Entering the Jhanas
Entering the jhanas is not easy—the harder you try, the more difficult it becomes. But you can make yourself ready for them to open up to you.
"Once you’ve found the pleasant sensation, you fully shift your attention to it. If you can do that, the sensation will begin to grow in intensity; it will become stronger. This will not happen in a linear way. At first, nothing happens. Then it’ll grow a little bit and then hang out and grow a little bit more. And then eventually, it will suddenly take off and take you into what is obviously an altered state of consciousness.
In this altered state of consciousness, you will be overcome with rapture, euphoria, ecstasy, delight. These are all English words that are used to translate the Pali word piti. Perhaps the best English word for piti is “glee.” Piti is a primarily physical sensation that sweeps you powerfully into an altered state. But piti is not solely physical; as the suttas say, “On account of the presence of piti, there is mental exhilaration.” In addition to the physical energy and mental exhilaration, the piti will be accompanied by an emotional sensation of joy and happiness."
As a tank fetishist, I appreciate the representation.
On the correlation between solar activity and large earthquakes worldwide
Large earthquakes occurring worldwide have long been recognized to be non Poisson distributed, so involving some large scale correlation mechanism, which could be internal or external to the Earth. Till now, no statistically significant correlation of the global seismicity with one of the possible m...
Binaural beats are an auditory phenomenon that occurs when two tones of different frequencies, which are presented separately to each ear, elicit the sensation of a third tone oscillating at the difference frequency of the two tones. Binaural beats can ...
"At first glance, however, the available literature on brainwave entrainment effects due to binaural beat stimulation appears to be inconclusive at best. The aim of the present systematic review is, thus, to synthesize existing empirical research. A sample of fourteen published studies met our criteria for inclusion. The results corroborate the impression of an overall inconsistency of empirical outcomes, with five studies reporting results in line with the brainwave entrainment hypothesis, eight studies reporting contradictory, and one mixed results."
That's literally how knowledge works, yes. Are you telling me all of your opinions come from internet comments and nothing else?
Lol so what are you asking me? I gave you a direct link explaining why I think this.
This phrase is a fascist dog whistle, it's not general purpose.
Modernity and the Holocaust
Reading this book convinced me the modern day United States is about to commit a second holocaust at the Mexican border within the next, like, decade.
Here's an article to answer your second paragraph. https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/yaffed/1972/mtccs/index.htm
Nah, the boom bust cycle happens due to the contradictions inherent to capitalism. They are speeding up because the contradictions get sharper as capitalism progresses. Marx developed this understanding 200 years ago, check it out:
"When the expansion of production outruns its profitability, when existing conditions of exploitation preclude a further profitable capital-expansion or what amounts to the same thing, an increase of accumulation does not increase the mass of surplus-value or profits, an absolute over-accumulation has occurred and the accumulation process comes to a halt. This interruption of the accumulation or its stagnation constitutes the capitalist crisis. It represents an overproduction of capital with respect to the degree of exploitation. From the point of view of profitability at this stage, existing capital is at the same time too small and too large. It is too large in relation to the existing surplus-value and it is not large enough to overcome the lack of surplus-value. Capital has only been over-produced in relation to profitability. This is not a material overproduction for the world in this respect is undercapitalised [73]. This stresses once again the central contradiction between the commodity as a use-value and as an exchange-value, between production for use and that for profit." https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/yaffed/1972/mtccs/mtccs3.htm
I think you aren't reading into it enough, like look at your analysis here: "this wasn't even a successful feminist movie as they didn't change anything in the "Real world". It was just a feel good celebration of women and solidarity which didn't actually do anything of consequence. That was the point?"
But consider that in the final scenes of the movie, an old lady shows Barbie a dream sequence of how good life could be if she entirely rejects the current system. Barbie then eagerly does so. The old lady represents Luxemburg, Barbie entering the real world represents revolution, Barbie becoming human represents the reunification with the human species being that is only possible under communism. This is a revolutionary communist movie.
The fact that the Kens win nothing but aesthetic changes by the end of the movie is a representation of the reality of third wave feminism and other types of reformism.
Well at the very end of the movie, Barbie chose to leave the system in it's entirety. The movie has a revolutionary communist message, it's saying true empowerment is impossible within the bounds of the system. It's mocking the "more👏female👏executives" sentiment, just doing so in a way subtle enough the Hollywood financiers didn't realize it.
Okay so you still failed to refute the argument at all. Do you realize you're embarrassing yourself? Give me a counterpoint.
Lol, if I link you to an author you don't recognize will you be able to engage with the argument? Let's try: https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/ch05.htm
I've been theoryposting on .world and it's getting upvotes https://lemmy.world/post/2012172, we love to see it
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
This is the article that coined the phrase "male gaze", originally a strict academic definition, now a muddied culture war thing? I don't know. The article is good.
Marxism and Reformism, Lenin, Pravda Truda No. 2, September 12, 1913
"reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers. The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled.
And conversely, workers who have assimilated Marx’s theory, i.e., realised the inevitability of wage-slavery so long as capitalist rule remains, will not be fooled by any bourgeois reforms. Understanding that where capitalism continued to exist reforms cannot be either enduring or far-reaching, the workers fight for better conditions and use them to intensify the fight against wage-slavery. The reformists try to divide and deceive the workers, to divert them from the class struggle by petty concessions. But the workers, having seen through the falsity of reformism, utilise reforms to develop and broaden their class struggle."
Reforms are great, but ultimately a doomed bandaid over real problems. Quoth Lenin:
"Reformism is bourgeois deception of the workers, who, despite individual improvements, will always remain wage-slaves, as long as there is the domination of capital.
The liberal bourgeoisie grant reforms with one hand, and with the other always take them back, reduce them to nought, use them to enslave the workers, to divide them into separate groups and perpetuate wage-slavery. For that reason reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers. The experience of all countries shows that the workers who put their trust in the reformists are always fooled.
And conversely, workers who have assimilated Marx’s theory, i.e., realised the inevitability of wage-slavery so long as capitalist rule remains, will not be fooled by any bourgeois reforms. Understanding that where capitalism continued to exist reforms cannot be either enduring or far-reaching, the workers fight for better conditions and use them to intensify the fight against wage-slavery. The reformists try to divide and deceive the workers, to divert them from the class struggle by petty concessions. But the workers, having seen through the falsity of reformism, utilise reforms to develop and broaden their class struggle."
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/sep/12b.htm
I feel like this article ends the moment it gets going, I want the second half.
That looks like mine but a lot more yellow, probably a chicken of the woods.
You picked the fruit but the infection is still eating the heartwood of the tree:
Common Questions About Berkeley’s Polypore How do I get rid of Bondarzewia berkeleyi?
Nothing works to get rid of the fungus pathogen in the tree. Fungicides don’t work. You can remove the fruiting body of the mushroom, but that does nothing to prevent the mycelium from sprouting new growth in following years. Keeping the tree healthy can prolong its life but eventually it will probably succumb. https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/berkeleys-polypore.html
This seems like a good match, this higher angle photo shows the rosette style growth they are apparently known for:
Origins of the Concept of Alienation
" But we are concerned here with much more than simple intellectual influences. The concept of alienation belongs to a vast and complex problematics, with a long history of its own. Preoccupations with this problematics – in forms ranging from the Bible to literary works as well as treatises on Law, Economy and Philosophy – reflect objective trends of European development, from slavery to the age of transition from capitalism to socialism. Intellectual influences, revealing important continuities across the transformations of social structures, acquire their real significance only if they are considered in this objective framework of development. If so assessed, their importance – far from being exhausted in mere historical curiosity – cannot be stressed enough: precisely because they indicate the deep-rootedness of certain problematics as well as the relative autonomy of the forms of thought in which they are reflected."
Adolf Hitler and the Origins of the Berlin-Tokyo Axis
"The occasion for this piece is a seemingly straightforward question: why did Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime so quickly declare war on the United States just four days after Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor? There is nothing self-evident about this. Moscow had not fallen to the Wehrmacht during Operation Typhoon, Britain was still very much in the war, and resistance against German rule had burgeoned from France to Greece. The late Fritz Stern characterized Hitler’s rush to support Japan on December 11, 1941 against the United States as “a move historians still find puzzling.”
Code Cathedrals - really good large code bases
Please post direct links to large, complex, but well designed codebases. Especially if they contain unusual design patterns that could be worth studying.
I am a lowly and unusually stupid software dev, but I want to be less terrible. I feel like reading large, well designed code bases is a crucial part of becoming better, but I don't have a good list of things to study. Help me out by posting some. Hopefully we can get some code review style discussions going.
scikit-learn - Python - module for machine learning
scikit-learn: machine learning in Python. Contribute to scikit-learn/scikit-learn development by creating an account on GitHub.
LiteDB - C# - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file
LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file - GitHub - mbdavid/LiteDB: LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file
Jump.jl - Julia - Modeling language for Mathematical Optimization (linear, mixed-integer, conic, semidefinite, nonlinear)
Modeling language for Mathematical Optimization (linear, mixed-integer, conic, semidefinite, nonlinear) - GitHub - jump-dev/JuMP.jl: Modeling language for Mathematical Optimization (linear, mixed-i...
Susquehanna River Fish Passage 2023 Fish Counts
There are four hydroelectric dams on the lower Susquehanna River that provide upstream
Species inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents are strongly influenced by the geological setting, as it provides the chemical-rich fluids supporting the food web, creates the patchwork of seafloor habitat, and generates catastrophic disturbances that can eradicate entire communities. The patches of ...
An interview 14 years in the making, for the first time the true story of the penis envy mushroom is told. Many apocryphal origin stories have been dissemina...
