recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Gods

> The modern sf version of this motif has strange, enormous alien artefacts (see Big Dumb Objects; Macrostructures) made – often in space – by a now-forgotten race of alien Builders or Forerunners for their own godlike purposes, but seeming to us like incomprehensible sacred relics.
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https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/gods\_and\_demons
Human behavior

* What are some green flags? (self.raisedbynarcissists) | We often talk about narcissists' red flags, but what are some green flags to look for in healthy people? | submitted 12 hours ago by llamberll

> Screaming is a unique noise that activates the fear and pain processing sectors of our brain45 and serves as a survival mechanism
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Software speed

Cache

**I run *all* my chromium-based browsers with their caches in */tmp*, which itself runs as a ram-disk per *tmpfs*. That seems to be a good mod, for speed, privacy, & SSD-life. However, all these articles that advise us to basically turn-off / disable nice features & functions of the browser [or software in general], bore & exasperate me. In the specific case of Vivaldi, i use it [as would be true for a high% of its users i expect, especially we early-adopters who came to it after Opera12] *because i want* lots of eye-candy & fabulous features, functions & customisability. Why on earth would i want to lose all that? I mean, i might as well then just stick with one of the numerous hollow pleb browsers out there...**

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Food

* Bacon
* Minced beef
* Chicken breast
* Cheese for bread
* fish and seafood – fish, prawns, crab, lobster, mussels, oysters, scallops, clams
* eggs
* dairy products – milk, yoghurt (especially Greek yoghurt), cheese (especially cottage cheese)
* cashews, and other nuts (including nut pastes) and seeds – almonds, pine nuts, walnuts, macadamias, hazelnuts, , pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds
* legumes and beans – all beans, lentils, chickpeas, split peas, tofu.
* Connoisseur cheese
* Whey proteinHoney; Neutraceutical;
Introjection

**(2) introjection:** term introduced by Sandor Ferenczi (1909) for a process opposite of projection and later adapted by Karl Abraham (1924) and Melanie Klein (1937). This term had lesser somatic foundations and involved taking the whole or part object in. Its end products (‘introjects’) could reside in different parts of the psychic structure (e.g., ego introjects, superego introjects). However, the organized cluster of memory traces consequent upon introjection remained unassimilated into the total self image;

1. ↑ Anon
Jewish teachers

Question becomes what is a Jew or what is Jewish and what is a teacher. Is a teacher someone with formalised teaching? Is Jew anyone born of Jewish descent or someone who practices Judaism?

Michael Mirdad. Has someone or uploads himself, videos at least on YouTube as of 3 Feb 2022.

Marianne Williamsson -- has her own YouTube channel.

Kenneth Wapnick -- passed on

Matt Kahn -- YouTube

one of the leaders of the Hare Krishnas is also of Jewish descent, from Chicago. he bowed to me in India, hehe, nice guy, he's got charisma and seems like a real guy

there of whole batch of Jewish Christian teachers and they happen to be some of the best

1. ↑ mattkahn.org
I don't go for

> The phrase “I don’t go for” can mean either “I don’t enjoy” or “I don’t accept” something, depending on the context. For example, “I don’t go for all that fancy stuff” means “I don’t enjoy all that fancy stuff”, while “She doesn’t go for excuses” means “She doesn’t accept excuses”. According to web results.
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Status

> The term "failing upwards" exists for a reason. He left every company in a worse position than they were in when he entered, but he has "executive experience" and plays golf with the right people. Once you get to the C-Suite it's nothing but golden parachutes and open doors no matter how much carnage is left in your wake.
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Life after narcissism

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Incorporation

**incorporation:** expression first used by Sigmund Freud (1915c) in the context of what he called the ‘oral phase’ of development ‘Incorporation’ meant bringing objects from the external world inside oneself in order to achieve mastery over them, make them a part of oneself, and thus destroy them. The term had a developmental anchor in the infant’s tendency to put things in his mouth. It gradually developed a metaphorical reign over all forms of taking objects in (e.g., visual incorporation, anal incorporation);

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Toxic person

> Emotional abuse cripples you. It makes you feel small. And before you know it, you lose your personal power – that dazzling thing that makes you feel strong, confident, unique, and loved.
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How can I reframe the events that shaped my identity and beliefs

Reframing the events that shaped your identity and beliefs can help you change your perspective and create a new meaning for your life. According to web results, some of the steps you can take are:

