ataxian
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I guess it depend!
Good question!
I like SATIVA favored HYBRID'S for reading!
SOLO to take off the EDGE
BAck in daze SATIVA was good
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Good question!
I like SATIVA favored HYBRID'S for reading!
SOLO to take off the EDGE
BAck in daze SATIVA was good
OF
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Good question. OTOH I understand it tends to stop his lips from moving, which many consider a useful improvement.
FWIW I strongly suspect it improves his enjoyment, the only measure that really counts? I'm afraid we can expect future generations to read less and less in the traditional sense. If it doesn't fit in a cellphone it's going to get passed by. Or a comic book?
I was reading the other day that it's now possible to graduate from Yale with a real degree in English without ever reading any Shakespeare....... The schools get richer, and the students happier with the experience and the results decline as the standards fall. Not likely to take us to a better place.
Go @ataxian! Bravo!
OF
ataxian
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@OF I was a surfer growing up however reading is my real passion anyway!
When we surfed HUGE WAVES in HAWAII I read every night!
SATIVA was my friend.
These daze I have more time to READ.
Right now most of my books are FRENCH.
The SOLO is my friend for this activity!
We all are different & have a different POV?
Some like RASTA?
Some like BLACK TEE-SHIRT’S?
Some like to READ?
Some like to veg out?
Can’t we just get along?
My take for how I see it?
Tranquility
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A lot of medical research on cannabis that has shown results is in reducing muscle spasticity. I wonder if a person with ataxia (just as a guess) might have an easier time reading if his eyes are moving more smoothly.
One large issue that might be a problem someday gets to book reading. I am a voracious reader and still read a lot of books. But, with so much on the internet, I seem to do more and more reading there. I wonder how the short-focus reading of today will change abilities from those who read long-focus things in the past. If you only have to focus for 15 minutes or so in 90% of your reading, will frustration result if something takes more time? How will that affect...things?
It does seem odd one can study English without reading Shakespeare. Wait until you can get a degree in Engineering without math. (As it is a tool of white male patriarchy and teaching it perpetuates white privilege.)
Hackerman
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Not to take it too far off topic but speaking of reading fading out of out youth's picture... it was just announced that our high school seniors in out local school system can now graduate from high school, even if they can't pass the state proficiency exam. They can do hours of community service (picking up trash on the streets) and it applies towards their high school credits.
Unbelievable.
In out best school, 3 out of 10 graduating seniors could not read or write at a high school level. In our worst school, 7 out of 10 seniors could not read or write.
So, our city petitioned the state to lower the tests and they wouldn't. They said all the other cities passed and, we're just fucking too stupid. LOL So, the city school system got a HB bill passed to allow 'community service' to count towards high school graduation. LMAO
So, now, instead of learning to read or write, they can pick up trash and graduate.
I weep for the future.
OK... on topic question. I am dying to take advantage of the BYGO on Arizer.com. I have a Solo 1. Is the Solo 2 worth the upgrade? I have an ArGo so I would get the Air free.
Unbelievable.
In out best school, 3 out of 10 graduating seniors could not read or write at a high school level. In our worst school, 7 out of 10 seniors could not read or write.
So, our city petitioned the state to lower the tests and they wouldn't. They said all the other cities passed and, we're just fucking too stupid. LOL So, the city school system got a HB bill passed to allow 'community service' to count towards high school graduation. LMAO
So, now, instead of learning to read or write, they can pick up trash and graduate.
I weep for the future.
OK... on topic question. I am dying to take advantage of the BYGO on Arizer.com. I have a Solo 1. Is the Solo 2 worth the upgrade? I have an ArGo so I would get the Air free.
ataxian
PALE BLUE DOT
I Love STEVEN PINKER’S writing!
CHRISTOPER HITCHENS is different, however his POV is amazing to me.
CARL SAGAN wrote some books that are my favorite’s.
Not to make a list however I have so many book’s!
A SOLO help’s me read!
You could be on to something?
The internet is interesting?
However reading is fun for me.
His_Highness
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
I've tested the Solo 2 for about a week and ended up buying a second Solo 1. I liked the vapor a tiny bit more with the Solo 1 and the extra battery life, etc... of the Solo 2 wasn't enough for me to justify the additional cost.
