Just as many not-on-public-transport families, in North America, have both a tiny get-around vehicle and a minivan, for loading everybody-and-everything into,
having a light riding-for-the-joy-of-riding bike & a heavier "truck" bike does make sense, for many.
( do have a pair of locks for the truck-bike, so you can lock both ends of it, though. )
DarkHexad intent { Narcissism / Machiavellianism / Sociopathy-Psychopathy / Nihilism / Sadism / Systemic-Dishonesty } is significant a fraction in human-nature, itself,
and the internet does represent that,
as does the last few millenia of human history, tbh.
The only way to have a clean space, is to force break DarkHexad grip on that space.
It's exactly the same with your body's health:
IF you want to break the pathogens from sharing your body's life,
THEN you have to BREAK them from owning any territory in your body's life.
Pretending & "making nice" on them won't break their grasp/control of all they own/control.
Exactly as Western Medicine holds that whole-health isn't a valid condition, but illness, injury, & death are,
therefore one treats illness, injury, & death with drugs or procedures,
there simply isn't ANY method for producing whole-health in a paradigm which axiomatically prohibits that that could be valid.
You want whole-health?
Become a true yogi.
Harness/yoke ( "yoga" means "to yoke", or "to harness" ) your entire life to whole-health, & discover what drugs & procedures cannot make.
The same is true of clean spaces, online ( I mean places where machaivellian evil gets auto-broken from them, there's no requirement that "clean" mean "all spaces are child-friendly" ).
IF you want clean social-site,
THEN you need combined arms ( all dimensions of force, convergion to enforce victory ) making that, against the machiavellians & corrupt-values people.
That requires easy server-setup.
That requires easy administration.
That requires easy moderation.
That requires easy community-management.
That requires easy onboarding for good people,
AND easy step-by-step breaking of the malevolent ones, with proper powerlaw escalations.
That requires accountability ( machiavellians consistently disappear any evidence that would threaten them with accountability, while trying to drown others ) that is both automatic & unbreakable.
etc.
Without a cat's skeleton, no matter what musculature you put on your non-cat skeleton, you can't make it be a cat, in how it moves.
You want a cat's liquidity-of-motion?
You require, then, skeleton, musculature, AND nervous-system of cat, for your animal..
You want clean/healthy portion-of-internet?
ALL dimensions, technological, legislative, admin, moderation, users, processes, EVERYthing needs to be "combined arms" breaking the pathogen-intents from possessing it.
And because of the neverending arms-race between corruption/malevolence vs good, that needs to keep continually adapting, agilely.
The Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has threatened to resign if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to adopt an agreed plan for Gaza, calling into question the future of the Israeli government....
He'd do greater-good by remaining in-place & continuing insisting on getting things right, then he would be getting out of abuse's way, & facilitating its more-complete highjacking of the country.
Same with all the leftists who vacated-authority-roles "in protest", handing them to MAGA enforcers.
Giving authority to the ones you "claim" you oppose, "in protest", is self-delusion, not means-of-victory.
Fools, ruled by feelings, instead of by objectivity & reason, giving greater leverage to their claimed enemy.
No point in pretending that that "strategy" is going to actually-win, is there?
Just throwing leverage away, for sake of feelings & social-assertion.
And then, later, whining that they're not winning..
Peter F. Drucker, in one of his books, has it that the "Health Care Industry" hired him,
and one of the 1st things he did, was..
told them, bluntly to their face, directly, approximately that
( this gets the gist of it, but this is from-memory, not exact/verbatim )
"You aren't the Health Care Industry, you are the Illness Care Industry, and you aren't fooling anybody, AND you aren't improving your credibility by speaking falsely"
Does taking all kinds of chemicals, so that one can be a "better bodybuilder", and then ending up in a population who dies significantly younger than average, due to heart-failures, be considered "good"??
Obviously, to the corporate-"persons" who make money having as much of the population addicted to that distortion as possible, YES!! PROFITS!!
Unfortunately, it isn't possible, in any political system, to get decisions made by correctness, accuracy, reason, objectivity, maximum-benefit-for-greatest-number-of-dimensions-of-the-population, etc..
The lobbies won't allow that.
Remember Covid?
Remember the people who were insisting that immunization was a scam, & that people should be relying on their body's innate robust immune-system?
These were people who consider yogic-living to be corruption, and heavy-meat-eating to be "good", nitrates in meats, & all.
The lobbies have overrun all discussion, not allowing objectivity to own any territory.
I think you are right, but the right-answer to it includes simultaneously improving the health of individuals, of entire-populations, AND getting people out immersed in nature more, so as to have built-up more-powerful immune-systems, in the 1st place!