* Identify your core beliefs and how they affect your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors12.
* Challenge your core beliefs and ask yourself if they are true, helpful, or realistic12.
* Reframe your core beliefs and replace them with more positive, empowering, and flexible ones12.
* Identify your automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) and how they are related to your core beliefs2.
* Look for patterns and themes in your ANTs and try to detect the underlying core beliefs2.
* Reframe your ANTs and replace them with more rational, optimistic, and constructive ones2.
* Identify the events that triggered your core beliefs and ANTs and how they influenced your identity and beliefs32.
* Reframe the events and choose to see them through a growth mindset and a survivor perspective32.
* Find the gifts and opportunities in the events and how they helped you grow and learn3.
* Share your reframed story with others and inspire them with your resilience and courage3

* self-writing // self-composing // self-mythology // self-genesis // self-creation // self-enabling // self manifesting // self becoming
* self identity // self writing // new self // true self // becoming self // alignment // self alignment // self being // self adapting // self creation
* persisting // adapting // focus // self focus // self love // self-world relation // self-understanding

1. ↑ Bing.
Too dumb

> I did hypnotism as part of a psychology uni course and it was to look at power if suggestion, memory improvement etc. I remember the lecturer telling us that the people who cannot be hypnotised are those that are too dumb (or too young) to follow instructions and those that are too introspective, who question everything happening to them. I've seen a friend get hypnotised into thinking she was drinking her favourite alcoholic drink and seeing her becoming drunk just on water - we know because we've seen her drunk before. I've also hypnotised a housemate of mine by walking him through a scenario where he was driving a car (he's a car enthusiast) and I got him to keep his arms up way longer than usual and do silly things with it without him objecting or realising. However the power of suggestion via hypnotism can be dangerous. Our lecturer also told us a story where a student was hypnotised because he/she was stressed and was told to relax. The suggestion was to do something he/she had often thought of doing but never had the courage to do so. That evening they found that student almost jumping off a building. Not sure if true story but that was what we were told back then.
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Psychological disorder

> Pincus et al correctly point out that what is often called "the co-morbidity problem" is unavoidable, because it is simply a fact of life in clinical psychiatry. They provide a useful discussion of the topic, but the very use of the conventional term 'co-morbidity' serves to hide the real nature of the problem. This is because 'morbid' means disease, and to have a disease is conceptually very different from suffering from a disorder. Strictly speaking, the terms 'diagnosis' and 'disease' are both best avoided in psychiatric discourse unless they are completely justified. Clinical psychiatrists make few diagnoses in the sense of identifying known abnormalities which underlie the presenting symptoms. Instead, for most patients they have to make do with identifying disorders by assessing the number and severity of individually non-diagnostic symptoms from an agreed list. Most currently recognised disorders are no more than symptom clusters, and there is no particular reason why most patients should be expected to have only one of these. Viewed in this way, it is clear that it would be more honest for psychiatrists to use other terms, such as 'co-existing disorders' or 'multiple disorders'.
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Online leadership

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Self-mythology

Self-mythology is the product of self-mythologising, something all humans do --- as they both consciously and unconsciously engage in fantasy which involves themselves. Self-mythologising is a part of normal narcissism pathological narcissism is defined by fantasies that include such grandiosity that it abuses others.

> That’s an interesting set of keywords. It seems like you are interested in the topic of self-concept, which is the way individuals perceive their behaviors, abilities, and unique characteristics12. One of the keywords you used is self-mythology, which refers to an individual’s fundamental stories for making sense and meaning of the world34. Self-mythology can be seen as a way of creating a personal narrative that shapes one’s identity and values. Some people may self-mythologize by exaggerating or twisting episodes of their own personal history in order to create an image of themselves that they enjoy projecting and want others to see5.
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National narcissistic mythology; Group narcissism; Group mythology

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Internet of things

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1. ↑ (2) Is there a dedicated standard for IoT? Like Wi-Fi has 802.11, Cellular has 3GPP, Bluetooth has 802.15, etc. : IOT (reddit.com)
The psyche

It's got a history for Jung. Briefly I'd say that the psychi is a psychic force that expresses itself at the limits of undifferentiation, as the bridge to the collective unconscious. If you check the pins in the #stuff channel I have a paper where I gloss over my thoughts on the matter. But I hear Hillman is the guy to read for this. --anon
Python

* A weekly Python podcast hosted by Christopher Bailey with interviews, coding tips, and conversation with guests from the Python community. The show covers a wide range of topics including Python programming best practices, career tips, and related software development topics. Join us every Friday morning to hear what's new in the world of Python programming and become a more effective Pythonista.

