Think Illegal Downloading Is Free?

Albuyeh · 19 days

There's a very interesting take on this in Superfreakanomics: the norm went from "wearing a seatbelt is something you did if you didn't trust the driver" in the 70s to "wearing a seatbelt is common sense" about in the mid 90s.

greenHillzone2 · 3 months

He was the antihero.

assholebiker · 3 months

You just sort of sit there like Data and try to experience it with a sense of curiosity. Get its texture. Can you give it a color, a temperature, a place in your body? Dive right in and become the sensation of that emotion.

Browsing_From_Work · 3 months

Dude, this is reddit. You don't need to introduce us to Jon Stewart anymore than you need to introduce Indians to malaria.

assholebiker · 3 months

Reddit is a capricious mistress.

assholebiker · 3 months

76 cents (+$3.99 shipping).

Littlelouie · 3 months

I usually just continue in an even more contentious voice, "Oh yeah, well [their viewpoint]!" The person sometimes winds up arguing against me out of habit, duck-season-wabbit-season style.

assholebiker · 3 months

I don't like to go with killing babies.

assholebiker · 3 months

I think I'm just being downvoted for the irrelevancy of my comment and its lack of value. You're being downvoted probably because I'm not being downvoted for my username.

thefrogman · 3 months

I appreciated the Family Guy take on that.

thenaturalmind · 3 months

Missing is:

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism - Chogyam Trungpa

hillsnr · 3 months

I practice regularly with a sangha that's about 50/50 male/female. In 2 1/2 years, I've found nothing that indicates the path is any different for men than it is for women than it is for transgendered people. I think men tend to have more barriers toward discussing emotions and insecurity due to societal constructions, but the practice itself is surprisingly asexual.

As a man, a great deal of my practice applies to my relationship to women and basically everything about letting go control and not deceiving oneself has found the most accessible examples to me in how I try to pick women up, but that's just one instance of a much more general principle.

kaishakunin · 3 months

Fun fact: Steve Jobs was a Buddhist, inspired by his reading of Chogyam Trungpa's Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. I imagine most things out of his mouth would be consistent with it.

assholebiker · 3 months

I compulsively IRL give hadoukens to people. Either they become amused or very confused.

WaterJump · 3 months

Why not?

Yuri151 · 3 months

I am not a doctor, but I believe it's fine to donate if you don't have an amount in your blood that actively would make you high. Pot has very few adverse drug interactions compared to other drugs.

If you donate when you are actively high, I imagine you would be giving an unexpected gift to whomever is receiving your blood.

Browsing_From_Work · 3 months

Growing up Jewish, I was actually under the same impression as you. It took my meeting a friend of mine to realize how the churches split on social issues. For example, the Episcopals are very pro-civil rights, and have been explicitly pro-gay since 1976, and is nuanced when it comes to abortion, while the Presbyterians had an identity disorder over whether to accept modernity, that resulted in their embracing modern liberal stances on women's ordination and gays. Then you have the more famous sects like Evangelicalism, which are stanchly literalist, even though there is the Evangelical left.

EDIT: Grammatical error that actually changed meaning.

ozone63 · 3 months

The difference between a Calculus Nazi and Grammar Nazi is that in calculus, some things are demonstrably wrong and the history of calculus has a long tradition of making sure that things are exactly covered and defined. In English, you just piss off grammar nerds who already know what you meant.

ozone63 · 3 months

At first I was like, did he just repost that, what's the poi... oh. Now I get it.

ozone63 · 3 months

And that's how you can tell that you walked into the wrong class and continued to sit there for a semester.

cvs823 · 3 months

But before there was peer-review and publication that filtered out their stupid. Now, the power of the internet forces us to see them.

grdlock · 3 months

People bike in Houston?

Browsing_From_Work · 3 months

President of Hillel told a story about his dad's feelings on the subject:

"Son, I don't know if we were ever in Egypt, if we were ever slaves in a foreign land, if we ever built pyramids, but I KNOW God got us our of there!"

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