Selectively extinguish some infectious-diseases ( I'd target rabies, ebola, HPV because it causes cervical cancer, & a few others, for extinguishment ), while dealing-with as many as we viably can,
in the hopes that "surprises" will not be able to trash/wreck our innate immune-systems, see?
Was 25 and super nervous, so when the realtor was like "oh yeah they just check for basic stuff, but I looked around and it looks great" I was like "Oh okay, this is so astronomically expensive every penny saved is good..."...
For some reason I've just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.
and "superheroes" are fake human-meaning, engineered to push distractine power/ego-fantasy instead of actual-human development.
Read both of John Truby's books, "The Anatomy of Genres", & "The Anatomy of Story", and become much competenter in what story/movie makers should be doing,
and then consider how much is being invested in preventing realism-of-context from being known by mass-media consumers..
..and then understand the long-term consequences of deliberately/systematically diverging mass-awareness from what real meaning, real human context, is, .. through decades..
It's part of a whole-class, or whole-population, suckerpunching, but it seems to be of unconscious, not conspiracy, intent.
Pretence-programmed populations are less realistic & less reality-competent.
Bollywood & Hollywood both produce divorce-from-reality.
That isn't required, for story, or human-meaning, is it?
I'd read some research-result release that said there is a specific virus-fungus combination that all colony-collapse hives had both of ( & their immune-systems were essentially non-functional: they were infected with EVERYTHING ),
vs colonies which had 0 or 1 of the 2.
I don't remember the names of either the virus or the fungus.
When we keep importing/exporting contaminated bits of wildlife, there are consequences.
A lot of things i thought were cute and nice like dolphines, ducks, cats (i saw one cat eat anothers new born), dogs (multiple cases of eating dead owners due to a variety of reasons starting from trying to wake em up to other malicious reasons), hamsters etc turned out to be wrong . Raccoons are the only thing i believe in...
Raccoon-medicine is the medicine of helping-friends.
There was a meme going 'round, where somebody had put up a bird-feeder or something, and they had it about 1 yard/metre off the ground, to prevent the raccoons from getting food from it..
.. a whole heap of them formed a living-ladder, so one of 'em could get at the food.
That is the brilliantest demonstration of exactly what some Indigenous religions have said about 'em, that anybody could ever ask for.
Read "Medicine Cards" by Jamie Sams, for a good survey of animal-spirits: it's reasonably accurate.
I'd add to it that upright owl-medicine is the medicine of meditation, but Indigenous religions didn't dig into that kind of thing, only inner-winds peoples did ( Asian region ).
( and anybody who goes & lives among wilderness for awhile will learn animals' natures/spirits specific to that locale, obviously )
The recent deadly crash near Toronto — in which four people were killed after police chased a suspect through oncoming traffic on a major highway — highlights the challenges officers face when deciding whether to pursue a suspect....
Literally all you have to do, is give each police-cruiser 3 specific drones, that can:
target the vehicle being chased, & then EMP-kill that vehicle ( an electromagnetic pulse "bomb", which blows the vehicle's circuitry: it'd need a huge capacitor, & an inductor. The drone would be destroyed if it were near, so it'd need to be a disposable thing, not the chase-drone, which would need AI
track fleeing individuals, using biometrics ( gait, limb-geometry, iris-scan in a swoop, etc ), to get as much identifying information on 'em as possible, & keep identifying where they are, until their tracking is lost. This should have the ability to identify wireless/cellphone/BT signals, so as to identify if somebody is the same person as who entered a building a few minutes ago, and having other drones to cover the other exits, sharing information, would be intelligent/wise
get to a crash-site, & show the EMT's what need is there, so they can be preparing before they get to the site, for that specific set-of-injuries
etc.
Once someone's caught committing a crime, then all pretence of "you have no right to track me" can eat hot lead ( gaslighting needs to die ).
There is a category difference between full-on big-brother piling onto someone caught committing a crime, vs the evil panopticon/universal-molesting/no-privacy-whatsoever world that some big corporations ( some private, some gov't ) are pushing.
Use appropriate leverage, for the context, & prevent exploiters/supremacists from exercising such leverage on entire-populations, for sake of ( what remains of ) civil-rights.
When a handful of monopolies decide that no factchecking will be seen by anybody, anymore,
and only profitable-to-their-dictatorship disinformation will be seen,
then humanity will not have any means of countering that:
it will be too late.
We are "the frog dropped into the slowly-heating pot of water".
People pretend that monopoly is "maybe" harmful, economically, but it is an existential-threat to countries, and with globalization, now to civil-rights as a valid-category.
