Just some late night curiosity. I was wondering which Roman republic/empire leader resembled Trump the most in terms of:

• stupidity
• narcissism
• harm done to the republic/empire

Basically, someone who was hilariously stupid, narcissistic and just really harmful to the state. Byzantine emperors can be considered as well, okay?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1282913/how-can-americans-view-their-soldiers-deaths-as-tragic-events-despite-the-u-s-initiating

I was just thinking about how the last time i learned any philosophy was 15+ years ago, so i wonder, what's something y'all know about philosophy? Let's talk about it!

And: where to look for such jobs? What would be the process to find them with any chance of success?

I hope the question in the title is general enough that more people might find it useful, I'm sure I can't be the only one. I'm going to include some extra details specific to myself below, but you can just ignore them if you want to.

• I have no education beyond high school and no useful skills, although I do have a couple of years worth of work experience at this point. I don't really have the will to learn anything new for the purpose of getting a job any more.
• I have been unbelievably lucky in that the circumstances allow me to live on minimum wage in humane conditions, and beyond the basic expenses I have nothing to spend money on anyway. So it doesn't matter to me how much I get paid.
• I spend all of my free time on things like reading, drawing, writing, thinking, occasionally learning something new. If I could spend even just a couple of work hours every day with a pen and paper and an Internet connection, it would make me a bit happier.

Just wondering how filthy they are with any soot, ash, or smoke in the air from the fires.

You know, shit on the toilet seat, piss on the floor...why do they do it?

And not to be rude but I'm not looking for everyone's speculations as to why. I'm curious if there's anyone with firm knowledge about their motivations, either because they know someone who does it or because they do it themselves.

This question might be too abstract. But it seems like people look for different aspects in romantic relationships. There are the ones that are drawn to opposite traits, ones seeking excitement, ones that wish for a stable anchor in their life, etc. And most of this happens subconsciously – or it does not. Maybe you have a different approach to love. Tell me about it.

Random find - I did not know nba.space was a thing, or what FE it is using.

Update: Thank you guys on this, want 100% sure what to do, but overall clear communication of conditions is probably the best way to go.

For the different medias we’ll have a “shit to mint condition” or STM for short: for Vinyls, CDs and of course Cassettes. For those medias that are under like a 3/5 we use restorative methods like normal cleaning and deoxidation. If we do end up in a situation where we need to restore a cassette beyond our capabilities it’ll be marked 1/5 to 2/5 and sold cheaper with reference to a cassette restoration service or a guide on restoring them themselves, which may include info to replace tapes if they so wish. anything way past recovery / not worth recovery can be used as up-cycle arts for local artists or in house (basically just us messing about haha)

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Ok, so we’re planning on opening a music+Alternative store in the near future and one of the medias were wanting to stock are cassettes especially since they're becoming more popular. However to anyone who knows about cassette tapes, they are extremely susceptible to yk. dying

While our stock atm is small, we already got one that is completely fucked on one side of the tape (muffled to no audio in one ear on both A and B sides) effectively the cassette is not good for sale. We’ve looked over some posts and some say to replace the tape and re-record the album, however they're all personal collectors, not sale. While the tape is dead, it’s not authentic or original if it’s repaired or well, realistically tape being replaced. If it was our personal collection no worries! But this is marked for sale. Maybe if it’s marked as “repaired” or something? Idk how other music stores handle this.

So long story short, would it be ethical to replace the tape and re-record the album and keep or for sale (and also marking it as repaired)? Or take the L and keep for our personal collection? We’re leaning on the latter, but if were over thinking things lmk thx

Pic related.

Some things for me: marmite + jam on toast together, and name etymology

As the title says, how often do you admit you're wrong? Is it different when it's a factual dispute versus something more subjective?

I make an effort to concede early if I'm in error. I think because my mother almost never admits fault. She'll fall back to "that's not what I meant" or similar deflections first, and that's really annoying.

The last big factual error I made was about the distance of walking, and that's where I learned about Taxicab Geometry ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry ).

I think some people believe admitting fault is a sign of weakness, but I find it's more of a power move. It takes strength to do it, and people can tell when you're sweating and desperate. Usually it leads to resolving the conflict faster and cheaper, too.

(I expect some people will feel the urge to reply they're never wrong. I'll file that under never admits fault.)

Online or offline. News keeps reporting about loneliness and disconnection, but in my experience it's just that it's harder to interact with people in a civil way because they are so hostile, angry, and arrogantly convinced their viewpoints and experiences are the only legitimate ones.

Not to mention the lack of civility towards servers and other service workers. I can't recall if I was just indifferent 10 years ago, but on a almost daily basis it blows my mind how openly rude many people are to servers and such, which seemed like a much more rare thing when I was younger.

Hey all! New here, looking for something a little unique. Coffee Roasting Manual, Parts Catalogues, etc.

