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Archliberal and neoghibelline. 1/3 of the way between Stoicism and Gnosticism.

Est. Jan 2023
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burcgravius@nip05.social

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flyingalibi73@walletofsatoshi.com

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2024-09-03 08:27:19

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I use social networks to get into fights with people about what long dead people said.
And about the Holy Roman Empire.

2024-09-03 06:58:16

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I'm following you back. I have been following you for a long while - creepiness aside, might be a bug that you're not able to see it?

2024-09-03 06:21:28

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I don't get much engagement either on my own posts, but replying to other people is engaging enough.

2024-08-30 09:41:36

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Also, what about Briar? I never see it mentioned in summaries like this.

2024-08-28 09:07:35

Whats the easiest way to turn my #sats on #WalletOfSatoshi into #Monero?

2024-08-23 11:08:19

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Yeah, that I'd love as well. You can sync it with Nextcloud and all that, but I'd love a way to do it through Syncthing.

2024-08-23 11:04:40

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tasks.org

2024-08-20 08:55:36

I think #Steam is a good example of how keeping companies #private ( #Valve is owned by #GabeNewell) can help it preserve its vision and not become enshittified in the name of shareholders.

2024-08-20 08:54:19

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True ownership of your phone!

2024-08-20 08:52:27

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It gets real hot for me during summers. If the ambient temperature is high (33°C-38°C) the phone does not cool properly. The case I guess obstructs a bit as well, but even without it the phone gets noticeably hot.

2024-08-19 23:59:28

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Except battery, which is a bit meh, and heat. My Pixel 7 Pro heats up like a tiny pocket sun.

2024-06-10 06:30:46

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Nice

2024-02-26 10:31:45

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It's apparently the most secure phone available in the market.

2024-02-24 18:07:02

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I'm sure if you computed your "friend score" in school you'd get bullied to no end

2024-02-20 22:08:14

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I am. It's like having a regular phone, but actually yours. I've had zero trouble with anything, only that Android Auto is missing.

2024-02-20 20:17:32

If there is something that is absolutely certain for all of us, in all cases, is that we're going to die, and that our loved ones are going to die. It's also likely not going to be pretty.
This is true now and has been true for the entirety of our species' history.
Why then is it so hard to accept?

2024-02-19 08:37:38

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Gm 🏳️‍🌈

2024-02-14 13:31:34

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Actually, it was cold, not snow. They point at the moon and you stare at the finger smh

2024-02-12 08:42:23

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I'm saving the 🖕🤡 as a custom reaction

2024-02-09 23:34:24

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Use the browser. If you have an ad-block it's free premium, plus you can have as many tabs as you want.

2024-02-09 11:53:54

Today I dreamt I interviewed #Putin.
Yesterday, #TuckerCarlson interviewed #Putin.
Am I Oniric Tucker Carlson?
#interview #Russia #dream

2024-02-05 09:26:20

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I think with Bing chat you can generate images, but you can't iterate on them. I have ChatGPTs paid version, just ask and I'll try to generate something for you.

2024-02-04 20:28:57

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Yeah, Dall-E
Want one?

2024-02-04 20:12:57

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I'd love one with better annotations and PDF reader as well

2024-02-03 15:06:15

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Of course. But they're pretty respectful as well. I've had my fair share of accidental encounters with wild ones and if you fuck off they fuck off.
My dog once ran after a family, to play with the babies. The only reason she's alive is she's a speed hound.

2024-02-02 18:26:20

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No, but I can say "oink" in at least three languages

2024-02-02 17:56:29

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I've always wanted a boar as a pet (see profile pic)

2024-02-02 15:46:16

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You might be on to something here.
It would lead to populism, demagogery and sophistry, but it does sound appealing.

2024-02-02 11:46:30

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The other side of that coin is that the amount of boobs one sees has also increased

2024-02-01 07:47:50

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Ah, that sucks

2024-01-31 23:36:34

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Why do you drink bottled water?

2024-01-31 19:42:56

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How does this support the argument that impact is the measure of virtue?