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Having an ideological-problem with people making a living off their code is independent of whether their code was honestly, actually, published, & therefore is actual open-source.
I for example, expect him to no longer require nutrition labels to be on packaged and canned foods. We're all just going to have to eat what we can and play it by portion sizes....
He is going to get "even" with every ecological-protection, every science, every minority-rights, every women-protection, every Ukranian, every leftist, .. everybody.
War on ALL who frustrated him, but possibly haphazard, possibly systematic.
I outright expect the Environmental Protection Agency to be either completely dismantled, or a delay ( possibly of 4 years ) before outright having artillery take its buildings out, as the US Civil War Part2 progresses.
I expect US Civil War Part2 to be live-fire, everywhere, within 4y of him gaining rule of the US.
It may take only 2y, but it will be a progression ( I hadn't understood that until recently ), and it will be for keeps.
"Getting even" is going to be his primary "need".
Against EVERYone who isn't worshipping him.
As I say, it'll be a 2-4y build, before the complete scope of his war against all other than his supremacy, unfolds completely.
I would like to find a vehicle that is pedal powered (with the possibility of electric assist) that my wife and I can ride and transport our 3 dogs (all are over 70lbs) around town. We live in a small rural town and take our dogs to just outside town every morning and walk with them. One of the dogs has hip dysplasia, and is...
many jurisdictions label more-than-3-wheels as "motorcycles", even with no motor on 'em, because that allows them to abuse the population's potential.
Think how much use a 4-wheel bicycle-car could be, in event of no-available-fuel, to a farmer:
they could get stuff to the local market, instead of throwing it away.
Or, if a dairy farmer, they could get emergency-people to their farm, to help, instead of just killing their entire herd.
Bureaucratic-authority won't tolerate autonomy.
They'll NEVER allow the law to be based on something sane, like whether it's a human-powered-vehicle, instead of the idiotic "number of wheels it has", law.
Integrity in legislation is faaar too much to ask, of legislators.
Ask that state which reinstated an anti-abortion law from the 1800's, if integrity ought be permitted to interfere with their authority..
Cloying propaganda, of either right or left, is cloying propaganda.
I can't imagine finding such to be "food" for my mind.
I happen to wish that Trump wasn't going to be "king" of the US, but the making-believing ( instead of objective-practicality ) on both sides is making it inevitable.
You could make a cloying-propaganda video about the Biden-institution's cruising on its inertia/"entitlement", while it destroys the young generation's capacity to stomach voting for it, too, couldn't you?
Sanders is right:
that Biden's backing of the genociding of Palestinians is his "Vietnam".
He only needs to lose a slender few percent, and he's committed to doing it, at any cost.
"strategy", right?
I still believe the economic house-of-cards is going to gut Biden's chance in the 2024 election, but there are only months left for that to happen, so maybe I'll be proved-wrong on that belief.
( BTW, the party-system, which both Republicans & Democrats are examples of,
is, itself, institutional highjacking of countries, and should never have been permitted to own ANY countries.
No matter which party it is that gains owning of a country, they're in it for their party's national dominion, not for the country.
That conflict-of-interest means it isn't possible for a party-system to be not-corrupt.
Anywhere.
Notice that in the actual ancient Democracy, citizens vote on the individual issues, and Switzerland is the only country in the modern world that is somewhat close to that.
Who'd tolerate the responsiblity, though?
Isn't having some political-party own the country "easier" or "better" than having to act as a citizen in a democracy, & vote on all sorts of individual things?
Chickens are coming home to roost, throughout the countries of the world, these days, fersure.. )
"Christians" have been systematically mis-interpreting their bible for centuries.
Here is the Complete Jewish Bible's rendition of a particular phrase used in Revelations, which implies, clear as day, that "those who call themselves Christians, but are a temple of _________" is equally valid
"Christians" read John, read that he called benJoseph :"rabbi", repeatedly, read that benJoseph called biblical-legalists "Hypocrites!" repeatedly, and ?won't? understand that John was criticizing the "Jews", ( with falsifying-quotes, which hadn't been invented yet ), and not Jews,
and instead of accepting that John was criticizing/attacking the false "Jews", the biblical-legalists who contempted everything in Isaiah & legally convicted benJoseph to get rid of him,
..they went around murdering Jews ( the Catholic Inquisition was waging war against both women & Jews, ttbomk ).and had the gall to be doing it, in their words, "in the name of the king of Jews".
Ideological-gymnastics, not proper reasoning, right?
