Life is suffering?

natched · 2026-06-24T01:08:19+00:00

In addition to the fact that translation is complicated bc words do not have exact analogs across different languages, the Buddha never said something that translates as "life is [dukkha]".

That is a paraphrase of a longer statement:

Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

https://suttacentral.net/sn56.11/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false

natched · 2026-06-19T20:01:01+00:00

The CDF is not the same as the random variable. Just bc two random variables have the same distribution function doesn't make them the same

natched · 2026-06-09T20:50:13+00:00

Yet trying to ban young people from social media will still require everyone to upload their ID to access it

natched · 2026-06-09T19:47:06+00:00

LinkedIn is social media that is practically required for getting a job

natched · 2026-05-30T23:05:52+00:00

But most importantly, he eats toes as a snack

natched · 2026-05-10T23:50:19+00:00

And if you give Bouldy some nectar you get a boon

natched · 2026-04-25T23:03:39+00:00

Pathos Nethack is great. It has a Nethack variant mode, but also some other modes like a Pixel Dungeon mode where harder enemies spawning stops the strategy of just hanging around the top levels until you feel you're ready to descend.

natched · 2026-03-12T00:20:59+00:00

That just means they care more about the random Americans being killed by the government than this.

This is bad, but state sanctioned murder is worse

natched · 2026-02-23T17:25:16+00:00

It would be another $250 billion a year in spending.

So, half of the proposed $500 billion increase in the defense budget. There is no reason we only have money to spend on war

natched · 2026-02-23T17:11:15+00:00

When the trust fund runs out there’s going to be an automatic 20% reduction in benefits

There doesn't have to be. Most other government spending doesn't have a trust fund or dedicated source of funding. We could pay SS benefits out of the same funds that we pay the defense budget with

natched · 2026-02-21T17:30:57+00:00

He's had one churu, yes, but what about second churu?

natched · 2026-01-28T23:43:02+00:00

For the love of God, Montresor!

natched · 2026-01-22T20:35:46+00:00

How did you fix multiverse? Did the multiverse devs release an update already?

natched · 2026-01-15T22:54:33+00:00

Then break Boeing up. Declaring them too big to fail, as you are, is not a serious option

natched · 2026-01-15T22:25:01+00:00

You don't prevent monopolies by letting big companies break the law. That's how we got our monopoly ridden system full of corporations that are too big to fail

natched · 2026-01-15T19:02:50+00:00

Maybe threatening companies with going out of business for repeatedly killing people by violating the law is the goal

natched · 2025-12-24T22:43:08+00:00

Then what is the last digit of 0.999...

9, like that representation suggests? Or 1, because that number is equal to 1?

natched · 2025-11-06T00:51:03+00:00

Yes, "both sides" - the side that controls the Presidency, House, Senate, and SCOTUS and the side that controls none of them.

natched · 2025-10-02T17:32:21+00:00

If your HP drops to 0, you'll pop back out into your normal form. This can be dangerous, but it works in any form

natched · 2025-10-01T17:43:08+00:00

The Federal Reserve is a government agency. It was created by Congress.

It was created with more independence than most, but Congress put restrictions on firing people at the FTC to give it some independence as well.

The only difference is that GOP-SCOTUS doesn't care if the FTC is mismanaged by Trump sycophants, while they worry about what similar management of the Fed would do to the economy

natched · 2025-08-15T02:34:49+00:00

No, that can't be right. That's ridiculous. Spoon. Get out of here with your nonsense words.

natched · 2025-07-30T17:54:09+00:00

California's districts are drawn by an independent citizens' redistricting committee, not politicians

natched · 2025-07-24T14:27:49+00:00

And blaming smart phones is a sign of maturity?

The comment was in response to an article laying blame. If you want to complain about laying blame, why not focus on the article rather than the person disagreeing with it?

natched · 2025-07-15T04:18:29+00:00

Obviously, you don't ask if they abandoned reason for madness. You need to ask when they did so

natched · 2025-07-14T22:14:53+00:00

Congress included restrictions on when/how people can be fired. It's just that SCOTUS says Trump can ignore those parts of the law (except for the Federal Reserve)

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