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Cake day: December 6th, 2023

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  • I’ve read that Hitler intentionally gave government-departments overlapping authority, so that they’d be in turf-wars, so whichever one “lost” could then be shut-down…

    It wasn’t incompetence, it was intentional: a means for force-dismantling government’s function.

    IF the point of having the incapable running the different departments … is so that total-dictatorship later becomes “justified”, then it is a strategem, not a mistake.

    & differentiating between unconscious-strategems vs conscious ones …

    … as an example of unconscious-tactics, I’m now certain that Hamas’s strategem of using the lives of Palestine as bait, to get Israel to demonstrate its nihilism & sadism & narcissism & machiavellianism ( etc ) on, …

    … so that in future, the entire-region wouldn’t care what “deterrent” Israel had, … that such a huge percentage of the region’s population would be committed to annihilating Israel at ANY cost, … that Israel’s annihilation becomes inevitable…

    … was completely unconscious.

    But it is effective.

    I don’t bet ANYthing on Israel existing, as a country, by 2029, now.

    Trying to sort-out the … bucket-of-vomit, which is what geopolitics now is … with all its unconscious-strategems & insane tactics & sickening “values” …

    I’m betting that Trump will use the consequences-of-his-people’s-incompetence to “justify” greater, & more-complete, highjacking of the US of A.

    I absolutely do not believe it’ll result in the Dems regaining the US:

    that opportunity was thrown-away with the election that Biden wouldn’t get out of, until it was too late to save.

    1. differentiating the convenient-to-the-left-belief isn’t journalism, it is just more of the filter-bubble that cost the Dems the 2024 election.

    2. seeing such things not with the superiority/contempt of the left, but rather with the … how is this going to be dealt with and adapted-to by the ruling-regime, how are they going to use this to further their highjacking? would be much closer to journalism.

    3. humans are mixtures of unconsciousness & consciousness, & much of our “tactics” and “strategy” is actually just unconscious-instinct & feelings-motivated stuff, so it doesn’t matter whether it is unconscious or conscious, it doesn’t matter whether it is contempted by so-and-so, or whether some caste/class of people are condescending about it, in Natural Selection, it only matters if it works. Pay attention to if it’s viable-enough to continue taking our world down, not to what the upper-middle-class-left are saying while denigrating it.

    ( feel free to contempt everything I said here, but I’m sooo damn tired of filter-bubble making-believing substituting for the survival-stuff that humankind needs … & every mistake made by anybody can be changed in significance by circumstance,

    so the whole “they’re failing, & we’re going to be their ‘daddy’ when they do” narrative that much of the upper-middle-class left that I’ve seen is identifying in… is just more ignoring/denying, with a price-tag counted in lives later this decade.

    Pragmatism would be a good thing, now, & “it’s only a won-game when it’s completely finished” would also be good to live by. )

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  • if Musk’s got a high intellect-quotient, that’s fine…

    What does it measure?

    A very-specific subset of intelligences, crafted to leave-out female relational-intelligences, musical-intelligence, health-intelligence, among other ones…

    https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Kinds-Smart-Identifying-Intelligences/dp/0452281377/

    identifies 9 intelligences, & I defy most Mensa-types to consistently score high on those other ones…

    It is the IQ lobby which won’t tolerate the other-intelligences to be counted equally-valid, right?

    With reason: they aren’t good at those intelligences.

    ( hint: musical-intelligence includes multiple sub-intelligences, including, but not limited-to…

    • rhythm
    • harmony
    • melody
    • improv/jazz
    • composition
    • polyrhythm
    • etc…

    A person can have a “musical intelligence” of whatever, & be brilliant in rhythm, but lousy in harmony, xor vice versa.

    Too-coarse-granularity’s consistently a problem with these damn measures : )

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  • Astounding:

    All the geek-managers who’ve claimed, through the years, to be “cat herders”, or to be “herding cats”, have ZERO validity compared with this woman…

    She is THE Catherd™

    & we’ve been accepting the bullshit-claim of guys for years…

    Shame on us… doesn’t empiricism require that we accept the data’s facts?

    : p

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  • I have read that Canadian Geographic magazine ( like National Geographic magazine, but colder ) decided to fire their photo-editor.

    It’s a photo-centric magazine.

    So, their quality dropped.

