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11 days agoEVERYthing made by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Keaton
We’ve got laws, now, against the insane shit they did on-set, back then…
Lives were too-cheap, back then…
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Not all can be rehabilitated: some just are wired THAT different, & butcher people for fun, because that’s the way they’re wired.
Ignoring that is the making-believing that makes such believers into accessory-to-murder when the not-contained serial-murderer murders yet-another.
There was a story, maybe a few years ago, a woman who wouldn’t accept that an inmate was really destructive-of-life, she befriended him, & got butchered.
Leftist got ate by leopards.
( it isn’t only the right which demonstrates idiocy! )
The problem is that categories exist, & our whole system is pretending that it’s a spectrum, instead of distinct-categories, with spectrums … sorta-overlapping … each category.
Some absolutely need to be permanently segregated from communities.
& the idiocy of putting people into a criminality-manufacturing-pressure-cooker while gaslighting about that somehow being “corrections”, needs to be terminated.
Correct the problem-motivation/wrong-mental-function, aversion-therapy may well be part of that, but don’t increase the criminality in them, & do offer them humanness-improvement opportunity & asssitance.
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That’s good advice.
I’d never have thought of it on my own, being autistic.
Thank you for telling us that one.
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Vetoing learned-helplessness is effective…
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Depends on the culture:
in empiricist/objective science-culture, that’s true, but in authority-based cultures, … that won’t work.
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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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01·19 days agoTwist the question:
Do you really care if your partner lives-in instagram “reality” or in what you experience as reality?!
Appearance-based “league” costs: it costs attention, focus, dedication, & resources.
Some care about experience-induced-value, others about appearance-based-value, & it shows.
Had a friend tell me once they lost a friend to modeling: it ate her brain.
Now all she could discuss were makeup & hair.
Was Einstein at the bottom, or the top, of “league”, once he’d become a philosopher?
See?
One’s values is the basis of “league”.
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Want to know what possibility for harvesting a particular element is, from the ocean?
click on it in https://www.mbari.org/know-your-ocean/periodic-table-of-elements-in-the-ocean/
( scroll down a bit )
& see a new page open up, identifying how abundant/not it is, & the top-to-bottom-gradient of it…
Rare-earths may be sufficiently harvestable from the ocean using Metal-Organic-Frameworks, for coastal de-salination plants, or tidal-power-plants, if done at scale…
( which would break national-monopolies, wouldn’t it? )
just don’t bother trying to mine iridium through that method: you’ll never get enough to make it worthwhile.
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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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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_II#In_Jewish_and_biblical_tradition
Possible…
hadn’t considered that…
but then-again, human history does tend to repeat the same “events”, just in variations…
Roman Empire & US Empire both being the great monster with steel teeth, & deteriorating substance going down, until clay feet…
Trump as a replay of that … similar but I think the fundamental current is different-enough that Trump’ll be remembered, if humankind survives this-century, rather more strongly…
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Some of this I got from a book by a guy who knew … 29 or something? … languages & worked for the CIA.
Other stuff ( songs ) from science news, & my discovering that language-destroyed-by-stroke people could sometimes still communicate through picking a song which had the idea they were trying to communicate…
I have a bad time learning anything through hearing, though, so … language-learning seems itself to be kinda broken ( I learned English before anything, & it was my 2nd wave of braindamage which took much learning from my life, not the autism 1st-wave ).
These are the best tools I know-of.
I wish I could learn languages.
I wish everybody learned other-languages, to understand just how diverse humankind’s meanings can be…
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