I'm not sure I have seen any of his movies.

I grew up with Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, but Kristofferson was the one country legend I had the pleasure of introducing my father to. For a couple of years after I gave him the CD for Christmas he would play the album constantly, several times every day - always skipping "Blame It on the Stones" but listening to everything else.

I should get around to watching some of his movies.

Of course for the region, it is an escalation of the conflict and it's problematic as fuck.

But for the international community sitting around with their heads up their ass waiting too decide whether or not they should condemn Netanyahu, he has been committing a genocide undisturbed for almost a fucking year now. It's the one thing we all agreed we would not allow to happen again. Pretending any fear of escalation or anything at all has any moral bearing at anything at this point is just bullshit, and any politician serving pathetic non-answers mumbling about a "fear of escalation" at this point while refusing to publicly oppose Netanyahu should receive a standing invitation to join him in the Hague.

But of course, I'm not saying Israel's actions in Lebanon don't matter. I'm just saying people who change their mind at this point should take the opportunity to reconsider how okay they are with massacring civilian populations.

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I get where he's coming from. As a childless dog man you're bound to gets bit of a cold sweat when your fascist party starts going after the childless cat ladies.

Sure, for now it's women that they hate. But he knows he's next.

They'd get busy: The creator of Phanphy also maintains a list of github repos named after Pokemon.

That's great!

It's a nice user interface, made by @cheeaun@mastodon.social, and loved by a lot of people.

If you don't want to trust people with your account details that's fine - then using a third party app is probably not for you, unless you're willing to either trust people or dig into the source code.

If you have Mastodon you can just try it?

It's a Mastodon client. It has many neat features. I like it on desktop because it's easy to navigate with my keyboard. It's also great on phone. Overall pleasant, Mastodon users should try it out. But I feel like describing it at length is not really productive - it's a user interface.

I'd say pretty much all of those are worth a look!

Personally I'm curious how Bonfire and the Open Science Network will develop. Bandwagon also seems to have a lot of potential.

Would be curious to hear if anyone have tried using Quiblr! It's not really for me I think, but it does look like an interesting service.

If you want something that could actually be useful in real-life situations, pick up running.

It's a two party system. Everybody knows if you run as a third party you're merely increasing the chances that the ones furthest from you politically will be elected.

It's impossible for a third party candidate to be running for president in the US in good faith unless they're complete fucking idiots with no idea how the political system works.

Jill Stein knows how the system works. So obviously she's not acting in good faith.

Simple as that.

Existence is meaningless and we just wobble around here for a little while and then we die. There's nothing to it. Everything that happens is just a logical consequence; beauty is nothing but a tiny chemical reaction in your brain. Once you rot it's all worthless.

Science is great at giving explanations, but not so good at providing meaning. For a lot of people, meaning is probably more helpful in order to facilitate a happy life.

Nietzsche writes at length about this stuff, most famously in the anecdote about the madman coming down from the mountain to inform the villagers that God is dead and that we have killed him. Everybody knows the three words "God is dead", but I think it's worth reading at length:

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

Nietzsche, whose father was a priest, recognizes that "God has become unbelievable", but he does not celebrate it as the progress of science. Rather, we lost something that was fundamentally important to humans, and which science cannot easily replace.

Here one could start talking about the Free Masons, who attempted learning from religious rituals without the added layer of religion. Or one could dig deeper into the works of Nietzsche, and the contrast between Apollonian and Dionysian. It's all fascinating stuff.

In short though, spirituality used to offer people a sense of meaning that is not so easily replaced by science alone. How do we bury our dead now that we know our rituals are pointless?