    & that had consequences…

    Since I only read 1 source for the story, I’ve no idea if it tests-out, but that is exactly the problem with hard-to-grow expertise: you don’t know how much worth it is, until you lose it, & then you can’t quickly/easily get it back.

    ( this story is actually a good example of why people should be tested for roles the’re not even close to working-in:

    it’d help one calibrate the difficulty-in-replacing particular people, AND it’d identify if you even can replace them, & if not, get training backups or get bringing-in people, until you’ve got a backup, eh? )

    Anyways, until a person has worked-through Betty Edwards’ “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive edition”, & experienced the hemisphere-dominance-shift, themselves, it simply isn’t understandable how meaningful that shift is.

    ( also, it validates exactly what Hofstadter wrote “Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” about: that each kind-of-knowing is incapable of knowing ANY meaning which isn’t within-its-kind-of-knowing. )

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  • Mao, Stalin, AND Hitler ALL genocided within their own territory, whether intentionally or not ( Mao wiped-out knowledge-workers, creating massive famine, ttbomk )

    The whole “horseshoe political-spectrum” is failing-to-understand that there actually is a different dimenion involved…

    Considered-reasoning only lives in the middle,

    & imprint->reaction-mind owns both extremes, AND it also owns many who nominally are “center”.

    Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow” is on the difference between the 2 kinds of mental-function,

    and to the best of my knowledge, the imprint->reaction mind is lower-forebrain, while the considered-reasoning mind is upper-forebrain.

    ALL ideology/prejudice/“religion” ( religion, not spirituality, which is considered-reasoning rooted ) is rooted in the imprint->reaction bypassing-actual-thinking mind.

    The Catholic inquisition, the murderers of any religion, the murderers of any political-ideology, etc…

    I simply cannot understand how anybody could maintain that the ideology-genociding-of-the-left OR the ideology-genociding-of-the-right OR the ideology-genociding-of-religions OR the ideology-genociding-of-racism OR the ideology-genociding-of-gender-racism ( the inquisition was part of that, the Muslim immigrant gang-rapes committed in their new countries is part of that, the male-supremacist-vote which helped block Harris from winning in the US is part of it, the fact that rape is a pretend-crime in actual-practice is part of that, as the male authorities just don’t consider it to be a “real” crime, if its “only” against girls & women, the scum who rewrote Genesis millenia ago, to alter it from saying that women “ate of the fruit of the knowledge of Good & Evil” ( which it still says ), to instead “interpreted” that, right in the text, so that instead of meaning that women ate of moral understanding ( altruism is demonstrated to be generalized-mothering, in wasps & humans, & grandmothers in the tribe are a significant tribal-survival-advantage, through deep-time/evolution )…

    Is the intentional-genociding of Tibetans & Uighurs “OK” because it is being done by the left?

    Was Stalin’s force-exterminating millions of his own country’s people somehow OK?

    XOR is it that the genociding of fascists doesn’t count?


    Obviously, you hold that I, like the original-poster am beyond-reason, beyond wrong.

    That’s fine.

    I’m fed-up with being gaslit by ideologues, & ideologues are equally fed-up with all who are not within their ideology, obviously.

    Which is the essence of The Great Filter, in-which humankind will either lock entirely into imprint->reaction mode & simply tantrum/pogrom until all our kind is extinguished,

    XOR some fraction of humankind will do all they can to lock-into considered-reasoning, & do everything they can to continue force-evolving, while surviving the apoctalyptic-nihilism of the ideologues…

    I don’t expect the total-war to cease until the end of this century, once it starts ( in the 2030’s, probably )

    Party-fascism ( which is what “communism” actually is ) & individual-fascism both are intolerant of healthy-diversity.

    Collectivist-evil & individualist-evil are equal-“powers”, just different in methods & in their self-programming.

    … shrug …

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  • There’s now yt videos on Facebooks’ locking people’s accounts ( in early 2025 ) because they … post on Linux … which Facebook has ( perhaps because it benefits their … ahem … for-profit-partners ) deemed to be malware…

    Linux Mint / Cinnamon I can recommend, & for all the old machines running corrupt MS-Windows, please get Puppy Linux on 'em, & MAKE them trustworthy!

    Yes, the “controlling the populace” time has just-now begun!

    ( unfortunately, it is going to get much MUCH more oppressive, as this shit progresses in totalitarianism… )

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