Empiricist Old-Testament Vajrayana, battered enough by life to have grown-up some, in my nearly-6-decades, autistic geek, philosopher who finds that Western philosophers are nowhere near at the level of correct-thinking of the Vajrayana stuff, & will be tearing-into Marx, etc, for their brainos ( Marx found that capitalism alienated workers, so he replaced capitalism with communism, which somehow "didn't" alienate workers?? I've already cracked the underlying error, but that is a long article. It'll happen. & so will the dismantling of the other philosophers' bogons, the whole lot of 'em. : )
Hofstadter's "Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" was on this, & mind.
Either self-consistency XOR completeness.
You can't have both.
IF self-consistent, THEN incomplete.
IF complete ( completely-matching-universe ) THEN self-inconsistent.
.: self-consistent theory ONLY can describe a limited subset of universe.
Period.
( Hofstadter later identified, in his revised version of the book, in its preface, that his work was also on the nature of mind.
He claimed that nobody got it.
He obviously had no Buddhist friends.
When his illustrative-vignettes with the Tortoise & the Hare showed that you can present evidence to a formal-system ( represented by the Tortoise ), & it'll say "oh, yes, of course that's valid", the next thing it'll do, is demonstrate that it ignores all such evidence.
That is characteristic of ideologies, prejudices, "religions", & formal-systems.
It's the same "we only accept what is self-consistent with our belief, NOT what contradicts it" as formal-systems embody.
As a grotesque remapping, imagine being tasked with proving that mothering is meaningful, but you're only permitted to use arithmetic, for proving it?
Well, you can't, then, can you?
Mothering's meaning ISN'T knowABLE within arithmetic: it's in a different-kind of reality!
But people who insist that ONLY their-schema be allowed to measure "what is valid" .. are all doing exactly the same scam that Hofstadter called-out in his absolutely-brilliant book, decades ago.
Anyways, Susskind has identified that "Time as a Fractal Flow" fits reality well, but he apparently hasn't clued-in that if Time is fractal, .. then isn't Space also fractal?
The implications of Space being fractal .. kinda nuke much of our whole physics-paradigm: continuum is completely-bogus, then.
Anyways, it all comes down to inapplicability:
Each model ISN'T applicable outside its applicability.
.. isn't Dunning-Kruger, or something, rooted in that?
People mistaking chess-competence for universal-competence?
Arithmetic isn't universally-applicable.
Even something as specific as probability-calculus, with its "the difference between a tribe of 150 reduced to 149 is "IDENTICAL" with a tribe being reduced from 1 down to 0, because the ONLY difference is subtraction-of-1"..
that's categorically wrong:
Reducing a tribe from 150 down to 149 is an ARITHMETIC difference of 1, but reducing it from 1 to 0, means the tribe's continuity has been broken: it's extinct now.
Using the wrong model makes one incapable of understanding true-meaning.
Based on what I earned from that book by Hofstadter, I'd say the thing is that we're prone to applying models waaay outside of their applicability, & therefore we're being bogus, while believing that we aren't.
& THAT is problem.
Models are limited in their applicability.
& we are .. perhaps wired .. to ignore that.
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Social-consensus ( of a particular-tribe ) based "validity" is insufferable.
It is insufferable when it is class-based.
It is insufferable when it is race-based.
It is insufferable when it is gender-based.
It is insufferable when it is money-based.
It is insufferable when it is "religion" based.
I've learned that we're incapable of seeing what our own prejudices contempt, because our own unconscious-mind blocks our ability to perceive it.
It is good that some of it is insufferable, it is better when all of it is.
I only cracked-open my class-prejudice at the end of a 25d hard-line-fast ( vit-C, vit-E, water, & salt ), out homeless in the bush.
Until then I'd been kept blind to how MY prejudice had been damaging people I valued.
Unconscious-mind's programming is FAR more destructive than we understand.
