Why spend that on a new one?  A much more affordable used model still gets you from point A to point G.

Some things are simple common courtesy and etiquette. As we perform less and less of these type actions does the world seem to be growing closer and friendlier?

...because it’s common sense

Social attacks are meaningless unless you care for the opinions of people who do not know you.  If you live your life publicly they may matter.  It may be that you need to look at how you choose to live your life.

The point of MA's meditations is not specifically to apply them in a cookie cutter way to a situation.  It's long term development of a mindset.  Even practicing stoicism you'll likely still have any number of irritants that can trigger you but you can blunt that considerably by getting them into context.  If your…

And who does not have any number of thing ‘going for them’? It can always get worse but some people get through it. Sometimes they don’t but they accept it.

Who are trolls and why do they matter? Why would anyone give enough consideration to unknown people hiding, virtually, behind screen names? If they were friends/family in the actual world that would carry weight.

Words...ideas planted...are probably actually more potent against the ‘privileged’. Reading the comments here is sad really. Unfortunately the more virtual the world one inhabits the less resilient one is against words and opinion. If one does real things and has real knowledge of self and the world opinions and words…

More kids in private schools...leaving public ones to continue to rot.

Higher income rural, but we only got high speed internet available in the last 6 months. That’s despite being about 30 miles outside a city in the top 100 by population. I was not shocked when Trump won, and neither would others be if they periodically got outside the large metropolitan areas. Despite the labels given…

Careful, the Boomers don’t like being labeled or put in a box...well, not themselves, although they have always seen it as their job to do it to everyone else.

Come now, you don’t believe that giant, international megacorps would be after anything but truth do you? Surely billionaire Besos only had altruistic intentions in buying the Post, no different than the Koch’s or Gates.

I agree with your sentiment. However, it was no accident that it was Bill Clinton who basically deregulated the media by removing all limits on the ability of a single corporation to own multiple outlets in a region (which, where I live, is still something imposed on grocery chains). Does anyone honestly think there…

So is Black Panther better as a movie?

It’s not that. It’s the fact that it got through our multi-layered, centuries old vetting and censor system. Were flummoxed, but working on the correction.

‘shit down’? God I hope I never share a theater with you!

If I go to this movie and happen to be the only white person in the theater will I be more comfortable than I was back in ‘97 watching Rosewood...I mean, have times changed? Will I be welcomed or stared at? That’s what I need to know.

Never seen it, but for the prices up there you should get one.

No.

You have to think like a liberal to figure that out 🤔