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balderdash

@ balderdash9 @lemmy.zip

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3 yr. ago

I'm mostly half-serious.

2d ago

I don’t even know this mf
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balderdash @lemmy.zip 2d ago

2d ago

nur Bahnhof verstehen

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 3d ago

"The 100 most common..."

memes @lemmy.world

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4d ago

What is a life lesson you never seem to learn?

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 6d ago

I'm speaking in generalizations here, but I take your point.

6d ago

What is a life lesson you never seem to learn?

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 6d ago

It really doesn't matter what you say when you argue with people on the internet. No historical evidence, statistics, political theory, or emotional appeal can change someone's mind.

Without getting into US politics, I think this country is going to have to learn how to resist White supremacy & nationalism the hard way. Things have to get worse before they can get better.

6d ago

What was the best generation of consoles in your opinion?

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 6d ago

I agree with the PS3 due to the roaster of games.

1w ago

Beautifull

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 1w ago

Plenty of reasons.

The person is too young or too old or not attractive for some other such reason.
They're wearing a skirt/dress
Don't want to feel like a perv or make her feel uncomfortable.

I'm not trying to sound puritanical but there are good reasons to look elsewhere.

1w ago

No, I don't think I will renew

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 1w ago

Many such examples.

2w ago

BlackRock is the worst

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 2w ago

Hey gotta let the free market do its thing /s

4w ago

It’s a sign of the times

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 4w ago

Can someone explain Gen Z? I don't understand

4w ago

Do YOU consider this the same as fast food?

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 4w ago

What are the stakes here? What do we gain or lose by answering either way?

4w ago

It can’t be, but it is

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 4w ago

This setup could be used for anything. Crazy versatility

3mo ago

If you had end all be all say, what limits (if any) would you put on speech (public or private).

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 3mo ago

Ideologies that require harming others do not have the right to be promoted.

This will just enforce the status quo. For instance, if the current regime is fascist and requires a revolution in order to overthrow, you have effectively outlawed talk of regime change. To be fair, a fascist regime would do that already, but the fact that a fascist regime would do it is another bad sign for your proposed law.

Maybe we could carve out an exemption for "harming others in self-defense"?

3mo ago

Society Needs Billionaires [PizzaCake]

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 3mo ago

I actually agree with her pro-women, pro-trans, liberal takes. My problem with her comics is they're lazy. She's just preaching to the choir.

This is evidenced by the fact that she never criticizes the Democratic Party. When Democrats do things that hurt everyday people -- for example, when they vote to increase ICE funding, send more money to Israel, bail out corporations that are "too big to fail", etcetra etcetera -- someone with Pizzacake's following has an opportunity to demonstrate their values by making a (less popular) comic. Instead, she just parrots viewpoints that her audience already agrees with. This is grifter behavior.

3mo ago

Society Needs Billionaires [PizzaCake]

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 3mo ago

Lemmings have decided to upvote Pizzacakeslop and downvote anyone who criticizes these comics. They're lazy as hell, and there are many better artists out there, but Pizzacake has a winning formula of posting agreeable political positions.

Doesn't matter that the art is bad and the comics aren't funny, people agree with the main point.

3mo ago

Hack the Gibson

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 3mo ago

Beat me to it. I was going to ask whether any non-science fiction readers would know this famous opening line. IIRC, Gibson himself notes how the interpretation of the line changed with the change of technology.

3mo ago

Finding wholesome communities

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 3mo ago

I can't speak from experience but Beehaw.org is supposed to be a pretty chill place in theory. Don't know if they pulled it off in practice though so YMMV

3mo ago

Why are churches in Europe almost always built on top of Pagan ritual sites?

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balderdash @lemmy.zip 3mo ago

I am genuinely curious so I read the article and looked into its primary sources. The scientific citations actually contradict the premise of the article.

They begin by noting the earliest written connection that we have of the Easter bunny and hiding eggs:

But it is in the folk traditions of England and Germany that the figure of the hare is specifically connected to Easter. Accounts from the 1600s in Germany describe children hunting for Easter eggs hidden by the Easter hare, much as in the United States today.

Written accounts from England around the same time also mention the Easter hare, particularly in terms of traditional Easter hare hunts and the eating of hare meat at Easter.

The historians I cited earlier said as much. Then the smithsonianmag article notes a scholarly hypothesis from the novelist/linguist/mythologist Jacob Grimm:

In 1835, the folklorist Jacob Grimm, one of the famous team of the fairy tale Brothers Grimm, argued that the Easter hare was connected to a goddess he imagined would have been called “Ostara” in ancient German. He derived this name from the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre, who Bede, an early medieval monk ... mentioned in 731 C.E.

The connection between the goddess and the Easter hare was speculated by brother Grimm in the 19th century and has no ancient basis. Bede never links Eostre to hares, rabbits, or any fertility symbols. See Lauritsen et al, which smithsonainmag.org cite as support of "pagan roots", explicitly noting the lack of evidence:

Easter is similar to Yule in that Bede derives the name of the Christian festival from a name for an Anglo‑Saxon month, which in turn derives from the name of a pagan goddess (Shaw 2011). Bede notes that a festival celebrating the goddess Eostre occurred in this month (approximately April) but does not suggest that this coincided with the date of the Christian festival of Easter … Nor does it specify a link between the Anglo‑Saxon goddess Eostre and rabbits or hares.

The suggestion throughout Lauristen et al is that the name Eostre, the name of the month, was pre-Christian. Similar to how "Thursday" comes from "Thor's Day" (but that doesn't mean we worship the Norse god Thor). But there is no evidence, as far as I can tell, that a pre‑Christian festival celebrating Eostre coincided with the Christian feast of the Resurrection or involved any of the animals now associated with Easter. The claim that early Christians reappropriated pagan traditions appears unsubstantiated.