Paragone
@Paragone@lemmy.world
- 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? 5 days 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? 5 days 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? 6 days 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? 6 days 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? 6 days 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? 6 days 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 6 days 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 2 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? 2 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... 2 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? 2 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’ 2 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 3 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 3 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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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- Comment on I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers 1 month ago:
I once saw, on TV, a Brooklyn comedian ask his audience
“any of you went to a Catholic school?”
a few hands went up…
“You remember the names of the nuns?
Lefty?
Knuckles?”
they did.
IIRC, the sister in the grade-school I was in, broke a boy’s arm, when she flipped his desk on him, for backtalk.
It was a Catholic school.
She … hated children?
Angry, endless anger, in her…
damned odd way of choosing someone for being a teacher…
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- Comment on Is there no instution or person that Trump go after? Or we are all just screwed? 1 month ago:
“IF you want something done RIGHT, THEN you do it yourself!”
that is nearly-right.
the true essence is that if you want something done right, you have to have the right instinct doing it.
Delegation is entirely-possible, but it cannot be delegation to anybody, any institution, any ANYthing, that has wrong-instinct, for that work.
You can’t put dogs in charge of protecting cat-nature, because they’ll “protect” it, instead, displacing/snuffing it, replacing it with dog-nature.
That is natural, & automatic.
You can’t have men protecting female-validity, because female-validity ISN’T OF men, it is of women!
You can’t have people tone-deaf protecting ( preserving through mastering & playing ) music, can you?
You can’t have people who don’t know, understand, or value, precision, protecting precision, can you?
That’s the same in government, business, NGO’s, legislation, regulation, innovation, etc.
IF you want integrity, THEN integrity has to be the instinct which wins the roles.
Politics is the wrong selector, the wrong contest, to produce that result.
We’re seeing our world drowning in the consequences of letting political-game rule our world.
Political-game is the enemy of our lives.
Against most lives, it will win.
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- Comment on Is there no instution or person that Trump go after? Or we are all just screwed? 1 month ago:
The collective-unconscious-mind that is driving this shit wants to “prove” its ego-myth.
To make history know how “important” it was.
& if it has to destroy the entire planet’s life, it will do everything required to enforce that, for sake of its ego.
that is why the “checks” and “balances” are showing that they are only fake.
They’ll sit on their hands, until it’s too-late.
Then they can pretend that they are “victims”, when they assisted in the destruction, while being in roles where they were obliged to oppose/counter it.
Here’s an example from a different context, so you can see how the “game” plays us…
Epstein.
People of “less important” class associated with him, in order to hobnob with the “more important”, see?
What happened when they clued-in that things were wrong?
Then they’re in a conflict-of-interest…
IF they whistleblow, THEN the class-validity-people they’d been hobnobbing with, would as a class turn on them, & their LIFE would be damaged, for their holding-to-principle, violating group/gang/“family”/belonging.
Principle & gang are 2 different loyalties, & they contradict.
So, they silenced principle, & held-to group-loyalty & class-loyalty, “winning”, but … rotting their meaning.
Conflict-of-interest is the root of corruption.
& you’ve probably noticed that in THIS world, many cultures put group/family/gang loyalty WAAAY above loyalty-to-Truth, or loyalty-to-Rightness…
Now glance at the electorate, in their obscene privilege, & their protecting of their class against accountability, but then Trump gets, in near future, to become dictator…
They are in conflict-of-interest between their privilege-class vs their civil “obligation”.
& it is playing-out exactly as it ought.
Political-motivation is the wrong filter to select leaders from.
So is narcissism.
So is machiavellianism.
So is ideology.
So is sociopathy.
So is disintegrity.
but all of these things INCREASE one’s likelihood of getting elected, not decrease.
We WON’T filter-out the wrong people!
Well, if we won’t filter-out the wrong people, then … we will be ruled by the wrong people.
Now turn it on us, ourselves.
Who ought rule the flying of an airliner?
The majority, the passengers? XOR the responsible, competent, accountable, & certified pilots?
Who ought rule the operating of a government?
The political? XOR the responsible, competent, accountable, & certified?
“you have no right to prevent enemies from ruling our country: that’s infringement-of-rights!”
