Paragone
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- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 13 hours ago:
Please read kobo.com/…/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain-bitco…
Steam STOPPED taking cryptocurrencies, because of the normal level of criminality in the people drenched in them… “you do NOT want to be doing business with these people”.
I’d use an Algorand-type blockchain for both accounting-records ( breaking “cooking the books” ) & for currency,
but then you’ve got monero which is engineered specifically to enforce that money-laundering is unbreakable, so that organized-crime can move money without any accountability ( I’m including criminal-government-entities, including insider-trading, in organized-crime ).
Nobody’s making the right infrastructure-decisions, … so whatever.
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- Comment on How do you fight abandonment issues when people keep abandoning you 14 hours ago:
I’m coming at this from a totally different angle, and I’m not asking you to be the same kind of someone as I am, I’m only giving you this for sake of giving you a greater-scope map, so you can better-decide where you want to go, ok?
WHEN one has no honest-acceptance in any others, THEN … there are several directions one can try to go…
- one can try to gain belonging, while doing some work on making oneself more-acceptable ( 1/3 or less of one’s effort going into it, aka part-time )
- one can try to gain belonging, committing total-immersion, possibly with a job-change, to earn ( in 1/4-1/2y, or more ) enough identity-transformation to become more-belonging with the someones one wants to be belonging with ( realistically, 3y might be required: bootcamp SMASHES identity, & it still has to take 1/4y to do it gradually-enough that it isn’t killing people )
- other options I’ve never thought-of
- instead of earning having a home in someone-else’s heart, belonging, earn a home in one’s own heart: self-acceptance.
( there is a fundamental-principle that alone isn’t inherently lonely … that is actually just social-conditioning, including all the love-songs, all the stories, movies, advertising, etc.
Few people break the programming, however… )
Another point is that co-dependency is what’s normal, nowadays, but Stephen R. Covey ( 1st, not 2nd or 3rd: apparently they proliferate, when you aren’t watching 'em : ) spoke on interdependency…
I’m not sure if he understood just how independent people have to become, in order to be independently collaborating in inter-dependency…
but it’s turned-out to be real & significant.
People who’re codependent … simply aren’t standing on their own, collaborating autonomously, independently, as capable individuals…
& society’s wired to push codependency, because dependent-populations are more manipulatable, & therefore more easy-prey, if you see…
People who are self-determining … are much tougher to feed-on, for economic-parasites, ideological-parasites, or “pushers” of other kinds…
While nice in theory, that doesn’t help anyone understand how to earn such a transformation, right?
Simple: exactly as the root-guru of the Christians told us, face into karma … essentially, getting-addicted to growing-up!
He phrased it “take up your cross”, but the meaning’s clear.
( what a soul sows, that soul reaps: karma. there’s no escaping his meaning, once one understands that frame-of-reference )
So, what facing-into-karma would work-on-perfecting your greater-meaning?
I’m not asking you to tell me, any reader, I’m asking you to dig, & dig, & dig, until YOU understand what your greater-meaning is…
& once you’ve identified it, then make it ( if you want to ) your mission to get addicted to grinding-through your unconscious-ignorances, getting addicted to the realizations, to the growing-up process, & to the greater-freedom-of-self that that-process earns.
Here’s an orthogonal tip:
What makes a good partner for someone?
Some want a doormat, so their ego can feel “big”.
Boring.
Some want to be pushed by a domineer, until they reach something deep in themselves, that they can’t reach any other way…
Dig this, though:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_and_animus
See how what one wants in a partner changes, as one grows-up?
The final condition in that is wanting someone to be collaborating-with, while earning OUR way into realizing-our-souls, together…
A partner, not a use/having relationship.
Can you understand that if someone I treasure hates/despises me because of misunderstanding, or because of harm in them, or because of how wrong I’ve been, or ANY reason, that it’s fine?
So long as they’re being true to themselves, then they’re progressing, & their-progressing makes me happy.
If circumstance ever grants that they value me, fine. If not, that’s fine too.
They aren’t mine.
NO-one is “mine”, except me, see?
Independence, having broken the belonging-drug’s geas, can feel incredible.
& simply treasuring someone, regardless of where they are, or what they feel about one, wishing them well, wishing LivingSpirit to be taking-care-of-them…
it’s good for one, see?