IF the repeated-throughout-scripture claim that God/OceanOfAllAwakeSouls provides help at every change between Ages
( between Age of Taurus & Age of Aries was Moses,
between Age of Aries & Age of Pisces was benJoseph,
one might presume that benDavid would be now-ish,
& Metatron/Alpha+Omega would then be at the punctuation between the Age of Aquarius & the Age of Capricorn )
if that promised-help is true/real, then the false-Jews, false-Christians, false-Muslims, false-Buddhists, false-Hindus, etc, would be walking into a kind of trap: what they're sowing, they're going to be reaping, aka Karma, involuntarily & .. rather-long-term, right?
My apologies to you for being accused by "Christians", & others, who reject the actual-evidence available before their own eyes.
If it's any consolation, the rabid on this world, who worship their-own-ideology/prejudice,
instead of what the various scriptures were alluding-to,
would seem to be the vast majority of the world's population, which is going to be making the rest of this century turn into an ocean of attrition, on all sides.
Nobody's going to be escaping the lesson.
Any remnant of humanity who survives, is going to be profoundly changed by the experience of what's being set-up, these years.
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PS: I'm holding that real Jew is like Isaiah, with spirit-centered/anchored values,
& false "Jew" is like the biblical-legalists, or Netanyahu's ilk, with other "values"..
& real Christian is like some Christian medical-missionaries who just go live somewhere & help, letting their religion show through their devoted life,
whereas the false "Christians" are the ones who "read" the bible, then attack "woke" ( benJoseph was the "wokest" guy in the New Testament ) "socialist" ( benJoseph provided free healthcare to anyone who'd spiritually-earned it, & gave free food to thousands, right? Socialist as can be ) progressives.
While mom tried making me Catholic, when I discovered that I'd earned some Soul-memories of previous-lives, that weren't human lives, then all the Abrahamic religions were nuked, for me:
Empiricism's the only religoin that MUST lead to one's Soul, one's "kingdom of GOD, within", as benJoseph called it, one's CellOfGod.
Either empiricism works, or all Universe is just an arbitrary rigged scam, obviously, right?
You have to consider what people actually will do.
They can make this decision knowing that the Dems won't commit the domestic-genocide they're committed to enabling,
knowing that it is the nonwhites & left who're going to be getting the genociding.
Political-motivation works that kind of way.
That is why I want a "political-motivation-ectomy" for civilization.
Political-motivation is cancerous.
Issue-diagrams are objective, & capable of cracking even urban-planning problems.
but who is going to force objectivity/practicality against ideology's-highjacking?
The dems won't, the left won't, the libertarians can't even understand civil-infrastructure, the "conservatives" ( privilege-conservatives aren't the only category of people who "conserve", as conservationists conserve, but are called non-conservatives.. damned newspeak bullshit )
Last year, a pilot program was launched in a Canadian province allowing adults to carry up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs for personal use. Soaring drug use in public spaces has raised concerns over public safety....
2.5g of fentanyl could kill .. what, ALL of BC's total population??
moronic.
You limit it to number-of-doses, if you're doing that kind of thing:
something like "a person can legally carry enough drugs to use for the next 4 days" or something, with drugs of different strengths having different limits.
Same as the volume of light beer required to put a person "over the legal limit" is drastically different from the volume of alcool, right?
Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:...
It's the 2nd book which is the most-convincing ( because the improbable-recommendations it makes are sooo damn right, based on my last half-century of experience ),
but without the 1st book, the 2nd book has much less traction in one's understanding.
2 books on one's life-process-lopsidedness which can be equally-profound, are
find your metabolism/"dosha", & identify which set of ingredients would be most-harmful for you vs which would be most-pacifying for your health, & make a meal where each course is a pair of dishes, 1 maximally-aggravating, the other maximally-pacifying, & see which your own body prefers..
Mindblowingly eye-opening, that.
All the meals I'd eaten, before, had been a mixture of harming-my-health AND healing-me foods, an insane "strategy" that hadn't been working!
Now, however, for all the years since I did the experiment, my health has been subtler & better a harmony.
Let the experiment-evidence decide for you, if your metabolism is one of the fundamental-metabolisms: then it should be clear-as-day. )
Again, both books are required for proper understanding.
The Yoga book shows you the kind of way you work-with your metabolism/"dosha".
The ingredients-list in the "Ayurvedic Healing" book is sooo fundamental to my health that I simply don't go grocery shopping without it, anymore.
This book is on the life-STAGE archetypes, like shattered-by-trauma
( the pair of "cards" "The Lightning Struck Tower" and whatever the crab-sifting-memories-in-the-lake-of-memories while the "wolf" and the "dog" try to get one off one's true-path through aversions or desires )
or having to disconnect from the outer world, in order to go deep within oneself to decide something important, re one's lifepath ( the choice/love card, card-6, iirc )
That one book I'd recommend getting the physical book, however: the archetype-stage illustrations are not included in the ebook.
