JW was a friend of mine .l just find it hard to believe he said that but I guest we'll never know. I've seen him do a lot of good things . he seam to be a stand up guy.

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A friend of mine worked on these planes. He said they could take more damage and still fly than any plane he's ever seen.

Friend of mine did body removals, from his stories my opinion is you ALWAYS got the wrong house.

Excellent, treading that fine line between parasitism and commensalism.

I just found out that the FDA has approved ivermectin, in the USA usually used for worming livestock, for the treatment of rosacea (adult acne). Applied topically, it seems to work by killing enough of the demodex mites (or maybe it does something else).

Worked for a friend of mine, comes in large, horse-friendly containers.

A friend of mine used to have an old LAW tube, I always thought it would be cool to load it up with a model rocket, I hope they wore the brown pants.

"What is that from? It was interesting." --a friend of mine

Taking you seriously for a moment, I've never understood the armed militia/tyrannical government idea. Personally, I'd trust a soldier long before I'd trust a corporation or a judge, and never a lawyer. It's not the army people need to fear, they are us, it's the wealthy whose outlooks are alien.

Former friends of mine had a remarkable business surge that took them from lower middle class WELL into the 1%. The diminished empathy that came along with it is why they're former friends, not current ones. It was gross how their attitudes and beliefs changed.

I dunno ... he yelled at a friend of mine in an airport V.I.P. lounge once, so ... karma? I like to think so

I live near this family(organization) and they do incredible work. I had the pleasure of being able to pay a visit there one time, with a good friend of mine who knows them well.

Unfortunately I do believe they lost this big teddy bear to old age just recently.

R.I.P big guy..

*doublepromote a cameo from an old friend of mine, ... P.K. Dwyer! He's the busker with the grey beard playing guitar outside the original Starbucks @2:43!

Thanks!

I shared this with a friend of mine who was a doula (and the mother of two.) She says it is 100% accurate.

Dang.

Hard to have a discussion when the basic psychological concept that is endemic in society is not understood by one side of the conversation. Not really worth trying to dig out of that hole, in my opinion.

I do like your idealist view of how people SHOULD be. We aren't that way, of course. I wish it for all our futures.

Including men, and the internalized messages they get that warp their view of the world.

I have contended for years that men are in a much worse psychological state than women. We at least are encouraged to delve into our emotions, with varying degrees of success. Poor men are told to buck up and be "men". What a horrible thing to say to a little boy, or a preteen, or a teenager, or a young man entering adulthood, or a grown man dealing with a difficult world. No wonder men die earlier than women. The pressures they are under are enormous, with no way to relieve that pressure.

Generally speaking. There is a movement that has been gathering steam that is encouraging men to become more fully themselves.

The hike was great, albeit too short. We don't have great big waterfalls here on the Olympic Peninsula. It has been raining a lot lately. The waterfall that we visited was THUNDERING. I have never seen a thundering waterfall here.

Then again, I don't normally hike in the winter.

As for the weather... some Norwegian told a friend of mine -- There is no bad weather. Only bad clothing.

My clothing was fine, aided by the fact it started raining after we headed back home.

Newtboy, are you telling me you've never met anyone first hand that has had a psychedelic-type experience on edibles or just plain smoking flowers? Because although rare, it's still a thing. I've had some, very close to what this guy describes, and a friend of mine has them routinely. Are they strictly speaking hallucinations like under a psychotic episode? Not in my case, since the 'visualization' was in my mind's eye, and I wasn't literally seeing something appear in front of me, but it was psychedelic nonetheless.

Hadn't seen this before, but I disagree.

A friend of mine earns less than $10000 a year, but he travels the world skiing (well, splitboarding actually, but same thing). He buys the cheapest bulk food he can, and lives in a tent most of the year.

You'd be amazed what you can do if you decide to put your passion before literally everything else.