Years ago, I read a research news item about having looked at gut-cells, after an ultrasound, & finding that they were having an abnormally elevated death-rate.

Anybody who understands that if that holds, if ultrasound stresses cells in an unnatural way which is actually-significant, even only slightly, that having all babies ultrasounded might be a stupid idea?

anybody who knows some of the history of the X-Ray, knows that Marie Curie’s corpse is kept in a lead coffin, because it’s too radioactive,

& that medical-X-rays NOW are drasticlly lower-energy than what they were in the 1900’s ( new machines, anyways ).

I expect the same to be true of ultrasound machines: less energy, for the same view…

The point of this, though, is that the ONLY study I know-of which looked at whether cell-death is increased by ultrasound, discovered that yes, it is, & … nobody cared??

That’s the wrong response.

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For gaming, Ubuntu’s got the strongest support.

Why do I know that?

Because I tried running Steam on … perhaps openSUSE or Void, & was told by Steam that they only support Ubuntu.

Since then I’ve read that they support others, but it was only a few years ago where they told me they only backed that one.

Linux Torvalds has spoken on how you simply can’t make an app that will work on all distros: it isn’t possible.

Gentoo would except for that kind of compatibility probably be your highest-performance OS, since you can intentionally include ALL of the CPU-optimizations which test to work best for you.

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So it did die!

It’s because of looking that one up, that I discovered there are … 15 or so comets being tracked currently?

I’d thought they were much rarer than what that tracker-site gave…

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THIS is why tippingpoints matter:

Once one is owned, then one cannot undo being owned.

Northern Mexico, being owned by the drug-cartels, is another, different-domain, example: they didn’t prevent being ruled, & now they cannot undo being owned.

It’s actually a fundamental principle: symbiosis turning into reverse-takeover always costs one the owning of one’s self.

Country, political-party, business, not-for-profit, community, charity, language, culture, it holds consistently.

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All the apps using QT, so therefore QT.

Lighter than KDE ( which I used back 'round the turn of the millenium ), & sane.

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Then they are IDIOTS at understanding crypto.

Bitcoin is the ecologically-costliest/electricity-costliest/machine-costliest cryptocoin to standardize on: it’s nearly used-up.

They’d have been much saner to have standardized on some other crypto.

I’d prefer that Algorand-type ones were standard, but they can be attacked by country-level attackers.

For anybody who wants outside-the-hype-bubble view of what crypto is, & how its ecology works, PLEASE read https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain-bitcoin-blockchain-ethereum-smart-contracts

The reason that Steampowered stopped taking crypto, is plain, in that book.

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( PS: I’d enforce that there be an Algorand-type crypto for recording accounting-records with, country-wide, so that books couldn’t be “cooked” between closout-of-the-books & reporting. & I’d want to make daily closeout normal, if possible. Cisco did that, years ago, so it is possible, but some will scream against such economic-integrity measures, of course… )

PS: part of the problem is the ideological-position, that conforming-with-opinion is the only valid option, & the alternative is being-against…

whereas in Science, diversity-of-perpsective is how we outsmart ignorance, & how we win.

That objectivity, that taking-multiple-perspectives, has to be IN our culture, for us to win.

Otherwise, it’s only this-conforming against that-conforming, ideology vs ideology, & that’s just herdbeast-herds-butting-heads-with-extra-steps.

Externalizing issues, de-politicizing them, so that people can SEE that losing-food-security-produces-migrations-and-wars, & it has nothing whatsoever to do with being “woke” or not: it’s a SYSTMS question…

that kind of thing’s required, too, but no discussion-forum is coded to provide the required-means, so … that potential dies, the way we’re doing things.

Too bad, it’d have been nice to be more-viable, but if it “can’t be afforded”, then Status Quo will have to be our epitaph, right?

< shruggeth >

Sociopolitical-strongarming prefers emotionally-loaded “debate”, whereas issues are things that just are, even when we’re ignoring them, & that requires a totally-different method-for-mitigating-the-problems-living-in-them.

