DharmaCurious

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a good example of how fascists and right wingers can ruin anything and everything. Bharat is a name with a shit ton of really fascinating history behind it. But let nationalists claim it as theirs and theirs alone, and it will eventually be just as ruined as the swastika.

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

Honestly, same. :/

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

This is the future we deserve. Everyone wears a ball gown, everyone can fuck anyone who's down. Transhumanist mushroom future is the future we need.

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

Know anything about running a community? I'd join! I'd offer to make it, but I pretty much exclusively use mobile, and I'm not sure how to mod via mobile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Man do I miss r/Hinduism! Also the advaita vedanta sub and a few others. Have you found any good lemmy communities for Dharmic philosophies?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm one of those. If credit checks like that were instituted there is absolutely zero chance I could have enrolled. My bank wouldn't give me 500 dollars to get my transmission fixed, much less the tens of thousands I need for a bachelor's. The solution is the nationalization of education. Fuck this nonsense. Public education from K-post doc. Let the rich have their Harvards and whatever, but we need good state schools and a new crop of federal colleges popping up all over rhe country, in addition to community colleges. For free. No questions asked. Do you make absolutely no money whatsoever? Study here. Are you literally Jeff Bezos? Who cares. Study here.

We also need to get back to the way things were a century ago or more, where students could just decide they wanted to know a thing, and then go learn that thing. No need to declare a major, or even enroll for a degree. Just go learn the things you want to learn. Education should be it's own reward, even if we also need it for other things. I'm not saying do away with degrees, just make it possible for people to audit classes, or use the resources of their local, public, universities.

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

It's very fun. Try it out on some people. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He wasn't even really a social democrat, to be honest. He bowed to the pressure of the socialist party at the time to prevent an actual fucking revolution (even if it would have been unsuccessful). Fdr understood that actual socialism would come knocking at the door if he didn't capitulate. Clearly the best president we've had (in economic terms) in the mostly modern era, but he wasn't as progress as people believe.

Edit

Also, tf is a "left" communist in this context? That's not generally a term used, and when it is, it's normally to point out the distinction between anarchists and Marxists, as in Lenin's "left-wing communism."

Is this chart claiming FDR was an anarcho-communist? Because... No. LMAO

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I pronounce it "zhif" like the sound from zsa zsa Gabor's name. It irritates everyone equally, and gives me a happy.

Also, if you're familiar with the gnome/guh-nome debate on the Linux side of the playground, pronouncing it with a glottal stop at the beginning will give everyone around an immediate stroke.

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

INSANE British guy claims to be king, goes FULL KAREN on the French, claims swallows carry coconuts!

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

I bought a different brand of this a few years ago, and despised it. It was super thin and the headphones would press into me painfully as I slept. Turns out it was just a cheap brand. Pulled the headphones out and put them inside a sleep mask I knitted myself. Absolutely in love with it now. So wonderful.

 

Hey, folks. I'm new to this whole Fediverse thing. One of the things I've been most excited try out is the whole cross platform aspect, where you can follow peertube/mastodon/lemmy accounts from the other sites. I have my reddit account mostly switched over. I went through and found (I think) all of the communities I follow that have a presence on Lemmy. I'd like to start following some Mastodon accounts from my Lemmy if possible, but all the instructions I find when searching it talk about following Lemmy from Mastodon, not the other way around. When I copy the Mastodon links and search them within Lemmy, no results are found. I've tried through a browser, through Jerboa, and through Connect.

Can anyone help me?

Please and thank you!

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