@PhilK endangering one’s own mental health.

Why? Because you’d have to pretend to agree with them — nothing else would do.

I can't tell you how shocked I was to learn that Hillary Clinton won the Electoral College !!!

It's hard for me to imagine how they kept this hidden for so long, but somebody at Democratic Septic Tank finally revealed the truth:

The trump crime syndicate in the WH knows Hillary won the popular vote AND the electoral college.

This is totally mind-blowing!!! It means that Clinton is more of a victim than we expected, that Trump is more Hitler than we thought, and that Putin is more powerful than we could ever have imagined! And that damned Bernie Sanders has got to be part of all this, too, because he's never said a thing about it!!!

I'm shocked!!! Shocked, I tell you!!!

@Alligator Ed After 55 years, is it likely to work? Future is fuzzy?

or Magic 8 ball, upon which I rely for important decisions?

@irishking thanks, just piling on:

The Five Afflictions
Avidya - spiritual ignorance
Asmita - pride
Raga - desire
Dvesa - aversion
Abhinivesa - fear of death

might as well add these for the counting:

The Four Aims of Life
Dharma - observation of spiritual discipline
Artha - creation of a balanced life
Kama - enjoyment of the fruits of one's labors
Moksa - liberation

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The eight Buddhist practices in the Noble Eightfold Path are:[23][note 2]

Right View: our actions have consequences; death is not the end, and our actions and beliefs have also consequences after death; the Buddha followed and taught a successful path out of this world and the other world (heaven and underworld/hell)[24][25][26][27][note 3] Later on, right view came to explicitly include karma and rebirth, and the importance of the Four Noble Truths, when "insight" became central to Buddhist soteriology.[28][29]
Right Resolve: the giving up home and adopting the life of a religious mendicant in order to follow the path; this concept, states Harvey, aims at peaceful renunciation, into an environment of non-sensuality, non-ill-will (to loving kindness), away from cruelty (to compassion).[30] Such an environment aids contemplation of impermanence, suffering, and non-Self.[30]
Right Speech: no lying, no rude speech, no telling one person what another says about him, speaking that which leads to salvation;[23]
Right Conduct: no killing or injuring, no taking what is not given, no sexual acts.[23]
Right Livelihood: beg to feed, only possessing what is essential to sustain life;[23]
Right Effort: guard against sensual thoughts; this concept, states Harvey, aims at preventing unwholesome states that disrupt meditation.[30]
Right Mindfulness: never be absent minded, being conscious of what one is doing; this, states Harvey, encourages the mindfulness about impermanence of body, feeling and mind, as well as to experience the five aggregates (skandhas), the five hindrances, the four True Realities and seven factors of awakening.[30]
Right samadhi: practicing four stages of meditation (dhyāna) culminating into unification of the mind

quite a program. whew!

@eyo

I wandered off from Big Al's nuclear vote essay and found this video: History of atom bomb, Manhattan Project and Atomic Power which reminded me about the genius of Lise Meitner, and why everyone should take a walk in the woods when they can. Just giving respect for collaborative works, thanks.

A fantastic explanation
At their secret meeting in 1938, Meitner urged Hahn and his laboratory partner Strassman to perform additional tests on neutron-bombarded uranium. Hahn and Strassman finally determined that the end result included the much lighter element barium, not the expected heavy element radium. This was very puzzling. Hahn recognized that uranium atoms completely breaking apart into much smaller atoms would be an explanation, but how could that happen? Hahn wrote to Meitner: “Perhaps you can come up with some sort of fantastic explanation. We knew ourselves that [uranium] can’t actually burst apart into [barium].”

Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch, while outdoors skiing, realized Bohr’s “liquid-drop” model of the atomic nucleus could explain the result mathematically. They scribbled formulas on a scrap of paper in the woods: A uranium atom could elongate when bombarded by neutrons, and occasionally some of the uranium atoms could split apart into two “smaller drops.” In fact, the uranium atoms in Hahn’s experiments had split to form the much lighter atoms barium and krypton, and ejected neutrons and a very large amount of energy, with a loss of some mass. Meitner was the first to realize Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2 was at play here, converting mass into energy.

Lise Meitner’s fantastic explanation: nuclear fission

The most deserving scientist never to win a Noble Prize
Hahn published his chemical evidence for fission without listing Meitner as a co-author—understandable, as he was in Hitler’s version of Germany and she was of Jewish heritage. Hahn, however, continued to maintain that he was the sole discoverer of fission, through accepting the Nobel Prize in 1944 and for the rest of his life. Meitner’s explanation for this was that Hahn was “simply suppressing the past (in Nazi Germany). I am part of his suppressed past.”

What's old is new again? Can't take anymore, time for some woods walking
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