RUDE BOY
Space is the Place
my nieces oldest kid failed the 8th grade, repeated that grade and received an incomplete but was moved on up to high school and the 9th grade. After that he totally gave up on school, attending less than 90 days in each of his years in high school so every grade was Incomplete. . . come time for his graduation and I was truly dumbfounded when they handed him a diploma that said he "successfully completed the necessary course of study and academic achievement".
It is time to weep for our nations future.
ataxian
PALE BLUE DOT
My nephew got into BERKLEY in Northern California!
After the first semester he said it was lame?
He live’s in AUSTRALIA and makes more money than most.
The AMERICAN DREAM is no longer the norm!
SOLO until death!
OF
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Yep, "Social Promotion" they used to call it. Can't have self esteem suffer just because they don't learn for whatever reason. The next result, as you point out, is dropping out since they are truly lost. Or the school simply takes their money. When I taught we got State money for two 'census days' per quarter. A couple hundred dollars per filled chair on those two days. The push was on to keep failing students on the rolls that long, sad as that is. Prospective employers can no longer trust 'the sheepskin' at face value, it's become more of a social thing?
Fortunately, our Ataxian is above all that. Not so for the young?
Amen. How does that saying about not learning from the past go? Just as Eisenhower and Patton predicted we now have Holocaust Deniers.......
Solo, however, will give you courage for the new day. Sip slowly and savor the experience.
OF
Tranquility
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“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
--Socrates
Some others:
https://mentalfloss.com/article/52209/15-historical-complaints-about-young-people-ruining-everything
His_Highness
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
Recently I had someone in their late-30's who is still living with their parents say "I just don't understand why my parents didn't achieve anything near what their brothers and sisters did". The sadness and accusatory tone amazed me. When I asked if her kids might wonder the same thing she said "Everyone knows my generation will be the first not to do as well as their parents".
Ok then.....if you're the last to leave please turn off the lights.......but please charge the Solo first.
Ok then.....if you're the last to leave please turn off the lights.......but please charge the Solo first.
FabulatorPoeta
Where has the time gone?
@ataxian Since you read French books, while using your Solo you might enjoy Théophile Gautier's La pipe d'opium, [English translation The Opium Pipe] a short fantastic novel from the mid 19th century. I learned not so long ago that so called opium pipes were in fact... vaporizers! Bonne lecture, bonne santé et longue vie au Solo.
ataxian
PALE BLUE DOT
My 22 year old with get her masters in FRANCE.
AMERICAN DREAM is gone!
SOLO in FRANCE?
I guess HASH with be the thing? (And wine?)
The FRENCH writer’s are very deep!
I love FRANCE for food, honesty, culture and so on!
CALIFORNIA does have very decent CANNABIS I will miss.
I will bring my SOLO and a BUBBLER to MEDICATE while I read.
NEPOLEAN by ROBERTS from CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND is a good read.
I will be close to SPAIN so maybe a few COFFEE SHOP are on my bucket list?
Reading FRENCH book’s will be a fun activity!
My wife being FRENCH will help!
I will keep my house in CALIFORNIA for now?
To bad the CANNABIS laws have not been modernized?
OF
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That sounds like a good idea, just leave the key under the door mat and we'll take care of it.
See it gets used, and all.
Based on what I know, I'd plan on classic pressed hash. Very traditional and you're a traditional guy, right?
OF
arb
Semi shaved ape
Mind if we drain your pool and skate in it?
ataxian
PALE BLUE DOT
After school HS we emptied pools & smoked joints of homegrown!
Red vans on our feet.
501 Levi’s & a flannel shirt wore over our hang ten shirts.
1972 after school and 420?
SOLO back when life was a utopia?
Those were daz’s long gone by!
JONI MITCHELL sang, “BIG YELLOW TAXI “!
CALIFORNIA was a DREAM once?
SOLO would have been opulence!
We made our skateboard’s in REDWOOD fitted with Wheels soft!
SURFING in da morning before school!
SAND & SALT WATER dripping on my test paper!
I am sorry for going down memory lane!
MEDICATED STONED On CANNABIS SOLO = CIVILIZATION
Never skated my own pool?
arb
Semi shaved ape
I knew that would get you in you childhood..........fiberglass pools pop out of the ground when drained...........good times.
My guess is the neighbors already have plans...........Cali style.
Buzzbomb Almighty
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Just let us know when you're leaving, when you're coming back, and how much to pay the gardener.