The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Nature is Calling Jailbreaking from the Matrix Collapse Kalihi Valley Druid "I can see the mountains I can see the skies with 3 more minutes to go And it’s to dern pretty for a man that don’t want to die 2 more minutes to go" -Johnny Cash, 25 Minutes To Go Yesterday I had to run some errands in town and finally got the energy to do so. It wasn't particularly difficult except for trying to find a small business using my phone gps. For some reason the device kept freezing up, sending me to the wrong address, and literally had me driving around in circles until I gave up and called the place to get directions. What I found most suspicious was that even power cycling the device didn't seem to have any effect. All my apps were running super slow or crashing, and the navigation voice kept alternating from the saccharine melody of a modern female AI back to the stunted robo-speech of ten years ago. On a whim I tried covering up the cameras and instantly everything was func...

  How Diclofenac is killing Zoroastrianism The Indian Vulture Crisis, sky burials and the end of the oldest religion? STONE AGE HERBALIST Only after I had lent a shoulder to three colleagues and carried Framroze up the hill, depositing him on the topmost step of one of the Towers; only after I had turned my back on him, and whipped the sheet off his naked corpulent body, clapping my hands loudly three times—which was the signal to let mourners gathered in the small temple garden know that the consecrated body of my father had been offered to the vultures to devour, that they should commence their prayers for the effortless transmission of his soul; only after all that was over and done with, and the mourners had left, and a deep silence had descended once again on the Towers, only then did the floodgates of my grief open, and I cried bitterly for my father whom I would never see again. -  Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer, Cyrus Mistry He told this tale just as the ancients told it...