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Kind of been wondering about this, the Burning Man event seems to attract a lot of leftists, but attracts my interest as it seems to also attract artists and artistic expression, maybe a kind of environmentalism, I don't know. Their main celebration seems to have been a repackaging of the pagan event of burning a wicker man, they burn a big effigy to end the event.

It's kind of ambiguous about being pagan or nonreligious or whatever but I think there are probably plenty of objectionable things that take place that "conservatives" or "Christians" might want to steer clear of. But, I think possibly there are good things that might be adapted in to some alternative new event or incorporated in to existing events.

Any idea about "Christian conservative" alternatives to Burning Man?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/528810

The concept is still a little vague to me, but I've seen some articles argue about a connection between a sense of experiencing awe in life and well-being...

https://bigthink.com/the-learning-curve/awe-the-8-wonders-of-life/

What is "awe"?

Awe is an emotion, a brief experience we have in response to vast and mysterious things we don’t understand. And as I’ve studied it over the years, I’ve come to believe — like Jane Goodall and Albert Einstein — that awe is in many ways our most human emotion. We encounter these vast mysteries: What is life? How do I make sense of the solar system? Why are mountains so large? How can you make music? And the mind has this emotion that kicks things like wonder, curiosity, and exploration into gear.

It seems they may...

play a role in our health, happiness, and well-being

Where is "awe" experienced?

We gathered narratives of awe from 26 countries and found what I call the eight wonders of life in the book. They include moral beauty, nature, and collective effervescence. Then you get to the cultural ones: art, music, and spirituality. You also have epiphany. And our last finding from the study was about life and death. People around the world find it awe-inspiring when life emerges and when it goes.

Thoughts on the topic of "awe" in life?

So I've known some communities have recurring posts like weekly discussions, and sometimes they're stickied as well...

any interest in this kind of thing and what kinds of posts would you like to see recurring and/or stickied?

do you have specific communities and recurring posts for them that you might have in mind?

edit: sometimes this can also have the effect of cleaning up multiple posts that could simply go in one post which can improve readability and discussion

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/514910

Channels? Clients? Commands? Other thoughts?

Here's what I saw on a cursory glance:

list of clients: https://www.slant.co/topics/1323/~best-irc-clients-for-linux

how to get started (dated?): https://www.linux.com/news/beginners-guide-irc/

basic commands: https://www.mirc.com/help/html/basic_irc_commands.html

channel list? https://www.irchelp.org/chanlist/

A lot of people use other chats like element / matrix these days too

This is how we win?

I guess one could be generated by getting instances and then their instance lists and having it auto-generate, I was kind of thinking of like the music map site for example: https://www.music-map.com/ludwig+van+beethoven

mostly what I'm wondering with this question is which instance(s) would be best to sign up for if you want to post something that will federate with a ton of other instances

or can you think of "factions" among those in the fediverse? for example I think beehaw defederated with lemmyworld and shhhhitjustworks, and I think most defederated with threadsdotnet... so the idea is that with a handful of accounts you could reach a lot of the fediverse

Site has been unusable for me intermittently for like a week or something, do we have some ideas for how we could mitigate the DDOS issue?

Are we looking for something like Cloudfare but not Cloudfare?

Increased server capacity?

Backup instances to move to when one gets overloaded?

https://infogalactic.com/info/DDoS_mitigation

Personal tips? Any favorite historical love letters as examples?

Thoughts on a kind of alternative to a love letter a single person might write as well?

https://www.pdos.org/vlog/vlog.htm

Main site: https://www.pdos.org/

PD Software Philosophy: https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/pdpgoal.txt

In the public domain software world I still mostly only see PDOS and various TempleOS related projects and forks

I was revisiting thinking of the virtue of obedience and various issues that may come up with respect to it. Some authorities may make non-authoritative commands, or sinful commands, or some people may make commands who do not possess authority. I recall people arguing the "Nuremberg Defense" that Nazis were "just following orders" (being obedient to the Nazi political authorities) was not valid. Civil rights movements have promoted the idea of "civil disobedience" over laws which were not sinful, but which created inconveniences. The idea of "American freedom" to pursue one's self-interest may seem to be contrary to obedience, when taken without limit.

Have you run in to instances as these or have some to bring up to discuss?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/266886

I check youtube for streams and clips and highlights

I think there was a woke "shred against hate" campaign that we might critique here, it might also have a good message against wrongful hate

To me skating is kind of more of an art and I'm not as interested in competition per se, but in the "competitions" there also emerged interesting tricks and feats and moments which was fun to see in XGames in the past, I like the "best trick" formats that have open freedom for people to do whatever within a certain time period (kind of like "open world" gaming in video games?)

Discuss ways to improve XGames or things like this?

(Skateboarding is now apparently an Olympic sport, which is not really something I'm as interested in, something else that could be discussed; there's also "Street League" which kind of makes skating more in to a "sport", which to me it isn't necessarily really)