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by kranner 7y ago
That's what throwaway accounts are for.
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by kranner 7y ago
It really was just a joke. I agree that healthcare, esp emergency healthcare, should not bankrupt people. (But in the meantime, for only $9.99 a year...)
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by kranner 7y ago
Startup idea: QR code tattoo service that hosts a DNR that the tattooee has digitally signed.
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by kranner 7y ago
I wouldn't shove even the odd catastrophic error under 'just anecdotal'.
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by kranner 7y ago
> In this case, the complaints against CAA seem overblown, and a lot of it hinges on a slippery slope argument about ”what’s next”, where of course the worst is assumed. What's next has been plainly stated to be implementation of th
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by kranner 7y ago
The Constitution of India looks down on Hindus? Can you explain what you mean or cite some relevant passages from the Constitution of India?
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by kranner 7y ago
Unless these crimes didn't really happen, Reuters is doing their job.
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by kranner 7y ago
Thanks, found it. There was a very entertaining Mario Miranda cartoon in it that I hadn't seen before. I daresay it could have been viewed as a very anti-India cartoon today.
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by kranner 7y ago
> The BBC World Service started broadcasts in Arabic in 1938. That is basically the dawn of modern international propaganda. In Mein Kampf (1925), Hitler was already complaining about British propaganda having lost Germany WW1, whether o
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by kranner 7y ago
Paywall. The first page, which is the only page I can access, says this is regarding an event dated 29 August 1970. First, that's fifty years ago so do you have something newer? Second, this seems to be about the 1975-1977 period when
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by kranner 7y ago
What "default anti Indian narrative"? Also, the cartoon you've linked to doesn't seem anti-Indian at all. I get that people complained, but it's a cartoon: quite a gentle one at that.
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by kranner 7y ago
There's no Mutter Paneer Police! It's just that maybe 80% of all Matar Paneer served in homes and restaurants will have a specific amount of ginger (and definitely no solid chunks) and if you go over or under, there may be some tu
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by kranner 7y ago
> Making a curry is not a science, in that you can get a good curry by just making it up on the spot, tasting as you go, and fixing it if it needs fixing. Or it may be that the standard for curry in this example is lower than the standar
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by kranner 7y ago
Paul Stamets
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by kranner 7y ago
Everyone's experience of sweetness may indeed be different, but at least the standard way to induce the experience of sweetness is ubiquitous and immediate. Just taste sugar. Decades of meditative experience is far less commonly found.
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by kranner 7y ago
To be fair, we have no way to disprove anything about another person's subjective experience. Someone could have a special aptitude or talent in "meditation", broadly speaking. Our own accomplishments may not be any indicatio
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by kranner 7y ago
I didn't intend to come across as poking holes into Alpert's telling of the Karoli Baba/LSD story. If anything, Alpert told it seemingly without deliberate exaggeration. It's the retelling of the story in this oversimpli
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by kranner 7y ago
I left out the whole thing, actually, but my opinion took that into account. I get the impression that Ram Dass was a bit of a Karoli Baba fanboy and certainly the drug had enough of an effect that Karoli Baba felt something, even if he did
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by kranner 7y ago
> Curious to see how a spiritual adept would react to LSD, Alpert gave Maharaj-ji a whopping dose. It had zero effect on the holy man. This is oversimplified and maybe a bit misleading. Ram Dass's own account[1] of giving Neem Karol
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by kranner 7y ago
How do we really know this was a deliberate choice? There isn't enough information to discard the "Apple couldn't be bothered" hypothesis in this instance.
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by kranner 7y ago
> > Sanskrit words do not change over time. > That is amazing. GP is simply incorrect here. Sanskrit dictionaries list multiple meanings per word sometimes with the period during which a meaning was prevalent. Puns and double enten
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by kranner 7y ago
I still don't understand why one needs to know the teachings of Buddhism to understand the biographical details of Siddhattha Gotama. What sort of contradictions could arise? The article does not discuss any kind of mindfulness exercis
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by kranner 7y ago
The person who wrote this article is a well-established Buddhist scholar who has actually spent years studying in schools, as you say one must, to study the history of Buddhism. Why wouldn't you say they were in a credible position to
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by kranner 7y ago
> S. N. Goenka[1] who was a Hindi expat in Burma He was born in Mandalay, Burma and grew up there. I wouldn't call him an Indian expat in Burma, more like Burmese-Indian.
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by kranner 7y ago
Correct.
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by kranner 7y ago
As a counter-anecdote, NSAIDs like Ibuprofen cause GI tract bleeding in me (a haemophilia patient) and have put me in hospital twice, once in the ICCU with my family called to say their goodbyes etc. If I have a severely painful joint bleed
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by kranner 7y ago
Similar concepts of hot and cold foods are widely applied in Persian and Indian cuisines. https://frbkrm.com/2013/02/17/139/
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by kranner 7y ago
You get used to it remarkably quickly. The problem is getting over the hump (and also, knowing there is a hump). Buddhist monks are not supposed to eat after noon, although some cheat by adding a lot of sugar to their evening tea or coffee.
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by kranner 7y ago
Fasting during Ramadan is not the same as IF at all. During Ramadan you can't have even a sip of water, whereas in IF you are encouraged to drink water and even add a bit of salt if needed. That alone makes them too different to compar
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by kranner 7y ago
My anecdotes are biased nonsense while yours are not. This is uncomfortably ad hominem and I don’t know how to respond civilly but let me ask you why you think I would be biased? I live in India. India is home; I don’t enjoy portraying it i

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