DharmaCurious

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Reread what I wrote. Every government functions under an ideology. Governments do not exist in a vacuum, they are a collection of people, and those people have a more or less unified set of ideals on how their society should function. Yes, ideologies exist only in the mind, but governments are a physical manifestations of that mental construct. Even when there is a major disagreement within a government, such as the division in the US currently, it's still a difference of degrees. No one in the the US government is outside of capitalism, even so-called socialists like Bernie Sanders. The US government functions under the ideology of capitalism. The Cuban government functions under the ideology of socialism. Even if you argue that Cuba isn't actually socialist, they still function under the ideology of socialism. Governments exist because of those mental constructs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every government functions under an ideology. Capitalism is an ideology, democracy is an ideology, socialism, anarchism, liberalism, conservativism, they're all ideologies. An ideology is just a set of ideals.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I just finished TLA. I'd never seen it, and now I have, and it's gone, and my life feels empty. Why would you bring this up? Why would you hurt me so?

Korra is good, but it doesn't hit the same, and 70 years is not enough to fully industrialize a society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Surely women also love seeing large rocks fall into a lake from great height, right? This has to be just a human love.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

They're tired and would like to take a nap. Do the right thing and make them a sandwich. Getting milked is exhausting, especially if it's a power play thing with post milking overstim.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Our family's was "freckle past a hair and time to get a watch"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this a book in the culture series? I'm about half way through consider phlebas

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You say this, but you've never seen me try to math

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That is, without a doubt, the perfect voice for this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I started using Linux in 2008. A friend of mine on an old forum showed me wubi and helped me get set up. When he went AWOL and stopped posting, I went on some Ubuntu forum and asked for help with a problem I was having (WiFi had stopped working randomly). Those people tore me apart and spit on my bloodied corpse. It was brutal. Apparently, I was a disgusting moron for using wubi instead of replacing windows (on my netbook with no disc drive) entirely. It was insane. I've since discovered that I'd just found a particularly toxic group by chance, and that most of the community is actually very kind. But at the time, it was genuinely hurtful. I not only stopped asking for help for a long time, I stopped learning about Linux and computers in general because I felt like it was something I'd never understand, I was clearly too stupid to get it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I sure do love me a sleep train

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a religious person, I will absolutely sleep with your partner while you're stuck in traffic.

I love a nap. I'm always sleepy, and if you're stuck in traffic and I'm bored, imma be sleepin.

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