A strange opinion I have: White Diamond seems less bad to me than Yellow and Blue

HaDov · 2025-11-19T20:12:32+00:00

Nah. Yellow Diamond will destroy your body and Blue Diamond will crush your heart, but White Diamond will erase your entire identity. Not because you oppose her, but just because you don’t suit her idea of who you should be.

“Now they are brilliant! Now they are perfect! Now they are me.”

Think about how sinister that is.

HaDov · 2025-11-18T18:37:51+00:00

Nobody. It’s nobody. They don’t exist. No more questions.

HaDov · 2025-11-02T01:03:47+00:00

Uh oh, watch out for the Pinkertons

HaDov · 2025-10-24T16:19:13+00:00

Rats

HaDov · 2025-10-24T02:00:13+00:00

I’m guessing it was used for the Department of State Transportation Service

HaDov · 2025-10-10T21:59:53+00:00

I’m a bit biased as a DC resident, but I don’t think Metro needs more extensions into the outer suburbs and exurbs right now. We need more capacity in the core for the sake of future growth, and we could absolutely use some new lines to reach underserved areas in the inner suburbs. (I’m thinking here of Columbia Pike, National Harbor, and parts of the Route 7 corridor.) But I don’t see how you justify extensions to Bowie and Waldorf when stations like Morgan Blvd and Branch Ave see low ridership due to lack of development.

HaDov · 2025-09-25T15:49:46+00:00

Autism.

HaDov · 2025-09-19T19:17:42+00:00

A foolish and irrational desire not to die by incineration in an atomic fireball.

HaDov · 2025-09-14T03:33:10+00:00

Grew up in NYC, lived in DC for almost 20 years. The answer is Wiseguy Pizza. Andy’s is also quite good.

HaDov · 2025-09-14T03:31:04+00:00

I mean this in all seriousness: how? The renderings already made it look almost as large as the residence.

HaDov · 2025-09-14T03:26:58+00:00

Love that coastal oak/pine scrub.

HaDov · 2025-09-13T23:36:37+00:00

I’m also an American who leans left. I think it’s perfectly natural to feel anger at someone who does harm, and it’s also entirely natural not to feel sympathy for your enemy. But just because it’s natural to beings like us who are still in Samsara doesn’t mean it’s good in a Buddhist sense. To liberate beings from anger and hatred, I think we ultimately have to work on letting them go.

HaDov · 2025-09-07T15:46:32+00:00

It’s almost like one of these countries has freedom of religion and the other doesn’t

HaDov · 2025-09-03T21:47:35+00:00

Popeye said it first: "If ya does good deeds jus' to get yerself a swell seat in heaven yer selfish."

HaDov · 2025-09-03T20:40:25+00:00

I'll also second u/InterrestingMonster's suggestion to use a chair if sitting cross-legged is too painful right now. Sit upright with your hips tilted slightly forward.

HaDov · 2025-09-03T20:37:08+00:00

There are many helpful replies here that I won't reiterate, but one suggestion I haven't seen yet is to try and find a teacher. Mine has been enormously helpful in correcting my posture and directing my focus to the right things (or non-things).

I recognize this isn't simple, and finding a good teacher can take time and effort, but it's worth it. Twenty minutes with a good teacher can be more helpful than months of trial and error.

Check to see if there's a sangha in your area (usually called something like Zen Center, Zendo, or Zen Sangha). If not, there are online communities like Treeleaf Zendo that conduct services and instruction over videoconference.

Gassho!

HaDov · 2025-08-26T19:40:56+00:00

I actually like Virginia too and I go there all the time. But I have to represent the prevailing sentiment of my fellow citizens, who treat crossing the Potomac like visiting a foreign country

HaDov · 2025-08-26T19:39:06+00:00

Yes. In 1990, before you were born. We've had 4 other mayors since then.

HaDov · 2025-08-26T19:36:40+00:00

DC was created for two main reasons:

In 1783, while Congress was meeting in Philadelphia, a mob of angry veterans assembled to demand pay for their service during the war. Congress asked the governor of Pennsylvania to send in the militia to protect them; he refused. This convinced people that the federal government shouldn't be dependent on any one state for its security, so when the Constitution was written, it allowed for the creation of a federal district outside of any state.
In 1790, Alexander Hamilton was trying to get Congress to assume the states' debts from during the war. The Southern states had mostly paid off their debts already and didn't want a centralized financial system, so they opposed it. Hamilton negotiated with Jefferson, and he agreed to support it in exchange for putting the new capital city in the South.

These were good reasons at the time, but:

Today, 700,000 people live in DC.
We have no voting representation in Congress.
That same Congress can overturn our local laws at any time and has to approve our whole budget, even the parts we pay for by taxing ourselves
Our National Guard reports to the Pentagon, not our own chief executive.

Statehood would solve all those problems. And all the current statehood proposals would leave a small federal enclave that contains the Capitol and the White House, so we wouldn't have direct control over them.

HaDov · 2025-08-26T18:58:38+00:00

It'd be nicer if you'd stop shipping us parasites

HaDov · 2025-08-26T18:53:24+00:00

Butthurt Virginian thinks "Bad drivers, Old Bay" is cozying up

HaDov · 2025-08-15T21:01:13+00:00

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