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Daniel
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Newly Proposed Law to Fuse US and Israeli MilitariesLink to video -
Sold for $4.5 millionI'd don't object to the quality to many of the interior materials and extra points for the tennis court.
I'd have to take part of the house (would need more information to choose which) and built an apartment with foyer and locked door to rest of house and its own entrance.
I don't know what I'd do with rest of the house so not the house for me.
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Fog and bacteriaThinking about this more, it like the rule you clean from top to bottom. The dust, dirt, etc. naturally is stirred up into the air and then sinks to the bottom. The last thing you do is clean the floor.
I told this story but I had a five hour routine for cleaning my bedroom when I was six. It was like clockwork. It involved tasks like removing window screens, vacuuming them, washing the windows inside and out, polishing the furniture, and so on. It always ended after five house with me brushing the fringe on each side of the wool rug.
I think it's a blessing and a curse to have this OCD and almost a need for minimalist organization and maximum cleanliness. I think it's a curse because it takes a lot of energy but I see it as more of a blessing far and away.
It has given me and will continue to give me the ability to create the minimalism I like and use minimalism to design functional and beautiful, if I do say so myself, interiors (for instance, an audiophile's music listening room combined with a private college dorm room, something I have done, or to design a study from my imagination, my next project.
And as unusual as this might sound or be, I've known actual hoarders, and I wouldn't trade places with one for love or money.
I love the rain. I'm glad the rainy season in here. We're in the worst draught since before I moved home to Florida almost 10 years ago.
Thank you for your posts. I don't always agree with what you post but I almost always find it thought provoking.
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Solving the Saturn rotation rate mysteryWell, "science" is a interesting topic but like any sub-branch of any epistemological system, science is not an exact science (pun intended).
Questions like these aren't "solved" and then set in stone or displayed in a glass case.
"Measurements suggested the giant planet's rotation rate was changing over time, as if Saturn were somehow speeding up or slowing down. That puzzling result left scientists searching for answers."
I'd venture to say it appeared to be "changing" in fact because it was and is always changing. This isn't so much a mystery as it is the nature of the universe.
I just posted about this topic in my Chronos and Kairos thread.
We human beings have to be vigilant continuously about what Karl Marx (the writer whose work is canonical among intellectuals, not the "communist" we all love to hate) called reification. Reification involves setting up a continual feedback loop where we "play back" what we think we know in a way that the only outcome is our belief, whatever it was when we started believing it, can only end up being fallaciously reinforced.
The planets, the galaxy, the universe-- are never static and if a human being truly wanted to map their machinations, he or she would die trying...
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And so it begins. (weather)Highd up to 89, scattered showers. Lows around 80, but for some reason the lows are are going to drop to low to mid 70s for several days.
That will be nice.
Not worried about hurricane season. I'm actually more worried about tornadoes after experiencing one.
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Kennedy CenterI'm a layperson and even I can tell you the applicable law is as plain as day.
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Fog and bacteriaThe fog rolls in here off of the Gulf. It's thick and reaches much higher than a human being stands. If happens at night and at dawn before the sun's heat inversion lifts it away. It doesn't happen often. It's very beautiful.
Speaking of dawn and dusk, our sunrises are more beautiful than anything I saw in Hawaii. The sky is a mixture of blue, white, purple, and pink. A lot of the natural beauty of rural Hawaii was beyond comparison but not the rising or setting sun as far as I remember.
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Remarkable use of our tax dollarsHe took the Commissioner of Social Security (or Acting... I should know this) and gave him a second job sinultaniously with a new (never existed before) title-- "CEO of the IRS."
He was going to dispuse the monies through SSA payments.
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Short attention spanDid you say something? 🤪
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Spain's approach to immigrationThanks for explaining that, jon.
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Kairos: The ancient Greek art of knowing when to actChronos beats his time drum and I'll let you in on an arcane fact few people know. Time can't be measured. There's no begining where it could "start" and so there's likewise no "stop" point, either. It's always changing based on the solar system, also, so even if you hypothetically found a stating point, it would be wrong in an instant.
Kairos was apparently the Greeks' answer to this problem. He makes time definite by choosing his timing.
It's not an easy thing to do and I imagine it's become even more difficult as kind of "analysis paralysis" can develop as society becomes an instrument of distraction in itself.
I love classics. I never put much time in it but I do intend to learn Latin (not spoken) and to study classical literature and mythology.
My digital Casio got "touched" when I was moving it and started to chime on the hour. I don't argue with it.
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Trump had a physical last weekSince they're a buch of con artists who don't believe in their own "conservative ideas" and a bunch of psychopaths (along with plenty of Democrats) who when you say "war crimes," they hear, "It's Sunday," I guess they have no choice (especially being authoritarian and/or Christian nationalist maniacs by nature) except to act as if Trump's cult of personality is the glue holding them together.
I should probably edit this into several sentences but you get my meaning.
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Kairos: The ancient Greek art of knowing when to act@axtremus No worries. It's relatively alive for something that's dead.
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OperaTenorI'm sorry to hear that.
He introduced me to WTF and I will always be grateful.
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Has somebody already posted this? Maybe a pianist's touch affects the sound, after all?@mary-anna As you know, I don't play and am not really equipped to discuss such arcane details, but I'm going to bet based on intuition that the answer is definitely yes. I reckon this is true for the same reason that as a bass line (no pun intended) the absence of touch is silence. My 2 cents.
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Kairos: The ancient Greek art of knowing when to acthttps://share.google/mlQIT5djioZvbqTKQ
In comparison to Chronos.
Time is my favorite topic full stop.
I thought this was interesting and this is my first time hearing about it.
My self taught classics education needs remedial attention! I at least know Latin is a dead language. Lol!
I hope everyone is having a pleasant Sunday.
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CBS Scholarship winner acceptance speechI only wish that human beings could bring themselves to admit to themselves and others that they have been and are watching a live streamed genocide in Gaza and other places in Palestine.
We were taught to, "never forget." We were taught to believe in international law. We taught ourself that, "holocaust" is a word that no group of human beings owns.
The new owner of CBS is a Zionist billionaire that has given more money to the IDF than anyone in history.
CBS does not, as no media conglomerate does, operate under the FCC framework that we remember because the framework has been demolished.
CBS is now the definition of propaganda.
No true journalist can work for it as a reporter. The people who work at CBS now are stenographers.
This young person is promising because he hasn't agreed to betray journalism by being a stenographer.
I agree completely that everyone must make their way in the world.
I understand on the other hand that this is entirely possible to do without supporting a holocaust.
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CBS Scholarship winner acceptance speechWait till he sells his soul to the devil in a manner of speaking?
Good, independent minded people must exist in the world, or the sun and earth might as well collide into each other tomorrow.
Besides, there is independent media. If I repeat it 1,000 times, will I be believed?
Genocide. I said it.
Because, as Aristotle famously said-- A is A.
Anyone can say it, and mean it.
Or are we supposed to believe saying a self-evident truth is beyond the pale?
It so, why in hell?
If he "offended" CBS, too damn bad.
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And so it begins. (weather)June 1 marks the start of hurricane season.
It looks like in the middle to late next week a storm will hit Florida on the Gulf coast somewhere and move east and north before exiting the state. I can't tell that there's any reason as of now to believe that it will be a named storm. It will probably be a lot of rain but with no real chance of flooding my neighborhood.