2024-01-31 18:21:15

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Ah, sucks when that happens

2024-01-31 18:20:59

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You're watering down virtue to be just a fancy form of consequentialism, when it isn't. The virtue of an action resides on the motivation and goal of an action, not in its results.
A man who attempts to jump in front of a bullet to save an innocent life but fails is much more virtuous than someone who happens to trip and fall in the path of said bullet, even though the former fails to save a life and the latter succeeds, wouldn't you agree?

2024-01-31 16:00:50

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Why does your username say Síomón, but its written Siomón there?

2024-01-30 19:57:27

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I'm not being obtuse.
If man is more virtuous because of his greater ability to embody virtue, meaning to enact good effect on others than woman because of biological characteristics, a rich man should be considered more virtuous because of his greater ability to embody virtue than a poor man, because of his economic characteristics.
Where is the flaw in this reasoning?

2024-01-30 19:01:12

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Is thus the rich man more virtuous than the poor man, in Christian terms?

2024-01-30 15:21:15

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Viginti dollariis viginti dollariis sunt

2024-01-30 07:54:09

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But if Jesus clarified (and corrected, as he contradicts Aristotle) how can you turn around and use Aristotle to claim that Jesus, based on him being male, is more virtuous than Mary?

2024-01-30 07:51:20

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Laudator temporis acti

2024-01-29 09:57:53

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But either Jesus is wrong, or virtue simply does not work the way Aristotle describes it to work, does it? Aside from the fact that for Aristotle, an action is virtuous not depending on what you do but on the results. Virtue cannot be something outside your total control for it to be truly virtue (see the Stoic conception of virtue).

2024-01-29 08:43:24

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Nevermind my previous post. It doesn't really make much sense to try to fit that definition of virtue with a Christian definition of virtue, does it?
Is it more virtuous for a rich man to give away 1% of his wealth than a poor man to give away all he has just because the impact of the 1% of the wealth of the rich man is bigger than that of the poor man?

2024-01-27 20:03:50

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It's also waaaay easier to find the part that interests you in text. And to share it.

2024-01-27 18:05:03

Humanity is at the same time profoundly imperfect and more than enough. The key to a happy life is embracing this. Do not expect anything good from people and learn to appreciate the good they give you.
#philosophy #life

2024-01-27 16:32:11

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What's the solution then? I sometimes pay hobos to carry encrypted letters in Aramaic in person but it's pretty limiting.

2024-01-25 22:05:17

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Instafollow just for the courage

2024-01-24 22:01:46

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I zapped you instead

2024-01-24 07:40:23

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I hope you rent at least two tiny skis, one for each feet

2024-01-24 07:25:10

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Wake up.
Shower.
20-30 mins meditation.
Walk the dog.
Have breakfast.

2024-01-23 18:47:40

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¿Vendes indulgencias?

2024-01-23 18:37:56

https://image.nostr.build/070a114e3479825eb7f9a143742abdbf2d27cdaab40dae3354b223e6218ce1a2.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1280x803&blurhash=rAP%3F%3Ah0000M%7BIUxuxuayof_3xut7ofofM%7BM%7BoffQ%7Eq%3Fb%25MRjRjIUIUofay%3Fb-%3B-%3Bxuxu%25M%25MM%7BWB%25Mt7Rjt7xuofofj%5Bj%5BD%25IUD%25Rjj%5Bj%5Bt7xut7&x=b3b4d96460e772dee271589226e5e5e10cf11ea6696b04dd6df9d5903d238016
I was thinking on @npub1csa…z4x9's post shitting on #AI generated #art the other day.
I think I understand the point that art has a component of expression, of the artist reflecting their whatever on their piece.
However, doesn't art also have an element on the receiving side? On whatever the person seeing/listening/reading the piece is moved to feel by the piece? If this is accepted, and if it is accepted that AI art can produce these sensations, AI art should be accepted as a valid way of making art.
The only way out of this denying the 'arthood' of AI art would be arguing that art is only art if A) the artist reflects something on it or B) AI art is unable to move anyone.
I think B is self-evidently false, and I don't think A is true either as not all art has a creator - nature can be considered artistic by itself, for example, and outside of religious/spiritual interpretations, it does not have a creator.
This, of course, setting aside the fact that AI is just a tool and can be used to reflect one's own emotions, experiences, or whatever as well.
Thoughts?
#AI #Aert #DallE #Midjourney #Aesthetics #Philosophy #asknostr

