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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Dangers of Socialism they warned us about...⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds of

  political compass emphasizing social scale, with blood dripping from the top with the line “here, you are disrespected so much you can be slaughtered” and grass and daisies growing from the bottom with the line “here, you are respected. freedom first. emancipate.”

  The promise of socialism, much easier, more robustly, if doing freedom first.

  Though of course, push too hard to the sides, and you can tip over a slippery slope, on the right, it’s the mechanism of wealth and power consolidation, with the rich able to accumulate wealth (and therefor power) faster, since “it takes money to make money”, and on the left it’s more a mere ideological slip up, to a totalitarianising fervency.

  Big baron terrorises with scare stories of big brother. Big brother terrorises with scare stories of big baron. Both terrorising everybody towards totalitarianism and tyranny. We do better without these bigs that have us all jump at once. Big bank, big bully, big bot, big blight it matters not. Freedom first, where we can have meaningful discussion about our economic balance and how to organise things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the replies to this, in rough grok analysis of epistemics at play, to be fair, remind me more of those who kept insisting blue LED were impossible, and their arguments remind me more of “we cannot have spaceships because the string doors won’t work in space” type arguments, more than they remind me of industry agents intentionally sowing seeds of ignorance squared. [~ Mild confidence. Generously [amidst some redherrings and moved goalposts etc.].]

  … And fun to think of the contrast of those two examples. They’re [/you’re] almost certainly seeing this with blue LED, and blue LED was sought by industry, did not obsolete their industry, but enhanced the demand for their product, while augmenting the appeal and profit margins and all kinds of other features (~ radically different world where we did not yet get blue led… smart phones wouldn’t have happened, for a start). They’re [you’re] almost certainly not seeing this while sat in their own spaceship, nor even a water powered car… probably not even a car fuelled with hemp oil or ethanol (~ radically different world where we did not get any of those suppressed… far fewer incentive for resource wars, far greater self empowerment and a better educated and empowered populace, resulting in better democracy from that better informed public, with a better practical grasp of energy, utility, facility, society, health and more, on the road to becoming polymaths in the making (~ rather than single-purpose slaves in training).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Certainly a part, a potential.

  I wonder about coupling such with things like mycelia too, that can grow from radiant energy besides light, and can form symbiotic relationships with plants, and so, maybe (if this isn’t too simple-thinking), yeast with algae, there could likewise by biological catalysis, synergies, mutual boons, that even then produce other useful stuff too.

  ~ that also got me thinking of the various pond surface plants, and how prolifically efficient growers they are too. Not sure how to put that to use, besides, idk, a source of protein and b12 for vegans.

  ~ and, not quite sure why, but that moonpool reforestation method springs to mind too. I don’t know how yet, but put all these things (and more) together, and, … good results. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe they crush technologies, but most of the things you mentioned aren’t true.

  Beliefism and contradiction asserted.

  There were no spaceships possible in the 1930s.

  Foo fighters only showed up in the 1940s are you thinking? Or not even aware of those? Or the bell (“die glocke”)? Nor my earlier examples looked into? Just presuming? If so, how? By mistaking absence of evidence as evidence of absence?

  Why crush that technology when they could have conquered the world with it?

  LOL. Fun way to answer your own question.

  It’s not possible to run cars on water.

  Indeed. Any who attempt to, seem to die or disappear. … iirc, Stanley Meyers’ famous moment, running out of the restaurant from a meeting with some potential “investors”, shouting “THEY POISONED ME”, just before he died, seems to serve (intentionally or not) as a warning and disincentive to even try.

  The thermodynamics just doesn’t make sense.

  Have seen each of the methods of catalysis and can refute each? That’d be thoroughly educational|entertaining|enthralling to see.

  [Just remembered before posting… didn’t one method use a combination of lasers and plasma… one of the cavitation methods… idk, been decades since looking into this stuff. Hazy tidbits of memories for the curious and studious to chase if they want. … (Perhaps futilely) hoping websearch not so censored as cannot find this stuff any more. ~ Had to dig 100s of pages deep into search results even back then.]

  Even before learning more about the states of matter that water can get into (including recent stuff on it being two different liquid states simultaneously), the magnetic alignment method has fascinated me (~ in passing… I’ve run no tests ~ dear industry, pls leave me be. lol.). It would be great to share an exploration of the various ranges, of state conditionals; of energy levels, types, frequencies and wave shapes; of cavitation, aperture, geometry; of ortho water and para water, ratios thereof; of water isotopes; ratios thereof; of impurities, solutes, salinity, ionisation, pH; and so on. To really draw out the more complete matrix of water’s potential (~ at least in the mundane material utility sense). [/*dreamer*]

  Anyways, the claims are out there. Mere nay-saying is an unsatisfactory replacement for refutation, especially amidst conflicts of interest and dogmatic world views that salaries depend upon. Closed minds are never wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope the water thing is /s

  Why do you want that to be sarcasm?