Not as good as absolute-altruism, but I’m not there yet, & that’s fine…
So, all of this is simply to provide you with a greater “map” of the available territory, which the social-programming-management-process won’t ever tell anybody about…
& if you do a good mind-map of your current condition, & a good mind-map of what you want you to become, & you do a good here-to-there-transformations diagram, identifying what steps are required in each dimension, then you can progress more easily…
I’m recommending a very-few utterly-glorious books, for liberating your life from unconscious-dysfunction-habits that we were all programmed into:
Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s book “Tribal Leadership”, on the 5 culture-process levels ( street-gang/mass-shooter is 1, “LIVING IS SELF-INHERENTLY AWESOME” is 5, btw: 2 is the default )…
I’d require all highschoolers to read that, so as to OWN their own live-quality more, & not be so helpless in the social-processing-machine…
Kegan & Lahey’s book “Immunity to Change” which is on the mechanism our unconscious-mind has in it to fight off growing-up ( hence the title ), so as to protect dysfunction … & how to simply get past that dysfunction-protection-racket that we’ve got in us…
Schneider’s book “Lead Right for Your Company’s TYPE” I also recommend, because we’re all applying the wrong processes onto the projects/works that we’re trying to get done, by default, & THAT is obliterating our life-opportunities from our world!
Schneider puts it upside-down ( most authors who have profound-insights do 1 or more things dumb/wrong, in their books… I hope I outgrow that, but … bleah, on that unconscious-mind habit of making-mistakes! it’s quite noticeable in my writing ), putting the pie-in-the-sky Potential on the bottom, & putting the concrete Actuality on the top, of the 2x2 Matrix, but uprighted it’s brilliant what he gave us:
People-Centric Task-Centric Pie-in-the-sky Potential Quadrant 1. Growing, Learning, Healing school, hospitals, mentoring, life-coaching Quadrant 2. Science, Discovery, Exploring, Driven-Excellence products/services Concrete Actuality Quadrant 3. Consensus, Urban-Planning, Mediation Quadrant 4. 6-Sigma, command-and-control, Manufacturing Notice that in an industrial-accident, in a factory, then suddenly we’d be in ALL OTHER quadrants, except Quadrant-4:
( I’m thinking of that video I saw of a German steel-mill, with a giant noodle of brightly-glowing steel filling the plant, setting fire to anything it could, filling the place FAST, as the ur-example of “industrial accident”, for this example )
- Quadrant-1 getting the retrieved-casualties as healing as one can…
- Quadrant-2 discovering what the hell’s the cause of the messing-everything-up
- Quadrant-3 gaining consensus on “it’s been shut-down”, with no people left on the wrong page…
Why would knowing which frames-of-reference are valid for each of those quadrants affect one’s ability to have quality-relationship?
The more-completely one’s work takes care of itself, because one is now solving the right problem ( wisdom: solving the problem quickly is intelligence, but solving the right problem is wisdom, see? ) makes work more effortless, & that makes more of one’s effort be available for relationship!
I don’t understand why people don’t understand that principle better…
Right infrastructure reduces wasted-effort for all who are affected by that infrastructure ( I’m including software, legislation, public-works, community-harmony, everything we live among, rely-on, work-with, etc, as infrastructure ).
So, here’s the links to those 3 books, in case you, or any reader, want to earn greater freedom-of-your-life from frustrations:
www.kobo.com/…/tribal-leadership-revised-edition
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/immunity-to-change-1
kobo.com/…/lead-right-for-your-company-s-type-1
& no, I’m not an “affiliate” of any book-company, any for-profit operation, & my not-for-profit hasn’t been started yet ( been working on understanding it for decades ), so all this is just-me recommending stuff.
Good books multiply one’s capability!
Oh, that too!
Please also read John Truby’s book “The Anatomy of Genre”, to understand how we program our unconscious-minds with the 14 genres, which genre works-on which dimension-of-our-unconscious-mind, so maybe you can progress quicker in earning YOUR essence & meaning…
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-genres
He makes 2 ( plus? ) noticeable mistakes in his book, but he’s of US culture, so … those are kinda expected:
- the true Archetypal Village isn’t the Wild West Village of the late-1800’s US, rather, it is the Mother Tribal Village, of the entire previous 2-million years, in the tribal lands of the world.
He grew-up with westerns, so … that pushed him into wrong-framing…
- the root of humor is the moebius-strip, aka the strange-loop, not the put-down/drop, as US & English cultures have it.
I’d never have clued-in to the truth, but Hofstadter’s GEB identified this back in the last century.
Being walked around in a circle… but now one’s upside-down for some reason??
THAT is the “shape” of humor.
Surprisingly-violated-expectations!
Aside from those 2 botches, that book of Truby’s is massive psychology advantage for anyone wanting to understand what their own unconscious-mind’s working-on, what others are working-on, what one’s culture considers meaningful, etc…
So, anyone who wants to dig-in, enjoy!
All paths are valid, just some are more-efficient, others more-effective, etc.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
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you sure as hell don’t need to be outright-homeless to be in poverty. That’s born into destitution not mere-poverty ( the working-poor, in less-than-living-wage, are in poverty, but at-least they’ve got some lifeline, temporarily ).
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In some countries, there is a safety-net of some kind.
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tropical-contexts are MUCH less dangerous than nordic contexts, for this question.
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yes, education & employment & online-shopping & library-card, etc, all require that a person be not homeless, that they have a “legal address” that isn’t a post-office box.
