Paragone

@Paragone@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there are a few different dimensions of this, all combining to blur the view:

  1. the original Industrial Revolution, the Roman Empire, was kinda steady-state, compared with what we’ve been experiencing..

  the probably beginning around Newton cascade of Industrial Revolutions ( in different industries! ) is still accelerating.

  Coal+steel+steam was 1 of them.

  Telegraph meant information could travel FAST long-distances, then wireless took it farther..

  computers began automating things, then began enabling calculations which hadn’t even been possible..

  aviation ensmallening the world ( if embiggen is a word, then so is that! : )

  but what happens when there are sooo many transformations, CRT’s with their lead-glass to reduce people’s X-Ray exposure, now into flat-panels..

  genetic-testing all over the place..

  lighting no longer being incandescent..

  EV’s all over the place..

  it isn’t that change isn’t happening, it is that the equilibriums aren’t happening!

  It’s ALL punctuation, continuously-rolling, now!

  So, accelerating change, is part of what’s going on..

  1. the view: we’re IN the maelstrom, & therefore can’t see the forest for the trees!

  I recently went into a city, to ( fail ) to get ID, & .. everybody was on these weird scooter-ebikes?

  When the hell did THAT happen?

  I’ve only been out from cities for .. 15y?

  Obviously, it happened sometime in the intervening 1.5-decades, but .. that’s fairly distinct!

  So now there’s 2 overlaid public-transport systems: bus-routes covering the arteries of the city, & those rentable-everywhere scooter-ebike thingies, for all the point-to-point travel..

  Brilliant!

  I wish it’d been in-place decades ago.

  1. consider that part of what makes distinct decades distinct, is identity .. & consider that in the current world, dividing-and-conquering everybody by identity, through software-enforcement ( Facebook, etc ) is making much of our world invisible, physically: it’s ONLY in those platforms.

  So, it isn’t even in your, or my, view, to be seeing what the world really is, anymore!

  Concealment ( for divide-and-conquer purposes ) is growing more ideology-polarization.

  Don’t worry: it’ll be as clear as Russia-vs-Ukraina, in a short while, globally..

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some users have zero upvotes on their posts/comments?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes the victory needed is victorious-internal-integrity, & winning-the-social-majority isn’t as important to one.

  “seize every defeat from the clutches of victory” .. IF one is only measuring social-victory, then fine..

  But if what I’m doing is .. systematically demolishing the ideological-prejudice-enforced displacement-of-my-validity, within me, then integrity can mean MUCH more than ideological/political-approval.

  Sometimes you have to save your own life, even letting the collective die, in THIS battle, for sake of becoming indestructible in future-battles, throughout the rest of the war.

  The war is more important than the mere-battles!

  This is what I think Stephen R. Covey didn’t understand in his interdependency principle.

  I think too-much of our world is codependent, not interdependent, & that it takes REAL independence -of-validity before one can get into actual interdependent-collaboration-synergy.

  There’s a metaphor given by Kelsang Gyatso, in 1 of his books, which gets it right:

  There are 3 ways of helping people, & these phrasings are mine, not his:

  • the self-conqueror, who can coerce an entire kingdom into working right, in spite of entrenched corruption/rot/whatever
  • the shepherd, who can lead many, but who is only slightly above them, so the shepherd can be indirectly or directly defeated by their lack of self-conquering: they are less-helpless, but they aren’t anywhere near the self-conqueror level.
  • the ferry-pilot, who helps a couple of people at a time, & then goes back to find a few more to help.

  In my experience, only the self-conqueror is robust: all the lesser kinds of help are helpless when opponent-force gets great-enough, or acts through great-enough leverage/torque.

  Therefore, I want, and am aiming-for, TOTAL breaking of all the PTSD, all the damage embedded in me by ideology’s & prejudice’s ( including medical-profession’s ) gaslighting & abuse, all the harm embedded in me by medical-culture’s narcissism in parenting & “parenting”, ALL of it.

  I want THIS LIFE unbroken.

  & if people say I should enslave/snuff my potential to short-term/consensus/social-momentary-victory, then fine: hate, contempt, & reject my presumed alternative, as nearly-all already do.

  But all I have to do is win, & then the rules changed, permanently, completely, & then this-life is in the next-level-up, & cannot be crushed by the masses wielded by the ideologies/prejudices/etc.

  Getting permabanned by many instances, by many communities, because I value integrity more than I value political-belonging, is normal.

  But every time I ratchet this-life’s objectivity+integrity a bit harder in the right-direction, that puts a little more good-change in me.

  & sooner or later that tipping-point’s going to get crossed, & the brokenness hobbling my unconscious-mind is itself going to fail/break.

  Then the game is changed.

  That potential is to me real.

  To all others, it is mere-delusion/lies: it never was real, & it never can be real.

  So, the world bets its way, & I bet my way.

  Universe will decide which is, in its eyes, true.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

  Intentional dumbing-down of the entire market.

  Microsoft was pioneer in doing that, decades ago.

  ( the whole instinct to dumb-down everything is culturally-ingrained, & helps prevent critical-thinking, so it automatically gets backing by incorporated DarkTriad “persons”.

  John Taylor Gatto’s perspective on education is pertinent,

  hell, a bit in a book I read decades ago is pertinent: 2 psychologists who had a daughter herd her talking to herself, while in bed..

  so, being psychologists, they stuck a tape-recorder in her bed, to discover what she was saying.

