglath

Inshushinak

Labarna

Naramsin

If you look at the Sumerian or Elamite king lists, you really can't go wrong.

Hegar,

People are going to make fun of the conqueror of Anshan, King of Kish, Ruler of Sumer and Akkad? That seems unlikely to me.

Hegar,

I see dope, pedo, and pood. Now I wonder why there aren't more obscene word search shirts.

Hegar,

I find comfort in the Zhuangzi, a text that later became associated with daoism.

To me, the zhuangzi is about accepting the inevitablity of change by remembering that the human scale is only a small part of the crazy and unknowable universe we exist in.

It's hilarious, an obvious work of genius, and surprisingly modern. Unlike the dao de jing, it uses nonsense and satire to make very real and relevant points about the human plight.

Hegar, (edited )

https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/23427

Here's a combined translation/commentary from a scholar. It has some important context.

It's only the 'Inner' chapters - this is the section that is generally accepted as written by Master Zhuang himself because it's "governed by a single creative vision". The 'outer' and 'miscellanious' sections still have some great chapters - 'stealing' is one of my favorites.

Also, here's an 8m video of a semi-related daoist text called Neither Lord Nor Master. I find it so relevant. The first sentence is basically: Confucians say heaven ordained authority, but that's a lie told by people who benefit from oppression. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs23tDAaEho

Hegar,

'Inner' Chapters, written by Zhuangzi with scholarly comments and context: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/23427
'Outer' Chapters with chinese text (sorry probably better options out there): https://ctext.org/zhuangzi/outer-chapters
Niether Lord Nor Subject, by Bao Jingyan (another daoist text I find incredibly beautiful and calming. It's ~8min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs23tDAaEho

Ziyu fell ill. Zisi went to see how he was. “How remarkable!” said Ziyu. “The Creator of things is making me into this hooked shape. A hump has thrust up from my back, my five viscera are top-wards, my cheeks are in the shadow of my belly, my shoulders rise above my head, and my pigtail is pointing at the sky! It must be some dislocation of my yin and yang qi.”
Yet he was calm at heart and unconcerned. Crawling to the well, he looked in at his reflection.
“Oh, my! The Creator’s made me even more crooked!”
“Do you resent it?” asked Zisi.
“Why, no! What is there to resent? If this goes on perhaps he’ll turn my left arm into a rooster and I’ll keep watch over the night. Or perhaps in time he’ll transform my right arm into a crossbow pellet and I’ll shoot down an owl to roast. Or perhaps he’ll turn my buttocks into cartwheels and I’ll ascend into the sky with my spirit as my horse! Why would I ever want a new carriage again?
“I received life because the season had come. I will lose it in the flow of time. Content with the seasons and dwelling in the flow of time, neither sorrow nor joy can get within me. In ancient times this was called ‘untying the bonds.’ There are those who cannot free themselves because they are bound by things. Besides, no thing can ever prevail over Heaven – that’s the way it has always been. What would I have to resent?”
...
“The Great Clod burdens me with form, labors me with life, eases me in old age, rests me in death. So if I think well of my life, for the same reason I must think well of my death. Were a skilled smith casting metal, if the metal should leap up and say, ‘I insist on becoming a Moye-type sword!’ the smith would regard it as most inauspicious metal indeed. Now having had the audacity to have once taken on human form, I should now say, ‘I won’t be anything but a man! Nothing but a man!’ the Creator would surely regard me as a most inauspicious person."

That's a section I love from chapter 6.

This is the end of the inner chapters. Note that 'Hundun' means both chaos and wonton, so think something like a metaphorical primordial meatball.

The god of the Southern Sea was Swift; the god of the Northern Sea was Sudden. The god of the center was Hundun. Swift and Sudden would often meet in the land of Hundun, and Hundun would host them with great courtesy. Swift and Sudden made a plan to return Hundun’s generosity. “All men have seven orifices,” they said, “so that they can see and hear, eat and breathe. Hundun alone has none. Why don’t we bore these for him?”
Each day they bored one orifice and on the seventh day, Hundun died.

