I kept it pretty straightforward. Listed the rules. Said its a welcome place for conservatives. We'll see.
Let's watch the subscribers and see if it worked. Lemmy is pretty hit and miss right now.
OsakaWilson Now • 75%
I was raised Christian and took all the stories at face value and true. I think I was about 7 or so when I watch a movie I think was called The Bible. For some reason, seeing the stuff on video allowed me to see how ridiculous it was. After that, I still went to church, but I was looking at it from the outside.
OsakaWilson Now • 100%
I have flown a hundred times and slept exactly once. It was like teleporting from Osaka to Sydney. If I could do that more, it would be very good.
It would argue that the technology of industrialization that brought Capitalism was not an accident. Capitalism was the natural outcome of the times. It would also argue that to try to force socialism onto the same society would be inefficient and essentially unnatural. Technological deterministic thought sees technology as the driving force of social, economic, political, and even artistic change. In it's weak form, it is undeniably true--technology effects the form that society and economy take. In it's stronger form, it would claim that, barring enormous effort, Capitalism was the inevitable outcome of the technological development of the time. It also explains why high automation and AI, that can do all or most of the work that humans do, will make Capitalism impossible. Technology makes new jobs only until it also takes all those jobs. After that, wealth is no longer distributed through a Capitalist system and something else will emerge. Must emerge.
I know there are still people within the GOP who have not been caught up in the ugly direction that it has gone. It is actually very good to find evidence of their existence. I would love to see an honorable, democracy embracing, non-discriminating branch of the GOP rise up become popular. In fact, half the Democratic party would probably be more aligned with the GOP. Yet, the GOP looked to the extreme right, bigots, racists, and even fascists to expand their voter base. This is not only wrong, but unsustainable. Anyway, the only voice in this community right now is this “technological determinist”, social democrat. Statistically, one in a hundred members actually comment. I’m actually rooting for you guys to become an active community and until then, it looks like I’m your spokesman. Hehe.
OsakaWilson Now • 100%
That's pretty much how it went down with my kids. I imagine most parents just avoid it, but I teach them full on how crazy that shit is. And make sure they know not to confront them about it.
OsakaWilson Now • 93%
Actually, the conversation would go like this.
Kid: Dad, someone on the internet said Jesus dies for our sins.
Dad: What do you think of that?
Kid: I'm not sure but it's weird. How can someone dying have anything to do with the bad things that other people do?
Dad: It only makes sense if you understand that back then, they used to kill animals as a sacrifice to God. They believed that God will show them more favor, the larger the sacrifice. If you do something God doesn't like, killing something will make God happy with you again.
Kid: This is getting more bizarre, and creapy.
Dad: So, Christians believe that Jesus was sacrificed to forgive all humans for all the bad things they do so God will be happy with them again.
Kid: O...K... So, we're all forgiven for everything we do.
Dad: Not exactly. You have to feel bad about it and ask Jesus to forgive you. If you're Catholic, you have to go through a priest.
Kid: David cries when he has to go talk to the his priest.
Dad: Yeah, that's a different topic, but that's what they believe.
Kid: Why does God want them to kill things?
Dad: It seems that he changed his mind. Somehow, since killing his "son" was such a big deal, that he's happy with us without further killing.
Kid: Is God supposed to be smart?
Dad: They believe that he knows everything and makes everything happen.
Kid: Isn't he suppose to help good people and punish bad people?
Dad: We'll get there later, your question was about sacrifice. Have you heard of communion?
Kid: Isn't that when they drink juice and eat a cookie.
Dad: That's right. The cookie is supposed to be the body of Jesus, and the juice is supposed to be his blood.
Kid: Seriously?!
Dad: Yes. It's symbolic cannibalism. According to the bible, Jesus told them to do it.
Kid: Like half the kids as school and all of their families do that!
Dad: Yup. Pretty weird.
OsakaWilson Now • 50%
This is a seriously interesting speculation. This may very well be a thing.
OsakaWilson Now • 93%
It sounds like it's breaking the fourth wall. Narrators can do it.
OsakaWilson Now • 0%
LLaMA is much more open than OpenAI or Google, but I don't think it qualifies as FOSS.
OsakaWilson Now • 91%
A Trojan horse with neon lights announcing the hidden soldiers and surrounded by anti-Greek protesters.
OsakaWilson Now • 80%
Principals are often choosen by their bourgeois-friendly qualities, so he could be right about that. However I think he misjudged the ability of rats to carry out his wishes.
Great idea for a community. I hope to see it take off.
OsakaWilson Now • 100%
This really calls for a picture, or there's not much to say.
OsakaWilson Now • 75%
Being naturally occuring or contrived influences their legitimacy and staying power.
www.cirquedusoleil.com
If you do not know Cirque du Soleil, it is an avante-garde circus, and musical experience that tells a story. They explore the edges of human abilities and present it through amazing beautiful images and sound. I sound like an ad, but this is not--I'm just a huge fan.