  They discovered that she was telling herself the story-of-her-day.

  They ALSO discovered that she was complying with their pressure to dumb herself down, to meet their expectations: she was significantly un-dumbed-down in that recording.

  That was one of the most-depressing things I’ve ever read.

  Mere toddlers are already programmed by our culture into dumbing themselves down, & we’re blind to that, by default??

  Makes our whole population significantly less-viable, in this century, that’s for sure.

  Dumbing-down & ideological oversimplification are related, & form a positive-feedback-loop, unfortunately )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lessons from the sea: Nature shows us how to get ‘forever chemicals’ out of batteries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “The results were remarkable. Our gallol-based zinc batteries maintained 52 per cent higher energy efficiency after 8,000 charge-discharge cycles compared to conventional batteries that use fluorinated binders. In practical terms, that means longer-lasting devices, fewer replacements and a smaller environmental footprint”

  Why on Earth wasn’t this research done years ago, as fundamental-in-the-field research?

  This ought be front-page tech-news, actually..

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nurses Get Bitten, Spat on, Thrown. That’s Why We’re on Strike.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cultural, not employer-action, & therefore .. striking isn’t going to change anything?

  Unless enforcing-accountability-on-patients becomes a thing..

  but hospitals won’t EVER tolerate accountability on themselves, in my experience: the institution/gang/pack/herd HAS TOTAL IMMUNITY, to use Trump’s phrase from his ICE..

  so it’ll always be selective accountability, among “institutions"/gangs/herds/packs/unions/classes/etc.

  How depressing: NO amount of damage from factionalism-displacing-objectivity, will EVER be sufficient for humankind to take a sold stand against factionalism’s narcissism/machiavellianism..

  Whatever: there will be other worlds: souls can go incarnate among them, after this one’s extinguished..

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So..

  convict the person as an enemy-of-the-state, & lock them in prison.

  It’d be done were they NOT police, so why hold different-law when it is police which do it?

  Integrity obliges, but politics never allows integrity to enforce accountability, does it?

  Never.

  & the consequences always snowball, until civil-viability becomes called-into-question, again & again & again, in the repeating-cycle..

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are 2 dimensions of it, at-least:

  • strategic, long-view, sustainable, AND
  • creating resilience, creating better-framing, creating robust-healing.

  So, MAKING time, daily, for positive/healing practice, & doing it, is the opposite of self-harm.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some users have zero upvotes on their posts/comments?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of us sometimes, & others all-the-time, remove the auto-upvote, so that our posts/comments get dealt-with neutrally:

  Bandwagon-jumpers tend to downvote comments/posts which have balance-is-downvote on them.

  Others do the same for upvotes.

  I often find I’m voting against the herd, simplly because what I’m upvoting is an actual-point, & is impacting our world, even though what-it-is that is being pointed-out isn’t “politically acceptable” to say.

  Generally I upvote MUCH more than I downvote, but as Nick Yee discovered, in his Gamer Motivations research, some people are very social, but they’re very ANTI-social: they like destroying what others are valuing.

  So, it comes down to the individual-person’s motivations, AND it comes down to their frame-of-reference, both: they are independent dimensions to consider.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romanticize This⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could also just be a griefer..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That machiavellianism I never would have thought-of.

  sigh

  Thank you for telling us about it.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been there...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that this man looks genuinely happy .. which doesn’t match the meaning, does it?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tennessee Man Arrested, Gets $2 Million Bond for Posting Facebook Meme⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This ought be in the us-politics community, not relegated to being a mere “meme”.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone needs to time travel and stuff a brief case with 3m dollars⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah: it was the ‘90’s he did it, now I remember..

  um.. how the hell could it have been developed on an 8- or 16-bit processor?

  You’d need to move 32-bit procs back a decade, too, wouldn’t you?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shower. I hate the wet place⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell d’y’all mean “where?”?

  I Overthink, Therefore, I Am!

  : p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not in this picture. I swear.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We had the Terminator movies, last century..

  We KNOW how this is going..

  : p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE CRAZY PILLS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tylenol is aweful, to some degree a poison:

  it’s known to significantly increase liver-cancer.

  Mom used it instead of the asperine/advil type of chemicals, for that, & died of TWO kinds of liver-cancer, simultaneously ( which is something that doesn’t happen, in normal nature ).

  I’m absolutely against outlawing it, because people who’re allergic to the asperine/advil family of medication HAVE to have an alternative, but .. holy moley, is that stuff aweful.

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  RFK’s worse, though: weaponized incompetence force-dismantling what objectivity there had been, from medicine..

  Here’s nearly 700 PAGES of listings of medical-science papers on the subject, if you want to dig into it..

  Many won’t be on-topic, but dig & you will find.

  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=acetaminophen+toxicity&page=1

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE cuts to USDA may open door to invasive species, higher food prices⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  & people think that butchering USAID hasn't removed THE world's main mitigation-of-Ebola/Marburg/etc evil-diseases??

  The Christians have, in their bible's book of Revelation, a prophecy about plagues getting our world, right?

  Trump's removal of the world's pandemic-mitigation-system is the cause of that prophecy needlessly being fulfilled.

  ( Scientifically-Testable-Prediction, whether made by "scientist" or "engineer" or ANYbody..

  I'm Empiricist, so I don't care what "source" it is who made a prediction, I care only IF it tests-to-be-true.

  & that definintely is one of their predictions, & it definitely is going to prove true, now, within a decade, at most.

  ) :

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