Diablo IV is good

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make straight their arrows, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

I have a weakly held opinion that recent advances in medicine and healthcare wouldn’t have happened as fast without fiat financing and our whacky insurance based system. But it was essentially a faustian bargain where we gained miraculous powers of healing in exchange for consumerist society, globalization of key resources, and inflation. As a species we chose to become lich kings.

Drivechains are so fucking dumb, idk how anyone buys the shit they’re pushing

Suddenly ctrl+c doesn’t stop my python script. Just a few minutes ago that would kill it, but now it does nothing. I didn’t make any changes to the code either. Really strange…

No perfect ideals are attainable. That is why they are ideals, or goals. That is why the great masterpieces of art are so few. Without the gradation made possible by our imperfect world, including our imperfect minds, we would not notice such differences, and it would be impossible for us to appreciate art at all. So there would be no art, not to speak of “great” art, -which requires artists to aim at “perfection”- and only imperfect people in an imperfect world can possibly imagine what that could mean. - Christopher I. Beckwith, “Greek Buddha”

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Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in…

"Greek Buddha" shows how Buddhism shaped the philosophy…

That which is true, is mine.

It is, surely, good that there are synthetic medicines to ease the surplus of pain, telephones to break through loneliness, and electric lights to keep the wayfarer from stumbling. There is, though, something wrong when we use medicine to deaden our sensitivity, when we obliterate solitude with electronics and blind ourselves with the very lights we devised to help us see. There is nothing wrong with our artifacts; there is something wrong with us; we have lost sight of the sense, the purpose of our production and our products.

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The Embers and the Stars: A Philosophical Inquiry into …

"It is hard to put this profound book into a category. …

Do I understand correctly that with DVMs the service provider has to trust that the requestor will pay them after delivery? That seems problematic (if correct)

PV conspiracy

Exposing your mind to the global town square (even the one being built on nostr), is to subject yourself to forces of manipulation for which you may not be prepared. Maybe there’s value to be found, but tread carefully, for you don’t know who (and what) is watching.

Wild life

Michael Servetus - Wikipedia

@Super Testnet Does your new course cover implementing a “login with nostr” button that interacts with a browser extension?

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate. -Francis Bacon