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Highly recommend the android app Pleco for character decomposition, and many other things. Extremely useful and fascinating.

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Racists having a laugh

Sovereign like when American neocon Victoria nuland picks your country's next president?

I don't get it.

probably the original article: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-admits-x-twitter-may-fail-predictions-2023-8?op=1

archive link is producing a captcha loop for me

A+ meme, and also I'm in fact looking for sincere ideas/resources for how to be a parent trying to raise little comrades. Anybody got anything that comes to mind?

I predict that the clowns running US foreign policy aren't going to get over it.

And the reports of Russia using cluster bombs come from bellingcat and HRW.

Happy birthday, comrade. I hope you enjoy your bday and get to spend it doing things you like, with those you like and love.

u.s. is still the most likely to have blown up Nordstream.

I used it--it was the first book I worked with. I still like it quite a lot and I often think about his guidance as I learn from my own meditation, or in the context of other readings I've done. For me, as a nerd (previously) pretty averse to religion, I found his nuts and bolts instruction really useful and free of "woo woo" entanglement which might have turned me off at the beginning.

For newcomers, his teaching is perhaps not the norm in that it sets beginners up to practice concentration, or Samatha meditation. It seems like insight/Vipassana practice might be more common for newbies. I'm not sure how much it matters that much, tbh. For me, just learning to sit and explore my reactions to sitting took plenty of time before the distinction between concentration and insight even meant anything to me.