OsakaWilson Now • 100%
Most of them were not made up recently, and in a book of words made up for that book.
OsakaWilson Now • 88%
Look at an IQ map and political map of the US. The stupid and right wing maps are nearly identical.
OsakaWilson Now • 72%
Rightward politics correlates with low intelligence.
OsakaWilson Now • 100%
Don't have one. Computers, on the other hand, the family has a bunch.
OsakaWilson Now • 90%
Define Asian. I live in "Asia" and have never seen this.
OsakaWilson Now • 100%
Make the coordinates public and let curiosity run its course.
OsakaWilson Now • 100%
I believe there was a book in the 80s called Sniglets that made up words for things and this was one of them. I didn't remember what it was called. Any or all of this memory could be wrong.
If you must be out, have an umbrella in one hand and a sports drink in the other. It's supposed to be 37 tomorrow. Take care of yourself and pay attention to people who have to work outside.
This book happens to have the same title as my hiking group, but there is no connection. Art, architecture, food, things to do, souvenirs, all the iconic must see and must do things presented. Highly recommended for people preparing to explore Osaka.
OsakaWilson Now • 100%
We were at the Mitsui Outlet Mall yesterday and it is literally right next door.
When I lived in Norway, we had a similar thing that you need to do absolutely anything. It was actually very convenient, saved a lot of paperwork, and made life easier. You can generally trust the Norwegian government to look out for your interests and not abuse a system like that. I'm hearing very negative opinions about the MyNumber system here in Japan. I trust the Japanese government less than I do the Norwegian government. What do others think? Are the risks greater than the benefits, if there are benefits? I'm legitimately curious and have no solid opinion on this.
The gas station will open in a few days--Aug. 1. But if it is like the other Costco, they'll require a MasterCard. If you are not a member, if you pre-register before August 24, you get 1000 yen off.
The em dash is called the em dash because on old typewriters it was as long as an M. Why do I feel closer to this punctuation mark than the others? It could be partly because I ignored it for so long that it is the last punctuation mark that I got to know, and when I found it, I learned that it could do the work of several other punctuation marks, especially my archrival, the semicolon! I mean, semicolons have their place. In my opinion, two places: lists within lists can be indicated with semicolons, and when you want to show your English teacher that you were listening in class. That's about it. I was taught that if I want to show that two independent clauses (an independent clause is a complete simple sentence) have a stronger connect than just being right next to each other, we can add a semicolon. And then they proceeded to show us examples of full, complex, sentences with semicolons between them. So, they weren't wrong, but they could have just said that they link two sentences to show a stronger connection--other specific syntactic units have nothing to do with it. See what I did there? I used an em dash where a semicolon would have been. If you don't know where it is on your keyboard and your app doesn't make it automatically when you write a double dash, then a double dash (--) will do fine. If you are among the continentally-challenged users of English, you may use a single dash ( - ) to achieve the same thing as a double dash. If you use the en dash, leave a space before and after the dash, but not with the em dash. The em dash can also replace (parenthesis) or commas to set apart a phrase in the middle of a sentence. "My best friend—the one who moved to Australia last year—just sent me a postcard." So, we've now replaced the semicolon, parenthesis and commas in at least some of their uses. We're coming for you now, ellipsis. The ellipsis (...) does a lot of things: omission, pause, cutting off a sentence part way through, and suspense. The em dash can be used for all but omission. So, if you leave out some text from the middle of a sentence, replace it with an ellipsis, but otherwise, you may want to use the em dash. When constructing an ellipsis, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. When using an em dash to cut off a sentence, it comes across as a bit more harsh. "If I have to come in there again--" When you want it to kind of trail off more gently, maybe an ellipsis is called for. "But I thought Christie was..." I've seen them replace quotation marks and colons, but that's not something I do with them. I would be happy just to have them rid us of the semicolon and Kurt Vonnegut agrees with me. He said, "Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons... All they do is show you've been to college." Thoughts?
My Microsoft account at work made me re-think this because it is pushing me to add more commas that I usually do. I'm of two minds here. On one hand, punctuation is for clarity. If a sentence is clear without additional hyphens or commas, you could argue that they are not needed. For example: I want ice cream too. (Acceptable in informal writing.) I want ice cream, too. (Expected in formal writing.) I want to eat, mom. (Always a good idea.) I want to eat mom. (Or the police could be involved.) Or with hyphens when putting two adjectives before a noun, as with: "a well-known author" or "a high-speed chase." With both of these, leaving out the hyphen would not change the meaning or cause confusion. However, with "high-school students" vs "high school students" the police could get involved again over omitting the hyphen. I tend toward leaving it out unless it improves clarity or changes meaning. Now for the Oxford comma. Have we all seen the memes? However you feel about strippers, is would probably be less confusing if "the strippers, Kennedy, and Stalin" suddenly arrived, than it would be if "the strippers, Kennedy and Stalin" arrived. Not using the Oxford comma can make the phrase ambiguous, but when it doesn't become ambiguous, as with, "Get me the carrots, potatoes and celery", we can really leave it out without problems. I go back and forth on these. Even the most careful writers and editors can fail to see the ambiguity in their phrases, so choosing to always include the punctuation is a good way to go. Then again, if you feel confident and want to remove the clutter, I can respect that too. If you have a style guide you must follow, do that, if not, then stay consistent with whatever you choose. Thoughts? Or more fun examples are welcome.