& even once cracked, it takes a decade or more to dismantle enough of it, to own one's own meaning, more?
yep.
Perhaps when young I'd have been among the smug identifying with what you are finding insufferable.
I've learned that what we are mostly is defined by what we were born into.
& therefore .. all the people identifying as "not like that" are actually "not like that" due to mere accident of birth.
Evidence?
Aside from Lanier's whole book on the difference between Tropical culture vs Nordic culture ( "Foreign to Familiar" ) & Hofstede's "Exploring Culture" & "Cultural Dimensions Theory"..
the blunt fact that the MAJORITY of East German people were snitching, in order to ingratiate themselves with the authorities .. THAT is actual-measurement of human-nature.
WE are not "inherently better" than them.
It takes decades to force oneself to become whom one intends to be.
That truth by the root-guru of the Christians: "let the one without sin throw the 1st stone" bites deeper & deeper, the more one digs into the true nature of our own unconscious-mind.
Ideological oversimplification's nauseating.
But the truth-seeing view that people are mixtures, that there was both good & evil in the monsters of our history, & that there usually is both good & evil in the "heroes" of our history, too..
takes more work to uphold.
& the social-ideology believers won't have any of that.
Nor will any of the other ideology believers, so that's normal.
But we CAN be objective & correct-reasoning, if we want it enough.
That requires carefulness, though, in both thinking & in speech/expression.
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Create an EU PieFed instance, good slate of communities, good moderators, etc, & then MAKE it the EU reddit-alternative, through making it be where people WANT to be.
( the whole "oh, it doesn't exist yet, therefore we have to just remain doing what we are doing" is idiotic:
MAKE change, as Ghandi instructed. )
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angry-upvote!
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The error is in the false-framing of "reclaiming self-worth":
it isn't reclaiming what one had, since what one actually-had was not what one needs, & was itself false-framed.
What one needs, is autonomous, independent, validity, & intrinsic self-worth, which never would have converted into self-hatred/self-poisoning/self-negation, etc.
So, one has to intentionally earn an independent kind of self-worth which is UNlike what one was brought-up in.
That is a claiming, not a "re"-claiming.
Think of it as being like letting-go of the pop-up-book childhood "reality",
AND intentionally-letting-go of the horror-novel "substitute",
in exchange for ACTUAL investment in one's future, because it isn't fundamentally-honest to hold the pathogen's perspecive of one's "worthlessness" so that pathogens can win more totalitarian dominion throughout the world, & one wants enough integrity to have NOT sided with the parasites/pathogen ideologies of this world.
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Stereotyping helps push the dumbed-down unconscious "narrative".
Even the predominance of "superhero" movies, right now, is ITSELF a stereotyping of .. everything.
relationships, personal-natures, character "development" ( but only within the cartoon stereotypes ), etc.
Getting everybody to be programmed into seeing only in caricatures/stereotypes, aids ideology greatly.
All the Leninist programming of children, in US's education-system, so that they're incapable of standing up for integrity, when that would mean going against authority ( from what US-citizens who've moved abroad, who've commented on their educational-brainwashing have said ) .. it's part of the stereotyping, the ideological-programming, too.
Notice how the "bad" characters, if male, are FAR more likely to be wearing makeup, like in the clips of The Expanse that I've seen ( Martians, I think it was )..
It's all part of ideological-programming.
Nobody's got the integrity to let any truth get past that cultural-programming.
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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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"intellectuals", with their entitlement & privilege, ought deign to intervene..
Perhaps some people find the cloying class-based-"superiority" in that to be nauseating.
The question is a fundamental misframing:
It is integrity, not "the privileged upper-middle class who identify with their exclusively-more-valid intellect", as "intellectuals" ought be unpacked to,
it is integrity which is the needed chisel, right now, & since mainstream "journalism" sold-out, it is Journalism, with a capital-J, which is the required antidote.
