Great speech, worth watching.

I recognize (I think) communist, antifascist, and anarchist. Can someone explain the other two?

Because they move like kitties!

I’m not religious any more at all, but I thought of god as a permeating energy. Energy can become matter and light. Someone smarter than me can explain why that doesn’t make any sense, but that’s what my brain had come up with when I was wrestling with it.

Goon: To masturbate, especially in an obsessive or energetic way. See gooning. Also, the act of masturbating energetically.

Hostel just west of Pretoria, victims included a 3 year old. Jesus fucking Christ. What would motivate a team of humans to do that to other humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)

This is what reading East of Eden has been like so far.

With the same system in place I don’t think changing the people involved will make a huge difference. We’ve got to dismantle the whole thing and start from scratch. And with a new system there will naturally be a different type of people interested and involved.

Or even from a brain back to itself. Doesn’t even have to be consumed by other brains for it to be art.

Seconding walking. I had gained 40lbs and eased back into fitness slowly over 2 years. My issue with hiking is the prep time and driving and felt like extra steps. Stepping out the door with a good podcast on was the most accessible for me (recognize that I’m lucky to live in a place with sidewalks and some paths). If the nature part of hiking makes it more interesting to you though and more likely to follow through, go for that!

As someone with ADHD inattentive… I miss there being an ADD. I’m not hyperactive. Now that I think of it, neither am I inattentive if it’s something I’m interested in. ADD felt like a better descriptor for me, personally.

I disagree, I think it should be rememember.

Trying to learn how to skate and all the rules first, hope the interest stays long enough for me to get to play a game!

“My hobby is learning about new hobbies!”

I tell them my hobby is starting new hobbies. And then I list a few of the latest obsessive bursts (this year, rock painting and roller derby and Pilates and paint by numbers and gardening).

Thank you for your service and for saving me from continuing on down the thread.

I watch this every couple of years. Moves me every time.

The Atlantic has been putting out some great articles. Worth a read. This is a huge shift in the integrity of American higher learning:

For the entire history of this country, the federal government has allowed colleges and universities to grow and flourish according to their own determination of what higher education means. The resulting system is, for all its flaws, the envy of the world. The smartest people on Earth come to America to live, learn, invent, and prosper, because they know our universities are free. The Trump administration is trying to bring that tradition to an end.

The compact is not a statute passed by Congress or a regulation written with public consent. It is only the ideological will of the president, offered with the logic and ethics of a mafia protection racket. Shakedown artists browbeat and threaten so they can take something that doesn’t belong to them. They also do it to establish who has power and who should live in fear. Universities that accept this bargain will be selling their souls for nothing but a promise of safety that will surely be broken in turn.

I was seen as weird so it resonated with me. But I’m not sure if that was the ADHD, poverty, or trauma.