The Daily Blog Open Mic – 22nd January 2024
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I think what this guy says about overdoing things like eating too much of something, could apply to drinking – and if you think about how you are enjoying what you are having, it breaks the unsatisfied desire that was in you that makes you reach quickly for another. Some call it being mindful.
I have decided to try and cherish little positive things during my day, even exchange of smiles. pleasant greeting. Works. Find good, enjoy, be grateful – for the good the day has brought, might be small but still a plus. We thinkers have to watch our mental state, we will get worn down otherwise and lose our spunk!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-weekend/audio/2018922734/dr-jud-brewer-why-we-eat-when-we-re-not-hungry
Julian Assange in hot water – getting hotter. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. Men still have more power than women. Is there anyone out there – anybodies to act and free this guy. As a disincentive to leaking etc. what has happened so far is a very salutary lesson.
In the meantime here are some books on the man.
https://www.booktopia.com.au/search.ep?author=Julian%20Assange
Before we get another pernickety prosing smart-arse about how we should worry about this…., could we put a moratorium for the sake of our mental health? And to prevent violence being unleashed on innocent people who don’t realise that some communication is the last straw!!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/507202/the-climate-cost-of-need-it-now-home-deliveries
45stranded dolphins had to be euthanised.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/507276/scientists-to-study-pod-of-45-euthanised-dolphins-in-hawke-s-
…There were a number of reasons the dolphins would come close to the shoreline, he said.
“They could be coming in, chasing food in the shallows. There could be illness or injury amongst the pod which causes them to slowdown and come closer to shore.
Mahia itself is a bit of a hot spot in New Zealand whale stranding. There’s an ocean current that runs along that coast and this hook of land does tend to catch them out,” Grover said.
There were a number of reasons the dolphins would come close to the shoreline, he said.
“They could be coming in, chasing food in the shallows. There could be illness or injury amongst the pod which causes them to slowdown and come closer to shore. Mahia itself is a bit of a hot spot in New Zealand whale stranding. There’s an ocean current that runs along that coast and this hook of land does tend to catch them out,” Grover said.
If only there cold be beacons sening out pulses or whatever that would alert dolphins in a way that they understood, that there were outcrops that coulc give them trouble.
Does anyone know of research that would give a remedy.