The difference between it and ALL the other "tarot" books I've ever encountered, are..
the profound understanding in Haich
the uncontaminated archetype, ONLY ONE archetype per state
the interwoven symbolism really is significant.
I'm not saying to just become a believer in its symbolisms, but I definitely am saying that if you ever want to understand someone's sentience-stage, their life-state, you need to understand the stuff in that little profound book, and if any sudden change happens to someone, then that little book can help them know what they're needing to focus on, to continue living unbroken, un derailed.
It's an important psychology grounding.
Kegan & Lahey's "Immunity to Change" is on the 3 unconscious-mind development stages of adult human life, and how our unconscious-mind "fights off" growing-up/adapting, to protect dysfunction/inertia.
It's also important-as-hell for our lives.
Especially nowadays.
Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast & Slow" is on the imprint-reaction mind, which I call Kahneman1, & the considered-reasoning mind, Kahneman2, and how Kahneman1 mind fights to prevent the considered-reasoning mind from having any say in anything it feels it "owns".
All ideology/prejudice imprint-reaction, left, right, religious, political, ALL of it, takes advantage of Kahneman1 mind, to try to own populations, & through them, countries/worlds.
It is the single most-important psychology book in our whole world, right now.
Communist "proletariat dictatorship" & right-wing "populist dictatorship" are both the same thing, fundamentally:
highjacking of the world for factional-supremacism, through Kahneman1 mind's mechanisms.
I stop here, as of the thousands of books I've dug into, those are the most important ones for profound understanding.
China knows the Republicans are going to gut NATO,
China doesn't care,
China is committed to breaking the West's dominion, which is why it's making Russia into its vassal-state, totally-dependent-on-China, but with accountability/responsibility not having any direct-line into China, in the 1st place..
Once Trump's finished destroying the US, then .. then the real action will begin, militarily.
Give that about 1 dozen, or less, years, to occur.
ContinuousHammerfall's when the NATO-allied countries have been gutted, bankrupted, torn-apart through "populist dictatorship", etc, and suddenly the triple-alliance throws EVERYthing they've got against us, to break our capability...
Between now & then should be 2 more stages:
economic-collapse, which Trump uses to gain & secure dictatorship,
& the butchering of NATO & the West, economically, which should last .. roughly 7 or 8 years, or so.
Once those're done, then the WW3 tantrum/pogrom can begin.
the healthiest alarm-clock I know-of is simply to have 2 lamps on wall-plug timers,
such that the warm-white one comes on 1st,
then say 5mins later, the daylight one comes on.
Given how the beginning of sunshine changes through the year,
you have to change these timers every couple of weeks, or 1/2-month,
but that's a small price to pay for quiet, biochemistry-altering waking up that actually works properly.
Not an app, but it is an alarm-clock, and it wakes one up well, using the very skin-light-sensing system we are evolved to be using, instead of using some noisemaker, as "normal" alarm-clocks do.
It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote....
V. S. Ramachandran's "Phantoms in the Brain" book had a blindsight patient, many years ago ( he's a neuro-researcher ).
He handed her an envelope, & asked her to put it in a mailbox ( which I think he held, at some angle, in some semi-random location, before her ), and she did, automatically.
He said she was absolutely dead blind, but could probably drive, without hitting any obstacles, or do archery, iirc..
SHE couldn't see, but something in her unconscious-mind could see.
He called that something "the zombie".
Interesting book, iirc ( it's been a looong time since I read that one ).
I want to upgrade some of my older machines with some new, high(er) capacity SSDs (SATA and nvme). I don't need super high speeds, just something in the TB range in terms of storage....
Nowadays I can't imagine using SATA for anything but archival storage ( get the fastest NVMe you can for your operating-system, and be stunned by how much quicker your machine is ).
Last time I was digging into stats, the reliability-rate for Samsung devices was much higher than that of Western Digital,
and the off-brands .. often are a bit of a bad-joke, for reliability ( Adata & Kingston, I'm looking at you, and will never trust such scum again ).
Sorry if this topic is stupid, I feel very stupid right now. I got transferred to a new department and I've had 2 or 3 clashes with the new boss about me not getting the hint. He finally gave me a metric, a number to get to. He spelled it out. I can do that, but I'm just freaking out that he's gonna fire me because I couldn't...
I've been screamed-at, in an office-lobby, by my supervisor, for not recognizing people by their faces.
