That's not how this started, moving the goalposts is pretty cheap. I was literally linking to an issue happening in this vary election that illustrates why secret ballots are so important. A position which, if you recall, you began by stating was invalid because you misunderstand (or, now more clearly, willfully misrepresent) how democracy in the US works, and your proposed "solution" only helps illustrate the easy ways vote buying and manipulation would be introduced without secret ballots. I'll block you, for obvious reasons. Good luck
There is already a record of who voted for what, all of your fears could be taking place as things are now. Making it accessible to the person, even with hoops to jump through, would only be an improvement.
Edit: additional context for added relevance
This kind of shilling has to be considered a massive, unreported campaign contribution. Come on.
Edit: a word, for clarity
Join Ōsweald the talking bear on his adventures through Anglo-Saxon England, as he makes friends (and enemies), gets involved in royal intrigue, and learns all about the world.
![Osweald Bera: An Introduction to Old English [Pre-Order] | Vergil Press](https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/f76f6bf1-a418-4b20-b022-87ef59293e4d.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
For people interested in learning Old English, Osweald Bera is an introductory book written by Colin Gorrie that, if I recall from his prior announcement about this, leans on a method called comprehensible input to teach the language. As far as I can tell from watching some of his youtube videos and reading his other online material, this looks like it could be useful for folks that are including "Learn Old English" as an item on their New Year's Resolution list.
The preorders were just announced. They are saying they intend to begin shipping the books themselves mid-November.
Here it is, proper orientation and including artist signature:
ETA: Another look at it, with the white background changed to transparent
Off on another long, strange trip, no doubt. RIP, Phil.
He seems fragile, doesn't he?
Yes, but with an extra large helping of pain and suffering. That's the problem.
Oops I'm sorry, I'm a time traveler from the year 2014 and may have missed some context. Have things not gone well?
More seriously, he's a bad man and I wish the people around him were good enough people to have realized the thing I posted earlier and helped him disappear from the public eye instead of milking him into a dry husk of flesh for however much money, but alas, apples and trees and all that...
Edit: dammit. Bad apple, that's the reference I was probably reaching for! Or the low-hanging fruit, as it were. He's a bad apple. Just a bad apple. Only one bad apple, out of the whole bunch. Except that's not the saying, though... It's "One bad apple spoils the whole bunch." So, what do you have to say to that, something HUSSEIN whatever your username is???
Those people need to be compassionate, get him out of the public spotlight, and help him retire in a way where he can live out his days in a space where his decreasing lucidity can be properly managed and cared for. He's a frail, confused old man and the sooner his handlers accept that, the better off we all have a chance to be.
*edit: prison is an acceptable place for this as far as I'm concerned, to be clear
Farmers have seen their incomes slashed due to factors outside of their control. However, tariffs imposed by Trump and China’s retaliation are making their situation even direr. This has led to a rise in farm bankruptcies and multiple people warning about the increased stress leading to suicides.
Trump was on Univision yesterday for a town hall, and during one exchange he made a huge deal about how great he was for farmers. Additionally, he's been talking about crazy tariffs again at recent events like the Economic Club of Chicago. With those things in mind, I thought it would be relevant to take a quick walk down memory lane. It's also worth noting, the article is pre-COVID - August 30, 2019. As many people with functioning memories will recall, things would not go on to get better from there.
I think I heard him say at one of his appearances that he's going to work for 30 minutes, and then said it would be longer than Kamala ever worked there. So yeah, he's never been planning on putting in a full shift.
If I had to guess, it's something to the effect of "FEMA will come in, give you $750 for your home, then send you to a tent, leaving you both permanently displaced and destitute." It's not true, but it seems like the kind of thing that would catch on amongst the conspiratorial-minded.
I don't understand the pun you are going for here
Soon, we may have camps full of them awaiting deportation with nothing else to do though! /s
Again, he exposes his fascistic tendencies
Seconded. Did it impact a legitimate military target? Where any civilians injured or killed? If so, how many? What's the deets??