That’s deranged.
YOU censor which cells express their meaning, within your body, right?
YOU censor cancer, covid, rabies, etc, by either not allowing them in, or stomping them outright, if you catch them, right?
That, the equivalent to that, HAS to happen with authority-roles, throughout civilization.
Until that happens, then humankind’s going to continue destroying its life & viability, for political & other ego “rewards”.
ONLY the responsible can be permitted authority. ONLY the ACCOUNTABLE Responsible.
What has that principle got to do with any political-system??
Nothing!
Political-systems & accountable-responsibility are mutually-exclusive systems, it looks like.
& so, if humankind WON’T grow-up, THEN … DarwinAward, aka The Great Filter, throughout the rest of this century.
It’s part of our souls’ growing-up!
Your soul experiences this life, it learns a little layer of ITS meaning…
it experiences others ( I’ve accidentally earned soul-memories of other-lives: the religions of India weren’t delusional, they were reporting fact, & that is what blew-up all the Abrahamic religions for me, back when I was Catholic ), & it learns more little-layers of its IMMENSE meaning…
People don’t understand just how incomprehensibly-immense their own souls are…
Have a 100 human lives, & that MAY fill your soul with its knowing its whole meaning.
It’s something like that.
Exactly as you CANNOT experience your whole-life’s meaning if you lived only for 1 minute, the same, a soul cannot experience ITS whole meaning in any duration so tiny as a single human-category life.
To hold that universe recycles only matter, is daft: meaning is an energy, & it makes things like engineering, culture, etc, real.
It modifies the behavior of matter spectacularly, and that proves it is a real substance.
So, what happens when a few billion souls are “going through a phase”??
Say a few billion souls are going through a “nonaccountable-authority” phase?
Among a world…
Well, that’s their choice, isn’t it?
The lives in THAT world have to sort it out.
& if the growing-up lives in THAT world are outnumbered 9:1, then … it’s going to be hell, until it’s finished.
The tougher the challenge, the more-profoundly it’ll change you, if you survive its transformation, right?
Think of it this way:
Souls having the wrong attachments, can get caught in lives which bash-on, hurt, damage, mutilate, & harm their lives, unil they change what their attachments are…
So, they can be attached to class-status, or whatever, going in,
but when experience smashes & mashes them enough ways, then they become attached to “things that they CAN take with them”, things of the inner-world, right?
That’s what this-world is in the process of experiencing.
Force-changing-of-attachments, though experience.
& if 9/10 of the world won’t learn, won’t grow-up, & won’t tolerate inner-values to live, then … it’s a world deathmatch, then,.
But unconsciousness won’t-move until it’s too-late.
won’t grow-up, won’t learn, won’t change … until it’s forced.
& that principle explains everything, now, about the world’s pervasively choosing the wrong-answers.
Why is it that ClimatePunctuation is trashing entire-regions, & we’re caring less & less about our making it get worse, faster?
unconscious-mind couldn’t care.
Same with corrupt/wrong government.
Same with deformity-of-civilrights.
Couldn’t care.
& by the time that this century is finished, all the souls who can’t care, won’t be able to incarnate in human lives, here ( because there won’t be any lives configured to accommodate them, left ),
& if the LivingSpirit-loyal ones evolve enough, far enough, quickly enough, deeply enough, complexly enough, … then they will be able to have lives, next century.
Not many: I don’t expect there to be more than 100-150-million alive ( Daniel predicts 100,000,000 who are purified, but presents them as killed, & I’m seeing stuff completely different: roughly same number, but survivors of this-century ).
what’s different from our current time, than from all the times recorded in the Abrahamic religions’ scriptures?
What’s different from the Hindu history stuff?
Human nature hasn’t changed that much, has it?
It’s the same thing it always was!
There’s another angle, which is important, too:
The force required to MAKE an unconscious-mind grow-up, is equal to its force-of-ignorance.
I’m autistic.
Nearly 60 years old, & it’s ONLY NOW that I’m finally making this brain be accommodating what I want to mean.
Neurotypicals may earn equivalent life-meaning when they’re in their 20’s, or 30’s.
I’m retarded.
