Finally some good ones, so far down the list, relayed by Fender Rinpoche no less. The best of these parables should be a bit of a brain teaser imo, have an element of surprise at least. Open up new ways of thinking about the world, and leave some room for contemplation.
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gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•As Kingdom Come Deliverance II releases, what are your memories of the first title?6·5 months agoNice storytelling, but clunky combat that I got burned out on fast :(
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Patient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•What games did you complete in 2024?21·7 months agoOh wow veilguard got so much flak that it’s refreshing to hear someone so positive on it.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Hideo Kojima seems to be testing Death Stranding 2, but it's not going well: "I fell asleep twice while on a delivery and ran the vehicle into a cliff"English5·7 months agoAh and for a moment there I thought it would have been so cool if a developer were to publicly admit they fell asleep during gameplay…
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World ToS and the murder of the UHC CEO4·7 months agoYes I think that’s the intent. The first is jury nullification. The second is a call to violence. Two very different things, even though crossing the line from one to the other is super easy on a public forum. I just don’t think the post by the admins phrased that well, that’s all.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World ToS and the murder of the UHC CEO31·7 months agoYes it can come off as encouraging crime. So what is the outcome now? Jury nullification ok or not ok? You cannot enforce a rule based on conditional future outcomes. If one wants to eliminate the chance of potentially encouraging future crimes, one needs to ban any and all forms of jury nullification. Was this the decision made? I am unclear on this.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World ToS and the murder of the UHC CEO286·7 months agoDoesn’t the very concept of jury nullification only apply to cases where a crime has already been committed and then a jury is called upon to reach a verdict on said crime? This honestly reads as mental gymnastics. Or perhaps it could be worded better. Do you mean to say that jury nullification will be fine going forward, no matter what the crime, but you still must forbid calls to violence against named or otherwise identifiable individuals or specific groups or people and/or the glorification of violence in general? This would be better wording I think, though still hard to distinguish and enforce consistently. I find the concept of “jury nullification for future crimes” hard to grasp.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Syrian rebel commander urges Israel to support uprising, strike Iran-backed forcesEnglish6·7 months agoI wish people in general stopped looking for good guys and bad guys. My maxim as I grow older and weary is everyone is awful, unless proven otherwise. Or, in other words, it’s all geopolitics and a complex web of conflicting interests. Combating factions choose their alliances less on principle and more on what serves their long term goals and immediate tactical aims. In the meantime we are fed whatever narrative paints one or the other side “good” and depending on our politics and possible stake in a conflict convince ourselves that we are “on the right side of history”. But history is largely written by the victor and in hindsight it is always easier to say what was good or bad. In the heat of the moment, when lives, money, and land are at stake, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appealEnglish339·7 months agoBecause when US politicians advocate for a single, global market, and a single, global internet, it is with the understanding that US firms and allied parties will dominate the space anyway. When that is no longer the case they get about as nervous as the Chinese got when they went and built the Great Firewall and made a clone of every popular western platform. Now that US/Western dominance is seriously challenged, we are seeing more and more signs of protectionism.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•No one is safe from Pegasus: spyware detected on ordinary people’s phonesEnglish1·7 months agoMay give it a try one of these days. But knowing nothing of the reliability of the tool in detecting the malware decreases my motivation to even try I must say.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•No one is safe from Pegasus: spyware detected on ordinary people’s phonesEnglish2·7 months agoAnd would signatures of Pegasus exist in the backup?
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•No one is safe from Pegasus: spyware detected on ordinary people’s phonesEnglish18·7 months agoCool. I had no idea. Still…
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gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Village People Singer Denies “Y.M.C.A.” Is a “Gay Anthem” As He Defends Trump’s Use of SongEnglish3·7 months agoI mean, Trump hate aside, I personally never thought of the song as gay. It has certainly such a wide appeal that it can be thought of as just a party song, surpassing whatever context may have provided inspiration for it. But reading the statement, I have to say that was a lot of words just to say it isn’t gay lol. And saying my wife will sue you for claiming something I wrote was gay sounds even sillier and like he’s trying to compensate for something.
Couldn’t have said this better. Memes and all. Kudos.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Georgian protesters clash with police for a second night after EU talks are suspendedEnglish1·8 months agoYes I know, when all else fails it’s “what’s good for the community”. Oh well, thank you for bothering to make the case for the ban, I understand your points but really do wish more people saw that the splintering into ever more siloed “communities” where no one is seriously challenged (and consequently the lack of common spaces for exposure to radically different perspectives and the challenging of one’s own) is part of what’s wrong with the world right now.
The more you hear your own views echoed back at you on a regular basis, the more shocking it becomes when you suddenly read something radically different and the harder it is for you then to come to any sort of rapprochement with the other. This is noticeable everywhere today, left and right, sadly also quite a lot in “liberal” spaces, leading many to think that liberals have become intolerant of anything other than the smell of their own farts. Where is this leading us? Nowhere good I think.
So perhaps we should seek to challenge bans by default rather than find justification for them. I reflexively tend to scrutinize the censoring of posts and people for that reason. And do wish more ‘heretical’ viewpoints were allowed in here. It’s not like “neocon” (it’s in the name, so hardly a troll) expressed any fringe or criminally insane views or like he attacked other users. Ah anyway, why do I bother I do not know, it’s probably already too late. Sometimes I feel like I am trying to bring the world back from the brink of collapse. It is easier to let it slide.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Georgian protesters clash with police for a second night after EU talks are suspendedEnglish2·8 months agoThanks. Well the only thing I notice is that I do not agree with some - perhaps all - of his views. So, as I said, mod overreach and ideological bias. Same old. The downvote storm is almost inevitable for one who does not fit in, when you have created a silo with a strong hive-mind mentality. Oh well, I guess I have to accept that all online spaces are turning into echo chambers. Maybe it’s unavoidable.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Georgian protesters clash with police for a second night after EU talks are suspendedEnglish1·8 months agoHow did you determine they’re a troll? I couldn’t.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Georgian protesters clash with police for a second night after EU talks are suspendedEnglish6·8 months agoNearly all of this guy’s comments are being removed. I suspect mod overreach along with a hefty dose of ideological bias, as usual.
gcheliotis@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?English3·8 months agoThat is odd that nobody could tell this wouldn’t be for you @[email protected]
Yeah I was thinking the same though it might be hard to find the right collection for you.