Lumun

Lumun, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

For folks who haven’t read it before: Andy Weir’s ‘The Egg’

Lumun, 5 months ago

Not_Rick has a great answer but I will add something. Your question about the quote you posted is based on a disagreement about what race is, between you and social scientists. The phrase “we can take a DNA test and get our ancestry, telling us what percentage of what races make up our overall ethnicity” already assumes that genetics = race, end of story. But this is an unfounded assumption. All the test can tell is our genetics. Not_Rick offered some good examples for the counterpoint, that genetics ≠ race. If you disagree with that basic premise then you will always be bothered by modern theories on the subject such as CRT.

Once you see that race clearly is not just genetics, you can start asking what it truly is and what things do determine one’s race. These are much more interesting questions. For example, a new question might be ‘what has been the historical relationship between ethnicity and “being white” in the US’? And let’s not even start on the ridiculousness that is the census form.

Lumun, 5 months ago

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Lumun, 5 months ago

I like those fancy legs but this is an unwinnable match up, the Barn Owl is too iconic.

Thanks for running this bracket!

Lumun, 6 months ago

The Garamantes are cool and notable for not being based around a river at all. I got introduced to them when they were added as a civ in the strategy game Humankind.

Another fascinating rabbit hole about the world’s largest irrigation project in the same region: Libya’s Great Man-Made River

Lumun, 6 months ago

Thanks for crossposting, @Demigodrick. 36k active is more than I would have guessed but most people are probably on the low end for comments/posts. But I am happy that 4 months later Lemmy has proven active enough to stand on its own, at least for me. It sounds like .zip is stable on donations for now but I will likely contribute again in the future. Keep up the good work!

Lumun, 6 months ago

One site in Cairo, one in Buenos Aires

“Well, that’s all of Africa and South America accounted for!”

Lumun, 6 months ago

As others said, these are mostly all signs of some kind of executive dysfunction. Mine is from depression, not ADHD, but there’s a lot of overlap. I obsessively keep my inbox empty which is a whole 'nother vibe

Lumun, 9 months ago

I downvoted because this is a popular opinion. MCU is the same thing. Most people probably don’t have a strong opinion on Star Wars either way, but for the people who do there are plenty who think it sucks.

Lumun, 9 months ago

I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot lately and your comment is interesting. Your first sentence is definitely phrased in a more controversial way than the rest of your comment, but I can’t help seeing it as very similar to “Being depressed is a choice the vast majority of the time, and I have a huge bias against depressed people.” Is that an unfair comparison?

I know that treating fatness/obesity as a disease is kinda controversial but I feel like folks give people dealing with mental health a lot more grace than people dealing with health issues related to being fat. I’ve also heard that for some people they can be perfectly healthy at a higher weight (though this is clearly not the case for many fat people who are seeing health impacts). I guess I’m assuming that a lot of fat people would potentially like to be less so, but can’t (for any number of reasons) quite get there. This seems really similar for me to people dealing with depression, anxiety, etc who want to change things but keep falling back into the problem.

I guess my question is do you have bias against people who can’t escape other bad cycles like mental health or even stuff like alcoholism? Or is it more just that you think it’s fair to judge people without the discipline/willpower to get out of a state they didn’t want to be in, like you did.

Lumun, 9 months ago

I like Commander.

I’m not the first to say this, but it is definitely unfortunate that Commander has become a lot of people’s introduction to Magic - it is strategically incredibly complicated, takes a long time to understand if you don’t know all the staple cards, the meta and unspoken rules are completely socially dependent, and there’s lots of politics - these are all really difficult for players who are new to Magic or a game store or a social group.

That being said, I think Commander is the most fun format for established players who have a consistent playgroup that creates an ongoing culture. The options are limitless, really, so everyone can express themselves through deck construction. The other way I’ve really loved Commander is in explicitly competitive formats, like budget leagues or tournaments with set-in-stone rules. If the rules are known up front then everyone knows that LD, Stax, or combos are on the table and salt is just clearly bad sportsmanship. You can’t really avoid poor sports in any game, unfortunately.

Lumun, 9 months ago

Yeah I agree - the Activity tab and the DMs look like they are exact copies of the Teams interface. I mean, it’s an intuitive way to display info but I don’t see much design innovation with this announcement

Lumun, 9 months ago

Wow, this is wild. Drifting very far from the previously established Magic aesthetic. I actually think the ‘Murders at Karlov Manor’ set could be really cool; I was pleasantly surprised by how New Capenna turned out. And definitely looking forward to Redwall world.

Lumun, 9 months ago

Try !astronomy

Mander is generally a science-focused instance, so there are a lot of sciency /c’s there

Lumun, 9 months ago

There are so many communities being heroically held aloft by 1 or 2 serial posters. My favorite is !quackers

Lumun, 10 months ago

Here’s an NPR article I found on one of the major opposition parties that is succeeding this year.

… ‘its charismatic, Harvard University-educated candidate for prime minister told NPR: “Demilitarize, demonopolize and decentralize — that’s how you democratize Thailand. That’s the endgame,”’ … … In the past two decades, [the establishment] has staged two coups while Thailand’s courts have brought down three opposition prime ministers and dissolved several opposition parties. … “You have to imagine a lot of Thais, powerful Thais, elites, they have a lot of stakes in the system that were set up over the last seven decades … they bought into the system. And Move Forward is a direct challenge.”

Lumun, 10 months ago

Dog is giving off ancient camel vibes. A tried and true method of transport