...between cause and effect" is "an esoteric and metaphysical one" 2/2

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, and post the second sentence.

"In fact, Candrakirti would heartily applaud any effort to avoid contradicting "the common sense of mankind" and he would as well agree with Hume, given certain qualifications, that "the idea of a necessary connection... 1/2

Confabulation related to his cognitive decline, imo

What a gorgeous sunrise!

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Even if he doesn't know it due to poor mental health and cognition, if people around him see that Trump's strategy isn't going to work, then they may be less inclined to support him.

I don't think it's just about what *he* knows, but about what others believe are likely outcomes of Trump's ideas.

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Thanks Alasdair - glad you posted this - I'm now booked to see your show in Exeter, and will mention to some of my friends - really looking forward to this!

I'm sorry to hear that....my condolences. It's hard - take care of yourself.

...and, grief is a process. It can take time to work through. So be kind to yourself.

I get ya. Grief is grief - I certainly felt it when I had to have one of my cats put down due to her aggressive cancer. I sobbed and cried about as much as when I lost a parent. So, IMO, grief like that in relation to a pet is understandable and completely natural - one's lost a friend after all.

Between Kaineng City and Istan

No, but I sometimes find myself saying things like "I know the word in French/Thai/whatever, but I don't know the English word for it..."

e.g. "So, Will, what do you think of the new car?"
"I dunno, Harry, seems a bit flashy to me"
It just comes across as very odd, stilted language to me and, if someone does use my name a lot in conversation, I can't help but view them as using a salesmanship technique and instinctively disliking it.

So, to me, using a name when there's no clear need to smacks of a conversational power play.
As an aside, I'm an amateur actor and, in some of the scripts we read, it's clear that the author didn't read the lines out to an audience as part of the writing process.

It's just a remarkably odd thing to do in a conversation. We use others' names very little in practice IMO.

We use others' names ofc when we want to address this person rather than that one, but the usage that sticks with me is when one's telling off a child e.g. "Douglas, what are you doing?"

About time too!

I've just ordered a copy - very much enjoyed your first book

IMO, he won't seriously try to. He'll do what he can to give the appearance of negotiating, but will mostly just take the opportunity to blame France for any failure of his policy.

Maybe Conform? Perhaps an image of prison bars? Would hit a few authoritarian vibes...

Agreed - I also don't see Musk or Trump as having the patience for a more gradual and systematic approach

A sticky situation, indeed!

History

I should add, I used to take both the brown (beclomethasone?) and blue salbutamol inhalers to manage asthma, but that didn't work very well to control symptoms. Moving to fostair was a notable improvement, and meant that I no longer needed the blue inhaler

I have asthma and take fostair (dry powder now) - it's a LABA so provides long-term relief (very effectively too).

I switched to the dry powder version and that does also work (on the rare occasions that I've needed to) to relieve acute symptoms, albeit maybe 20-30 seconds slower than the gas one

I'm on the committee of a local amateur theatre, and we closed our Twitter/X account about 6 months or so ago. We got very little useful engagement there, and any replies were bots or similar, so it just wasn't worth it for the very minimal increase to reach that we got.

That's absolutely amazing! I can almost smell the orange now.

Unwarranted bias against childeless bat ladies, IMO

I'm asthmatic too, but was told I wasn't eligible for the free covid jab. I used to use the blue salbutamol inhalers - my asthma was deemed "poorly controlled".

I now use the magenta "fostair" one twice a day, and my asthma is well controlled...so sadly had to get my covid jab privately (£98!)