  Wouldn’t you prefer that to be true??

  You hope differently to me.

  Water powered car’s been invented more than just that once with the famous Stanley Meyer story. Y’know those blow torch thingies, that use water? Yeah, same basic principle. And remember in that special episode of Top Gear (I think it was maybe the Myanmar episode), where hammond put a little water in his engine (in with the fuel) to give it more go at altitude? Same principle as many of the "water powered car"s use, where instead of (afaiu) electromagnetic alignment catalyst, they use chemical catalysts (and other starters and combustants etc), to which some eager naysayers throw the baby out with the bathwater and proclaim it all bunk because those designs were not using pure water. … I’m not sure any use entirely pure water, do they? Didn’t even Stanley Meyers design involve some kind of other chemical in the mix too? I’m not looking into it any further than is popularly known. I don’t want to be mistaken for an inventor, attracting the attention of the ruthless unscrupulous sorts with a lot invested in their rentier ride. ;)

  Amusing aside… can haz steam powered car too. ;) Too contrived to call that water powered? Hehe. Even a Stirling engine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Heeh! :D I’ve just had effectively the exact same thing, except for advertising. “Mind control does not exist” they said, to the face of one saying they used to be one of those doing it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it hard to be enthused for trains, trams, and busses any more, since discovering over 20 years ago that clean energy and many other technologies and man-made innovations have been suppressed to maintain out dependence on scarce polluting energy because it’s easier to put a meter on to extract rents by. … So much so… y’know we could have had spaceships each since the 1930s? T Townsend Brown was not the first nor the leading pinnacle. Even back to the mid 1800s, when they were rigging their hot air balloons with faraday cages and high freq e.m. fields to reduce, and even eliminate inertia [… 1 small vacuum-proofing hop, and you have rudimentary interstellar flight capabilities]… … we never needed rockets, we never needed planes. … we don’t really need buses either. Or cars.

  But if we make a nice world, buses still could be very nice to have.

  Semi-subway trains too.

  And cars even too. Track day, anyone? :)

  Whole lot of vertical space unused in this world [and beyond]. We have so much headroom without the crooks holding us down. Heck! Even the crooks, even with their billions and trillions, would be better off, if we availed, each and all, all the emancipatory technologies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’know we could have had spaceships each since the 1930s, right?

  Or even just running our cars on seed oils, like hempseed oil, or plant derived ethanol.

  Or even just running our cars on water.

  … If they’d stop killing inventors and stop abusing the patent system to secretize emancipatory technologies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of Bill Hicks’ bit about future advertising, how in the future there’d be an advert where it’s just a view of a beautiful woman, and the camera pans back, revealing she’s topless, camera pans further back, completely naked, and her legs are apart, and her fingers spreading her lips apart, and it just says “Drink Coke”. … “No I don’t know the association. Yes I’m buying the product.” I guess we’re already past that future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And cabbage, on the top shelf, not in the bottom drawer!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Are the top shelf items helping maintain the problem?

  I never went that route, when I had that problem.

  For months, I was on 4L of Dr Pepper a day, and never realised I had a problem, until the day I drank 9L in 24 hours. … I never thought about sticking those top shelf items anywhere though. Does that ease the constipation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to stop falling for tokens and politicians. They lie. Stop falling for it. No strongman (or woman) to save us. Every little bit of do-ocracy helps ease and inspire more do-ocracy clawed back from the purple party and its two punch tactic to keep us down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utopia 🌈⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Another option to consider, merely strike through, with a couple tildas either side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utopia 🌈⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Well put.

