ArgentRaven

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[–] ArgentRaven 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I love shakshuka, but only had it as a dinner. I'll have to try it as a brunch. My understanding is it's kind of made with whatever's on hand, but mine looks like yours. It's delicious! We try to make naan or some other kind of bread to go with it, as well.

[–] ArgentRaven 29 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Immortan Joe had less swag on his armor than these guys! Do they worry that they'll get too many and not be able to wear them all, and disrespect Dear Leader?

[–] ArgentRaven 3 points 3 months ago

Companies didn't vet them, and outside to other as companies. Turns out they didn't do any due diligence, and let viruses leak through. That's when people really started blocking them.

[–] ArgentRaven 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If it happens past your lifetime, it doesn't matter. So for sure it'll pass. These sayings are meant to apply to you, not history.

I look back to the serenity prayer, which is really just a bit of Buddhism: "Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

The Buddhist path is "why is there suffering in the world?" Because of attachment. You want things to stay the same. Things change. You want your parents to live forever. You don't want to be sick. You wish your job didn't suck. Why can't I just win the lottery and have my problems go away? You want to cling to the good times and not have the bad. You can let go of the bad, and the resultant suffering because of it will fade. Letting go is incredibly hard, because our biological bodies are hard wired on routines. But if you can overcome that, and accept that whatever happened, happened, you can move forward. You can't change the past. And whether you like it or not, time and the world moves forward. You can move forward with it, or let something hold you back.

And just to clarify, I'm an atheist, so my understanding of both the Serenity Prayer and Buddhism are seen through the lense of someone that doesn't believe in an afterlife or religion in general (strict Buddhism is not a religion). I encourage you to find your own conclusions.

[–] ArgentRaven 6 points 4 months ago

It didn't even occur to me that people were firing rockets, etc, from Lebanon into Israel. Duh. That makes a lot of sense, and I just assumed they fired from Gaza and so forth. Well today I learned.

Hopefully your actually pertinent information will continue to be upvoted. Thank you!

[–] ArgentRaven 42 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Those old tv shows where they casually eat breakfast before work make more sense. They weren't up at 6, rushing to get to work by 8. They had a whole hour more.

[–] ArgentRaven 10 points 4 months ago (13 children)

So I don't know if I missed it, but what's Israel's justification for attacking another sovereign country? And I saw they were talking about putting settlers there? Aren't they essentially doing what Russia is doing to Ukraine? Why isn't the UN coming down on them?

[–] ArgentRaven 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I bought a cheap Vizio, and never connected it or let it connect to anything. All it does is power on, and go to HDMI-1. My pc it connects to does everything else.

If you're concerned about privacy on your tv, I would recommend migrating away from Roku as well.

[–] ArgentRaven 3 points 4 months ago

Well sure, but the alternative is to stop being the absolute richest people to have ever existed. Surely the existence of all humans is worth less than that!

[–] ArgentRaven 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

So far it's lasted years in New Mexico with the Satanic Temple's "Samuel Alito's Mom's Abortion Clinic". If NM can't shut it down, I don't know that it can be done.

Edit: I had the wrong state

[–] ArgentRaven 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They will try to buy their way out of it. On an individual level. Water shortage, they'll pay more for water. They'll pay top dollar to keep the a/c on, etc. when no amount of money will help and they didn't plan ahead with Zuckerberg-style bunkers, they'll just die like the rest of us.

And the billionaires will possibly be killed in their expensive bunkers, if the Fallout series taught us anything.

[–] ArgentRaven 82 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

That might be one of the scariest things he's said so far. I'll send this to my friend and relatives that support Trump but aren't actually citizens (crazy I know, but I'm in Oklahoma where fox news is on every public tv). Maybe this will snap some of them out of it finally.

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