Accidently posted this twice. Lets stop adding to this one and go to the one with more comments
Of course the official rule is that for countable things, like apples, we say fewer, as in, "Why are there fewer apples?" And for things that you can't really count, you use less, as in "We need more dream time and less screen time." But recently, even from native speakers who've been to university, you can hear people using 'less' when the grammar books say they should use 'fewer'. Language changes and there are many examples of things that we say differently than we write. What are your thoughts? Should we grammar nazi this until everyone gets back in line? Should we just let language evolve and enjoy the ride? Do you think it will settle in with spoken and written forms being different? Do you think this will become the norm in English? By the way, I blame supermarkets with their "9 items or less" signs.
I see there are no comments here yet. I am an English professor, and have experience in magazine, book, and test editing. I often comment on grammar related subs on "that other social media site", but I'm trying to help Lemmy grow by contributing here instead. But to do that, there ~~needs~~ need to be posts. : ) The way to get a community growing is to start posting. I'm going to start some seed topics, so please comment on them and add your own. Questions are good too.
So Spookywagons. Here is the reply to your questions: Hiking spots you say? My students 'curate' and organize hike, in that we provide all the info you need to get there, know the path, and know what gear you'll need for hikes all over the region. The info we put together can be used anytime by anyone, so here are some links. They are all under an hour from Umeda. I'm going to assume that you have seen [this post](https://lemmy.world/post/745005). Right now, this is probably the best hike in the regions because it is getting hot. This hike is rather flat, runs along a river, and intermittently goes through long tunnels through the mountains that act as natural air conditioning. On a holiday, there can be more people there, but when we went a few weeks ago, we passed very few others. I'm trying to wean our Hiking group off Reddit, but that's where our links are. [Here is a hike](https://www.reddit.com/r/thisisosaka/comments/13k1nvf/thisisosaka_hike_for_may_will_be_the_28th_bamboo/) that starts in the really touristy area, but quickly passes through that and looks at some authentic Japanese neighborhoods and up to a very cool temple. Again, not much uphill, so in the heat, doable. [Here is one](https://www.reddit.com/r/thisisosaka/comments/1183v1k/feb_25_this_saturday_well_hike_through_fumin_no/) that is longer and has more uphill. I would not do it this time of year, but some people are. It's a great hike. The farther out you go the fewer the people. The area is well maintained, but be prepared for detours occasionally. Poles don't hurt here, but are not necessary. Carry water. There are more on our R***it page. I do not recommend doing the Cherry Blossom hike. In the first half, you'd probably get heat stroke going up the very long stairs, and if you made it through that, there isn't much to see outside of cherry blossom season. The Minoo hike is gorgeous. (That's also a play on words, because you are hiking up a gorge.) It goes uphill, but there are lots of opportunities to rest. It's also shorter than the others. There can be a lot of people on holidays. Never been there this time of year. Now there is also Alltrails.com. The problem with Alltrails is that although they have lots of great trails, there are a lot of recorded trails that are wrong, or outdated. Be sure to check on them. If they have my username on them however, you can be sure that the info is solid. Further out there's one called 48 Falls. Guess what you see on that hike. I hear that I should do that one, but haven't gotten there yet. If you try something that I didn't mention, please come back and tell us about it. As for food, in the other links in this community I gave my advice for visitors. However, in the [other Osaka community](https://lemmy.world/c/osakalife) aimed at people who live here, we so have of recommendations for the kind of things that you start to crave after you've been here a while.
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Mandheling is a type of Sumatra and has the same low level of acidity as Starbucks Sumatra. (They are probably from similar beans.) Mild taste, easy on your stomach. After going to three Starbucks and not finding them, I got my fix from Kaldi.
Sometimes I'm just happy to be able to log in. I think Lemmy is worth the early days issues. Reporting stuff is helpful and for now I ask for your patience. I am open to questions about anything.
We've started our own wild yeast batch, and you can get dry sourdough yeast off of Amazon which has more punch that our wild batch, but sometimes a professionally done loaf is convenient. Any clues on where to find good local sourdough bread?
::: spoiler spoiler moneyless socialist utopia ::: I mean, we all know that's what it is, but I'm pretty sure that's the first time they've said it straight out in universe. And then the plot reminds of it several times as that very thing is put in danger.