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| schestowitz | > Swastika; yes, it was co-opted. No, one side doesn't mean life and the | Jun 22 01:14 |
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| schestowitz | > other death. | Jun 22 01:14 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 22 01:14 |
| schestowitz | > You'll find both "directions" of them throughout the world prior to it | Jun 22 01:14 |
| schestowitz | > being co-opted by the Nazis. For example, Falun Gong uses it in their | Jun 22 01:14 |
| schestowitz | > flag. It is banned in Germany but they grant exceptions (including for | Jun 22 01:14 |
| schestowitz | > Falun Gong.) | Jun 22 01:14 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 22 01:14 |
| schestowitz | > The only difference between a peaceful or religious use and a hateful | Jun 22 01:14 |
| schestowitz | > use is context. There are/were Jewish temples in Jerusalem that had the | Jun 22 01:14 |
| schestowitz | > floor covered in them-- not graffiti, it was the tile design of the floor. | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > Basically most historical uses are neither hateful nor political. The | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > cross was Pagan long before it was Christian, and represented the | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > unification of the earth with the heavens (axis mundi) and time (life | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > and death on earth?) as well as the seasons. | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > Note the part about seasons, because the Yin Yang represents the path of | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > the sun over the earth-- night and day. You can take any dualistic | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > symbol-- any dualistic symbol at all, to mean "life/death" but all of | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > these symbols also represent the unity between this life and the next-- | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > or death's lack of real meaning other than in a very limited context. | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > In short, they are all symbols of the infinite as well as union. To say | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > "one is life, one is death" really misses the point. It should come as | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > no surprise that Hitler's sense of symbolism was just as weak as his | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > painting. He wasn't on some mystical quest, except to justify his own | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > power and dominion. That's where his heavy flirtation with symbols comes in. | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > "Why not try Beaker browser?" | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > Beaker is a browser built around on dap, which is YAGHP (Yet Another | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | > GitHub Protocol) | Jun 22 01:15 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/18411041#21b00f4096480138881938607759d42b | Jun 22 01:16 |
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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9wIKTuqRw1lNksfZmy | Jun 22 01:18 |
| schestowitz | "for any special reason, or is it just the first one you tried?" | Jun 22 01:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Jun 22 01:18 | |
| schestowitz | Developer invited me | Jun 22 01:18 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9wIMxoDNLmCHmtm6e8 | Jun 22 01:19 |
| schestowitz | " In two weeks this is probably over for them, then. It's going to burn itself out." | Jun 22 01:19 |
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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9wIS7Vuckj5DgrS1Oy | Jun 22 01:21 |
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| schestowitz | " | Jun 22 01:21 |
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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9wIiv9OiKn3JblDRtQ | Jun 22 01:21 |
| schestowitz | "Quite a stupid argument since that's the same thing software developers say for not porting software to Linux..." | Jun 22 01:22 |
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| schestowitz | GNU/Linux is Free software. Windows is Microsoft. | Jun 22 01:22 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9wJeF6D1arqStjOvj6 | Jun 22 01:23 |
| schestowitz | " " | Jun 22 01:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Jun 22 01:23 | |
| schestowitz | " There is no realiable system in place to get news from that area . Your best bet would be working directly with tech journalists. As for politics/social news, you can never get unbiased information." | Jun 22 01:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Jun 22 01:23 |
| schestowitz | Reply to | Jun 22 01:23 |
| schestowitz | mcread@noagendasocial.com | Jun 22 01:23 |
| schestowitz | So the question is , what kind of news are you interested in ? | Jun 22 01:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Jun 22 01:23 |
| schestowitz | General news | Jun 22 01:23 |
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| schestowitz | > Keep in mind VOA and NBC are going to undergo bad changes this summer. | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | I notice you've made changes to the way domain names are parsed | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | (camelcases) and presented. Curiously enough, I too made some changes | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | only about 5 hour ago (as news is slow and I'm 'at work' and cannot post): | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#endot/#/' ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html > | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html && \ | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#eudot/#/' ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html > | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html && \ | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#thenation/#TheNation/' | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html > | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html && \ | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#desmogblog/#desmog/' | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html > | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html && \ | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#utccdotutoronto/#uniToronto/' | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html > | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html && \ | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#hongkongfp/#HongKongFP #HK #HongKong #PRC/' | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html > | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html && \ | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#thegrayzone/#GrayZone/' | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html > | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html && \ | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#abcnewsdotgo/#ABC/' | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html > | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html && \ | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#fivethirtyeight/#FiveThirtyEight/' | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html > | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html && \ | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#iscdotsans/#sans/' | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html > | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html && \ | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#internetsociety/#internetsociety #isoc #internet/' | Jun 22 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html > | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html && \ | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#webdot/#/' ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html > | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html && \ | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/dotco #/ #/' ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html > | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html && \ | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | sed 's/#dw /#dw #DeutscheWelle/' | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline2.html > | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | ~/Desktop/Text_Workspace/images/timeline.html && \ | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | Please do not recode the above; no need, even if it's quick and dirty | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | and gets the work done. I opened about a dozen recent batches and | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | tackled those entries that I often change manually. I also thought | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | laterally what else can be changed to improve things and/or the process. | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | Could think of nothing at this point; it's hard enough just find one | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | additional source that is good. I recently added these to my RSS client: | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | http://www.irinnews.org/rss/all.xml | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | https://www.nlg.org/feed/ | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | https://www.dissentmagazine.org/feed?post_type=article | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | Regarding The Nation, we typically take the first two paragraphs; the | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | first once, if there are two, is almost always image/photo caption. So | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | it might help to remove the first one altogether if two are extracted. | Jun 22 08:26 |
| schestowitz | At the moment I do this manually. | Jun 22 08:26 |
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