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. : )
I suspect that his concern is about the CIA’s acting within the US, right now, to protect/enforce Trump’s convertion-of-the-US-to-dictatorship.
The last paragraph in that condensed version is typical red-herring/misdirection, sooo blatent/cheap it’s easy to see.
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There NEVER WAS any “shared understanding”!!
Each of the nations inhabiting North America had ITS OWN understanding, & there simply isn’t any overlap between them.
That has always been true.
What “truth” means in each of the different nations ISN’T true in the others!
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It absolutely is true that she backed Netanyahu, & that cost her significant support.
I don’t know why, but she did.
Losing the country, however, because of that … doesn’t help the Palestinians.
NEITHER candidate was good for them!!
Trump’s Gaza converted into a resort … isn’t good for them, either!
Maybe, possibly, she could have been got to see the light, on that issue: I don’t know.
The genocide in the US is going to make Gaza’s genocide look … like a civilized sunday picnic.
Trump’s nearly there, all he needs now is the Insurrection Act, & then he can activate his de-naturalization law, to remove citizenship from all the Democrats, & then they all get ICE’d.
Netanyahu’s war against the lives of Palestinians is going to be tiddlywinks, compared with Trump’s war against the hated “woke”, within the US.
Not tens-of-thousands, but millions, will die, in that, soon-enough.
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She was ruthlessly & systematically sabotaged by the Biden establishment, by male-supremacists, AND by white-supremacists.
& the left felt it ought coast on its victorious-feelings, which … handed leverage to their opponents…
She never had a fair chance.
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Among MALES, not among females.
There was an article, perhaps the FT, which showed drastic divergance between the 2 populations of the same age.
shows a HARD left-swing for women, XOR a HARD right-swing for men, in the UK, ( both would look the same, on that chart ) only-recently.
That trend, though, is global, male-supremacism hand-in-hand with the upswing of male fascism/authoritarianism.
Males generally back male-supremacy.
Females generally do not.
“journalism” nowadays works hard to NOT show the correct granularity-of-view, showing what’s actually going on: the oversimplifications & dumbing-down are too beloved of the establishment.
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I think people NEED to be using the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, as THE leader of Antifa:
He was woke.
He was socialist.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+4%3A32-35&version=CJB
Acts 4: “32 All the many believers were one in heart and soul, and no one claimed any of his possessions for himself, but everyone shared everything he had. 33 With great power the emissaries continued testifying to the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua, and they were all held in high regard. 34 No one among them was poor, since those who owned lands or houses sold them and turned over the proceeds 35 to the emissaries to distribute to each according to his need.”
He was anti-commercial-operation-of-the-temple, & got physically-violent about that.
He claimed that it was easier to get an elephant … dromedary, sorry, through the eye of a needle, than for some oligarch to earn place in heaven…
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19%3A23-24&version=CJB
He claimed that the ONLY unforgiveable crime was committing against LivingSpirit.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A31-37&version=CJB
( that last one: I guarantee you that verse of their bible is going to be deemed “satanic” in dictator-Trump’s US of A… it’s too on-point against Trump’s religion. & "Ruach HaKodech, or whatever that spelling was… that’s LivingSpirit.
Here’s a more-comprehensible, for us non-Jews, version of it: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A31-37&version=EXB )
That’s as anti-fascist/anti-moneyarchist/anti-oligarchist as can be.
& the “Christian” nationalism won’t be able to compute that.
which means it’s probably important to make that real/happen.
Left-handed monkey-wrenches into their machinery’s gears is required, now.
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I think there are a few different dimensions of this, all combining to blur the view:
the probably beginning around Newton cascade of Industrial Revolutions ( in different industries! ) is still accelerating.
Coal+steel+steam was 1 of them.
Telegraph meant information could travel FAST long-distances, then wireless took it farther…
computers began automating things, then began enabling calculations which hadn’t even been possible…
aviation ensmallening the world ( if embiggen is a word, then so is that! : )
but what happens when there are sooo many transformations, CRT’s with their lead-glass to reduce people’s X-Ray exposure, now into flat-panels…
genetic-testing all over the place…
lighting no longer being incandescent…
EV’s all over the place…
it isn’t that change isn’t happening, it is that the equilibriums aren’t happening!