Any life which doesn’t get the equal-and-opposite-force to its own unconscious-ignorance … if it got too-little, then it didn’t grow-up, or if it got too-much, it broke, or died.
See the problem?
IF there’s no system of matching unconscious-ignorance-destroying-force to unconscious-ignorance, then HOW could individuals, let-alone entire-populations, have complete growing-up?!
Nature used to force growing-up, but of course it killed many, young, too.
Our industrial-revolutions eradicated Nature’s significance on our lifes: it isn’t what forces us, now.
Now, we have made “boot camp” for some to experience force changing their unconscious-mind, but … not purely, livingly, destroying-ignorance, rather, it is installing institutional-ego & institutional-bullying…
A shoddy replacement.
& the culture of coddling … won’t tolerate growing-up.
Now, with software, or checklists & good people, or something systematic, it is POSSIBLE to make it so that intellectually-bullying children get the intellectual opposite-force required to enforce THAT potential’s growing-up.
Every dimension: physical, emotional, relational, intellectual, etc…
Each person has their own potential in each dimension, & THAT potential requires ITS required-force, ITS required-prompting, ITS challenges, etc.
The idiotic manufactory-style “education” which obliterates sooo much potential from sooo many lives, by over-pushing flimsy potential, & underpushing too-strong potential…
that is part of what made our kind incapable of holding to truth…
IF you’ve never experienced self-conquering, how can you help others make it in themselves?
Ah, Beaurocratic Rot, another principle:
IF you’ve got 1st-rate people in a company, & they hire other 1st-rate people, THEN the company stays embodying excellence…
But what happens when 2nd-rate people get in?
& the feel inferior to 1st-rate people ( I’m meaning integrity, not skill or intellect, though our society maps everything to class or status )
So, since they don’t want to feel inferior, what do they do?
They hire 3rd-rate people.
& 3rd-rate people hire 4th-rate people.
Soon all the excellence-valuing people LEAVE, because they have been ganged-up-on by the ones who hate the threat of integrity, of excellence.
Once you allow beaurocratic-rot in, it wins.
But that all-or-nothing integrity-must-rule XOR rot-drops-everything choice, that either-or, that apparently sinks ALL societies.
Rome sunk that way…
India’s in the process of doing it…
The West’s doing it, everywhere…
all-or-nothing integrity-must-rule is the ONLY principle which can get the required results.
& it is the only principle that NO country has allowed to rule.
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- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 1 month ago:
The comment by Wilco@lemmy.zip is right, but isn’t complete…
There is a basic animal-psychology thing, going on, too…
We instinctively assume that validity, status, AND HOW TALL A PERSON IS, are related.
Simply sit, sometime, & see people, noticing the different manner of the overly-tall & the overly-short…
Notice that the overly-short are bumped-into more, ignored more, treated as not-valid more, etc…
Notice that the overly-tall have a kind of “inherent” confidence, on average, that most don’t, simply because the way others relate to their body’s “status” programmed that into them…
Some lives are born with “teflon” preventing accountability.
Some lives are born with “glue” making accusations & enmity stick on them for no apparent reason.
Trump’s life is characterized by non-accountability.
HIS WHOLE LIFE he consistently gets-away-with what normals wouldn’t.
Other people are consistently subject to prejudice.
This is just 1 of the kinds of diversity that happens in this world.
SANE worlds wouldn’t allow the not-accountable, or not-responsible, or narcissists, or machiavellians, or gaslighters, or sociopaths/psychopaths, or nihilists, or WHATEVER happens to be harmful to the community/country, to have authority, but … politics won’t tolerate anything to interfere with narcissism/machiavellianism/psychopathy, the Dark Triad, so that’s what gets to own/rule the world.
Anyways, it’s karma.
His continuum/soul’s previous-committing-of-meaning somehow rigged that that-soul get caught in a life exempt from accountability, and … his soul’s future is not anything I’d want to be caught-in.
Action->reaction, though: the degree to which he enforces corruption & evil in this world, after his-soul earns its purificaiton, it will be an equal-power/opposite-nature great-saint among some future world, somewhere, somewhen.
