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Hegar, to lemmyshitpost in It's like everyday

I would never claim to know what your body does but FYI there is a popular misconception that diary promotes snot. The idea is based on the magical principle that like attracts like, there's no evidence for it.

Hegar, to lemmyshitpost in Big brain energy

This is one of the insights of the Daoist text the Zhuangzi. He talks a lot about the usefulness of uselessness in avoiding misery and exploitation.

"Enough!” said Woodworker Shi. “Say no more about it. It’s waste wood! Make a boat from it and it will sink; make a coffin from it and it will rot; make a utensil from it and it will break; make a gate from it and it will run sap; make a pillar from it and insects will infest it. You can’t make lumbar from such a tree; it’s useless! That is why it has lived to such an age.”

After Woodworker Shi returned home, the altar oak appeared to him in a dream. “What were you comparing me to? Did you mean to compare me to those lovely trees, like the sour cherry and pear, the tangerine and pomelo – fruit bearing trees that are ripped apart once their fruit ripens? Disgraced by all that ripping, their limbs split and their branches torn, they find only bitterness in life and end by dying before their natural years are up. They bring it on themselves, being torn up by the common crowd. It is thus for all types of things.

Hegar, to lemmyshitpost in Uranus is so big!!

presumably not the same cave he was having sex with

It was exactly the same cave he was having sex with. He refused to remove his penis to prevent their children from leaving the womb cave, so Kronos had to castrate Ouranos so they could emerge.

That's the actual myth.

Hegar, to memes in If I don't laugh I'd cry

Fiction has higher standards than reality - fiction has to make sense.

Hegar, to risa in USS Nauvoo

Omfg EV was so good, I'd forgotten all about those games!

I downloaded some freeware 3d rendering software to make ships for mods, learned what sprites were, and spent so much time using resedit.

Damn that was a great series of games.

Hegar, to memes in News nowadays adies and gentlemen

The IDF has already killed many many times more civilians, using many more missiles over many weeks, than Hamas has in a single major attack.

Despite that, this the cartoon depicts 3 panels of 3 missiles each from Hamas compared 1 panel of 1 missile from the IDF.

Given that overwhelming and disproportionate response has been Israeli policy for as long as I've been alive, it's fair to say that this comic deliberately misrepresents reality

Hegar, to comicstrips in Every day Billy?!

Multuple lecturers had it on the outside of their door at my uni.

Hegar, to asklemmy in No politics inteded: Why isn't Trump after leaving office in any way or shape involved in politics say as member of congress or senate?

Are you looking at this picture, reading this post and then attempting to seriously debate the author on the merits of their argument of no-politics "inteded"?

Hegar, to memes in Well, time to radically change who I am!

I think being overrated is the defining characteristic of pop music, right? Any music where the most notable trait is that it's popular is pop music.

Hegar, to asklemmy in Why does eating a frozen ready meal alone feel depressing even tho it's objectively good that I can have nice warm food easily

In part because the time we devote to something is felt as representative of how important it is - the sink cost fallacy can be visceral.

When you spend the minimum possible time feeding or looking after yourself, it's easy to feel like you're not treating yourself as important .

Hegar, to memes in screaming into the void...

I appreciated this comment and the interrobang, thank you.

Hegar, to memes in screaming into the void...

Then you might be excited to hear that there is at least one skeleton inside your body for your whole life.

I don't get to try another? 😮‍💨

Hegar, to memes in screaming into the void...

Meh, ghosts aren't real and meat is gross. Skeletons are pretty cool though.

Hegar, to mildlyinteresting in "Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report

Idaho and Montana I understand - no one one from the Midwest or PNW will claim either, but culturally Midwest is closer.

Hegar, (edited ) to asklemmy in Where can I NEUTRALLY keep up to date about the Palestina/Israel situation?

What happened to the First temple?

The neo-babylonians sacked Jerusalem, among many other cities and temples. Temples are where much of the wealth and power was kept, sacking the first temple had little to do with the potency of their specific religion. At that time the religion was just the normal Canaanite pantheon.

Judaism as we think of it, with the covenant between the special people and a single all powerful god - that only begins after the first temple is destroyed and Judah is largely depopulated, around the 500-200BCE time period.

What happened to the 2nd (actually 3rd) temple

The Romans destroyed it 70CE. ~600 years between major sacks of your city shows it's not that important.

Don’t forget, Crusades anyone?

Yes, during the medieval period Jerusalem finally starts to become an important goal of religious conflict - 2-2.5 thousand years later than the building of the temple of Solomon

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