Empiricist Old-Testament Vajrayana, battered enough by life to have grown-up some, in my nearly-6-decades, autistic geek, philosopher who finds that Western philosophers are nowhere near at the level of correct-thinking of the Vajrayana stuff, & will be tearing-into Marx, etc, for their brainos ( Marx found that capitalism alienated workers, so he replaced capitalism with communism, which somehow “didn’t” alienate workers?? I’ve already cracked the underlying error, but that is a long article. It’ll happen. & so will the dismantling of the other philosophers’ bogons, the whole lot of 'em. : )

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  • Paragone@piefed.socialOPtoPieFed Meta@piefed.social•comments on the points in https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/English
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    6 days ago

    Continued: the “between 3 & 5000 characters” statement is false:

    it has to be shorter than some other arbitrary amount, or it won’t post.

    The new-account icon might be better in-place for 1/2-month?

    ( rather than a mere week … it takes awhile for a person’s unconscious-mind to do its normal thing, & novelty jams that, so the warning might want to match the natural unconscious-mind-cycle? )

    “Automatically delete content based on phrases in user name”

    Here’s the one which got my goat…

    88 is a Buddhist-culture thing.

    You know how prices end in .99 in North America?

    Go look at images of markets in Buddhist cultures, & you’re going to see $x.88 instead.

    ( …sigh… I don’t know if it is search-engines eradicating “88” because of the white-supremacists’ identification with it, so now the ASIAN evidence is disappeared, XOR if the Buddhist culture has been eradicated from Asian pricing??

    Either way, I looked, & couldn’t find any evidence of it, even though 3 decades ago, in Chinatown, it was absolutely normal to see prices ending in $something.88 instead of $something.99

    8 is the completeness number in Buddhism, see?

    Whatever.

    Further, since I remembered why the White-supremacists think “88” is a validation-symbol for them, I’m linking to the Wikipedia Swastika ( that name is Sanskrit, btw ), which is an ancient Hindu, Buddhist, Hopi, & Navaho symbol, simply because it is the shape marked around the North Pole, by the Big Dipper, in the 2 solstices & 2 equinoxen.

    You can see from the Wikipedia page that the nazis stole other-people’s symbol, & White-culture generally is adamant that all other people’s Swastika is nonvalid because only the White nazis count.

    ( this low-key racism is actually pervasive: when I shaved my head, last century, I was automatically assumed to be nazi, not Buddhist, for doing-so, but the Buddhist skinheads had been going-bald & meditating for millenia … but they don’t count, because they’re yellow or brown, or something?? the whole “only White history counts” grates on history’s blood, I tell you… )

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

    In my religion it symbolizes the equanymity of G-D/OceanOfAllAwakeSouls.

    So, that bit in the blog-article is assuming that all meanings are White-culture meanings, so every symbol is only gauged according to White history…

    that’s a gotcha I’m asking people to not presume to be Universal, or Universally-valid.

    Yes, among White culture, White symbols are pervasive, but the narcissism of presuming that other-cultures aren’t valid, because they aren’t White … is not proper, you know?

    The list of sites which cannot be linked-to, because they’re disinformation … oughtnt that be openly-published?

    ( same as the “dirty dozen” disinformation-pushers that The Guardian identified, a few months back )

    Actually, given how ideology uses “it’s banned, which proves it’s true, because they’re suppressing us” … ideological pseudo-logic …

    it’d probably be strategically-stronger to identify every last one of them, & give, say 4, examples of each of their violation of truth, & have that set-of-evidences shares throughout the Fediverse ( do the work 1 time, everybody benefits from it, if it’s done right )

    the blog-post ended there, so that’s it, for this commentary…

    1 “random” bug in PieFed is the use of too-similar colors for vote-arrows & voted-on-arrow: green & blue, in dark mode, simply are not different-enough to reliably see the difference, for me, & I’m not colorblind ( font-size has to do with it, too, obviously: too-few-pixels to see significant difference … )

    For the truly-color-blind, though, there needs to be striking difference-in-brightness between the 2, or an underline under the voted-one, or something…

    Gratitude for the work of PieFed, & for the work that went into the systems identified in that blog-post, & into the blog-post itself!

    I’m only wishing that humankind’s infrastructure were capable, available, rigorously-correct ( multiculturally-so, not just USA-centric, as the Internet is pushed to be, by Western tech ), & as completely enabling of humanity’s LivingWorth & LivingPotential as possible, while suppressing the narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy/nihilism/sadism/etc now taking its gloves off, re ruling our world ( “Dark Triad” is the root of what I identified, there, but there are more dimensions than the psychology-profession allows to be dimensions-of-human-evil. Evidence, not institutional-consensus is the best guide : )

    Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,

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