It’s ALL punctuation, continuously-rolling, now!
So, accelerating change, is part of what’s going on…
TWO. the view: we’re IN the maelstrom, & therefore can’t see the forest for the trees!
I recently went into a city, to ( fail ) to get ID, & … everybody was on these weird scooter-ebikes?
When the hell did THAT happen?
I’ve only been out from cities for … 15y?
Obviously, it happened sometime in the intervening 1.5-decades, but … that’s fairly distinct!
So now there’s 2 overlaid public-transport systems: bus-routes covering the arteries of the city, & those rentable-everywhere scooter-ebike thingies, for all the point-to-point travel…
Brilliant!
I wish it’d been in-place decades ago.
THREE. consider that part of what makes distinct decades distinct, is identity … & consider that in the current world, dividing-and-conquering everybody by identity, through software-enforcement ( Facebook, etc ) is making much of our world invisible, physically: it’s ONLY in those platforms.
So, it isn’t even in your, or my, view, to be seeing what the world really is, anymore!
Concealment ( for divide-and-conquer purposes ) is growing more ideology-polarization.
Don’t worry: it’ll be as clear as Russia-vs-Ukraina, in a short while, globally…
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As 1 yt video, which had a doctor remarking on his condition, explicitly stated:
he’s already had a stroke: the droopy side-of-mouth, the coordination problems, etc…
& the earlier MRI was about that, too.
My point is that a stroke can remove ANY subset of someone’s brain, & in his case, it’ll remove the humanness & the humaneness, leaving the ideological-ruthlessness, savagery, & drive.
Selective removal.
WHEN enough “believing” is torquing some event, THEN conventional-probabilities can go out the window: mind is an actual force-of-nature ( as the non-evolved existence of airliners proves, & as intentionally modifying one’s brain through meditations also proves ).
Rasputin was too-hard-to-kill precisely because of the force that unconscious-mind was pouring into making him be the representative of unconscious-mind’s ego-myth, in that context, on those believers.
Trump’s the same, in the current context.
Conventional-probability isn’t as applicable as it would pretend to be, once powerful unconscious-mind gets committing in something…
I’ve other evidences, but since this is a Western discussion, & Western cultural-prejudice automatically-contempts that mind is real in the ways that my frame-of-reference has tested & found-to-be-true, then just contempt my position as being “not based in Physicalism/Materialism/Existentialism”, & that’d be good-enough for those Confucian & Western religions.
His phase-change will be coincident with the same kind of phase-change among multiple lives, though,
some aligned as his committing is aligned, others aligned the opposite direction.
Were you the kind to find that … yeah, maybe mind or LivingSpirit could actually produce measurable-results in history … then I’d recommend Eknath Easwaran’s “The Bhagavad Gita” to you ( beautiful work, his ), simply for a concept buried in it for all to see.
There are Equilibriums ( Ages we call them, now, the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, called his Age “the current generation” ), & there are Punctuations between those Ages.
We’re now in a Punctuation ( not even gotten really going, yet ).
We’re now in the last survivable Punctuation of this world’s lifecycle.
It’s cyclical.
Here’s a truth that no Christian will readily accept:
There’s a stock symbol used in the biblical predictions/“prophecies”: that of an empire being represented by a great all-consuming monster, with iron teeth, & weaker & weaker materials going down, until clay feet.
That symbol represents BOTH the Roman Empire AND the US of A’s empire.
IOW, it represents the all-consuming empire at the end of an age, and NOT some specific one, but ANY one, see?
It’s cyclical!
Our cycle just happens to be moar worser than the previous cycle.
So, the destruction of the Roman Empire was BAD.
This time, though, it’ll be ABSOLUTELY WORSE.
& when you reach a sufficient level of unconscious-mind power, in a situation, then you’re engaging humankind’s collective-unconscious-mind’s global-commitment, which massively changes the rules.