All the Western religions which hold that change isn’t possible once human-incarnation dies, or which holds that ONLY HUMAN lives are lives with souls, all the rest of the lives in the universe are fake props that exist for the sake of humans…
narcissism.
Universe recycles EVERY energy contained within it, including meaning.
Getting caught in a life that has “teflon” protection against accountability doesn’t prevent accoutability, it only prevents immediate accountability.
Universe’s action->reaction law applies, anyways.
That is the folly of getting a “fortunate” life which consumes all one’s good-fortune, while preventing-accountability, & then … railroading one’s own soul’s future-someone, with all the consequences of what one had heaped on them…
shrug
Action-reaction’s real.
HE is exempt from accountability, but the continuum/soul which caught in his life, isn’t.
It’ll learn, same as all souls learn…
From the condition of this world, it looks like souls earning purification are outnumbered by souls earning hells by a factor of … 9:1 or something?
Whatever the ratio is, that means that the speed-of-finishing-the-soul-growing-up has to be the same ratio faster.
IF souls spend 9 lives as monsters, for every 1 life as a saint, then the saint-life must progress souls 9x as quickly, see?
But the fundamental point is simply that animal-psychology is real, & some people just have minds that instinctively society won’t make accountable.
& others have minds that instinctively nobody will consider valid.
I have zero reason to believe anybody’ll consider my meaning, here, to be valid.
It’s educational to be deemed inherently nonvalid!
It helps break one’s unconscious-presumption of “belonging” based “validity”.
But … speaking truth, properly, is good practice & habit, so it’s worth it, in spite of it consistently not being worth anything to anybody in the world, because they instinctively feel it’s false/lies, because it’s of “me”.
& that’s proper!
Exactly as it’s proper for humankind to be always accommodating Trump’s kind: go with the animal-feelings, because being more adult than that isn’t normal, right?
( only partly sarcastic: it isn’t YOU/I that has to learn any such lesson, it is unconscious-mind that has to, & it is … NOT quick to learn )
( Padmasambhava was right: have attachment to human-validity?
THEN the antidote is to get caught in a life which never has any real human-validity, & experience the prejudice, the status-based-“validity”, the class-based-“validity”, the muscle/body/height-based-“validity”, the money-based-“validity”, etc, until AVERSION has equalled & opposited the attachment-delusion, removing it!
THEN one can have detachment-from-human-“validity”.
Not quite there, yet, but getting significantly closer.
I wish it had been easier to learn, but I’m woodenheaded, so it took stronger education to force the understanding in. )
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- Comment on How do you build and cultivate revolutionary optimism, given what's happening in the US? 1 month ago:
My perspective is that it’s going to get hella worse, before it gets better: an addict who isn’t ready to fight addiction is going to go deeper into it, & when they try turning against it, then their own unconscious-mind will trash their life, maybe even kill them, to protect what their unconscious-mind is holding-onto, you know?
& naive making-believing isn’t help, it is “help”.
So, I recommend investing in the fundamentals of enduring decade-long Civil War:
the psychological leverages identified in Kegan & Lahey’s “Immunity to Change”, a book on our unconscious-mind’s stages-of-development, & its fighting-off of growing-up…
IF one allows one’s unconscious-mind to fight-off growing-up, THEN one is more likely to be abuses beating-on-toy, AND one is more likely to be dead, without earning one’s underlying life-potential.
Therefore, learning how to get one’s unconscious-mind to help one grow-up, is one of the more powerful leverages.