In a past career I was a coffee roaster, Q grader, and educator for the SCAA (now the SCA). I spent some time trying to collect manuals before life and events pushed me into a research and academic trajectory. I've been returning to my old hobby and am a little shocked that there's so little out there. Despite the popularity of restoring old roasters, using them, and hobbyist enthusiasm, there's a wealth of information vanishing from the field.

Be it Pre-1950s Probats, old guides from San Franciscan or Diedrich's earlier days, a Sivetz that looks like a jet engine, The materials that came with the machines, or let people order spare parts, are simply vanishing. In discussions with colleagues and friends, the 2nd and 3rd wave of coffee materials are vanishing, too.

So I'm on a quest to use what I know about research and archiving to collect as much as possible. If you know a person willing to share, point them my way.

Here's what I've recovered from nearly a decade ago. Stored on a flash drive, it's now uploaded again. It's a discovery that sparked this inquiry a decade or so later:

https://drive.proton.me/urls/PJ29P0HGJW#5kmU3EBeJDqR

I'm always picking apart movies and TV shows for subtext, deeper meaning, Jungian archetypes, revelation of social patterns, inner psychology, etc., but it seems like there are two related trends that make the traditional, scholarly approach of a close reading increasingly unpopular:

1. The work is about whatever the author says it is about or could have intended it to mean. Literature can have a multipilicity of meanings, some of them deeply personal to the reader, and many of them unintended. That the fun of thinking about a piece and breaking it down an examining scenes and dialogue and symbolism can all be replaced by doing a search on the author's Twitter is deeply depressing and completely destroys the role of art--to be an ambiguous sounding board for our souls and unconscious reflection of our society.

2. A work is bad or good depending on the political messages it explicitly and implicitly communicates." and related: I'm more likely to agree with an interpretation if helps me politically. Stories with flawed characters are condemned in this system, because the point of literature isn't to explore the human condition, but to create propaganda for ideologies, and your role isn't too seriously examine the text but to create your own propaganda for your side online.

Examples:

• "300 can't have a gay subtext because that would mean Zach Snyder was woke!'"

• "The Matrix is definitively a trans-allegory because The Wachowskis said it was. If you disagree, you are stupid, because they said so." I love reading the Matrix as a trans-allegory, but it is not ever explicitly mentioned in the text so I chafe at it being definitively, or even obviously, a trans-allegory.

• Sex and the City is bad because Carrie has an extremely fucked up relationship with Mr. Big (ie, only positive role models are "good"--I'm absolutely OK with people pointing that out, but the problem is building a world where only "safe messages" are propagated and treating all audiences as uncritical 3-year-olds in front YouTube Kids).

The only real pushback against art-by-tweet is against JKR declaring Dumbledore to be gay. But, really, that's just politics taking precedence, because people don't want her in the LGBT tent exlcuding trans people.

There also seems to be a knock-on effect in writing rooms, where complexity and ambiguity are being sacrificed for clear moralizing and political point-making.

And as a long-time Star Trek fan, I'm not saying art can't be explicitly political! Of course it can! But I am saying it is increasingly not allowed to be anything else.

Is this a vibe anyone else is getting? My references are obviously seriously dated, but whenever they come up, I feel like I'm speaking Ancient Greek.

Bonus question: Who has a better story than Bran?

My go is for the Buzzard, it would sure as hell make desert trips and heat waves seem a lot less worrying and paranoiac.

for me it's famicom in first place PC engine in second place and Sega Master system in third place

I posted asking for advice on looking for work and lot of suggestions said I should try networking. Well that hard to do at 46 and have no true friends or colleagues to reach out to. Now we all know about dating sites, but is there a open source site that is for meeting for friends, or even networking like LinkedIn but not so much bullshit?

If not how would one go about creating such a space?

I am sick and tired of Indeed. It nothing but sales jobs and it ignores your filters. Monster full of scams or just links to other job searching sites that want you to create an account on their platform. Last ziprecuriter is also full of spam and garbage.

Working from home a year now and tired of the bullshit. Now not getting paid because computer stop working and having to wait for a replacement. On top of always working with no back to back days off.

Anyone know best place to apply? Tried locally but nothing but low pay retail and fast food jobs in the area. I have insurance license and still willing to work remotely.

It was doing pretty good back when it came out, but now it has 3.4 stars on play store. How come? I thought everyone liked it.

Hi. After discovering the connected instances list on my instance, I saw a huge list of blocked ones, which(as I assume) is unique for each instance. So, I started to wonder: is there an instance that federates with as much others as possible and has the smallest black list? Maybe some kind of an observer instance on which you can access as much of Fediverse as it is possible? Thanks in advance.

What are your hobbies? Genuinely trying to find something new for myself.

Right now my free time mostly goes into watching series and checking trades, and I want to add something that actually feels productive or fulfilling instead of just passing time.

Curious what you're into, and honestly, why you got into it in the first place. Doesn't need to be impressive or unique, just real.