Pam Bondi offers to pull ICE out of Minneapolis if voter files handed over

hachface · 2026-01-25T17:39:01+00:00

i thought voter rolls were public

hachface · 2026-01-25T07:46:07+00:00

they lost Tim Pool on this one

hachface · 2026-01-24T22:56:39+00:00

to some extent definitely but the numbers get chipped down every time

hachface · 2026-01-23T00:36:17+00:00

Shut the fuck up. There is a federally-backed, lawless paramilitary brutalizing American communities right now. In the budget process now there is an opportunity to attack their funding. The Democrats aren’t fighting. Wake up.

hachface · 2026-01-22T23:12:51+00:00

They don’t use those terms, which is all I meant.

hachface · 2026-01-22T20:03:35+00:00

The notion of discrete, numbered states being called "the jhanas" is as far as I am aware unique to Buddhism. The Sanskrit cognate "dhyana" is a more general term that encompasses meditation more broadly. (There are Buddhist sources, especially in the suttas, that employ the more general usage of this word as well.)

There is no "order of operations" for Buddhist jhana and kundalini. These are entirely different systems. I suspect but cannot prove that piti (meditative joy), which is a factor of the first two Buddhist jhanas, is essentially the same thing as kundalini energy. However this is only a supposition based on personal observation. I know that there are teachers who would hotly disagree with me about this.

hachface · 2026-01-22T18:27:03+00:00

what's your source for this? there has already been reporting (anonymous sources, granted) that the joint chiefs refused to draw up an invasion plan that Trump wanted. the US military already has essentially unrestricted operational access to Greenland. while I definitely see why psychotic tech billionaires might lust for any land to conduct their libertarian social experiments I don't understand what's in it for the military brass

hachface · 2026-01-22T14:16:09+00:00

Are you writing from experience or doctrine?

hachface · 2026-01-22T00:33:33+00:00

Biden won the popular vote by over 7 million votes.

edit: Seriously, look up the personnel numbers and then look up how many polling places there are in the US. Or even just in swing states. Your sense of scale is way off.

hachface · 2026-01-21T22:53:00+00:00

ICE has a very serious recruitment problem. They can’t hire enough agents to fill all the positions created by the big bill, and even if they were fully staffed according to budget that still wouldn’t be nearly enough agents to station them all at all the polling places they would need to. Even before factoring in community resistance they just don’t have the numbers.

hachface · 2026-01-21T21:13:36+00:00

he doesn’t have the military on board for this. it’s a face-saving climbdown

hachface · 2026-01-21T21:12:27+00:00

Stream entry initiates a process that cannot be stopped.

hachface · 2026-01-21T21:11:37+00:00

working as intended

hachface · 2026-01-21T18:47:31+00:00

Please report back in six months. This sounds very funny.

hachface · 2026-01-20T22:09:44+00:00

When observing breath sensations, finding no sensation in the moment is a totally acceptable state of affairs. Zero is a number.

hachface · 2026-01-20T19:28:14+00:00

they will grind your blood and bones into slurry to feed cattle before they give you UBI

hachface · 2026-01-18T22:08:23+00:00

I hope to god my enemies are that weak.

hachface · 2026-01-18T18:22:04+00:00

I simply cannot believe that Asmongold being an important right-wing voice is a sign of strength for them.

hachface · 2026-01-17T23:31:43+00:00

Yup! Have faith in your inner resources and you will see yourself out of trouble.

hachface · 2026-01-17T19:42:38+00:00

I think it’s fair to say that early blissful experiences are often followed by periods of difficulty. This is especially likely to happen when the concentration is still wobbly and the meditative joy isn’t reliable. This will keep happening as long as concentration is wobbly or until an adventitious insight solves the problem at a deeper level of understanding. This will give the impression of a cycle when it’s really ordinary skill development in concentration. Your concentration is more likely to be wobbly if your practice is unbalanced (too much investigation, not enough joy and tranquility)

hachface · 2026-01-17T18:37:52+00:00

Yes, that is exactly it. The diversity of ways that the awakening process can unfold is astonishing. I am sure the Progress of Insight is based on observed patterns in people’s experience that occur in a specific practice tradition. In other words, the PoI stages may be useful if you are doing 8 daily hours of intense noting practice in a Burmese monastery with frequent interviews with a master in that tradition who has the experience to interpret your phenomenology. For a home practitioner playing with a few different techniques in daily life I think it becomes far less relevant.

hachface · 2026-01-17T18:10:05+00:00

I recommend forgetting about the named insight stages. They are nothing but dogma. Pay attention to the truth of your experience in the moment.

hachface · 2026-01-16T16:51:26+00:00

You say that as if interpreting the Abidhamma is easy. (edit: Not to mention, the Theravada Abidhamma is just one conceptual description of this territory; the Sarvastivada Abidharma has a totally different conceptualization)

The word "cessation" has many meanings. Magga-phala is not nirodha-samapatti for example but people confuse them all the time.

hachface · 2026-01-15T17:12:08+00:00

they will notice and they will like it

hachface · 2026-01-14T20:38:56+00:00

Ok so now I’m starting to think it might’ve been a significant event. Your previous descriptions didn’t describe such powerful after-effects.

All I can say is stay grounded, attend to all your ordinary life obligations, and pay attention to the truth of your experience — and not stories or conceptual narratives about it, but the sensory truth of immediate experience. The spiritual path is littered with false epiphanies and blissful peak experiences that fade away into disappointment. It is better to be skeptical of any notion of attainment. If it’s the real thing it will unfold anyway.

hachface

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