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   Randahl Fink (randahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 10:59:15 JST Randahl Fink

   In 2011 Elon Musk said he would put a man on Mars in ten years.

   In 2013 Musk said we would soon be traveling in Hyperloop capsules inside vacuum tubes.

   In 2020, Elon Musk said full self driving Tesla's were "Very close".

   In 2022 Elon Musk promised Twitter would remain a free speech platform.

   Now in 2025, Elon Musk has just promised that he will send a humanoid robot to Mars in 2026.

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   You Will (Not) Escape ☸️ (ubernigga@wizard.casa)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 02:26:51 JST You Will (Not) Escape ☸️

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   @sun @theorytoe That's a nice idea but it's not really true in the iterations that have actually existed for two thousand years.

   In the early Church, there were a dozen esoteric cults where different types of secret knowledge are required, all fighting each other, then these get written out of the history in the 5th Century or so.

   In the medieval church, the lineage that survives breaks into its own schools, all with secret teachings you have to accept, and if you deviate, we have to gather every bishop in the damn empire so we can figure out who to kick out of the club.

   The esotericism at this point is in the monasteries, where orthodoxy is often entirely forgotten. and you has people positing things like a 4th God (and example from the remote hesychasts.) In Ethiopia, they're still in this phase. Externally, they teach monophysite Christianity, but each monastery has its own esoteric insight separate from the public teaching. (This also roughly mirrors how Buddhism worked before the modern period.)

   Then you get to the Reformation and the rise of (Classical) Humanism, people try to justify a homogenous public doctrine from the oldest sources, which they do relatively well, although now everyone is bound to an unholy bloated bookcel canon that none but a few remarkable autists can possibly disentangle, but this new Christendom is dry, boring, and useless for the average man. No one really believes it except academics and low level priests, and even the academics wind up getting bored and deconstructing the whole thing.

   Meanwhile the Renaissance and the Enlightenment happen, we have access to older wisdom from Greece and Egypt again, and yet another esoteric current is born underneath the "basic" Christianity at the same time, based on a mix of authentic and fake writings from Plato, Hermes, and other philosopher mystics, which becomes the occult/left hand path: Rosicrucianism, Masonry, Golden Dawn, Perennialism, and you get another mini-Enlightenment later on with Europe's discovery of Germanic and Indian religion, and those all syncretize with the 20th century esoteric Christian movements to create things like Spiritism, New Age, Thelema, Satanism etc.

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   :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 16:55:47 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

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   @benis_redux Multiple factors prevent me from doing that the main one being repairs are cheaper than a car payment (fuck a car payment), also I don't know if I'm going to be allowed to renew my license in two years.

   In January I'm going to attempt a vision test and if I can pass I'll renew it which will be good for 10 years, and I'll consider buying a new car.

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   volkris@qoto.org's status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 05:32:16 JST volkris

   I’ve heard it said that if you don’t vote with whichever party then you are a coward. I think that’s exactly backwards, and even reflects poorly all the person making that argument. It doesn’t take much courage to go with the group.

   Instead I go the other way: no matter which party you might prefer in general, it takes courage to say they nominated a moron, and fortunately the other party also nominated a loser, so no matter what the US is going to slog through these next few years.

   In my opinion the courageous position is to say no, you nominated a moron, and I’m not going to give you my vote. We’re going to be okay I guess, whether you win or not, but I’m not going to let you assume that you have my vote if you insist on nominating a moron. You should have nominated someone better. You should have nominated someone worthy of my vote. Do better next time.

   That’s the state of #USPolitics . As South Park said, big douche versus turd sandwich. So screw both #Democrats and #Republicans. Neither of you managed to nominate someone worth voting for, so I’m voting for my dog.

   To give either party our votes is to sign on to their nomination of garbage people. Let’s not. Let’s say that they need to actually nominate worthwhile administrators.

   But more practically, let’s focus on #Congress. No matter who wins this election, they’re going to suck, but we can still express ourselves through our representation in Congress, and that’s honestly how it should be anyway.

   Check out your representatives. See how they have actually been voting, and vote them out if they have been letting you down. That’s really where our focus should be anyway.

   Not on which jerk ends up in the Oval Office.

   (But thank God #Biden is on his way out, as he has been terrible for #science in the US, which has not gotten nearly enough attention from the press.)

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   Chuck Darwin (cdarwin@c.im)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 03:38:09 JST Chuck Darwin

   “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago 🔸when she happened to turn Black🔸 and now she wants to be known as Black.
   So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Mr. Trump said of Ms. Harris, whose mother was Indian American and whose father is Black.

   The moment was shocking, but for those who have followed Mr. Trump’s divisive language,
   it was hardly surprising.

   ♦️The former president has a history of using race to pit groups of Americans against one another, amplifying a strain of racial politics that has risen as a generation of Black politicians has ascended♦️

   The audacity of Mr. Trump, a white man, questioning how much a Black woman truly belongs to Black America was particularly incendiary.

   And it evoked 🔷an ugly history in this country, in which white America has often declared the racial categories that define citizens, and sought to determine who gets to call themselves what.🔷

   “Give me a break,” said Fred Sweets, a contributing editor at The St. Louis American who watched the discussion from the third row.
   “He seemed to be denigrating her background. She knows who she is.”

   Ms. Harris has embraced her dual racial identities.

   She has long identified as Black and was shaped by several Black institutions. She graduated from Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C., and there joined Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s oldest Black sorority.

   She has spoken extensively about growing up in what she described as a Black community in Berkeley, Calif.

   "She had two Black babies, and she raised them to be two Black women,” Harris told The New York Times in a 2016 interview about her mother.

   On Wednesday evening, Ms. Harris responded to Mr. Trump’s comment at an event hosted by one of the nation’s most prominent Black sororities, saying they showed “#divisiveness and #disrespect.”

   “The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth,” she said, making no direct reference to Mr. Trump’s personal attacks.

   “We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us
   — they are an essential source of our strength.”

   Attacks on Ms. Harris’s racial background have circulated among right-wing figures and Mr. Trump’s close allies for years.

   In 2019, Donald Trump Jr. shared a social media post from an alt-right personality that falsely claimed Ms. Harris was
   🔥not Black enough 🔥to be discussing the plight of Black Americans during a primary debate.

   Though Mr. Trump later deleted the post, it spread widely across conservative social media, prompting a wave of accounts to question her background,
   👉which was exactly the point of the effort, according to some far-right activists.
   https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/us/politics/trump-harris-race.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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   Sean Tilley (deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 13:17:31 JST Sean Tilley

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   I don’t know what else to say other than, shit’s kind of bad, and refusing to embrace any kind of positive motion to make things better in this aspect is awful. I’m not saying everybody has to pitch in, but some of the most toxic people I’ve come across on here barely lift a finger to do anything other than complain. And they just do that, for years and years.

   In my headspace, I just imagine a bunch of pissed-off anarchists that all hate each other because they’re the wrong kind of anarchist, and they’re just content to sit back and complain and be miserable until this network rots into the ground.

   To me, that fucking sucks, and I don’t want any part in it.