If one has woke up, then remain awake until one’s natural cycle swings the other way: live in harmony with one’s organism, & be healthier.

The cultural habit of arbitrarily-overriding one’s natural cycle, because civilization proudly divorced nature, is idiotic in general, & especially for long-term-health.

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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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You probably live in a society which intentionally supresses gangs, serial-murderers, & other kinds of “freedom” that some really want to be indulging in…

“Freedom” is a code-word for lawlessness, for many.

& state-lawlessness allows personal-law-with-a-gun to be the only law.

Much of the ideology of the US seems to be predicated on that kind of “freedom”: the freedom to be the only law, to be the enforcer, the judge, the jury, & the executioner.

As many have noted, the whole “free speech” thing means “only for me” kind of “freedom”.

But it’s the same logic with right-to-live, right to kill-others, etc: it’s narcissism, all the way through that whole ideology, from the evidence it forces in the world’s face.

DarkTriad’s real.

It’s committed to making itself the only “lord”.

Every variant of oligarchy/feudalism bullshit, whether “communist-party” enforced feudalism, or fascist feudalism, or corporatist feudalism … all of them demonstrate that removing livingwage from as much of the population as possible is the basis of the “freedom” they want to enforce, because of what it enables later…

I wish this world were sane.

I wish the system itself were rigged to be raising lives up as far in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as possible.

But the evidence is that criminality’s the real ruler of this world.

& that healthy-freedom is only a temporary mirage…

All those reports about democracy being eradicated, globally … it’s civilrights which is being eradicated globally.

That’s the “enemy” in the eyes of the ones who’re highjacking our planet’s governments…

I’ve read that in Scandinavia it’s entirely possible for women to choose their careers by preference, not by being pressured into it by institutions or by men.

& the segregation-of-jobs is significantly greater than it is in the places where male-pressure ( North America for sure, probably some of Europe ) or institutional pressure ( Soviet Union was that way )…

That is a kind of freedom.

Parenting, simply being able to afford to be with one’s children for their first 4 years, & to be providing them with proper nutrition, shelter, education, etc, is freedom.

That’s been nearly-eradicated from North American lives, except for the most-fortunate…

Parenting is a luxury?!

Insanity.

Maybe I’m just too bitter…

I don’t think the kind of freedom that you’re having is normal, in North America.

& that’s a problem, in my bitter eyes.

Sorry to have bothered with all these words.

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Freedom is dependent on responsibility.

The more DarkTriad { narcissism, machiavellianism, sociopathy-psychopathy } is rampant, the more enforcement is required in order to limit that.

An incapable-of-responsibility population, & … only “freedom” is possible.

A truly-responsible population, & self-management & responsible-innovation can live well.

Nobody’ll believe that until everybody’s dead, though, it looks like…

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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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I hadnt thought of that:

good point!

Not that anybody’ll actually do it, but it could be done.

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Herdbeasts are sentient: they are “others”.

They don’t want to be slaughtered: we care more about using meat from their bodies for a momentary meal than we care about their lives-themselves.

That is OUR values.

& our being sociopathic doesn’t make sociopathy universally-right or universally-valid.

( I’m not vegan, but universe has beaten learning into me until I’ve come around to seeing the prejudice in our whole “civilized” “relationship” with reality )

TTBOMK, vegetable-tanning isn’t done as much because it costs more.

& the original person’s comment about chromium-salts looks spot-on, & was ignored by your counter.

Just pointing out some stuff for objectivity, is all: integrity’s a precious-resource, & it takes all of us being loyal to it, to make it remain in our world.

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Legally VP8 is beginning to look like the go-to format for video…

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I believe the error was in the AV1 license NOT having a “if you enforce patent-license-fees on this codec, THEN you can’t use this codec” type of coercion…

( I may have got the logic wrong, but there’s some kind of license that works that way, which other open codecs have used, apparently )

Just ignoring that predators exist … provides NO protection from them.

You have to make your license-agreement break abusers, … or you’re just helping them.

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When they attack you and delete your question or lock it because they don’t want “your kind” polluting their forum, that isn’t meritocracy: that is national-narcissism.

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Toxic-culture won.

Period.

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There’s a webpage by a former fundamentalist on … would Evangelicals recognize the antichrist?

Then he goes through the Christian & Jewish prophecies…

Here’s 1 from Book of Daniel, ch 11: notice the explicit mention of strongholds/fortresses…

36 “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt himself and consider himself greater than any god, and he will utter monstrous blasphemies against the God of gods. He will prosper only until the period of wrath is over, for what has been determined must take place. 37 He will show no respect for the gods his ancestors worshipped, or for the god women worship — he won’t show respect for any god, because he will consider himself greater than all of them. 38 But instead, he will honor the god of strongholds; with gold, silver, precious stones and other costly things he will honor a god unknown to his ancestors. 39 He will deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. He will confer honor on those he acknowledges, causing them to rule over many and distributing land as a reward.

That’s from CJB, which obviously Benjamin L. Corey doesn’t use, but I find it less-overinterpreted, cleaner to the source material, & usually giving a clearer-view into the warnings…

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+11&version=CJB

The antichrist page is https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/ with its section on fortresses…

Please keep in mind that

1. any time your continuum/soul is trying to communicate MEANING to you, that communication must go through your unconscious-mind and it will distort the message, as it is acting as a “lens”… AND

2. the more your unconscious-mind’s assumptions are strong, the more-distorting they are of the message. I complain about modern bibles over-interpreting/distorting the messages, but Daniel himself was distorting the message, because he was re-mapping it onto his local geopolitics, instead of letting it pertain to countries which had no basis in his world ( & Daniel was among the best of the visioneers )

3. humankind’s history is cyclical: the biblical prophecies about the “towering monster, with steel teeth & clay feet” kind of thing actually refers to end-of-Age empire, strong, but decaying/rotted/corrupt … which happens to match BOTH The Roman Empire AND The US’s Empire.