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would the child be taken away, to care for them? Hoomin, in some countries there are harvesting of children for organ-removal, or for plain extermination: homeless/underclass lives are garbage in many institutions/class’s eyes… you’ve obviously never lived homeless for years.
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to great extent it depends on the culture, more than anything else. & individual-person’s-culture changes, throughout life ( people tend to become more conservative in some ways, as they get older, though that doesn’t mean moneyarchy-conservative, that can mean philosophically-conservative, or spiritually-conservative, or whatever, but the tendency is general & well-attested )
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What magical-factor would somehow “prevent” being homeless-from-birth, globally?? That doesn’t even make any sense.
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- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 6 days ago:
Unfortunately, he won’t:
that prophecy in the Christian bible’s Rev 13, the one about the “miraculous cure”, meant him.
You’ll see in March/April of this year ( 2026 ).
When he does die, about 7/2y after turning absolute-dictator, he’ll be replaced by either Musk, Kushner, or some equivalent, possibly Miller or Hegseth or one of the other cronies.
Things are about to get bad.
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- Comment on If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you? 6 days ago:
Why would it be my business?
Why would it matter?
Why would I care?
YOUR life & karma are YOUR life & karma.
Commit into Eternity, face the consequences ( as benJoseph said: “take up your cross”, aka face into one’s karma ), & endless-stream-of-universe’s “processing” of one’s continuum/soul will eventually release one’s continuum from entrapment/containment in ignosis/soul-ignorance.
For judging the nature of their actions ( re what they can vs can’t actually do ), that knowledge would be useful-framing, but otherwise, it’s irrelevant.
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- Comment on what do you think is the future of the internet and tech in general? 1 week ago:
the ruling meta-regime is in the process of enforcing the non-ruling-classes into an inescapable en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon & enforcing learned-helplessness on all they can.
Feudalism, unbreakable.
ONLY right-technology, right-law, right-regulation, etc, CAN make human-lives be worth-living in a world where technology distorts so potently as ours now does.
Unless you/someone finds the one who can coerce a meaningful portion of our world to do the right-action/right-speech/right-law/right-technology thing, all the way through,* then … feudalism’s our epitaph.
Social-pressure’s incapable of coercing such regimes, so is “political-will”/whim.
East-Germany, but “perfect”, is our fate, unless someone breaks the undertow/trend, soon.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You have hit-upon exactly the perfect proof of why Justice has to be left to karma, & harm-reduction has to be what humankind’s doing.
Murdercide is what New Scientist called the suicide-bombers, as murder is the point, & that needed to be in the term
Harm-reduction, correction, & preventing-future-harm are the 3 that humankind can do, but Justice is something that only karma ( “what a soul sows, that soul has no-alternative but to reap” ) can enforce, at ITS timescale ( many-many-lives, not mere-years ).
The details of different cases would have to be the basis of sorting-out how harm-reduction & correction ought be done, & eventually the principles required would become clear, & could be codified, but the underlying-fact is that Justice requires that ALL the guilty be corrected, & the rude fact that some remove themselves, so as to exempt themselves from accountability, means that at our timescale, Justice is only an aspiration/anchor/direction, not something that we can guarantee.
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- Comment on If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on? 1 week ago:
Some years ago, Dr. David Williams ( whose website is now gone ), had a paper-newsletter.
A friend of his had cancer, & was in an experimental-drug-trial.
He was the ONLY survivor of that trial.
In the closeout interview, he told them he’d also been taking fenbendazole.
Oh, well they already knew about that, so his surviving wasn’t surprising, then.
Dr. David Williams was LIVID.
Oncologists KNEW a way to defeat cancer, & they SAT ON IT??
The only site with information on it, nowadays, seems to be:
I’m a brain-decimation survivor, & have been gaslit by doctors all my life ( dad was a medical-researcher & doctor: he taught me to think, but medical-culture’s narcissistic, & I went no-contact with both parents, for years-at-a-time, to protect my life from their prejudice against their inferior’s having any validity )
IF I had cancer, I’d be taking that, if I could.
The industry won’t EVER tolerate diminishing of its establishment, profits, or authority.
The question is falsely-based, thereby.
Sorry to be cynical about it.
Go read the book “Doctored”, or the book “Money-Driven Medicine”, or 1 of many many other books on the conflict-of-interest between medical-industry & what it supposedly is for.
Conflict-of-interest is THE root of corruption.
Until the reward & the goal are congruent, corruption’s inescapable.
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- Comment on Anyone know where I can buy or get books by the pound to start a new library for our local jail. To help them read and prep them for a GED? 2 weeks ago:
Put posters up, to ask the local community, like at the supermarket, if anybody’s got books like that, that they’d be willing to donate.
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- Comment on Is LM Studio's GUI safe despite being closed source? 2 weeks ago:
Are you old enough to remember all the machiavellianisms committed by Microslop corp?
