They just rejected two any censorship proposals.

Technically it was the shareholders that voted it them down, but the board opposed it and the way the voting was set up was very biased against the proposals. How disgusting.

Of course, its not just Yahoo that is complicit with Chinese censorship. Google, Microsoft and others are also guilty, but as far as I know, Yahoo is the only one which is documented as being directly involved in the imprisonment of a dissident.

Fat thoughts lead you to be fat. That’s ridiculous. I’m thin because I think thin? Absurd. More lives are lost because people in a situation where people are dying are upset about people dying? Sorry, that’s not a negative feedback loop, that’s just insanity. As Jack White says, you can’t take the effect and make it the cause! You can make the logical leaps here. If you think negative thoughts about being attacked, you will attract attackers.

–Worry can be healthy. Planning for the worst and hoping for the best is far more helpful than just saying “think positive and you’ll be rich!”–

Exactly. Sometimes bad stuff happens to good people. Sometimes a LOT of bad stuff happens to really good people. It has nothing to do with attracting it. Much of our existence is out of our control, the key is to learn what you can control and what you can’t. A lot of people confuse the categories.

Life is complex, strategies for dealing with life should be similarly nuanced. This is why I’m OK with one-on-one therapy, I encourage it, but broad-based systems are largely either mumbo-jumbo or simply no good. Groupthink is ultimately harmful. Everyone is different, and people of all mentalities fail and succeed in life.

j.j.