The headline is sensationalized and misleading. The U.S. ambassador did not threaten to “send fighter jets into Canadian airspace” as a hostile or coercive act. What he actually said was:
If Canada backs out of or significantly reduces the F-35 purchase, the U.S. would need to adjust NORAD arrangements because Canada would no longer contribute equivalent capability to continental air defense. This could mean the U.S. buying additional F-35s to cover the gap and potentially conducting more routine patrols or intercepts in Canadian airspace to maintain the same level of shared security.
It's not a problem - that's literally the practice. You focus on something like your breath, and every time you catch yourself getting lost in thought, you just gently go back to the breath.
The overwhelming majority of people couldn't stop their thoughts for even 10 seconds if their life depended on it. And they don't have to. Just notice the thoughts and start again.
You can even meditate on the thought itself - it doesn't have to be the breath.
Voting in itself isn't necessarily the issue. It's users being able to see those scores that feeds the echo chamber.
It affects posting and commenting habits because people quickly learn what's popular and what isn't. That leads to both self-censorship and just shouting out popular views for validation without putting much critical thought into it.
It also primes users to approach posts or comments with a strong bias - positive or negative - based on the up- or downvote count before they've even read a word.
I was enrolled into this experiment against my will recently. We'll see how it goes. For the record, I've hand my laundry hung drying for four weeks now.
I love my heated blanket. I can't sleep with it unless it's really cold but I sit on it all day every day. Spares me from having to crank up the heating all the way or having to overdress to stay comfortable.
Meditation isn't about stopping thoughts but about noticing them. Thinking is not the issue - it's thinking without knowing that you're thinking. Beating yourself up for getting distracted is just more thinking without knowing that you're thinking.
The headline is sensationalized and misleading. The U.S. ambassador did not threaten to “send fighter jets into Canadian airspace” as a hostile or coercive act. What he actually said was:
If Canada backs out of or significantly reduces the F-35 purchase, the U.S. would need to adjust NORAD arrangements because Canada would no longer contribute equivalent capability to continental air defense. This could mean the U.S. buying additional F-35s to cover the gap and potentially conducting more routine patrols or intercepts in Canadian airspace to maintain the same level of shared security.