programming; coding; code; language; software

1. ↑ The Real Python Podcast (google.com)
Sólarvörn

> Aðeins átta af fjörtíu og fimm tegundum af sólarvörn reyndust standast kröfur Neytendastofu Noregs. Mikið af óþarfa aukaefnum, ofnæmisvaldandi efnum, umhverfisspillandi efnum og hormónatruflandi efnum fundust í þeim sem féllu á prófinu. Á meðal þeirra eru tegundir sem Íslendingar þekkja vel líkt og Garnier, Nivea og Eucerin.
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Narcissist caretaker

> Ns project a lot of their own insecurities or flaws onto a scapegoat that they have picked. So their behavior is really a reflection of how shitty they are as a human being. They simply can't STAND the thought that they are anything less than perfect and if anyone tries to hold them accountable, they will DARVO or project their own bad behavior in order to avoid it.
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1. ↑ *Why does a narc make you hate yourself?* : raisedbynarcissists (reddit.com)
Pick Me

> She likes beer. She loves sports. She prefers male company. The term ‘Pick-me girl’ has become unavoidable on TikTok whether that be by videos created or comment sections filled to the brim with this *insult*. Notably, the term is used to target girls who exhibit quirks not usually associated with females and is another example of prejudicial insults used to pit women against each other and make one type of woman more favourable than the other, but who is really to blame?
> At the heart of the ‘Pick-me girl’ trope is the implication that women are in the constant pursuit of male validation. Remarkably most of the time the people accusing girls of being a ‘Pick-me’ are other women, constantly pushing the idea that one type of woman is superior and, in a way, - women should all be carbon copies, so as to not be branded with these problematic labels. If a girl enjoys football, she is a pick-me. Why? Because football is a male sport and if she likes football, boys like her. With the extent to which the label is thrown around online now almost every female behaviour is invalidated and the line between the accuser and the accused is so blurred that it is hard to know who to blame and who has internalised misogyny the most. Don’t get me wrong, if a girl is demeaning other women to be picked by men then she is a definite agent of the patriarchy yet often online, the girls accused of being a ‘Pick-me girl’ are inadvertently displaying the traits and are not actually seeking male validation.
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Feminism; Anti-feminism

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Non-existent

> After experiencing toxic relationships, this song hit me in a whole new way I didn’t believe existed. There’s no better explanation put into a song of the confusion Narcissistic abuse can have on a victim. The song “Anti-Hero” puts a twist on the confusion that follows the gaslighting due to a manipulative relationship.
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1. ↑ *The Painful Meaning Behind The Song “Anti-Hero” by Taylor Swift* | by Chris F | Medium.com
Metro games series

When you get out of the train onto the open snow landscape in Exodus, that is awesome. Such graphically awesome.

I don't like the monsters in the Metro series though. I think they're kinda silly and repetetive (cause there's so many of exactly the same monsters all the time, and it's in multiple of their games), but I never got far in any of the games, so maybe if you get far into the games the enemy types get more diverse.
Survival builder

* Frostpunk
* Oxygen : First Breath is a free to play version of the main game Oxygen. This version has the first 50 in game days available to play, which is roughly around 3 hours or so of gameplay depending on your speed of playthrough.
* There were billions
* Endzone | In 2021, a global ecological disaster plunged the world into chaos and brought humanity to the verge of extinction. Only few were able to escape into underground facilities called "Endzones".
* Against the storm | Unlike most survival city builders where your focus is on a single city, in Against the Storm you must build a vast, prosperous network of settlements populated by diverse fantasy races, each with their own specializations and needs.
* Timberborn | You manage a settlement of post-apocalyptic beavers, which are trying to carve out a living on a riverside which periodically drys out
* Banished | very similar feel with the constant struggle for resources and worrying about the weather, :)
* Cliff Empire | It's a great relaxing city builder that still has the excitement of tower defense against occasional attackers. Worth the price, especially when on sale. Has a relaxing but engaging atmosphere and interesting aesthetics.
* Iron Harvest | goofy dieselpunk rts set around the time of the first world war technologically speaking except with mechs, what's not to love. Features a fleshed out campaign

