I am unimpressed. Seriously, nothing I see in your list is too heinous.

Also, creating a list of a person’s “crimes” like this. It’s messed up. It’s like something out of the Chinese cultural revolution.

Lemmy is number 1 for intentionally missing the point. I thought it was reddit but nope.

In 2023 Scott Adams drew criticism for comments made on his podcast Real Coffee With Scott Adams. He said, among other things “the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.” He also noted that “If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with white people,” then they should be called a “hate group.” His remarks were widely seen as racist, and many newspapers dropped his cartoon Dilbert.

Is this the thing that has everybody in a huff?

This thread hates with great enthusiasm.

He was an artist of power and insight. He will be missed.

Did it work?

Do you like nylon zip-ties? I am presently quite infatuated. Pretty, durable, useful and cheap.

Did you click the links to where shrink and grow are described and so on? Because there’s more there than just that first page.

I know what you mean by noise.

Concentration is of course the awesome power tool for handling that but shikantaza gets there eventually too.

The terms I’ve heard for that are “getting still”, “getting silent” and “getting peaceful”. I haven’t come up with a better one.

Shikantaza is just such a wondrous scifi revolution. It’s GENTLE.

Consider that in concentration you withdraw your awareness from the world. A shrinking. This is a blindness. And action taken while blind is … well you get the idea.

But Shikantaza is an expanding illumination. The invisible becomes visible. It’s a superior high too.

And that’s just babble of course and I don’t expect you to agree with me about their comparative virtues.

Here’s my favorite thing on the subject. It’s succinct.

http://fleen.org/fluffy_cloud

yr right of course but mine sounds better.

The higher horror because at least you are in reality and still have agency. Fuzzled to oblivion, totally dominated by that eater and lost in videogames, not so much.

(I actually have a little experience with higher horrors. Worst thing in the world, for sure. But after bumping against the threshold a hundred times one learns to navigate that territory successfully. You can figure out literally anything)

Agreed. But I blame the rabble for that. They’ll turn anything into a religion.

Science : a method for crafting high-quality models.

Rabble : it’s the one and only truth and it dgaf wooooooo!!!

This is “scienceism”.

Can we get live satellite video of the site? That might bypass untrustworthy news sources. Unless AI fakery of course.

That’s so racist

There’s the quiet sneaky puppet and the loud aggressive puppet. They switch them appropriately. They’re basically there to give us something to yell at.

Neither?

You really think things would be different if the other sock puppet got elected?