GloomyBoots

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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Do you feel the same about other peoples? It seems like a very over-the-top response to a common and thoroughly inoffensive understanding of Judaism as a religious rather than an ethnic group. I mean, how do you feel about similar questions
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Hispanic is one of those really funny ones. A catchall for people with wildly different backgrounds. My wife and I are both eligible for to tick that box due to Spanish ancestry, but everyone understands that it’s basically a proxy for mest
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
It’s an ethnic group with an associated religion. I don’t know about race in the sense it’s used today, but it makes sense to disentangle it from White here given its wildly divergent pattern. That said, White here presumably still includes
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Same. Porkbun has been wonderful. I’m just hoping that one day I can move my .mx domains over.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
In rural America, we used to have more very small towns that were actual towns, with sidewalks, main streets, grocery stores, cafés, and cinemas. One of the places I lived used to be one, and I never would have known if the old folks woul
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Looks more like Turbo than Turbolinks
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Besides other commenter’s suggestions I assume it’s also a reference to the opening of Genesis and darkness was upon the face of the deep .
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I grew up so immersed in Catholicism that I was aware of Protestants but always thought they were a small minority (in America, to be clear). I didn’t hear the Protestant version until I was in my late teens, I think in a film. Even though
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> In actuality, the mongols probably were the least murderous of all the major empire. The most religiously, racially, economically tolerant empire that has ever existed. Look it up. It was an anomoly for its time. This has the scent of
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Has to do with the speed of votes IIRC.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Interesting. I’d always seen charts showing that females have a slightly higher mean but a much narrower distribution than males.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
No, I agree. I think it’s unlike the others in that it’s a virtue and not just a basic life skill. I just disagreed with what I perceived to be a knee-jerk aversion to a virtue because it doesn’t apply in some circumstances.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Having hopped around for years, I finally came back to Linux Mint with Cinnamon. My setup had become so opaque to anyone but me that I was concerned about my wife not being able to actually get into my stuff if something happened to me. Plu
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Some of us who had shitty childhoods would agree that filial piety and nurturing caregivers are good things even though we had neither.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
I’m not much for games since I was a kid. The ones that have made the biggest impression on me were: - Bioshock: great atmosphere and story with subtext that almost everybody gets wrong in one of two ways, but is worth digging into - Titanf
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
You might want to look into the Out of Sync Child. Honestly, having been in your shoes, it is hard. Might not be the best time to ramp up your stress level, but I know that’s a hard choice to make. https://out-of-sync-child.com
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The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (2011)(publicdomainreview.org)
16 points by GloomyBoots 3y ago|0 comments
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
My favorite snake deity is Coatlicue, whose epithets include “our mother”: > Coatlicue is represented as a woman wearing a skirt of writhing snakes and a necklace made of human hearts, hands, and skulls. Her feet and hands are adorned wi
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> ooh ooh! When people say reporting can be racist, this is a perfect example! Including extra negative details that are not pertinent to the story at all. Hold your excitement. Chavez is the CEO.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
You don’t need a translation for hundred-year-old poetry. You might need a dictionary, mainly for archaisms (and I mean words that were already archaisms at the time). That said, I don’t like this translation.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
> Wikipedia begs to differ with all that... Not really. It says that journalists describe him as “far right” which by current journalistic standards is a superset of classical liberalism.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
It’s interesting.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
My grandmother could have made a killing as a consultant on this kind of thing with her extensive domain expertise, although I’m not sure how much Bluesky is interested in slurs for those English people across the river.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Funny, I’ve heard potet in Norway as well. Is this a common slur in Germanic countries?
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
This is a real problem on the “right”. Whataboutism is fine and I’ve defended it in the past, but it’s hard to argue that conservative media isn’t full of scammy and deceptive advertising and grifting. I see comments talking about deceptive
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Likely relevant: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180319-are-lithuanians-...
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
You’re not wrong about the advertisers but I wouldn’t cède the point they’re trying to refute either. People claim that executives are are purely motivated by money, but that just doesn’t hold up with the advertisers or with Twitter itself.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
Bad people who say bad things are using the internet and must be stopped! I can’t wait for these childish histrionics to end. Thankfully this phase seems to be passing, albeit slowly.
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by GloomyBoots 3y ago
This is the famous “paperclip computer” book. A more modern take is available here: https://hackaday.io/project/168833-wdc-1-a-working-digital-c...
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How to Build a Working Digital Computer (1968)(archive.org)
3 points by GloomyBoots 3y ago|1 comments

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