Must be true indeed

VacuCake ™

No, because it will dissipate such heat.

If you put it in a vacuum and cover it with reflective surfaces, though…

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I’m not super good at remembering things I don’t need or accept, so I’ll speak a bit generally, but, for example, the cosmology and all the quasi-gods are extremely intertwined, excessively overcomplicated, but actually simple and repetitive;

Also the pretentious way it poses as a way to direct you in life (monks went so far as to say Buddhism goes far beyond modern philosophy and psychology and is at the forefront of knowledge in life of dignity and happiness), while really it can be condensed to “endure pain and man up, feelings don’t matter, just do what needs to be done”, which is super toxic and not really effective (and I wonder if it’s also contributing to the toxic work culture in the Far East).

Also, as in many religions, it’s full of stories about miracles happening every day (like, the man who was terminally ill, was set to die within a month and barely walked, but then decided to go 8000km by foot through entire Eurasia to the main temple, and he lived, and succeeded, and lived as a monk ever after).

Etc. etc.

Tibetan, it’s a mix of Mahayana and Vajrayana

Fair point!

I felt a bit sympathetic to Buddhism up to the point when I actually visited a Buddhist temple and listened to the speeches of monks.

The amount of brain rot disguised as wisdom has made me feel Christianity ain’t that bad after all.

Sorry in advance to any Buddhist out there, but it struck me how the common perception of it differs from the actual thing.

I love this deconstruction, it captures quite a few of my own thoughts. Thank you!

I can’t help but feel that the amount of people following the likes of Tate did not change much, they just got an opportunity to get more vocal, being less afraid of a pushback.

They are a now vocal minority, similar to how there was a rise in Neo-Nazi speech, for example.

One point thirty two

Yes, it’s about to be released as well! Skywind is not extremely far behind, too!

Still insane to me that one woman literally saves the world of science from all this corruption

Not sure if it’s available in Lemmy. Devs and admins can probably say more

A good thing about Lemmy is that you can change instance/make your own and do and promote anything you like. That’s the fundamental difference.

You can be banned from a community, from instance, even. But not from Lemmy as a whole.

A fundamental shift may occur when more people of the same views start alternative communities where such pressures are absent.

Luckily, it is the kind of privilege you can pass on to your children.

You don’t have to have any other privileges for that. Just patience and love (yep, not easy, but doable by all means)

That’s you, but it should be on the state level so that every parent is given everything to make parenthood go smooth.

People got used to comfort and are not willing to sacrifice their standards of living for having children, especially through a recession. Make them feel secure about their present and future - and birth rates will grow.

In my eyes, being adequately supported means not having any financial difference between having vs not having children. If that would be the case, there wouldn’t be a financial incentive to not have them.

If we go above that (incentivise parenting even more), it’s just throwing money at the problem in hopes it will go away. If someone will only have kids if they’ll be rewarded on top of having extra expenses covered, they are basically parenting for money and this won’t end well.

As per taking advantage of the social system - the more people overclaim something, the better the regulations become. There could be a certain ceiling on the types of support that could be taken at the same time, for example. As per unemployed folks living on subsidies - unless they have a valid reason they can’t work (and there are those), they should get mandatory public employment if they stay in the unemployed status for a while - one that would respect their disabilities and limitations, if there are any, of course.

Mostly just liberal/social democrat with a sizeable and vocal minority of socialists and communists.

Generally, the American vision of “left”, or European center and left.

Not only is it gross, it’s also enough to jail you since you technically store and distribute these materials.

Laws didn’t really update for the Fediverse.