Without sociopolitical-strongarming. & making that the proper place for issues to be seen/discussed, so that there’d be none of the “just keep in your head the context & the principles, & fight over whatever it is that you’re currently-remembering” … instead it’s all caused to be more rational.

That is a whole-society problem, though: countries which could have been saved by such a change, die, groups too, regions too…

It’s the same principle that Stephen R. Covey identified, decades ago, when he pointed it out that the lowest-3%-in-effectiveness didn’t externalize their goals, but the top-1% all of them did.

Countries need to externalize the issues, in issue-diagrams, instances need to do the same, industries, projects, communities, regions, etc, as a standard method for de-toxifying things & making the problem and not the politics be what people are concentrating into correcting.

Whatever…

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You can manage, or control, whichever, your-own territory: you can’t control other people’s/factions’ territories.

Fact of life.

It isn’t that anybody “can” make the internet safe, or healthy, rather, it is that we have to make good internet successfully compete in the ecology, & therefore remain viable when the DarkTetrad motivations { narcissism, machiavellianism, sociopathy-psychopathy, sadism } are trying to gut/murder good from the world.

Natural Selection! Successfully compete, & remain in the ecology!

Simple as that.

( PS: reading Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s book “Tribal Leadership” would be competence-growing, as it’s on the 5 culture/process levels, from gang/mass-shooter’s competitive-nihilism CultureLevel1 to “LIVING IS SELF-INHERENTLY AWESOME!!” CultureLevel5. They incorrectly call them “stages”, but caterpillar->moth is stages, these usually revert to CultureLevel2, subject-to-narcissism culture…

Here’s the book itself: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tribal-leadership-revised-edition

& here’s the TED Talk with the oversimplified intro to that work: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership

IF the people managing or leading communities were all competent in those levels, & their natures & functions, THEN it’d be easier to de-toxify our portion of the world. )

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No, Trump is working on forcing somebody, anybody to “justify” either his invoking of the Insurrection Act, XOR invoking martial-law.

Try impeaching him?

That “justifies” the Insurrection Act.

Get violent against his ICE terrorism of your city?

That “justifies” martial-law.

He’s BEGGING somebody to “justify” his total-dictatorship, & thus-far people aren’t cooperating.

The problem is that he can’t be impeached, now, because he’ll just escalate & use that to “justify” his dictatorship: there’s no check/balance left, really, only a wrestling-choreography that “delays” the inevitable, now.

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I’m seeing that people aren’t having a good objective framework for judging evil, so here’s my dimensions-of-evil, including the stuff in DarkTriad & DarkTetrad:

• narcissism
• machiavellianism
• sociopathy/psychopathy ( to this point is DarkTriad )
• sadism ( to this point is DarkTetrad )
• nihilism
• displacing objectivity
• displacing correct-reasoning
• displacing evolution/growing from a life, or from lives
• displacing autonomy with puppetry/authority

The more dimensions of evil, the worse.

The stronger on any dimension, the worse.

More-dimensions is more worse than stronger-in-a-single-dimension, though.

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There’s a difference, now, though:

Humankind’s doing its “mitosis” thing.

Humankind is dividing-by-alignment.

That only happens 1x per world, ttbomk.

( after the original Industrial Revolution, the Roman Empire, then the “seedling” that that was, in our world eventually grew into a “sapling”, the official Industrial Revolutions-sequence…

then, as population reaches ecological-saturation & technology simultaneously reaches world-breaking power, ClimatePunctuation kicks-in…

etc

all eventually enforce The Great Filter.

& in that Great Filter, alignment polarizes.

Anti-Life polarization & With-Life polarization.

Every world of people-similar-to-our-kind would have to go through it, same as “puberty”, but for whole-species )

As the process progresses, the polarization is going to become more & more extreme.