As a relatively-recent example, their Windows Vista would secretly inform MS of all the search-queries done within windows.
And … for some incomprehensible reason, that wasn’t prosecuted as a criminal offense.
So, MS was being informed of things like …
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hospital searching for “William Smith, bone cancer” & the search found the right file, & THAT kind of information was being forwarded back?
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police searching for “Bob and Alice, classical physics violators”, & THAT kind of information would be forwarded back to MS?
You don’t engineer-in machiavellianism like MS has done, for … it’s 40-years now? something like that … without making SOME people understand just how religious some corporations are, about being DarkTriad ( narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy ), in nature.
& they aren’t the only ones.
Nowadays, any corporation which violates DarkTriad … is considered … perhaps “mentally ill”, by market standards?
I’m only using MS as an example.
Remember when OpenOffice.org became the property of Oracle?
LibreOffice.org was born in a week or 2?
Cynicism absolutely is warranted, nowadays.
I’m old-enough that MS’s stealing of Stac Electronics’ disk-compression algorithm, but they fucked-it-up, in their DOS 6.20 bit me.
Assuming altruism on the part of some company … that is mental-illness, nowadays.
I’m not agreeing with the assumption-river of the person you’re replying to, but I am saying that their reaction has basis/validity, nowadays.
I found out, after using LM Studio, that LLM’s can access everything on one’s own system.
I don’t know to what degree that’s true with LM Studio, but 1 time I gave an internet-address, & the LLM told me what it had found on the site I just told it of.
I hadn’t known it had unrestricted internet-access.
Later, I learned it could probably read every file on my system, too, & some AI-attacks get the LLM to get info from people’s personal files, single-out the credit-card, address, contacts, etc, information, & have the LLM forward that to a server out there…
That isn’t a security-concern that normals would even consider.
NOW I know that if I ever fire-up my desktop again, I’ll have to rip-out the LLM’s from my normal user-account, & create a completely-separate locked-down account, with NOTHING ELSE in it, only for them.
& keep EVERYTHING personal in a different account, that they can’t even see.
That isn’t an LM Studio specific thing, that is apparently required for ALL the things.
& nobody’s warning anybody about this?
I think it was on The Register that I found that out, last year…
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- Comment on What should we actually turn our aggression towards? 2 weeks ago:
Oligarchism is just 1 face of concentration-of-wealth-archy: monarchism, communist-party-archism are other variants of it.
The REAL enemy is our unconscious-nature, our unconscious ego-addiction-to-ignorance-preventing-accountability-or-responsibility-while-assuming-inherent-authority-and-inherent-validity.
ALL prejudices are rooted in that, not just class-prejudices.
Until human-nature is force-changed, as it is going to be by the end of this century ( The Great Filter ), we’re going to keep enforcing DarkTriad’s rule for OUR supremacy, no matter what kind of “us” it is that we are identifying-as, gender, race, class, age, culture, ANYthing!
Nothing can change that.
It’s simply our world-species equivalent-to-puberty.
EITHER some subset of humankind force-grows-up COMPLETELY, this-century, XOR… whole-species DarwinAward.
Ever seen an addict fighting for their own life against their own unconscious-mind’s addiction-to-obliteration-and-nonresponsibility?
We’re looking at planet-wide equivalent, now.
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- Comment on If Tyler Perry is a billionaire with his own successful movie studio then why are his films so bad? 2 weeks ago:
Please invest in reading www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-genres … & then see movies through new eyes, “eyes to see”.
You’ll be astonished at how high a percentage of movies are bad, once one understands what he’s giving, in that, about the 14 genres that the West has anchored on, & why each genre concentrates only on 1 specific dimension of human-meaning.
( & that was the genius of Star Wars: it included multiple-genres of stuff into its Space Western genre, which it created, from scratch )
Truby’s other book, “The Anatomy of Story” is also required for anybody wanting to make story work properly.
People who won’t learn from the best-of-the-best, never reach their true-potential, because they’re hobbling their leverage.
Ego consistently hobbles leverage, in order to assert that it didn’t “need” any other.
That’s like ignoring math, while designing aircraft: incompetent.
Stand on the heads of giants, & reach farther into the “sky” of our potential.
Those 2 books ought be required-reading in highschool.
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- Comment on What’s the endgame? 2 weeks ago:
There are multiple levels going-on:
Surface-level is mere “makeup”/distractions.
Underneath that is the ideologies level.
Under that is the fight between animal-reactions vs upright-correct-reasoning, which is what is required of our-species, to survive The Great Filter, which is the next 6-decades of wars.
Within the ideologies-level, ideologies are fighting to break whatever it is that they hate.
As was explained in some book published years ago, the Kremlin began investing in Trump in the 1980’s or so.
That’s paying-off, now.