I remember seeing people from the Philipines reporting that Marcos's election was via district after district reporting 2/3-votes for Marcos .. invariantly.
NO "journalism" picked that up, as a fake election??
Only the 1st few results showed chaotic variability.
There is NO Journalism-with-a-capital-J left. It's ALL "owned" or "pwned", now.
The pushing of normalizing gaslighting, altering framing, eradicating actual-opposing-to-corruption, etc, all of it serves corruption, now.
I remember seeing the photos of The Guardian, showing how they systematically minimized Netanyahu's "Israel"'s genociding, while speaking openly about Russia's..
That isn't Journalism, that is "journalism".
Integrity's more-fundamental than intellectualism.
Class-based-"validity" can go eat rocks.
For all who claim that class-systems are inherently-wrong: parent-child is THE fundamental class-system.
Class-systems are inescapable.
Class-based "validity", however, isn't.
Nor is the prejudice+pretence.
Honestly accepting, honestly valuing, honestly collaborating-with, people of different classes, in our combined-committing, would be .. too much to ask, of class-based-"validity" people.
As one Sun Media writer noted, years ago, the condescension in the middle-class for working-class determination, is drenching.
That absolutely is true.
Cracking prejudice, including class-prejudice, takes visceral-experience, not more class-segregation.
You CAN'T get people who grew-up in "prep" schools, with their prejudices, to accept "their inferiors" as valid.
Therefore class-segregated education is a strategic-enemy of our viability, & the Scandinavian system whereby EVERYbody goes through the same public-school-system, is right: NO class-segregation permitted.
It's always deeper than the pretences "cartoon" the issues to be.
& the real antidote always costs segregated-privilege's habit deeply.
& we automatically balk at that, because our "identity" is wrapped-up in our cultural-habits.
But .. this-century will enforce enough destruction that IF humankind earns transforming into being-viable, THEN that adapting will have to have happened.
Either that, XOR humankind can do its "tantrum/pogrom" until there's nobody left, & then .. universe will just move-on.
All our ego's narcissism, all the "G-D revolves around ME!!" delusion, like all narcissisms, like "intellectuals" narcissism, all of it means nothing, to universe-itself.
The error is that we mistake different-specialization "classes" for "validity"-classes: THAT is pretence.
THAT is anti-viable.
Growing honest about that SOON would be wise, but .. would go against habit, & that .. won't happen without a fight.
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Somebody's paying for it..
Seems deranged, to me..
Simultaneously debanking the politically intolerable WHILE increasing the saturation of a place with banks .. doesn't make any sense.
& the basic rule about "a market can only support a certain amount of a given kind of competition" .. means that whomever it is who's getting loans for building those things, is going to be defaulting on those loans, which will, itself, be bringing-down banks, in your region.
Again, deranged.
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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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Uh.. they aren't used in solar-panels, ttbomk.
They're used in neodymium magnets.
They're used in TIG-welding electrodes ( ceriated, etc. )
Without rare-earths, we've got no rare-earth magnets ( & hence no powerful permanent-magnet motors ) AND no TIG-welding ( except for the pure-tungsten ones, & the radioactive thoriated ones ).
You can't stop needing specific elements, or categories-of-elements: chemistry doesn't work that way, sorry.
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Please try a Yunnan tea.
Or Darjeeling, if you prefer something like a "dry Riesling" ( dry, precise ).
XOR if you prefer the health-benefits, please consider trying green tea?
( black is simply oxidized-to-death: that's the only difference. IF you want the beneficial-when-not-oxidized chemicals in the tea, then green's your option )
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https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-us-marines-got-rid-their-tanks-207915
has, near the end, one of the most incompetent pieces of "logic" I've ever seen.
"the Russian military has lost 2,200 tanks out of a force that had consisted of 3,500 before the war began.