Next is Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s “Tribal Leadership”, on the 5 CultureLevels ( they call them “stages”, but caterpillar->moth is stages, irreversible, & frozen/liquid/steam isn’t stages, it is states or modes, because they aren’t 1-way. The CultureLevels only become irreversible at 4 & 5, among some people… anybody bashing around among the lower-3 levels, can go down or up, endlessly )
Five: Positive-Sum Game, Win-Win Alliance culture Four: WE are awesome, THEY are not culture Three: Zero-Sum Game: competitive-narcissism culture, like doctors ( go walk into any normal hospital, & see how the junior-staff won’t look you in the eye, if you walk-in wearing a professional’s clothes & manner: their validity/dignity has been obliterated in the narcissism of medical-culture. Look around for somebody whose bodylanguage REEKS of narcissism: that’s going to be a doctor. It’s comically bad: acting-schools should be using clinics & hospitals for studying that bodylanguage! The book-authors aren’t as cynical about it as I am: dad was a medical-researcher & doctor, & I ended up going no-contact with both parents, for years-at-a-time, to undo the butchery they put in my mind… Not their fault, but … I hope this world changes ) Two: “MY life sucks”, subject-to-narcissism culture One: Negative-Sum Game, Competitive Nihilism. mass-shooters, dictators who’re destroying as much lives as they can, racking-up some kind of “high score”, before they die. Netanyahu & Putin seem to be doing that now, & Trump seems bent on outclassing all of them, soon.
Notice how manufacturing CultureLevel1 “justifies” police-state, which enforces CultureLevel1 even more?
Notice that Trump’s manufacturing homelessness as fast as his regime can?
Once he finally crosses the tipping-point, he’ll just de-naturalize everybody who won’t vow allegiance to him, & everybody else suddenly is “illegals”, & that is what ICE really is for: Civil War 2.
Now is just “appatizer”.
So, becoming competent in making one’s CultureLevel be 3 or 4 or 5 becomes a survival-means, see?
All this is of the “The kingdom of establishment, without, is inferior to the kingdom of G-D, within: one’s meaning, one’s Soul” paradigm.
“21 Days to Resilience” and “Gaslighting” are books I’d recommend, to build psychic muscle & immunity…
Fundamentally, one has to have help, though: grow your relationship with LivingSpirit.
Not this, or that, “religion”, but with universal, endlessly-healing, LivingSpirit.
All the religions which put themselves in G-D’s place, with their “it isn’t G-D that is The Only Savior, it is OUR RELIGION-REGIME that is The Only Savior”, or you can substitute the word “Way” for “Savior”, & it’ll still be the same thing: putting itself in G-D’s place…
That isn’t universal.
It doesn’t really work.
LivingSpirit’s universal.
Grow relationship with it, however many years it takes to get the hang of something so subtle ( unlike the junk/distractions/addictions of this world ), but it IS real, & it DOES grow healing in one, the more one’s … weaving into it, or weaving it into one, or something like that ( embracing, or weaving, … something like that ).
Ah! Know, also, that there is a cycle of 4 stages of life, & it makes sense to be doing one’s-own stage, not what others are telling one to be!
- absorbing-experiencing ( correlates with Kegan’s unconscious-mind-development stage 3 )
- pushing-out-meaning-violating-one’s-identity ( correlates with Kegan’s stage 4 )
- systems-of-systems unconscious-mind-development, ( stage 5 )
- letting-go, dissolving & making-do, preparing for going into dissolution…
IF one were to pretend that some lives spend 3 decades in each condition, THEN one would have a “crayons” picture of human-life, an oversimplified-cartoon…
But even an oversimplified-cartoon can communicate enough to help people orient, right?
So, while Kegan identified that many never leave the absorbing-meaning stage, until they die, of old age… so there’s NO law making people go into the next stage…
but knowing that each phase is going to last decades, not mere-years…
that is important.
IF someone is in the absorbing-meaning phase, THEN pushing them to be “alpha” is pushing them to be what they aren’t: they’re supposed to be experiencing all kinds of meaning, to discover what’s in them!
Once one gets into the pushing-meaning-out phase, THEN pushiness becomes natural.
The whole domineer+doormat “relationship” which is traditional, a Kegan4 with a Kegan3, isn’t as “wonderful” as it pretends to be.
( Kegan doesn’t index the states the way I do: he names them all.
I’m fed-up with zillions of psychology-dimensions all needing individual-names, so I’m only indexing them, now.
Kegan0-7, in my system, Kahneman1-2, etc… )
Domineer+doormat is only ego-food for the domineer, really…
Diversity-of-experiencing. That is what the young adult-minds need: finding which meanings within one are worth cultivating, see?
& if one gets to Kegan6, which Robert Kegan never identified, but it’s obvious, if one is experiencing it, self-conquering: all the advantages of Kegan4 & Kegan5, together…
Life, then, becomes … self-inherently better.
