What is it with all this regulation? I’ll be so happy when people are free to make their own choices based on myth and legend

I think the incredible shrinking Rolodex of politicians in general is the reason for many such gaps.

We called it caltrops :) It’s also called puncture vine. It was a nuisance in Arizona, but I didn’t bike a whole lot, so I mainly remember the sound when a bunch of them are stuck in your car tires.

This is what caltrops means to me

Dried seed pods absolutely get stuck in your tires, and will pop bike tires.

Adding to this, beware of progressive lenses. Get dedicated readers if you need them for the distance of your screen so you don’t have to tilt your head even a little.

Thank you for this. I have been casually interested in Buddhism for a long time, but often annoyed by tendencies in the readings to still chase after some sort of God’s grace, or a new state of being, or any other end game that denies the importance of what you and the rest of reality are actually experiencing. Nevertheless, even a very light study as I have done has been useful to me as a counter to many deeply assumed concepts and gives a way to explain other ways of seeing. I think just like any philosophy, the parts that can be construed or misconstrued to support the status quo within yourself or your community (which I include desire for specialness, desire to look away from pain) are going to be the most attractive and popular parts.

When I read this,

Stephen Batchelor eloquently describes his practice as a method for confronting-rather than transcending- the often painful mystery of life. But Batchelor seems to have arrived at what he calls an “agnostic” perspective in spite of his Buddhist training-not because of it.

I think you can’t say it is in spite of the training if he feels it’s through the training he got there. But I agree, it’s not a place a lot of Buddhist practitioners seem to be aiming at.

To be fair, the Republicans did all these same things and won all three branches, so…

I think op is right. A new law that says you have to own real estate to vote would have been unconstitutional before and is not now.

Sounds like they would just have banned them all at once

Florida was a super close call. Most states won’t miss a few votes, or even a lot of votes in some cases. I’m not advising anyone anything, but I know some people will be making this calculation, and I think it may be the only way to get some new cards on the table.

The two parties are not going to figure this out. I think we are in the middle of one of those major shifts in the landscape. Probably still end up with only two, and one of them might keep its name, but it seems to me this country’s leadership has simply outlived its ability to sense the world around it. They’ve patched over all sensory organs with some kind of insider-curated feed.

I’m not op. I like your mention of the club, though, thanks.

Oh, funny, I was thinking maybe it was written for two audience with different terminology where one names wind by where it’s going and the other by where it came from. Somehow the truth is more aggravating.

Would it help then, if they used a new device with vpn? Almost the entire list on amiunique seems device/browser based. They could just keep a burner phone for the purpose?

It’s an interesting comparison because it seems to me dueling comes from times and places where personal reputation was much more important to life destiny than now due to a lack of protective legal and other institutional infrastructure that dampens the risks in living and working with strangers.

So maybe any rising sensitivity in the present is due to the feeling that this infrastructure is weakened.

“but”?

I like your idea, but it just brings to mind how fragile all of our digital media is, not to mention the surrounding tech necessary to read and understand it. What we know works is to press your message to the future, grocery bill, whatever, into clay and then accidentally burn the city down around it – good for millennia.

Joust?

They are US citizens already.

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