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. 100,67 dolarů za barel — cena ruské ropy Urals. Před začátkem konfliktu na Blízkém východě se obchodovala za 40 dolarů za barel, — Forbes

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@bajax @Junes @azure the difference there is more historical than anything. The right to bear arms is so integral to the historical identity of America that I think taking free speech away would be much much easier than taking away the right to bear arms, despite both being constitutional rights. Which is ironic considering the right to bear arms is supposed to protect against that.

I used to think very highly of the US for having freedom of speech enshrined in its constitution. This was back when I considered the average Australian to have freedom of speech but that it was under threat by not being inherently protected by law. I don't really think having anything protected by law matters anymore because those in power will just do whatever the fuck they want to do.

@sirchris if you want to shut up dems just ask them about those student loan reforms they intentionally didn't pass when they controlled the house, senate and presidency

Joe Biden was so obviously more senior and more senile than Donald Trump is that it's hard to listen to Democrats double down and triple down on the Donald Trump is a senile old man because we're not comparing it to himself we're comparing him to Joe Biden.

Unfortunately, global politics is looking a lot like bum fights at the old folks home.

A lot of these people really ought to be embracing something like Buddhism in their old age: when you're almost 90, you should be starting to let go of your attachments to the physical world, because you're not going to be here much longer. Instead they're still acting like they're in their twenties.

Cincinnatus was considered Noble and virtuous because after being the absolute leader of Rome during a crisis, he returned to his farm to till the soil. How many of the global politicians have been explicitly unwilling to do anything like that?

A lot of Eastern contexts, there are two different types of demon: one of them is closer to a devil as we understand in the west, a malevolent existence it was only purposes to cause harm. The other one is almost more mundane: mara refers to those who stop you from reaching enlightenment in your lifetime. Through that lens, contemporary global politics is a non-anthropological embodiment of mara, leading elders into an undignified attachment to worldly affairs perhaps leaving behind ghosts who are more concerned with their imminent political power than finding spiritual completeness in the final days of their lives.

In maintaining this spiritually stifling attachment to personal power until the moment that they die, they also fell in their duty to prepare future generations. The successors of long-standing political individuals instead of being vital younger individuals, become someone who is only slightly younger. In this way it is almost guaranteed that there is no future.

The philosophy doesn't mean that the elders withdraw completely from life, but that they recognize their role as elders in preparing the world to no longer have them in it. Instead of continuing the fight, long ago they should have begun transitioning into roles as teachers and advisors for those who will one day take over from them.

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Incidentally, one issue I have with modern herbalism is there are a lot of folks who are promoting so called "medical astrology". I know a few personally. I honestly think that's an embarrassing level of stupidity. That's not to say that astrology has no place in herbalism, because I think just like the doctrine of signatures it's an excellent basis for a mnemonic system to help keep track of plants and their usage according to categories of behaviour and characteristics. But that's far far from thinking one can prognosticate the nature of a person's illness or what medicine they should take based on their birth chart or what astronomical phenomena are occurring at the moment. That latter application is patently retarded. So much of what we think we know about stuff has more the quality of a superstition than it does of anything that makes rational sense upon closer examination, and frankly the continued promotion of stuff like that does more to convince people that traditional medicine as a whole is bogus than it does to help matters.

Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere exposes the business model of misogyny.
https://theconversation.com/louis-therouxs-inside-the-manosphere-exposes-the-business-model-of-misogyny-277509

How Donald Trump spent $5.6 billion in 48 hours.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/how-donald-trump-spent-56-billion-in-48-hours/news-story/623a8bf5ab8c59bb104057d821757ab9

Iranian drones are shooting down interceptors Not the other way around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVyAiZnvQhE