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Musk going in so hard on Twitter and the Trump campaign has probably been a boon for the employees of Tesla and SpaceX. They're probably the only people who aren't looking forward to the end of the campaign.

Well I think they're talking about having windows AND cows in the same building, so we should really talk about the dangers of cow suicide, especially to passers by on the street below.

Clearly these scientists don't know what it's like to be an awkward monk seal just trying to fit in...

Well to be fair if we just go full ham with crypto mining and so called AI, we'll belch enough GHGs into the atmosphere that the actual climate apocalypse will come within 20 years or so, wiping out most of human so called civilization, which will put the climate on a path to resetting over the next couple hundred thousand years.

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Is this a permission versus forgiveness example?

Of course, now that Ukraine asked for permission and NATO (not just the US) said "no," if they deliberately attack that's extremely bad.

Right it's so lazy too. I've seen way better attempts to justify throwing away a century of international norms around territorial sovereignty.

I mean I'm not gonna give any pointers, but c'mon guys...

Pulling the ladder up behind you is something that happens pretty often in human history.

That's not to say it's intrinsic to us or destined to happen. But "hurt people hurt people" is probably what causes that to manifest.

In certain circumstances I bet most if not all of us would do it, too. A full life raft will swamp and kill everyone aboard if one more person gets on, for example. If there's a guy trying to force his way on, what should the people on the boat do?

There's a fair amount of that misguided belief among some anti immigrant movements: "we're full" or equivalent.

Yeah, people who love meditation and try to get others to do it kind of forget that whatever transcendence they've experienced is fundamentally rooted in becoming more attumed to themselves.

Which is actually pretty much the definition of irony, I think?

Heck I think "you'll love & understand yourself more" is probably a better selling point than "you'll experience a higher level of being." I think I can understand the former, but the latter is just incomprehensive.

Whatever he needs to do to get elected to avoid Republican control of the Senate. Yeah it'll suck if he is one of the saviors of the filibuster. But it'll suck more if Republicans are in charge of the Senate.

And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope!

Be tolerant of yourself. Acknowledge your fidgeting and wandering thoughts. If you try to fight who you are, you're not meditating. Notice the fidget, do your best to quiet it, then get back to meditating. Same with random thoughts.

And sometimes it's just not the right time to meditate. Try again later under different circumstances.

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