Apparently there’s some gameshow movie, which shows that upper-middle-class people, even when competing against each-other, will join together to break their class-inferiors, beneath them.
That is true of all identity-politics.
The Academic-class-system does it ( just ask Sabine Hossenfelder, who was fired as a physicist, for not being a man ), gender-identity/politics does it, race-politics/identity does it, etc.
So, the communist-party-imperialisms of the world work at exterminating any “other” who competes against them ( see Tibet, the Uyghurs, Hong Kong, the cultural-expression of Brutalism throughout the USSR, etc, for stark evidence of communism’s imperialism ), AND the fascists, with their cult-of-personality centrism, & their imperialisms also do this.
“Horseshoe theory of politics”, that extreme-left & extreme-right are actually near-indistinguishable-in-behavior-towards-others, is oversimplification:
it’s partly authoritarianism, which both are devout to, and imperialism, which both are devout to, AND it is rejection/extermination-of-diversity.
That new law in China that ALL must learn Mandarin, is simply part of the communist snuffing-of-diversity, which the USSR did quite well, too.
Once the far-right understands completely how breaking all non-fascist-will from all authority is their tactical-NEED, then there will be no pretence of Russia being Trump’s enemy, anymore.
He’ll invoke the Insurrection Act, PURGE all who would threaten his kingdom ( that is “Dictatorship 101”, & I’m quoting a textbook-on-dictatorship, with that point ), & then … enforce his all-Americas “manifest destiny”.
- annexing Canada, using Greenland to sever our EU-lifeline
- Civil War Part2: confederate reverse-takeover & vengeance
- imperial-expansion throughout Central & South America
Why should he care about the other regions of the globe, when he can enforce his absolute “god”-hood, here?
He wasn’t kidding about “Cuba is next”.
Nor was he kidding about Venezuela.
Or Mexico.
Or Greenland.
Or Canada.
Part of the problem is false-framing:
There is NO true-democracy in the West: representative-republic ISN’T democracy, it is 1-times ( minimum ) removed from democracy.
In actual-democracy, the CITIZENS vote on the ISSUES.
In representative-republic, “representatives” are elected, & then they decide on the citizenry’s behalf, what the citizenry’s being ruled-by.
Totally different paradigm.
Nowadays we’ve got the technology to make actual-democracy possible, but nobody’s got the spine to do it.
Worse, exactly as pilot’s-licensing dictates who can vote on managing an airliner ( the passengers, who outnumber the pilots, have NO say in managing the aircraft, due to not being competent, not being responsible, & not being accountable for that work ), the same principle is required in civil-voting.
People whose loyalty isn’t to the country, but instead is to some-other country, or to oligarchy, or to some ideology, cannot be permitted to vote, XOR the country’s inescapably-highjacked: it’s only a matter of time.
The US is demonstrating this, shamelessly.
But that would mean being able to measure loyalty in people.
Now that can be done, with psychology & tech.
The deepest level, though, is animal-reacting fighting-off upright-correct-reasoning.
The whole unconscious-mind ego-apocalypse-fighting-off-moral-anxiety thing, that is manifesting through all the different ideologies/religions, is this.
Unconscious-ignorance is working itself into THE TANTRUM/POGROM TO BREAK GOD AND MAKE GOD OBEY!! its totalitarian-domion.
THAT will exterminate nearly-all humankind in the next 6-decades.
The piddling little violence we’re seeing today ( 2026-03-13 ), is NOTHING compared with what we’re going to be seeing by the end of April, from the looks of it, as THE WHOLE WORLD swings into the Regional Consolidation Wars { Americas ; Europe, with China backing Putin to mow-down the European threat to future Chinese planet-dominion ; Asia, once the West abandons it, is China’s ; Africa will be owned by Saudi Arabia, too, in 7 years }
Unconscious-mind is the RULER of our world.
It’s ego-games obliterate more lives than ANY other force in the world.
We “can’t afford” to make industry accountable? The egos in authority won’t allow it.
We “can’t afford” to regulate anything correctly? ditto.
( hint: to win a NASCAR race, you need the most-tightly-regulated/maximally-efficient/maximally-effective engine+drivetrain you can get. Sloppy LOSES races. Same with economies. Sloppy economies lose. Efficiently regulated economies can FAR outclass sloppy ones, whether communist, fascist, party-oligarchic or individual-oligarchic, monarchic, or any other ego-concentrates-wealth-to-itself paradigm.
EU’s inefficiency is boggling.
US’s corruption is boggling.
Neither can compete with harnessed & maximally-efficient economy.
Paywalling standards, as the ISO does, is anti-efficiency.
Balkanizing tax-filing for for-profit-parasite’s benefit, harms the efficiency of the economy.
You “can’t be loyal to 2 contradictory gods”, right?
