Many years ago, a friend of mine passed away and I saw him in a dream a few months later. He had always talked about having lucid dreams while I, on the other hand, had only ever had one lucid dream before. Perhaps this is why I realized I was dreaming and it became lucid.

In the dream, we were in what seemed like the captain’s cabin on a pirate ship. That’s not too weird because we had been playing DnD together for decades so it would probably have been more weird if we were in some mundane location. When I realized that it was a dream I also remembered that he had died. Needless to say, I had had the afterlife on my mind for those months since his death. In addition, some people had talked about the concept of dead people visiting the living in their dreams.

I sort of wondered if maybe he could really be visiting me in my dream. I asked him to tell me what the afterlife was like. He just made a face and the dream abruptly started to end. It didn’t just fade to black, though. The scene kind of rushed away from me. Or more like I was rushing backwards down a dark tunnel away from the scene. I screamed, “No!” and mentally grabbed unto the dream and pulled myself back. It was like my sense of motion just kind of stopped as I willed it to and then I rushed back forward back into the ship’s cabin. My friend was still there and I said, “Please, Answer me!”

He shook his head. He seemed to be sad maybe, or maybe a bit angry or something, and told me, “You have all the answers you’re ever going to get.” and I was instantly awake. Dream over.

I don’t really believe the dead visit us in our sleep, but it’s a pleasant fantasy to think so. He’s appeared in my dreams more than a few times since then, but never again was there a dream like that. I’ve also never had another lucid dream. His words have really stuck with me. I’ve pondered them many times and I just wonder…

the theory is that lawmakers keep rejecting it until it’s federally legal because they want to make tax money on it just like they’ve done with liquor.

Um… that is really odd. I used to live in Illinois, which has had legal weed for years, and they’ve been taxing it and raking in the dough all along. In fact, a lot of states with legal weed collect tax on the sale of it.

For a very long time, people like this have been digesting right-wing media that has convinced them that liberals and brown people are not human beings. Liberals and minorities are dangerous animals and killing such individuals is doing a service to the greater good. When ICE hires them and gives them a badge and a gun, it’s the final proof that they’re really the good guys and it’s okay to pull the trigger.

A - It doesn’t make money for Trump himself so he doesn’t care, and B - Republicans who get automated tickets from speed cameras can’t get out of it by saying, “Do you know who I am?!”

Is there some reason to assume these were even actual ICE agents? That pair should have been detained/arrested pending a determination of their identities and evidence that they have the legal authority to assault and detain anyone. This could very well have been an attempted kidnapping disguised as an ICE attack. If the fucking cops don’t detain them, we’ll never actually know.

Plus, that Christ guy was really into wine. Go to a church and they’ll offer you a sip of wine and tell you it’s his blood. That’s a BAC of what, 11-12%?

In the criminal complaint, the police department says Mari was “verbally interjecting herself into the investigation,” and that she was “flexing her upper body” before she was “escorted to the ground” by officers.

Escorted to the ground?! Seriously?

Maybe a kickstarter or something?

Odd. They seem to have two stories at the same link. You need to scroll about halfway down the page to get to the story I was trying to link. I can’t seem to get a direct link to it. Sorry about that.

Where’s a good Butlerian Jihad when you need one?

Imagine how well the Democrats could do in the midterms if they actually were to hold the line on this. I know they’ll cave, because it’s just what they do, but just let me dream for a few minutes…

Well, it is what the Baileys would want him to do, you know.

“Follow up question, Mr. Speaker! Regarding that last half-a-dozen or so ICE agents that shot and killed people in various states of the union who didn’t have body cams. Does there need to be accountability? Surely you’ve heard about at least one of those killings by now?”

From another article…

A witness told the Portland Press Herald that he heard gunshots, then saw an SUV attempting to “ram a small white car in the intersection” before agents in vests stopped the white car and pulled the man from the vehicle. Before he died, the victim was “bleeding profusely from the head,” that witness said. “He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop.’”

Another witness told the Press Herald that the victim’s family was apparently at the scene of the shooting. As the man lay on the street, an “older woman” was present “with a distressed family,” including a toddler—a little girl in Bluey pajamas. “You took her dad, you took her dad!” the woman yelled.

I user Firefox with a handful of extensions including Bypass Paywalls Clean, NoScript, und uBllock Origin. I seem to breeze past a lot of paywalls. I base that on threads here where people are complaining about paywalls blocking them that I don’t see.

Sometimes, when a site throws a Subscribe box up to block me from reading/scrolling on the sight, I can use the uBlock element zapper to delete it and read the article. The only ones that really get me are the ones that only load a paragraph or two unless you log in.

I would be willing to bet that is the case, but good luck doing a study to test the hypothesis.

That is brought up near the end of the article.

While teachers may be intending for these tools to be strictly educational, students often have different ideas. According to a 2014 study, which surveyed and observed 3,000 university students, students engaged in off-task activities on their computers nearly two-thirds of the time.

Horvath blamed this tendency to get off-track as a key contributor to technology hindering learning. When one’s attention is interrupted, it takes time to refocus. Task-switching also is associated with weaker memory formation and greater rates of error. Grappling with a challenging singular subject matter is hard, Horvath said. For the best learning to happen, it’s supposed to be.

“Unfortunately, ease has never been a defining characteristic of learning,” he said. “Learning is effortful, difficult, and oftentimes uncomfortable. But it’s the friction that makes learning deep and transferable into the future.”

Sustained attention to a singular subject is anathema to how technology today has been deployed, argues Jean Twenge, San Diego State University psychology professor studying generational differences and the author of 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World. More time on screens isn’t just ineffective in facilitating learnings; it’s counterproductive.

“Many apps, including social media and gaming apps, are designed to be addictive,” Twenge told Fortune. “Their business model is based on users spending the most time possible on the apps, and checking back as frequently as possible.”

Yep. The Huffington Post reported that monitoring of cyclospora was stopped when. DAGE gutted the CDC.

Pup-aganda

Clarance Darrow said it. It wasn’t Twain.