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Holidays 2023: What to Buy and Not to Buy? Privacy Aware Shopping Tips
https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/Shopping-x1:b
https://rumble.com/v3vku7l-holidays-2023-what-to-buy-and-not-to-buy-privacy-aware-shopping-tips.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnzeMzbbNVE

Want to buy that special someone fun technology as a Christmas gift? Here are some privacy oriented ideas! DISCLAIMER: The overlap between tech oriented people and privacy oriented people is quite small in my experience.

May everyone have a very merry Christmas, and a good and fruitful 2024.

TUMBLING WORKOUT | Beginner (for Adults)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fIoJtgupa8

What's your resolution for 2024? Getting in shape?

Oberseewald wrote:

Going to try really, really hard to be kinder to idiots…

A noble endeavor

Norengland wrote:

I have survived. I need to work on core and arm strength this year. I also hope my career prospects have truly opened up with a few offers so far.

So much to do -.-

Congratulations on your offers. Good luck with those.

Core strength is important too.

Plato's Dialogues - Euthyphro (Audiobook)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--lZWSMeVzA

Text: https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html

As mentioned earlier, I'm branching out and will be posting on topics of various interests. I'm thinking I will begin at a major wellspring of the Western philosophical tradition by hitting Platon's (and Xenophon's) dialogues around the prosecution and death of their teacher, Sokrates, and then move on to Aristoteles's Nichomachean Ethics, making weekly posts in digestible chunks. From there, I can go in any number of directions, but it makes sense to me to either post on other Hellenic or Hellenistic philosophy, politics, history, or arts, or to move on to Rome, or to jump over to China to post the Great Learning of Kong Fuzi, or Master Kong, commonly rendered as Confucius with commentary by his student and one of the Four Sages of Confucianism, Zengzi (Master Zeng). Other foundational options could include Genesis, which begins the Jewish and Christian religious canon, or the Bhagavad Gita (The Song by God) which is a foundational Hindu scripture, and whence comes J. Robert Oppenheimer's famous line "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds". I will consider requests.

The dialogue of Euthyphrōn (Εὐθύφρων), commonly rendered as Euthyphro in English (almost uniquely so), is presumably set in 399 BC, wherein Plátōn (Πλάτων) has Sokrátes meet the Athenian soothsayer Euthyphrōn on the porch of the king magistrate, after having already been accused of impiety by Meletos (a serious charge), whereupon the two begin a conversation on the meaning of piety and justice.

For those of you who have much to do, since this is an audiobook, it should be an easy matter to just get this going and listen to it while performing mundane tasks.

Oberseewald wrote:

Have you actually put into practice what you’re proposing to preach to the masses?

I'm kind of just doing my own thing, and I'm inviting the region along for the ride. If you're asking whether I watch (or listen to) the links that I post, the answer is yes. If you're asking whether I oppose the agendas that get floated at the WEF, the answer is yes within measure (but even when I don't, I enjoy sharing ideas for solutions). If you're asking whether I'm working out, the answer is yes. I actually often find that my regular gaming sessions are an opportune time to listen to news, analysis, history, and philosophy (although I need more science, gardening, DIY projects, cooking, self defense, literature, and performance arts videos). However, I've been lax in studying foundational texts, and so that's part of my current project. I actually just watched a rendition of Aristophanes's The Clouds, which I intend to post next weekend. In the mean time, I'm also listening to Locke's Two Treatises of Government, which I'll probably post some time in the distant future.

Yes, this is an area where I spend much of my free time. Other good options include listening while exercising or doing laundry or cleaning the house or driving around.

And thus the decent into navel gazing is complete…

Apology of Sokrates (Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους, Apología Sokrátous) by Platon
Audiobook: https://rumble.com/v3nne8y-the-apology-of-socrates-by-plato-full-audio-book.html
Text: https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html

Sokrates stands before a jury of Athenians to present his defense against the charges of doing evil, and corrupting of the youth, and not believing in the gods of the state, and having other new divinities of his own; and against the rumors of being an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others.

Crito (Κρίτων, Krítōn) by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJALLoNZoG0
Text: https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html

After being convicted and sentenced to death by an Athenian jury for impiety and corrupting the youth, Sokrates is visited in prison by his wealthy friend Kriton who has bribed the guard and comes with a plan of escape and seeks to convince Sokrates to accept. This dialogue articulates ideas about the obligations of a citizen to follow the laws of their society.

Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn) parts IV & V by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8hE92CuFY&t=3699s
Text: https://genius.com/Plato-phaedo-full-text-annotated

Platon's character portraying the Elean philosopher Phaidon continues his account of the last hours of Sokrates to the Pythagorean philosopher Echekrates (Ἐχεκράτης). By now, Sokrates has convinced the Theban philosophers Simmias and Kebes that the soul exists before birth with his Cyclical argument and the Theory of Recollection argument. However, each holds out reservations against the claim that the soul survives after death, to which Sokrates replies with what is called the Affinity argument. Once more the Thebans express reservations - Simmias compares the body to a lyre and the soul to a harmony, while Kebes compares the body to a coat and the soul to weaver that may outlive multiple coats in his life but is still not immortal. These analogies trouble his friends, but Sokrates admonishes against succumbing to misology (hatred of ideas), which he likens to misanthropy. He answers Simmias first, while his reply to Kebes argues from the Form of Life and will be posted next week.

Norengland wrote:

Nearly passed into history again, but summer tire Tesla on ice filled steep hill missed me by a fraction of inches a few weeks ago.

I do hope that report brings that git some issues, he drove off after smashing into a parked car rather than accepting responsibility.

Aside from that, work work work work and trying to be a good partner as usual. Nor ain't dust yet.

I'm glad he missed. I once had the vantage point of having summer tires on a sedan looking down a steep icy hill. Talk about daunting. Luckily, there was another way down.