Anyone with even one level in monk automatically counters this with an Ānāpānasati save.

Trade is ancient. Consider: People have been ordering products from abroad, relying on promises and reputations, since the days of Ea-nāṣir. It’s always depended on trust, which is why we still know the name Ea-nāṣir.

As a reminder, helping the Antichrist bring about the end times does not earn them a spot in heaven, but rather in the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

If only free & consensual sex counts, Donald Trump is a virgin.

“Tim Kaine in the membrane, Tim Kaine in the brain”?

Merely being in the same room as his stinky ass might very well suffice.

Because he misses having threesomes with Jeffrey and Ivanka?

This just in: Yes-men say “yes”

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog … until you tell them.

Do you remember the beginning of Trump’s previous term? His very first priority was to harm Muslims.

Yep. This is why online recipe sites put a whole goddamn personal essay before the actual recipe: if someone scrapes the page and copies it, they’ll scrape the (copyrightable) essay as well as the (non-copyrightable) recipe.

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Crime is up in Trump’s immediate vicinity because he keeps committing crimes and surrounding himself with people who commit crimes on his behalf.

But that’s a sampling error. Most of the country is not as crime-ridden as wherever he goes.

The suggestion is “don’t link to Nazi sites”.

Try text.

Even in a home poker game, it is not possible for all the players to go home having made a profit, whereas that is very possible in the stock market due to growth, labor, and natural resources.

(The coal miner who gets a wage and black lung is not a player in the stock market. Neither is the sun, which provides free energy to agribusiness.)

In gambling, the house always wins, by extracting value from the players. In stock trading, the players (capitalists) collectively always win, by extracting value from labor, technological growth, and natural resources. These are not the same picture.

Sure, you can take on as much risk as you like using derivatives, and emulate a gambler using the stock market as a source of randomness (volatility). But that’s not how most traders behave, and it’s not how most traders’ payoffs work.

If someone doesn’t understand the difference between swearing at and swearing around, that’s a shitty environment.

In one of my better workplaces, the expression was “you can cuss the hardware, you can cuss the software, but don’t cuss your teammate.”

As the article mentions, Red Hat is IBM.

For what it’s worth, getting in the habit of making excuses for one’s use is part of alcoholism.