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  • I would argue that Eros is perfectly fine with the Jedi. In the novels and comics, Jedi have sexual relationships all the damn time. Padawans regularly have trists with other padawans, Jedi have one night stands, all kinds of stuff without fear of being expelled from the order.

    I don’t think there’s a clean way to apply the Greek loves here really. It’s more like they’re forbidden from going too deep into philia? Ultimately ‘Attachment’ is not a kind of love, it’s a fear, and fear is the enemy of all Jedi. If you can love someone without being afraid to lose them, then there’s no issue, but that’s obviously an incredibly difficult concept. That’s why it’s easier to just keep some level of detachment from others.


  • Most of the OG stuff was written before the prequels introduced the ‘no attachments’ rule, but after that they were pretty much only ever portrayed as dogmatic and deeply, deeply flawed.

    It hasn’t been until the recent High Republic material that any level of understanding has been shown regarding what ‘attachment’ is supposed to mean. Obviously the prequel Jedi have a messed up view of it, that’s the point, but there is a fundamental basis from Buddhist philosophy that is completely valid.









  • Did you know there’s Linux software that doesn’t run on windows too?

    There’s always something, and it’s an easy excuse. How many people using that excuse actually have one of those few missing pieces blocking them?

    And frankly, it’s so easy to dual boot at this point. I do get it, I have to hang on to windows to use fusion360, at least for certain projects.

    I’ll be damned if I’m going to waste my time and patience on windows for anything I can avoid though.




  • Since nobody else is bothering to explain it, there’s a very good reason the avian flu vaccine is not used regularly in almost any country. The vaccine makes the chicken likely to survive the flu, but it does nothing to prevent infection. So instead of AF outbreaks being detected and the unfortunate birds culled, you would have entire farms incubating thousands of chickens full of AF virus, creating perfect conditions to mutate and potentially spawn a new strain which may wind up being resistant to the existing vaccine. Meanwhile, those infected chickens will be spreading AF to every wild bird for miles around. It’s not a useful tool for prevention, it’s our last ditch protection if AF gets completely out of control on a global scale.







  • I’ve made and shared plenty of 3d models for the 3D printing community. People can certainly make it a job, and that’s perfectly reasonable. But, I will never be interested in a community of for-profit model makers. If their goal is to make money off me, it’s not a community, I’m just a customer. The point of the community is to learn and share information, to help people and be helped in return. If that time is ‘work’ for you, don’t do it. Or make content and sell it on YouTube, do what you want, I’m just not interested in it.