talmud
mouthy
infamy
screeching halt.
furrow
Looks like the inflation is abating, it's fading.
You're an aspiring egg farmer, aren't you?
I'd like to have a flock of chickens, probably silky ones.
Truist.
An incel (/ˈɪnsɛl/ IN-sel, a portmanteau of "involuntary celibate"[1]) is a member of an online subculture of people who define themselves as unable to get a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one.
Chads
There were no social mores to deal with it.
I don't condone terrorism.
They can only have one child a year while a man could theoretically sire a thousand in a year.
stratification
they go out their way to help me / hurt me
bauble
Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
The Exorcist.
Entreaty: it is a noun that means a serious or earnest request or petition. It is often used in formal or written language, such as legal documents or literature.
The word "rucksack" is often used interchangeably with the word "backpack," but it generally implies a larger size and more rugged construction.
China is home to many rapidly modernizing cities that are enthralling to visit.
They were enthralled with the play.
He volunteered as a correspondent for the war.
The result was correspondent with my wishes.
a torpedo-boat flotilla.
a destroyer flotilla.
rigmarole
shelllacking
repartee
reverent
patch board
enforceable
One thing we have to remember is the Stoics did not regard guilt as a productive emotion. It does nothing for you but send you plummeting down a spiral of self-loathing.
That’s why it’s filled with admonishments for losing his temper, for being lazy, for temptations, for all sorts of bad habits or destructive thought patterns.
He would have been aghast at the fact that Seneca regularly quoted Epicurus in his Letters, even if Seneca stipulated that he was no Epicurean.
To tarry in the garden? To avoid pain? This was the antithesis of what the Stoic was supposed to advise or celebrate.
And instead of scorning the Epicureans, we should try, as Seneca did, to learn from them.
dated
throw me off.
- Give feedback
- few thoughts to add on.
- Feedback
- How to cpliment and redirect
The node is sunsetting. If you have sats there, please remove them to another service asap.
Root for the underdog.
While this does have some positives, there are drawbacks too.
malignant narcissists.
The typical empath personality allows an individual to accurately discern people’s emotional states just by looking at them and take appropriate action.
Pitchy dark.
Aphrodisiac
Fuchsia
tempest
temptress
metonymy
deportation
They are an ossified relic of the fiat state that doesn't have the self-awareness of their declining relevance.
I see what are you coming from ??
Sure, his wife had silken and embroidered robes and they possessed many silver goblets and beautiful emeralds, but to Marcus the true measure of his wealth was that whenever he saw someone in need of help, he could provide it.
To be able to hop on a flight and show up for a friend who reached out in a time of crisis.
To be able to forgive a debt, to be able to pick up a tab, to be able to spend a few hours furthering a cause.
beat up old car.
I strove to welcome this hazard, to rejoice in whatever it brought me of the new and unexpected, and thus without shock the ambush or the tempest was incorporated into my plans, or my thoughts.
Even in the throes of my worst disaster, I have seen a moment when sheer exhaustion reduced some part of the horror of the experience, and when I made the defeat a thing of my own in being willing to accept it.
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
Hopium: The metaphorical substance that causes people to believe in a false hope. It is often paired up with copium.
Opposed to Copium, which represents the rationalization of the current situation, Hopium represents the belief that the situation will someday improve.
Shrapnel
Saturnine
According to new research from Consumer Reports, many dark chocolate bars contain cadmium and lead, two heavy metals that can be harmful to your overall health.
We know what’s stupid and lame, what’s low brow or trash, what’s fake and what’s real, authentic and commercial.
The wiser and smarter we get should not correspond with an increase in snootiness or elitism.
Push yourself, have strong or exacting opinions for what you consume, for what you like.
But why on Earth would you feel the need to have an opinion on what other people like? Why would you want to denigrate what they are getting out of something? Why would you need to step on their joy?
When life gives you lemons, make zest.
An author could be considered eclectic if they draw on a range of literary traditions and styles in their writing, rather than sticking to a single genre or technique.
fentanyl
cut back on
I shall not reply to such a scurrilous attack upon me; it is beneath contempt.
predilection
ricochet
decree
analgesic ??
shellacking
acorn
ashram
His manner is supercilious and arrogant.
I will pull around the garage and stage something, you owe me big time.