So, I’m saying that this punctuation is going to … pop the Status Quo “governor-device” from our world, & replace it with the Destroyer-Heart current, which always has short-term ( mere-decades ) advantage in such Punctuations.
& that if that requires some temporary medical “miracles” … that that IS within humankind’s unconscious-mind’s power.
Exactly the same as people who’ve just been in a crash sometimes display superhuman-strength in prying-open wrecked cars.
Same substance!
just different use, is all.
Everybody devout to Physicalism/Materialism/Existentialism ought contempt everything I’m saying, because I hold that those are all falsified by physics ( spooky action at a distance itself can’t happen, in those regimes, in their pure/absolute forms, & since experiment has proven spooky action at a distance, to distances of over 100km, then pretending otherwise is ideology, NOT physics ).
Anybody who’s got the scientific-guts to hold to Empiricism’s method: simply wait & see!
well, as a method, it works.
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Did the people in Democrat states, whom ICE is waging war against, give permission for their states to be avalanched by ICE forces?
Permission is, in Trump’s lingo, “for losers”.
He’ll act, not ask, once he’s got the dictatorship he “NEEDS”, & the constitution is overthrown.
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started reading your 1st link, which calls Indium & Gallium rare-earth elements:
“Rare earth materials like indium, gallium, and tellurium play a crucial role in solar panels.”
https://ptable.com/?lang=en#Properties
that 2-row section, at the bottom, THOSE are the rare-earth elements.
Indium & Gallium are in the main body, up above, so is tellurium.
Therefore that article is directly speaking disinformation, which only people who know, or check, the actual periodic-table, will catch.
2nd-link:
“However, a lack of rare earths does not mean that the components of solar modules are harmless. Thin-film PV technologies, for example, contain potentially critical metals such as tellurium, cadmium, indium and silver.”
Your links are backing me up, Hoomin…
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I’m permabanned from lemmy.ml among others.
& do NOT think they’re on the right track.
& DO think that seeing things objectively is the right track.
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My point is that concentration-of-force ITSELF isn’t happening, anymore, because drones have made that suicidal.
& when concentration-of-force isn’t happening, anymore, then … weapons which multiply 1 side’s advantage in concentration-of-force … are irrelevant.
Tanks are strong weapons.
But … why am I getting deja-vu about this… what similar-thing happened back in WW1 or WW2…
here’s 1, but of a different context, entirely:
Vietnam: ditch the 7.62 NATO round in favor of the 5.56, which IN JUNGLE is more-useful.
OK, so what happens when the army gets deployed in Iraq, in open desert, & there’s no jungle?
then one gets killed, helplessly, by the farther-reaching rounds being used by the enemy.
THE CONTEXT CHANGED, see?
.: the technological-appropriateness changed, too!
https://www.defenceukraine.com/en/insights/fpv-drones-ukraine-war-analysis/
"The Primary Anti-Tank Weapon
While advanced anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) like the Javelin remain highly effective, the FPV drone has emerged as the primary and most frequently used anti-tank weapon of the war, largely due to its cost and availability. FPV operators have become adept tank hunters, exploiting the vulnerabilities of even the most modern main battle tanks. Tactics often involve targeting specific weak points such as the optics, the turret ring, the engine compartment, or the tracks.