Builder game
Nicotine

The AAN study also discovered that nicotine can help improve cognitive memory, short-term memory, and working memory.  People undergoing nicotine therapy not only recall more facts, figures, and memories, but they recall them more quickly and clearly, as well.  By late 2013, the magazine Scientific American published an article by Professor Jennifer Rusted, experimental psychologist at Sussex University in Great Britain.  Rusted gained the attention of the worldwide scientific community by stating, *“To my knowledge, nicotine is the most reliable cognitive enhancer that we currently have, bizarrely.” ...*

... The FDA and the CDC are not the only people who are aware of the secret health benefits of nicotine.  Back in the 1990’s, drug companies like Pfizer and Bristol-Meyers Squibb discovered that electronic vaping devices are a cheap way for patients to ingest certain medications. They also help the patient feel the effects of the drugs almost instantly. So why would Big Pharma, the CDC, and the FDA be attempting to paint e-cigs and vaping devices as “tobacco products” instead of “nicotine products?”   To answer that question, all we need to do is follow the money.

-- Matt Rowland, 2016
Power

Some power is sought for a feeling a personal power --- paradoxically people seek e.g. social power to have a personal feeling of power.

> **Emotional abuse cripples you. It makes you feel small. And before you know it, you lose your personal power – that dazzling thing that makes you feel strong, confident, unique, and loved.**
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Roguelike

* Going Rogue: A crash course in a confusing (sub) genre A quick clarifying look at the history of Roguelikes, Roguelites, and everything in between

From developers "attending the International Roguelike Development Conference in 2008 comes this strict set of design parameters, called The Berlin Interpretation":

1. Random map generation
2. Perma death
3. Turn-based combat
4. Grid-based movement
5. Complexity to allow multiple solutions
6. Non-modal (all actions can be performed at any time)
7. Resource management
8. Hack-n-slash combat

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* Souls-like; Genre; 21st Century video gaming;

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Going Rogue: A crash course in a confusing (sub). genre A quick clarifying look at the history of Roguelikes, Roguelites, and everything in between* | store.steampowered.com "POSTED  Thu, April 28, 2022 @ 5:25 PM GMT".
Þvottavél

Hreinsun

hreinsa lykt. klór.   setja það beint í sápuhólfið og þvo svo kannski bara gólftuskur eða álíka.   svo þrífurðu sápuhólfið vel (á undan) tekur það alveg úr og skrúbbar undir því og inní hólfinu sem skúffan fer inní.

strýkur vel gúmíhringinn með skrúbbkremi og pottasvampi.   og innan  í hringnum.

svo passa vel að þvo suðu reglulega og hætt að nota mýkingarefni.   láta hana svo standa opna milli þess sem hún er notuð (semsagt ekki loka alltaf vélinni-leyfa að lofta um hana þegar hún er ekki ínotkun.

rodalon er líka gott efni, og tea tree olía.     má setja það ´ymist í þvottinn eða bara í tóma vél.    (finnst samt synd að þvo tóma vél svo að ég geri svona aðgerðir alltaf með gólftuskum.  klóra og sýð.
Two paths

> One example of a spiritual path in ancient times is the religion of Zoroastrianism, which originated in ancient Persia. According to this belief, the purpose of human life is to choose between following Ahura Mazda and the way of truth and order (Asha) or to follow his eternal adversary, Angra Mainyu and the path of lies and chaos (Druj). Humans were considered inherently good and possessing of free will to choose between these two paths; whichever one a person chose would inform that person’s life and their destination after death1. This spiritual path was also influenced by the stars, as the Magi, the learned priests of Zoroastrianism, studied astronomy and astrology and regarded them as highly sacred sciences2.
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---I remember being told by other kids to stop "bragging" about being from Spain, that I couldn't be Spanish, " not even from Mexico" because everyone knew that Spanish people were dark ...dark haired and skinned and always picking a fight, and of course I didn't fit the bill. Some even went so far as to say that I didn't know how to speak Spanish because I didn't sound like their Colombian neighbors. Obviously, there's like thousands of accents. There's at least a dozen accents in Spain. My Asturian accent is wildly different from an Andalusian accent, even from a Basque accent, although we're in the north.
-- Mari Fairley, Facebook.com

Snob

1. ↑ If you were raised by narcissists, you are a trauma survivor. Don't be surprised if you have PTSD. : raisedbynarcissists (reddit.com)
Moderator abuse in mental health groups

> **I completely agree that it’s dangerous, and that a mental health support sub should be held to a higher standard because lives are on the line.**
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1. ↑ *The reason for this subreddit* | Annoucement | reddit.com
Revise

