There could well be a kernel of valid criticism in it but this article is so exaggerated and strident, that I can’t take it seriously. It’s like people who scream GOVERNMENT WASTE about every budget line item that is not obviously important to someone who has only the most simple and ignorant understanding of it.

These are not studies on actual use on humans in the real world, it is on cells in a petri dish, so if you were to take from this “I don’t need to vax or mask, I take CBD” you’d be just like the Invermectin crowd.

They grow natively everywhere. The internet speads fertilizer.

“If it’s January, it’s cold” doesn’t imply it can’t be cold in other months.

I have a number of answers to give you and will write more as I have time, but a start with some of the shorter ones.

“The map is not the terrain” is a very important concept in general but especially so wrt the self. Your idea of your self is such a map, and as such is necessarily flawed and incomplete. A person is very complex, probably to complex to fully understand even if you had access to it. But you don’t fully have access to it, even about your self.

The complexities going into why you like a thing, why you react a certain way, sometimes why you do a thing, are not all inspectable to you. We have am enormous bias in modern culture to think of everything in terms of the conscious mind. This is usually incorrect. Most often we do things unconsciously and rationalize why we did it afterwards. Now these rationalizations may often be correct, and trivial. But the reality is that they are not observations about the workings of our mind but after the fact theories. In many non trivial cases they can be quite incorrect. (I can give examples, but this is getting long winded already.)

Sometimes, with phenomena we have limited ability to know, it is helpful to let go, accept that they are what they are, and just see what they do without getting too committed to expectations. Like with the weather.

Yeah that’s part of what I don’t know about. Or other transition points, like exiting the stomach. Not to mention actually swallowing it.

Passing an avocado seed seems rough but doable. I don’t know though, and I wouldn’t want to find out the hard way.

Did your mother have any children that lived?

he has no goal, except the wish to escape insecurity and aloneness.

And it’s as if we keep refining our system to make those aims harder.

Maybe when they realize ‘bad’ isn’t a strong enough word.

They just hadn’t worked out the distinction between “title” and “flap copy” yet.

So it sounded like all women in that theatre weren’t like that…I think we can reason from that to answer your question…

Bob Dylan, “Slow Train Coming” Also, “It Takes a lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” He’s got to have other train songs, too, none others occur to me at the moment.

“Chattanooga Choo-choo” was really big something like 100 years ago.

There are many more software companies in the world then those four, including very small ones. It is still possible to make a reasonable living as such a small software company, though a lot harder than it used to be.

Why are they so hot? Are they polyester? Liquid-repellant?

I suffer the indignity of having to open the shower door and reach out to the counter for a sip. I suppose I could do that for a reuben too, but that seems like a bridge too far.

Depending what you find acceptable there are things you can do. For example at work we proxy through a mailgun account to do simple smtp notifications from bash scripts and webapps.I would imagine you could also proxy from an email server.

And you can at least manage your own email domain accounts via various webhosts. This may not meet your criteria for self hosted but its more independent then using gmail.

Now ribs I can see! They aren’t in danger of getting soggy, and you could string them on a cord and hang them around your neck like a merger of caveman fashion and an adult version of the candy necklace.

Your shower must be more spacious than mine because I have a hard time imagining keeping it dry. My shower also lacks a sandwich shelf like yours.

Nah, two questions for the price of one. Just always interesting to see the different ways things get interpreted.