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In a court of law it takes more than name-calling to present an argument. The Sheeran Group could have gotten an injunction to provide for the Macklemore performance in the tax-funded stadiums, but not the Gillette stadium which was privately funded.

The core argument of the Section 1983 lawsuit would be that the public stadium authority committed viewpoint discrimination, which is a severe violation of the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that when a government entity opens a facility for public use (like renting out a stadium for entertainment), it cannot deny access or cancel an event based entirely on the political viewpoint of the performer.

It looks like Ed Sheeran was dragged into this controversy. It wasn’t entirely within his control. He should have just stayed silent rather than give a speech from a teleprompter written by professionals. He was way over his head. The more interesting issue is that the tax-funded stadiums that participated in prohibiting a performance committed a legally actionable violation of constitutional rights. This does raise awareness as to the extent that the Epstein class controls entertainment.

The song Layla by Eric Clapton starts out its main riff in the key of D minor, then switches to C# minor for the versus. This creates a downward shift in mood. This is a highly unusual move because the two keys share few chords or notes in common and according to music theory it shouldn’t work.

The fake spirituality here isn't going to transform anyone.

If one develop's sensitivity to one's feelings, you will see that any attachment creates suffering.

You can't get rid of the sexual urge, but lust is about attachement.

Lust is the most powerful of the low consciousness traps.

From the very beginning, it looked to me like they were doing a professional wrestling routine. Their act had all the elements: fake toughness and humor. But the part that is real is that they are accused by two countries of committing multiple real crimes.

What’s interesting in that all spiritual teachers now feel the need to make videos explaining their position on psychedelics. It’s because psychedelics have become a big fad and they are getting constant questions from their followers who demand they get on the bandwagon. I now consider it a test of integrity which spiritual teachers resist the pressure and are willing to take an unpopular position rather than condone false hope in a quick fix to deep existential problems.

People are inauthentic as a protection mechanism. If you are authentic, you are going to pay a price, most likely rejection and loss. It’s not a feel good new agey thing. The reward is intimacy, if the other person decides to agree to the process rather than running away.

El-Sayed is a really good candidate. Finally, the left is doing something right. He is attractive, articulate, polite, intelligent, and has a manly image that makes the average right winger look clownish and wimpy. In this age where optics matter, the right-wing smear machine will fail against such a candidate. Even if he doesn’t win now, he has a bright future. He needs to be duplicated all over the country. This is the only hope for America.

Try having the AI give you directions when you are trying to find something. If you ask it something as simple as "should I walk north or should I walk south” , you are not likely to get the correct answer because it has no representation of a map and the meaning of directions. I tried this and it just sent me going in circles. The LLMs cannot reason about anything. They are pattern matching.