Gotta appreciate philosophy that knows how to stick the punchline.

That's just the bit we think Zhuangzi definitely wrote, but the 'outer' and 'miscellaneous' chapters have some good stuff. The happiness of fish story from Autumn Floods really sticks with me. The whole chapter on Cutting Satchels is a vicious refutation of the state:

"In taking precautions against thieves who cut open satchels, search bags, and break open boxes, people are sure to cord and fasten them well, and to employ strong bonds and clasps; and in this they are ordinarily said to show their wisdom. When a great thief comes, however, he shoulders the box, lifts up the satchel, carries off the bag, and runs away with them, afraid only that the cords, bonds, and clasps may not be secure; and in this case what was called the wisdom (of the owners) proves to be nothing but a collecting of the things for the great thief."

this chapter is especially interesting when you compare it in style and subject to Neither Lord Nor Subject.

Hegar,

Fiction has higher standards than reality - fiction has to make sense.

when will be your last time to vote for the "lesser of two evils"?

When will be your “this is the last fucking time I’m voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’, then I don’t care after that, let this country burn to the ground”? For me, this is basically it. This is last election I’m going for that " lesser of two evils" bullshit. After that I’m done. It’s just pointless. Let’s...

Hegar,

I plan to vote, so I will be voting for the lesser of two evils. From now until I die. That's what voting is.

Hegar,

I could believe this, but if google doesn't want me to be frustrated on youtube, why do they make it so annoying?

Pushing youtubetv in annoying new ways, putting ads in the middle of songs, serving ads with frustrating frequency, using multiple types of ads so your brain can't just tune out until you hit skip, locking basic functions like add to playlist behind premium accounts.

From their behavior it sure looks like they want me to be annoyed.

Hegar,

I wish I was living my fallout dream bathroom life.

Hegar,

Omfg EV was so good, I'd forgotten all about those games!

I downloaded some freeware 3d rendering software to make ships for mods, learned what sprites were, and spent so much time using resedit.

Damn that was a great series of games.

Hegar,

The IDF has already killed many many times more civilians, using many more missiles over many weeks, than Hamas has in a single major attack.

Despite that, this the cartoon depicts 3 panels of 3 missiles each from Hamas compared 1 panel of 1 missile from the IDF.

Given that overwhelming and disproportionate response has been Israeli policy for as long as I've been alive, it's fair to say that this comic deliberately misrepresents reality

Question to those not in the USA, and who have lived outside the USA.

I’ve been thinking about something and want to check an assumption I have. I only hear directly from other people in the USA, and interract with the global community through memes. How are the gun regulations/laws different from yours in terms of strictness, and do you wish there was more or less where you live?...

Hegar,

I live in Oregon but grew up in Australia, where you can't get guns. There's a process for farmers to apply for a gun to shoot roos and whatnot, but that's it. Other than that only police and military get guns.

Having lived in countries with no guns and all the guns, I would vote for almost anyone who promised to criminalize gun ownership here in the US. There's no benefit to a gun flooded society and infinite misery.

Hegar,

Yes, trump fans on mass are hypocritical violent xenophobes. That's fairly obvious from all their hypocritical violent xenophobia.

I'm more upset by the ahistorical use of a modern ethnonym.

Hegar,

It was used since the aegaen Peleset took over following (probably) some kind of brokered peace with Egypt, yep. The peleset seem to have been pretty quickly Canaanized by their new subjects, but that polity ceased to exist like 500+ before Jesus and the Roman province of the same name wasn't founded until 100+ years after he died.

So it's probably not appropriate to call that area Palestine during this period.

And regardless of that, the term has very specific and vivid modern connotations that needlessly muddy the waters when we're talking about a time when rabbinic Judaism was less than maybe 200 years old and Islam still like 600+ years in the future.