Based on how the Kremlin’s tanks fared – and how the Western-made MBTs like the Leopard 2 and Challenger 2 failed to be the miracle weapons Kyiv hoped for – it would seem that the Marine Corps made the right move. In a future war, they’ll be able to say they lost no tanks, simply because they had none to lose!
However, tanks continue to see service around the world, including in Ukraine. That’s because while drones have proven successful, it was largely because there haven’t been successful tools to counter them. Tanks have survived even as anti-tank rifles, land mines, bazookas, and RPGs were developed to destroy them.
Tanks will, therefore, continue to have a place on the battlefield."
It isn't anti-tank-rifles, land-mines, bazookas, or RPG's that render tanks obsolete: it is Saint Javelin that does.
When a troop-portable missile can take out a tank costing 100x as much, then by deploying tanks you are GIVING the enemy a way to bankrupt you.
Shoot-n-scoot artillery is MUCH cheaper, hits harder, & is harder to eradicate.
That statistic, up-top in the quote: 1,300/3,500 Russian tanks left, SHOULD clue people in about just how ill-suited the things are, to long grinding all-out war-of-attrition, which includes anti-tank missiles & drones destroying them from above.
The whole karate-style high-concentration-strike-on-high-value-target is an efficient way to either be forced into ally-dependency ( both sides are ), XOR to bankruptcy.
The proper method is to remove high-value-targets from one's army, & make EVERY platoon capable of taking-out significant enemy-means ( MRAP? as much as AFV? ), & getting the capability as distributed as possible.
Thanks to drones saturating the front, there now are no more concentrations-of-force, from what I've read.
You create a convoy, & that itself draws fire/drones.
So, everything's dispersed, now.
Which makes a gang of tanks, clustering to concentrate firepower on an enemy-concentration-of-force .. irrelevant.
I'm certain that the USMC blundered when they oriented to island-warfare, but since they'll be being deployed against Canada soon, enforcing Trump's annexation ( using Greenland as a base to snuff Canada's EU-lifeline, which is WHY he "NEEDS" Greenland: his other "justifications" are just red-herrings )..
I'm glad they optimized for the wrong thing.
Same as their "USMC obeys ANY legal order." law:
Once Trump crosses his tipping-point, uses the Insurrection Act to overthrow the constitution, & "de-naturalizes" all non-Republicans, thereby making them all into "illegals", which .. AUTOMATICALLY obliges that they be ICE'd ..
& AUTOMATICALLY guarantees that there won't be any non-Republican judges to appeal to ..
.. then "legal order" will include things like "machine-gun & then napalm all those protesters", & USMC'd then be obliged to do that.
Again: they optimized for the wrong thing, & it'll cost them their heart/soul.
( this indicates that "we will obey any order which complies with national AND international law" would have been a better cultural-rule:
dictatorship highjacks countries, & having some law outside the country then becomes required, for forces within the country to not be remanufactured into embodying evil. )
IF one doesn't consider the economics of fielding tanks against troop-deployable missiles, THEN one doesn't deserve to prevail in war.
Master Sun ( aka Sun Tzu, or the more recent Sunzi ) understood this & told us directly, millenia ago.
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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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No.
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Could also just be a griefer..
That machiavellianism I never would have thought-of.
sigh
Thank you for telling us about it.
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Except that this man looks genuinely happy .. which doesn't match the meaning, does it?
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This ought be in the us-politics community, not relegated to being a mere "meme".
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For THAT much gold to have got on the market, somebody big is financing something, liquidating a bunch of their reserves?
Russia's got African gold as part of its income ( the Africa Corps, formerly Wagner, being their means of harvesting African gold, both directly & indirectly, apparently ).. this could simply be them converting from gold to some other kind of asset, in financing their war..
XOR it's all ditched futures?
The people who pointed-out that it's all just a 2-week setback, though .. consider that the other-way-'round:
that in 2-weeks, gold has CLIMBED that much..
THAT is .. terrifying.
World's bracing for economic-armageddon/collapse/Depression2.
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