it is said that once every thousand years a buddha awakens spontaneously who understands the world intuitively, without being taught …

ok, these two images explain a lot, thanks :D

yeah, the second one looks waay more comfy than the first one to me. and also i get your intention of wearing a complete, matching suit, like, stuff matches together. that’s better than just wearing random individual unmatching items.

the way i do it is to select all my clothing that i have/own depending on color schemes. almost all my clothing is green/brown/red, (the brown being similar to the second picture) so it all automatically matches because it all has a certain vibe to it.

yep that is definitely happening. development is a slow progress.

what even is a proper suit supposed to represent?

like, i’ve grown up hating them as much as i hated everything else that was pushed onto me and i didn’t understand.

i’ve never seen a single suit that looks good or made sense to me. what is the purpose in it?

and had I been spineless/stupid enough to allow them to push me into the courses of action they were insisting on I think that it might have killed me.

yep, my experience exactly

temp agencies

what i’ve been wondering recently is whether unions aren’t just big temp agencies. instead of hiring people directly, the company forms a contract with the union and people work for the company as long as the union finds the working conditions (including pay) acceptable. if the working conditions drop, the union withdraws all workers at once, instead of the workers having to choose whether they continue to work at the company or strike individually.

fun fact, in the medieval times it was custom that you could not sentence a person in front of court without their consent. yes, the consent of the person about to be judged. how times have changed.

Otherwise the internet as we know it is very much over, and what we have instead is a mesh of country-nets.

which, TBH, doesn’t seem so bad to me. as an european, i’m personally sick of all the sick (as in, unwell) culture from america swapping over via the internet and poisoning people’s minds.

i mean, all the culture war is literally instigated by american capitalists to disrupt society and to disrupt the people’s coherence, to make them weaker and therefore easier to exploit.

If it wasn’t for continuous exposure to american influence, europe would long have drastic left-wing political reforms, i guess.

Funnily enough the CIA (yes, the CIA) was largely involved in keeping the internet a free and open space for all, heck they even contributed encryption algorithms to keep data private and such …

The reason why the free internet existed for so long was because it was a big ideological project for the US. (the internet is the space of all ideas and as such represents the platonic/christian concept of heaven). It’s only now ending because it’s served its purpose. The people have exchanged ideas worldwide, and that only needs to happen twice, similarly to how you can only infect yourself with the same virus once (because the second infection does way less impact), you can only infect yourself with the same idea once. So, once the worldwide ideas are exchanged, the internet serves very little purpose anymore.

They’re retiring

Retirement is when it’s about time to get into big politics. Most politicians on higher levels are 60+ y.o.

like, wasn’t the great wall of china (which is actually multiple walls, btw) more a military thing to keep the raiders out? not ordinary merchants or pilgrims.

do you have any sources about this?

I imagine the issue wasn’t so much migrating itself, but the question of how do you feed yourself and your family in the new land?

500 years ago most people were farmers. So you had to possess some land to have food. So, where do you get that land from?

No, trump has got till the midterms or he’s gonna lose a significant amount of power, so he’s trying to speedrun the fascist dictatorship takeover. rome took hundreds of years to crumble and fall.

All the economy is a big circle if you draw the circle big enough.

Actually scratch that. There is an economy that is not just one big circle jerk, such as the development of new technologies or the terraforming of deserts into fertile land; as neither of these things ends the way it started; it brought lasting change, and that is true progress.

Actually did you see my presentation that i made about this recently?

The point is to convince the americans to invest in new technologies.

To all those who say that human spaceflight is impossible: