boydster 1 day ago • 100%
Godspeed
boydster 2 days ago • 100%
They're being called terrorists in the news-adjacent and very public media finally, it's progress
boydster 3 days ago • 100%
Lots of people only ever get the chance to say "Fuck Nestle." But you? You get to live the dream!
boydster 3 days ago • 100%
Ohio city cancels cultural festival to protect public amidst ongoing stochastic terrorism threats from major public officials
boydster 3 days ago • 100%
Imagine the logistics of this "immediate" operation, too. By his own estimation, it's like 20 million people. These folks are to be, first and foremost, "IMMEDIATELY REMOVED FROM AMERICAN CITIES AND TOWNS" and once that is done they would presumably be somehow sent off whence they came or whatever. But that first part is a real sticky thing. How are you going to immediately remove 20 million people from the cities and towns they are in? Where will you be taking them? Are you envisioning some sort of camp, or something similar, where you could sort of round them all up, or concentrate them, so to speak? Perhaps several of these camps will be needed, I suppose, just logistically. But how will he propose getting them there? Our trains have been derailing and shit, we need money to fix them first, don't we? Maybe that's not an issue for him, who knows.
There is an ugliness built into his lexicon that reeks of holocaustic intent and it's been slipping out more frequently it feels like.
boydster 3 days ago • 100%
His entire Sunday circuit that I saw was enraging and also on YouTube - Dana Bash on CNN, then also he was on Face the Nation and Meet the Press. There's something about that boy that ain't right.
boydster 3 days ago • 100%
To be clear, those were my words paraphrasing his post. Read his words. They exude Hitler energy in that post, and encourage behavior in others like you describe.
Edit to add the post in question:
boydster 3 days ago • 98%
So he is knowingly, intentionally putting people in serious and mortal danger for his own pleasure. Again, I mean. He's doing it again.
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!"
boydster 3 days ago • 100%
His own words and actions do it pretty well
Yup! It's like he's envisioning the prelude to the Holocaust and wanting to bring it into the modern day. This is from earlier today on his dumpster fire of a site:
boydster 4 days ago • 100%
I'm down for whatever gets the spotlight shone
boydster 4 days ago • 98%
People need to call it what it is, as often as needed: stochastic terrorism
boydster 1 week ago • 100%
"Karl Rove is a RINO" incoming...
boydster 2 weeks ago • 97%
"I loved Rage Against The Machine until they went woke"
boydster 2 weeks ago • 87%
Thank you, more than my post can possibly communicate, for that explanation
boydster 2 weeks ago • 87%
Could you help me wrinkle my brain a bit today? I feel like I should know why you say you understand the aggression, but I don't, and I really want to
Edit: And I hope this doesn't come off like false naïveté, I am being sincere, please assume Chris Pratt "I'm scared to ask" intentions here
boydster 2 weeks ago • 100%
Mmm that's a real neat idea but you see if we could somehow get more guns into society, we might finally hit the critical mass where the t's and p's become irrelevant because of all the freedom, you see
boydster 2 weeks ago • 100%
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
- John Lennon, Beautiful Boy
And unbeknownst to me until I went to check to see if I was right about the origination (I wasn't), "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans"
- Allen Saunders, Readers Digest, January 1957
boydster 3 weeks ago • 100%
Wouldn't ya know it, he had a bad time
boydster 3 weeks ago • 80%
boydster 4 weeks ago • 100%
Because they are, for some baffling reason, deciding proactively to ruin the peanut butter after having blended it into smooth, creamy perfection! Then they have the gall to place it right next to the good stuff, likely with intent to fool unwitting passersby into bringing it home with further hopes that the children who have never tasted smooth peanut butter and fall victim to experiencing the crunchy version as their initial exposure will be hooked on the worse version for the rest of their lives.
If that's not malice, I don't know what is.
(Really heavy /s, just in case)
boydster 4 weeks ago • 100%
So it's not laziness, it's maliciousness?
boydster 1 month ago • 100%
You're hired
boydster 1 month ago • 100%
This is how the world can finally come together. We can create a New Old Australia, using the island-building techniques the Chinese government have been trying to develop but instead using it for the benefit of all. Literally no one wants these assholes. Let's make them their own giant sand island and send them there. No Aborigines or any other nativelanders need be displaced like in the past. We just... Eject them to Billionaire Island and tell them they've entered the final level of capitalism, they are allowed no outside resources and must establish for themselves (brilliant and enterprising and egotistical as we reassure them they are) how to become the Ultimate Capitalist. Tell them it's even televised. Then if they ever get too noisy we obviously need a way to forcibly erode the island etc. Engineers can figure out the details.
boydster 1 month ago • 100%
And this is after he told advertisers to "fuck off" if they didn't like how he was doing things at twitter
boydster 1 month ago • 100%
How do they work?
boydster 1 month ago • 100%
boydster 1 month ago • 60%
Truly one of the latter day saints
boydster 1 month ago • 100%
His eyes go from blue to brown the moment he starts thinking some bullshit
boydster 2 months ago • 100%
Why not? Is this not a reasonable place to park?
boydster 2 months ago • 11%
I'm a native English speaker and this is ridiculous pedantry. Especially given the context. Word salad is a string of words, all delivered in sequence - all lined up, as it were, or even... dare I say... queued up. Why would anyone pick such a weird thing to argue about though?
boydster 2 months ago • 100%
This is what we call an "n+1" problem, as far as I can tell
boydster 2 months ago • 100%
I truly wasn't trying to disparage the source, it was just phrasing that jumped out at me as being a little off
boydster 2 months ago • 100%
At least one woman and several people...
I clicked the article to double check and sure enough, it's still there. I'm sure it's meant to enhance the perceived seriousness of the attack ("won't someone think of the women and children? Look! They hurt one!"), but it reads more like "one non-person, not understood to be pregnant at this time, and several actual human beings..."
boydster 2 months ago • 100%
This is his Sarah Palin lol
boydster 2 months ago • 100%
But will you try actually installing the update on a machine or 50 to see if you bork things horrifically?
Crowdstrike: "We are really focused on unit testing right now"
I probably misread it, don't mind my grumbling, rabble rabble rabble
boydster 2 months ago • 100%
I thought her speech did a good job outlining some important parts of her vision for the future and her policy initiatives. She spoke about making strides to protect women's rights (and keeping government out of doctors' offices), she spoke in favor of supporting union efforts, all while still making a point to point out Trump's deficiencies as a candidate without focusing on him longer than needed. There was a lot of inclusive language, just look at how much she used words like "we" and "us".
I'm working off an admittedly not-amazing memory here but I recall a very inclusive, welcoming speech that mentioned Trump mostly by contrast and to state the obvious in regards to him being the opponent and and bad option. She called for universal health care, for crying out loud. In explicit words, she said we all deserve it. She didn't focus on policy or the future? What?
boydster 2 months ago • 100%
Obama had a huge advantage on McCain because McCain seemed comparatively old, feeble, and not nearly as well-spoken. Then McCain picked Sarah Palin as a running mate and America heard her try to form sentences in real time.
GW was on his way out. The choice was McCain's version of conservatism plus whatever the crazy cat lady was going to say along the way, or Obama's promise of hope and change, with a very well-understood Biden at his side.
boydster 2 months ago • 100%
I don't remember that one, but he did call him "J.P.", then tried course correcting only to careen off road in the other direction with "J.D. Mandel" at a rally once
boydster 2 months ago • 100%
Bingo!
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 ```
Just saw these new HoMe boxed sets are coming out, with the first set releasing in November
Credit: [TimeMaps](https://timemaps.com) 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.
This is streaming live right now
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.