So, until now we’ve been mixtures, every individual ( with few exceptions ), but … that’s going to be changing, until there’s zero mixture left, & everybody ( near the end of this century ) is absolutely-polarized, 1 way or the other.

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Ego.

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1. they must be competent photographers, some are not.

2. they must be competent people people, some are not.

3. they must be competent story of the wedding capturers, many are not.

4. you need to see in their work that they are these things, &

5. you need to see in the way they work with people that they are these things.

That I know-of, these are all required-points.

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Chromium-based tanning is only 1 kind of tanning, but yeah, chromium’s one of those chemicals which needs to be limited more-carefully, among our ecologies.

Vegetable-based tanning also exists, & I’m no expert, so there could be multiple way I don’t know about.

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1. have different “houses” to represent different dimensions of the country ( by-population, by-area, nature-&-future-generations, economy-as-a-whole )

2. limit each level’s “house” to 144-ish representatives, to suppress auto-factionalism ( which begins around 150-people )

3. people vote on approval-basis only: these are OK, the not-checked are not, & then use simple approved-by-most-people to choose the winners.

4. prevent DarkTriad/DarkTetrad types { narcissism, machiavellianism, sociopathy-psychopathy, sadism } from being eligible for any election.

5. Judiciary, AND JOURNALISM, are required to be standards-based, objective, correct-reasoning, not-for-profit, & holding-to-actuality. Without honest accountability, we’ve got “civilization”-feudalism, NOT Civilization.

6. Issue-diagram forums, NO LOBBYING/bribery. NONE. ISSUES decide everything. That means that ALL debates happen in asynchronous issue-diagrams, NOT in most-alpha-personality-“wins”, TV-debates bullshit.

7. All draft-legislation needs to be done in issue-diagrams, letting anyone in the world ( real-person, or useful-insight, not mere astroturfing-by-ideologies or corporate “persons” ) help us get the points right: draft-for-1/4-year before being elegible for signing-into-law, with few exceptions ( emergencies actually do happen )

8. no enemy-agent can have citizenship, no incompetent-in-the-issue can vote in that issue ( same as you don’t allow passengers to decide the flying of the airliner: only the pilots are permitted that, same with ecologies, same with regulation, etc: if you aren’t domain-competent, you may participate in the discussions if you’re doing-so responsibly, but only domain-competent people VOTE in the domain ), & we actively devlop/provide automatic education to get as many people as completely domain-competent in all areas as possible.

9. critical-reasoning is required for full voting citizenship, & education-systems which won’t produce it are fraud, & have to be treated as such. Yes, it’s true, that high-lead regions may have enough IQ-deficit as to have a lower critical-reasoning capacity for that reason, but CORRECT THE PROBLEM, & unbreak as many lives as you can! The “education” which pushes imprint->reacting, or abdication-to-LLM, MUST be put in its place, disempowered, while putting proper development-of-human-intelligence as free as possible, as pervasively-available as possible, & as central as possible, for our civilization to remain viable, especially in ClimatePunctuation which is still in its accelerating-stage.

10. Enforcing-disinformation is criminalized. Troll-farms, for-profit-propaganda, ideological-propaganda, institutional-dishonesty, ALL of it. Accuracy, objectivity, testability, correct-reasoning, etc, are the strength-of-the-“beam” on-which civilization sits: we allow that to fail, & we don’t deserve to live through The Great Filter. Spine/uprightness is required in the individual, & it is required in the civilization, too.

Item 2 requires that the levels-of-government change as appropriate to the total-population, so extra-levels may have to be inserted, if the population expands enough, & the chain-of-representation was getting too deformed.

I don’t yet know how many each representative would have to be limited-to, to make it still properly responsible.

This is just a top-of-my-head sketch, not a fully-worked-to-correctness rendition, so it’s probably missing a few key things, & it’s probably sloppily-worded.

But it communicates the gist of it, which is good-enough for considering.