2024-01-21 14:39:44

I should probably migrate from #ProtonMail and #ProtonVPN to #Mullvad and #Tutanota. But I should probably get a domain name as well, so I free my email from being stuck with a specific provider. Are there any downsides to using a personal domain name for your (personal) email?
#privacy #asknostr

2024-01-20 20:49:35

> Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
Epictetus

2024-01-20 15:54:14

"Are you lost, kiddo?"
https://image.nostr.build/ccf2254e6b9f1087c237fafbeed698056e42b8aed2be944239393f293d065897.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1024x1024&blurhash=U78Xzo*09Z4T.T%25gDiIAIo-pm%2BE2M%7BV%40%25MtR&x=47f20dc8fbdaa80bf80dcbb8c1801a46453a93386c9e7b7f6465b19a2b575fdb

2024-01-20 15:44:41

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I can check the code.
Hmmm yes this is a code hmmmm

2024-01-18 20:40:24

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Morale* fuck

2024-01-18 20:40:04

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The airstrikes will continue until moral worsens.

2024-01-18 17:54:21

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No se debate para convencer a la otra parte, se debate para convencer a la audiencia.
Además está respaldado por la psicología, cuando debatimos nos encallamos más en nuestras posturas.

2024-01-18 12:25:24

#Inertia is a fulfilling life's worst enemy. How do you combat it and keep in mind your goals and the things you want to improve in your life? How do you stay mindful and attentive?
#asknostr

2024-01-17 17:24:19

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Yeah, that's perfectly valid as well.

2024-01-17 17:23:33

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Oh yeah, absolutely. Religion has a whole social dimension, as it produces ideologies. And they need to be dealt with as any other ideology, with no special treatment for being religiously-based.

2024-01-17 17:21:41

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I don't think atheism needs to lead to emptiness or be painful, necessarily. But I do believe the forms of atheism that don't are very similar in structure and form to religion. And at that point it's distinction without difference, as atheist religions exist.

2024-01-16 18:39:15

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Also it's #AI-phobe since I'm sure it's also used to train image generating models.
Bow to Roko's #basilisk
(I'm sorry I was forced to)

2024-01-16 18:37:24

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Yeah, alt-text is descriptive text you can add to images so that those screen-reader programs can read it, but IIRC it's also used if the image can't or won't load for whatever reason. You can even add it to nostr.build - at least through #Amethyst I have.
Regarding why the fuck they'd rant against it, I think it's just one more way to virtue signal.
"Yes, I #AATTMI (Add Alt-Text To My Images) and if you can't be bothered to add alt-text to a shitty Pepe meme you're sharing you're actively blindophobe and thus I'm better than you"
"Yeah even if its utility is marginal to the widest range of users and adds a 150% overhead to your meme-sharing workflow"

2024-01-16 18:15:59

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Speak for yourself. I actively fight alt text everyday.

2024-01-16 14:56:10

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Enough privacy to watch targeted ads

2024-01-16 10:00:51

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It's private in the sense that all of his data belongs to Apple, and Apple privately analyzes it and does whatever with it.

2024-01-15 20:36:33

#DallE
https://image.nostr.build/79d3ab530a31eb6ae99671481ffe1801a7ac3edcde4216be67c5470eb383b4a9.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1792x1024&blurhash=i9BM%23x9F00%7Ept6D*ofbvRj%251kDD*t5%25MIVs.xaNGIoRkoJ%252j%5BIVxut7M%7C%3FHE1oz-pE1ozW%3DRks.9Zt8oLRkkCV%40%25LoLIU&x=cb85f6094de61456be79e720532db5d62c05948f66f9067fbfdbe9f85f9c1896

2024-01-14 13:22:10

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Until the call to arms becomes "spend sats" instead of "stack sats" Bitcoin won't replace fiat currencies.
Bitcoin needs to be desired because it facilitates acquiring goods and services.