The crux of the matter is that the 2021/2022 inflation came from a surge in fiscal policy that occurred in 2020/2021, not from a surge in bank loans.
peg
He was a vociferous opponent of Conservatism.
Strive for rapport with others.
March through the question list.
The Stoics have been trying to domesticate feelings of anxiety and stress for two millennia. They didn't always win, but they managed to make progress. Through practice, practice, practice.
China had warned of retaliation over the downing of a balloon earlier this month, but the latest salvo in tension-filled U.S.-Sino relations came over arms sales to Taiwan.
Which precinct are you with?
I'm uncover right now, I'm a whore.
at hand
She's a black belt in judo.
fash??
talmud
shellacking
The hospice aims to ease the sufferings of the dying.
decibel
habitat
psychotic
olio
heartrending
overcoat
We've got a nucleus of about 10 million laying hens.
If I have a vulva and I need lube for sex, there must be something wrong with me.
You can't just spout off a bunch of terms you don't understand
Little teapots with long spouts have become a fixture in many homes to flush out clogged nasal passages and help people breathe easier.
neti pots
Some tap water contains low levels of organisms — such as bacteria and protozoa, including amoebas.
One thing I glossed over a few minutes ago was exactly what the rng is doing.
"As you sow, so will you reap."
analgesic
canoodle
Sea change.
Conjure
unencumbered
arboreal
seer.
turgid.
It's on the house.
I don’t believe much in predictions for the future, as life has a way of coming at you from left field, but I’d cautiously dare to wager that 2023 will be the year of widespread Lighting adoption as more and more of us devote time and energy to helping it along its natural path to success.
blissful ignorance.
time preference
value proposition
You are taking the orange pill, which represents Bitcoin, freedom and monetary sovereignty or the blue pill, which means fiat money, debt and blissful ignorance.
For those intimidated by that thought, you can’t expect people to understand bitcoin when they are hypnotized by fiat money, thinking it is a better viable option
Any orange-pilled pleb will tell you with conviction why bitcoin is the best thing since sliced bread, and the only other option to this is to have fun staying poor.
Once you realize money is an idea of what is valuable, and that idea isn’t concrete. You ponder.
Gold has been deemed a relic by Bitcoiners, and stocks are proving to be volatile amid massive overprinting by the Federal Reserve.
skulk
allegorically
beanie
soothsaying
extraneous
infirm
The whole hall is filled with joy and laughter -- there is only one who feels distressful.
acrobatic
peasant
Hemp seed shells may contain trace amounts of THC (less than 0.3%), the active compound in marijuana.
Aspartame is a non-nutritive sweetener (NNS). It has not been conclusively linked with any serious side effects or health problems.
A 2015 study suggests that aspartame was the largest source of methanol in the American diet. Methanol is toxic in large quantities, yet smaller amounts may also be concerning when combined with free methanol because of enhanced absorption.
“Whenever you get an impression of some pleasure, as with any impression, guard yourself from being carried away by it, let it await your action, give yourself a pause.
Nobody is going to listen to some old codger tell his war stories about when he got wiped out, I get that.
The power, the psychological power of a bubble to suck everybody in is prodigious, and we've known it since the Tulip bubble.
Swat
querulous
depressant
superscript, postscript
hoarse
seer
He clutched the cane in his clammy hand.
Pick a side, but whatever you believe, intraday volatility has been significant on CPI days in recent months.
in a nailbiter that saw them defeat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in the final minute of play
“I would not have traded places with any of them,” she said on the podcast. “They were on the hedonic treadmill, and they couldn't get off. There was never enough.”
“being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.” Epictetus,
True wealth is not simply having a lot, it is having enough. It is accepting yourself, it is focusing on what you control, on what actually matters in life. If you can embrace this, you’ll be richer than any billionaire, movie star, or pro athlete. You may do less, but you’ll have so much more.
Walmart’s purported goal: Become a services provider for other retailers. The companies announced the retail tech partnership last month, highlighting Walmart’s evolving business strategy.
“This one announcement is just one piece that’s enabling this much larger flywheel and much grander ambition,”
There are other people to whom these things would be hard, and they say, “Well, how do I get good at being pithy and selling ideas?”
You can very slowly but steadily and methodically improve your happiness baseline, just like you can improve your fitness.
One has to do the external thing anyway. We’re biologically hard-wired. It’s glib to say, “You can just turn it off.” Your own life experience will bring you back to the internal path. [7]
Netscape. Satoshi Nakamoto is successful in that he created Bitcoin, which is this incredible technological creation that will have repercussions for decades to come.