  Reminds also of the tactic of tacking totalitarianwards/tyrannywards, where identification on economics, or inconsequential cultural identifications, are played against each other, each professing to be the freedom side, and proclaiming the other the authoritarian side, while really the two sides both professing and proclaiming the other way, are in cahoots, and the sides they present, keep those identifying with the sides, fighting each other. Like the more libertarian left hoodwinked by the authoritarian left telling the libertarian left that the authoritarian left are just like them, the libertarian left, and that all the right are the authoritarians to fear. And the same on the other side, the authoritarian right telling the more libertarian right that the authoritarian right are just like them, the libertarian right, and that [classic Mc’Carthian redscare con here:] the left are all the authoritarians to fear. And then to hide this, placations are loudly given, each side, ((at least) professing to) return a freedom, “personal” or “economic”, depending on which side, while simultaneously quietly taking away two freedoms of the other ilk. The other side repeats this. Cons their side that they care, and are the strongman saviour you need to protect you against the other side’s rampant scary authoritarianism. Back and forth it goes, tacking to totalitarianism and tyranny, for so long as we keep falling for it, keep identifying with these 1-bit binary groujpthink identifications of “left” and “right” with ignorance of the con. I say, lets stop falling for it.

  “You and I are not in the big club.” – George Carlin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utopia 🌈⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that’s a joke, and it’s funny… but I’m concerned for those for whom this reads straight, take it as a good idea, and don’t realise they’re opposaming, oblivious to the non-censoring possibilities and paradigms, not realising, as TORF said “If they censor your opponents, then they censor you next”, the broader precedent set…

  Oh for more good ideas to help dispell the bad ideas. … Maybe clearing the chemical lobotomy from the food supply would help. If we can accomplish that, past the crooks with their incentives to keep that in place… … then maybe there’d be less of the compounding stupid that threatens us all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utopia 🌈⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy. You’d just carry on hating anyone who points out your book already insists you “love the sinner, hate the sin”. World view intact. Just anyone who tries to offer you logic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utopia 🌈⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Legitimately the Internet was a better place before …” it became more like TV and a corporate shopping mall, and less like a Library and a village fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utopia 🌈⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s almost like they built the system to plan for this kind of tomfoolery and fraud.

  yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utopia 🌈⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why’s that guy trying to get us to manifest his absence from our view?

  On some level, he knows what he does is wrong, but cannot help himself. …And so, this is his cry for help?

  Poor fool, apparently knows no other tool but the hammer, only questions which direction to swing it, and didn’t question even that very much at all. Unthinkable to him, to cease wielding that hammer, and start to learn about other tools. … Then maybe they’d be out of the redscare psyop’s conflation; out of the authoritarian opposame; out of the arrogant naive-realist presumption; out of the agnotologically abused co-perpetration that he points his finger at, oblivious to the three pointing back.

  Pesky adhominous strawmen division-sowing groupthink-calcifying asset-agents.

  I’d rather imagine a world without neither censorship diktats nor vapid inane poorly-veiled reverse-psychology gambits to induce groupthink. Y’know, free speech, and no terrorism. … Terrorism, y’know, the application of terror for political gain. Like alluding to some scary slippery slope dystopian scenario to get people to conform to your political agenda. No matter how ineptly done, ~ or even, not inept, and works exactly as intended, strengthening the in-group’s shared dogma and fear of the other, and keeping the other, the out-group, contemptuous of the sins of the in-group, which only furthers the division, eases the conquer, playing group vs group… while the crooks continue to run a muck. This is no time for falling for pitchforks vs torches. No time for falling for the divisive scams from such scammers and agents.

  “conservative content”.

  Conserve what?

  Is a question more can benefit from asking any time anyone tries to induce you to their groupthink with this enticing pitcherplant of a Rorschach test.

  Then maybe fewer would fall for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men against bush⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which bush are we talking about here?

  Kate?

  George?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn’t sell. We can always feed the world. We just don’t.

  Somehow, I dyslexic speed-reading misread that at first as:

  Supremacists destroy food if it doesn’t sell. We can always feed the world. We just don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agnotology, cha cha cha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically have ceased using mobile phones since he confirmed our “paranoid” suspicions. Boggles my mind how others can carry on. It’s like they’ve been hypnotised out of understanding their duty to poke big baron in the eye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human, all too human⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes you can.

  duck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human, all too human⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  best nietzsche quote

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep the faith. Don’t collapse the wave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get to know either where the favourite things the furniture is doing is happening, or when the favourite things the furniture is doing happen, but not both. It seems like a big enough flaw to throw the furniture out into the skip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Property is theft”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Title⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whussat, in single dollar bills, so about a grand? VS about a hundred grand?

  Or we talking 100 dollar bills, so, about the same?

  … Volume may be the deciding factor.

  … Wait. Can’t we just skip to the end already, provision everybody with the emancipatory technologies, radically transforming our economy, obsoleting the need for money…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wowee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

  …?

  Are you hinting we should pause to question why?

  Maybe not all the Polands want to be in the Pacific.