I wonder how does this feel in practice? what does it feel like to be without striving? to surrender? I understand this intellectually but I struggle to understand this in practical terms. What does it mean to have no desire?
It can't possibly mean anything, because it isn't possible. I say this as someone who has been very much "into" this stuff for decades, I have studied scores of religions, practices and philosophies, and have become somewhat good at some of these things. The more I learn, the more I realise that "lack of desire" is just as extreme (and misguided) as the western-style obsession with desire.
My conclusion is this: desire is the fundamental force driving all of life. It's foolish to fight it. Embrace it. But only after you've realised that you are NOT it.
Aren't the countries banning TikTok becoming more like China by doing this? Plus Trump comments about US gov needs to get money from this sale sounds like plain bribe.
I have not seen a convincing proof that TikTok is more of a national security threat versus FB or Twitter. What am I missing? I am also more suspicious because along with TikTok, Wechat was banned while other investments in US by Tencent where not touched supposedly because it would impact American companies. Wechat is definitely insignificant to be a security threat.
You are right in your analysis. Jio is using a different accounting approach to show that they are profitable. One - Their depreciation model is non-standard vs. what is used by other telecom companies & Two - They are booking the sales of subsidized devices under their retail subsidy - Reliance retail. If there is someone who understand this better, I would like to get more insight.
No. Jio (and Reliance) have actual paying users who are given genuine services that generate actual genuine revenue. And I doubt that the debt is going to spiral anywhere. Most of that debt was a one time deal to create a nationwide greenfield network.
Slightly off topic - I have not heard of this website, what is the general sense in the community about the quality of the content here? It looked interesting but I am always skeptical of trying new places because a lot of times they are just fronts for certain ideologies and tend to spin the content to suit them. And there is only so much time one has to critically evaluate everything and sift through the nonsense, this is the main reason I have stopped following news.
They are fairly reputable, I believe formed by a group of former GOP "never Trump" types who are trying to regain a semblance of reasonable exposition of conservative (or contrarian) views without engaging in the .. words fail me here .. that passes for conservative sites today.
So I would expect them to be reasonable, but perhaps not without a specific point of view that may bias the selection of topics and writers.
Thanks. I am actually fine with a specific point of view as long as it is spelled out. I understand that people have different value systems leading to different outlooks on topics and in most things there is no one right answer, what I dislike are the ones which are sly.
Disclaimer: I assume by impact you mean "case fatality rate" (CFR)
This is my hypothesis of lower impact. Both India & Germany have low CFR and we find that in Germany 49% of cases are under the age of 50, while in India 70% of cases are under the age of 50 years. On the contrary, in Italy 70% of Covid infected individuals are above the age of 50, with 39% above the age of 70 and Spain has 69% of cases above the age of 50 with 37% above the age of 70. US case data by age is grouped somewhat differently by CDC but my guess is that close to 40% of infections are in the age-group below 50 years and about 20% are above the age of 70 years, this might partially explain the relatively lower CFR because CFR for ages under 50 is ~0.4% if you are in the age-group of 40-49 & lower below. Median age of the population for these countries are India - 28, Italy - 46, Spain - 44, Germany - 48 & US - 38. Germany seems to have either done something differently here.
This can only partially explain the differences but would be an important factor when looking at overall fatalities.
They are beautiful outside me. When they were inside me they were very painful. The feeling of passing them via urine is crazy pain worse then getting kicked in the nuts.