When you start a business, in a way, you’re going to war.
This is also true when you’re working with individual people. If you've worked with somebody for five or ten years and you still enjoy working with them, obviously you trust them, and the little foibles are gone.
I love working with Elad because I know when the deal is being done, he will bend over backward to give me extra. He will always round off in my favor if there’s an extra dollar being delivered here or there.
If I latch onto a feeling, if I say, “Oh, I’m happy now,” and I want to stay happy, then I’m going to drop out of that happiness.
When I was young, I had a lot of jealousy. By and by, I learned to get rid of it. It still crops up every now and then. It’s such a poisonous emotion because, at the end of the day, you’re no better off with jealousy.
Maybe it’s politically incorrect to say you should choose your friends very wisely. But you shouldn't choose them haphazardly based on who you live next to or who you happen to work with.
When it comes to medicines for the mind, the placebo effect is 100 percent effective. When it comes to your mind, you want to be positively inclined, not incredulous in belief. If it is fully internal, you should have a positive mindset.
He shows you the single-most important thing is to be present and hammers it home over and over again until you get it.
We’re sitting indoors, wearing clothes, well-fed, and communicating with each other through space and time.
The hunter is a stout lusty fellow.
Life and death situations
Why are you subjecting yourself to this?
Turn a king into that most feared and detested thing -- a tyrant.
set me up for reading more.
Yes, the word "scruffy" is commonly used. It is an adjective used to describe something or someone that is untidy, shabby, or unkempt in appearance.
You might also describe a room as scruffy if it is cluttered with a lot of old and worn objects, or if it is dirty and in need of cleaning. In general, the word "scruffy" conveys a sense of neglect or disrepair.
He regaled us with some jokes.
This is the regale of the thought.
He sat with such regal dignity.
Estimates of causes of death are warped by media coverage. The coverage is itself biased toward novelty and poignancy.
If you want to avoid that, you can make clarified butter, or ghee. That way, you remove the lactose and proteins, leaving you with pure butterfat.
Many of you reading through this right now likely don't see the necessity for something like bitcoin in our personal lives; some of you might be occasionally tight on cash, others are living in a first-world opulence.
He is legendary for his fearlessness and pugnacity.
This is clearly designed to befuddle the public.
capsize
Bird perched on the branch
I like fishing for perch on vacation.
epilepsia
The author's descriptions of the main character's childhood serve to adumbrate his later experiences and personality.
I have a knack for impression.
reacquainted
taste buds
It's a little greasy for my palate, said my insanely jealous mom.
exotic tea
I was reading on this paper, and I heard this commotion up in your room.
This mangy raccoon had busted through your screen.
He must have scampered up to where Shel was.
He just stared at me with that smug look and then bolted.
If only I'd have got here earlier...
Nocturnal
It all adds up.
Considering the number of transgressions you've committed and he's overlooked, don't you think just this once, you could return the favor?
Just hold your horses.
The plethora of stuffed animals on your bed that stares at him during your amorous activities.
Your constant tardiness, your singing.
According to him, you're oversensitive and have a temper.
Tell leonard he can drop dead.
A next of kin, or a friend?
maroon
lavender haze.
hazel
All that glitters is not gold.
idyllic
Don't be so dismayed.
condescending, patronizing
ozone
Usually in your friend group, you are the life of the party.
Okay, we're onto something, this makes sense or should we actually kill it?
he blubbered like a child who had been spanked.
splinter
grunt
you have the floor
chip away
scruffy.
gambol
Age has left its traces on her face.
Shares of rival crypto exchange Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) slumped 14% on Thursday, with CEO Brian Armstrong saying the SEC may want to get rid of crypto staking for retail customers entirely.
She's like a pyro in a room full of matches.
exhume
The brassy boys put their tongues out at us.
ravenous
jaunt
The guerrillas exude confidence. Every town, they say, is under their control.
polymathy
polygamous
jughead
He wore a faded red flannel shirt.
If your milk is very old and has started to curdle, become slimy, or grow mold, it’s best to throw it out.
unfettered
conflagrate
abash
grit, grits
olio
weed out
His skin felt cold and clammy.
headstrong
sinuses
A hot shower and some tylenol seem to have helped.
