Social-pressure doesn’t control Putin, it doesn’t control Netanyahu, it doesn’t control Trump, & these turkeys want to pretend that it’ll control insider-trading??
Incompetence.
Automatic laws, with teeth.
Required.
Always has been required.
Human-nature makes it be required, because social-pressure, aka “political will”, isn’t reliable.
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It was ?yesterday? when it was being reported, here, how the UK had caught 3 Russian submarines mapping what undersea-infrastructure to cut, to sever the UK’s vitals??
UK’s on rickety “strength”, it seems… MUCH greater threat than merely having fuel-costs rise…
same as Canada is, after having spent the last century betting-the-farm on US being our automatic ally…
Stupid tunnel-vision indulging…
coming to bite us, soon…
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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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Relying on ENEMY-CONTROLLED defence-systems, is the most-incompetent paradigm ever devised.
Trump, who wants the destruction of Canadian sovereignty, cannot be permitted to have a kill-switch in OUR fighters, as he currently … probably does have ( except for the Gripens, which we don’t have yet ).
We need to remove ALL Trump-dependent “capability”, before The Americas War begins ( once outright dictatorship is activated ).
PS: anything with “sputnik” in it isn’t my idea of trustworthy, but that single point, that Qatar’s missile-defense-system didn’t do anything to hit the Israeli missiles … THAT IS EVIDENCE, not mere-opinion.
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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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“Peace” that looks just like Tibet’s erasure … may be a bad bargain AND worthless karma.
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Twist 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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THEN they NEED to have ultrasonic sensors, activated at … say … 1/2-metre intervals, because LIDAR may be blind to float-glass that isn’t at a right-angle to it, but SONAR isn’t blind to sheet-glass.
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( the things might harm the hearing of animals, hence the limiting it to a chirp-every-1/2-metre idea: minimize noise-pollution that we are “blind” to, see? )
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.
It wasn’t just her backing Netanyahu.
https://lemmy.world/post/44104254 argues convincingly that Netanyahu’s got a significant number of Democrats controlled through “kompromat”, ie blackmail.
It hadn’t dawned on me, until just now, that … maybe Harris is, too?
or AIPAC got to her, don’t know…
Whatever.
It’s too late, now: I expect Trump to kill US democracy soon, & then elections won’t matter anymore, federally, at least…
Then the US’s equivalent-to-zionism will be on full display, with Trump’s “Greater North America”, and annexing of Canada & Greenland, war on Central & South America, & Civil War Part2 ( which ICE is currently training for, obviously )…
Soon…
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I’ve tried telling people that even a 8’x12’ bunkie ( 3 plywood sheets for the floor ) is drastically better than either the sidewalk or the local homeless-shelter, & that just getting people their own shelter/space ought be the primary concern…
those are luxury-apartments, by comparison.
You can house many more people in bunkies than you can in expensive modular-homes, if you are budget-limited…
Maybe my 7+ years of outright-homelessness have biased me towards help everybody orientation, but … the lives you “can’t afford” to help are lives, too.
Maslow’s hierarchy-of-needs, you know?
Get everybody up into life-safety, & then work on the higher-levels later…
They’re doing good work, but the not-included … die.
The streets are destructive in ways that mere-circumstance can’t possibly communicate.
The toxic culture, the prejudice, the randomly being robbed… the not having any legal right to participate in any online-transaction, because you’ve no address…
grinds you towards death, fast…
So does exposure…
( UK that may not be as much of a thing: in Canada it’s kinda lethal, in winters )
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From the Canadian perspective, it isn’t the fish’s decline, it is that their coral-forests-breeding has been wiped-out by dragger-nets, & the fishery’s permanently broken, because that takes about a century to grow back to a height of 2-dm, & they rather probably need more than that, to be breeding in??
Dragger-nets are marine-ecology “carpet-bombing”.
No gov’t will outlaw such idiotic destructiveness, & so … therefore the predicted-in-the-Christian-bible marine-foodchain-collapse, that our “management” of our world’s oceans is in the process of producing, will happen, later this century.
< shruggeth >
Humankind’s choice…
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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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Despicable abuse.
Pick a side: totalitarianism XOR civilrights.
Civilrights means making a “bathtub-curve” for legal-action: as wide & deep as can be consistently managed, with the illegal stuff out at the ends.
Making it so that laying flowers, in protest, at the BBC or at the feet of the cops limiting the progress of the protest is a crime … the root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, got physically violent on the commercial-operation of the temple, & the UK’s fundamentally Christian … so, they’d have had him crucified, not freed, from the looks of things, now…
After the tippingpoint’s crossed, the natural tendency will be to go MUCH harder line totalitarian authoritarian, but it’s possible that the UK will suddenly switch sides…
Wait & see, I guess, same as with all countries that claim democracy…
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Buy 2 good books ( different authors ) on becoming a private investigator.
Read them.
Hit Nolo press, & buy their book on legal-research.
Read it.
Now you have 2 understanding-sets that normal-people don’t have, & you can begin digging into institutional-crimes much more competently than normals could.
BellingCat would be an advisable set-of-learnings, too.
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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… )
It’s actually a different substance-of-mind active, when we’re dreaming…
So, SurfaceMind is reading these words, LifeMind does the dreaming, & it’s a different “self”-substance in those 2 cases ( which is why the “reasoning” difference is sooo great: each is working its own way )
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Remember that infinite-greed is part of the equation, though…
IF revenue MUST increase, no matter what the cost-to-the-world, THEN … the example of covid supermarket-profits-skyrocketing, while people couldn’t afford food, comes to mind…
That is part of the problem with concentration-of-wealth-archy paradigm & moneyarchy paradigm: they’ve both got infinities in their goals, that is infinite-concentration-of-wealth, & that breaks civilization’s viability.
The 2 equation-classes are incompatible.
Public-benefit-companies are where we ought be, but … there isn’t even that category of incorporation in Canada, ttbomk…
We, globally, have NOT been solving the right problems…
Internet-itself, & social-discussion-forum ought be considered required-civil-infrastructure, removing it from narcissistic-depravity’s control, … but nobody’s got the spine to understand that countries are automatically highjacked, otherwise, by the platforms that the country’s social-nervous-system is.
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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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I’ve said it many times: the Dems won’t act until it’s too-late, & dictatorship is already certain.
Either they won’t even enact impeachment until it’s too-late, XOR they’ll have just enacted it, but Trump turns the tables somehow, & so it becomes irrelevant.
don’t know which, don’t care.
They’re committed to failing, & they’ll enforce that result, so their unconscious-minds can hold the position/posture of “not being responsible” for the destruction, for the ocean-of-butchery, that will later happen.
DarwinAwards are earned … even by civilizations.
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