David

Modify Youtube Short’s URL to provide a thumbnail from the link

Abridged explanation: Change “shorts” in the URL to “v“.

I don’t know if it works every time, but it has worked in all of my tests. Also, since my instructions came from AI and not Youtube, I imagine this method could be deprecated by Youtube at any time. Please let me know if/when…[Read more]

right-click “Copy video URL” from a short:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bj7TATbpZsI?feature=share

right-click “Copy embed code”:
<iframe width=”151″ height=”268″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/bj7TATbpZsI” title=”LOVE TO BE LOVED 6.02.26 ❤️‍🔥The Warning x Carín León” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; e…[Read more]

the following is iframe code for embedding a youtube short”
i think this can’t be done with regular user rights, so i’ll do more tests

Another embed test.

JUST A TEST OF A LINK AND AN EMBED

Link to a song on Soundcloud:

An embed to a song on Soundcloud:
kronosquartet · Yevge…[Read more]

I write like an idiot, often. As a moderator I can edit my posts for hours, and I do that way too often. I don’t leave behind a trail of explanations of these edits, as they are often so numerous and the corrections I make are largely just typos and necessary clarifications to thoughts written too quickly. I often think that since I feel strongly…[Read more]

It happens to the best of us.

rhonjon wrote:
We won’t find out. We can’t even remember the early days of this life. Being slapped by a doctor while we hung upside down. Letting go of the coffee table and taking out first step. Once we cross the river Stix in another existence the most we’ll have is the same choice between unfalsifiable spiritual hopes and cold reaso…

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We won’t find out. We can’t even remember the early days of this life. Being slapped by a doctor while we hung upside down. Letting go of the coffee table and taking out first step. Once we cross the river Stix in another existence the most we’ll have is the same choice between unfalsifiable spiritual hopes and cold reason.

rhonjon wrote:
General anesthesia is a perfect analogy. The brain is part of the physical body and once it’s dead, it’s dead. Because I cannot undo my experiences, I can’t know if my feelings of something beyond my physical body may just be a result of decades of Christian indoctrination. If I’d grown up in a Buddhist society, I might interpr…

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General anesthesia is a perfect analogy. The brain is part of the physical body and once it’s dead, it’s dead. Because I cannot undo my experiences, I can’t know if my feelings of something beyond my physical body may just be a result of decades of Christian indoctrination. If I’d grown up in a Buddhist society, I might interpret my dreams and une…[Read more]

rhonjon wrote:
I often wonder what it will be like when I die. I can’t shake the feeling that it’s going to “be like” something.

The problem with wondering what something is like is that you need something else to compare it to. “Langostinos taste a lot like lobsters,” for example.

At the heart of trying to comprehend death is to accept the fac…[Read more]

I don’t see anything wrong with going with the flow of those feelings. Feelings of one’s connectivity to the world are in themselves essential motivations to keep making and celebrating new connections.

Do you ever get goosebumps from music? Sometimes I do, and it proves to me that something deep within me is stirred. Although I’ve rarely ever…[Read more]

Hi rhonjon – I often wonder what it will be like when I die.

It will feel the same to you as the year before you were born does now.

How many songs have you heard that never had the sensation of being  coincidental to what you were currently doing? I think we overestimate the amount of times something like that happens to us.

Revisiting this topic helped clarify in my mind how I wish to keep using terms like spiritual, sacred, and perhaps other words previously invented and/or owned by writers of religious or metaphysical texts. Some usages of the word sacred, for example, are of secular context.

For as long as I can remember I always felt that spirituality refers to…[Read more]

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