metic

joined 1 year ago
[–] metic@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate that posting into the void feeling. I blame that more on the microblog format more than any particular platform.

[–] metic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s possible. Roman concrete is still superior to modern concrete in some ways and we haven’t rediscovered the formula.

[–] metic@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is one of my favorite channels on YT. A good contribution in giving an overview of all of Stoicism, not just the part that people tend to focus on these days. I do have to dock him some points for mixing up Academic “Skepticism” and actual Pyrrhonian Skepticism, tho.

[–] metic@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Many years ago I posted a true story on r/nosleep or r/letsnotmeet (forget which) bc I didn’t realize most of those stories are fake. It was frustrating to realize my weird situation that I wanted other people to know about and empathize with me about (bc the cops did nothing) was largely ignored.

[–] metic@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is a pretty fun rabbit hole to dive down. The para-biblical book Jubilees retells a lot of the Hebrew Bible stories with added details including naming the patriarchs’ wives. A more interesting reading is that because they are omitted in the Genesis account, quite possibly a lot more people were also not mentioned. This led to the “pre-Adamite” doctrine, that Adam and Eve were not the first humans. Of course there’s also the Talmudic account of Lilith which has gained a lot of popularity recently.

[–] metic@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Networked, autonomous local communities.

[–] metic@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I noticed posting from lemmy.world is really buggy. I started composing in another app as a failsafe. Kbin doesn’t seem to have this issue, and maybe other Lemmy instances don’t either.

[–] metic@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Everyone would ask them about what was going on behind the scenes and if Spez is as short-sighted as he seems. They’d reply they signed NDAs about most of the questions being asked and quickly regret creating a spontaneous AMA and then never log in under that username again.

[–] metic@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m weary of people who make this mistake.