Israeli censorship rules prevent media outlets saying exactly where or what was targeted, but some media outlets say the location was hit by a low-level drone launched from Lebanon - a relatively unsophisticated weapon that appears not to have activated early warning alarms.
Frustrating.
Migrants, you say? Just deport 'em to Venezuela!
Good. Now fucking resign.
Now prosecute him accordingly
Oh my. That was truly wild to read. He works soo hard at being a cartoon villain.
Graham urged President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to "do something" about the alleged Iranian plot.
Iran's alleged plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump and hack the Trump campaign amount to "an act of war," according to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Just days after a would-be assassin's bullet grazed Trump's ear in July, the FBI announced that Iran had allegedly been separately plotting to kill the former president. Federal officials later revealed that Iran had hacked and stolen confidential information from the Trump campaign.
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Donald Trump declared that "the bullets are flying" and warned and "it will only get worse" on Monday, one day after a second attempt on his life.
Paraphrasing his psychotic post that they are discussing in this article: "Bullets are flying, the war has begun, the Immigrant Problem must be brought to a final solution!"
After seeing someone else posting their struggles with getting Docker running on their system, I thought I might share my process for setting up new Docker nodes. I don't make any representations about my way being the right way, or the best way, but this way has been working for me. I have been playing around with a swarm, but if you aren't setting up a swarm you can just omit the swarm commands and some of the firewall allows (keep what you need open, obviously, like 22 for SSH if you're using it). Similarly, if you aren't connecting to a NAS, you can leave out the part about mounting external storage.
```
new Docker Swarm node setup from fresh Debian Netinst
as root, all nodes
apt install sudo usermod -aG sudo [user] logout
as [user], all nodes
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y sudo apt install fail2ban rkhunter ufw unattended-upgrades ca-certificates curl -y sudo ufw allow 22 sudo ufw allow 2377 sudo ufw allow 7946 sudo ufw allow 4789 sudo ufw enable sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc echo \ "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \ $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \ sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null sudo apt update sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin -y sudo usermod -aG docker [user]
Shared Storage Stuff, all nodes
nano ~/.smbcredentials
paste the following:
username=[cluserUser]
password=[clusterPW]
add mount point for shared storage
sudo nano /etc/fstab
add the following to the bottom:
/[NAS.IP.Address]/[ClusterStorageFolder]/ /home/[user]/share cifs credentials=/home/[user]/.smbcredentials 0 0
on main node only
docker swarm init --advertise-address
copy the join command, we'll need it next
on any additional nodes, paste the command copied above
docker swarm join [...all the rest of the command...]
for each docker container, on any manager node
mkdir ~/share/[serviceName] cd ~/share/[serviceName]
copy relevant compose.yml into the folder
if necessary, also create any needed directories
docker compose up -d docker compose down docker stack deploy -c compose.yml ```
Ill need shelf space soon... a lot of shelf space XD
Just saw these new HoMe boxed sets are coming out, with the first set releasing in November
Credit: TimeMaps
As part of a personal educational journey, I've been exploring early human cultures. There are a lot of great websites I've encountered along the way, but this one had escaped my radar until yesterday.
I grabbed the map portion from a series of posts they had about early farming and strung them all together into a gif so I could visualize it better for myself, and it ended up looking pretty neat so it seemed crazy not to share it.
The green parts of each slide show you where the farming was happening at the time. The first slide represents 10000 BCE, and each slide after is dated 1000 years further ahead in time, all the way up to the last slide at 3000 BCE, as outlined by the TimeMaps folks.
Here's a fun, ten-minute video from PBS Digital Studios and hosted by Dr. Moiya McTier & Dr. Emily Zarka that discusses trees, especially World Trees (or Great Trees) as seen in so many mythologies, and their prevalence in ancient stories. From Baobab trees to Yggdrasil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txy-3IpFz8M
I'm currently reading the Third Edition of Rosenberg's World Mythology, which is what I referenced when writing the Enuma Elish summary before. For anyone wanting to read more of her work, the Second Edition of her book is available online free and has a ton of great content:
https://archive.org/details/worldmythologyan0000rose
Here's a quick synopsis based on some notes that I jotted down as I was looking over a version of the Enuma Elish that was written in Donna Rosenberg's World Mythology textbook.