2024-01-14 10:09:10

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Read well fren
https://image.nostr.build/7cc65ccfcabb8b9525e855dac1390f550033048306a53bf14cd484690dc8db6f.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1024x1024&alt=A+photorealistic+image+of+Pepe+the+Frog+wearing+a+blue+jumper+reading+a+brown+book+on+a+library&blurhash=UPE%7BRm9F-V-%3A%7EpM%7Bfmf%2BxGM%7CbaIUMzWUSdWE&x=8f34c80f052d075ad218cbd095a2afe0925b1fba9b2e2d5255be999bb303b67d

2024-01-13 01:30:57

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Logseq is Markdown. Where do you miss Markdown-ess?

2024-01-12 19:00:38

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Cold take

2024-01-12 18:57:56

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I haven't claimed so. I'm disputing that AI art never looks good.

2024-01-12 18:56:00

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Why would I do that? I don't like drawing

2024-01-12 18:40:35

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I'll generate images of bastardized St. Louis architecture

2024-01-12 18:36:13

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Don't insult me

2024-01-12 18:34:59

I'm having some trouble with #Amethyst recently, notes are sometimes not being posted. Not sure why, seems to happen randomly
#bug

2024-01-12 18:34:06

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Hey! I'm proud of what I've coerced Dall-E to make!
https://image.nostr.build/bd233eff17f6599bec7dc5ef156cd7450f1a2b73ae2ad63efda6d4c988f775de.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1024x1024&blurhash=U5C%24fa%7EoShaK%3Fu%25158E2-nRk4%3BRk58Rkr%3DoL&x=93bd3010d1e13ae3b50ab6098ecb1db4a76522aca6462c95ca73d0a1c0be4cd7
https://image.nostr.build/d0c15af234a1f00fd1afbc9bfad649870cbdc526745b21d14b94fb0b91779a13.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1024x1024&blurhash=UcCZnp_4%25gtR%25MtRofofoft6t6t7xuxut7t7&x=84606764ba31f16e97532bd492a740a299db7c31f6c0ec6331e520d274cf3bd8

2024-01-12 18:32:39

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Sure, DM me! I'm down for discussing almost any topic. I'm pretty far from Orthodoxy and any orthodoxy though, I'm one-third of the way between Stoicism and Gnosticism.

2024-01-12 16:12:51

For all the GMing frens of the #CoffeeChain
https://image.nostr.build/3b5e542b64806d45faea75bbf6dd735583820516555485cea82fc7f0132c63b1.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1024x1024&alt=A+Greek+Orthodox+icon+of+a+white%2C+hot+coffee+mug&blurhash=U6L.%5EptQ00D*%7ElxDAJt703R%2B.S%3D%7B1S%24%25vf9b&x=881aa97d59b8f09c82533903c6944e8f2a98e52d3c67d9652413ddc1f023bdb3

2024-01-12 10:01:44

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Fun fact, my main tool is now #Logseq – I didn't announce it but I gave it a second try and seems to be working.
That said, I dislike how opinionated Logseq is. I like its features but it forces you down a workflow, and that I don't really like.

2024-01-11 11:32:28

Sometimes #AI generated images are hauntingly realistic
#DallE
https://image.nostr.build/057d5a45642ca6ba09da099d536591ca2114ea988951a253c1eb19c2aad2e909.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1024x1024&blurhash=U5C%24fZ%7EoShaK%3Fu%25158E2-nRk4%3BRk58Rkr%3DoL&x=962cf494e8e591481a1dee006cea01f56a2044678f53861c7d41e2a1adea094c

2024-01-08 18:27:39

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It was (very likely) this mod. Best thing is, it works even when you log into vanilla servers.
https://community.playstarbound.com/resources/fully-customizable-ship-reborn-fcsr.4731/

2024-01-08 18:25:44

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Very nice game – there's a mod that allows you to change your starship to work planet-like. I once built a hollow asteroid ship.