So, there’s a kind of double-refraction going-on, which has to be managed, too.

Do see it for the brilliant warning it was, though: there’s stuff in Daniel ( about the “tribulation” ), & in Rev ( about “armageddon” ) which exactly pertains to what’s unfolding, now…

I’d prefer it be called The Great Filter, because that’s what it is, functionally: it filters-out all the won’t-grow-up world-species, force-extinguishing 'em all.

The American Indians called it The Great Purification, & have been knowing about it for the last 9-10 centuries.

Anyways, when one sees through the appearances, to know what actually is usable, then the warnings of the past sometimes forearm one, re the pending changes.

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Simpler & clearer:

Intelligence is solving-the-problem-efficiently/quickly…

Wisdom is realizing we’d been solving the wrong problem, & working-out what the right-problem is…

Wisdom’s meta-intelligence.

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Why do billionaires/oligarchs do it?

Principle of Least Effort.

It isn’t particular to the “lower class” or to the “less educated” or to any particular faction of the population.

That’s normal.

Some people, no matter how you “slice” the population up, still act so fucking stupid.

'Tis a fact of life, is all.

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So, the parties-switching-sides had already happened, & the Republicans were by-then the bad guys… ( Lincoln was Republican: so back then they were the good guys, & the Dems were the KKK-backers. The MAGA people insist on pretending that since Lincoln was Republican, that therefore MAGA & Lincoln were belonging on the same side, but that’s just false-framing/gaslighting. The parties switched-sides, sometime back around 1900-ish? In the Progressive Era, iirc )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era#Business_progressivism_in_1920s

( see the 20’s & 30’s stuff in that little section, Hoover’s just relying on austerity to make everything the way he wanted was … “exemplary”, in some eyes )

OK.

Yes, Great Depression 2 is coming, but damn if the hidden-forces somehow propping-the-bubble-up is violating ALL “laws of physics” …

unbelievable…

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Upper-middle class is doctor/lawyer/professor/diplomat.

Upper-class is power, not job.

Totally different categories.

Oligarchs are upper-class.

Monarchs are upper-class.

To the upper-class, job-people are hirable-dogs, not equals.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/class-paul-fussell/1111206189?ean=9780671792251

Read that long-ago, & it has proved its right-framing consistently since then.

He got the fundamentals right.

There are other sub-class-systems, however:

The academic-class system, the financial-class system, etc.

But the fundamental givaway is this:

Power is what “validity” means in the upper-class.

Institution is what “validity” means in the middle-class. ( so, PhD is high-status within the middle-class, school-dropout is contemptible-inferior in their eyes ).

Money is what “validity” means in the working-class.

Underclass has its own hierarchy, too… street-bosses, etc…

The parent-child relationship is a class-system!

But Fussell’s right on the fundamental 3 categories in the class-system, & their “validity” anchorings.

The whole “Ivy League” thing is that it isn’t the skills you have , that make you valid, it is being in the power-clique that does.

That is upper-class.

So, there’s Venn-diagram intersection between raw-oligarchy & jobs … so truly-upper-class could well have jobs, but … it’s the power, not the grind, that true-upper-class is.

When your power-connections are more important than your in-organization-day-to-day-decisions, then you’re probably upper-class in mode, though your instinct may still be upper-middle-class, or financial-class ( which is above upper-middle-class ).

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True-upper-class is more likely to have a “job” than a job.

“Official Role”, but not accountability, or daily-grind/stress.

This is the best contribution, but it doesn’t explain some of the principles…

for the same mission surface will be less-costly than air.

Within shipping, displacement-mode boats ( slowest moving-through-water regime ) will be least-costly ecologically, & then hydrofoils, then other speedboats ( which have to push their hulls through the water, unlike hydrofoils, which lift them out-of-the-way of the water )…

Within air, prop planes are least-costly, turbofans at the costly end, helicopters higher than that…

but the question requires one to consider the mission, too:

For moving donated-organs, air’s absolutely cheaper than surface, if surface means losing the donated-organs, right?

Mission is the basis for solving costs, see?

Casual-touring, well then surface makes much more sense…

Some want to eradicate air-travel, or at-lease all fuel-based air-travel, but that’d break some dimensions of the economy…

( no more quick emergency-response to hurricane-wrecked islands, for 1 thing )

Oh, & electric aircraft ( short-haul, nowadays, & I don’t imagine that’ll ever be running cross-pacific flights ) would be MUCH less ecologically-costly than normal turbofans…

In short, surface 1st, if you can spare the time, but if not, then try to do electric aircraft, or prop instead of fan.

Prop is presuming NON-leaded gasoline, but the prop-piston engines usually are leaded ( 100LL, aka low-lead ), unless they are the new generation of diesels…

Leaded gasoline needs to cease. ( Canada has said that in tests manganese-based substitute-for-lead works, but the US rejected that. I trust Canada, on this one. )

The info about prop-planes is only in case any reader of this is thinking about chartering a small aircraft to get somewhere…

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