We have to make whole economy effectiveness be what our gov’t is for, NOT for wealth-concentration, which is their primary loyalty, & status/validity-segregation, which is what social-class-systems are made-of )
Anyways, if you want to understand that deepest level, then www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/thinking-fast-and-slow is THE book to read.
Lower-forebrain/“System-1”/imprinted-reaction is fighting to overthrow correct-reasoning/“System-2”/upper-forebrain from all authority, so then it can tantrum/pogrom & be no-moral-anxiety-LORD, with no responsibility for what it’s done.
THAT is what’s ACTUALLY going on, globally.
All the rest is more superficial, mere “makeup”.
NO ideology will adapt to evidence, because they’re all axiom-based, not evidence-based.
THAT is the lethal “drug” that humankind’s about to be self-exterminating with, for 6-decades.
I expect 0.1B left alive, IF humankind succeeds in growing-up.
IF humankind won’t, then DarwinAward for our entire species, this century.
Surviving unconscious-mind’s obiteration-addiction IS HARD, as any dead-by-overdose life can attest.
& ego-“LORDHOOD” is the most-indellible “drug”.
The stuff that’s happening in any individual-locale, is just the appearances/distractions ON the underlying species-“puberty” we’re hitting.
That isn’t the REAL current/transformation/difficulty…
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- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 2 weeks ago:
From what I’ve seen & read, yes.
Doctors are often addicted to drugs, or just to medicating themselves.
I read an article by a woman who worked for a house-cleaning service, which ordered her to stop working too fast/competently.
So, she slowed-down, to keep her job.
& looked in cupboards, medicine-cabinets, etc.
She said that now she doesn’t want to be rich, because they’re consistently addicted to drugs/medications.
Hollow living … people trying to “fill” themselves with chemically-enforced numbness…
I don’t know if you ever encountered r/leaves the subreddit about people who’ve ditched marijuana-addiction…
“I got tired of not feeling anything meaningful” would be a good summary of many testimonies, there…
from what I can see, the story you’re working-on is viable, except the loved-one’s going to need a private-investigator or something, to level the playing-field against the streetsmart dealer.
no, they couldn’t have got the money some other way: born-into-wealth means being brought-up in entitlement: it makes one’s instincts incompetent-for-raw-survival, AND narcissistic.
( Dad was a medical-researcher & doctor: I know what I’m talking about in this context. )
Please read BOTH of John Truby’s books, “The Anatomy of Genre” 1st, then his one on Story 2nd.
Your book will be massively better if you do.
& if you want the best editing book in the world, it is Coyne’s “The Story Grid”.
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- Comment on Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it 2 weeks ago:
This identifies that in highschool, law basics NEED to be taught, because legal-autonomy & signed-contracts HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
People need to be competent in NOT being pressured into bad-contracts, & that is REQUIRED EDUCATION, in our cultures.
I wish I’d understood this years ago.
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PS: that link to Nomic is to a practice-of-law game, which gives people the visceral-understanding of how legal-regimes evolve, & the consequences of bad-law, that now you can’t get out of, because evolution sometimes evolves dead-ends.
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 2 weeks ago:
Try getting managed-hosting for them, & you’ll see that only some can be hired.
Managed-hosting means that the hirer isn’t having to do all the sysadmin stuff for their instance, like security-updates, they’re able to concentrate on the community, instead.
Horribly-pricey, for the amount of service one can get, from what I’ve seen, but … drastically cheaper than having one’s community obliterated by a missed security-update, & then becoming irrelevant.
I wish there was massively more competition in the managed-hosting space, for fediverse servers.
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- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 3 weeks ago:
You may be allergic to the stuff, XOR you may be in kapha-metabolism, which is incompatible with it.
A little salt on a slice of avocado, can send a vata-metabolism person into heaven.
The book on the fundamental-metabolisms, & there mixed-together versions, is:
kobo.com/…/ayurvedic-healing-a-comprehensive-guid…
IF that book ( & Frawley & Kozak’s “Yoga For YOUR TYPE” ) identifies you as pure-kapha, you’re supposed to not-like-it, because it’s harmful for pure-kapha metabolism’s health.
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PS: for all the Scientism-fundamentalists, DO THE EXPERIMENT of discovering YOUR metabolism/dosha, & then preparing pairs of dishes, such that each pair has 1 dish with only-aggravating-of-your-metabolism & 1 dish with only-pacifying-of-your-metabolism, & LET THE EVIDENCE ITSELF SPEAK.
For people of pure-metabolisms/doshas, that should be sufficient evidence.
For people of mixed-metabolisms, it may not be possible to get a clear difference, & for all-3-mixed-together, there isn’t any possible way to convince them of any such thing.
This is 1 of many peer-reviewed actual-evidence-based-science articles that backs Ayurveda: www.nature.com/articles/nindia.2015.148
There are around 9 THOUSAND articles listed in PubMed also backing the evidence-based position: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=ayurveda
Ideological “medicine” that “identifies as” evidence-based medicine can go eat rocks.
