Author analyzes the different ways Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates approach the current political moment. He argues that Klein risks compromising his own morals by trying to solve too much at once while Coates' values-first approach takes smaller "bites" but better safeguards personal integrity.
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Fast food restaurant fare in Scotland. May include kebab meat, chicken tikka, samosas, chow mein noodles, pakora, naan, and other fast foods and sauces such as curry sauce. Sometimes a salad item. Invariably, chips or fried rice. Not clear whether a munchy box is intended to be consumed as a meal for one but there has been concern of the health implications if it is consumed as such. A less traditional munchie box may also include a pizza, chicken nuggets, garlic bread, mozzarella sticks and coleslaw.
CarbonBasedUnit commented on Fighting inner thoughts seeking calmness but not reaching it samyar.me/posts/present-d... · Posted by u/samyar
I can relate.
Be aware that well-meaning people will read your post, not realize your situation is outside of their own experience, reinterpret your problem into something that makes sense to them, and then give you useless advice based on their reinterpretation.
I've meditated on and off for years and, although it's pleasant, it sidesteps the real problem without actually addressing it. My conscious mind can be clear but a feeling of subconscious pressure remains, as though I'm in a shelter but I'm still aware of a storm outside that never stops trying to blow open the windows and doors. Have I just not meditated enough? Maybe, but that's unfalsifiable.
The best solution I've found isn't emptying the mind, it's occupying it with pleasing, intentionally-chosen, low-stakes mental puzzles or creative exercises.
This approach doesn't solve the root problem either, just avoids it, but it helps.
CarbonBasedUnit commented on · Posted by u/CarbonBasedUnit
A new rationale for objecting to AI. Sadly, chock-full of nonsequiturs.
CarbonBasedUnit commented on · Posted by u/voisin
Author hasn't done his homework. The belief thoughts = words has been well-debunked. The first hit from a lazy Google search is a Scientific American article all about it, helpfully titled 'You Don't Need Words to Think".
https://archive.ph/KjJ1R
Or, if you like scientific papers better, see "Language and thought are not the same thing: evidence from neuroimaging and neurological patients"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4874898/