A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
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A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
2d ago
Spectating, voyeurism is bad, robs you of life, time.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
2d ago
pied piper of Hamelin
What's the moral of the tale, to you? (This is a 20 year mystery for me.)
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
4d ago
while the left fetishizes education and high-class culture
Since when? In them I see no love for wisdom and erudition, no study in perfection.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10d ago
On the sensation of hunger and the specific wording I'm using "the sensation of hunger" and not simply the term hunger, this is part of the meditative practice that I think has allowed me to maintain the weight loss. In Buddhism we talk about dependent phenomena and conditional arising, and the fundamental emptiness of all such things. In this understanding, hunger is not an indication of needing to eat, or at all even related to the nutritional state of my organism, its a sensation like the temperature of the air, or ambient sounds. It never, ever, ever goes away. If I am awake, I am hungry. Starving. Even now that I'm "better", I'm hungry from the moment I awake until I return to sleep. No amount of eating of any type of food has any effect whatsoever on my sensation of hunger. In fact, eating generally makes me even hungrier, as well as exhausted. I could eat so much food that I had trouble walking, I would feel like I was on the verge of vomiting from how stuffed I was, and I was still starving. I think something like this drives the behaviors of many, if not all, obese people to some extent. I am fortunate that the same techniques I use to manage chronic pain work pretty well with chronic, inescapable hunger.
Could you recommend books on this kind of Buddhism instead of the typical pop-Buddhism?
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10d ago
Tangential, but: https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/russian-peasant-life
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11d ago
trash
That's what crud means. I'm not talking about the blockbusters. Now, 50s style b movies are different, but the studio system had everyone on top of their game because they were putting movies out so quickly, with teams having control over their specific domain. The end results would often be forgettable but rarely incoherent like today.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11d ago
The studio system/golden age of Hollywood churned out fast crud, by committee, significantly better than what we have now.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
12d ago
e grid is getting worse and is going to keep getting worse due to Green energy mandates.
your link 404s chage it to https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-eu-as-suicide-pact-or-how-germany
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
12d ago
For me, his other best songs are: Getting Down the Mountain, I want to be in the Calvary, Horse Soldier
Nice and similar: Keep your Rifle by your Side - Dan Romer, UnReal Estate - Compound Interest, Which Side are you on? - Alderon Tyran, Dawson's Christian - Duane Elms, Down in Yon Forest - Wovenhand, Another Hitler - Clem Tholet
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
13d ago
For better or worse, Turkey is no longer "cheap" but equivalent to Paris. When the last wave of inflation was mid course (early 2022), you could rent a well-located flat in Istanbul for 200 usd. A favorite restaurant of mine went from 17 to 53 lira by May 2022. Later, leaving Ankara in 2024, coffees were approaching 200 lira, while the exchange rate had only gone from 30 to 38 lira : usd.
Various monuments and attractions went from free to charging 50 euro entrance fees (like the Hagia Sophia).
I did get a comprehensive medical scan for about 30 usd, even running on a treadmill with things taped to me and testing blood. I think they're less scams and more so trivial/brass tax if you're going to do a (serious) cosmetic surgery. Beyond that, I have no idea about medical tourism costs at different points; my partner did that in Iran. A friend was considering some sort of knee operation for about 2000 euro, though.
If I can get one of my parents an MRI in 1 week for $5,000 vs in 9 months for free when time is directly proportional to better outcomes,
MRIs are only a few hundred in Mexico (City, Guadalajara etc.) They even accept walk ins. Random reddit link for random info.
But, you do realize you can go private in Canada, too and pay about 1k cad, right? Plenty of Americans go to Canada for private healthcare. Ilumina's in Toronto. In Buffalo, you're looking at about 500.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
13d ago
covering up special forces killed during some off-the-book op
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
20d ago
We might call it "agency", or projecting a sense of "in-control-ness", if not over his external environment then at least over himself. If a man can't demonstrate at least a minimal amount of "put-together-ness"
Nietzsche's Will to Power (expressing a sense of agency, freedom, self-sovereignty)
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
25d ago
Basically the National Union of Mine Workers was butting heads with the planners in the socialist part of the British economy and seeking rents based on their ability to crash the economy by coming out on strike.
The plot of Heinlein's 1940 The Roads must Roll
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
25d ago
How do you get women (e.g. an aunt) to address structural issues like TikTok dependency?
to hold one's tongue and wait for further developments, or start talking immediately
I 100% believe waiting for further developments is better. Unless you are a direct actor, I believe there is negative value and insight following the news minute by minute. Without greater context, everything looks random and chaotic, offering no clearer understanding of the world. My own community transformed into a news feed and we've faced insight collapse, although some lovely contributors track less popular things, contextualizing them etc. illustrating the problem precisely.
Iran launched missiles 30 mins ago. The ceasefire is over or rather is between certain groups, since multiple entities share/negotiate sovereignty within Iran. Let's see what this actually means, next week.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
28d ago
Persians rising up against the Azeri controlled state, is more plausible, since in a purely national lens, Azeris currently control the government as both the current president and supreme leader are Azeri. (I don't think either will happen nor that nationalities are a useful lens here, because there are so many and very few people are "only" "Persian".)
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
28d ago
mass minority uprising against the Persians
Azeris staff most of the government, presidents, generals, ayatollahs etc. There is no racial animosity here.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
29d ago
We have somewhere, somehow, but not somewhy nor somewhen.
If we had all of them, they would stop being words, with separate dictionary entries!
Holding uncouth, unnumbered unwords like amniocentesis as English vocabulary to call it richer is but a tawdry lie. (Indeed, the artificial medical vocabulary is a shared system used by many languages, with consistent prefixes, roots and suffixes.) While it is good and noble, that English speakers ventured around the world and named its bounties and wonders, perhaps a more interesting metric is how many given groups of speakers now, how many are used in day to day communication or literature etc.
A Rebuttal to Which Language has the Most Words
But it's easy enough to go through another language's dictionary and make Hungarian versions of everything. That's how most languages were modernized during 19th century nationalism in Europe and Asia. Translators of scientific documents may coin even newer words etc. But most people do not know them. I don't know all the bones of the body, various tissues or really ...biology. I do not know fancy woodworking terminology nor native English plants from our ancestral homeland, various brandles and burndlebushesand eeroughberries and what have you.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
29d ago
is this guy not worried at all about his future employment prospects?
I've known many who openly state such views, who simply get jobs in the Middle East, Latin America, China or Central Europe. Many places are apathetic or friendly to such beliefs. (There are plenty of justifications, often internally consistent, often not, which vary by situation.)
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