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- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 3 weeks ago:
High-fructose maize isn’t an Indegenous invention: that’s a White invention.
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- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 3 weeks ago:
I’m seconding SwingTheLamp@piefed.zip 's comment, but would begin with 1 step below that:
simply find the best location in the house for having a good ( not your ISP’s, unless it actually is a good MIMO router ) wifi-router, with no AP’s or any other radios, & see how that works, 1st.
IF there are areas that won’t work, THEN do the wire+AP thing, as required.
hth!
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- Comment on What should've been the point or points for society to throw up their hands and stop supporting the government? 3 weeks ago:
Foolishness:
You don’t have the false-dichotomy of ( Support_the_Government || Helpless_Apathy ),
you HAVE also the ability to compete-against the people who are ruining things!!
Yes, political-process prefers/selects-for DarkTriad types, but it’s still possible to compete against the bullshit.
( & old grouches like Jeff Tiederich ( sorry if misspelt ) & me can clarify things, for many, in this age of pseudojournalism : )
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- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 3 weeks ago:
“Why is the USA attacking Iran?”
Trump’s insecurity:
By associating with “biblical” Netanyahu’s “Israel”, he gains “validity”.
By bombing someone, he gains “authority”.
By pretending that his-regime’s actions benefit the protestors in Iran, he gains “humanitarian credibility”, while warring against the people living in the US’s own Democrat states.
By doing all this NOW, he deflects from his being an Epstein-associate who’s on evidence for crimes against women, & girls.
See the PATTERN, not just some single-aspect of it, & then it makes more sense.
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- Comment on The jokes write themselves... 4 weeks ago:
I think that Retraction Watch needs to do an institution leaderboard, to highlight which are the most, & least, corrupt institutions, because corruption’s a cultural thing, not merely an individual-thing.
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- Comment on Is creatine safe? 4 weeks ago:
- creatine-supplementation measurable improved the memory if vegans, in some experiment … I think that was in Australia, some years ago…
( I consistently supplement with choline, when vegan, because the choline-deficiency is bluntly a kind of chronic-fatigue-syndrome, & I’m fed-up with health-problems. Eating eggs corrects the choline-deficiency, but blocks me from reaching better-quality meditations, which also is aweful/wrong )
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the dosages recommended by the pushers of products are consistently waaay too high, whether laundry-detergents or health-supplements. I use less than 1/2 of the scoop-size, when supplementing with the stuff, because I can feel how wrong it makes my biochemistry when taking the amount they want me taking.
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always trust your body’s healthsense over what the label pushes you to do, & remember that your-biochemistry may well be incompatible with some “fixes” that pushers are profiting from.
Sorry to be cynical, but that’s what evidence has convinced me of.
Whether creatine damages kidneys would be dependent on dosage, obviously.
Apparently the doctor claiming it damages kidneys doesn’t consider dosage important?
That’s as bogus as the supplement-industry’s pretense that the same dosage is right for all different sizes of people, of all metabolisms, of all sexes/genders/hormonal-balances: pseudoscience, absolute.
Proper dosages are when you calibrate to units-per-kg-of-<type-of-animal>.
So, for me, it might be that taking ( 75 / 10 / 4 )g/day of creatine per 75kg of bodyweight, might be right.
Or something like that.
I know from Gershon’s book “The Second Brain”, that glutamine-supplements FRY the nervous-system of the gut, as nicotene does…
& that’ll never get well-known in the supplement-industry, because of how it’d gimp easy-profits…
Some things are just too outside natural-chemistry to do any good ( like chemically-pure glutamine ), & sometimes it’s the insane dosages, compared with normal food, that’s the problem…
but it isn’t logical to claim that there is no safe dosage for creatine, since dosages can go down to infinitesimal: that isn’t logical.
There has to be a safe level for it, unless it’s intrinsically harmful, in its pure form.
I’m certain that the pushed dosages will harm kidneys, though.
So, seen in that light, yeah: if taking what the pushers want you taking, then yes, that’ll probably damage your kidneys.
There’s a limit to what they can deal-with…
I knew a guy who’d worked in a hospital, & he told me he 1 time had to watch a patient destroy their own life by overdosing with vitamin-C: they crushed their kidneys from the inside, with stones.
They wouldn’t listen, & that was that: they kept overdosing until they died.
Didn’t get deemed valid by the megadose-vitamin-C crowd, obviously…
but how could any organ in our body possibly deal with insane quantities of some single-chemical that they aren’t evolved-for, you know?
I just looked at PubMed:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=creatine+kidney
& glanced into the 2nd item I saw, & it stated plainly that unless someone has a kidney condition, it’s safe, as far as evidence-based-medicine is concerned.
hth,
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- Comment on Hillary Clinton derides her Epstein deposition as GOP ‘political theater’ 4 weeks ago:
No, she didn’t deride her deposition as political theatre, she derided the sham “accountability” oversight committee which won’t have Trump testify under oath, as political theatre.
