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FYI, the article was presumably taken down because many of the quotes turned out to have been fabricated, and they said they were investigating this. (I don’t think that they are trying to cover up anything, just that they have not gotten around to written an official response yet, given that this is a recent development.)

Oh, interesting, I thought that was the definition of symbiosis!

(Also, don’t forget to escape the parenthesis in your Wikipedia link.)

So it may actually be a mind-altering symbiote?

In addition, they gave us the Statue of Liberty.

A French politician actually called for it to be returned—to be clear, it was just a single politician, not the whole government—and the Trump administration said (very heavily paraphrasing), “No, it’s ours, and also you suck for being invaded by Germany, so we deserve it more than you.” However, I personally find it ironic that the administration is so attached to it, given the famous poem inscribed on its base that is inseparable from the signifiance of the statue:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

“The abuse of trans people will continue until their mental stability improves!”

Testimonial evidence is still evidence, and documentary evidence can be faked so it is not foolproof.

Have I [emphasis mine] just been unwittingly sheltered when it comes to peoples’ views on Epstein? (Genuine question.)

I wouldn’t call it unwittingly sheltered. More like programed by right-wing media to never trust the victim when women step forward.

That is a peculiar thing to say about me.

Now I am too busy being distracted by terrible salad dressings to notice that I am pure awareness without attribute. 😟

I hate vinegar.

The post makes it seem like this was a typical perspective, though. I get that womens’ voices are generally not taken seriously enough when it comes to this kind of thing, but if there were one exception to this rule then Epstein seemed to be it because in my experience everyone considered him to be a dirtbag even before the files were released. Have I just been unwittingly sheltered when it comes to peoples’ views on Epstein? (Genuine question.)

I am genuinely very confused by this post. Were there really a lot of people who saw the Epstein files and were like, “Oh, so maybe women were telling the truth after all”? Because all of the reactions I have seen so far are either “I knew it!” or possibly “Whoa, this goes even further than I thought!”

If you live in upstate New York, are you Mohican?

It is worth noting that this paper was submitted in October of 2024, so it predates the current administration.

Your ego is constantly distracting you with the illusion of the dream of the world in order to prevent you from noticing that you are not a separate self with a particular identity but pure awareness without attribute.

Something that both Israel and the U.S.A. have in common is that both have been militarily dominant for so long that they have grown to believe that they can use the military as a universal tool to solve all of their problems.

(I feel the need to point out that I once knew some Israeli Buddhists, and they were not at all happy with what their country is doing, so it is important to remember that the country is not a monolith.)

If you live in the U.S.A., are you Native American?

I had already made essentially this point earlier in another comment the day before in this post. The only way in which I have changed my position since then is that I now take the thought experiment a little more seriously as a thought experiment, rather than it merely being a useful vehicle for women to express how unsafe men make them collectively feel.

Perhaps you might consider that you yourself should put a little more thought into your posts, rather than making poor assumptions about other people.

It turns out that modern software supports something called “Copy and Paste” that makes it easy to insert an em-dash whenever—and wherever—you want.

That is an excellent point that I had not considered—it might actually be more efficient to make use of the heat in your food to heat your home than to pump it outside!

In his defense, he is doing his best to save the climate by keeping his refrigerator outside in the Winter!