I'm face-blind, and only know that because of that series-of-incidents.
I didn't know, until my mid-30's, that ANYBODY ANYWHERE could ever recognize people just by their faces.
Absolutely stunning.
I recognize people by their being where they're supposed to be, the way they move, their voice, their clothing, all together, and usually I can recognize 'em, if I've seen 'em recently-enough.
That normals can recognize people only by seeing a face??
One bit of research discovered that introverts prefer quiet, so as to concentrate on work, whereas extraverts preferred music, to distract them from the work they were doing.
As Nick Yee, if I remember his name right, pointed out in one of his talks on yt, look up Gamer Motivations GDC ( I think it was GDC ), but he did research into gamer motivations, and in one of his talks he shows us the difference between the fake Myers-Briggs 2-bell-curves ( 1 bell-curve for introverts, another for extraverts ), then he explains that all the research has shown there's really only 1 bell-curve, so "ambivert" is an artifact of the fake science of the false-dichotomy that Myers-Briggs pushes.
I'm hard-line introvert: I'd rather be executed honestly, than have to endure what extraverts want.
Jung was right, in that it's significant, but it isn't what Myers-Briggs pretends it is.
It is a fundamental thing, where introverts are damaged by social-interaction amounts that feed extraverts.
I can't remember who it was who explained that you can take a stuffed-animal with a bell on it, or something, & jiggle it above a baby, & some babies will, after awhile, become agitated/crying/freaking-out/etc...
Those are statistically-likely to be introverts: you crossed their threshold.
The ones who like the endless-stimulation? extraverts.
Finding ANY predictor which works from babies to entire-lives, & has statistical-significance, is important evidence.
That may have been in Nick Yee's video, too, or some other, I've no idea ( been studying mind for decades: it's all a mishmosh in my memory, now )
Having participated in many "charities", you'd be a fool to believe an operation just because it is registered as a "not for profit".
Look at the executive-pay, and if it is over 2x the cost-of-living, you're looking at a money-funneling-to-executives scam, that is masquerading as a not-for-profit.
The amount of spine required to have real integrity, in this planet, is apparently greater than the amount of spine available in a human life?
My theory is that it's the possible terrestrial-equivalent to carcination ( the convergent-evolution of "crabs" evolving 6 separate times, in the sea, from different origins ).
I've no idea if cladistics will back that,
and don't really care,
but it seems that convergent-evolution would operate both in the air and in the water, so .. possible .. why not, eh?
I remember somebody was doing 3D-woven composites, possibly for spacecraft, some years ago..
This is essentially the same idea, but with nanotubes.
This suggests that weaving reinforcement tow through the layers of the layup would be structurally-significant, if it were done densely-in-pattern, enough..
In aerospace, maybe it'd be structurally significant ( aircraft have, iirc, only a 10% margin in structural-strength, though that may be just the aluminum semi-monocoque builds )
I'm considering starting a co-operatively owned website for writers to share their work without any gatekeepers, and with any profits generated going to the writers....
I, am trying to understand if I have habits. My definition of a habit is: "Something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without knowing that you are doing it" from the Harvard Dictionary...
A Habit is when it takes you less brain to do it, because it has become automatic.
What we call "muscle memory" is actually Kahneman1 mind, he calls it "System 1", but that's a useless label, without context, and its function is imprint->reaction.
"Thinking Fast & Slow", the most profoundly-important book in the whole world, right now ( because the ideologies/prejudices are trying to displace Kahneman2 mind, considered-reasoning, from all authority in our world, and the more stressed everybody gets, the more success they have in doing-so ) is on the difference between the 2 systems.
Imprint->reaction mind can be quite useful, in one's mental-economy, as it makes things happen on autopilot, but .. if one tolerates its systematic substituting of its convenient reactions, for the actually required actions, .. it can become strategically dangerous..
I read there were genetically modified mosquitoes that only bred males. Is that commercially available? What about that laser that zapped roaches, has it been improved to zap mosquitoes too? Maybe there is a guide somewhere on how to build a DIY Anti Mosquitoes Air Defense System?
there's a machine which takes a 20lb propane cyl, & attracts 'em by flashing-lights & CO2, & it captures only mosquitos, unlike bug-zappers, and it can harvest a stunning amount of the things.
You need to replace the hormone attractant .. capsule, or whatever it should be called, monthly ( that is where they get their recurring-money from, and it does make a big difference ).
Be selective in your culling of the local insect-population, as the entire ecology around you gets altered by the action, eh?
I had zero understanding of just how strong alcoholism could be, until I switched metabolisms, from vata-metabolism to pitta-metabolism ( read Frawley's "Ayurvedic Healing" and Frawley & Kozak's "Yoga for Your TYPE" books, to understand the different metabolisms, & how they alter one's life ).