There was a man in Auschwitz, who became a world-renouned psychologist…
don’t remember his name, sorry,
he realized that the guards had physical-liberty, but their minds were trapped by ideology.
He had no physical-liberty, but he was free.
THAT is the kind of freedom which can get one through what’s coming, alive, but it takes guts & renunciation, both, it takes intelligence & wisdom, both, it takes LivingSpirit relationship & it takes getting the evil & harm forced into one, OUT from one, so one can have living within one’s own self ( opposite of PTSD ).
IOW, I’m recommending that one be inherently-living, instead of ideologically-“living”, as a means of surviving the coming Republican dictatorship, until it implodes, next decade.
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- Comment on Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them? 1 month ago:
I think you’re missing the point, actually…
( I’m autistic, & simply don’t buy that ideology is ever going to make a good world, communist, fascist, corporatist, moneyarchist, religion-regime, any of them )
There is a fundamental problem in human economies, in that it is initiative which starts companies ( obviously ) & if initiative is allowed to concentrate wealth/rights/privilege, it will, until you don’t have civilrights, anymore.
Therefore, there needs to be a kind of civil-harnessing…
At the other end, collectivism snuffs innovation & diversity & initiative, fairly automatically…
The root-problem is that BOTH are needed, but the economy has to somehow cultivate individual-initiative & group-initiative ( which work differently ) AND give the good innovators ( not the criminal ones ) both freedom & leverage & resources to get their contribution going, which is something that collectivity tends to snuff…
Another misframing is that monopolies shouldn’t even be allowed in the 1st place, because they are, in the long-term, economic hostage-takers, or economic suicide ( a country putting all its eggs in a single basket, & pretending that that’ll work forever ).
The correct policy is simply to use the tax-system to make it more costly to have fewer competitors, such that there is an optimal number of competitors in any industry, & they are actually competing.
That makes it less-profitable to extinguish your competitors through machiavellianism, see? The fewer competitors, the higher the tax rate… suppressing monopoly, rather than accommodating it, & then having the problems it created, & then having fights about how to mitigate those problems…
Do understand that I think worker-owned business is the ideal configuration, but it has to be earned-place, not just inertia, institution, or seniority that grants ownership, it has to be contribution ( “Slicing Pie Handbook” is the best book for the concept, for startups: how to allocate shares/equity in the startup ).
I’ve heard about … in the Basque region, … cooperatives … it takes years to earn a share in the company, and the loyalty AND drive are both excellent, & the companies were robust & did well…
That’s the right sort of thing.
No “you exist, therefore you have institution-rights, but no responsibility/accountability, because our institutionality/union/class/wealth prevents that” … kind of idiocy…
Rather, real earning-of-equity…
interesting…
I just realized that this makes-obvious that people with no interest in earning equity, they only want to do the minimum, get paid, & go do non-work things … are incompatible with that kind of company/operation,
therefore there HAVE to be 2 ( or more ) different phases of the economy: companies with worker-equity & companies where nobody is invested in the company except the owners/managers, because that’s an actual significant-portion of the population’s mode…
that makes it … more difficult to find an optimal single-set-of-rules for an economy, because the motivations don’t mesh…
So, apparently a set-of-rules is required for each system-of-motivations?
looks like it…
interesting…
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- Comment on How long would it take a black Hole to fully absorb a person from event horizon to center of the earth style? 1 month ago:
At the event-horizon, you’re moving at the speed of light.
So, you can’t have any awareness of duration, anymore.
You slam into the black-hole, from your perspective, instantaneously, then.
No machine could be “fast enough” to notice any duration pass by, between the event-horizon & the smashing-to-strings/quarks/whatever.
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- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 1 month ago:
I didn’t understand what a memoir was, until … I think it was John Truby’s “The Anatomy of Genres”, & he explained that it was specific to a person’s experience of some kind, it wasn’t just their biography,
so one might have the memoir of someone’s invovement in some project, or something…
Only then did it make sense that they could be interesting…
( if I could go 50-some years without knowing this, then others could, too. Only explaining because some “memoirs” … aren’t memoirs, so the definition seems to be needing to be made explicit )
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