What this sounds like to me as someone from LA: pay $50 per hour to park in a lot and take a shuttle from there, because of course no one will consider pedestrian infrastructure between the venues and the parking lots.
I've visited and that sounds exactly like how it will work out.
Say you live in Long Beach and you're going to some venue on the other side of town. Are you going to take a bus the whole way? No, you'll drive close by, find parking... then do the last few miles somehow.
There is a totally nonalcoholic kava bar where I live.
Kava is a nonintoxicating plant with alkaloids that improve mood and enhance sociability.
The kava bar a fantastic place to sit by yourself and easily fall into a conversation with other people at the bar or the kava-tender.
I do think kava is illegal in some countries, which is unfortunate, and being that it grows on pacific islands, it's probably rather hard to import for most places. But a wonderful plant and wonderful concept.
What is there to be afraid of about death, exactly? If you don't believe in any afterlife or continuation, then there will be no consciousness to perceive the other side of death.
If you do believe in an afterlife or continuation, you'll have spent your life preparing accordingly.
For me the problem is not death itself, but the steady decline that usually comes before it. Biologically immortal humans would still die eventually, but there wouldn’t be decades of old age before death.
This seems like something that should need to be positively justified by the organization which wants to send salespeo^W representatives to schools, in a way that is publicly auditable.
I remember a ton of vaping threads extoling the idea vaping was totally safe on Reddit. When people brought up the possible negative side effects of vaping they were routinely downvoted into oblivion. Nobody wanted to believe vaping was dangerous are could have harmful side effects.
We don't know yet. But besides the nicotine addiction, there are other components in the vapor which we have no long-term data on, because it's just so new. But we know that there are components in the vapor that are harmful to your health, and nicotine itself is cardiotoxic, so there's that [1].
We do however have studies showing that vaping can be implicated in lung cancer [2].
I can only answer anecdotally from my personal experience but: frequent coughing while not vaping, chest pain, very obviously reduced cardiovascular capacity and increased fatigue during my workouts.
Your body has no mechanism for purging oil residue from your lungs. The frequency at which vape users would be flooding their lungs with those vaporized oils was akin to someone starting out as a pack a day heavy smoker.
Tar as I understand it does break down very slowly over time but many smoke at a greater rate than it can be broken down and smoke itself is a worse irritant than oil vapor.
Blue Nights by Joan Didion, in which she grieves the death of her forty-something daughter, just a few years after her abusive husband died suddenly from a heart attack.
The contrast between her gorgeous but also coldly precise writing, the grieving mother vs the lauded writer, the tension of watching her muse (very delicately, very distantly) on the nature of being an adoptive mother and wondering as a reader: what sort of wounds did Joan Didion pass on to her daughter and what wounds did her daughter inherit from her biological family, the contrast between the vibrant streets of New York and the cold hospital where her daughter was dying in a coma, knowing as a reader that this writer had just gone through the grief of losing her husband a few years earlier...
It was haunting, beautiful, and, naturally, a little voyeuristic by its very nature. I still think about it to this day.
This is an interesting comment. I think part of the mystique of Joan Didion's persona and her autobiographical writing is the fact that she is a wildly, and fascinatingly, unrelatable person, regardless of the reader's gender.
The point of her writing generally isn't to reflect to reader. And what makes her autobiographical writing so compelling is the the way she dissects her own supremely unrelatable life and emotional landscape.
>“Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent,” (“Sacred Mathematics”). This quotation by Plato, an Ancient Greek philosopher, demonstrates the importance of geometry to the foundations of the universe.
To me that illustrates a depth to maths which is absent from Haskell and Jazz.
Also from Wikipedia:
>Evidence for more complex mathematics does not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Babylonians and Egyptians began using arithmetic, algebra, and geometry...
But what I don't like is the implication that learning isn't already fun. Learning is inherently fun!
It's not gamification that make learning fun. What makes learning fun the satisfaction that comes from completing tasks successfully and the sense of focus that comes from a course that has a well-organized roadmap.
Gamification has shown to reduce the enthusiasm for the activity being gamified.
Rewarding any activity diminishes intrinsic motivation. Focus shifts on the reward, our brains deem the activity as worth-less in the absence of a reward. The activity is now a chore.
See the work of Alfie Kohn and Stanford’s online course on gamification.
Ha! I just read a comment yesterday on a Reddit Duolingo forum about how Duolingo doesn't reward a person when they finish a certain language completely, I guess this is what happened there. "Activity seems to be worthless in the absence of a reward."
I think what makes learning fun is subjective and varies from student to student.
For me, what makes learning fun is the retroactive satisfaction I get from solving a future unrelated problem that incorporates the knowledge/skills I acquired at an earlier point.