A single FPV strike, especially with a standard RPG warhead, may not always result in a “catastrophic kill” that destroys the tank outright. However, it is often sufficient to achieve a “mobility kill” by damaging the tracks or engine, leaving the heavily armoured vehicle stranded and vulnerable. Once a tank is disabled, it can be systematically destroyed by subsequent FPV strikes or targeted by other assets like artillery or grenade-dropping drones that can precisely drop munitions into open hatches. Analysis of combat footage suggests that destroying a tank can sometimes require ten or more FPV drones, but given their low cost, this is still a highly favourable exchange. The effectiveness rate varies widely based on operator skill, target defences, and electronic warfare conditions, with estimates for successful strikes against armoured vehicles ranging from as low as 5% to as high as 50% for elite units. Regardless of the precise percentage, the sheer volume of attacks has made FPVs the leading cause of armoured vehicle losses for both sides"
further down:
"The Attrition Engine and the Death of Manoeuvre
The most significant strategic impact of the FPV drone, in concert with other ISR assets, has been the creation of a hyper-lethal and transparent battlespace that has effectively killed large-scale manoeuvre warfare. The constant threat of detection and precision strike from above makes the concentration of forces, the very foundation of a combined arms breakthrough, prohibitively costly and risky. As a result, both Russian and Ukrainian armies have been deprived of their tactical and operational mobility, forcing combat to devolve into a grinding, positional war of attrition reminiscent of World War I, but with 21st-century technology."
It’s RIGHT THERE: CONCENTRATION-OF-FORCE isn’t the way it’s done, now.
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Sometimes the victory needed is victorious-internal-integrity, & winning-the-social-majority isn’t as important to one.
“seize every defeat from the clutches of victory” … IF one is only measuring social-victory, then fine…
But if what I’m doing is … systematically demolishing the ideological-prejudice-enforced displacement-of-my-validity, within me, then integrity can mean MUCH more than ideological/political-approval.
Sometimes you have to save your own life, even letting the collective die, in THIS battle, for sake of becoming indestructible in future-battles, throughout the rest of the war.
The war is more important than the mere-battles!
This is what I think Stephen R. Covey didn’t understand in his interdependency principle.
I think too-much of our world is codependent, not interdependent, & that it takes REAL independence -of-validity before one can get into actual interdependent-collaboration-synergy.
There’s a metaphor given by Kelsang Gyatso, in 1 of his books, which gets it right:
There are 3 ways of helping people, & these phrasings are mine, not his:
In my experience, only the self-conqueror is robust: all the lesser kinds of help are helpless when opponent-force gets great-enough, or acts through great-enough leverage/torque.
Therefore, I want, and am aiming-for, TOTAL breaking of all the PTSD, all the damage embedded in me by ideology’s & prejudice’s ( including medical-profession’s ) gaslighting & abuse, all the harm embedded in me by medical-culture’s narcissism in parenting & “parenting”, ALL of it.
I want THIS LIFE unbroken.
& if people say I should enslave/snuff my potential to short-term/consensus/social-momentary-victory, then fine: hate, contempt, & reject my presumed alternative, as nearly-all already do.
But all I have to do is win, & then the rules changed, permanently, completely, & then this-life is in the next-level-up, & cannot be crushed by the masses wielded by the ideologies/prejudices/etc.
Getting permabanned by many instances, by many communities, because I value integrity more than I value political-belonging, is normal.
But every time I ratchet this-life’s objectivity+integrity a bit harder in the right-direction, that puts a little more good-change in me.
& sooner or later that tipping-point’s going to get crossed, & the brokenness hobbling my unconscious-mind is itself going to fail/break.
Then the game is changed.
That potential is to me real.
To all others, it is mere-delusion/lies: it never was real, & it never can be real.
So, the world bets its way, & I bet my way.
Universe will decide which is, in its eyes, true.
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Sorry, that’s got nothing to do with it:
Thoughtshapes are themselves, & some are more “atomic”, & others are more “molecular”, & others are merely-associating.
I have to fight the urge to use “=” as double-hyphen, to indicate more-atomic, & “-” to indicate still-atomic-just-less, to try to communicate what thoughtshapes I’m meaning, & how their forms work/are.
Translating from thoughtshapes to English … is clumsy-as-hell, breaks many meanings, & prevents entire categories of meaning from being expressible.
I’ve been told by multilingual-people that what I’m describing exactly matches their frustration with getting meanings from 1 language into another.
White psychology holds that there are only 3 innate-mind-languages: VAK…
but there are 4, at-least:
Each of those is mind-blind to things that the other kinds can see.