Tylenol: an analgesic for mild pain; also used as an antipyretic
An analgesic or painkiller is any member of the group of drugs used to achieve analgesia, relief from pain.
antipyretic drugs
ibuprofen
aspirin
morphine
narcotic
Why This Fabled Economist Still Favors Index Funds Over Stockpickers.
All we can choose is what we do after they befall us. All we can influence is what they cause…
"I can’t control that she died. I can’t do anything about that. All I can control is what her death causes, and I’m determined that it cause good things, not bad things. That’s what I’m focused on, is what does this cause? Like make sure it doesn’t cause more pain, see if it causes something else."
What will this cause? Will it put us out of commission or give us a new mission? Will it cause good things or bad things?
Accuse her of being a fabulist.
While I do love Thanksgiving, it feels more and more like an anachronism. A brief pause in our escalators ever quickening churn higher. An old holiday we wheel out to say, look, we really are still all about community, family, and togetherness. Really about the transcendent.
He is obstinate and determined and will not give up.
blowfish
Newsom could no longer let his state play footsie with those opposing the basic laws of physics.
California’s last remaining nuclear power plant was set to close in 2025 and under no reasonable scenario was this a responsible course of action but mustering the political support to keep it open seemed daunting.
It softens our solitude. It is a true friend.
Books, especially those about philosophy, are that friend who should always be within arm’s reach.
With a mixed bag of economic data only getting more muddled, investors are looking to more specific indicators to assess the health and direction of the global economy.
There are practical issues to iron out.
What would totally upend your views?
mansion
lusty
cupid
in demand
abet, youglish.
They go into a kind of romantic cocoon.
gizzard
ladybug
A brainiac, with a cranium packed, full of more uranium.
unintended consequence
The turnstiles and ADA door will be activated in the near future but we do have two security guards on site to ensure access control for the floor.
carcass
A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
sinister
impaction
willow
kucklehead
turn in
geography
come to the boil
make the cut
Her supercilious attitude enraged me.
There was the usual romantic postscript at the end of his letter.
I think we may just loiter around above 4000 for another week or two.
crony capitalism
took to the stage
So why did he need to spend so many precious hours in his tent, writing by the lamplight, practicing philosophy in his journals?
One of the things that Stoicism helps us with is building some of that confidence—not ego—that confidence to tune out criticism that doesn’t matter, tune out people that don’t matter, to remember that some people don’t know what they’re talking about, and that you don’t have to listen to those people.
under the gun.
calamitous
succor
archaeologist
harangue
ransack
macerate
uppity
capacitate
jihad
maudlin.
celebs
capricorn
Shinkansen
I was buying it for the probiotic benefits of fermented cabbage and sulfites kill bacteria so that kind of defeats the whole point.
undulation
stand-in
agaric
He was a big strapping guy but short on brains.
rubric
He had a rather forbidding, saturnine manner.
We get the buy in.
go south.
That's our edge as a company.
You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about.
The driver lost control and the car careen down the hill.
That will preclude him from escaping.
The old woman had a careworn look on her face.
He has a predilection for rich food.
ingenious
transformative
virtuous
miraculous
Transformative: causing or able to cause an important and lasting change in someone or something
One of the most transformative innovation in software is open source.
Although it was off season, the hotel was fully occupied.
How am I preparing in the off season for what's to come.
The Stoics studied both the patterns of human existence AND practiced premeditatio malorum—meditating on all possible and improbable outcomes.
Nice little clank form the metal card.
This is subject to change.
There are no glib answers because no answers apply to everybody. These kinds of questions ultimately do have answers, but they have personal answers.
I think the neutral state is actually a perfection state. One can be very happy as long as one isn’t too caught up in their own head.
self-actualize.
I try not to have more than one big desire in my life at any given time, and I also recognize it as the axis of my suffering. I realize the area where I've chosen to be unhappy.
heady.
pathos.
karaoke
slapstick
blase
Back then, women on TV were mostly seen as eye candy.
Which precinct are you with?
I'm uncover right now, I'm a whore.
It's on the house.
So is the firebase not updating ...
No, it's not.
Back then, women on TV were mostly seen as eye candy.
Novelty also wears off fairly quickly, so if you've moved to a new city or taken a new job, you may feel an increase in happiness because you’re experiencing something new.
Those desires will cloud your reality. This happens a lot of times when people are mixing politics and business.