What is the Enuma Elish? Great question! It's an ancient creation story, dating back to the Babylonians in Mesopotamia, perhaps reaching as far back as 2000 BCE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En%C5%ABma_Eli%C5%A1
Everything interesting about this is a credit to Rosenberg's work and to the Babylonian people that documented the stories on clay tablets so long ago, and everything wrong with it is undoubtedly down to my own poor comprehension. Enjoy!
The Enuma elish
Apsu and Tiamat, the fresh- and saltwater primordial gods that existed before all else, have a mist-baby named Mummu. Two more gods form in the mix of salt and fresh water, notably not referred to as children of Apsu and Tiamat, nor as siblings to each other, but it seems implied. These two are Anshar (male) and Kishar (female). Anshar and Kishar have a child named Anu (god of the Heavens). Anu fathers Ea, who is super-wise and becomes god of the Earth. Eventually he will settle down and marry Damkina, but first he and the rest of his still-living ancestry make a lot of noise and royally piss off Tiamat.
Now-enraged Tiamat tells Apsu to get the offspring in line. Apsu says he prefers the nuclear option, kill ‘em all. Mummu is on board. Tiamat suggests they chill a bit. They do not chill. They choose violence, and they begin preparations to wage a battle.
The offspring gods caught wind of their impending demise and got ready. Clever Ea made a trap, put Apsu to sleep, chained him up, killed him until he was quite dead, imprisoned Mummu (because you don’t just go leaving witnesses, ok?), and Bob’s your uncle. Now for some victory nookie.
Ea and Damkina shack up and have a son named Marduk. Marduk is the wisest and strongest of the gods. Truly, a sight to behold. Ea made Marduk all-seeing and all-hearing, and then also made him bright as the sun.
Time goes on, the kids get rowdy again, Anu is kicking up a tempest and it angers the Old Timers. Kingu is especially perturbed. He calls out Tiamat for letting all of this happen. Tiamat finally sees it Kingu’s way and they get ready to rumble. Kingu is Tiamat’s head commander.
It’s important to point out here, I think, the fact that there still does not yet exist an Earth. Or anything. Except the gods and their drama, I mean. An endless void… and god-drama.
Ea finds out there is another fight coming. He freaks out a bit and asks Anshar for advice. Anshar tells him to be brave and strong and to kill Kingu just like he did Apsu. Ea is apparently super inspired because he sets out to give it the old college-try, realizes on the way that he’s gonna die if he tries to fight this, and promptly chickens out and runs home.
Anshar tells Anu to go next. Same deal, he’s super into the idea, gets scared, funs home. Good thing there’s another boy, right?
They tell Marduk he’s got to help them. He basically says “But… it’s only a girl lol” and then goes on to tell them he’ll do it, but they should recognize his most supreme excellence by making his very words govern the fates. The gods call a meeting and decide they will agree, but only if Marduk can do a magic trick first. Marduk makes a towel disappear - and then, reappear ! if you can believe it!
The gods must have known they were in serious trouble because at this point they agreed to Marduk’s terms. He is now the Supreme God of the Void. Huzzah!
Storm God Marduk outfits himself with awesome armor and weaponry. He raises seven winds and four beasts, and meets Tiamat in battle. (Kingu fled, scared) He defeats Tiamat. Half of Tiamat’s body becomes the Earth, the other half the heavens. They catch Kingu, murderize him, and use his blood to give life to all mankind.
Greetings all, and welcome to the Mythology board! I have recently embarked on an adventure through early Mesopotamian mythology, and intend to keep exploring more cultures moving forward through history. With that in mind, this space is meant to be a fun and open community for people to chat about their favorite mythologies, share what they have learned, ask questions, and hopefully we can all learn and experience the magic, myths, and legends from the many cultures that came before us.
