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1 The most important thing to have as a middle-aged or old, man or woman, lifting weights, is a good supply of micro-plates, which are much smaller than the standard smallest weight plate out there, which is the two-and-a-half pound plate. You need two of those plates to make the smallest...

Ukraine war still burning. We the West are funding Ukraine, against Russia, which is in the East. Israel now wages a just (defensive or preemptive) war in Gaza. The West is divided over whether Israel is in the West or in the East. And it's a paywall for me but here's the front page...

Don't forget we've been dumping free money into Ukraine and they're still not even in the top ten.

They were able to evacuate a chamber. Why not weigh the chamber before and after, make a valve and disconnect so that the vacuum tube is detachable? Weigh the thing full of air and then empty it and weigh it again.

Now do the American founders. Here's my top handful: 1. Murica 2. Germany & Japan 3. the UK 4. France, Spain, Italy 5. Israel 6. Canada and Australia and New Zealand 7. South Africa 8. Belgium & Switzerland 9. Russia

Will they agree to include teaching the kids to not plagiarize? and that plagiarizing doesn't pay? also in the curriculum? or is that asking too much?

I couldn't find the Clown World thread but this will work here too:

Right. It's unnecessary to say so.

I think it's easy to know, and it's because the temptation is a key plot point in the story. The story doesn't go without a plot, and a plot doesn't go without a plot point. The primary plot point is the temptation. I think it's fair to ponder what it means that the only way God could make...

Yep. Key plot point in the story.

Yes?

The idea of meditating on it comes to mind. We are presented with options, and if we choose to meditate on a wrong option, then that's the sin of lust and envy. The temptation is not sin, but it is endemic to our human existence, even Adam and Eve and Our Lord were tempted.

There's a reason particular options are presented to each of us. I don't think being tempted because of our concupiscence is of a different scale, it's of the same quality as being presented tempting options, but it's like we're on fire for tempting options, always wanting to hear them. "I...

OK, good question. "In essentials, unity." What can we unite around? Maybe my children won't be Catholics. Maybe they won't take my correction. What do I do. Seems at this point familial relations have to regress backward to sanitary and sterile politics. Human rights. I have a right to...

Granted. The progression was from sin making you stupid (the original idea), to demons making you stupid, to listening to demons making you stupid, to obeying demons making you stupid. Granted. And therefore also agreed. My point, and I think it's exemplified in Our Lord's temptation by the...

But which comes first, the chicken (being stupid) or the eggs (consuming stupidity)? I read CNN because it's free (cf. N.Y. Times and W.S.J. and Financial Times and The Economist which are all paywalls) and I already know that any journalistic slant is a Democratic party slant. CNN is a known...