Love the act, hate the agent?

I’d choose my dogs’ scent over the scent of most humans that I’ve met.

Double thumbs up for the point made and link to libre epub.

A very British trait.

Love that show but the first episode of season 4 underwhelmed.

Where is a macbook air $300? Off the back of a truck?

Threema still works.

Depends on the location and the number of people in your party. Sometimes it does work out cheaper to rent an apartment or even a house instead of several hotel rooms. Kitchen space is always a boon, I’m rarely impressed by overpriced restaurant fare and prefer to cook for myself when possible. It can also be helpful if you’re traveling with pets.

Too. Two. To.

Depends on the distro but you are largely right. You can easily use Linux Mint or Ubuntu without being familiar with the cli.

You are not too dumb to learn Linux. If I learned how to use it then you can. Start with with something simple and easy to install such as Linux Mint or Ubuntu and you will inevitably learn more as you go on. If you can read, type, point, click and observe then you have all the skills required to install the aforementioned distros.

That all sounds very idealistic, dare I say naive.

People do not typically assess their own happiness by looking at those less fortunate than themselves. They may feel a sense of relief that their situation isn’t as severe but that is not happiness.

Human beings fall ill and pass on, every day. Those are guaranteed outcomes. So yes, while we may all have unique challenges there are some core facets to the human experience that none of us can escape. People who suggest that happiness is anything but fleeting and impermanent are deluding themselves.

The human experience itself is fragile and unpredictable. How then can human happiness not be?

We should start by getting rid of westerners. Let’s do Europe first.

When is happiness stable or permanent? Under what circumstances does that even happen?

“one of the causes of aversion to happiness may be the belief that happiness is unstable and fragile”

It isn’t?

The president who called himself a Zionist is in favor of the status quo? I’m shocked…

I want.

So what if it is? Good riddance.

A lot more than just American xtians. There are countries where people cannot get safe, legal abortions because of the stranglehold that xtians have on the political class. Likewise access to contraceptives and even basic reproductive education within the school system. The Roman Catholic Church has been far more destructive than American xtians.

It was a “that’s racist” shout because the legal system in north America is horrendously racist. It’s not just in the court room, even before matters get to court, the manner in which white women are treated by prosecutors (who offer sweet deals as in this case), police (who are less likely to apprehend and if done they do tentatively/reluctantly) has a quite visibly racist component to anyone who knows how the system treats “others”. Context matters - some people got it, apparently others did/do not.