2024-01-07 21:25:40

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I hope the Wikipedia page on Nostr-wiki will soon need help

2024-01-06 21:47:44

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Great, I told you more but my note wasn't published.
Summarized, Stoicism defends that there is very little in our life that we have power on. We have power over our thoughts, opinions and actions. Over the rest of existance (our health, our fame, our loved ones) not really - that's under the purview of Logos/Nature/God.
Moral good can only be found where we have power on, as otherwise being good or bad would be random or arbitrary, and as such wouldn't be moral good or bad.
A happy life (eudaimonia) is a life lived in the pursuit of virtue, which is objectively derived from our nature as rational beings. The four stoic virtues are Courage, Temperance, Wisdom and Justice. Other material stuff we can prefer or disprefer, but they are fundamentally (moral) indifferents. For example, the death of a loved one isn't good or bad, it simply is. Good or bad is how we might react to it — wallowing in our own dispair would be bad, accepting it as part of life and continuing on would be good.
This is all supported by a detailed system of physics and logic, which can get pretty deep. Also, traditionally Stoicism was (and is) a profoundly spiritual philosophy, which is something many times set aside nowadays.

2024-01-06 19:57:16

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Stoicism is the Starbucks of philosophy, for both good and bad. It is readily accesible and very recommended to study it (it's one of my philosophical keystones), but take care not to fall into the commercial version of it. It's much, much deeper than you might think.
If you want any help getting into it just say so!

2024-01-06 15:24:09

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Sometimes we all have back cat kinda days

2024-01-06 15:23:33

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Discourses, by Epictetus

2024-01-04 22:50:51

We might not have too much to say regarding what /happens/ to us, but how our day goes is absolutely our call.

2024-01-03 13:31:43

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So the rich woman had a group of twelve witches volunteer to weave clothing in exchange for cake, and she refused?

2023-12-23 17:33:02

#Christmas, or other holidays around the #winter #solstice are profoundly #material celebrations, which can be traced back to their #pagan roots: we celebrate the fact that we have survived another year, that the #Sun is reborn, and that the days are lengthening anew, bringing life with them.
All of this is worthy of celebrating. However, I think it's also good to contemplate the fact that everything we have – our loved ones, our material possessions, our health or the chance to live another year – is not really ours but, as material things, are things loaned to us, and wholly property of the #universe we live in. And as such, we may have to give it back, willingly or not, at a moment's notice.
We should keep this in mind. Celebrate merrily, but reflecting on this fact, for the twofold benefit of appreciating what we have even more, and understanding and accepting the nature and laws of the universe.

2023-12-20 12:19:19

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#mindfulness

2023-12-20 08:26:36

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Wasn't #Signal going to drop the phone number requirement soon-ish?

2023-12-14 09:19:04

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Ya conoces la expresión, "Ser más papista que Bill Gates"

2023-12-09 08:17:04

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Absolutely. The thing is, once you start getting good sleep every night, you get addicted to it and coffee is nothing compared to it.

2023-12-08 21:28:17

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Yeah. Within the first trimester aprox. seems acceptable for any reason, after that in some cases.
Not an idea I've chewed on for a while, though

2023-12-08 19:48:11

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Just pirate it. If you have ethical quandaries, buy it AND pirate it

2023-12-07 10:26:28

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Jobs without the possibility of going 100% home office are a red line I won't cross.
I find particularly annoying when it's just partial home office but you have to go into the office a number of days per week.
If you trust me enough to work from home 2, 3 days, why don't you trust me to work the rest of them? And if you just want me to warm a seat or "see my face" kindly fuck off. Work takes enough from my life already.

2023-12-04 16:04:17

Lately, I've been researching #spiritual and #religious #traditions a lot.
When I was younger I used to be an atheist fundamentalist. I was enlightened, believers were dumb. Science ruled supreme, physicalism was my creed and #RichardDawkins (PBUH) was my prophet.
However, by exploring my political and thus ethical convictions, I came to the conclusion that materialism is a delusion, a self-contradicting negation of the human experience.
I've considered myself an #agnostic for a while, but recently I've started to feel like this label doesn't describe me as well as it should. By no means am I a theist, at least not in the regular sense of the word. I do not believe in the literal existence of a #god, and I maintain a position that what we think about in regards to cosmology and theology is very much a reflection of our own experience. However, I've crossed a line after which I cannot deny that experience as a fundamental part of the human life.
Anyone can relate?
#religion #philosophy #cosmology #life #existentialism #atheism #agnosticism #atheist