Wapo’s false-framing it.
The actual text of her deposition was on some imgur image-set, & it was well-considered, intelligent, & accurate.
couldn’t find it on imgur, here’s the ONLY copy I could find through either DuckDuckGo or Google:
reddit.com/…/hillary_clinton_shares_her_opening_s…
how “wonderful” it is that internet-search keeps making crucial-history unfindable…
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- Comment on A village in Maharashtra is now ‘caste-free’. Soundala's journey from separate wells to shared meals 4 weeks ago:
That’s wonderful if they can make that stick, even in the coming polarizations in the Regional Consolidation Time that begins when Trump torches civilrights, & ALL the “dominoes” begin going down, fast …
I hope they can make that stay.
Everywhere things are going to be swinging HARD into ideological-polarization, & it’d be good to have some wellspring of LivingSpirit, somewhere, on Earth, left…
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- Comment on Judges Grow Angry Over Trump Administration Violating Their Orders 4 weeks ago:
And it is exactly that appeasing, that non-accountability, which enables perpetually-moving-the-goal-posts, perpetually-escalating, until the complete-dictatorship-tippingpoint is crossed.
IF accuntability won’t be enforced, THEN it isn’t actual/significant/real.
No matter: nobody’ll believe that it’s actual until it’s too-late, & the mass-murder has begun.
There’s a survivor of Auschwitz in the documentary “Anne Franke Remembered”, who said that in the Jewish enclave, in the Netherlands, every time the nazis made a new rule, the Jews said to themselves “it’s just one more thing”, & ignored it…
again & again…
until the nazis made a rule that the Jews weren’t allowed to go anywhere, anymore.
Then they knew it was Too Late™.
This is simply history doing the same fundamental-thing, again.
Nobody’ll learn, though, so it’ll never be prevented.
Nobody’ll learn.
As East Germany demonstrated, once it is too-late, then sycophanting to the authority-institution becomes the only means of ingratiating oneself with the new-regime.
The majority of East Germans were snitching in order to be ingratiating themselves with the regime/institution.
Exactly that’ll be happening in Trump’s dictatorship in the US.
This year, later. ( 2026, for people in future years )
All this could have been prevented, but party-politics/ideology vetoed that opportunity.
All part of The Great Filter.
Exactly like an addict preferring chemically-enforced-oblivion to responsibility, humankind preferring legalism-proven-nonresponsibility over the belonging-violating-horror of actual-integrity.
Human-nature’ll not change, in my lifetime.
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- Comment on Over 2,000 Britons served for Israel amid Gaza genocide 1 month ago:
I think it is well-past-time for people who go 'round genociding, in the armed-forces of other countries, to simply be AUTOMATICALLY removed from citizenship:
they can go get citizenship in the country they were committing crimes for.
Political-discretion obviously GROWS the Epstein-class.
We need high-integrity-systems that ACTUALLY & RELIABLY WORK, not more enforced-feudalism bullshit.
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- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 1 month ago:
utterly-bullshit snowflakes…
Grow a pair!!
EVERYBODY KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE!
Idiocy.
- Comment on White House: Trump's Alleged 2006 Call to Palm Beach Police Chief 'Cracks' Establishment's Epstein Narrative on POTUS 1 month ago:
over 38,000 times his name is in those documents, apparently, & 1 time he called the police, because in that moment, he felt bad??
I’d say look at the overall, & the trend, not at any “magic minute” which supposedly exempts him from everything-else.
The evidence shows that there were multiple murders involved.
& that has been sat-on by Trump’s gov’t??
Some of us are conservative-of-integrity, like that woke-socialist-convict people call Jesus, who got violent on the commercial-operation in that temple…
Different kinds of conservatives conserve different things.
I don’t care whether somebody was left or right, if they put their belonging-believing above integrity, then … they’d probably prefer I get butchered.
And that is normal.
Carve it in G-D’s plain sight.
every soul reaps what they’ve sown, to use the Christian phrasing of it…
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- Comment on Actor Noel Clarke arrested over allegation of attempted rape in 2007 1 month ago:
But the Epstein-crowd doesn’t get arrested…
Ah: he isn’t as white as the Epstein-crowd, that must be why he got arrested…
( seriously: they murdered girls, burying corpses out back, of wherever that place’s “back” was,
& he had others do it, in order to prove themselves to him??
& THAT gets protected-from-prosecution by our world’s ruling-class+systems??
it looks like Ghislaine murdered someone for him, for “her husband”…
the 2-facedness of the Rule of “Law” is kinda spectacularly-blatent, nowadays…
I think MLK Jr told us about “there comes a point when not-acting is complicity” or something like that, & … it’s absolutely-true. )
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