> Doing the mental/imagining work! Imagining your end, accepting only your end, paying attention to your moods, paying attention/ changing your self talk. Feeling asleep as who you want to be, revising, persisting. In a nutshell taking control of your mind/imagining and only entertaining what you want in your mind.
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New tab

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* tab bar; tab design; tab length; tab height; tab width;
Queer buddhism

> From Radical Dharma to All About Love, a look at queer Black Buddhist perspectives on spiritual practice in contemporary texts
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Religious essentialism

PJ Johnston10 years 1 month agoHi Rajiv!I found myself reading about the differences between Christianity and Hinduism that you articulated in your essay and wanting to say that I know Christians who don't believe any of the things you attributed to "Christianity," having a more "Hindu" interpretation and practice. To me this brought up concerns about essentialism, where we say that a single form of a religious tradition is the "real" or "authentic" form of the religion, and any forms of religion that depart from that form aren't really "Christian" or "Hindu" or whatever they might claim to be. I was made uncomfortable by the worry that a lot of your claims about the deep differences between Hinduism and Christianity were based on a kind of essentialism where forms of the faiths that were more similar than you allow would be dismissed as not "really" Hindu or Christian, even if people who call themselves "Hindu" or "Christian" actually practice them.

-- beliefnet.com https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/hinduism/articles/holy-spirit-is-not-the-same-as-shakti-or-kundalini.aspx
Personal jihad

The basic instrument of the personal jihad of knowledge is metempsychosis. Metempsychosis in neurosufism can be derived from the ideas of shunyata and maya. This is, first of all, the study of the transformations of the psyche, and the accumulation of knowledge and experience about them and through them, with complete immersion in various forms, but without fixation in them. Among the basic means of metempsychosis are languages, text, (acting) play. Neurosufism itself (for Sh.), in fact, is only one of the positions of metempsychosis, one of the forms, or one of the languages ​​- and by language here we mean primarily rhythmic and poetic (in the broad sense) structures.

Personal; Jihad; Islam; Sufism; Neurosufism
The philosophy of politics

First, let us consider the nature of this discipline and what it studies. If we look at the history of philosophy and of political systems, we will see the following regularity. Philosophy and politics, from the very beginning, from the very birth of these two disciplines, developed not only in parallel, but inseparably from one another. Among the Seven Sages, considered the founders of the Greek Pre-Socratic philosophical tradition, there are many, including Solon, who are famous for writing political laws, constitutions, and criminal codes, and who were essentially political actors representing their cities, and their political units. So at the very beginning of the history of philosophy, we see an inseparable connection between philosophy and politics. Viewing politics as a separate phenomenon, disconnected from philosophy, is completely foreign to the origins of the philosophical tradition.

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Political Platonism
Therapy

> I don’t have a link but there was an amazing tik tok or YouTube video from a guy who is the children of immigrants. He lamented how his immigrant parents talked shit about his generation for going to therapy because they pulled themselves up and got on with it. But he really expressed that as much as he is grateful for their sacrifice, they carried trauma and passed that on to their kids.
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1. ↑ What is 30 too old for? : AskReddit
Multipolitical

I don't think I identify with a single political group. Multiple factions are required for renewal. A lot of labor improvement in the West happened because of threat from the USSR, yet a lot of ideas in the USSR originally come from the West (since Marx drew a lot from England, etc). Humans have to learn to work together more
Servomechanism

In Psycho-Cybernetics, Maxwell Maltz uses the example of a “steersman” piloting a ship. Your conscious mind is the steersman. Your unconscious mind is the ship or the “servomechanism”. The steersman can adjust the direction of the ship but he cannot make the ship move. The ship has a vast chain of locomotive activity going on in its underbelly that the steersman is unaware of. The same it is with your subconscious.
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Tone

> it is ‘THE WAY YOU’RE TALKING’ and the tone of your voice that really gets under people’s skin.   You might think your partner was talking to a child, or an employee from his or her tone of voice.  Or, you are completely unaware of how your voice and your face can intimidate your partner.
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1. ↑ realhope.com
Negative online gathering

> What happened to you guys? Everyone’s making jokes or talking about Tesla or complaining or saying this is Mercedes dickriding. It’s all negativity. A car company made a breakthrough in an area of tech that has been controversial yes, but is only that way because of its promised potential.
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Youth

**Speaking to Dutch newspaper *De Telegraaf*, Simons said: "I don't really care if I'm the youngest...it's all about getting knowledge for me.**

