Because it’s not about the person, it’s about the Dharma, the teachings. Those exist with or without a historical Buddha, and that’s what guides the practice.

Imagine that someone is showing you the moon by pointing at it. You want to look at the moon, not the finger. The Buddha is a finger pointing at the moon.

I’m Buddhist, and it’s always struck me as odd that so many religious people require their text to be literally true.

If it were to be definitively proven that the person called Jesus Christ never existed as a historical person on earth, the various Christian churches and organizations would stop at nothing to attempt to discredit this. They would be furious.

On the other hand, if it were definitively proven that Siddartha Gautama, the person who will be called the Buddha, never existed as a historical person on earth, most Buddhists would find it interesting, probably even humorous, and would go on happily practicing Buddhism.

It was Armin Van Buuren’s Intense. Burned it for a road trip.

I had a friend who sent me a “Y2K fix” program back in '99. Said it would patch the error so I’d be safe. When I ran it, it swapped the letters Y and K on my keyboard.

Metroid for sure.

SNES Jurassic Park. NES Fester’s Quest

I dream of musk reduced to working at a cell phone accessory kiosk in a forgotten mall, peddling glittering iPhone cases and rambling about how he made comedy legal again.

Hating Musk is one of the few things we can all agree on.

Not surprising, what else do you expect him to eat?

Here’s a weird question: do you have a gallbladder? People without a gallbladder tend to have that experience with edibles, or need a higher dose to get an effect.

There wasn’t any oil in it.

And two attempts on Gerald Ford - Squeaky Fromme and Sarah Jane Moore

Pretty optimistic of you to think there will still be humans in 8,000 years.

We must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I’m this old.

I do most of my work at the command line, my co-workers do think I’m nuts for doing it, but one of our recent projects required us all to log into a client’s systems, and a significant portion of the tasks must be done via bash prompt. Suddenly, I’m no longer the team weirdo, I’m a subject matter expert.

Not only did he steal it from Heinlein, the part that makes me irrationally angry is that he claimed the term came from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Which progressive party would that be? Is there a viable progressive party? Is it in the room with us now?

Counterpoint: Nah, let 'em burn.

I’ve been practicing dharmic religion for many years. Swastikas are used pretty heavily in dharmic spirituality to represent wisdom, or divinity, or the sun. I understand and have even used the symbol for its intended meaning.

The symbol the Nazis used is a swastika. It’s okay and correct to call it one.