Hegar, (edited )

I love a good correction and I support any chance to encourage people to delve into etymologies!

Of course I also love language change and all language that people use is correct language, so I'm on mass for life.

Thank you!

Hegar,

Mockumentary called Cunk on Earth.

Hegar,

One political party is publicly admitting they're over the whole democracy thing and the former president is a Russian money-laundering asset who launched a coup and walked away without consequence.

Our political situation is one of the few things substantially more dramatic than the media portrayal.

Hegar,

It just says "heating furnace". Literally: add, heat, stove/furnace for the three characters.

No idea where glory hole came from.

Hegar,

Oh, well I guess that solves that!

In Taiwan seaweed was often translated into English as "Laver". Never heard of it? It's the type of seaweed used in traditional Welsh cooking.

Sometimes you think you've found exactly the right word, but it turns out it's a specialist term that the general public just won't know.

Hegar,

Multuple lecturers had it on the outside of their door at my uni.

Hegar,

Hx, Rx, Tx are history, prescription and treatment in medical jargon

Hegar,

Are you looking at this picture, reading this post and then attempting to seriously debate the author on the merits of their argument of no-politics "inteded"?

Hegar,

I think being overrated is the defining characteristic of pop music, right? Any music where the most notable trait is that it's popular is pop music.

Hegar,

If not civilization conditioning they would be at each other throats.

I don't think that's within the power of agriculture and settlement hierarchy to achieve.

If anything the improved nutrition and health of people before "civilization" would have made them much more capable of emotional restraint.

Hegar,

Careful folks! This one can really linger in your head. It's a brilliantly executed work, but at the time I read it I kinda wished I'd not.

Hegar,

In part because the time we devote to something is felt as representative of how important it is - the sink cost fallacy can be visceral.

When you spend the minimum possible time feeding or looking after yourself, it's easy to feel like you're not treating yourself as important .

Hegar,

At this stage I doubt he'll be taken in alive but I really hope he gets a chance to publicly profess his support for trump and Q.

I reckon 50/50 he says trump appeared to him in a dream and told him to do it.

Hegar,

First off, I don’t base my views on “what Americans are like” with what people post online.

... Meanwhile, most everyone I’ve known who is leftist wants the government to disarm them, claims to be pro-LGBT but blindly supports any Muslim country and blindly hates Israel, and thinks Joe Biden is the “greatest president EVAR”.

These two statements are contradictory. No one in the world has ever thought biden is the greatest president ever, least of all leftists.

The only place you hear people saying biden is the best are right wing lunatics on the internet who think that's what left wingers would believe.

It really very strongly sounds like you've just been talking to right wing cranks online.

Hegar,

I have to admit I don't see how pointing out that the OP's unhinged and obviously racist rant is obviously racist proves that everyone in the US is crazy.

Hegar,

This feels like arguing whether mcdonalds or burger king is better when I'd really just prefer food.

Hegar,

What is? I don't get what's going on here

Hegar,

In actual disasters people spontaneously self organize to help each other. That's far and away the most common observed behavior.

Hegar,

Meh, ghosts aren't real and meat is gross. Skeletons are pretty cool though.

Hegar,

Then you might be excited to hear that there is at least one skeleton inside your body for your whole life.

I don't get to try another? 😮‍💨

Hegar,

I appreciated this comment and the interrobang, thank you.

Hegar,

At uni a friend of mine wrote a book review of the bible that began, "Not since Naked Lunch has such a dull book been saved by the constant barrage of sadomasochistic homosexual pornography."

Hegar,

Alas it was pasted onto a sheet of paper and photocopied over 20 years ago now and I doubt it was saved. I don't remember anything else about the article, but I presume it was very undergraduate. That line was a killer though.

Hegar,

Idaho and Montana I understand - no one one from the Midwest or PNW will claim either, but culturally Midwest is closer.

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