**"This is the first puzzle piece in my goal of replacing body parts with mechanical parts," Simons said.**

**"Immortality, that is my goal. I want to be able to replace as many body parts as possible with mechanical parts. I've mapped out a path to get there. You can see it as a big puzzle. Quantum physics—the study of the smallest particles—is the first piece of the puzzle," he said.**

-- newsweek.com
Passing on injustice

> I noticed that these people have this need to brimg their children down to their level because they were neglected as children and deep down inside they resent that, they can't turn back time and have better conditions/opportunities, so in order to cope and accept that fact they feel that they need to justify it by having the children from the current generation have it as bad as they did
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2. ↑ *leaving survival mode- it's so hard* : LifeAfterNarcissism (reddit.com)
The good dominates

> **The general Indian Religion or Bharata Dharma holds that the world is an Order or Cosmos. It is not a Chaos of things and beings thrown haphazard together, in which there is no binding relation or rule. The world-order is Dharma, which is that by which the universe is upheld (Dharyate). Without Dharma it would fall to pieces and dissolve into nothingness. But this is not possible, for though there is Disorder (Adharma), it exists, and can exist only locally, for a time, and in particular parts of the whole.**
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1. ↑ reddit
UI

One should be able to customise it to fit personal use. Enable-disable/add-remove functions. Not everyone uses the context menu to go back, e.g. This is barbaric in the 21st century, that they are not user configurable. Thankfully, Vivaldi is speeding up browser UI evolution, which was unbelievably stagnant for 20 years.
Games I want to play

* Far Cry 6 / Far Cry 3
* Doom/Doom Eternal
* Fallout 76 / Fallout 3 / Fallout 4
* Gods Will Fall
* Project Warlock
* Valorant / Destiny 2 / Rage 2
* Half-life 2 / Black Mesa
* Red Alert / RA2
* Fortnite / Apex Legends™
* Just Cause 2 / Just Cause 4 / Just Cause 3 / Grand Theft Auto V
* Chivalry / Chivalry 2

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Graphics style

some kind of cartoon style especially became "popular" after 2000?

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Racism

I don't know why, but reading your comment almost made me think of racism as a form of obsessive compulsive disorder. I'm a hair puller, and people often describe my hair pulling and other ocd's as some sort of odd, irrational behavior driven by a need to be in control of something, in a world where we often feel we aren't in control of anything. It's obviously more complicated than that, for both OCD and racism, but it just reminded me of that. As if racists just want to control their understanding of the world, as you said, understand why it's so fucked up, and a compulsion to believe the "others" are responsible makes it seem easier to understand and gives you a source for the problems that one can attempt to control.

-- reddit.com
Humans

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Torah as an organism

> The Torah plays the same role for Judaism as Christ for Christianity. It is a subject for questioning and interpreting. Although the Torah is considered as an organism, it remains a 'quasi-personality'. It cannot have a biography or experience human suffering. This gives the Torah a 'multi-facedness', and a potential to reveal *deontic force* - two venues for the intuition of the reader to explore while reading this text. [Anyone] interpreting the Torah constantly experiences this alternative, and the whole history of its explication is structured by such elements; this is why a 'shadow' of this structure is always present in the history of people listening to interpretations of the Torah.
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Illusory plateau

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Twin Stick

Oct 26, 2016 — **Versus Squad** is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of .... Steam.

"Horde/wave shooting is a staple of arcade twin-stick shooters. There are some fantastic run-based twin-sticks out there."

* Devader
* AtomHex
* Waves
* Twin Ruin

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1. ↑ Google provides no date of its own.
Mobile gaming

> I have always thought this too. I've known of but have only been using Stadia since last March. I played division 2 and PUBG and that's it other than the free pro games. After a few months I realized that they weren't going anywhere and then further realized that the technology behind it is going to be used for hospitals and doctors and surgeries and things of that nature to do real-time things. It was never intended to be used just for gaming It was intended to build upon and test for other products and services. It was fun while it lasted but like all things it has come to an end. I enjoyed my time and now I'll just purchase myself a new Xbox and continue on with my mobile gaming which more or less is the future of gaming. All we need is a AAA title exclusive to mobile and that will end it for consoles. We're almost there with the technology.
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Guilt

> I did the same and it helps a lot. I'm not going to let my kids deal with the trauma my parents put me through. They'll try to make you feel guilty because they're "family", but that's just how toxic people work. They rely on guilt trips to get you to put up with their crap.
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1. ↑ What is 30 too old for? : AskReddit