This is Binance and its clients wallets combined. So Binance could easily precipitate a run on the “bank”. Or just exert pressure on POTUS. Good thing Trump cleaned the swamp.

They must be adversely incentivized then? Surely they aren’t all simply mal-intentioned people. It would be interesting to assess with a case by case approach.

I’d argue that the government isn’t a sentient organism with the ability to “care” or “desire”. It’s a system, composed of individuals, hierarchy, objectives, and constraints, that functions the way it must based on its composition.

Legal border control is completely reasonable. So is legal deportation. Warrantless search, seizure, detainment, and deportation are a different matter. They are not only questionably legal, but most importantly they create a militarized police force not accountable to laws that can used to oppress anyone who displeases power. Left unchecked this reliably goes very badly for everyone involved.

Yeah I can’t speak to the effect of shorter stints. Personally, 15-45 minute practice a few times per week for months (college courses), interspersed with shorter periods of more intense practice (multi-day sesshin) has had somewhat of a lasting or more foundational effect, and seemingly leaving a sort of toolkit that can be tapped into on demand to a limited extent. Overall worth the relatively small time and effort commitment, and probably could result in meaningful long lasting changes in chronic stress. His podcast interview is worth a listen in any case, to get a sense of whether it feels worth a solid try.

Meditation should not generally feel like it’s benefiting you in a near term sense (especially at first, similar to physical exercise when you’re out of shape).. and if you’re looking for some benefit, you won’t last long enough for it to start making a difference, or at best you won’t be focused in your practice. Any benefit you do feel is essentially a side effect, a nice distraction. The real benefit happens beneath the surface of your conscious, striving mind.

Full Catastrophe Living is a good book (or audiobook) tutorial to start with, though I’d recommend being willing to commit to 8 weeks of daily practice to actually explore what he describes. For context this is a good interview of the author: https://podcast.mindandlife.org/jon-kabat-zinn/

Interesting. And are we talking all vegetable oils, or just the ones high in linoleic acid? For example, is olive oil fine?

Interesting. How long do you think this protective effect of no seed oil and higher ruminant products takes to occur?

Not familiar with Pop or COSMIC but I’ve install mint on old Mac laptops and they both wired seamlessly.

Yeah, choose wisely folks..