In pure pitta-metabolism, alcohol-craving was ferrocious.
( it took me a dozen years to break from vata to pitta metabolism, btw: it isn' something easily accomplished.
The "obesity epidemic", however, is really a kapha-metabolism epidemic, which White prejudice won't tolerate to be labeled correctly:
obesity's the symptom, not the cause. )
If I ever get locked back in pure-pitta, I'll have to never have any alcohol to drink, EVER, while in it.
Currently I'm in a mixed metabolism, so it isn't lethally-dangerous to me, but it still munges meditation-capability, so I don't bother wasting money on it for that reason.
M49, I tend to go a bit long between haircuts which is on me, but I seem to have a really hard time explaining that I want short hair, like 20mm / 3/4"...
Without a legal mailing-address, you will be blocked from participating in much of the online-economy.
"no shipping address?" XOR "we won't ever ship to rural people, P.O. boxes, or any other non-CITY bullshit."
There's a book which discusses this, named "The Addres Book", by Deirdre Mask.
Some jurisdictions may require you to be treated as a valid citizen, even with a P.O. box "address", but I don't know of any jurisdiction that does that.
No address?
Your life will be stomped, & from what I've seen, you get deemed a vagrant/homeless by enforcement, too.
Never thought, that I would have to post this. While reading my autism medical documents, from when I was 6 yo (I'm now in my late teens), my father found some logic deficits mentioned. I never knew about it. I seem inteligent, barely do any work for school and still do great. I'm the best in class at maths and some otger...
even though I'm below-normal in both writing & arithmetic.
My average-score was above-normal ( since altered by massive concussions ) because what I was good-at I was really good-at, compared with normals.
Having an average that is far above normal, in academics, doesn't mean that all one's capabilities are above normal.
That is a significant difference between the idea, & the ideology, of the "academic superior" mind, vs the actuality of minds being made of SO many dimensions that deficits/defects are normal.
Read Thomas Armstrong's book "Seven Kinds of Smart, revised edition" ( revised is 9 intelligences, but they kept the same title ), and see how social-intelligence was left out from IQ testing because it wasn't a male intelligence ( implied by the quoted evidence ).
It's a book that all parents & teachers, and learning-disabled people, ought read.
Please dig into it, even if it means a trip to your local library.
‘This doesn’t make sense. How much shopping can you really carry on a bicycle?’ ( www.brisbanetimes.com.au )
Archive/non-paywall link.
Who agrees that the Internet and social media are toxic?
Israeli minister vows to quit war cabinet if PM fails to agree new Gaza plan ( www.theguardian.com )
The Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has threatened to resign if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to adopt an agreed plan for Gaza, calling into question the future of the Israeli government....
A bit of a weird question: Can modern medicine be a threat to humanity long-term by greatly reducing effects of natural selection?
OK, I hope my question doesn't get misunderstood, I can see how that could happen....
How do you experience eye contact?
I'm still on my journey of understanding the differences between autism and other. My focus today is eye contact, so let's have a discussion!...
4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good?
Was 25 and super nervous, so when the realtor was like "oh yeah they just check for basic stuff, but I looked around and it looks great" I was like "Oh okay, this is so astronomically expensive every penny saved is good..."...
Name a Superhero you just can't stand
For some reason I've just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.
So, what's in your toolbox?
This has been nurdling round in my brain for a bit, then I heard one of Belle Robertson's one minute audios that really helped clarify it....
Enough With Saving the Honeybees/The Truth About the Bees ( www.theatlantic.com )
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/SJGvM
Hey i just wanna know are raccoons evil in some kind of way ?
A lot of things i thought were cute and nice like dolphines, ducks, cats (i saw one cat eat anothers new born), dogs (multiple cases of eating dead owners due to a variety of reasons starting from trying to wake em up to other malicious reasons), hamsters etc turned out to be wrong . Raccoons are the only thing i believe in...
List of unusual units of measurement ( en.wikipedia.org )
Horse...
Deadly crash highlights risks of police chases. Do policies need to be tougher? ( www.cbc.ca )
The recent deadly crash near Toronto — in which four people were killed after police chased a suspect through oncoming traffic on a major highway — highlights the challenges officers face when deciding whether to pursue a suspect....
Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change ( aftermath.site )
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If Trump wins this year's general election, aside from Project 2025, What would you expect him to do? ( kbin.social )
I for example, expect him to no longer require nutrition labels to be on packaged and canned foods. We're all just going to have to eat what we can and play it by portion sizes....
Looking for a 4 wheeled pedal vehicle (quadricycle?) ( parbikes.com )
I would like to find a vehicle that is pedal powered (with the possibility of electric assist) that my wife and I can ride and transport our 3 dogs (all are over 70lbs) around town. We live in a small rural town and take our dogs to just outside town every morning and walk with them. One of the dogs has hip dysplasia, and is...
Trump Isn't The Same ( youtu.be )
MTG Cites Antisemitic Fable Jews ‘Handed Over’ Jesus To Be Killed ( talkingpointsmemo.com )
I'm Jewish and have been told very angrily that I killed Jesus more than once. It's fun.
Shocker From Top Conservative Judge: Trump Likely To Skate Completely ( newrepublic.com )
Canada's British Columbia makes U-turn over hard drugs ( www.dw.com )
Last year, a pilot program was launched in a Canadian province allowing adults to carry up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs for personal use. Soaring drug use in public spaces has raised concerns over public safety....
Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL?
Next year Windows 10 goes End of Life. Microsoft will undoubtedly push windows 11 hard, but a lot of machines won’t support it leading to a few economic points of interest:...
Is there a "personality test" you've done you found helpful?
Most are made up and silly....
China must stop aiding Russia if it seeks good relations with West, NATO says ( ptv-news.com.pk )
Looking for a sunlight simulator alarm clock app
Hi lemmy, im looking for a alarm clock app that can simulate the sunlight, i couldn't find one on fdroid.
Why do cameras call it "Macro Lens" if it zooms in and is used to capture tiny objects? Shouldn't it be "Micro Lens"?
TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote....
Is there Alternative to MS Office Suite on Android?
Particularly Word and Excel?
Cheap, but reliable SSDs?
I want to upgrade some of my older machines with some new, high(er) capacity SSDs (SATA and nvme). I don't need super high speeds, just something in the TB range in terms of storage....
Anyone else get chewed out by their boss for just not getting the hint?
Sorry if this topic is stupid, I feel very stupid right now. I got transferred to a new department and I've had 2 or 3 clashes with the new boss about me not getting the hint. He finally gave me a metric, a number to get to. He spelled it out. I can do that, but I'm just freaking out that he's gonna fire me because I couldn't...
Introvert\Extrovert is pop psychology nonsense.
The idea that human personalities and behaviors can be sorted into two simplistic piles or even a scale between two piles is just silly....
Russia would lose a war with NATO, Poland warns ( www.politico.eu )
“It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around,” Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said....
PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics company ( www.androidpolice.com )
Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I'm posting anew for visibility.
Why are there so many beetle species? ( knowablemagazine.org )
Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds ( www.theguardian.com )
Research into release of ‘forever chemicals’ raises concerns about contamination and human exposure along world’s coastlines...
“Nanostitches” enable lighter and tougher composite materials ( news.mit.edu )
Idea for a writers' platform co-op
I'm considering starting a co-operatively owned website for writers to share their work without any gatekeepers, and with any profits generated going to the writers....
How do you know if you have a Habit?
I, am trying to understand if I have habits. My definition of a habit is: "Something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without knowing that you are doing it" from the Harvard Dictionary...
Machine Learning Helps Scientists Locate the Neurological Origin of Psychosis ( www.extremetech.com )
AI and a large sample group allowed researchers to uncover key differences between the brains of those who experience psychosis and those who don't.
Is there a gadget or something that helps find, kill or repel mosquitoes?
I read there were genetically modified mosquitoes that only bred males. Is that commercially available? What about that laser that zapped roaches, has it been improved to zap mosquitoes too? Maybe there is a guide somewhere on how to build a DIY Anti Mosquitoes Air Defense System?
Is it true that addicts never stop being addicts, they just replace their addiction?
example: a drug addict alcoholic who discovers god and turns a teetotaler gay bashing abortion hating new born Christian....
Incorruptibility ( en.wikipedia.org )
Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating.
M49, I tend to go a bit long between haircuts which is on me, but I seem to have a really hard time explaining that I want short hair, like 20mm / 3/4"...
TIL that quadruple A batteries exist ( lemmy.world )
What device even uses this??
I'm lucky enough to get away with being 'no subtext' most of the time.
With housing costs being at record highs, would you consider living in your car to save money on rent?
What are the positives and the negatives?
Just found out about my apparent logic deficits and am confused.
Never thought, that I would have to post this. While reading my autism medical documents, from when I was 6 yo (I'm now in my late teens), my father found some logic deficits mentioned. I never knew about it. I seem inteligent, barely do any work for school and still do great. I'm the best in class at maths and some otger...