Responsibility-archy is the point.

Nothing else is strategically-viable: we’re deadmeat unless we enact/enforce responsibilityarchy for enough of humankind. At the whole-species level: gone.

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Oh, gratitude to that yt video which identified the different voting-systems, & the flaws with each, eventually concluding that the only one which mathematically could work right was the approval-voting system.

I’d never have clued-in to that, on my own.

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After dictatorship’s begun, then the true scale of what ICE is intended to be, will become visible.

The de-naturalization law is why they “need” the ability to deport 10’s-of-millions-per-year network-of-detention-centers…

All the not-citizen immigrants in the US right now can’t possibly justify the magnitude of investment they’re putting into their capability.

& that somehow “isn’t” a huge red-flag??

After dictatorship’s birth, all non-Republicans will be de-naturalized, & suddenly then ICE’s REAL purpose will be visible.

They’ll begin building the incinerators they need, then, too…

Connect the dots, with that, if you want…

It couldn’t get more obvious if they had their misdirection-campaign done by Looney Tunes.

Why nobody sees, I can’t understand.

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It’s either new/fresh, or old, eggs, that are hardest to peel.

The ice-bath after boiling is right, too, as it shrinks the egg within the shell, so peeling it is easier, as it’s already pulled-away…

You either got a too-new or too-old egg, & the white bonded to the shell-lining membrane.

The only method I know-of for defeating such impervious opponents, is simply to use a spoon inside the egg, to slice-away the egg from the inside of the shell.

Nothing else works, with those ones…

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Universe’s recycling of ALL energies ( including meaning ) contained within it is rigged: the only way to opt-out is to evolve one’s way out: force-dissolving one’s soul-ignorance/soul-ignosis…

Please read the brilliant Huston Smith book “World Religions”, the Hindu, & Buddhist chapters, & also the Primal Religions chapter, for an angle that Western-educated minds never would have thought-of…

Just for interesting-perspective, is all…

It’s a wonderful book: real mental exercise!

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Each kind of incarnation has its own time-speed…

Rock’s time-speed means that its life is measured in not days ( insects ) or years ( bigger mammals ), but in megayears.

They don’t chill, when they’re formed by being mashed into each-other ( Himalayas ). Maybe they do when filled-in into existing, with lava…

Not trying to be an asshole, only trying to keep the view accurate, because yes, incarnations can catch-in such kinds of matter, & the consequences are real.

( life is a property-of-universe, not a created-by-this-configuration-of-matter “magic” which specific configurations-of-matter “create”, as the dogma of Physicalism pretends )

Castaneda pointed-out that religions among mountains tend to be angry or/and jealous, & … yes, that checked out…

( even Tibetan Buddhism: wrathful-path Buddhism of the mountains, with its Dharmapalas, etc… )

Carlos was of the opinion that it was the spirit-of-the-mountains which was tainting them that way…

It is, though, entirely possible that crushed-together tectonic mountains are totally-different-in-spirit than lava-formed mountains, as Hawaii seems much calmer … mind you, the ocean’s dominant-spirit there, so that may be the reason for the Hawaian difference…

but the timescale-difference is real, & significant…

Once I knew someone who’d had an incarnation as a mountain-range-portion…

… some bright/hot/energetic/curious people got all over it, & its awareness caught in their energies … breaking that incarnation, yanking that continuum/soul into the human-category-realm’s incarnations …

the civilization was flicker/blur speed to the stone-bedded mind, that had been just doing its thing…

ALL is at-least-passively alive…

I have no idea if the lava-formed mountains are chill.

I know the mashed-together ones are not.

That’s all I’m adding.

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Hornet: been 1 in a previous incarnation ( hornet/wasp/bee, anyways ), & their awareness is stupendous compared with the little awareness in a fish ( whatever kind of fish that incarnation was ).

The flying social/hive insects seem to pack the most awareness per mg of bodyweight among all creatures.

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