Dharma Curious @ DharmaCurious @startrek.website

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I've seen my own asshole, it's not a particularly interesting view. I much prefer seeing someone else's.

I was on the major forum for a particular book series for a decade. I'm still good friends with several of the people I met there. It was an amazing experience, and it makes me sad that they're not the same now.

Oh I see it now, thank you!

There are a few good videos on YouTube that I am too COVID to find and link right now. But homes are straight up houses, apartments, et cetera. Some are nicer than others, but they're just houses.

As far as ownership goes, iirc if you've lived in the home 5 years (as in, you paid rent for 5 years) then you own the home. Like a rent to own in the US. I don't know how that works currently, with a lack of capitalist landlords, but that was the agreement when they socialized housing. The government has the right of first refusal if you leave the home, with the exception that you can give the home to a family member or co-occupant when leaving. You can own up to two homes.

Also, despite being run by the communist party, they are not communist. They're socialist, to use the Marxist definition. A transitionary state. Private ownership is still very much so a real thing in Cuba. They even have privately owned businesses. Calling Cuba communist is the same kind of error as saying the US is a direct democracy because the democratic party controls the Senate, or that the UK is a communist society because the labour party was in power. The party names are more... aspirational than anything else.

I'm a pleb without a 3d printer. In the US. How much would one of your amazing keychains cost? I friggin love it.

Splain? Idgi.

That's awesome, thank you!

I'll be honest, I'm not familiar with new monasticism.

But yes, I loved growing up in the Baptist church, I loved the sense of community, the feeling of connection. But the politics of the far right that has taken over these once radical traditions is honestly depressing. It makes me sad to know that if I ever have kids, they will not be able to have those same experiences. I wish there was something similar in the more lefty churches, like the episcopals, the the United church of Christ, or the metropolitan community Church, but it seems like, in my area at least, mainline and fringe lefty churches don't generally offer those some kind of things. :/ and of course, there is no Christian anarchist community to speak of.

Oh that's absolutely perfect. I'd love that at the end of this season or the start of the next.

In the court of public vibe check he was guilty regardless of what actually happened. Poor dude's life was tragic. I'm not normally one to feel a whole lot of sympathy for the mega rich, but MJ was a good one.

Okay, something I don't understand. There are 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute. Got all of that.

So what is that 725? Shouldn't it reset to 0 after 99? So 09:07:98, 09:07:99, 09:08:00, 09:08:01? I've seen metric clocks before and I've never understood this. It makes no sense how you can rack up 700 seconds if there are 100 seconds in a minute.

Def a bot. They're responding to themself below.

... most just use socks, from what I understand..

No statues to the butcher of Bajor!

My nearest neighbor is a km/half a mile away, and she has no interest in star trek. The only flag she flies has MAGA on it :(

I want to live in this neighborhood so badly. If anyone can get me into a rental in that neighborhood, I will fly the flag of Bajor!

Jesus, Mary and Joseph that poor guy.

I've had some "thought I was into this" moments in my life, but thankfully I've always started small and worked my way up. Well, with one exception. That was rough. But never anything like that. My God.

I've tried with Firefox and Chrome. I think I have a bum phone, tbh.

Mmm... bleachy.

Poor people should just simply try working for their father's company for a year and then taking a VP position at a small fortune 500. I don't understand why they won't try that, and pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Tsk tsk tsk.