Temple Grandin did a TED Talk on exactly that, but didn’t mention the abstract-shape cognizers, iirc.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=temple+grandin+ted
She COULDN’T have put the Fukushima-reactor emergency-generators at the bottom of pits, beside the ocean, because she would have SEEN that the tsunami that hit the building, which those generators were supposed to provide power after, would have drowned the things.
Obviously, non-visual-cognizers made that decision, mind-blind to the consequences, obliterating the usefulness of them.
From what I’ve been able to discover, abstract-shape cognizers are common only in physics.
There aren’t many ( I’ve met 2 others, that I’m certain of: I asked them, because their thinking was so different from the VAK types ), & it seems to be the only place where such kind-of-mind has significant … either advantage, or familiarity, not certain which.
So, TL;DR is:
using hyphens in trying to communicate which thoughtshapes are more-atomic, vs which are merely-associating, using the clumsiness of English’s words & grammar/syntax/punctuation,
so you people can get the actual feel for the intended thoughtshapes, themselves.
( instead of the English-bound approximations of them )
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Makes me wonder to what degree the seen terrahertz-oscillations were produced by interaction with their terrahertz-source, & to what degree they’re just intrinsic to the electron-superfluid…
Until somebody does observations of that electron-superfluid without terrahertz light being in the picture, then … I guess we won’t know.
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This identifies that we NEED to have an auditing-process that ALWAYS is included, on any weapons we sell to any other geopolitical-actor.
Always.
& an already-acting process where the use of our weapons in the committing of warcrimes automatically removes eligibility for more of the things, & possibly for more economic-engaging, outright.
Accountability is the ONLY means of coercing integrity into power, & if we won’t commit that, then we are criminal-accessories.
No point in pretending otherwise.
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IF one’s doing something, like getting onstage & doing a presentation, is something one has no experience with…
THEN “fake it 'till you make it” is absolutely-valid advice: you can’t gain experience doing presentations, without doing presentations!
Inherently-inauthentic people, however, are inherently-inauthentic people.
That is a different category.
People have to LEARN how to do, how to be, & that requires stepping outside of what one already-has-done.
How could it possibly be otherwise?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
Intentional dumbing-down of the entire market.
Microsoft was pioneer in doing that, decades ago.
( the whole instinct to dumb-down everything is culturally-ingrained, & helps prevent critical-thinking, so it automatically gets backing by incorporated DarkTriad “persons”.
John Taylor Gatto’s perspective on education is pertinent,
hell, a bit in a book I read decades ago is pertinent: 2 psychologists who had a daughter herd her talking to herself, while in bed…
so, being psychologists, they stuck a tape-recorder in her bed, to discover what she was saying.
They discovered that she was telling herself the story-of-her-day.
They ALSO discovered that she was complying with their pressure to dumb herself down, to meet their expectations: she was significantly un-dumbed-down in that recording.
That was one of the most-depressing things I’ve ever read.
Mere toddlers are already programmed by our culture into dumbing themselves down, & we’re blind to that, by default??
Makes our whole population significantly less-viable, in this century, that’s for sure.
Dumbing-down & ideological oversimplification are related, & form a positive-feedback-loop, unfortunately )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Police
Wait until the tippingpoint gets crossed, & dictatorship becomes totalitarian…
Not before mid-Feb, but it’s coming…
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It is telling that the UK voters feel that eradicating Labor for sake of Trump’s friends Reform party would be … more morally right.
Clean-up Labor, deeply & rigorously, but … switching to Trump’s confederates in the UK??
Brexit was good for you??
You want more of that??
That is exactly the kind of ideological polarization that will have the PLANET doing its rampaging-consolidation, shortly.
& civilrights won’t be allowed, in ideology’s world, anymore.
Honest cleaning-up, deep, thorough, rigorous, that is the only means of saving humankind’s life.
& if the opportunity is let-go, it won’t come back: the ideologues will take & use control-of-the-world for all their worth, until their oligarchy/feudalism/fascism has extinguished our world’s viability, knowing that in their religion, accountability cannot ever touch them.
An incompetent bet, of course: ALL contained-energies get recycled, in universes, including meaning, but … their religion is their religion.
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